Post your system.......

[bgavin]

I'm probably the poster child for boring:

Athlon XP 2600, 400 FSB
MSI K7N2 Delta2
Pair of 512mb Crucial DDR
Matrox G450 dual-head
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Two 500gb Seagate IDE
Memorex 52x CDRW
Pioneer DVR-109
AHA-2940AU scsi controller for ScanJet IIcx
Antec full size case
Sparkle ATX-350PN, 120mm fan
WinXP, VMware


The DNS machine is:
Duron 900
8gb Quantum Fireball
Fedora 3


The mail machine is:
K6/500
FIC VA-503+ board
256mb Crucial PC100
20gb WDC drive
Netware 4.1

[WNG]

Originally Posted by bgavin

I'm probably the poster child for boring:

Things must have come a long way when a terabyte of storage is considered boring.


That's a nice system. (I'm a socket-462 fan)

And the 503+ is a classic board.
I still have one with a K6-3+ 450 in my possession.

[Jor3llBR]

I'm also a 462 fan!

And by far this is the only system I play with since ages. There's nothing going on dual's, quad's, extremes etc that gives you half of the excitement as running a nF2 in 2631Mhz at 250 FSB x 10.5 stable using 2222t and CPC on!

This is my nF2 hobby system:
DFI LanParty NF2 Ultra-B *Taiwan* + lots of heatsinks
TT Xaser V Case_Bios Suzuna sx3.8b6
IQYHA 0351 Stepping
AXP-M 2600+@2631mhz 1.800vc 10.5*250 sPI 36s
Aerocool HT-102 / NB+SB ZM Cooled + Fans
2x512MB Mushkin Redline PC4000 3.20v - Fan+Pencil Mod 11-2-2-2-2-13-15 -
WD Raptors_SATA Striping 2x 80GB
Lite-On 20Ha DVD-RW
ATI Radeon X850XT Vmods@600Mhz_core/1200Mhz
OCZPowerStream520W Adjustable SLI
Fortíssimo IV 7.1 Soundcard


2631Mhz 250*10,5 Stable!

X850XT Voltmoded A3 result

And to get passed the 2631Mhz barrier at 250Mhz FSB I recently had my DFI Lanparty recap with Rubycon's and I am also upgrading the system to Liquid Cooling. I plan to get this baby running soon above 2700Mhz.

Upgrades Inc:
- ATI X1950XT Agp;
- Asetek Waterchill Kit KT12-L30;
- Recaped to Rubycon's.

Started to work with the case:
120mm Dual Rad's 1
120mm Dual Rads 2

My other "normal" systems are so boring that doesn't even worth mentioning...

[Per Hansson]

Wow Jor3llBR, all respect to you

That is an awsome overclock you have there!

I never got more than 2.3ghz or so from my mobile CPU

[Jor3llBR]

Thanks mate!

It was fun to get that nF2 to run that on AIRCOOLING! That was the limit, I never wanted to push further then 1.8v in air.

But now with Liquid Cooling and new Caps I plan to get things even higher.

Do you remember your Mobile Stepping? And whats your Socket A mobo?

[Per Hansson]

AXMH2500FQQ4C Z40091SB40131
IQYHA 0409RPMW

I've used both a Epox 8RDA3+ and a Abit NF7-S with it

2.3ghz was on Air too....

[Maxxarcade]

Are those zip ties holding the fan on that heatsink? That's bad ass how they just latched right in there.

Originally Posted by WNG

My computer desk/room is messy as hell these days!

PCs are sprouting like mushrooms under my desk!



Here's a few more additions to mention since my last post...
I got my hands on 3 freebies a few months ago, (2) Micron PCs w/Intel 1.1GHz Celery Tualatins on Intel 815 motherboards, 512 MB of PC133 CAS2 Micron SDRAM; and a Compaq AMD 1.1GHz Thunderbird on a FIC/Compaq Uwave VIA KT133 based motherboard, 256 MB of SDRAM.
They were all dirty as hell! The following pics are the fruits of my tinkering.

BEFORE:



AFTER:
One of them retained the motherboard/cpu combo. But the TGR psu was swapped with a ACBEL/FortronSource 235W whisper quiet unit.
The HSF was swapped with a Thermaltake Volcano 6 with a 80mm fan grafted to it. Original 92mm case fan swapped for a quieter one out of a Dell workstation.

