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KermitTheFrag

14th December 2001, 12:29

Here goes the spec thread ... well you did say "rigs"...

rig 1 (main workstation):-

AMD 1400MHz Athlon, 266fsb
Asus A7V266
2x 256Mb Crucial PC2100 DDR sticks
ELSA 64Mb GeForce 2 Ultra
1x IBM 30Gb 75GXP (was 2 but one blew up :p: )
Netgear FA-311 nic
M-Audio Delta AP2496 pro audio card
Sony 10x CDRW
Creative 16x DVD
Teac black floppy drive ;)
Gwin 802 case / enermax 430w psu
17" FD Trintron montor
ms keyboard + mouse
WinXP Pro.

rig 2 (unix workstation/spare win2k):-

Sun Ultra 30
300MHz UltraSparc
400MHz PCi card
9.1Gb SCSI disk
crap 24x scsi cdrom
crappy video (rage pro i think)
20" trinitron (lives in toilet as i cant get it on my desk)
Solaris 8 / Windows 2000

rig 3 (the "mum" box):-

Intel P3-733EB
Asus CUSL2 Motherboard
1x 256Mb Crucial CL2 SDRAM
Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
1x Fujitsu ATA33 20 gig jobby
FA311 nic
SB Live Platinum
Asus 50x CDROM
Crappy enlight case + psu from gwin 802 above
Win2k Pro
17" Hansol

rig 4 (router/dns/general nutty box):-

Sun SPARCstation 10
1x 60MHz 1Mb cache Supersparc cpu
96Mb RAM
4.3Gb disk
Magma serial card
OpenBSD 3.0

Plus a couple of P60 -> P100ish compaq boxen, an Acorn BBC and A5000, ZX81, erm and bits of an RM380Z

do i have too much crap? yep... :)

Nukes

14th December 2001, 12:50

****, I left RAM off the list 384 MB PC100.
Can't see what brand as IDE cables are in way.

Nukes

14th December 2001, 12:51

And I meant that each of you speeks about your main rig. one each only. Istill have tha PIII running but I am ashamed to talk about it. so I asked about MAIN rigs. but it is confusing.

Jez_Gafys

14th December 2001, 12:53

Well my main machine (rig) is

Athlon MP 1900, 266fsb
QDI Board Thingy
256Mb DDR Pc2100 ram (will be more soon)
Asus GF3 64Mb Card
IBM 45Gb Scsi
IBM 9.1Gb Scsi
Western Digital 18.2Gb Scsi
Western Digital 17.1Gb IDE
Fujitsu 6.4Gb IDE
3Com 905b-txM
SB Live Platinum
Creative DXR3 DVD Card
Hauppage WinTV PCI
Adaptec Scsi-3 controller
Pioneer Black Slot Loader dvdrom Scsi
Panasonic DVD-RW Scsi
Yamaha 8x12x24x scsi
LS120 Floppy Sony
And Big Black Case from OC
Enermax 550w psu (120 quid that bastard)
Sony Triniton 24" Monitor/19" Samsung
Win98SE/WinXP Home

I do have other rigs but dont really use em for games, etc mostyly gateways, and plain internet, and ive mentioned em before on this forum and cant be assed to type em out again.

KermitTheFrag

14th December 2001, 12:57

ooooooooooh u got one of those 24" trinitrons. mnughhhhhaaaa</homer>

Nukes

14th December 2001, 12:59

Gloat then.
U peeps who spend £250 on a 2 inch square piece of organic substrate with a miniture peice of silicon in da miidle.
I am thinking of just getting anew case and a strobe light and mobo and CPU and OS.

wishy

14th December 2001, 14:32

Right.

