User:Chris Beazell/Computers

No pictures yet, they might not ever happen, I dunno.

Note that, for a short period, my main computer (XT-8147) ran my IRC bot and my laptop (Test Patient) ran my main IRC client. My IRC nick is XT-8147 and my bot's nick is Test_Patient. So yes, they were backwards.

XT-8147 (my gaming computer)

 * Black PowMax Terminator case with side window, two red LED case fans, and front LED eyes display (which curiously enough consists of blue LEDs, I have plans to mod it with red ones)
 * Socket 939 Motherboard with lots of goodies
 * AMD 64 3200+
 * 2 GB DDR3200 RAM (motherboard supports 4 GB)
 * nVidia GeForce 6800 GT (PCI-express)
 * 2 front panel USB 2.0 ports
 * 4 motherboard USB 2.0 ports
 * PCI USB expansion card with 4 USB 2.0 ports
 * I think there's a 1394 port there somewhere
 * Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
 * Integrated 6 channel sound (of which I just use two channels and the mic jack for teamspeak)
 * Western Digital 20 GB hard drive (boot device) and 120 GB hard drive (extra storage)
 * Sony 48x read DVD±RW/CD-RW combo drive, writes dvds up to 16x, not that I can afford 16x media or could burn at that speed reliably
 * RedOctane 2 PlayStation/PlayStation 2 controller -> USB gamepad adapter (this thing rocks, I can use my PS2 controllers with any PC game that supports joypads)
 * 6-in-1 3.5" bay mounted memory card reader, kinda overkill for my purposes
 * Eventually, I'll have a couple of nice flat panel LCD monitors. Whenever I get around to buying them.
 * WinXP SP1, as fully patched as I can get

Test Patient (my laptop)
(I'm considering just getting a new laptop to become test patient and putting this one into our pile of old laptops with no use)
 * Dell Latitude C600
 * Intel P3 750 MHz
 * 256 MB PC100 RAM (yeah, it's PC100... that's the fastest it'll take)
 * 6 GB hard drive (need to get a bigger HD)
 * 8x CD-RW drive (need to get a dvd drive, doesn't necessarily need to be able to burn discs)
 * Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)

Invincimonk (my soon-to-be server/media center/video capture computer)

 * Intel P3 866 MHz
 * 512 MB PC133 RAM
 * ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder (I forget the number, I got the card from a friend)
 * 3Com 10/100 PCI Ethernet adapter
 * Some crappy sound board that tries and fails to do legacy ISA emulation
 * I just need a hard drive, then I can set it up :(
 * Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)

Old-Timer (my not-so-soon-to-be old games computer)

 * find an old motherboard with an ISA slot and an AGP slot (quite the task, though maybe I could do a swap for the one in Invincimonk which fits this criterium)
 * find an old Pentium 200 MHz processor
 * find a classic Sound Blaster 16 (let's face it, the thing owned)
 * toss in a 3Com 10/100 PCI Ethernet adapter from our pile of them
 * maybe a usb 2.0 pci card for good measure
 * find a hard drive (can you even find ones below 80 gigs these days?)
 * Win98 SE baby

my nonexistant mac
Basically I just want a mac so I can play around with OS X. Guess I should get one soon before they run out of PPC macs so I don't have to support Intel.