****your big rig specs******

[williamjoseph]

Just a thread to brag about your rig.... my unicomp on the ball is connected to:

amd phenom II 955 3.2 ghz
thermalright true copper ultra 120mm heatsink w 2x scythe fans (stink'n Heavy)
gigabyte 5dup mobo
8gigs ddr3 1600 Gskill ram
ati 4870 X2
2x 22" samsung 20,000:1 contrast with 2ms responce time
2x 1tb sata hd's as seperate drives.
2x lg lightscribe dvd burners,
rosewill 1100w powersupply,
1.44" floppy,
no fancy lights (i hate neon lights)

[williamjoseph]

Oh yeah, time for me to bring out the big guns.

On occasion, 5.25" 1.2MB floppy drive

You asked for it, you got it. LOL.
That's only the desktop, which in truth I only use to have an excuse to type on my 3179 keyboard.

5.25?  thats awsome!  i came very close to adding a zip drive a while bak myself.  my first computer build bak in the day actually had an LS120 superdisk... lol. talk about dead formats.

[timw4mail]

Let's see

Phenom II 940 BE
4GB DDR2 1000
Asus Dark Knight Radeon HD 4870 1GB
EVGA Superclocked 8800GTS 320MB
160 GB SATA
250 GB IDE
2 22" 1680x1050 monitors (just TN, though)
650 Watt Antec Earthwatts
600 Watt UPS



And...My VIA rig
(And yes, it can play Crysis)

Via Nano 1.6GHz
2GB DDR2
S3 Chrome 440 GTX (256MB GDDR3)
160GB 5400RPM Laptop Drive
120 Watt PSU

[chuckading]

Hey guys, only my second post, awesome forum you have here, I'm addicted now..

I have a black/white macbook 13.3" w/ glossy display
2.4 ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
800 MHz FSB
4 gb ram, PC2 5300
160 GB Hitachi
Intel GMA X3100
Broken SuperDrive

I only upgraded the Ram and swapped half the casing with new parts from a black macbook.  All is connected to my new HHKB Pro 2 .

[roaduck]

****your big rig specs******

Lovely rigs lads.

I've just got  DELL Vostro 200 mini tower with a bit of extra memory and a discrete GPU.It's connected to an Edge10 4 HDD case used as a JBOD and a 1.5TB and 400GB fanless USB HDD's.It will have to do me for now until I can build another HTPC.

IBM - 102 key UK layout 1391406 keyboard

Dual CPU E2200 @ 2.20GHz chip
Foxconn G-33M clone motherboard
HDD - 160 GB - 7200 RPM
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT - 256 MB
3GB - DDR 667 MHz RAM
DVD-ROM - Pioneer thing that sucks the discs in like a car cd player
DVD-RW   - Pioneer thing with overburn etc
LCD - Edge10 - 24" ws - 1920 x 1200
LCD - Dell       - 19" ws - 1440 x 900
CRT - Mitsubishi - 22" - 2048 x 1536

Speakers - Acoustic Energy Aego M 3.1 with Tannoy SFX centre
Wireless USB 5.1 optical transmitter - Onkyo UWL1 Audio Transport
Headphones - Sennheiser HD-600
Headphone Amplifier / Passive Preamplifier for PC - QED MB45
Switching Box for PC - Tandy audio selector.

[Mr.6502]

My main desktop is nothing special, but I am proud of my main laptop:

Acer Extensa 367D
200MHz Intel Pentium w/MMX
32MB RAM
2MB VRAM
2.1GB enhanced IDE hard drive
Cardboard Screen Visor (with Velcro!)
CD ROM Drive
External Floppy Drive
56K Modem

It got me through senior year of high school, 4 years of college, a year of service to inner city schools, all the while being lugged in crappy backpacks or, even worse, shuffling around loose in rolling bags.

It's a beast.

[williamjoseph]

Great machines blokes!!!!  but what keyboard are they made for you to use? remember....  we have our computers for our keyboards......