My Main Box
CPU: Duron 800@933
Mobo: KT7A-RAID
HDD: Seagate Barracudda ATA II 20gb 7200 RPM
RAM: 512 PQI PC133 CL2
GFX: GF2MX
Sound: Fortissimo II
Speakers: 140w RMS amplifier, Sony Gfx Eq, Eltax Silverstone 200's (200W RMS, Floorstanding)
NIC: Dlink 530TX
CD-ROM: LG DVD drive, 12x
Monitor: 14" Mag
Case: Aopen HX08 (Windowed, Blowholed, Baybused)
Extras: TV card (Hauppage WinTV Go)

My Workstation
CPU: Dual PIII 500
Mobo: IBM with onboard sound and dual channel SCSI
HDD: IBM 7200 RPM SCSI 9.1gb, WD 20gb IDE
RAM: 128 mb no name. (Aint got round to u/grade)
GFX: FireGL 1000
Sound: Onboard
Speakers: Attached to 140w RMS amplifier, Sony Gfx Eq, Eltax Silverstone 200's (200W RMS, Floorstanding)
NIC: Onboard 3comm
CD-ROM: LG Black CD drive, TDK Cyclone 16x10x40
Monitor: None
Case: Black IBM, tool free entry
Extras: None

My Lappy
CPU: Mobile PII 366 (On die full speed Cache, 256k)
Mobo: N/A
HDD: 6.4gb Toshiba
RAM: 160mb
GFX: Pah! I'd be lucky
Sound: Onboard
Speakers: Attached to 140w RMS amplifier, Sony Gfx Eq, Eltax Silverstone 200's (200W RMS, Floorstanding) when on desk, 2w PMPO onboard
NIC: Compaq PC card
CD-ROM: 24x Toshiba (External)
Monitor: 12.4" TFT
Case: Small :D

Bros Box
CPU: Athlon 1300
Mobo: KT7A
HDD: 60gb Seagate barracudda ATA IV
RAM: 384mb PC100
GFX: Savage 4 Pro+
Sound: SB 128
Speakers: Headphones
NIC: Cheapy 10/100
CD-ROM: 44x U/B
Monitor: 15" Hansol
Case: Cheap full tower

Sisters box
CPU: Cyrex 686 PR200
Mobo: PCCHIPS
HDD: Whatever i could lay hands on, about a gig :D
RAM: 32mb
GFX: Voodoo 1 :D
Sound: Onboard
Speakers: OEM cheapies, 15w PMPO
NIC: 3com 509b (10mbit)
CD-ROM: 24x something or other :D
Monitor: None
Case: Cheap Mini tower

My Perental Box
CPU: P166mmx
Mobo: MSI
HDD: 8.4 Samsung
RAM: 64 mb
GFX: 2mb PCI
Sound: The first one i ever had, Non P&P SB16 compat, ISA
Speakers: 15Watts when they work :D
NIC: 3comm 509C (10mbit)
CD-ROM: 20x, ****ed
Monitor: 14"
Case: Mini tower, cheap

Mums "Seemed a good idea at the time"
CPU: Cyrex 686 PR200
Mobo: God knows :D
HDD: 3gb
RAM: 32 mb
GFX: 2mb PCI
Sound: Cheap SB16 compat
Speakers: 160w PMPO
NIC: Non P&P 10mbit NE2000 Compat (See local scap yard)
CD-ROM: 24x creative
Monitor: 14"
Case: Cheap mini

the Sever :D
CPU: P133
Mobo: IBM VX
HDD: 2gb Fujitsu, 8gb Fujitsu, 4gb Laptop drive
RAM: 112mb
GFX: Onboard, 2mb
Sound: Pah!
NIC: Cheapie 10/100
CD-ROM: Quad Speed :D
Monitor: Philips, true VGA (640x480)
Case: IBM, not on it :D
Extras: PCI raid controller (mobo can't address more than 4gb), Modem, (In case of emergancy) USB ADSL stingray

Jez_Gafys

14th December 2001, 14:32

aye Kermit that I have paid around the 1k mark just a bit over (I think Jase as one aswell if I remember rightly, otherwise he's a liar :)

And nuke I paid 215 quid for me proc from a computer fair in northampton.

Jez_Gafys

14th December 2001, 14:35

hmm wishy you sure do have some crap in your house, I bet you built yah sister machine up with all the crap u dint want?