Intel 1.1 GHz Tualatin Celeron.
Intel D815EFV mATX motherboard.
512 MB PC133 CAS2 Micron SDRAM (maxed-out unfortunately)
Nvidia Geforce4 MX440 64 MB 8x AGP DVI card.
Samsung DVD-ROM.
IDE UDMA-100 HDD slide-out chassis.
VIA chipset USB 2.0 PCI card.
Airnet 11b/g Wifi PCI card.
Win XP sp2.




AFTER part deux:

The 2nd got the intel motherboard pulled and the recapped DFI ATX Socket-A motherboard took up residence. I still have some finishing touches before it's operational. (re-attach northbridge heatsink, solder jumpers to case wire harness) Eventually, a recapped Powerman 250W psu will replace the F-yu capped TGR psu.
I plan to try out Astaro Security Gateway with it.

DFI AK74-SC VIA KT133 ATX Socket-A.
AMD 1.0 GHz Thunderbird.
Thermaltake Volcano 6cu with 80mm fan grafted on.
340 MB PC133 CAS2 SDRAM.
Nvidia 16 MB AGP VGA card (unknown).
20 MB Maxtor.
Memorex CDR-W, Hitachi DVD-ROM.
(1) 3Com PCI NIC
(2) Netgear PCI NIC.




Here's what I did with the Compaq...
Stripped it bare of parts and tossed the fugly minitower case, and utilized a spare old In-win mATX case. Combined it with parts from my defunct DFI-AMD media PC in previous post. It's now running as my current media PC in my living room, and double-duty as internet gateway/router.

Compaq Uwave/FIC VIA KT133 mATX motherboard.
250W Delta psu.
AMD 1.1 GHz Thunderbird.
512 MB PC133 CAS2 Micron SDRAM.
30 GB Maxtor (slim-line), 40 GB WD.
Compaq/Samsung DVD-ROM, and Philips CDR-W.
Mad Dog SiS TV-64 AGP 2x.
Airnet 11b/g WiFi PCI card.
NEC based USB 2.0 PCI card.
DLink PCI NIC.
Win2000 sp4.

[WNG]

Yes, zip ties. The fins of these 60x80mm heatsinks were spaced just perfectly to retain the ends when slid in place. I placed 4 through the fan screw holes and suspended the fan above the heatsink. Once zipped, the tension held it in place while the bending of the ties pushed against the housing. Very secure.
An aside, I discovered the ties isolated fan vibration very well, they act like springs.

I installed an 80mm fan similarly to cool my Seagate 400 MB HDD. That fan was a cheap sleeve bearing fan that vibrated when horizontal. But vibrations don't transfer to the case.

Zip ties are great!

[Jor3llBR]

Just received my nF2 system from Topcat the mobo was fine but had a lot of Teapos and OST's that was holding the overclock back.

This 'old' nF2 system was running stable at 10,5x250 (2630Mhz) but I knew I could brake the 250Mhz barrier if I had the courage to send a perfectly working motherboard for a complete class A recap (Rubycons mcz).

Of course I couldn't do it myself so I sent the mobo to Topcat and as soon as I received this old platform is amazing me so far (look at the ss's I took today the memory bench timings are running close to a Intel Core 2 Duo e6700!!!!!!!)

Also after the recap my mobo is running 10oC cooler! On air cooling it used to be at full load 59oC and now it barely reaches 50oC.

So Recap mobos DOES indeed worth the buck!

Same system posted above is now running at 2666Mhz amazing 10x266Mhz with 2-2-2-2-2t-9 and cpc ON (cmd1)!!! Impressive to run at those tight timings(at least for me that couldn't get passed 250Mhz):

2666Mhz 1:1 266x10
LOOK AT THE e6700 with DDR2 - I'm almost getting ya!

Memtest 2666Mhz

New Rubycon's by Topcat


My goal now is to keep pushing this above 266Mhz and et it stable at 270Mhz.

[Jor3llBR]

You have a good stepping I think the ony thing you need is a good modded bios for that NF-7 to get it running @ 2500Mhz.

I used to use Tictac's BIOS on my NF-7.

Originally Posted by Per Hansson

AXMH2500FQQ4C Z40091SB40131
IQYHA 0409RPMW

I've used both a Epox 8RDA3+ and a Abit NF7-S with it

2.3ghz was on Air too....

[Topcat]

^
Excellent work Elano!! Thanks for the update, and glad its performing well for you, and beyond your expectations!!

