Churnd

So fellow Yotatechers, what kind of computer(s) do you have? Just thought it might be interesting to see what people use to satisfy that Yotatech addiction. Be as general or specific as you want. Don't be shy either. Older machines are cool too.

My weapons of mass destruction:

Work:
IBM T43 Thinkpad

Home:
Dell Inspiron 8200

I love my Thinkpad!

Corey

iTrader: (1)

Home built



More info here, but it is outdated, no time to update my page.
http://pnw4runners.com/tando/pc.htm

But for the most part, it is an Intel 2.4c chip OC'd to 3.12 GHz with two GB of PC3200 RAM
Two Sony DVD burners, one dual layer
ATI 9600 Pro vid card
Leadtek Winfast 2000 XP TV/FM tuner card
Creative Audigy 2 ZS soundcard,
and lots more.

It plays most games pretty good, and I view everything on a Dell 2005 FPW 20.1" wide screen LDC.
http://www.pnw4runners.com/temp/laptop.jpg

Cooling is done by two LED 80 mm fans front & rear, one hard drive cooler, one fan on the vid card, and this monster sportin' two 120 mm fans.



Sound playback is done via Logitech Z680 5.1 speakers, with about 500 watts total output.
It rocks.

However...will be retiring this PC to the guest room later this spring/summer as I plan on building up a FX60 dual core PC with two NVIDIA 7800 vid cards in SLI mode.
This will be the ultimate gaming rig, and the current one will continue to do my PVR chores for me.
http://www.pnw4runners.com/tando/pvr.htm

Still have my PIII 500 in the guest room, and it used only if my son is on mine, or he is over and is doing school work.

The laptop in the one pic is an old Fitjitsu 233 PII I think, and its only purpose it to be logged into the UT2004 admin site for the gaming server I run with a friend over at www.allprogamer.com who runs the Counter Strike Source part of the server.

At work all the PCs are Dell towers with the 19" LCDs.
Not sure of the GHz, but they are fairly decent, and run XP.
I would assume they have the sound and vid on board the mother board, so they would suck at gaming, at least the type I am into.

cootees

All of mine are homebuilt. My current one which is now out of date will hopefully be getting replaced before too long.

Asus mobo
AMD XP 1700+
1gig of memory
Nvidia Geforce fxx5900 ultra
plus lots of others... don't have a pic but I do have a pic of my g/f's pc when I was in the process of building it.



more pics here

ebelen1

I got a crappy 2.0 celeron processor in a budget Dell system purchased over 4 years ago. As slow as this sucker is, it's done everything I've asked it to do and keeps me on yotatech religiously.

BTW, it does get into processing "multimedia" tasks that take excessive processing power but keeps going.

From work, I use an IBM T42 Thinkpad.

ish

work:
dell
p4 3.2 ghz
1 gig ram
running 2 monitors, 1 21" crt (1600x1200) and 1 19" lcd (1280x1024)

laptop:
dell 600m
pM 1.5 ghz
512 mb ram
60 gig hd
14.1" screen (1400x1050)

home/game:
built
p4 530j 3.0 ghz cpu
abit mobo
1 GB corsair xms ddr pc3200 ram
evga 128mb 6600gt pcie vid card
seagate 160gb hd

backup (about 4-5 years old):
abit mobo
amd athalon xp 1800+ (1.6 ghz)
512 mb mushkin ddr pc2700 ram
crappy 32mb old agp 4x geforce vid card

running both home computers off an old 15" lcd monitor. Going to be upgrading soon.

Exeter

also home built.





AMD Athalon XP 2800+ @ 2.07GHz
1 GB Kingston RAM - DDR400 (PC3200)
ATI Radeon 9200 Graphics Card
80GB Hard Drive
Logitech 5.1 Surround
Sony CD Burner
4 UV cathodes
4 UV fans
Round UV IDE cables
some UV cable sleeving over power wires....


DEFINETLY gets my YT addiction satisfied.

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JHupp

I'm still workin with a 330mhz Packard Bell on WIndows 95 here. Works great though, put in a 180 gig harddrive for all of my dirty movies, and MP3s, and really can't complain, wont be dropping any gs on a new Comp soon, although thse Dell XPss look hot.

jrallan26

My son has a Dell Dimension 8300.
I have a new Area 51 Alienware desktop. My new birthday present....

Churnd

Wow!! You're a brave man!

I didn't think Windows 95 would recognize drives that big.