I gave my sister my old P133 and 128Mb EDO ****e

Nukes

14th December 2001, 14:38

My bro had a PIII 500 until I said "I'll tweak it for you" and now it is sitting as a web server next to my ****e fox case.
Do any of u know what they look like?
I'll post a pic so u see what I mean.

wishy

14th December 2001, 14:40

BTW, entry to wishys museum of antiquated hardware is a very resonable rate :D

OMG, i forgot the 486 box, now retired, and yes, it did run NT4 server. I promice, in fact, AKAIK it still boots. Anyone want a server :D

The Ex Server (RIP) (NT4)
CPU: 486 SX 25 Mhz, yes, count them 25 :D
Mobo: God knows
HDD: 400mb boot, 3x2gb SCSI at the height of its raign (The SCSI adaptor is ISA and doesn't like win2k)
RAM: 24mb and don't you forget it :D (Initially 16mb, yes, thats that lowest it can actually be run on, trust me)
GFX: 1mb of finest hurculise ISA
Sound: Pah!
NIC: Non P&P ISA 10mbit (Came in useful for NT4)
CD-ROM: Removed, Quad speed again
Monitor: None
Case: Desktop
Extras: Funny clock speed counter on front :D
Current task: Taking up space on floor at edge of room

wishy

14th December 2001, 14:42

Originally posted by Jez_Gafys
hmm wishy you sure do have some crap in your house, I bet you built yah sister machine up with all the crap u dint want?

I gave my sister my old P133 and 128Mb EDO ****e

128mb EDO?!?! Gimme Gimme Gimnme. I need for server :D

No, it was my box 2 before this one. (EG i had a K6-2 500 which i sold) and it got sold on for silly money.

Nukes

14th December 2001, 14:42

The internals:

Nukes

14th December 2001, 14:42

And Frontage:

wishy

14th December 2001, 14:43

Seem that case, quite liked it

Catachan

14th December 2001, 14:55

Dual AMD AthlonMP 1.2GHz
1024MB DDR SDRAM
GeForce 3 o/ced to GeForce 3 Ti 500 (slightly higher actually)
4 x 18.5GB SCSI Ultra 3 IBM Deskstar HDDs (10,000rpm)
metallic blue casing with side blowhole over PCI/AGP ports.
Tyan Thunder K7 motherboard (S2462UNG)
19" Iiyama Monitor
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Platinum with external front panel

Nukes

14th December 2001, 14:56

It is **** as ****.
I have a removable 30gb drive in top bay
16x DVD in middle
writer below that
20gb hdd below floppy
floppy above floppy
AND I have all the ****ing PCI slots full and the AGP so I can't fit owt else in it.
The good thing about it is it has little holes u can attach fans onto with paperclips along the back above the cards.

wishy

14th December 2001, 15:06

Catachan may have power, but i have quantity. Mahahahaha

Catachan

14th December 2001, 15:08

Erm, Wishy, that's just this machine I'm on. I'm honouring the author's wishes of this thread and not posting all my machines.

wishy

14th December 2001, 15:10

I use them all, honest. :D

KermitTheFrag

14th December 2001, 15:14

bollox :)

i do use all mine i admit although i may consider swapping the sun for an intel columbus chassis with raid5 ;)

btw does anyone know if you can use an additional PCI VGA card in Intel L440GX based platforms?

Jez_Gafys

14th December 2001, 15:54

I will have some power soon (well before i10 hopefully) going to get a new board and second MP 1900 just think my machine will be running at 3.2Gb :)

Also I was wondering how long before we start to see dual AGP mobos its board to happen one day, just think duel GF5s :)

KermitTheFrag

14th December 2001, 16:07

that will 0wn ... but my dick is still bigger than yours (j/k) ;)

Cabe

14th December 2001, 19:25

Jez, you gotta portable power station to go with that?

ok so Frodo is a

Dual PIII 1 Gig
MSI 694D Pro Mobo
40 Gig drive
512 meg PC133 Ram
8x6x32 FreeCom CDRW
17" Philips Monitor
Gainsward 32meg Dual Head GF2MX
(on occasion a 12" LCD as well, but thats pressed into service on the Server)
SBLive! Platinum Value (as in minus the LiveDrive)
Pinnacle Studio TV Capture card
Dust
when its fixed a Über-L33t0r 16x Pioneer Slot DVD-Rom damned dabs......

talking of slot loading, has anyone ever seen a slot loading CDRW????

wishy

14th December 2001, 21:10

can't say i have. I don't like them, they seem like too much of a nucence.

