What's in your computer?

What\'s in your computer?

Okay... Something else not related to "you know what"...

What are your computer specs... The very computers y'all are using to read/write/eat/sleep CPF!

Moi:

2.8Ghz P-4
Abit TH7-II RAID MoBo
1,024MB RDRAM
1,120GB HD (4x 120GB WDs, 4x 120GB IBMs, 1x 160GB Maxtor)
Sony G400 Flat-Monitor
TDK 52x24x48
Creative DVD-ROM
LeadTek GF4 Ti4600
Creative SB Audigy
Klipsch 5.1 for gaming
Lian Li PC-65
WinXP Prof

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid57/pbb40088e84b2a50b542d2241d1bc4f44/fc68f2c1.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid57/p6fe587ee3a7a9ae196bbbe965366aa81/fc68f2c2.jpg

As you can see in the pics, I'm not a very "organized" individual... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

So, what are your specs for your computers?

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Dell Dimension XPS T450, range topping model spring '99
Intel 440BX2
P3-450 (soon to be powerleaped to 1.4Ghz Tualatin Cel)
256MB PC100 RAM, soon to 512, maybe 768, originally 128
Maxtor DiamondMax 9.1G originally, IBM Deskstars (75GXP 20G, 120GXP 80G, both on Maxtor PCI133 controller) added later for 3 hdds
Samsung SD-616 DVD 16x (originally Toshiba 8x, replaced under warranty w/ Samsung
Sony CRX-100E CD-RW 24/4/2x
ATI AIW 8500DV (originally Nvidia Riva TNT 16mb)
SB Live! Value
Altec Lansing ADA880 5.1
USR Perf. Pro V92 model
Win XP Home (originally 98SE)
MS Intellimouse 3.0 (originally ball intellimouse)
Sony CPD200ES 17"
Cinemaster DVD decoder w/ SPDIF out no longer in use, ATI software decoder; cinemaster card and TNT available if you cover shipping.

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[*] AMD Athlon XP 2000 (1.67 Ghz)

[*] Abit KX7-333 RAID Ultra ATA133 mobo with a YS Tech 50cfm fan & rheostat, and an Alpha 8045T heatsink

[*] 512mb Mushkin PC2700 RAM (6ns DDR333) with heatspreader

[*] 80GB Western Digital HD with an 8mb cache

[*] TEAC 40x12x48 CDRW with an 8mb buffer

[*] Cendyne 16x DVD-ROM

[*] PNY Verto GeForce4 Ti 4400 128mb DDR RAM AGP card

[*] Creative SB 24bit Audigy

[*] Logitech Z560 4.1 @ 400 watts

[*] Antec mini-tower with Enermax 465watt PSU with 4 Sunon fans

[*] Win2000 Professional

[*] Viewsonic VX800 18" flat panel monitor 550:1

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My machine is about 18mths old

Sony G400 Monitor
Logitech wireless keyboard, mouse and joystick
310GB total HD (Quantums and Maxtor)
Sony 16x dvd rom
Sony CRX 160S SCSI CDRW
Adaptec SCSI Card
Sony FDD
ASUS V7700 Geforce 2 GFX Card
Netgear 10/100 NIC
OEM Firewire card
OEM 56K int modem
512 MB ram
1GHZ PIII
Aopen AX3 mobo
couple crap speakers stolen from work.

Running Win2K Pro (thank you MCA /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

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falconfx, why the terabyte of storage? if you were into vid processing, i'd expect to see dual processors /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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iddibhai said:
falconfx, ... if you were into vid processing, i'd expect to see dual processors /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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Nah, if any one was in vid production, i would be expecting to see a mac.

Geoff

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altho ironically, adobe says their stuff is a bit quicker on PCs /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif not meaning to start a mac/pc war, mind, just noting.

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Iddibhai,

To tell you the truth, I'm not sure why I got it either. I RAIDed 8 of them, and I've done some video editing and backup, so I guess the hard drive space and speed is there if I don't want to delete something and need quick access to my program projects or video projects.

