The computer you use to surf CPF

Ok, just take this survey about your computer(if you have several computers, use the best one).

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I have a Pentium 4 2.4GHz with 640MB of main memory, a GeForce 4 MX 420 with 64MB of video memory, and the machine runs Windows XP.

My main machine is a dual P3/1gHz, 1024Meg Ram, Promise Raid 0+1, Quadro4 NVS 200 dual video with Viewsonic 22" and 17" flat crt. I stick with this P3 as it beats the pants off my "video editing" machine which has a P4/2gHz, Raid 0 (striping), 512Meg DDR ram, ATI AIW. I think the P4 is sluggish compared to dual P3's.
Rob

Man Star, were you trying to make the Mac users feel left out or what?

PowerMac G4 ('Other CPU') running at 450 Mhz (Roughly the equivalent to a 1 gig Pentium III) Mac OS 10.2.6 ('non-Linux UNIX--good think I'm not using Classic)

It's got a ATi Rage 128 Pro. I could use something newer but I don't game a lot nor do I go 3D rendering so a new video card is about the least of my worries.

"My main machine is a dual P3/1gHz, 1024Meg Ram, Promise Raid 0+1, Quadro4 NVS 200 dual video with Viewsonic 22" and 17" flat crt. I stick with this P3 as it beats the pants off my "video editing" machine which has a P4/2gHz, Raid 0 (striping), 512Meg DDR ram, ATI AIW. I think the P4 is sluggish compared to dual P3's."
Well, the new P4s have HT(HyperThreading), which is essentially 2 CPUs in one.
If a single P4 beats a single P3, then dual P4s should beat dual P3s.

Star,
Can't run dual P4's yet, no SMP support. Only Xeon, and there aren't any reasonably priced motherboards that support them.
Rob

"Star,
Can't run dual P4's yet, no SMP support. Only Xeon, and there aren't any reasonably priced motherboards that support them.
Rob "
Well, I have seen a 3.06GHz P4, and if you press Ctrl-Alt-Delete, the task manager shows 2 CPUs.
There's only one CPU in the box, but that CPU is essentially 2 in 1.

AMD K6-3 400, over-clocked
Asus P5A motherboard
Promise ATA-100 card
3 Western Digital ATA-100 7,200 rpm HHDs (30 gb business, 40 gb recreational, 80 gb backup)
Visiontek Xtacy 9100 video card (Radeon core)
Creative Labs SoundBlaster Value, Live!
384 mb SDRAM
Creative Labs ModemBlaster Flash56
Farallon High Speed Ethernet NIC (Not mine, belongs to AT&T/Comcast. I'll swap it out for something good, one of these days).
Antec 350w dual fan PSU
Win2K
Enlight Mid-tower case
Generic 48x CDROM
250 mb ZipDrive
8x 8x 24x Yamaha CDRW
Removable HDD mount for backup HDD
ViewSonic E771 17" monitor
MS Ergonomic KB
MS PS/2 mouse and Taz mouse pad /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Computer Name: IRONHORSE (It might not be the fastest around, but it has a lot of power) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Future 'puter....dual Athlon XP based (As soon as I can find a mobo that supports 64bit processing....I'm tired of waiting for AMD to release the "Claw Hammer". No Saaby, I'm not interested in the G5).

Dan

Hyperthreading is mostly marketing. Even in the best case scenerio you probably won't see more than 20-30% improvement over a conventional CPU.

Using UNIX since June 1982.

Still using it.

I don't do Windows.

Nice survey, star882.

Who's the other Mandrake user?

Joe

"Nice survey, star882.

Who's the other Mandrake user?"
I do use Mandrake, but I voted Windows XP, since that's the OS on my fastest computer.

star, you have done this several times and always leave out us Mac users. There are a number of them here you know /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

As far as hyperthreading is concerned, in order to run benchmarks they always turn it off as it slows down a lot of things as it speeds up others.

There is some really good hardware that didn't make it on your list. So once again I'm on your "other" counter.

star, just wanted to make sure the other mandrake cpfer(s) knew about texstar's site, it is an excellent resource.

www.pclinuxonline.com

joe