Sainteh

14th December 2001, 21:16

CPU: T-Bird 1.2 @ 1.4
Mobo: KT7a
RAM: 768mb crucial PC133
GFX: TNT2Ultra (= 60fps on HL ;]) (GF3Ti500 on order)
CD-RW = standard crappeh 8x one..
DVD = standard crappeh one
HDD: 34.5gb deskstar GXP40, 60gb deskstart GXP60
SoundBlastaLive Value! :} (came w/ my ol' dell)
19" Trinitron (1600x1200 @ 93.7khz)
Tower: 64cm high :}, 6x5.25", 4x3.5", 330w Enermax silent psu
Speakers: Nice 4 set peice which was default from dell :}
NIC: 100mb full duplex netgear

wh00tage....
considering getting water cooling and o/cing my purple core to a 1.7... but decent w/c costs lots :{

Cheez

15th December 2001, 00:27

My main Rig:

Processor: AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz
HeatSink: Alpha PAL8045 with 80mm Delta fan
Misc Cooling: 5 x YS-Tech 80mm in case
Mobo: Abit KT7-A
RAM: 2 x 256Mb Crucial CL2 PC133
GFX: NVIDIA GeForce 2mx/400 32mb
OS: Windows 2000 Professional, Service Pack 2
Hard Disks: 2 x IBM DeskStar GXP60 61.5 Gb
CD-RW: 12x 10x 32x Memorex
CD-ROM: 52x Memorex
SoundCard: Creative Labs Soundblaster 16PCI
NIC: linksys 10/100 Etherfast
Case: Juno-P6 Full Tower
Monitor: 17" Belina 10 70 20
Speakers: Labtec Pulse 424

All in all a nice system... well. i like it anyway :p

Cheez

15th December 2001, 00:33

Originally posted by Sainteh
GFX: TNT2Ultra (= 60fps on HL ;]) (GF3Ti500 on order)

Sorry mate but the GF3Ti500 doesn't work with the kt7a due to "voltage issues" the other gf3 cards do but not the Ti500.

Im not sure which of the sites i saw that on. it was either the abit site or the leadtek one.

wishy

15th December 2001, 14:00

Is the PAL 8045 any good?

Jarmin

15th December 2001, 21:37

my box (rig) has

750 T.Bird at 840
290 something meg ram pc133
giga-byte gb7zx mb
sb 1024 live
geforce 2 gts
too many fans
macarno (long story)
martox g100 (duel screening)
dvd x5 (i think)
30 gig hdd

think thats it

Jarmin

15th December 2001, 21:40

Originally posted by Cheez

Sorry mate but the GF3Ti500 doesn't work with the kt7a due to "voltage issues" the other gf3 cards do but not the Ti500.

Im not sure which of the sites i saw that on. it was either the abit site or the leadtek one.

is that that epox board or am i thinking of something else?

Spanky

15th December 2001, 22:47

Well I may not win with the best computer but the sound system kicks some serious butt!

Processor: AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz 266FSB
RAM: 2 x 256Mb PC2100 DDR
GFX: 64meg Geforce2 Pro TV out connect to a 28" Widescreen TV
OS: Windows 98se
Hard Disks: 40 Gb 7200spin UDMA100
CD-RW: 16 10x 40x
SoundCard: onboard
NIC: 10/100 Etherfast
Case: Nokia Stlye Midi Tower
Capture:1394 Firewire Card
Monitor: 15"
Speakers: connected through a Dolby Digital & DTS sound system with a 7 X 110 watts RMS amp(excluding subs).

Guigsy

15th December 2001, 23:02

Crappy enlight case

!!!!!!

how can you say that

my enlight got 2nd in the case modding comp at i9!