[Hak Foo]

Right now, I'm running a Solidtek 6600 connected to:
Phenom II 940
8GB DDR2-800
Gigabyte MA790X-UD4
HD3650 (512M)
1Tb Samsung F1 + 160G Seagate 7200.10 in external box
Two Samsung 203-series DVD burners
LS-120
5.25" floppy drive
WinTV 1250
$15 Ralink 802.11n card
24" Soyo Topaz S LCD
Hours-of-operation meter
Logitech G5 (not worth the price)

[timw4mail]

My keyboards are not limited to one specific computer. I use whichever keyboard I feel like with the computer I feel like using.

[InSanCen]

Like Ripster, this is familiar. But I'll give it some attention this time round.

If I exclude the server (Which, although is the "big rig", is rarely sat in front of, but it's a Wang 724 attached), then it's an IBM M13 connected to:-

• AMD 6400 X2 BE (Overclocked)
• Gigabyte M57-SLI-S4
• 6GB (2x2GB 2x1GB) DDR1066
• 512MB HD3870 GDDR4 (Overclocked)
• 1x250GB Samsung, 1x320GB Samsung, 3x1TB Samsung F1
• Liquid Cooling (XSPC 360, Eheim 1250, XSPC  Delta V2, MC Micro, 1/2" tubing)
• 6x Delta GFB series 120x76mm (220CFM) on 2x Sunbeam Rheobus
• FSP BlueStorm 500W PSU
• Pioneer DVR109+DVR111

All housed in a Coolermaster Stacker.

[zwmalone]

Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz Prescott with HT, LGA775, Zalman CNPS-7700cu
MSI 915PL Neo-V
1GB DDR400 (2x 512MB ECC)
ATI Radeon x700 XT 128MB PCI-e x16, ghetto cooling
2x 17" 1280x1024 CRTs
320GB WD SE16D SATA2, 200GB Seagate Barracuda SATA2
2x LiteOn DVD+RW
500W Rosewill Extreme Edition PSU recapped w/ Nippon Chemicon caps
Linksys WMP54g 802.11g wifi card
Windows XP Pro with BBLean WM

Compaq Presario 705
1GHz AMD Athlon 4
256MB of PC133
16MB S3 Savage TwisterK
20GB ATA HD
DVD-ROM
14" 1024x768 screen
Windows XP Home w/ BBLean WM

[TWX]

I've got the following:

• Dual Xeon Gallatin 3.06GHz (soon to be 3.2GHz when I get to the BIOS update)
• Asus PC-DL Deluxe
• 4GB Memory (about 3.6GB addressable)
• 80GB Seagate hard disk drive (sadly way too small)
• ATI Radeon HD 3850
• Lightscribe DVD burner
• Black 3U rackmount case
• 460W power supply
• GW2K/Maxiswitch Anykey PS/2 keyboard
• Kensington Expert Mouse Pro USB
• Samsung SyncMaster 204B 20.1" LCD and Sharp 17" LCD turned 90°

It dual boots Debian Linux and Windows XP Pro.

Almost all of my equipment is racked, with the exception of my wife's PC, which is sitting between the posts at the bottom of the rack.  She's still attached to her Antec case.

[SCTony]

Last Jan/Feb I put this together to replace my aging Dell. I am so glad to be all standard now, but the Dell did fairly well.

Q9550 2.83 @3.8 stable
Gigabyte EP45-UDP3 m/b
G.SKILL 4GB  DDR2  1066
(2) W.D. Caviar Black 640 GB in Raid 0
(1) Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB
PC Power & Cooling 610W Continuous Power Supply
OCZ Vendetta 2 CPU Cooler with AeroCool XtremeTurbine-Blue Fan
MSI R4830 (OC'd Radeon HD 4830) Video Card (I am not a gamer)
  -all wrapped up in a Cooler Master HAF 932 Full Tower Case and currently sporting a $3 Model F.
 It was a lot of fun to build but I stretched it out over a couple months as I had the Dell to use.

[AndrewZorn]

in short


Q6600 at 3.8ghz stable
8800gt overclocked to something different every day
4gb of ballistix memory also trying to find sweet spot (around 900 i think)
custom water cooling, 1/2" based with dtek fuzion and 4x120 worth of rad space
Lian-Li 'Rocketfish' case modded a bit ($48 steal)
WD 640gb (the good one forget the name)
Corsair HX620

my pride and joy but also aging and now sitting at the other side of the world for 10mos now.  new guts when i get home.

