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Title: Post your "work" station
Post by: Haystack on February 15, 2005, 05:57:03 AM
Here is mine. Left is my main computer, 300mhz p2, 96 megs ram, new 20 gig hard drive,and surround sound, with "1000 watt power!"  :shakehead prolly really around 100 watts tops. and to the right, my littlest brothers computer, a 500mhz p2 ,32 megs of ram, 8x burner with a dvd player, tv card and a couple of others. It is sitting on top of a 16 port network hub with infared and t1/t3 cappabilities, bought for $5.
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: MasterBlaster on February 15, 2005, 07:21:25 AM
(http://www3.telus.net/neat/pics1/workstation.jpg)

IBM P166 hiding under the towels (gotta le the noise), 64 megs ram, 2gig + 540mb drives, cheap speakers behind the monitor that's sitting on my first (now dead) PC, a LEO 286.  Got my pens, got my TV remotes, got my camera "station" (dishtowel and serial cable on the right), USR Courier external modem (dumpster 33.6, flashed to 56k) on the left, some silly T-Bird/Cougar forum on the screen.

(http://www3.telus.net/neat/pics1/newbox.jpg)

Next system in testing stages, P233, 128mb, 6Gb, hooked to the IBM via 9-port 10base-T hub. Apart from memory, 100% dumpster parts.

(http://www3.telus.net/neat/pics1/spares.jpg)

A bunch of assorted size/shape cases, as I tend to flip-flop between desktop and tower preference. Good for scavenging parts and sheet metal for other projects. A couple of PII's in there too, just waiting for a complete ATX case to show up. Don't worry, I do toss one out now and then.

(http://www3.telus.net/neat/pics1/boards-modems.jpg)

A few extra boards, cause you just never know. Plus a couple more external modems.

(http://www3.telus.net/neat/pics1/drives.jpg)

Assorted spare drives, different sizes. I wonder what's on those laptoppers? Gotta get an adapter one of these days.

(http://www3.telus.net/neat/pics1/stuff.jpg)

More spare stuff. This is the front row, more boxes behind and elsewhere.
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: tbirdscott on February 15, 2005, 07:50:09 AM
Heres my POS sittin on the table in the middle of the house, works for me. Its usually more cluttered but the womens keep bugging me about it being messy and everyone knows its easier to clean it up then listen to them :rolleyes: my printer sits on a chair behind the table, and its hooked up to my stereo for sound 'cause i'm too cheap to buy a set of speakers.
2.7Ghz Celron, 40Gb Hd, 256Mb Ram, and i'm guessing 20-25 watts of pounding bass through the 'ole 8 track player :screwy:
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: Chuck W on February 15, 2005, 08:31:43 AM
Hrmmmm.... no pics of the PC, it's just not something I take pics of :p

- 1.6GHz P4
- 768 Meg RAM
- 100 Gb HD
- 64 Meg Video
- DVD ROM drive
- CD Burner drive
- 40W speaker system
- Cable modem
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: Blown306Cougar on February 15, 2005, 11:24:19 AM
Quote from: Chuck W
Hrmmmm.... no pics of the PC, it's just not something I take pics of :p

- 1.6GHz P4
- 768 Meg RAM
- 100 Gb HD
- 64 Meg Video
- DVD ROM drive
- CD Burner drive
- 40W speaker system
- Cable modem


:laughing::laughing:

thats allmost the same setup i have..

except for...
1.7 P4
AND i only have a 80 Gig hard drive

the only thing diffrent about my setup is the sound system

instead of 40Watts... :giggle:  :evilgrin:

i'm useing some of my stuff from my home theather system..

one of the two i have.. FA901 crest amplifier from my rack which is 225watts per CH in 8ohms
and the two peices of my center channel each enclosure has two 8's
one 4"mid and one mylar tweeter.. yes lol my center channel for my home theater uses those two enclosures... :evilgrin: which when put together equals 72" long... hell i might as well use some of this stuff instead of letting it just collect dust...
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: Chuck W on February 15, 2005, 12:07:16 PM
Well, I think mine is 40W...or maybe that's all I paid for it :wtf:

It might be closer to 80W.  All I know is I can't turn it up all the way because the sub will shake the windows in the room and vibrate things off the shelves :screwy:

