The Official Channel 9 Computer Specs Thread | The Coffeehouse

Angus
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Hello,

The only rules are that you must own the computer and obviously no lying.
Please post your:

1) Processor(s)
2) RAM
3) Hard Drive(s)
4) Screen Size, number and type
5) OS (Operating System)
6) Graphic Card(s)
7) Speaker system
8) DVD Drive
9) Other CD/DVD Drive (Optional)
10) Top 5 most used programs (No particular order)
11) Internet connection speed
12) If your not bothered, price
13) Printer
14) Keyboard and Mouse
15) External Hard Drive(s)
16) MP3 Player
17) Webcam and/or Digital Camera
18) Any other external device not mentioned
19) USB Memory Stick(s)
20) PDA
21) Motherboard
22) Pictures (Optional)
23) Hacks/Modifications
24) Any other comments or specifications

My Specifications:

1) Dual Pentium 4 3.0GHz Processors
2) 1024Mb RAM
3) 200Gb Hard Drive
4) 19" Monitor (TFT)
5) Windows XP Home Edition SP2
6) 256MB ATi Radeon X700 PCI Express Graphics
7) 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers (Don't know make)
8) NEC DVD RW ND 3500AG (DVD Rewriter)
9) IDE DVD-ROM 16x (DVD-ROM Drive)
10) IE, MSN Messenger, Ares, VS2005, Outlook
11) 1Mbps
12) £1100
13) HP Photosmart 7762
14) The standard Tiny® Wireless Mouse and Keyboard
15) None
16) Creative Zen Micro 5Gb (White)
17) Logitec Quick Cam
18) TI-83 Calculator with PC link cable
19) 256Mb, 32Mb
20) Palm One - Tungsten E
21) I don't know
22) Rear Front Side
23) None yet
24) None to make, it has been a great PC

(Note: This is not a competiton)

Thanks,

Angus Higgins

wikka

1) Intel p4 3.2GHz HT
2) 1GB
3) 140GB (2x Raptors in Raid-0)
4) Dual Dell 20.1" LCDs
5) Windows XP Pro
6) ATI 9800XT
7) Altec Lansing Headset + Dell AS500
8) NEC 2500A DVD+-RW
9) Some other Generic DVD drive
10) VS.NET 2003, MSN, mIRC, IE, Outlook
11) 10MB Cable (rcn.com)
12) hmm.. don't feel like doing math right now
13) HP DeskJet 960C
14) Microsoft Natural Multimedia + Microsoft Optical Trackball
15) 250GB 1394
16) Treo 650
17) Logitech Quickcam Pro + Sony Cybershot F717
18) Hauppauge PVR 150MCE TV Tuner
19) PQI 1GB I-Stick
20) Treo 650
21) Abit IC7-MAX3
22) http://www.lotek.net/junk/desk2.jpg
23) None
24) The most satisfied i've been with an 18 month old machine. Usually I'm itching to upgrade by now. but there really isn't much to upgrate to right now

TimP

Angus, you must have dual Xeons because Pentium 4's are not SMP capable.

1) Dual Intel Xeon "Nocona" at 3Ghz with hyper-threading and EM64T (64-bit)
2) 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200/DDR400 in dual channel
3) 2 160GB Seagate Barracudas 7200RPM 8MB cache SATA
4) 17" Sony SDM-S74S Flatscreen
5) Windows XP Professional SP2 (32 bit) and Fedora Core 4 x86_64 dual boot
6) XFX GeForce 6600GT AGP
7) Boston Digital BA735 (old speakers I had lying around)
8) NEC ND-3520A (CD/DVD burner)
9) None
10) Hercules mainframe emulator (Linux), Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Gaim, Konsole (Linux)
11) Comcast Broadband 4Mbit download, <1Mbit upload
12) Around $2,000
13) HP LaserJet 2430dtn
14) Generic Logitech PS/2 keyboard and Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 4.0A mouse
15) None
16) Creative MUVO^2 with 4GB HD
17) An old Kodak 3400 something or other (2000)
18) 4 port USB 2.0 hub
19) 256MB Sandisk Flash drive
20) HP Ipaq 2215
21) ASUS NCCH-DL
22) None at the moment
23) No hacks, mods, overclocking, etc.
24) Home built in February 2005.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

I get the feeling this is just a "bragging rights" thread.

I don't care for system specs, its what you do with what you've got that's important. Someone who writes a 3D engine from scratch on a Pentium 166 is more worthy of my respect than someone who slaps something together in Managed DirectX for their GeForce 6800.