Here's a pic (http://www.moddin.net/articles/i9/dscf0003.jpg)

ahh yes my system

ENLIGHT CASE! (sprayed black)
Enermax 350w psu
Athlon 1.4 not overclocked atm (squished my 1.33 few weeks ago)
Abit KT7
Hercules GeForce 3 Ti200 (overclocked)
Sb Live!
Dlink NIC
Extra usb port x 4
512 meg pc150 ram (2x 128meg muskin, 1x 256 kingmax)
Thermoengine + delta
24x10x40 CDRW
40x CDROM
16gig + 40 gig hd
2 x exhaust 80mm's (uv reactive)
1 x 135cfm ys-tech (noisy bastard) top 120mm exhaust
1 x 120mm front intake
1 x 92mm intake
2 x 40mm in hdd cooler
UV cathode
Rounded cables
Window with etch
neon string under case, around window, around side and front blowholes
4 speakers and sub
heouge table
19" NEC FE950
Oh yeah, and that kickass uni T1 connection

and my old system. currently doing nothing. gonna do somthing with it... when i get around to it.

k6-3 450 (raw power) (with the heatsink from my old 900) :cool:
256 pc100 rammage
8+5 gig hdd
36x cdrw
crappy 4 meg (i think) gfx card :D
voodoo2 12 meg :cool:
sb16 :cool:
dlink NIC
14" monitor (tinting blue)

also i have a few bits laaying around

v5 5500 (blue orbs)
sb AWE 32
spare psu 250w?
92mm fan
3x80mm fans
about 20 60mm fans (no connectors) dont ask where i got em
2x?x? cdrw
2 speakers
floppy
floppy(broken)

dads laptop

450 dunno who makes it tho :)
128meg ram
5gig hd (i think)

dunno the rest

we also go a 186 :tongue: (yes a 186) a 386 and a 486 which all work but are gathering dust :)

and both my grandparents have athlon 1g+ with gf2's :cool:

LordPhil

15th December 2001, 23:17

mmm very nice

[NTA]MARViN

16th December 2001, 04:33

Processor: AMD Axia 1Ghz T.bird clocked to 1.333Ghz
Mobo: Epox 8KTA3+ with raid
RAM: 512Mb
Graphics Card: GeForce 2 mx 400 64 Mb graphics card
Monitor: Iiyama 17" monitor

DVD
Realmagic Hollywood plus DVD decoder
Aopen x16 DVD

CD-RW: Richo 20x10x40
Soundcard: Soundblaster 1024
Speakers Creative DTT2500 5.1 surround sound system

Input devices
Wacom Pen Partner A5 graphics tablet
Microsoft Natural Keyboard
and a Razer Boomslang 2000 mouse with a nice new func mousepad

wishy

16th December 2001, 16:36

Originally posted by Jarmin

is that that epox board or am i thinking of something else?

The KT7A Is the board that needs no manufacturers name. Its made by abit and was a phonemial sucess. At I8 (Before all this DDR crap came out :D) you could just go round, if they had Thunderbird / duron, they had a KT7A.

Originally posted by [WTc]Guigsy[i3 0wnage]
we also go a 186 :tongue: (yes a 186) a 386 and a 486 which all work but are gathering dust :)

Well, actually, it probobly isn't a 186. The 80186 to give its full title was a HUGE flop because of bugs in it. It moved from the 8086 (The XT, which you probobly have) straight to the 80286 pritty much, there were a few 80186, but they never made it into the "food chain" so to speak.

Guigsy

16th December 2001, 17:27

well it says 186 on the front i think

i left 2 modems and a sb 128 off my list

Guigsy

16th December 2001, 17:31

our 386 isnt a 386 its a 286 i just checked :)

KermitTheFrag

16th December 2001, 20:30

80186 was just 8086 with virtual memory support. They did exist in plenty... just mainly not in the workstation market. There were a ton of RM ones tho.

The Jester

16th December 2001, 23:38

I have a Torch, a truly strange beast which converted a BBC Micro into a 8088. Truly a class machine.

KermitTheFrag

17th December 2001, 09:08

Ack I remember them :)

Even more of a hack was the NEC 32xxx series hack for the BBC which allowed you to run AT&T UNIX lol ;)

Sainteh

17th December 2001, 12:05

how can i get round this prob w/ the KT7a and a GF3Ti500 then ??

