Endless Paradigm

Budget Machine, i got the whole thing for about $600 a few (~3) years back, about the same time Zinga Burga got his, but this doesn't come close.

The $600 included everything except the monitor, Kingston RAM, 250gb HDD, speakers, keyboard, mouse and WinXp.

The specs

>>AMD Sempron 2800+
>>Foxconn Winfast Motherboard. forgot the model, and couldn't be bothered checking right now. What i can say is it's pretty old and poo poo, doesn't support PCI-E, doesn't support S-ATA, doesn't support DDR2 RAM.
>>500mb Legend DDR400 RAM
>>1gb Kingston DDR400 RAM, but my mobo is spoon, and doesn't support it, so it's lying around being useless :( EDIT: Got it to work. It wasn't the motherboard that was being spoon, it was Windows. ^.^
>>Maxtor 80gb IDE HDD at 7200rpm
>>New Samsung 250gb IDE HDD, 7200rpm (my mobo is too old to support S-ATA)
>>SiS 760rev0 Integrated Graphics (...stop laughing )
>>Realtek AC97 integrated audio.
>>Some pretty generic black P4 case.
>> Pioneer DVR-110D DVD-RW Drive
>>Some old sony CD drive the school gave to me for free
>>FDD (forgot the brand. never really use it anyways nowadays)
>>Old 15inch Fujitsu CRT Monitor... replaced a few days ago with...
>>New 19inch LG L194WT Widescreen LCD monitor, being replaced by...
>>New 20inch non-widescreen LCD monitor (Comming in 2 days from Melbourne, I'm trading my widescreen for my brother's monitor cause my integrated gpu is too poo poo to support widescreen)
>>480W Power supply
>>generic keyboard
>>Razer Diamondback infrared gaming mouse (got it for free!!! lent some RICH chinese exchange student some money, and he gave me this as a gift, cause he has like pretty much every $50+ mouse out there. His dad owns a casino :mdr:)
>>Dialup modem (forgot brand)
>>Integrated LAN
>>KTX Stereo speakers (really old, at least 10yrs)
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>>Microsoft Windows XP Professional (build 2600)


what's really funny is my mouse, one of the less important parts, is worth almost twice as much as my cpu, the most important. ;|

I have another old laptop which i don't really use anymore. It's a Toshiba satellite.

>>666mhz Celeron cpu
>>broken cd drive which i screwed up.
>>192mb RAM
>>ATI Rage Mobility gpu, with 4mb videoram.
>>spu (Crystal Sound Fusion, i think it is)
>>10gb HDD
>>FDD
>>poo poo battery that dies in 10 minutes.
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>>Win XP (maybe i should downgrade, to get it to run faster)
>>Red Hat Linux (VERY old version, on a separate partition, that my dad put on back then when i didn't know what a cpu was.)

And some large amount of very old comps somewhere in the garage... 186, 486, AMDK6, which all still actually work.


sometime, I'm going to get a complete new comp, not bothering to upgrade, because my current one is very un-upgrade friendly. cpu is of the old 939 pin socket, motherboard doesn't support any of the new standards...

I'm looking at something like a core2 duo, geforce8600, new mobo, 1.5gb ram, some new speakers maybe, 1 or 2 years down. I'm too slack to work, and pretty much run on uni scholarship + my parents covering all general expenses. So yeah, i have to probably get a job or something to be able to buy it. Really don't really like working.

Windows Vista Home Premium
Compaq Presaro
1.6GHz, 1mb L2 cache, 533MHz FSB)
512MB system memory, 80GB hard drive,
24X DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo deive
500 GB External hard drive

That's my laptop

Lets see here wee go

Asus A8N-E Motherboard (PCIe x16, x4, x1, Socket 939, 4x DC DDR, 4x S-ATA2 RAID, ATX)
AMD Athlon64 3000+ Venice 90nm Socket 939 @ 1800mhz
2x WD2500YS S-ATA2 Enterprise-level harddisk @ RAID0
1x WD2500JD S-ATA harddisk @ JBOD
Cooler Master Realpower 450 silent PSU
2x Kingston 512MB DDR400 RAM
NEC DVD-RW (16x etc etc lightscribe)
Zalman CNPS-7000-AlCu Cooling cannon for CPU
UV CCFL, UV Blue reactive wiring
2x UV Blue Casefans

Oh and my great graphics card
Sapphire Radeon X300SE

Ill explain that: i just upgraded the motherboard from AGP to PCI-e and i bought the cheapest second hand graphics card i could find just so I saw something, there will be a 8 or 9 series Geforce in there soon enough.

Lemme see if i can find any recent pics...

oh well ill take one sooner or later

Peripherals:

LG L204WT Widescreen 20" 2000:1 contrast TFT , black
Logitech MX700 RF Optical mouse
Logitech Elite Black keyboard
Lexmark X2350 All in one (and Canon Pixma iP4000 downstairs) « was a bargain
Asus GigaX1105 1gbps 5-port switch
External 160GB USB2.0 and LAN drive


Hm that sorta sums it up, at least that's the current setup. It changes at least 4 times a year :P ill take a few pics some time. you should see the mess of computer stuff i have lying around even after i threw 2/3rds of it away when wee moved in november...

Ahh, spoon i just realized, i got the pricing wrong in my previous post. $600 was my brothers comp. Mine's actually $425 (Australian dollars). Our comps are pretty much the same, that's why i got mixed up. The main difference is that he has better parts, like a P4 cpu, compared to my crappy sempron. And a month ago, he upgraded, so now I'm way behind him.


And, nice comps guys.

heheh yeah i always wanted to surpass my dad but now he has an iMac 20" so the screen is the same, ram is same, i have more harddisk, his proc is better aarg and not to mention his is just 7cm thick or somet including screen, and runs OSX :( ah well i guess ill have to wait for my macbook pro :P

lol my pc fails

got it pretty cheap...about 300 NZD

P4 2.40 GHZ
512 MB ram
40 gig hdd
yeah.....

you don't watch anime right (40gb :P )

usif Wrote:lol my pc fails

got it pretty cheap...about 300 NZD

P4 2.40 GHZ
512 MB ram
40 gig hdd
yeah.....

Ouch.. I don't know how I could survive. Atm I'm running on 660GB of HDD space (160 internal, 600 external). I just bought the external and I'm nearly half way through it. Oh the humanity!

haha im on 750gb and im almost finished too, no wait i have another 160gb external which is already full too. dang

well, a few weeks ago, i was only running on 80gb, and i do video editing/encoding and all that poo poo on it. (got additional new 250gb now)

I survive by burning down whatever that i don't need to access for a long time = movies, roms, isos, anime & other tv series... onto dvds. Cause generally it's that kind of stuff that takes a lot of space.

BUT yes, it's very inconvenient, and that's why i got new HDD.
Actually, 3.5 years ago, when i didn't have the comp i have now, i was basically running on a 10gb HDD where about 8.5 of that gigabytes where used up by my dad and windows, and i didn't have a working cd/dvd burner, so my available free space was pretty much permanently on something like 50mb, and that was REAL PAIN.