TimP

Angus wrote:
(Note: This is not a competiton)

PeterH
Iomesus

Not trying to start an argument here in anyway. But I think that you have it wrong here, it isn't for bragging, it is (for me at least) out of interest. I'm certantly interested in what sort of system other Channel 9 users are running.

Insperation for my next upgrade.

I'm sorry if you have taken this as an offence W3bbo, it wasn't meant to be.

Cider
Daze-d & Confused

1) Processor(s): P4 2.8Ghz o/c to just over 3 GHz (never crashed from that overclock)
2) RAM: 1 GB
3) Hard Drive(s): 1 x 120 GB SATA
4) Screen Size, number and type: 1 x 17" Iiyama TFT and 1 x 19" Iiyama CRT
5) OS (Operating System): Windows XP SP2
6) Graphic Card(s): Gigabyte ATI 9800 Pro
7) Speaker system: Built in to monitor (Also Creative 5 speaker set up but can't be bothered plugging it in)
8) DVD Drive: Yes, just Reader
9) Other CD/DVD Drive (Optional): CD-RW
10) Top 5 most used programs: Remote Desktop, Gaim, Windows Media Player, Visual Studio.Net, Far Cry
11) Internet connection speed: about 1 GBit shared with flatmates
12) If your not bothered, price: self built - probably cost overall about 800 quid
13) Printer: Nah
14) Keyboard and Mouse: Dell keyboard, MS blue mouse
15) External Hard Drive(s): Nope
16) MP3 Player: Creative Zen Touch (best out there) with essential Sennheiser MX 500 headphones
17) Webcam and/or Digital Camera: Canon Ixus 40 digital camera
18) Any other external device not mentioned: *shrugs*
19) USB Memory Stick(s): Nope
20) PDA: Acer somethingorother
21) Motherboard: Asus P4P800

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

PeterH wrote:
I'm sorry if you have taken this as an offence W3bbo, it wasn't meant to be.

Did I ever say I did? Wink

...I see no real issue with citing the basic specs, but I felt the sheer number of Angus' questions was a bit overwhelming.

But if you must know... Athlon64 3200, Ti4800SE-128, MX440, 512MB Corsair, 80GB WD-Caviar Retrofit SATA.

...and I'm only using 4 of the 14 drive-bays in my system. What a waste Smiley

Angus
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I understand where you are coming from W3bbo, but many people do enjoy reading and exchanging system specification, TimP is correct to point out that this is no competition. You are entitled to your opinion, and I respet that, but I don't think people are going to brag, it is a simple exchange of information.

Thanks for posting,

Angus Higgins

Tommy4

IBM T42P

1) M Processor 2.1 GHz
2) 1.50 GB RAM
3) 60 GB Hard Drive
4) Screen Size, number and type
5) Windows XP SP 2
6) ATI Mobility fire GL T2 128mb Graphic Card(s)
7) internal Speaker system
8) DVD writer
9) none Other CD/DVD Drive (Optional)
10) Top 5 most used programs (No particular order)

Outlook

IE

Altiris

EPO

11) Internet connection speed

T1 work

768 mbs cable – home

12) If your not bothered, price- more then normal
13) Printer

Hp5550 home

HP4650 work

HP 1012 work
14) Keyboard and Mouse

Logitech wireless Work

Internal home
15) No External Hard Drive(s)
16) No MP3 Player
17) Webcam and/or Digital Camera

Creative webcam

HP digital camera
18) Any other external device not mentioned
19) USB Memory Stick(s)

1 GB
20) PDA

Dell Axim
21) Motherboard
23) internal biometric (finger printer reader)

Manip

The people that listed a "Duel P4" does that mean two P4s running at 3Ghz a piece or one P4 with HT... Which are not remotely the same thing.

TimP

Manip wrote:
The people that listed a "Duel P4" does that mean two P4s running at 3Ghz a piece or one P4 with HT... Which are not remotely the same thing.

I was curious about that, too. As I said in my post above, the Pentium 4 cannot be used in a dual processor configuration so you either have a P4 with hyperthreading or you have Xeons.

rhm

TimP wrote:
Manip wrote:The people that listed a "Duel P4" does that mean two P4s running at 3Ghz a piece or one P4 with HT... Which are not remotely the same thing.

I was curious about that, too. As I said in my post above, the Pentium 4 cannot be used in a dual processor configuration so you either have a P4 with hyperthreading or you have Xeons.

Surely "Duel P4" means two pentiums facing off at dawn with pistols?

mrservices
POS Reseller

IBM X240
Dual P3 900Mhz
680 ECC SDRAM
1 18GB SCSI U160 10000 RPM (Hot Swap) 2 more on order can have 3 hot swaps.
OpenBSD 3.7, FVWM windows manager
Browser is lynx
19" Optiquest CRT KVM to 3 other computers
Onboard video
2 NICS, one internal; one external to internet

Tyler Brown
Bullets change governments far surer than votes.