I'll probably upgrade the motherboard/processor/RAM next winter...
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: phyxius on February 15, 2005, 12:09:42 PM
AMD Atholon XP 1900+ 1.6 ghz
legacy 5 CH sound card and 250w altec lansing 5.1 surround
64 meg geforce 4 MX420 video
40 gig HD
768 geg of ram
extreme 17" lcd flat screen
(http://members.tccoa.com/phyxius/Picture%20020.jpg)
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: slamedcat on February 15, 2005, 12:48:34 PM
AMD Athlon 64 processer
3.5 GHz overclocked to 4.0 GHz
2.0 GB of ram upgradable to 4.0 GB
128 meg video card
DVD\CD rom and burner
120 GB hard drive
17 in flat screen
for sound a set of headphones
And I am running a dial up modem :wtf:
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: Thunder Chicken on February 15, 2005, 02:01:31 PM
The desktop, bought in Dec 2004:
 
Dell Dimension 4700
P4 3.2 gHz @ 800FSB
1GB Dual channel DDR2 @ 400Mhz
80GB SATA HDD
16X daul layer DVD +/-RW
52X CD ROM
128MB Radion x300 PCI express video
17" flat screen monitor
Some py onboard sound thing hooked into my JVC home theatre system
 
The laptop, bought in Dec 2003:
Dell Inspiron 1100
P4 2.8 Ghz @ 800fsb
512MB RAM
60GB HDD
24X DVD/CD burner combo drive
15" screen @ 1024X768
Some py Intel graphics chip @ 64MB shared video
Some py sound chip playing through py laptop built-in speakers
 
Why Dell? Two simple words: Monthly payments :D
 
Both computers are wirelessly networked into a DSL connection, with a dialup account on the laptop as well for when I'm at the cottage. Both computers are running Windows XP SP2 (real, honest-to-goodness legal copies, at that!). No time for that linux stuff...
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: MDJ1281 on February 15, 2005, 04:51:47 PM
(http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/2/web/302000-302999/302839_64_full.jpg)

Desktop is an e-machines 1ghz intel celery processor with a few extras.

Laptop (not shown) I just got for x-mas '04 (thanks ma!) Toshiba Satellite p35-S609
http://www.compusa.com/overstock/product_info.asp?product_code=314536&pfp=OVERSTOCK
The laptops sound and screen are awesome, and it runs HL2 like it's nothing!
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: baxo on February 15, 2005, 04:59:09 PM
(http://www.baxo.ca/misc/desk.jpg)

(sorry for huge picture, i was lazy to resize)

This is from last year when I was away at college. the desk is designed by me.. welded together by my Dad. I can't remember the specs of the computer and the laptop that's pictured.
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: Haystack on February 15, 2005, 06:15:57 PM
Is that the linux matrix screen saver?
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: cougarman on February 15, 2005, 06:45:41 PM
Here's mine, Gateway500X. P4 2ghz, 80gb hard drive, 512mb ram, cd-rw, dvd with a 17" flat screen moniter. :grinno:
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: phyxius on February 15, 2005, 07:34:58 PM
nice laptop mike i just have a POS toshiba satellite 1710CDS that i picked up from a guy for 100$ with a dead battery for installing in my 85 XR-7
(http://members.tccoa.com/phyxius/Picture.jpg)
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: MDJ1281 on February 15, 2005, 08:58:23 PM
yeah, my laptop kicks a$$, only 2 issues I have with it so far.

1- its HUGE, only 1 Targus can fit it in because of the 17" wide screen monitor
2- Im used to large desktops, not compact keyboards and such

as soon as I get over these, desktop becomes a file w and laptop replaces all!
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: Haystack on February 15, 2005, 09:10:18 PM
phyxius if you need any help with that laptop install, pm me, I have been looking into doing simmilar things and have alot of info on it.
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: EricCoolCats on February 15, 2005, 09:18:28 PM
The main computer is an Apple G4/867Mhz, 1.12 GB RAM, 120 GB hard drive, Pioneer DVR-107 DVD drive. Laptop is a 15" Apple Powerbook G4/1.25Ghz with 512 MB RAM. Left monitor is a Planar PL201M 20" LCD; right monitor is a Radius Pro 19" CRT. Desk is a Z-Line III unit with frosted glass tops.

