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  1. 1. which do you use?

    • Standard (built your own) MSI, ASUS, etc...
      485
    • Dell
      71
    • Compaq
      25
    • HP
      15
    • IBM
      3
    • Gateway
      13
    • Sony
      10
    • eMachine
      3
    • Other Unidentifiable stuff
      27
    • Mac
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My Box

Motherboard: MSI 845E Max-L

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz 533Mhz FSB S478

Video Card: 64MB DDR ATi Radeon 7000 w/TV-Out

Hard Drive: Maxtor 40GB 5200rpm

Floppy: 1.44MB Panasonic

CDRW: HP 9100 Series 8x4x32

DVD-ROM: 16x LG DRD 8160B

PSU: 300W P4

RAM: 256Mb DDR 333 (PC2700)

TV Tuner: Hauppauge WinTV FM

MPEG2 Decoder: REALmagic Hollywood Plus

Firewire: D-Link 3 Port firewire card

Speakers: Altec Lansing AVS300

Monitor: 17" Samsung 753DF

Microsoft Natural Keyboard and Optical Mouse

Logitech Wingman RumblePad

OS: Windows XP Pro (SP1)

  mutantcol said:
i made this little thing, type in how many watts you think your pc is using. (you could work it out) and if you live around manchester in the UK, prices should be right for electricity. excel formula does the sums

Uh, thanks for the attempt, really, it just looks a little complex....I'm not a math genious, have an english degree presently....

icedevil How did you get yours to run on a 333FSB? And does it really help any? I mean cause 266 seems good.....

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Mine

Motherboard: Chaintech Apogee

CPU: AMD AthlonXP 1700+ @ 1.9Ghz FSB=333Mhz

CPU Fan: Dr.Thermal Cooler

Video Card: Chaintech GeForce 3 TI200 128Meg Limeted/Special Edition

ATA Controller Card: Promise ATA/66 IDE Controller

Dual Removable Hard Drive Bays

Hard Drive: Seagate Baracuda 60Gb

CDRW: Aopen CRW 52x24x52

Floppy: Panasonic Generic Floppy (Black)

PSU: Vantec Stealth 420W

Ram: 512Mb DDR 333 (PC2700)

Cooling: 4 Chassis Fans (Tri-Colour LED)

OS: Windows XP Pro (SP1)

building one is the best and cheap. Gives you a chance to learn and buld more in the future or help your friends out. I build my first one 2 years ago out of the blue! since then I have bulid alot more and helped alot of peeps with pc problems due to hardware

i have a gateway, they are the best! if you ever have a problem you can call them up and you listen to music for like 10-20 seconds. my grandma got a sony vaio (she shouldve asked me before she got it) an she said when she called tech support one time she was on hold for an hour (maybe a litttle less, but still)

  MikeCoz said:
i have a gateway, they are the best! if you ever have a problem you can call them up and you listen to music for like 10-20 seconds. my grandma got a sony vaio (she shouldve asked me before she got it) an she said when she called tech support one time she was on hold for an hour (maybe a litttle less, but still)

Maybe her sense of time is a little off?? not to offend you or her....But I would never ever buy a Gateway, or even recommend it. You should build your own....it's way better and can easily be cheaper too. :D

I recently got a Compaq Presario 1200XL Laptop. It has a floppy drive, 14inch LCD screen, 6gig HD, a crappy video card, 156mb of RAM, 475 K6-2 and not much more else. The battery is dead too. 98se is the OS. :D

Actually, it runs pretty nice, I got it for helping a friend putting together a new PC. And I also got a 512mb of PC2700 RAM.

  FearMeAll said:
Custom built of course..only bought OEMs years ago, but now I have a lot of fun with building my own. Prefabs are great for noobs..got nothing against them. But I love to build!!

Yeah, I enjoy building them myself. Even setting up the software is fun. I like to surprise the people I build them for with features they didn't quite expect....brings back the joy of when I first put my system together....ah...the memories.... :happy:

I usually custom order mine from a computer mall where I live.

