I've been inspired by darkhorse58 and wondered what type of hardware people are running, if you only have one computer or a home network setup, what are the specifications of what you have?

*CPU = Processor, MoBo = Motherboard, RAM = Memory, GFX = Graphics, HDD = Hard Disk Drive*

Mine:

Main PC:
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 2.08Ghz
MoBo: Abit NF7 -s v2.0 (nVidia nforce2 chipset)
RAM: 1.5GB DDR400 kingston
GFX: 256MB onboard / 256MB Radeon sapphire (agp)
HDD: 250GB Maxtor (very sad) split to 4 partitions (Windows, Games, Films/Music, Business)

Laptop #1:
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1900+ 1.59Ghz
MoBo: update later
RAM: 768MB DDR unbranded
GFX: Intel iextreme 64MB onboard
HDD: 30GB

Laptop #2:
CPU: Intel Core Duo 2.16Ghz
MoBo: GT1SW (included with chassis)
RAM: 2GB DDR2 667 kingston
GFX: 128MB Intel onboard (915 chipset)
HDD: 120GB Seagate Momentus
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7 out those 11 views are mine. I'm sorry but what ever possessed you?
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Nothing possessed me, it was a choice to post a topic. What made you choose to view it 7 times and then reply?

I want to get a broader overview of peoples machines, if they even know what they are running or know its a Dell, HP etc. I do have various reasons for asking the question and asking the poll question.

Maybe no-one on this forum wants to answer, sees no reason to answer or whatever but I still have a right to ask, as I have in other forums and yes have received replies with answers to what I have asked.
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ok heres mine a little old now but will be getting upgraded soon

1. AMD XP3700 64 bit 2.2GHZ
2 Gig Crucial XMS Dual Channel Ram 400mhz
DFI NF4 Infinity Motherboard with onboard gigabit lan
Nvidia BFG Superclocked 8800GTS 320mb pcie Video Card
1x 80 GB Sata HD (for OS)
1 x 200gb Sata Hard Drive
1 x 250 Gb Sata Hard Drive

Server

Intel P4 2.4ghz
2 gig pc3200 dual channel ram
Asrock P4V88 motherboard
His Excalibur IceyQ Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb video card
Fujitsu Ultrawide 320 Scsi 10k 146gb Hard drive
40 gb Sata Hard Drive
Gigabit lan card
External 120 gig usb2 hard drive
external 40gig usb 2.5" hard drive
external 30 gig 2.5" usb hard drive
Use this for running and beta testing ms products (may build another just for beta testing)

Use an internal Gigabit Lan for faster transfer of files between machines with cat 6 cable

Laptop

Core duo 1.6ghz
1 gig ddr2 ram
80gb hard drive
128mb intel grfx
54 abg wireless
gigabit lan

nothing much really

I am a hardware numpty. However I shall try and look like I am blessed with "What's inside my pc" brains.

CPU: Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00Ghz
RAM: 768 MB RAM DDR (no idea what flavour)
Motherboard - no idea, has got some silly SiS 650 thingy on it.
GFX: Nvidia GeForce FX 5200
HDD: 320GB Maxtor containing Windows XP SP2/Slackware 11/Ubuntu/Zenwalk/music back up/STUFF
120GB Maxtor containing music/software/web site back ups/films


Very important - IT HAS GOT A BLUE LED ON THE POWER BUTTON. I love that.

All my stuff is crap, but I only use it for work.

PC is just an old eMachines box, with original motherboard whatever it is, Intel Celeron 3 Ghz, 2GB Ram, 2x 250GB + 1 120GB hard drives and a load of crappy graphics cards and things that aren't even worth a mention Oh, added loads of usb cards.

Main laptop is a shitty Packard Bell (SW51), no upgrades except for hard rive and ram (now 160GB/2GB)

Will be building a new box for PC in the nex few months, this one is getting tired. Will replace laptop sometime soon too, need a smaller one (probably a 12 or 13" screen), better spec.

Also got 2 external network drives (500GB) and a portable USB external drive for the laptop that I take with me when I travel (120GB)

i'd agree re: under used pc's. Mine is 1.8ghz p4 and i only feel slow when converting films to dvd & running some windows games under cedega. Other than that i'd just like hardware virtualisation for it's alledged greatness for running other operating systems at close to native speed, esp windows once in a blue moon. I wonder sometimes if it's worth it, but will probs upgrade this year.

Built mine nearly 2 years ago, still doesn't need upgrading tbh

Case - Thermaltake VB5001SNA Tai Chi Case
Control unit - Coolermaster Cooldrive 6 Hard Disk Cooler
Board - LANPARTY UT RDX200 CF-DR
PSU - Thermaltake Silent Purepower 680W PSU ATX & EPS
CPU - AMD Athlon 64 FX-60
Memory - OCZ 4GB (4 x 1GB) PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum Series
GFX - ATI x1800 XT 512mb
GFX2 - ATI x1800 XT 512mb (CE)
Physix card - Aegia Physix 128mb
MASTER HDD1 - Western Digital Raptor 150GB 10,000RPM SATA 8MB Cache
MASTER HDD2 - Western Digital Raptor 150GB 10,000RPM SATA 8MB Cache
HDD1 - Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 320GB 3200JD SATA
HDD2 - Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 320GB 3200JD SATA
HDD3 - Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 320GB 3200JD SATA
HDD4 - Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 320GB 3200JD SATA
Water cooling - See Case (CPU)
Mouse - Razer Copperhead Tempest Blue 2000dpi
Keyboard - Raptor K1 Professional Gaming-Grade Keyboard
Headset - Creative HQ-2300D 5.1 Headphones
Media - Plextor PX-716AL Dual Layer Slot Loading 16x4x
Soundcard - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
Monitor - 2 x NEC LCD2170NX 21" LCD Monitor - Black
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intel p4 3ghz ht
1gb dual channel ddr400
500w zalman (heat piped!) psu
HIS radeon x1950 pro icecool
arctic cooling cpu heatsink monstrosity
1 X 250gb hdd
2 x 160gb hdd


apparently i need some more memory. since running wow in higher res with this graphics card, it judders a bit when frame rates change suddenly.
my dvd writer goes wrong if i try and close data dvds so prob need a one of them too.

ageia physx card, that for specific games or benefits them all?

laptop i am typing on is a $1200 dell 2006 (reformated cause dell sucks balls) and it is a

1 gig ram
1.8ghz dual core intel
5.1 creative sound card (vista sucks)
ati x1400 mobile 256
1x110gig HD
1x dvd drive

desktop P.O.S.
750MB ram
1x 80 gig
1x 40 gig
nvidia PCI gforce 5500
intel 2.8 ghz
5.1 creative sound card
pci wireless card
1xdvd drive
1xcd drive

2001 computer

amd 1ghz athalon
gforce 5500 agp(out dated now adays)
512 ram
1x cd drive
(i use it as a server)

I am avoiding vista like the plague as well. I knew that anybody buying it was going to be MS's testing piglet and i had nothing of the sort in mind.

I saw one of the first 2x GPU's yesterday and it was, strangely enough, an ATI.
One of the new HD 3870's. This is where AMD's money is going to come from if Intel does not batter them with the on die graphics solution that is soon to be released. It makes sense to have it all done on the main chip but this reeks of MS behavior if you ask me.