| PC's, I currently have 7 | ||
| Games machine: Dual booting XP Pro and Vista Home Premium | ||
| Athlon XP4200 X2 - clocked at 2.6GHz (up from 2.2GHz stock) - via a bit of FSB/HT/Multiplier tweeking (overclocking used to be so easy!) | ||
| ASUS A8N-E Motherboard (nForce4 Ultra Chipset Socket 939) | ||
| 2Gig DDR (2x 1G Crucial PC3200) | ||
| Gigabyte GeForce 8800GTS (the orginal 640M model) into a Samsung SyncMaster 204BW 20" Widescreen TFT (DVI input) | ||
| 2x 250Gig Maxtor HD (SATA), Seagate 200 Gig HD, Pioneer DVR111 DVD-RW and Samsung DVD drive. | ||
| Creative Audigy 4 (into Creative 5.1 speaker system) - although I keep swapping between it and the onboard due to Vista!!!. | ||
| ZBoard and HABU Gaming Mouse | ||
| Housed in an Antec Sonata II Case | ||
| Main machine: | ||
| Athlon XP4200 X2 (Running Stock) | ||
| ASUS A8V-VM SE Motherboard (VIA K8M890 Chipset) | ||
| 2Gig DDR (2x 1G PC3200) | ||
| MSI GeForce 7800GT 256Meg into a pair of AG Neovo F-419 19" TFTs (DVI inputs) | ||
| 2x WD 320G Drives in Raid 1 (mirror), Pioneer DVR111 DVD-RW and Pioneer DVD106 drive. | ||
| Trust USB2 card and hub (For a few more front USBs!). | ||
| Onboard Realtek HD audio in a pair of 40W stereo speakers | ||
| All powered by a quiet OCZ 600 Watt Power Supply | ||
| Second machine: - used to lend out to people when they blow their own up! | ||
| Athlon XP2400+ (Thorton Core) | ||
| Asus A7V8X-X Motherboard (KT400) | ||
| 512 Meg DDR Crucial Memory (PC2100 2x 256M) | ||
| Gigabyte GeForce 6600GT into which ever monitor I plug it into! | ||
| Creative SBLive! | ||
| 120Gig Seagate Barracuda HD, Aopen 40xCD and Pioneer DVR107 DVD-RW | ||
| All housed in a dirt cheap ATX tower case (quiet 480W PSU) | ||
| Linux Machine: Hasn't been switched on for a while! | ||
| Dual Celeron 533 | ||
| Abit BP6 Motherboard (what else could it have been) | ||
| 384 Meg Crucial PC100/PC133 | ||
| Creative GeForce 256 32Meg | ||
| CMD PCI 649 RAID card (running in SW RAID 0 in linux) | ||
| Dual matched Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 30 Gig HDs and Creative CD | ||
| Linux development / P2P / small Server machine: | ||
| VIA Epia C3 800 | ||
| 512 Meg PC133 (2x 256M) | ||
| 120 Gig Seagate Barracuda and Slimline DVD | ||
| Logitec cordless KB and mouse | ||
| Plugged into KVM switch shared with BP6 box (along with cordless KB & M setup) going into the analogue input on the AG Neovo F-419 TFT | ||
| PVR machine: Running Windows XP MCE 2005 | ||
| Athlon XP3800 X2 | ||
| ASRock 939N68PV-GLAN Motherboard (nVidia 630/7050 Chipset) | ||
| 1G DDR Memory (2x 512M PC3200) | ||
| 320Gig WD SATA HD (very quiet), Pioneer DVR109 DVD-RW. | ||
| Belkin wireless 54g PCI Card (modified to fit in a half-height chassis). | ||
| GDI Black Gold digital DVB-T card (supplied with a half-height back panel - thank you!). | ||
| MS MCE Remote. | ||
| (no keyboard or mouse - using VNC to remote in to do "windows" specific things). | ||
| Housed in an Antec Minuet UK case (half height) With replacement 350 PSU | ||
| Compaq Evo N1015V laptop | ||
| XP1700+, 768 Meg DDR, 40 gig HD, DVD, 14.1" TFT | ||
| Belkin wireless 54g Card, for wandering around the house (+ onboard 10/100 lan). | ||
| Other bits and pieces... | ||
| 40 Gig 2.5" HD housed in USB drive case, used for portable storage | ||
| Various USB Flash drives (from 32M to 2G), yet more portable storage | ||
| Dell Axim X30i PDA (wi-fi, bluetooth, etc, 624MHz XScale processor) | ||
| 11g WAP box, so I can wander about with the laptop or PDA and still get to the net. | ||
| ADSL routing is being done by a Netgear DG814 router | ||
| What do I do with all this processing power: | ||
| Well.... I used to run various things like Seti and dnetc, but due to the fact the planet needs a little help, with people reducing their carbon footprints.. I now don't! (which is why I also run my machines with PowerNow/Cool n Quiet enabled, every little helps... it also keeps me from getting cooked!) | ||
| And of course do application development for work and for fun (see the Java applet links on the home page, plus the utils page) | ||
| Some now slightly out of date pictures | |
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