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Old 08-15-2003, 04:48 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Location: Orange County, CA
Who's got the crappiest system here?

Hey, just wanna see if anyone can top my monster of a computer.

Right now I am running a...

Athlon 750
384 mb of ram
20 gig HD
GeForce 2 MX
SoundBlaster Live!
17' monitor

I'm in dire need of an upgrade, but I'm just a poor college student trying to get by.
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Old 08-15-2003, 05:22 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Location: Auckland
omg you call that crappy, Im in envy,
P3 600
64 Mg ram
8gig HDD
14" monitor
sound blaster 64
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Old 08-15-2003, 05:23 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Location: Canada
P3 450mhz
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Old 08-15-2003, 05:46 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Location: City of Lights
Not me.. but the girl I live with has a Laptop (read: Size of a bloody dictionary) that's a pentium 90 or something like that. Another guy I live with brought his computer here (res) from home. It's in an old 386 case (with the Turbo button, speed display, and all). I can't wait till he starts it up hehe.
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Old 08-15-2003, 06:04 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Location: The Woodlands, TX
gateway 486... 14 inch monitor... gotta hit it on the side when the monitor starts to go black....







ok its not my primary computer... but i do have it...
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Old 08-15-2003, 06:32 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
My In-Laws are in the process of upgrading their trusty 286 with Windows 3.1 to a P4/3G beast.
They're stalling on whether to get a 17"LCD or 19"CRT (go figure - at least they're upgrading).
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Old 08-15-2003, 07:22 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Location: Deep South Texas
running an old Dell P2 V350 with 8 gig hard drive, and
windows 98SE....got a love it.
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Old 08-15-2003, 08:31 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Location: Austin, TX
this is not my primary pc, but i do have this.

athlon k6-2 500mhz!

it was crappy, but i made it a lil bit more respectable.

184mb ram.
radeon 7000
30 gb hd.
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Old 08-15-2003, 08:41 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Location: Kansas
P3 450
256 MB RAM
20 GB HDD
Sound Blaster Live
GeForce3

I also have Pentium 166 that I use as a file server and a 486DX/33 that isn't hooked up.
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Old 08-15-2003, 09:23 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Celeron 500
128 sdram
8 gig hard drive
Integrated sound card (or whatever)
GF2
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Old 08-15-2003, 10:16 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Location: right here of course
my "slowest" here is a mostly OEM (changed the video card/HD/soundcard/added NIC) Gateway PIII 650 with 320 MB of RAM that is my primary server. Used to run win2k server with active active directory and DNS until I moved and had to make some changes for my present DSL setup.

the other three systems have a mean speed of 1.5 GHZ or thereabouts
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Old 08-15-2003, 11:49 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Location: SL,UT
of course my main machine is fast.
AMD 2.0

next in line is my previous comp
PIII 800

and just a step below is my server
PIII 733, (but what i lacks in speed it makes up in HD's... Carries 12 right now)

Next would be the
celeron 500

and now i'll skip a few and go to the slowest i own.
Radio Shack TSR-80
if u can categorize it with the computers above??
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Old 08-16-2003, 02:05 AM   #13 (permalink)
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I suppose that would be me. I hate bran, love jalepenos., My systen is regular. I might scream while being "regular", but, gotta love those chiles.

Oh, you were talking 'puters! Crappiest one? The Gigabite bitch I built. The same customer service ASUS offers. Non existent. ASUS sucks and seems to be competing with Gigabite as far as customer service.

They both suck.
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Old 08-16-2003, 03:42 AM   #14 (permalink)
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I have a RM Nimbus 286 with 2mb of RAM and a 20MB Hard disk. Oh also have a 14" VGA (Not SVGA) monitor. Still in use occasionally when I need to run a very old programme.

Also have a celeron 400 which is pants as well.
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Old 08-16-2003, 04:03 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Location: North America
Worst puter that I still own is IBM Aptiva

Pentium 166 Mhz
16MB RAM
1.6 gig HD
1MB Video RAM upgradable to a whopping 2!
6X CD-ROM
28.8Kbps Modem, software upgradable to 33.6Kbps

Makes for a nice heavy paper weight right about now. Tried upgrading just a tad but system refuses to allow itself to be upgraded. Compatiable with virtually nothing I say
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Old 08-16-2003, 06:27 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Location: Oxford, UK
I use a celeron 333Mhz with 160Mb, 40Gb HD - it's actually not bad - even runs Office XP without too much trouble!
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Old 08-16-2003, 06:43 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Location: Within GMT+10
I have a sunpc "accelerator" in my sparcstation 20. The sparc part kicks major arse for something with 2x60MHz processors, but the sunpc (486DX 25) is slower than slow.
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Old 08-16-2003, 08:03 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Location: ask your mom
i don't use it anymore, but i've got a Texas Instruments laptop running a P-75Mhz, maxed out at 40MB RAM, running Win 95. the thing weighs a ton. no USB, no ethernet, nothing useful.
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Old 08-16-2003, 11:10 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Location: Bay Area
My dad said he just tossed out all my old computer stuff that was cluttering up the house, but I think he said he kept my AMD 486DX/100 for some reason.