I went ahead and MPEGed/DIVXed all my tapes (movies, tv shows, anime, sports games, ect) as well as all my music CDs and stuck them onto my computer, so two of my raid arrays are full of just DivX/MPEG files... Virtual CloneCD is also a big space grabber, so I guess I can say I'm a total failure when it comes to optimizing disk space...

I'm even afraid to do a defrag/full-scandisk on all these disks...

BTW, I'd rather upgrade to a 3.0G P-4 and grab myself a HyperThread capable MB, slap on a couple Gigs of RAM and let'er rip...

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ah.. sounds like me, a few gigs of all my CDs turned into MP3s /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif some home videos, junk, digicam pics, etc.

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Ok, here goes:

Dell Dimension 4500S
Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
384 MB DDR RAM
35 GB HD
Memorex Lite-on 52x24x52 CD-RW Drive
19" Samsung SyncMaster 955DF
Windows XP Home

Everything else OEM from Dell.

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IBM PC300GL.
160Mb unbranded Ram.
Unknown ATI 8Mb graphics card.
Unknown 3Gb (yes, just three gigs) HDD.
Celeron 333 CPU.
Sony slot-in 32x CD drive.
Windows 98SE.
NEC Multisync 5FGp 16.5 inch screen.
Ergonomic keybored, optical mouse.
Blue LEDs in the case and floppy drive.
And lots and lots of grey dust /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

But it does what I need it to, so I`m not complaining. Yet.

/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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HP pavilion 750c
1.8 GHz Pentium 4
512 MB ram
80 GB HD
nVidia TNT2 M64 graphics card w/32 MB SDRAM
HP pavilion mx75 17" monitor
Altec Lansing speakers/subwoofer
CD-RW
DVD
Cable Modem, scanner, printers, Microsoft Trackball
Package deal from Costco

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Snakes and gremlins /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

My computer makes me flame faster than a war thread.

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Pentium 4 2.4 GHz because it won't overheat and throws off less heat than brand A.

Zalman heat sink because it's quiet.

Matrox G550 dual-head video because it works and it's quiet.

Samsung 172t flat panel monitor because they said it was the best, and I love it.

Seagate Barracuda V disk because it's quiet.

Q-technology 300 W. power supply because it's quiet.

AMS electronics cf-1006 case with 120 mm fan, because it's quiet.

My second PC started life as a HP Pavilion. It's a good machine but it sounded like a vacuum cleaner. After putting up with the noise for a year I vowed to fix it, and I did. Now my obsession for quiet computers greatly exceeds my obsession for flashlights.

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eluminator,
I too crave quiet. is there a way to make my eMac fan quieter ? or should I have just gotten an iMac (quiet fan!) in the first place?

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Ted, there are almost certainly things you ca do to quiet it. But you'll have to take it apart. Find the size of the fans in there and get some extra quiet ones to replace them. There are a lot of articles on the internet about people doing this with other models.

Since yours has the monitor in the same box you have to be very careful when you crack the case not to contact the screen power supplies!

The other thing you can do is a little more potentially dangerous, just put some resistance in series with the main fan to reduce the speed of it. The chips in there run very cool compared to "ahem" some other processors that are more commonly used. But make sure that you are still moving air and run one of the utilities that measure the temp for you to be sure you're not running too hot.

With the monitor in there as well you can't really shut the fans down as that stuff generates much more heat.

As far as my machine, didn't someone post this same question a few months ago?

I've got no fewer than 4 different Macs in the house actually in use. An Alpha linux box and a couple of qnix machines left over from other projects. There is a PC around here somewhere, an old 386 that I used to experiment with Linux about 6 or 7 years ago... really should get rid of that. I program computers, both Mac's and Windows machines for a living, so my decision not to own one at home was a very educated one.

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Alright, No one laugh. You know what they say about the cobblers kids... Well, I work on computers all day long and this is what I have.