KermitTheFrag

17th December 2001, 12:23

buy a nicer board :)

Sp00n

17th December 2001, 14:46

Originally posted by Nukes
What specs are all of your main rigs?

Mine's a:
Duron 700@1gig
Samsung 30GB IDE drive
Fujitsu 20GB IDE Drive
Radeon 32mb SDR
Gigabyte GA-71XE4
Matrox Mystique 2mb
SBLive! 1024 Player
D-Link DE-528 10BaseT NIC
Pinnacle Studio PCTV card
Pioneer 16x DVD Slot loader
?Retail Plus? (cheap and nasty) 8x4x32 CDRW drive.

Also could someone suggest which I need to upgrade most urgently?

how did u get that duron @ 1000 cause the GA-7IXE4 only has a jumper for 105,110,115 i cud only get 805 from my duron 700.

Nukes

17th December 2001, 16:23

With a pencil, a file and a printout from tom's hardware guide.
BTW do u know what the fourth jumper there is for or what it does? the other three controll the FSB from 90 to 115.

Jez_Gafys

18th December 2001, 11:19

Originally posted by Spanky
Well I may not win with the best computer but the sound system kicks some serious butt!

SoundCard: onboard
Speakers: connected through a Dolby Digital & DTS sound system with a 7 X 110 watts RMS amp(excluding subs).

OMG How can you say that. Sure you have some powerful speakers doesnt mean they are good quality. But the main point is the soundcard "onboard" WTF just stating that makes it utter pants :0

Dwarf_Pr0n

18th December 2001, 11:25

You need a Soundblaster Audigy.
Now THAT'S good sound.

KermitTheFrag

18th December 2001, 11:32

Audigy is crap sound - I can tell you as I've tried one. Ive never seen anything as overhyped and wrongly marketed. The SPDIF implementation is still broken, its downsampled to 18-bits internally, its connectors are noisy (even though the card has 95db [measured] noise floor) and the drivers really do suck. More creative labs crap grade ****e if you ask me. Spend your money somewhere else.

Here's a *decent* audio card. Its not got a lot of features but it has the ability to sound a feck of a lot better than *anything* else ive ever heard.

http://www.tweakmax.com/html/ap2496/ap2496-1.cfm

Idylla

18th December 2001, 11:57

I'm not upgrading anything on my pc or server for at least a year now, so here goes it:

============================================
My Machine:
============================================
Athlon 1200 (AVIA)
IWILL KK266+ Raid
2 X 60Gb IBM 60GXP 7200rpm Drives in Raid0
1 X 6Gb Samsung? 5400rpm Drive (for Backup).
640Mb PC133 CL3 Ram
52X CDrom
6X DVD (has served me well for 3 years)
Lian Li-PC60 Case
SB Audigy Platinum (Yummy)
Asus Geforce3 Deluxe
Netgear FA311 100mbit Network card (niiiice)
CNET Pro 200 100mbit Network card (load balanced with netgear one)
Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Sony 15" SDM-M51 LCD TFT Display
Hauppage WinTV PCI (with FM radio etc.)
ThermoEngine + YS-Tech Fan
WindowsXP

SB Audigy front linked to Sony Midi Hifi System with 2X 100W RMS Output and rear output linked to subwoofer and satellites (2X35W RMS Output).

Geforce 3 linked to TV

Video/TV Linked to WinTV Card

================================
Server:
================================

AMD Duron 750 OC'ed to 800 (heh)
256Mb PC133 CL2 Ram
1 X 30Gb 7200rpm Maxtor DiamondMax Harddisk
Voodoo 3 - 3000 AGP Graphics card (phw0re!)
Netgear FA310TX network card (100mbit)
Gamesurround Fortissimo II
ISA 56k V90 Modem (rahh ph33r).
No Keyboard
No Mouse
No Monitor
WindowsXP (Current uptime: 24 days)

Cant be arsed to do brothers/dads specs ;)

Kermit: Audigy is an excellent card, way better than the other poor cards made by Creative. Even at full volume the interference is minimal and is possibly due to my stereo itself. The drivers aren't perfect, but they sound damn good on my setup.

