Rigs of 2003: Just what ARE you using?

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Rigs of 2003: Just what ARE you using?

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Put up the names, numbers of all dat stuff you have smacked into your case. Spare no bandwidth ! Pics ok too.

Just what is it you have built Sonny !! :eek:

My two, be they ever so humble.....

System # 1 ( Dad’s command center )

AMD Barton 2500+ ( AQXEA 0322 @ 2.33 GHz / 1.8v /11*211 FSB )
Thermalright SLK 800 / Mechatronics 80mm fan
DFI LAN Party NFII Ultra mainboard rev. A ( Nforce2 )
1GB (2 x 512MB) Buffalo Tech / Winbond BH-5 PC3700 DDR466
(2) Seagate ST3120026A 120GB / 7200.7 / 8 MB ( RAID 1.5 array )
Seagate ST330013A 30GB / 7200 / 2 MB
Tyan ATI Radeon 9600 pro 128MB DDR
22” iiyama Vision Master Pro 510
21” Cornerstone P1500
Samsung floppy drive (Black)
Samsung 16x/48x dvdrom ( Black)
Lite-On 52/32/52x cdrw ( Black)
Chieftech windowed full tower (Black)
2 x 12” UV lights / 3 x 80mm White LED case fans
Vantec Stealth 520W PSU
Realtek o/b NIC
Nvidia o/b NIC ( disabled )
Soundstorm o/b sound ( disabled )
Hercules Game Theatre XP 7.1
Logitech Z560’s ( 4.1 / THX )
XP pro SP-1

System # 2 ( Wife and Kidz unit )

AMD DLT3C T-bred B 1700+ @ 2.21 GHz
Thermalright SLK 700 HS / 70mm YS Tech TMD fan
Shuttle AN35N-Ultra mainboard ( Nforce 2)
2 x 256MB Twinmos / Winbond CH-5 PC3200 DDR400
Ati Radeon 8500 64MB DDR
40GB Maxtor D740X 7200/ata133 hdd
19” VX900T Gateway / Sony Trinitron
Pioneer slot load 10x/40x dvdrom
Plextor 12/10/32A cdrw
Enlight 7237 mid tower case
Arrow 500W PSU
Altec ADA 880 speakers ( 2.1 )
Soundstorm o/b sound
Realtek NIC o/b
XP Pro SP-1
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User DaMaN
Name Black Funk
CPU P4 3.06C @ 3.35
Mobo ABIT IC7-G
Memory 1GB Corsair TwinX PC3200LLTP
Video Radeon 9700 AIW pro
Optical Black Memorex 48XCDRW/16X DVD Combo Drive
Optical Black TDK 4XDVD+/-RW
HD 2X36GB WDRaptor in Raid0,3X200GBWDSE, 1X120IBM,1X80GB Maxtor
Sound Onboard
Nic Onboard
Case Black Antec Sonata
Display Black Planar 17.4" LCd
Floppy Black Sony
CFReader Black Logisys 6 in 1
Keyboard Black Logitech
Mouse Black Microsoft Intellimouse Optical
Printer Epson Stylus
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Post by dadx2mj »

MY Rig
2500+ @2250Mhz Alpha 8045 with huge Delta fan
Epox 8RDA+
9600 Pro 256 meg
1 gig HyperX PC2700
40 gig Maztor ATA133
10 gig Maxtor ATA100
Onboard sound and nic
LiteOn 24X Burner
Pioneer 16X Slot Load DVD
Antec SX830 case (modded with window)
AOpen 400 watt PS

Kids Rig

XP 1700+ with Senfu Cooler
Soyo Dragon +
256 megs Crucial PC2100
Gainward TI200
15 gig Quantum ATA100
48X CD Rom
300 watt Antec PC
Onboard sound and nic
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My system:
Epox 8RDA+ with a XP1800 @ 2200
MOBO is modded with Zallman HS for the North and stock moved to South
FX 5200 with Zallman HP 80 installed OC to 300
umm... a 56k modem...
and a bunch of custom light mods

Nothing too special.
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My stuff is old:

My primary system:
Acorp dual P3 mobo with 512 megs of pc133 ram
One cpu - P3-1GHz
OS - Win98 (going on a 3½ year installation)
Plextor 12x4x32 SCSI burner
Plextor 32x SCSI reader
Pioneer DvD drive
3½" floppy drive
1 40 gig IBM deathstar
1 40 gig Seagate
Geforce GTS 32 meg agp video card
Turtle Beach sound card
3-com Etherlink nic
17" CTX monitor
300w power supply

Secondary system in garage that downloads stuff from newsgroups and processes movies:
Supermicro P6DGU dual cpu server mobo with 512 megs of pc100 ram
2 cpus - P3-550MHz
OS - Win2k sp4
Lite-On IDE 24x32x10 CDROM burner
Lite-On IDE DvD burner
Pioneer IDE DvD player
Yamaha 4x2x6 SCSI burner
3½" floppy drive
1 8gig SCSI boot drive
1 40 gig IDE Maxtor (NTFS) format
1 18 gig IDE IBM
Voodoo3 video card agp
Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE32
3-com Etherlink nic
15" Dell monitor
300w power supply
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Post by PreDatoR »

Refer to last years thread hehe :D
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Post by NascarFool »

My Main Machine:

Hardware: Purchased from:

450w KingWin PS chottoED (PCA)
DFI NFII Ultra Infinity Zipzoomfly.com
2x512megPC3200 Newegg.com
Athlon XP3000+ (at 12x200) grdh20 (Anands)
Radeon AIW 9700 Pro Newegg.com
Audigy2 BestBuy
2x36.7GB Raptors Newegg.com and Zipzoomfly.com
20GB WD for storage
Pioneer 16x Slot load DVD Newegg.com
LiteOn 52x32x52x Newegg.com
Alps 1.44 floppy Directron.com
6in1 int. USB card reader Newegg.com
Koolance PC-601BLW Tower TigerDirect.com


Time for some pics.

No lights:
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With Blue CCFL's on:
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Two pics of the Flow meter:
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The pics will show after my worthless host get's my site back online. They are starting to piss me off with the damned down time. :mad

Soon to be folding comp:
Epox 8RDA3+
256megsPC3200
8GB HD
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It's been a while since I've had a mojor upgrade, but she still plays all of todays games no prob:

P4 2600mhz, 1024 megs DDR 2700, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, ASUS P4PE
SB Audigy, WD 80GB HD, Lite-On 52x24x52, Lite-On 16x DVD, 19" Viewsonic, Win XP, Ultra DSL
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8rda+
2500@3200
1 gig 2700
9500 softmod to 9700
pinoeer slot dvd
hp dvd burner
19" samsung
leadtek tv card

backup

dell 400 sc server
p4 2.4 ht 800 fsb
9500 pro
1 gig crucial 3200
noname 17"

plus lotsa other ones
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A7N8X Asus
Athlon xp 2600
Win Xp pro
Lite-On IDE 24x32x10 CDROM burner
Lite-On IDE DvD burner
3½" floppy drive sony black
80 GB Maxtor
80 Gb WD
1.5 G.B Kingmax ddr 3200N
Nvidia GForce Fx5200
3-com Etherlink nic
18" Nec monitor LCD
bla bla bla :D
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Main Rig:
AMD Athlon XP Barton 2500+
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
512 MB of Samsung DDR PC3200
Sapphire Radeon 9500NP 128MB
2x Seagate Barracuda IV 60.0 GB
Pioneer 16X Slot Load DVD
Sony 52x24x52 CDRW (Rebadge Lite-On)
Audigy MP3+
Live Drive IR
Antec Viewplus 1000AMG
Zalman CNPS7000A-AlCu
Monsoon Planar Media 7
Sennheiser HD433
Logitec MX700 Optical Wireless Mouse
Hitachi CM753 19" Monitor
Windows XP Pro
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main bubba:

chenming aluminum case
shuttle an35n ultra
barton 2500@3200 (11x200)
sp97 w/92mm tornado controlled by sunbeam fan controller
2x512mb sticks of mushkin 3200
bfg 5600u
fortissimo III
ati tv wonder
usb 2.0 card
160gb maxtor 7200
120gb wd jb 7200
external enclosure
lite on 48xcdrw16xdvd combo
lite on 16x dvd
global win sapphire 520w psu
assorted fans and a 3.5" fan controller
xp pro

zippy mini lighted kb
logitech cordless trackball
19" hansol
epson photo 700
visioneer scanner
altec lansing acs54 4.1 speakers

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lil bubba:

lanfire case
tyan mobo
xp1700
volcano 12
256mb 2100
7500 64mb
lite on 16x dvd
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Mine:

Name: Electric
AMD Athlon 2400+ (10*200) w/ SK7
Abit NF7
2x256MB PC3200 Geil
Built by ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB
2x45GB 7200rpm IBM HDs
Pioneer DVD-RW +/-
Soundblaster LIVE 5.1
Artec 16X DVD-ROM
Antec fileserver case
Enermax 350W PSU
19" Sony Trintron
17" Sony Trintron
Windows XP Home

Backup:

Name: N/A
AMD Athlon 1GHz w/ AX7
256MB PC3200
Abit KG7-lite
Geforce 3 Ti500
Sparkle 300W PSU
Soundblaster LIVE 5.1
HP 4x2x16 CD-RW


Laptops:

Name: Inspiration
Dell Ispiron
P4 2.2GHz
512MB PC2100
Geforce 4 video
40GB ultra fast hard drive
NICE ASS SCREEN :)
Windows XP Pro

Name: Nomad
Toshiba
P3 650MHz
384MB PC-133
Intel graphics
15GB hard drive
Mandrake

Name: N/A
Toshiba P2 233MHz

Name N/A
Toshiba P2 266MHz

Fileservers:

Name: Caboose
AMD Athlon 1.33GHz
1GB PC2100/PC2700
Abit KR7A-133
Geforce 2 Pro
100GB WD, 30GB WD, 2x60GB IBM
Antec case w/ 300W PSU
FreeBSD

Name: Diesel
AMD Athlon 1900+ 1.6GHz
1GB PC2100/PC2700
ASUS motherboard
WD 120GB
Geforce 4 Ti4200
Gentoo
19" Sony Trintron


Others:

Name: Element
P3 600MHz
384MB PC-100
20GB HD
32X CD-ROM
nVidia Vanta
19" Viewsonic LCD VG900b

Name: N/A
Mac G3
1GB Ram
Gefroce 2
OSX 10.3

Name: N/A
P1 Pro 200MHz
Rest of specs don't really matter

Serveral wire/less hubs and access points all connect to 2Mb Charter Cable. Quite a few machines are hooked up on USB KVM switch.
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Post by Koo Koo Mouse »

HOLY Shit Blade!! SCHWEET!! Ive never been a believer in looks, so long as it runs, But after seeing THAT.. HMMMM.. {scratches head and ponders} :)
GeForce GTX 970
AMD FX 8350 8 core Processor
16 GIG
Seems plenty good for gaming! :)
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Post by Hipnotic_Tranz »

Well, I took everything out of my 'lil case cause of heat issues. I really liked the size and the idea of being able to take it basically anywhere but I just couldn't get past the heat issues.

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So I moved everything back into my Lian Li that I never finished modding.

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Biostar M7NCG
1gig PC3200
2500+
64meg Radeon 8500
Samsung CD-Writer/DVD-ROM
120gig WD
12gig Maxtor (backup)
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