I was pissed he ditched the old <a href ="http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html">Compaq Portable</a> and my 386DX/33.

When I was last home during Christmas, I put together a fraken-puter with all the "best" parts from all my computers that I was going to bring out here, but he tossed that too. It was a mish-mash of parts from 1980's to 1990s. I think I put my 80meg Maxtor HD in there for just for kicks.
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Old 08-16-2003, 11:13 AM   #20 (permalink)
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I'm on a celeron. I think that says enough.
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Old 08-16-2003, 03:35 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Location: souf carolina
current machine:
2100xp

2nd in line:
1.2 tbird

3rd (missing case and HD)
450 mhz k6-2
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Old 08-16-2003, 04:59 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Sinclair ZX-81. 300 bps modem. 8-inch b&w composite display (aka a little TV). A hard wooden stool.

And one hell of an attitude.
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Old 08-16-2003, 06:10 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Location: In a house
Main -- abit - barton 3000 - 1024mb ddr - fx 5900u
Second -- abit - 1.33 thunderbird - 1024mb sdr - ti 4200
third -- asus - 733 p3 - 512mb sdr - ti 4200
fourth -- Have no clue - k6 266 - 16mb ram - onboard 8mb gfx

My fourth was my second computer. The first was a compaq something or other.
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Old 08-16-2003, 06:20 PM   #24 (permalink)
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My primary computer that I use to write this post.

PIII 450
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Old 08-16-2003, 06:22 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Dealing with a 300bps modem has to suck. But, a hard wooden stool? Stop eating all that cheese.
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Old 08-17-2003, 12:41 AM   #26 (permalink)
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Location: Milwaukee, WI
OK, from best to last:

P3 550
256M ram
32M Geforce256
bunch of random HD's from 4 to 35 gig
MB is an old Abit with 4 IDE controllers

Celeron 500
256M ram
crappy onboard video
8G HD (Wife's machine)

K6-III 450
256M ram
16M TNT video
20G HD

Toshiba P166 Laptop
64M ram
2G HD (posting from this one)

Dell P150 Laptop
80M ram
1.5G HD

All PC's and latops are used every day, the laptops are used for sitting on the couch browsing and chatting and stuff. All machines except the wifes celeron are running Linux
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Old 08-17-2003, 02:17 AM   #27 (permalink)
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This thread is depressing to me. I'm usually not a compassionate guy, but I really feel bad for some you.
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Old 08-17-2003, 02:42 AM   #28 (permalink)
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This thread is depressing to me. I'm usually not a compassionate guy, but I really feel bad for some you.
I know what you mean, I found myself subconciously tying a noose power cables reading some of the posts above.
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Old 08-17-2003, 09:09 AM   #29 (permalink)
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Location: San Diego
The worst PC I have is a Gateway 2000 (when they still had the 2000)
p1 - 120 mhz
1 gb hard drive
32 mbs RAM
4x cd-rom
14k modem
ethernet card (added on)

I haven't turned the thing on in 4 months, I like to think of it as a really expensive paper weight.
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Old 08-17-2003, 09:19 AM   #30 (permalink)
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Location: Belgium
What you guys call a crap pc is nirvana to me.

This is my best pc:

Pentium II 300
64MB Ram
S3 video card (1M memory)
4.2 GB Hard Disk
Aztec Sound Galaxy 16bit card. It has DirectSound issues.

My other pc is a Pentium 1, 166MHz with 16MB Ram and a 1GB Hard drive. No sound card, and a 1MB Graphics card.

Both of them run on windows 95, the first (and mostly unsupported) version. This thing has bugs you cannot patch.

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Old 08-17-2003, 09:30 AM   #31 (permalink)
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This thread is depressing to me. I'm usually not a compassionate guy, but I really feel bad for some you.
Well, when I built my top machine, it was the absolute best money could buy. Of course, that was almost 4 years ago now.