Sidenote: According to microsoft my system is incompatible with windowsXP, but i've proved them totally wrong, and its mega stable atm.

Nukes

18th December 2001, 12:59

I have to get a better mobo. The GA-71XE4 is ****e as owt else.
I don't fancy going for a Abit board though as I have hear some scary **** about the caps blowing up and I have seen a board after this has happened and I don't wanna be in that situation. I was thinking about the MSI Turbo2 as that has a Softmenu feature and for the amount I have used it for customers, it seems quite stable. (only 69 aquids from scan as well!)
I would like a raid board, but I can't afford to replace my RAM with DDR. I could maybe upgrade to PC133 if I needed to but that's it. The RAID board I had in mind was the MSI Pro2/R but I've seen it fall over too many times and murder the hdds in the array.
I will also try and get myself a GF2MX card and clock it a bit. It is solid to get hold of blue Orbs nowadays though.
Someone make a suggestion for a mobo/gfx combo that will total less than £150 but keep me future proofed for a bit with better OCing features than I have ATM.
plz plz plz.

wishy

18th December 2001, 13:35

To be honest, most of them time i'm happy with a basic sound card, nothing more i want out of it.

And DTK, Thats not a Hifi, thats a midi, proper hifi is seperates as anyone who knows will tell you. :D /me strokes seperates system, FAR better quality than any midi i've heard.

LiquidFire

18th December 2001, 13:43

@ Home

1Ghz T-Bird
256MB RAM
30GB IBM HDD running 98 and 2k
20GB Maxtor HDD running Linux
Geforce 2 GTS
19" Monitor
8x8x32x Ricoh CDRW
6x?32x Toshiba DVD
Abit KT7a Mobo
SB Live 1024 Player outputting to CSW320's
RealMagic DVD Decoder Card
56k USB Winmodem
56k Serial Modem
TV Card
ThermoEngine w/ YS-Tech 60mm

@ Work

(used to be my old system)

AMD K6-2 500MHz
96MB PC100 RAM
30GB IBM Hard Drive
4GB Fujitsu Hard Drive running 98
4MB Trident AGP vid card
24x Creative CD Drive
16x10x40x TDK Cyclone
Chaintech 5AGM2 Mobo
No sound
15" Hansol 500A Monitor
AT Case with self fitted 120mm Fan (outtake)

Which brings me onto... what specs are your office systems! lol

anyone else got a blow hole in there works machine? :)

anyways - speaking work, probably time I started doing some...

LiquidFire

18th December 2001, 13:53

And DTK, Thats not a Hifi, thats a midi, proper hifi is seperates as anyone who knows will tell you. /me strokes seperates system, FAR better quality than any midi i've heard.

Yerp, good seperates are a lot better - hey new topic for this thread - what hifi you runnin :)

Startin it off with, mine:

Rotel RA972 Intergrated Amp
Arcam CD72 CD Player
Celestion A Series Compact Speakers
Yamaha YST90 Subwoofer
Sony S715 DVD Player
QED Silver Bi-wire speaker cable
Chord Company and QED Interconnects
Bespoke Speaker Stands
SoundStyle Equipment Rack

Nukes

18th December 2001, 13:58

i have this old SCSI card in one machine that died recently (NOT THE P3) will it work with large, modern SCSI Hard disks? or will I need to buy a new one for that, It was originally for a scanner.

wishy

18th December 2001, 14:12

If it was originally for a scanner, i very much doubt it. Scanners are normally SCSI 2, which max out at about 2gb (They moved to wide after than). they also generally don't have internal connectors there anyway. Short of it is, buy a new one.

wishy

18th December 2001, 14:13

Oh and...

Aiwa XA-008 140w RMS
Sony seperates Eq
Rotel Tuner
Eltax Silverstone 200 200w rms floorstander speakers.

