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.

(This post was last modified: 05/05/2007 11:43 PM by Assassinator.)

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.

(This post was last modified: 26/04/2007 05:29 PM by Assassinator.)