[Logistics]

Main System:

Pentium 4 2.0GHz
Asus P4PE Socket 478 Motherboard
2 x 512MB Samsung PC2100
GeForce FX 5600 Ultra
SbLive! with film signal caps--power caps bypassed films
Adaptec PCI 10/100 AHA? series
WD800 HDD
Toshiba SD-M1612 DVD-ROM
Antec SL350 PSU recapped with Samxon GC/GD
Antec Value-line Full Tower custom painted (by me) with DBU9700 Black base, Transtar clear and Red metal-flake.

Project System(for headphone listening):

Pentium 3 500MHz
Abit BH6--to be recapped with Samxon GC/GD
512MB Infineon PC133
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP
SB16--to be recapped with Panasonic FM and bypassed with films
D-Link DFE-530TX
Fujitsu M1623-TAU
Antec PP-303X--to be recapped with Samxon GC/GD

[Topcat]

Originally Posted by Logistics

Pentium 3 500MHz
Abit BH6--to be recapped with Samxon GC/GD <--- awww yeah!!
512MB Infineon PC133
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP
SB16--to be recapped with Panasonic FM and bypassed with films
D-Link DFE-530TX
Fujitsu M1623-TAU
Antec PP-303X--to be recapped with Samxon GC/GD

Thanks for your business as well!!

[Jor3llBR]

Originally Posted by Logistics

Main System:

Project System(for headphone listening):

Pentium 3 500MHz
Abit BH6--to be recapped with Samxon GC/GD
512MB Infineon PC133
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP
SB16--to be recapped with Panasonic FM and bypassed with films
D-Link DFE-530TX
Fujitsu M1623-TAU
Antec PP-303X--to be recapped with Samxon GC/GD

WoW this should be music to the ears literally!

[grss1982]

Time to bump this thread?

Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 (2.13 Ghz)
Gigabyte G31M-S2C Mobo
2GB DDR2-533 RAM (2x1GB)
256MB Inno3D GeForce 7300GT DDR3
80GB W.D. SATA Hard Drive + 250GB W.D. SATA Hard Drive
LG DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo Drive
17" CRT Monitor
SilverStone ST400 400w Power Supply

Note: Parts in BOLD were the only one I replaced from my previous AMD rig (AMD x2 4000+ AND MSI K9N-Neo-F V3) that lasted from Feb. 2008 to Feb. 2009.

[KeriJane]

OK, let's BUMP the thread!

Keri's current system:
Mac Pro 1.1
Dual 2.66ghz Dual-core XEON (Core architecture) 1.33ghz bus speed
8GB ECC DDR2-667 in Quad Channel configuration
ATI Radeon HD2600
Apple EFI-based Server board populated with UCC
4 internal SATA2 drives, 2 in RAID config. (MacOS on WD BlackCaviar 1TB)
1 Pioneer DVD-RW DVR111D DVD burner
Delta 980w proprietary Apple PSU crammed full of UCC and a few Taicons
Bluetooth
Firewire 400, 800
50 lbs of solidly constructed Aluminum Case that puts Lian-Li to shame.

Keri's previous system (retired)
e6750 Core2Duo
8GB in Dual-Channel configuration
ATI Radeon HD3850
Intel DP35DP Media Series board
HighPoint RocketRaid 3120 Hardware RAID card
4 internal SATA2 drives, Vista HP on RAID0
2 Plextor 716SA DVD burners
Seasonic S12-600 PSU
Firewire 400
4 internal SATA2 drives,
Lian-Li V1000BW Plus2 aluminum case- (high-quality knockoff of the MacPro/PowerMac G5 case)

Maybe someday I'll put an i7 system in the Lian-Li.
Or get that new 8-core MacPro.
Decisions, decisions...

Have Fun!
Keri

PS. Why on Earth is an old lady like me playing around with high-powered computers like these?
Answer- Non-Linear Video Editing! It's practically impossible to buy a "normal" system that can handle NLE properly.
Also, it's fun to shop for all the pieces.

[Scenic]

quote from another forum (i posted that earlier there)

Originally Posted by HOMEBOY87

Gigabyte P35-DS4 Rev. 2.0
Core 2 Duo E4300 (1,8GHz) @ 3GHz ("Conroe-2048" core.. one of the very first E4300's.. _not_ an Allendale)
2x 1GB Patriot (PDP) DDRII-800 (4-4-4-12 Timings)
40GB Seagate as Sys-HDD (to be replaced.. someday... *lol*)
2x 250GB WD AV-Series
Leadtek PX8800GTS TDH (320MB G80 Core, heavily OCed)
Creative SoundBlaster Live! Player 1024
Highpoint HPT370A PCI IDE Controller
2x LG DVD-RW, 1x LG DVD-ROM
465Watt Delta Electronics PSU (DPS-465AB .. rewired and full of NCC caps)
Hewlett Packard x4000 Workstation case (was a Dual Xeon 1,7GHz workstation with RDRAM (a.k.a. RAMBUS))