Epic Ed

Dude -- that's ridiculous. You have no idea what you're missing. Church groups and charities wouldn't even accept that PC as a donation any more!

I have surplus equipment laying around the office that we retired over two years ago that would be a better resource than your poor, ol' Packard Bell. If you didn't live so far away, I'd grab something and just ship it to you for free. Come to think of it, if you're willing to pay the shipping I just might be able to put something together for you for a real minimal charge.

Ed

Henryv

Oh wow pac bell . . . that was my very first comp. Think it was the very first pentium. "Top of the line" back then You must have some patience though to be able to deal with the 333.

As for mine, its a dell 2.4g and added a 200gig hd, dvd burner, sound card, and a gig of ram. Still running great but may be looking to upgrade soon.

edit: forgot to add the 19" lcd but after seeing the 30 incher feeling a bit small lol

iGGz

Just got a new Dell few months ago...

Dell Dimension 5100 Series
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 400MHz
15 inch Flat Screen
256MB PCI Express x16 ATI Radeon X600 SE HyperMemory
80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability
Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit ADVANCED HD Audio
Dell A425 30 Watt 2.1 Stereo Speakers with Subwoofer
250 Gig External Hard Drive

Love it so far... just fast enough for me and nothing has gone wrong...

linuxrunner

Oh wow, lets see... it's home made about 4 years ago...

1.7ghz athlon XP
1024mb of memory
two 60gig one 80gig and a 20 gig hard drive on a raid array
Really sweet floppy drive
128mb ati something graphics card.

i realize it would be considered old now day's other than maybe the ram and hard drives, but i keep it extremely clean so it runs fast and i am in Linux a lot so i am able to optimize it so that it uses very little system recourses and can fly through programs, also i no longer have any games installed only productivity software what happened to me? i do a lot of web hosting, so that is why i have so many drives on a raid. haha this thing used to suck my money before i got the runner, now one part for the runner could pay for almost all new hardware

99_Runner

Work:

Dell Optiplex
P4
256MB RAM

Laptop:

Dell 9100
1GB PC3200
60GB HD
128MB Video card
3.2 Ghz P4
15.4 inch UltraSharp WUXGA LCD Panel

Home/Desktop:

Custom build
MIS MOBO
64bit 3.0 Ghz P4
1GB DDR2 RAM
3 120 GB drives (got them for $30 apiece)
1 300 GB SATA drive
Samsung dual layer DVD+-RW
Samsung 19" 910T Flat panel
Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse
Used mainly as a server, but it'll do anything that I ask of it.

MudMonkey

Work:
Dell Precision 350
Dell Demension 2400 times 2

Home:
Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop
HP Something or other laptop (wifes)

jeremys73

Homebuild:Will edit with pics later

Athlon XP 3200
1g RAM
gForce 6800gt oc
Nostromo N52 Speedpad
MX1000 Laser Mouse

games-UT04 and BF2

Corey

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Dude, you should join the server I co-run with a friend
I play just about every weekend.
UT2004 that is.
He manages Counter Strike Source, I manage the UT side.

But I have a ton of custom maps loaded, so you would need the files which are listed here.
http://www.allprogamer.com/

jeremys73

I was in a clan here http://www.zarkrifle.com/
they have some cool servers (10 or more). I was admin of the ONS and CTF server... cool stuff

we played low-g, matrix moves, all kinds of mods and vehicles... you should check out the ONS there...

I play mostly BF2 now, waitng on UT07 though

Corey

iTrader: (1)

I am beefing up my current rig to handle 07 when it comes out.
Also going back to all stock maps soon for the 04 server.
Not many join on account of 1 GB worth of cutom maps

Oh, new pics of the guts of my PC coming this weekend.

paddlenbike

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I just upgraded from a pencil and peice of paper to this bad boy:



I don't want to incite any jealousy, but here's her specs:

NAME PET 2001
MANUFACTURER Commodore
TYPE Professional Computer
ORIGIN U.S.A.
YEAR 1977
BUILT IN LANGUAGE Commodore Basic 1.0
KEYBOARD 73 key 'chicklet' keyboard with numeric keypad
CPU 6502
SPEED 1 mHz
RAM 4 KB (early version) then 8 KB
VRAM 1 KB
ROM 14 KB
TEXT MODES 40 x 25
GRAPHIC MODES None
COLORS Monochrome
I/O PORTS IEEE 488, Parallel port, second, ''user port'' for 8-bit I/O, cassette port inside the case, rarely used
BUILT IN MEDIA tape recorder
POWER SUPPLY Built-in power supply unit