08-15-2003, 04:48 PM | #1 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Orange County, CA
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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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08-15-2003, 05:46 PM | #4 (permalink) |
In Your Dreams
Location: City of Lights
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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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08-15-2003, 06:32 PM | #6 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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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).
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08-15-2003, 08:31 PM | #8 (permalink) |
The GrandDaddy of them all!
Location: Austin, TX
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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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08-15-2003, 10:16 PM | #11 (permalink) |
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Location: right here of course
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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 |
08-15-2003, 11:49 PM | #12 (permalink) |
We can't stop here! This is bat country!
Location: SL,UT
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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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08-16-2003, 02:05 AM | #13 (permalink) |
Psycho
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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. |
08-16-2003, 03:42 AM | #14 (permalink) |
Tilted
Location: England Home of RWC Champions
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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. |
08-16-2003, 04:03 AM | #15 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: North America
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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 |
08-16-2003, 06:27 AM | #16 (permalink) |
Rookie
Location: Oxford, UK
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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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08-16-2003, 11:10 AM | #19 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: Bay Area
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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. |
08-16-2003, 04:59 PM | #22 (permalink) |
Upright
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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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08-16-2003, 06:10 PM | #23 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: In a house
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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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08-17-2003, 12:41 AM | #26 (permalink) |
Addict
Location: Milwaukee, WI
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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 |
08-17-2003, 02:42 AM | #28 (permalink) | |
Blood + Fire
Location: New Zealand
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08-17-2003, 09:09 AM | #29 (permalink) |
Junkie
Location: San Diego
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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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08-17-2003, 09:19 AM | #30 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Belgium
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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. Last edited by titsmurf; 08-17-2003 at 09:23 AM.. |
08-17-2003, 09:30 AM | #31 (permalink) | |
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Location: Milwaukee, WI
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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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08-17-2003, 05:47 PM | #33 (permalink) |
salmon?
Location: Outside Providence
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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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08-18-2003, 08:23 AM | #35 (permalink) | ||
I demand a better future
Location: Great White North
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08-19-2003, 07:25 PM | #36 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: Michigan
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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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08-19-2003, 10:34 PM | #38 (permalink) |
Upright
Location: Northwest (the dry desert part)
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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! |
08-20-2003, 09:49 AM | #39 (permalink) | |
Psycho
Location: Anywhere but here
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08-20-2003, 11:09 AM | #40 (permalink) |
Computer Nerd
Location: Bishop, TX
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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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