Logitech "Premium Optical Wheel Mouse" M-BT58 Black
Logitech "Internet Pro Keyboard" Y-SZ49
Saitek Cyborg RUMBLE! P3600 Gamepad

Hewlett Packard L1820 18" LCD (made in 2002)
Belinea 101910 19" LCD (made in 2005)

Pics -> http://www.winhistory-forum.net/50012-post450.html

that link works without having to register there..
pics are not up-to-date but you get the idea

[370forlife]

Ok might as well...

Gaming rig:

AMD athlon 64x2 5000+ 2.6ghz socket AM2
Biostar Tpower N750 (100% solid caps,)
4gb OCZ DDR2-800
PNY 9800GT 512mb
WD 7200rpm 320gb single platter Sata HD
Realtek 7.1 integrated high definition audio
Realtek integrated Gigabit Ethernet
Lite-on DVD-ROM/CD-RW

Server:

2x Intel Xeon 3.06ghz socket 604 w/HT
IBM Z-pro Intellistation 6221, All caps are Rubycon, UCC, Panisonic, Sanyo OScon, even the smallest caps are Panisonic
2gb ECC Registered DDR-266
Power Color Radeon X1650pro 512mb AGP
Hitachi Deathstar 60gb 7200rpm (to be replaced by 36gb seagate cheetah 15,000rpm scsi drive,)
ADI Integrated AC'97 audio
Broadcom Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
Compaq DVD-ROM/CD-ROM

Lappy:

HP Pavilion zd7020us
2.8ghz P4 northwood
512mb DDR-333
80gb Hitachi 7200rpm 8mb cache
Nvidia Fx5600Go 64mb
17" widescreen
Realtek 10/100 ethernet
Broadcom Wireless
Conexant AC'97 Audio
HL-DT-ST DVD-RW/CD-RW

[Topcat]

Originally Posted by Topcat

Mine:
Supermicro X5DAL-TG2 board (all Sanyo caps stock)
2x 3.0GHz Xeon CPU's (1mb L2)
2gb Corsair ECC RAM
ATi 9800 AIW (yeah, prolly time for an upgrade, but I use the TV tuner constantly)
Audigy2 sound
Adaptec 2100S SCSI RAID Controller
2x Fujitsu MAN-series 18gb, 10k, 8mb cache U320 HDD's (set in 36gb stripe, and hellishly faster than a SATA RAID. The OS and progs installed on...
2x Fujitsu MAN-series 73gb, 10k, 8mb cache U320 HDD's. (mirrored for other stuff.)
NEC 12x DVDRW
Plextor 48x CDRW
Pioneer Slot-load DVDROM
LS120 (Yeah, I know... older than Jesus himself, but hey...)
Zip-250 (doesnt even work, just too lasy to pull it out of the case)
Case: Lian Li solid steel server tower... A few years old, but it would stop a .22 caliber round, I guarantee it, weighs 80lbs EMPTY.

Thats about it... I might throw a pic or two up...

Still running the same system today, except I got a new video card. It's an X1600 Pro 512mb, and it's probably close to 2 yrs old now.... I won't upgrade it till it breaks, it does everything I need with power to spare.

[Junk Parts]

Junk Parts has junk parts!
Dell Dimension 4550
Intel P4 2.4 "somekind of wood core"
512 megs 266 Dell Ram
ATI Radeon 7000 Video
Sony DRU-800-A DVD Burner
Gerneric 12x DVD Burner
40 gig WD HD 7200 RPM IDE

Dell Optiplex GX 180??? Don't remember
Intel PIII 1Ghz
512 megs mixed Junk Ram
ATI Radeon All In Wonder 7200 seriers???? don't remember
2 Generic 12X DVD burners
80 gig WD HD 7200 RPM IDE

Lappy
Dell Latitude C640
Intel P4 M 1.8Ghz
512 megs Dell Ram ??? speed
30 gig HD speed unknown????
ATI 7000 Video ???
1.44 meg Floppy
One Busted CD-RW/DVD-ROM
Meghertz 56k Cellular Modem
One dead Li-Ion Battery
One dead Backup battery

Yes Sir we use Xp Home on all our Junk Parts!