[BucklingSpring]

Great machines blokes!!!!  but what keyboard are they made for you to use? remember....  we have our computers for our keyboards......

I love your avatar.

[williamjoseph]

thanks.  found the pic in google pictures, did a search for destroyed keyboards and found that one instead. chopped it down and added the words HARD CORE.....

[FunkTrooper]

After reading all the specs on this forum, it makes my rig sound so old dated...

• Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz (Q6600)
• 4GB of really mediocre DDR2 667MHz RAM
• Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS (the old 640MB version)
• Nvidia nForce 650i chipset
• 700W power supply
• 500GB Seagate drive for the OS, 640GB Hitachi drive for random crap
• 24" Dell monitor @ 1920×1080
• Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (the final build)
• Unicomp Customizer 104
• Logitech G5 mouse (well worth the money!)

Everything's running at stock speeds, but it still performs well these days. The RAM could be better, but i doubt I'd see any performance boost if I upgraded it, so I've never bothered.

[AndrewZorn]

on this forum?  yours, similar to mine, dont seem so bad here...

overclock?

[InSanCen]

I suspect a few do. I'm fairly sure I have seen you on XS. Mine isn't OC'd at the moment, (Fear of the PSU taking yet another setup out...) but after the next round of upgrades (Probably using an 1156 setup).

[Hak Foo]

in short

Lian-Li 'Rocketfish' case modded a bit ($48 steal)

What did you do to your Rocketfish?  I had one and cut cable-management holes and etched a side panel.

[AndrewZorn]

stripped down, no more hard drive cage, some wire management work, triple radiator mount/holes in the top with built in shroud
didnt mean "a bit" as in "a lot, but i am awesome" but really just "a bit"

next will be grommeted holes for wires behind the board and a cpu backplate access
and moving the hard drive into the 5.25 bay so i can remove ALL the 3.5 bays

[JaccoW]

This is my current setup:

• Case: Zalman Z-Machine GT-1000 Black Brushed Alu
  
• Screen: HP W2408H
  
• Mobo: Abit Ip35 Pro
  
• CPU: Intel C2D E8400
  
• Ram: Corsair Dominator 4GB PC2-8500
  
• GPU: Gainward 8800GT 'GS'
  
• Sound: Asus Xonar D2X + Onkyo HT-S5105 5.1 set
  
• Cooling Thermolab Baram + 2x tacens Ventus ice
  
• Storage: OCZ Vertex 60GB, WD GP 500GB, WD SE16 500GB
  
• PSU: Corsair HX520
  
• Peripherals: G15 keyboard (dying) + Roccat Kone mouse
  

And a photograph just to tease you.

[AndrewZorn]

wish i hadnt shipped mine off already.  every 6key combination i tried worked, but i assumed modifiers were not included.  youre saying that it can pass qzwarx but fail

...

is this a joke?
CTRL+W closes window

...

ok, not in the test, if you start by holding the letters first.
i can get 9 keys using that, 6 letters + CTRL + ALT + SHIFT

[JaccoW]

I tried it, and it did register all six keys. Any extra key doesn't register, except for modifiers such as the right hand ALT, Enter or Shift keys. It is limited however at 8 keys.

But that is the standard limit of the usb interface isn't it?

[AndrewZorn]

yes

[itlnstln]

But that is the standard limit of the usb interface isn't it?

For all intents and purposes it is, but it's really the standard HID driver that is the limiting agent.  The USB protocol can certainly handle more than 6 keystrokes of data, and if a manufacturer spent the time to write a custom driver, you could easily have full NKRO via USB.  It's just easier and cheaper to use the standard HID driver.  Member bhtooefr explains it much better and in more detail than I do, but that's the jist of it.

[AndrewZorn]

i keep hearing that, but feel like it is odd that logitech will write all this stupid software to change DPI and use a screen and macro keys but NOT a new driver to have the only USB keyboard with full NKRO.

[AndrewZorn]

note i said "stupid software"... and I have...  thats why it is nice that once you program the G9 mouse, you can not have to reinstall the software next reformat to keep the customization
G15 basically requires the software to do anything more than type

i mean, even the cheapest crap has its own drivers, i just think its amazing that no one cares about the keyboards.