Nukes

18th December 2001, 14:14

It has 2 intenal connectors and the model of card is:
Symbios Logic 53C416 SCSI Adapter

D2M

18th December 2001, 15:45

Originally posted by wishy
The KT7A Is the board that needs no manufacturers name. Its made by abit and was a phonemial sucess. At I8 (Before all this DDR crap came out ) you could just go round, if they had Thunderbird / duron, they had a KT7A.

LOL! How true. I still have mine working...

Abit Kt7A
AMD Thunderbird 1.2Ghz
40Gb Seagate HDD
512Mb PC133 SDRAM
64Mb nVidia GeForce 2 MX400
Sound Blaster Live 1024
Creative 5.1 Speakers
17" Hansol 710P Monitor
16x DVD
24x10x40 CD-RW
And the usual modem, network card...etc :D

It's not the best, but it does what I ask it to do!

Will upgrade a lot soon...when i pay off my credit card :p:

Nukes

18th December 2001, 15:47

Then u went and bought a seagate hdd.

D2M

18th December 2001, 15:51

lol, i was building to a budget. Have a maxtor 80gb 7200rpm on order.

wishy

18th December 2001, 20:50

Originally posted by Nukes
Then u went and bought a seagate hdd.

What exactly is wrong with seagate? /me trusts seagate drives, /me has fast seagate barracuda ATA II 20gb

Nukes

18th December 2001, 21:24

Not as bad as The IBM 75GXP drives, or Quantum Bigfoot.
Otherwise, yeah. fair enough. Just had a few too many die on me.

Nukes

18th December 2001, 21:26

Oh, and maxtor and Quantum are now the same company BTW.
:D

Fujitsu, Samsung, Some Quantum and Maxtor Drives are OK, but HDDs are the easiest thing to kill, you simply need to chop the SMD's on the board up with a pair of cutters. Walla, insurance job.

Jez_Gafys

19th December 2001, 08:28

not 100% sure of the model numbers but I have a full Kenwood system

which included

KTF- 3000 Tuner
3030R Amp
The main base is a summit 905 which I think was 110w x 5
And then the base cd player which holds like 5 cds.

All in all it probs cost around 1500 itrs a very good system, shame it isnt connected to my pc just my dvd player and satelite:(

KermitTheFrag

19th December 2001, 09:09

Originally posted by Nukes
Not as bad as The IBM 75GXP drives, or Quantum Bigfoot.
Otherwise, yeah. fair enough. Just had a few too many die on me.

Euch dont even mention 75GXP near me

/me looks at dead pile...

I've got 2x 18.2gig 10k rpm U160 Ultrastars on order. I hope they are better ;) ... and a 29160 card :)

Spanky

19th December 2001, 11:32

Originally posted by Jez_Gafys

OMG How can you say that. Sure you have some powerful speakers doesnt mean they are good quality. But the main point is the soundcard "onboard" WTF just stating that makes it utter pants :0

I know my sound card so sucks but hey i use the system for digital TV and DVD's thats were it sounds best!

If anyone knows of a decent sound card with an Optical Out I would be interested.

As for the seperates system

Sony DB940
Panasonic A160 dvd
NTL Digi Box
Eltax Linear Responce 6.5
Eltax HT-2 Bipolars
Eltax Symphony Center

cost me over £1500, which is not bad considering I went into the shop planning to spend around £700.

R0gu3

19th December 2001, 13:03

mmmmmmmmm

AMD Athalon 500mhz
Voodoo 3 (Normal)
9 GiG HD - soon to be 109gig :)
384mb SD Ram
Some poo'e SoundCard...
etc.etc.

upgrading soon tho

wishy

19th December 2001, 17:55

Originally posted by Nukes
Not as bad as The IBM 75GXP drives, or Quantum Bigfoot.
Otherwise, yeah. fair enough. Just had a few too many die on me.

Name a brand thats never died on you. If you can name one, you aint spent long enough in computing...

Seriously, with notable exceptions with design flaws (Eg the GXP-75) no hard disk is reliable. Manufacturers could make them more reliable, but as it isn't quantifiable, it doesn't sell units.

And SCSI disks are generally better because your paying more, they designed for heavier usage, but again, they die like the rest...