How GOOD?! iz your computer? :D

200mhz Celeron overclocked to 233 (Contain your excitment please...)
32M RAM (Please, stay in your seats..)
Matrox Mystique 2Meg gfx card (Can I ask you all to step back...)
Soundblaster AWE32 with a whole 1M of external memory(Feeling faint yet?)
4.3 and 2 Gig HD's (Spaceous, yet cosy)
Running Windows 2000 (98 just couldn't keep up....)

Hippy: is that true? does that work? i mean my system is poor (i had no money for geeky stuff, skiing costs enough), but way better than yours, is 2k running well? hell, i uprade tomorrow, that shouldn´t be too expensive.

Aww come on! Don't be too pressurizing to Hippy.. i heard in old days (From WiseOldMan and others) there wasn't even Mac)

Abit AT7 MAX
AMD Athlon XP2100
1GB of Corsair RAM
VisionTek NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600
SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum
WD 40GB HD
Windows XP Pro
Pioneer DVD Drive
TDK 24/10/40x CDRW Drive
All in my pretty Lian Li PC62USB Case

In the old days there was't personal computers. Computers filled the room. FYI WasupBoy.

Rly? WOM? how did u do all these stuffs that you do with comps?

Hmmm....lets see.

A meager Athlon 2000+ Highly OC'd
Thermaltake Volcano 9 CPU fan
2, 80mm sunon's in the front.
2, 80mm sunon's in the back.
1, 80mm sunon in the side.
1gig pc2100 ddr ram
80gig WD 7200rpm HD w/8mb buffer for the main drive.
60gig Seagate 7200
40gig Maxtor 7200
45gig WD 5400
128 meg Radeon 8500
floppy
32x TDK Velo CDR
Toshiba 16x DVD
Promise ATA-100 controller
Netgear FA310x nic
Soundblaster live sound card
Monsoon Speakers and Sub
All packed away nicely in a silver chieftec server case.

>:o)

By pencil and paper.

Hippy, I think you should make a craziness and go for a 266 overclock

Now that must've been hard WOM.. like some all adults say.. The World has changed and it will keep changing (i first heard that when i was like 10 or somethin.. when electroni stuffz started comin out!)

I'll be bak to message board.. hehe i g2g eat

Iz anyone Planning to buy a new computer? if so.. does anyone know any sites to buy online rather then Pricewatch, and googlegear?

I'm sure Hippy has named his comp....."Wild Thing"....

At least add a few more squirrels....

Pentium 550
384 Mb SDRAM
nVidia Riva TNT2 Pro 32Mb
19" Monitor (Gateway?)
SoundBlaster PCI 128D
CDRW 4x4x24
DVD
Win98SE
12GB HD

digitaljames:

that computer of yours must sound like a Harrier when you turn it on

Lol! i guess james's comp has lots of Hard drives.. hehe

Well Hippy isn't the only person with a hugely powerful comp. Mine is better:
Pentium I 200 MhZ MMX
4 gig Quantum HDD
20 gig Maxtor HDD
128 MB RAM
Don't even know what the gfx card is
Benwin NXF flat panel speakers ( )
IBM OptiNav Mouse
Now get this... this is the funny part. I'm running Windows XP. This usually gets a 'your running WHAT on that PI???' when I post on BBs...
Oh yes and since you think PCIMCIA slots don't go in these old comps I have 2 or 3 with a 100 Mb (Mega bit, just so you know it's not a typo) network card.
-nucOS

Hmm does your computer have Pentium 1 200Mhz or Pentium 1.2ghz? im jus wonderin.. i couldn't actually catch it lol

Pentium One (I) 200 MhZ 1.2 GhZ...I wish...

WasupBoy, Isn't it time to do your homework?

HAHA... I already did them all..

PII
450Mhz
384 megs of ram
1 10 gig HD
1 40 gig HD
Logitech Optical Cordless Mouse
Labtec speakers of some sort with subwoofer thingy
built in video chip ATI Rage Pro
running XP Pro

Here's mine:40G HD, 512MB RAM, 1000MHZ Duron processor, XP, 17inch monitor, CDRW, 56X CDROM,

Here an example of the cheapest pc to get.
Intel Celeron 1,100MHz CPU
Intel D815EGEW, 4 PCI, 2 USB
128 Mb PC-133 SDRAM
20GB 7200RPM UDMA/133 HDD
Built-in 32Mb (Shared) Video
Integrated 3-D Stereo Sound
No Operating System
MidTower Case, 300w PS
104-Key Keyboard
Microsoft Intellimouse
3.5in Floppy Drive
60-Day Parts Exchange Warranty
$499
Here's where to get one. You can customize them any way you want. All components are interchangeable. I bought mine here- http://www.systemquote.com/

I basically bought mine for gamming: (you can tell!)

Operating System: Windows XP Proffesional
Processor : 2.5 GHz / 533 MHz system bus
Memory : 512MB
Harddrive : 120 GB (way to much memory)
Graphics Card : VisionTek GeForce4 TI4600 128MB
Sound Card : Sound Blaster AUDIGY Platinum EX
Speakers : Creative Labs Inspire 5.1 5700 Digital 6 Piece Speaker System
Monitor : It came with the order, it's a 17" Dell is all I know
Mouse : Logitech Microsoft IntelliPoint


I love this computer... woot-woot!
(did I mention my family is wealthy?)

Okay, since everybody's posting, I want to post as well.
And if someone knows what GFX-card that will give the most
responsive Windows-feeling, please let me know. And what's
the point of the 300mHz RAM? Does it feel faster or what?

CPU: AMD AthlonXP 1800 (and then some OC)
MEM: 512 MB 133mHz
GFX: Geforce 440MX (and then a lot of OC)
AUD: SB Live! Value
HDD: 2x 128GB 7200 RPM thingies
DVD: 12x slot-in (i think)
CDB: 8x/32x/4x
CSE: Cool aluminium tower, with a few quiet fans
SYS: Windows XP Professional / Gentoo Linux

Hah! Mine is more powerful than all of yours:

Pentium 100, 48MB
2 1Ghz Hard disks
Matrox Millenium 1 GFx card with 3Dfx Voodoo 1 card
Microsoft Wheel Mouse

My pewter is a home built system, I just don't trust those pre-built systems. Hehe... I used to built those for a living

Anyways:

OS: WinXP Pro running Hoverdesk
MOBO: Soltek SL-75KAV
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1600+
RAM: 512 SD
GFX: GeForce 3 TI200 w/64 DDR (god-damn pixelpusher!!)
Monitor: Some kinda 17" (Res: 1280X1024 32 bit)
HD's: 8.4gig and 30.5gig (one more is on the way)
CD: Creative 8X4X32X CD/RW (soon to ditched for a 40X20X40X)
Floppy: huh?! What's that?!
Sound: Crappy onboard shite
Speakers: whopping 500 watt SubWoofer
Input divices: Brand spanking new Logitech keyboard and dual optical mouseman (with tail)
Net connection: ADSL 512/128 Ericsson HM 220d1 adapter + SureCom EP-805X 5 port switch

All bought for my own hardearned money!!!!!!!