Machine #1:

Intel P4 2.53Ghz

Asus P4T-533 Mobo

512MB 32-bit RDRAM

2 Western Digital 1200JB

Panasonic DVD-R/RW A04

Asus 48x16x48x CD-RW

SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum

Winfast GeForce4 Ti4600, used alternatively with

Sapphire Radeon 9700 Pro

Adaptec RAID card

Logitech Cordless Elite Duo (new since I spilled Pepsi on the old one)

Machine #2:

AMD AthlonXP 1200+ (replacement for an Intel 800Mhz that died)

Unknown brandmotherboard with on board sound

256MB SDRAM

Maxtor 30GB Hdd

HP CD-RW

LiteOn 16x DVD-Rom

Asus GeForce 3

Logitech Cordless Freedom Optical

Machine #3

Old Intel Pentium 200 machine, forgot the specs

Will run linux

Machine #4

Sony Vaio SRX7 notebook computer

iLink CD-RW drive

Generic Optical mouse

My Computers:

PC;

MSI K7 KT4 Ultra FISR (onboard Sound and many features)

2400 Athlon XP @ 2.07 W/ Vantec Aeroflow

4200 Geforce 4 Ti 64mb DDR 8x

Maxtor 120gig @ 7200rpm ATA133 UltraQuiet

768mb PC2700 DDR RAM

Memorex CDRW 40x24x48

DVD 16x 40x

Windows XPpro SP-1 w/Office XP SP-2

really nice case, very basic cream white

Compaq 15inch Monitor w/ JBL speakers

IJ600 printer

Laptop;

Compaq Presario 1200XL

Blade3 graphics onboard

K6-2 @ 475mhz

6gig HD

156mb PC100 SDRAM

CD Player 24x

JBL speakers

Windows 98se

Epox 8K9A2+ KT400

2400+ Athlon XP @ 2083MHz W/ Thermaltake 6CU+

ATI Radeon 9500PRO/Atlantis Pro

Maxtor 40gb @ 7200rpm ATA133 --->Windows Drive

Samsung 80GB 7200rpm ATA 100 -->Downloads Drive---|\ RAID

Samsung 80GB 7200rpm ATA 100 -->Downloads Drive---|/ RAID

Fujitsu 73.5GB 10000 RPM Ultra 320 SCSI --->Video Editing Drive

Adaptec SCSI Ultra 320

1024MB PC3500 CL2 OCZ RAM

Cyberdrive CDRW 48x24x52

DVD 16x 40x

Windows XP SP1/OfficeXP SP2

Nikao Zizon with custom window mod

LG Flatron 17"

Hercules Digifire 7.1 (3 Firewire Ports)

Creative MEGAWORKX THX 6.1

Lexmark Z54

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Built My Dream System 2 months ago, gotta love Tax Returns :)

Basmaster@Eastlink.ca

  basmaster said:
Epox 8K9A2+ KT400

2400+ Athlon XP @ 2083MHz W/ Thermaltake 6CU+

ATI Radeon 9500PRO/Atlantis Pro

Maxtor 40gb @ 7200rpm ATA133 --->Windows Drive

Samsung 80GB 7200rpm ATA 100 -->Downloads Drive---|\ RAID

Samsung 80GB 7200rpm ATA 100 -->Downloads Drive---|/ RAID

Fujitsu 73.5GB 10000 RPM Ultra 320 SCSI --->Video Editing Drive

Adaptec SCSI Ultra 320

1024MB PC3500 CL2 OCZ RAM

Cyberdrive CDRW 48x24x52

DVD 16x 40x

Windows XP SP1/OfficeXP SP2

Nikao Zizon with custom window mod

LG Flatron 17"

Hercules Digifire 7.1 (3 Firewire Ports)

Creative MEGAWORKX THX 6.1

Lexmark Z54

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Built My Dream System 2 months ago, gotta love Tax Returns :)

Basmaster@Eastlink.ca

Have you experienced problems with you KT4 chipset??

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