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There's already a desktop screenshot thread, I just thought it would be interesting to have one that involved the computer itself. Who here uses a prebuilt computer? Self built? Specs....
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i can't send pics because i don't have a camera available atm, but i can say that i did have a prebuilt comp, the specs of which u don't want to know
i now have a PC that i was given by my Auntie's bf, the specs are here:-
Asus A7A266
Duron 1400 (1410.328MHZ, 2811.48 MIPS)
256MB PC100 RAM
40GB 5400 RPM Maxtor (29.09 MB/sec throughput)
GeForce 2 MX 400 PCI 64MB (about 70FPS on Quake III@1024x768 windowed with all settings to max(when it works),Torque is smooth too)
Smasung SD-606 DVD drive from my old PC (cheap,nasty,came with my prebuilt PC, _DO NOT BUY_, it's crap)
Creative RW4424E 4X CD-RW (on which i have managed to write at 5X )
oh, and i have a Dell 1025HE Trinitron monitor (damn fine monitor)
Last edited by randomblast; 01-06-2004 at 05:15 PM.
The living room of the Ghetto-colo with the Infobong, the movie-player laptop, the music server, the renter, the random Indy, the braindead SparcStation 20, and Tenacious the wireless uber-bridge/machine O'abuse:
Originally posted by finegan The living room of the Ghetto-colo with the Infobong, the movie-player laptop, the music server, the renter, the random Indy, the braindead SparcStation 20, and Tenacious the wireless uber-bridge/machine O'abuse:
I don't know y anyone would by a prebuilt machine! It is so much more expensive! and ppl like IBM have proprietry parts so when u wanna upgrade u cant cause tose size parts can only be bought from IBM and by that time they have made a new size, so you have to buy a whole new computer!
Anyway i'm into case modding and will post a pic of mine soon but not yet,
Recipe for a better life: remove all but one drawer in your desk. Put the computer in the drawer. Put all loose cables besides the computer. Now you have no cables on the floor and vacuum cleaning is so much easier.
You can see that the temperature at the CPU cooler is 33.6 C and the room temperature is 22.4 C.
That is an Ericsson product that didn't make it. It's my NAT firewall / DHCP server / DNS. It runs a stripped Linux and has an AMD 486 clone, 32MB flash and 32 MB RAM.
There's also a Windows 2000 machine (that's soon moving out) in the room and another Linux machine.
Here are some pics of my office. Right now there are two computers in this room. I also have a laptop sitting in a bag beside one of the desks. I will soon have a few more boxes and a KVM switch
Right now it's just a nice place for my wife and I to sit and mess around on the computers. She uses the XP box and I use the Slack box (recently she's been moving to the slack box for fun....and she likey).
For those of you with pics that don't have a site to post on, I will host a pic of your work area if you need to. Just send me the pic via email, and I'll upload it and send you a link to put in your post
Since my stuff kinda leaves my room and heads into the rec-room I'm going to have to take a few pictures and the rec-room is a mess (I just got given another 6 computers...all P1-P2's but they are going to make great test boxes...I've already got ideas brewing) anyway, I'll take pics tomorrow after I clean and post
Here are my two primary PCs in Antec Gemstone cases. Had planned on buying the purple and red versions too but model was discontinued. Handle on top makes them really easy to move around. Have a couple others -- OK, maybe about four more -- but they're not as pretty. Those Mac addicts got nothing on me.
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Handle on top makes them really easy to move around. Have a couple others -- OK, maybe about four more -- but they're not as pretty. Those Mac addicts got nothing on me. 