I also own a 12" Apple iBook G3/700 and my old tower, a G4/350Mhz in the basp00get for audio recording and encoding.
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: baxo on February 15, 2005, 10:27:43 PM
Quote from: Haystack
Is that the linux matrix screen saver?


you sure know your screen savers ;).. yep i ran gentoo (then later switched to Slackware) on that box and I used it as a webserver for baxo.ca at the time.. now that box is down and baxo.ca is run by an actual host.
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: CougarSE on February 16, 2005, 12:46:15 AM
I have a

Amd Athlon 2100+  (yawn)
512mb ram (yawn again)
cheesy geforce 4  (yet again)
Cd-rw dvd combo drive  (hmm)

Cheesy speakers....

Logitech keyboard and microshiznit mouse.

and for the big finish....

21" Flat screen Sony Trinitron!!!  HA  Take that!!!!
Hurts dont it!!

How bout 2048x1536!!!!  If i run that I can hardly see the mouse pointer!!!

Oh yeah I run FCKGW Windows,  Laugh reallllll hard if you know what I mean!!!!
And Mandrake 10!  Oh yeah!  It sucks!

Oh yeah,  160 Gigs on the storage side.. Not to shabby.
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: Haystack on February 16, 2005, 12:47:47 AM
Thats cool, I dont know alot about linux, I have suse, mandrake and knoppix. If you dont have knoppix you should really check it out. Its a bootablle linux os. you just pop it in any pc(not mac) and it will load right up.
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: CougarSE on February 16, 2005, 01:00:01 AM
Here is a Pic of my work station

(http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/1/web/781000-781999/781262_27_full.jpg)
Notice the high performance intake!! Worth atleast a 8-10 degree drop in cpu temp!!  Still cant overclock past 1880!

Lets see who gets the award for worst upkeep!!!


Here is a lights out pic....  Oooh  Aaaw  Isn't it pretty!

(http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/1/web/781000-781999/781262_28_full.jpg)
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: Thunder Chicken on February 16, 2005, 07:58:45 AM
Those are some reeeeeal purty red x's you've got there :slap:

You're still running FCKGW? You do know you can change that so you can get the service packs and upgrades, right?
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: CougarSE on February 16, 2005, 12:08:15 PM
(http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/1/web/781000-781999/781262_27.jpg)


(http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/1/web/781000-781999/781262_28.jpg)

do these work?

I would upgrade but I've never encounterd a problem with it, everybody tells me how buggy it is.  I was a pc repairman at a store in logan,  but they went under because of poor managment, I now just work for the customers that had been there.  I've tweeked the hell out of my xp system,  Memory tweeks, driver tweeks and registry tweeks, and it runs top notch,  hell I havn't formatted in like a year.  It used to be a monthly thing for me...
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: blu84302 on February 16, 2005, 12:52:44 PM
I have DSL... and a game called Tribes 2.  And my PC is an AMD 900.  But it gets the job done til XP crashes.
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: Thunder Chicken on February 16, 2005, 04:59:21 PM
I've never had a problem with FCKGW being buggy, the only problem I have had is trying to get updates. Seems FCKGW has been blacklisted by M$. If you go in and change the serial number (with any of the readily available SN generators) you can get your updates. Until I bought the Dells I was running FCKGW without the FCKGW serial #
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: CougarSE on February 16, 2005, 11:56:47 PM
Yea, it runs great for me,  I dont even run sp1 let alone sp2 the built in shiznit it gives you......  yeah I think I can do fine without it....  Just a thought....
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: Sancho on February 17, 2005, 02:34:22 PM
No pics of my system/desk
XP-M 2600@2.4
768 mb ram
64mb graphics
Cd-rom
Burner
ViewSonic G810 21" monitor
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: MexCougar on February 18, 2005, 02:41:43 AM
Mine:

 Acer PIII 800 mhz
 256 ram (hey, the memory here is very expensive...)
 CDRW 52x
 CDROM 48x
 40 gigs HD
 
  This computers is living extra hours.......

 I have another 4 computers, all have the same specs:

  Amd sempr0n 2200+
  128 ram
  cdrom 52x
  40 gigs Hd

 Only one of these pc´s has a radeon 9250 PCI 128 mb, because i bought it for the Acer but is incompatible............duh.......
Title: Re: Post your "work" station
Post by: capitlj on March 01, 2005, 02:53:52 AM
Here it is ringing cell and all GO BISON