It's amazing how getting a girlfriend, losing your job, getting married, and having a baby affect your ability to upgrade a computer. I'm planning on a new one though, there are just too many good games comming out in the next year to wait.
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Old 08-17-2003, 01:57 PM   #32 (permalink)
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my grandparents have a commmador 64 ) runs off a normal TV and uses those big floopy disks....
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Old 08-17-2003, 05:47 PM   #33 (permalink)
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Location: Outside Providence
Intel® Celeron™ 633 MHz (w/128KB L2 Cache) PPGA CPU
64MB SyncDRAM (up to 256 MB)
1 Serial / 1 Parallel / 3 Expansion Slot
Intel Direct 3D 2X AGP (shared memory)
Intel 82801 AC '97 PCI Audio
12x Max. DVD-ROM Drive with Software Decoder
20GB HDD (Ultra DMA EIDE)

Emachines etower 633id
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Old 08-18-2003, 08:19 AM   #34 (permalink)
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My mother uses this on a regular basis:

Pentium I 133Mhz
32mb pc100
S3 video card 4mb memory
600mb hdd or 1.3gb (I forget)
ethernet card
old Creative Soundblaster card

We're hoping the 802.11b wireless pci card is going to work on her computer.
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Old 08-18-2003, 08:23 AM   #35 (permalink)
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We're hoping the 802.11b wireless pci card is going to work on her computer.
Depends on the OS she's using I would say. That hardware is old... does the mobo have a PCI slot?
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Old 08-19-2003, 07:25 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Location: Michigan
From best to worst:

#1) Athlon 2100 Laptop, 512mb ram, 60gig hd, wireless nic, cdrw, 64 meg video (I love this machine, I'm typing on it now.

#2) Athlon Tbird 1400, 384mb ram, 20gig hd, dvd+r, gforce 420mx

#2.5) Duron 1000 Laptop, 256mb ram, 20gig hd, wireless nic

#3) (Win2k Server) Duron 1200, 256mb ram, 20gig hd

#4) (Linux Server) Duron 850, 256mb ram, 40gig hd

#5) p3 600, 256mb ram, 14gig hd

#6-?) Parts and old boxes I don't even remember what all is there
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Old 08-19-2003, 08:35 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Not running this right now because it recently had BSOD but
p 90
16 mb of ram (upgraded from 8)
have no idea about the hdd
Windows 95

Best I could remeber of the poor thing.
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Old 08-19-2003, 10:34 PM   #38 (permalink)
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Location: Northwest (the dry desert part)
Although I don't, and haven't for years, used this computer. I still have it; the first computer i'd ever layed hands on.

286 Laptop (Backlit screen)
2 3 1/2 floppy drives
No hard drive
512k ram
About the size of a typewriter.
Thats about it.

It was a computer my dad got for work. We used to play Space Quest 2 on it when I was 6. Although i'm sure others have seen and used much older, it is about the oldest machine i've ever used.

My grandpa worked with computers since the early 60's and we always hear stories about the first hard drive-like devices that were pretty much a 6 foot tall rack with 6 big magnetic platters on it. An arm would pick up one of the platters, move it to the reader, read it, then put it back. Suprisingly they had about 180ms access time to them! No telling how much those went for back then, but hey, it beats using punch cards for storage!
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Old 08-20-2003, 09:49 AM   #39 (permalink)
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Location: Anywhere but here
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My In-Laws are in the process of upgrading their trusty 286 with Windows 3.1 to a P4/3G beast.
They're stalling on whether to get a 17"LCD or 19"CRT (go figure - at least they're upgrading).
LOL...what a piece of shit! Does any software run on that thing? Is there even a browser that works with 3.1???
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Old 08-20-2003, 11:09 AM   #40 (permalink)
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Location: Bishop, TX
from best to worst

AMD xp2200+ running xp pro
40gb hdd
512 MB PC2700
DVD Drive
48x cd burner
17 inch AOC LCD

AMD xp2000+ running xp pro
768MB PC2100
40gb hdd
30gb hdd
20 x cd burner
17 inch KDS X-flat

AMD Tbird 1.4Ghz running xp pro
768MB SDRAM
40GB hdd
20GB hdd
48x burner
17 inch KDS xflat

AMD TBird 1.0 Ghz running win2k
256mb SDRAM
40GB hdd
4x burner
17 inch KDS visual sensations

AMD Tbird 1.0 Ghz running Win98se
256 MB SDRAM
40GB hdd
250MB zip
17 inch CTX

Dell Intel P3 450 running redhat 9.0
6gb hdd
256MB SDRAM
15 inch Compaq MV520

Packard Bell Pentium 120 running ClarKConnect Linux as a firewall
64MB EDO ram
1.0 GB hdd
webmin utility installed, so no monitor needed

all networked using a 16 port hawking autosensing switch and running off of a swbell DSL line

I need to invest some of this money instead of blowing it all on computers......lol

oh, i forgot the 2 laptops

700Mhz compaq
256MB Ram
20GB hdd

233Mhz WinBook
256MB Ram
20GB hdd
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