PC specs?
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As a tie into the Tivo killers ...
What does everyone run for their personal computer?
This is mine ...
My box:
P4 2.4E 1.5 Gig 3200 RAM (ASUS board 875 chipset)
250 GIG 7200 Seagate (dying for a four 500 gig's striped, and cooled enough making enough space to backup my bought DVD's (200 of them) to another drive for ease of playback, video quality and the loss of DTS juts kills it for me:crazy
Soundblaster Audigy Pro 2ZS
CDR
DVDR
Oldish Haupaugge TV tuner / w FM stereo ( oddly the best FM tuner I've ever heard, but for what has costed me 3k canadian over the period, I would hope for more than a good way to listen to radio)
MSI 6800GT 256
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My old 450 MHz AMD desktop (which my PC Tech friend says stands for "Another Man Duped"
) was on its last legs, so I just bought the following about 3 months ago: Manufacturer: HP
Model: Pavilion Zd8115us Notebook
Description: 9.5 lbs, Intel Pentium 4 (2.8 GHz) , 512 MB , 80 GB IDE , 17 in TFT active matrix , Lithium ion , Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2
I suppose that I'm following the current trend of purchasing a notebook as a desktop replacement. At well over 10 pounds in the case with all the cords and equipment, it's not a joy to carry around but when I set it up, the display is fantastic and I get great previews of my digital pictures. And when I'm travelling, I've always got a wheeled luggage carrier with me so if I have to go far, it just goes on that. It does put out fair amount of heat and has a handful of fans on the bottom which cut in and out as needed. In fact, if I added a couple more fans, it could probably double as a hovercraft.
It has a DVD player/CD burner and built in SD card reader (two things I sorely missed on my last trip to Colombia) so I can burn copies my pix even if I forget the USB cord for my camera. The battery life is not great at all and it is heavy, but overall and for my purposes I'm very happy with it. It wound up costing about $1,250 USD at Best Buy after a promotional $150 rebate (which I actually did get a check back for). Sound system is pretty good for a portable, and the DVD display is great. What I haven't found out yet is if I can surf around a little at the airport and then watch an entire movie on just one charge. I'll be taking my copy of The Holy Grail on my next flight and will report back.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
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Myself, I have custom built mine, a ASUS PS8X-X motherboard, P4 3.06 Ghz Processor, 1 Gb PC2100 Ram, DVD Burner, GeForce FX5200 Vid Card, 200 gb hard drive, and the Audigy 2 Platnium Sound Card (Hooked to my home theater system via the optical output, allowing for DTS, also downloaded the drivers to upmiz stereo signals to 6.1 sound.. music and radio sound terriffic)
(Ok, so I am a hardware freak, but the one thing I could not see doing without is the sound card and DVD player.. 300 movies, and 100+ music cds)
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Built myself a
P4 2.8c ghz hyperthread
MSI 865PE NEO PLS Motherboad w/ dual channel memory.
1.5 Gig Ram
80 g seagate barracuda IDE HD
Lite on CD-RW
EVGA NVIDIA Fx5600
LeadTek TV2000XP Video Capture Card
Plays Call of Duty Really nicely. 🙂
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and yes i built mine too...
and used this case.. http://aspireusa.net/product.php?pid=51&xcSID=01a60dd52655a606c77cb85751ec971a
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2x (Quad 3.06GHz P4 Xeon MP 16GB Ram, MSA1000 2Gb, 42x72GB 15K U160 SCSI), clustered.
/HAND
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must make for quite the solitaire pc set up.... I was really just refering to your home one ...
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what is this thing you call "home"?
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Home machine: (custom built)
Athlon 3200 XP
1.5 GB memory
220 GB hard drive (1x200 GB, 1x20 GB)
DVD reader
CD Writer
Soundblaster Live
GeForce 6800 LE
17" monitor (don't have space on desk for larger)
+ accessories (flatbed scanner, colour printer, wireless modem, wireless laser mouse)
Work Machine: (IBM)
Pentium 4 3.2GHz
2GB memory
40 GB hard drive
CD Writer
Winfast A340 graphics card
Double 15" monitors
Gail Shaw
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