PeterH wrote:
Note: Pictures are A3 size, Internet Explorer users will have the luxury of it being resized. Firefox users...

Tough luck!

For the record, Firefox resizes images quite well. I'm of course using the latest stable release of Firefox, and I never noticed the lack of this feature in the past, but I could have just not been paying attention.

ScanIAm
On a scale of 1 to 10, people are stupid.

1) AMD Athlon XP 2600+ in a Chaintech 7NJS Zenith Mobo with dual channel DDR
2) 1x512 and 2x256 PC3200 RAM running at 333 MHz
3) 2x120G RAID0 (Mirror)
4) Sony 21" Monitor (ah, the pr0n)
5) WinXP sp2
6) ATI AIW 9800 (at this point, it's a piece of crap in my book, ATI support sux)
7) Antec Lansing 2.1
8) Sony DVD/CD-R/W
9)
10) IE, VS.Net, Outlook, ATI TV, Ultr@vnc
11) Comcast Cable, 3Mbs
12) price unknown, probably too much, but I bought in pieces.
13) HP 842 attached to Linksys Wireless Print Server
14) MS Internet Keyboard Pro (I never remember to use the extra buttons, shoulda skipped the frills)
15) 1x120Gb Firewire drive
16) RIO Forge 128 w/1.0Gb SD card
17) Me too ugly for camera
18) No other external device not mentioned
19) above mentioned 1.0Gb SD card)
20) HP iPaq 3955 with 64M and Linksys CompactFlash wireless card
21) Chaintech Zenith 7nJs.
22) No pix, sorry
23) Antec Lanboy case. Mounted an extra bluelight fan through the acrylic window to help cool the system. I put it too close to the front of the case, so now I can only have 1 CD/DVD, device. I'm an idiot.
24) Heat, heat, heat, heat, heat. I live in florida, and the case just doesn't have enough airflow. I regularly run at 60c and have, at times, come home in the afternoon to find it running at 63c. Watercooling is next Smiley

mrservices
POS Reseller

I'm using the Via C3 (Samuel) barebones by Asus for restaurant workstations as the CPU does not take a lot of power, quiet and runs cool.

The next chip out soon is the C7 (Esther). I want to try it out also.

I also like the Biblical names used with the CPU's.

Jesus Power!

Roger

PeterH
Iomesus

TimP wrote:
...you either have a P4 with hyperthreading or you have Xeons.

My motherboard says that it uses hyperthreading technologies, so I'm guessing that I have a P4 with hyperthreading.

Erisan

1) Pentium 75MHz
2) 83M
3) 3G Seagate
4) IBM G50 15"
5) Ubuntu Linux (2.6.12.1)
6) Integrated
7) None
8) None
9) 52x
10) gcc, python, mutt, slrn, fvwm
11) 2M
12) free
13) None
14) Key Tronic, Logitech
15) None
16) None
17) Canon IXUS 40
18) None
19) None
20) None
21) No idea ...
22) None
23) None
24) Just works

basictheory

1) 2.4ghz P4 Mobile LCD
2) 768mb RAM
3) 40gb
4) 15.4" Widescreen
5) WinXP pro SP2
6) ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP
7) SoundMAX digital Audio / Harmen Kardon speakers / JBL creature II speakers
8) DVD /CD-RW drive
9) ^^
10) photoshop / dreamweaver / messenger / IE / visual studio 2005 beta 2
11) comcast high speed. 3mbs
12) $1500
13) HP something (broken)
14) besides the keyboard and touchpad on the laptop, i use the microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse
15) None
16) Sony MiniDisc Player
17) Creative webcam / Nikon Coolpix 4100
18) none
19) 64mb WatchDrive / 128mb lexar drive
20) HP h1910
21) umm
22) Pictures (Optional)
23) Hacks/Modifications
24) also have a indigo iMac. OSX (Panther)
25) Netgear wireless-g PC card

btw its a HP zv5000 laptop. has had a few problems. (twice broken A/C pin) and cheap plastic.
oh and i'm new to C9 Smiley

PeterH
Iomesus

I've come back with some better quality, smaller images. Plus a video for those of you that can be bothered:

Video [Inside the machine room i.e. My computer]

PeterH
Iomesus

Note: Pictures are A3 size, Internet Explorer users will have the luxury of it being resized. Firefox users...

Tough luck! Wink

1) Dual Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz Processors

2) Crucial 1024MB DDR RAM (Dual Channel - It makes a difference, a suprisingliy big difference in fact)

3) Maxtor 80GB Hard Drive

4) Iiyama ProLite 17" TFT

5) Windows XP Home Edition SP2

6) ATI Radeon 9200Series

7) HD 477 Sennheisser Headphones

8) Lite-On DVDRW SOHW-1653S

9) Floppy Disk Drive RW?

10) Internet Explorer, Outlook, MSN Messenger, Visual Studio, Notepad (In order)

11) 100Mbps

12) I built it by hand, so pretty cheap, around £500

13) HP Photosmart 7762

14) Microsoft Wireless Comfort Keyboard and Mouse

15) None

16) Creative Zen Micro 5Gb (White)

17) Creative Webcam Pro / Sony CyberShot DSC-W1

18) Don't think so

19) 256MB, 1GB (Shared)

20) None (saving for a tablet PC)

21) ASRock 775V88 DDR400 Dual Channel Serial ATA RAID FSB800/533

22) Workspace (It is always that clean, I can't work in a mess) Computer (Yeah, beige case, but it is the most sturdy case I've ever used, and it is very easy to make computer modifications due to how easy it is to remove the side) Camera (Since this is the only thing that wasn't in the pictures (because I needed it to take the pictures - the light makes them bad quality, not the camera))

23) None

24) Never crashed to date, cheap to build, understand how it works and have no trouble upgrading it. The motherboard has been suprisingly reliable and I'm glad I chose it over a more expensive Gigabyte motherboard. I love this computer!

There you have it, looking forward to hearing the rest of yours!

Edit: Go here for a better quality image and a video!

basictheory

PeterH wrote:
Video [Inside the machine room i.e. My computer]

Nice. I had the chance to see Acceptance last night. Didn't go though. Sad

eddwo
Wheres my head at?

Mines getting a bit old
1) AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.33GHz
2) 512MB PC133
3) 120Gb Seagate + 40Gb seagate UDMA 100
4) Compaq 19" CRT @ 1280x1024 + Generic 15" CRT @1024x768
5) XP Pro SP2, Longhorn, Sometimes Linux
6) PNY GeforceFX 5600 256Mb AGP8x (running at 4x)
7) Creative I-Trigue L3500 2.1, (Creative Soundblaster Live)
8) Generic 6x DVD+/-R+RW Burner
9) --
10) Firefox, IE, DigiTV, FreeCell, Thunderbird
11) ADSL 1Mb
12) ?
13) HP Deskjet 980cxi attached to Airport Express
14) Microsoft Wireless Desktop Optical (black)
15) Lacie 60Gb USB2 attached to Netgear WGT634U
16) DNNA Rio Karma 20Gb
17) Logitech Webcam Sphere
18) USB Headset, Bluetooth Dongle, 6in1 Memory card Reader
19) Apple iPod Shuffle 1Gb
20) == (Very old Franklin Ebookman I no longer use)
21) Abit KT7A Rev1.1, Via 686B
22)
23) 3R Systems Neonlight Case, Zalman flower CPU heatsink, Zalman Northbridge heatsink + GPU heatsink. Ultra Quiet PSU.
24) Iomega Rev ATAPI Internal, Nebula Electronics DigiTV PCI.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

Desktop:

1) AMD Athlon64 3000+
2) 1GB DDR333
3) 120GB SATA drive, and 2x 80GB IDE drive, all Maxtor
4) Philips 107B40 17" CRT screen
5) Windows XP Professional x64 Edition / Fedora Core 4 x86_64 (only used when needed for uni work)
6) nVidia GeForce 6600GT PCI-Express
7) Creative Labs Sound Blaster Inspire P580 5.1 speakers (great speakerset for that price!)
7a) Creative Labs Audigy2 Soundcard (why is that not a question)
8) NEC DV-5800C DVD drive
9) Pioneer DVR-108 Dual Layer DVD+/-RW drive
10) Visual Studio .Net 2003, Visual Studio 2005, Cyberlink PowerDVD 6, Internet Explorer, Outlook 2003.
11) 100mbps University provided connection
12) Impossible to estimate, so much has been replaced or upgraded since I bought the system as a whole
13) None
14) Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop
15) None
16) See PDA
17) None
18) Does a headset count. Tongue Out

19) Apacer 256MB USB2.0
20) HP iPaq H1930 (the cheapest one! Go me!)
21) Asus A8N-E, nVidia nForce4 based
22) Don't have any right now, but I might be able to provide some tomorrow, no guarantees
23) This system started life as a P4 2667MHz with 512MB RAM, integrated sound and was since updated to what you ssee here.
24) Also have a laptop: Celeron 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM, SiSM650 based mb, video and sound, 40GB HDD.