I have a Mac...it's old though, OS9.

I stopped spending big bucks on PCs a long time ago ... whatever's fashionable and fast today will be marked less than half price and in the bargain bucket within the year.  My usual concern's whether it's fast enough to run two or three apps at the same time without the blue screen of death.

Prepare to be amazed

Geforce 6200
1022 Mo ram
32 gig memory

Try to beat that
No clue what else has to be posted...

Computer
Processor Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 1.80GHz
Memory 1025MB (339MB used)
Operating System Ubuntu 9.10
User Name lewdi28792 (richard ludwig)
Date/Time Wed 30 Dec 2009 07:19:02 PM EST
Display
Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel® 845G GEM 20090712 2009Q2 RC3 x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter ICH4 - Intel 82801DB-ICH4
Input Devices
Power Button
Power Button
Macintosh mouse button emulation
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse

Printers (CUPS)
PSC-2200-Series Default
SCSI Disks
ATA WDC WD1600JB-00R
LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163
ATA WDC WD5000YS-01M
HP psc 2210v

ersion
Kernel Linux 2.6.31-16-generic (i686)
Compiled #53-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 8 04:01:29 UTC 2009
C Library GNU C Library version 2.10.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu8)
Distribution Ubuntu 9.10
Current Session
Computer Name lewdi28792-desktop
User Name lewdi28792 (richard ludwig)
Home Directory /home/lewdi28792
Desktop Environment GNOME 2.28.1

i have a dvd/cd rom(ide), 160gb ide (hda0 - boot drive), 500gb sata(sta0).
im gonna be adding a dvd burner as an upgrade/replacement to replace the stock cd burmer.
what i am using is a hand-me-down dell given to me by a friend at church. said it had a dead 250wt PSU(which it did). so i took it out and replaced it with a 450wt. the 500gb and 160gb were scavanged out of my dead powermac g4 along with 512mb of pc2700 ddr sdram(as an upgrade for the stock 512mb - 512+512=1gb )

im gonna be using it while a build a quad-core amd box from the base up.
my NICE box is going to be able to burn on blue-ray. im gonna rig this little *** so it will hold me well into the future .

i want to be able to use my NICE quad core for doing video/movie/audio/photo editing, and i would like to make sure i have more than enough horsepower to do it with.

I built my Quad a little over a year ago. I used an AMD phenom4 processor. This is the computer I use most of the time. It has 4 GB of ram. I am using a 320GB IDE drive a my C drive . I have 4 1TB SATA`s for storage,with 3 more 1TB SATA`s as external drives. It is a triple boot with XP pro, Vista ultimate and Ubuntu. Never had a minutes trouble out of it. The only thing it lacks is a e-sata port, which would sure speed up reading from those external drives.

This is very detailed because I can view my order online, so I just copy-pasted and made some edits...

Case: Antec Three Hundred 140mm Fan (Without PSU)

PSU: Corsair Powersupply 650W Black,ATX/EPS, 120mm fan, 8xSATA, SLI

MoBo: Asus P5QL-E, P43, Socket-775, DDR2, ATX, GbLAN, ICH10R, PCI-Ex(2.0)x16

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Socket LGA775, 8MB

RAM: Corsair TWIN2X 8500C5 DDR2, 4096MB CL5, Kit w/two 2GB Dimm's, E.P.P Technology (Only running one stick right now thanks to some bug...)

GFX: Gainward GeForce GTS 250 512MB PhysX PCI-Express 2.0, GDDR3, DVI, native-HDMI, HDCP, Graphics Plus, "Green version"

HDD: Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA2 32MB 7200RPM

DVD: Samsung DVD±RW burner, SH-S202N, 20x, Dual, LightScribe, Black, OEM

Monitor: Benq 22" LCD G2200W TCO03 Silver/Black

Mouse: Logitech MX518 Optical Mouse, USB, PS/2

Mousepad: SteelSeries QcK Professional Cloth Mousepad

Keyboard: Logitech UltraX Premium SE, OEM

Remember this?



Time for an upgrade!



The motherboard tray slides out, hells yes.



I'm aware the cable management is, uh, "lacking", but this was a "get it built, fix it later" job; next cleaning cycle, I'll know what's going where, what cables can and can't reach what and I'll do the job properly.

This post was last modified: 04-22-2010 08:11 PM by ῦ.

For scale;

REALLY nice !   massive cooling

This post was last modified: 04-22-2010 09:55 PM by skyblue1 .

Here are the specs of my trusty little Compaq desktop PC:

Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit (upgraded from Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (dual core processor clocked @ 2.5Ghz)
3 GB DDR2 RAM
EVGA Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT (upgraded from integrated graphics along with upgraded power supply, I kind of wish I got the 9800 GTX+ instead, but at least it runs Fallout 3 and Burnout Paradise pretty good)
320GB hard disk drive

Sure, my Compaq is a bit weak compared to some of the monster computers I have seen, but at least I won't need a crane to move it.