AMD Athlon 800Mhz
256Mb RAM
40+13Gb HDs both 5400 rpm
Radeon 7500
cheapest crap 17" monitor I could find
24x10x40 CD-RW that I JUST got a couple months ago
5X Creative PC-DVD Dxr2 with the decoder board (heh who wastes slots with a decoder board anymore?)
Hauppauge Win-TV
SB-Live
Klipsch 5.1 ( I know it hooked to a Live and not an Audigy but /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif )
modem, nic, floppy all the rest of the insignificant stuff.

I am very excited that I will be able to buy a new computer in about three months.

On a more high tech note. At work we are building the new P4 3.06 HT(Hyper Threading) PCs with serial ATA HDs. I haven't been impressed by a PC in a long while now but these machine are pretty incredible.

Best regards,
Randy

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I don't know. The simple way to get quieter air movement is to use a larger fan and have it turn slower. The problem is with most computer cases it's difficult or impossible to fit a larger fan.

I think some fans are inherently quieter than others of the same size when moving the same amount of air.

Unfortunately I have never had a Mac and know nothing about their construction. I noisy power supply is easy. Just replace with a quiet one. Unfortunately that's not usually the problem. The fan that cools the CPU is usually the largest noise generator. If the CPU heatsink has a built-in fan, replace it with a Zalman. But I don't know if they are available for a Mac. If the case fan is noisy you may be able to shoehorn in a larger one. If it is ducted to the CPU, you'll probably have to replace the duct with something larger or install a second large (at least 92 mm) fan inside to blow air on the CPU. If you can remove the computer from the original case and install it in a larger case, that makes larger fans easy. It's easy to do with PCs but I don't know about Macs.

I didn't pay much attention to the specs of the larger (120mm or 92mm) fans I now use. I knew they had a good reputation, and I slow them down using one of the several fan speed controllers available on the internet. Or run them on 7 volts (that's 12 volts minus 5 volts).

There are several internet sites dedicated to quiet PCs. quietpc.com endpcnoise.com etc. Just search for "quiet pc". I don't know if there are any for Macs though.

If you have a high-powered video card with built-in fan, you have another source of noise. Then there are the over-clockers. They aren't happy unless they can hear their fans screaming from across the street.

Be careful though. You might find yourself buying an IR thermometer to check for hot spots, putting heatsinks on mobo chips that didn't have any, and otherwise spending more time messing with your computer than you do buying flashlights. You will be using your Arc AAA a lot though.

One of the nice things about the Pentium 4 and my new Asus mobo is I can read their temperatures just by running a small program that came with the mobo.

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My Computer is 100% home built from off the shelf components:

Supercase 12 bay Full tower case (6x3.5, 6x5.25)
ASRock 200/266 FSB Socket A Mobo w/6xUSB 2.0
AMD Athlon XP1700+ OEM (newer core)
Volcano 7 cpu fan/heatsink
2 x 60 GB Western Digital HDs (ata100)
61 GB Maxtor ata100 HD
Cyberdrive 16x12x40 CDRW
1 full GigaByte PC133 SDRAM dimm (2x512 high density)
ATI Xpert 2000 Pro AGP
Soundblaster PCI 128
DLink DFE-530TX+ 10/100 ethernet nic (solid performer)
Generic 15 inch flatpanel (only 1 funky pixel!!)
Logitech Cordless Mouseman Optical (super nice mouse)
Microsoft Internet keyboard (the cheap version)
Midiland 3 pc speaker system (huge powered subwoofer)
HP DeskJet 3820 in USB mode
Panasonic KX-P1123 Dot matrix Printer
3.5 inch 1.44 MB floppy drive
5.25 inch 1.2 MB floppy drive (occasional need)

OS: MS Windows 98SE, Mandrake Linux 9.0 Powerpack Edition
ISP: Roadrunner cable

Hardware stability: 100%
Haven't had an OS crash in a long time. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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thank you James and elums /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

mm, I already have the laser thermometer, and an Arc AAA (and AAAA!) but I don't dare open the case myself!.. I'll see what I can have done using your suggestions..thanks.

Charles, what, you didn't smelt your own silicon..? (edit: /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif )