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Tell me, dammit...

...about your system. I know this is an uber-lame topic, but it's a good excuse to get a feel for who all's here.

Mine:
*MSI K7 Master
*Thunderbird 1.2ghz AXIA w/Taisol Copperbottom HSF and Delta fan (she's a screamer) and ASII
*Enermax 431w PS
*256mb Crucial PC2100 DDR
*Fujitsu 40.9GB 7200rpm hard drive
*ASUS v7700 Geforce2 GTS Deluxe
*Creative SB Live! Platinum
*3com Etherexpress Ethernet card
*Pioneer 16x slot-load DVD
*HP CD-Writer 8200 series CD-RW
*Altec Lansing speakers w/subwoofer
*Syncmaster 955 DF 19" .20 dpi(H)
*Logitech wheel mouse
*The case from HELL!! --beginning cooling mods


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Location: Texas
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I think I love you.

Abit SH-6 (i815)
P!!! 700@1050 w/globalwin (dual 60mm fan)
384mb Kingmax Tiny BGA pc150
2x20.4 WD 7200 HDD Raid-0
15.3 IBM Deskstar HDD (mp3 storage!)
KyroII (prophet 4500) or Radeon LE (modded)
Hercules MaxiMuse
Klipsch Promedia 4.1
Intel NIC/US Robotics modem
Toshiba 12x dvd/Acer 16x10x40 cdrw
Logitech cam/keyboard/optical mouse
19in iiyama .23
5 extra fans, one blowhole, one plexi window, 2 10in neon (blue, green), one soon to be finished automotive Kameleon paint finish when I get out to the shop.

Thats about that.





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You're running an *ntel??

I could never love you...

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Location: Hoboken, NJ: USA
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Mobo: abit kt7-raid
Proc: Tbird 1.1ghz
Hdd: Western Digital and Maxtor total: 53 GB
CDR/W: Plextor 12/10/32A
DVD:Pioneer 50X cd read
3com 3c59x compatible 10/100 nic
RAM: 256 MB PC133 SDRAM
Video: Asus Geforce2 MX w/ TV-Out
Sound: Creative SB PCI512
Mon.: NEC MultiSync FE700 19"
Fans: Globalwin fop-32i, 3 case fans, and a video card super-fan type thingie
Input: MS intelimouse, optical 3 button scrollwheel. IBM happy happy keyboard
OS: a ghetto mixture of slackware 7.1 and 8.0, kernel 2.4.6.

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Networked, network processing Macs. Lots of them. And they're not in any fucking garish colours, either.

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Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
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Iwill KK266 Mboard
AMD TBird 1.3 GHz 266 FSB (running at 1.2 due to either my crappy case or power supply)
512 MB Crucial & Mushkin PC133 SD-RAM
300w PS (working on getting a new one)
IBM 30 GB 7200 HD
Somethingorother 11 GB 5400 HD
ASUS v7700 GeForce2 Deluxe
SB Live Value
SMC ethernet card
Creative 6x DVD rom
Sony 2x/8x oldskool CD burner (caddy-loaded!)
Sound hooked up to Aiwa Stereo
CTX 17" monitor
Microsoft wheel mouse
Case from Hell, v2.0: Green! (Definitely needs cooling, new case is in the works...)

I think that about covers it.

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quote:

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You're running an *ntel??

I could never love you...

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quote:

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Originally posted by Roshigoth:
AMD TBird 1.3 GHz 266 FSB (running at 1.2 due to either my crappy case or power supply)

Case from Hell, v2.0: Green! (Definitely needs cooling, new case is in the works...)

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TBird Axia 1.2Ghz@1.4
Asus a7a266 mobo
512mb Crucial PC2100 DDR 2x256
Matrox G450 DualHead 32mbDDR
Samsung 955SL 19" monitors x2
Intel Etherexpress 10/100 NIC
Hercules Game Theatre
Cambridge Soundworks FPS Digital 2000
Pioneer 16x slot load dvd
Plextor 8x/4x/32x cdrw
Quantum Fireball ATA 100 40gb x2
24" INWin Q500a case w/lots of cooling
Microsoft Natural keyboard pro
MS Trackball explorer




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Location: UK
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Asus A7V mobo(I think. Too lazy to reboot and check the boot-up message)
Athlon 900Mhz oc'd to 1.2Ghz
1 Gig of Micron PC-133 RAM
64Mb Elsa Gladia Geforce-2 ULTRA
2x 9 gig Cheetah's sitting on an Adaptec 2940UW
75 gig IBM and 40 gig Maxtor IDE drives
Plextor 12/10/32A CDR/W
Creative Encore DVD drive and the Hollywood MPEG2 decoding card.
Intel Etherexpress NIC
Soundblaster Live Platinum hooked up to my stereo.
Trust Ergo keyboard
Boeder mouse
Wacom Intuos A4 tablet
And my pride and joy: Sony 21" G520

I also have a dual P3-933 machine(for Lightwave work), a 800 Mhz Duron(Linux play machine, and packet sniffer), old P100(Firewall and router) and a diskless Sparc-10 that boots up off my Linux machine using bootp.

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Originally posted by Adora:

Mine's a super-sexy aluminum case, but it's hard to work with, and cooling sucks. The only way I have room for an intake fan is to leave the bottom two 5.25" bays open and put an 80mm fan in there. After I find the right piece of metal to mount that and my voltage regulator to, it's gonna look hella sweet, though!

What brand PS do you have? Is it AMD approved? And what are your temps in that case?

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my macine is well over two years old.

Pentium 2 400mhz
160 sdram
internal sound card
ATI Pro 2 graphics card
9.6 gb of hard drive
masushita DVD-rom
3com ethernet card
shite tiny speakers that require blue tac to get stereo sound
17 inch monitor
and the coolest thing i have is and optical intelli-mouse

but i also have a drum kit and a car so comps don't come that high on my list of priorites.

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My system is nothing to boast about, but it does its job.

its a k6 300, with 128Mb ram, and an 8Gb HD. its got a 2MB generic PCI graphics card, and a 12Mb voodoo II (which runs at about 30Mhz over what it should do), a 12x CDrom drive, and some crappy yamaha sound card. It is more than enough for it to run my os (Soupped up win95, dual boot with openBSD 2.8) with no problems at all, faster infact than i have seen more powerful systems run more bloated operating systems. The machine is largley built into an open top blue plastic stacking boxm and has no issues with cooling.

Its networked through a P166MMX, with 64Mb ram, no HD, and a 1Mb graphics card, which acts quite nicley as a linux-ipchains firewall between me and the outside world via the reliable US Robotics 56k i have


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quote:

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Originally posted by Roshigoth:
I'm getting a new case, aluminum, but I'm making sure there's cooling (comes with 3 80mm fans).

My case is some plastic green cover shit that I'd gotten before I really understood about cooling. Of course, I'd never realized that it only has room for one fan, and that blows right against a plastic wall anyway. The people who designed it are total fucking morons.

Temps inside the case? I'm too afraid to put the side back on for fear of frying the CPU, so I have no clue. I once saw how high it was and decided I would run it in the open until I got a new case, but I can't for the life of me remember what the temp of it was. Sorry.

My PS came with my crappy case. Channel Well Technology, 300w. It is AMD approved.

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What cases are you looking at? I'd suggest a Lian Li. And don't be concerned about how many fans a case COMES with, unless you know they're high performance fans. Just make sure you have enough room to add what you want. With a high performance HSF, an 80mm intake, and an 80mm exhaust, you should be cool. (HA! A pun is me!)

You won't hurt anything until you get about 60 degrees Celsius or so.



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Thanks for the info about temps. Good to know. Next time I get a chance, I'll check the system temp. I sorta miss the proggie I had that let me do it outside the bios, but I misplaced it. Do you know of one?

I'm getting a Lian Li PC60. The reason I care how many fans mine comes with is simply that I know I'll have space for 3 good fans if the ones that it comes with aren't good enough.

As for fans, I'll deal with what it gives me till I find better. My friend's a big tweaker, so he knows cooling much better than I do. I'm sure he'll hook me up with some good fans for my case.


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I'd suggest sunon denki's, myself. But since you'll have an excellent case, you could get away with some super quiet panaflo's.

What kind of HS and fan are you using, anyway?

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Go with YSTech fans(!) and dont forget to move the voltage regulator switch. Its a bitch to use (youve got to take the front bezel off).


Edit:

And since Lians dont come with powersupplies go get yourself an Enermax model. It has dual fans so youd be killing two 'birds with one busted clip.

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Why that choice of fan, yMQ?

I've got the Enermax PS with side intake...I've been trying to do research to see how much good it actually does.

Enermax makes a good case, but Lian Li's (in my opinion) are still the best. I wish I could have afforded one.

And what two birds would you be killing with the dual fan PS? That second fan won't make up for not having a front intake. I just don't know how much it does help.

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Why that choice of fan, yMQ?

Because theyre quieter than deltas and generally cheaper than 'flos. All in all, great little fans.

Enermax makes a good case, but Lian Li's (in my opinion) are still the best. I wish I could have afforded one.

Lians are in a class of their own (well, with coolermaster anyway) and quite nice. I bought the tower (70) but found it to be a bit flimsy so I went back to an old addtronics I was using.

And what two birds would you be killing with the dual fan PS? That second fan won't make up for not having a front intake. I just don't know how much it does help.


This was actually a joke, making fun of a friend of mine who burnt up two brand new palaminos on his also brand new tyan duallie board. Hehheh. He damn near cried when he saw that the hedgehogs he was using came off because of busted retainer clips. Poor sucker.

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But...I love my Delta! *plugs ears*

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I don't know what I've got in here.
Uh..yeah.


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My heat sink is a copper orb. It seems to work pretty well, I guess. I don't know all that much about heat sinks.

Thanks for the info on the fans. Quiet panaflo's sound really good to me.


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Location: 51N3, 114W3
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I'm a luddite

Home machine piece du crap:
Power Mac 6400 @ 200 Mhz
System: Mac OS 9.1/SuSE Linux 7.1 Distro (running 2.4.2 Kernel)
Memory: 136 MB RAM
Video memory: 16 MB RAGE II
Internal ATA: Quantum Fireball 4.3 GB
External SCSI: Quantum Cheetah 18.34 GB
ViewSonic Optiquest q75 17" (okay, so they were on sale...)


Even older than dirt PC server, currently used as a coffee table:
HP NetServer LH Pro
NT Server 4 SP6
Pentium Pro 200MHz dual processors
512MB RAM
HP Disk Array RAID (2x4.2GB Fast SCSI-2, 4x9.1GB hot-swapWide SCSI-2)
HP SureStore 6000i Internal DAT drive (8GB)
ViewSonic Optiquest q71 17"

*edit: removed my work machines since they aren't mine, no matter how much cooler they sound than the ones I own.

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Just remember they cost. But you really do get what you pay for with those.

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