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  1. 1. which do you use?

    • Standard (built your own) MSI, ASUS, etc...
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    • Dell
      71
    • Compaq
      25
    • HP
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    • IBM
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    • Gateway
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    • Sony
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    • eMachine
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    • Mac
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I call it "Black Dragon"

MSI KT3 Ultra 2 Motherboard

AMD Athlon XP 2100+ CPU

256MB OC System DDR333 Cas 2 (x2) RAM

Maxtor 38.2 GB 7,200 RPM Hard Drive

Lite-On 52x24x52x Burner

Samsung 16x DVD Player

Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Sound Card

MSI Geforce4 Ti4200 64MB Graphics Card

Microsoft Natural MultiMedia Keyboard

Logitech Wireless Mouse

Some ok Creative Speakers

Some crappy KDS 15" monitor (will be updated as of 04/04/2003 - payday) :)

does everything that i want it to do

Sony Vaio (Case)

Windows XP Pro SP1 (OS)

Intel Pentium IV 2.02A GHz (Processor)

1024MB DDR (RAM)

2 x 60GB Samsung (Hard Drive)

ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (Video Card)

Pioneer DVR-104 (DVD-R/RW)

Asus CD-S400/A (CD-ROM)

Soundblaster Extigy (Soundcard)

Klipsch THX w/ Sub (Surround Sound Speakers)

21" SUN Microsystems Flatscreen CRT (Monitor)

Sony Vaio (Keyboard & Mouse)

Desktop: 1.5ghz p4, 640mb pc800 rdram, 100gig WD hd 8mb cache, 80 maxtor, Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb, 52x24x52 cd/rw, 16x dvd, tv wonder card, 15 inch flat panel sony monitor

Laptop: 1.7ghz p4m, 512 ddr ram, 40 gig hd, dvd-cd/rw combo drive, 32mb geforce 440 go

  Samoa said:
No eMachines??

What's an eMachine, I never saw them. I bought a lemon computer from a Taiwanese company. It has a senihcaMe logo on it. WTF does that mean?

PIII 800

ASUS CUV4X MB

640 MB PC 100 RAM

KDS 17" Monitor

Nvidia TNT2 16 MB Ram

LG 12X Burner

USB Compact Flash drive

Logitech USB mouse

Happy Hacking USB keyboard

ANTEC Case and 300 W Antec PSW

The best thing on my system is the Happy Hacking keyboard. They're 1/2 the size of the regular keyboards. The keys feel more response and I type a lot faster w/ it.

Second pc I've built for myself so far...

Actually the mobo and cpu were the last two parts I got recently

Viewsonic P95f+b 19inch

Asus Nforce 2

AMD 2700+

MSI Geforce 4400 (seriously considering a 9800 pro)

2 hard drives: 80gig/8mb cache WD, 120 gig archive drive Maxtor

Plextor 40x burner

Pioneer DVD Slot

Audigy 1

Antec 1080B -- 430ps

Simbadda C550 Case

Asus A7S333

Athlon XP 1800+

Volcano 7 With Vantec Tornado F5

256 MB pc2700 Samsung DDR

Ati Radeon 8500

CyberDrive 32x12x48x CD-RW

AOpen 54X CD-Rom

Sound Blaster Audigy

Logitech Z-640 Speakers 5.1

Seagate Barracuda 60GB 7200RPM

Maxtor 20GB

Logitech Optical Mouse

Lexmark X73 Printer/scanner/copier

Mitsumi Floppy Drive

19" Micron Electronics Monitor

Microsoft Windows Xp Proffesional Sp1

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