[itlnstln]

The thing is, is after 6 keys, do you really need anymore?  You only have 5 fingers, and your other hand is usually on your mouse, so is there any real motivation to write a custom driver for a keyboard?  That, and if said keyboard needed a custom driver, it might not work without it, thus preventing you from using to tweak the BIOS or just in a general PnP sense.

[itlnstln]

Everytime somebody tries a >6key on USB they screw it up. Exhibit A: the Das 3.

True that.

[AndrewZorn]

i mean im no professional but i just feel like there would be a clever way to replace the driver so that it "listens to" the keys past #6 being pressed, as the keyboard would be designed to send them all in a format that the standard driver would understand (is this possible?).  no driver, 6 keys.  driver, 20 keys.

[PRISONER 24601]

Intel E8400 @4.0
Gigabyte EP45-UD3R
4gb mem
ATI 4870 1gb
2x 750gb Samsung SATA
2x 120gb Seagate SATA
160gb WD SATA
160gb Maxtor PATA
4x 120mm fans, 1 of em really high speed
4x 80mm fans, 2 high speed, 1 REALLY high speed
custom made rheobus for high speed fans
Cooler Maser CM 690 case, replacing my old Lian-Li from 2003 or so
2x Dell 2209WA displays

[microsoft windows]

My main computer has:

Intel D815EEA motherboard with integrated components
512MB of PC133 RAM
10gb IDE hard disk
1 Compaq CD-ROM drive
1 internal ZIP-100 drive
1 generic floppy drive

It also has a Microsoft Serial Mouse and a Lexmark M5-2 keyboard.

[itlnstln]

ZIP drive. Classic. Those were all the rage in I was in college.  If you had the SCSI model, you were the man.

[microsoft windows]

I am the proud owner of 67 floppy disks and 18 ZIP disks.

I actually still use ZIP disks since they have 100MB of storage on them and my computers can easily write to them. They're great for storing software installations for me.

[bigpook]

While I never owned any zip drives, I am happy to say that I have recently chucked all of my 3.5 floppies and a half dozen or so floppy disk drives. It seemed like it was only yesteryear when they were so important to have.

[microsoft windows]

I use floppies more when I am servicing older computers or using my Windows 3.1 machine.

[TWX]

I am the proud owner of 67 floppy disks and 18 ZIP disks.

I actually still use ZIP disks since they have 100MB of storage on them and my computers can easily write to them. They're great for storing software installations for me.

Amateur!  *grin*

I used to buy floppies when they were $20 for 100 disks, with a $20 mail-in rebate.  Probably did this five times.  There are still at least 300 floppies in my desk drawers, a good 30 zip disks, and six or seven Jaz or Jaz2 cartridges.

My old rackmount case, which will probably become a file server some day, still has the SCSI Zip Drive installed in it.  The Jaz2 is sitting in one of the bins.  I figure that needing to read a Zip is much more likely than needing to read a Jaz or Jaz2.  When I transferred my PC to the new case I realized that every one of my USB flash memory cards was larger than any Zip or Jaz2, so I didn't bother to put them in, and since the SCSI CD-burner had long since been supplanted by a SATA DVD burner there was no reason for the SCSI controller either.

[microsoft windows]

How many of those 300 floppies have old software on them?

[InSanCen]

All this talk of Zip drives got me thinking.

So, a bit of digging in the "old but works, not gonna throw it out, piss the missus off" boxes, and hey presto.

A Wild Jazz Drive appears. With fresh disks too! Cost me an absolute packet when I bought it (about 400 quid IIRC), but to be fair, as a backup solution (Each disk was Duplicated), it never missed a beat.

A link for the youngun's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iomega_Jaz_drive

[Hak Foo]

I have a stack of LS-120 drives.  For some reason, you never see internal LS-120s.  You see external ones, and laptop ones, but not normal IDE ones with a front panel.

On the external ones, you can remove a perfect IDE one from the case, with no front panel, so I have ugly cover plates made from scraps to hold 'em down.

They're nice as 3.5" drives, since many new PCs only take one drive on the controller, so I can have a 3.5" and a 5.25".

I found some scrap shops selling the Caleb UHD-144 drive, which is sort of interesting (144Mb on a 3.5" style disc), but it's not as good: Windows will not map it as A: or B:, and it's not auto-eject like the LS-120.

[williamjoseph]

my first purchased computer had the zip alternative the "superdisk" or LS-120.   i can admit to purchasing a dead format.   :der:

[InSanCen]

Man, what you got in that pile?   You gonna pull out a box of punch cards next?

According to the Missus "Far too much junk"
While seeking out the Jaz Drive, i found (And booted!) an AMD 386/40 that brought back memories of smoking 486SX's. I still have my (non-working) 5MB seagate drive, and my first IDE drive (still working, 80MB WOOHOO!). The really neat kit is up in the loft (shrinkwrapped ZX80 anyone? No? Shrinkwrapped M$ Windows 1?)

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Quick, without looking at the printing what does this one say????

Hey! I'm not THAT old... Tape Drives were the thing in my heyday (Spectrum and Commodore)... That, and if you were hardcore on the Spectrum's, ASM for the Z80! I took one look the instruction set for x86/64 a while ago... and quaked at the thought. My childhood must have been boring for me to learn that.

[timw4mail]

According to the Missus "Far too much junk"
While seeking out the Jaz Drive, i found (And booted!) an AMD 386/40 that brought back memories of smoking 486SX's. I still have my (non-working) 5MB seagate drive, and my first IDE drive (still working, 80MB WOOHOO!). The really neat kit is up in the loft (shrinkwrapped ZX80 anyone? No? Shrinkwrapped M$ Windows 1?)

If I hadn't fried it, I would still have a 200MB Conner Hard Drive. I disassembled it, put it back together, and still had all the data on it.

[itlnstln]

my first purchased computer had the zip alternative the "superdisk" or LS-120. i can admit to purchasing a dead format. :der:

I had one of these; I didn't buy it though.  I "salvaged" a used one from the computer store I used to work at.

[TWX]

How many of those 300 floppies have old software on them?

Much of the contents of the floppies was when I was getting Betas of Windows Chicago.  Some of the builds used about 20 disks in DMF format, with just under 1.7MB fitting on one disk.  I also had a beta copy of Microsoft Plus, MS-Office 4.3, and Microsoft Bob.

Bear in mind that USB stood for "Un Supported Bus" and that most of my friends didn't have other mediums, so if we didn't want to pull hard disks and install in other machines to copy stuff or didn't want to dial up we were limited to this.  I first played Quake off of floppies.  I had shareware like mad off floppies.  I had four floppies to boot Debian's network installer.  I had diagnostic tools.

I will need to use a floppy when I update my BIOS on my dual Xeon box to support 3.2GHz processors.

Cheap Ethernet, decent USB support, and cheap flash finally killed off the floppy more than any floppy-replacement disks did.

[PRISONER 24601]

Somewhere around here (or in one of my storage units), I have Wolfenstein 3D on about 30 floppies and the Oregon Trail on 5.25 diskette

That, and Win 3.1 on floppy, an MSDN windows 95 CD, Microsoft Encarta on CDROM, and a bevy of other useless crap.

[InSanCen]

Right, that's it.

I can't beat punch cards, but my inner geek is screaming for me to go search out the 8" Floppies... (Yep younguns, 8" Floppies!). I saw them in a box when searching for the Jaz drive. I have no idea how I got them, or the drive, as they were mainly used in MiniComputers IIRC, but I'll not be throwing them out. Just a bit *too* much Geek history to be trashing.

[InSanCen]

Right, that's it.

I can't beat punch cards, but my inner geek is screaming for me to go search out the 8" Floppies... (Yep younguns, 8" Floppies!). I saw them in a box when searching for the Jaz drive. I have no idea how I got them, or the drive, as they were mainly used in older "minicomputers" IIRC, but I'll not be throwing them out. Just a bit *too* much Geek history to be trashing.

[bigpook]

If I hadn't fried it, I would still have a 200MB Conner Hard Drive. I disassembled it, put it back together, and still had all the data on it.

cool, my very first computer; a 486/33 came with a 170M conner hard drive.  I was told at the time that I would never fill it up, it was too big.
Those were the days.