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Post by johnnybee on Jun 17, 2011 21:09:08 GMT
Hello again folks, it's jolly ol' JB from leafy Solihull come back to haunt you all!!
I've had a quick butchers round the site to see if there's a section for members' hardware descriptions, but sadly I don't see one just yet; in the MSN groups days there was such a facility that made it easier to diagnose problems as and when they arose - perhaps it would be an idea to resurrect on PB?
Any ole how, I've got four rigs on the go currently; an HTPC with an A64/4200 and 2G of RAM, work PC with an A64x2 7750 & 4G RAM and Angie's PC with a 4450e x2 and 2G of RAM. The fourth is my home server, a double dualcore Opteron rig with 2x Opty 275's and 8G of PC3200R ECC RAM on a Tyan Thunder board.
So what's everyone else using?
ATB,
JB.
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Post by mikkh on Jun 18, 2011 7:39:13 GMT
Various outdated ones at the moment having sold all my better ones, but I have treated myself to an Asrock 770 Extreme 3 motherboard recently which was the perfect home for the 4 GB of DDR3 I bought a while ago - just need an AM3 CPU now Currently using an oldish server setup (Asus NCCH-DL dual processor board and 2 x Xeon 2.8 CPU's) For a few more days anyway as it's currently on Ebay hopefully to fully or partly finance the AM3 CPU I need. {hint - go and bid on it now :-p it must be the only NCCH-DL motherboard on there} The PC in my daughters room is an old AMD 64 3.4 single core with 2 GB of RAM and I foolishly attached a surround sound speaker set to it - which is fun when she comes to visit! My lounge houses half a dozen various oldies from a Pentium 3 700 up to an AMD Athlon 2800 and the P3 rarely gets used apart from testing 'lite' Linux distros to see if they perform as expected on old hardware - most don't especially on low RAM hardware. I've never owned a laptop, or used one I consider fast for it's stated CPU/RAM - they really are rubbish compared to desktops IMO Oh, and welcome back JB  |
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Post by Lynnrose on Jun 18, 2011 12:48:15 GMT
My desktop runs on XP
Over the years has had new 'inards' put in.
Still using my old 'TIME' tower
Now using my daughters flat screen monitor as she uses a laptop now.
14.8 GB used space
79.1 GB free space
Got a floppy drive, which actually came in handy when I found a load of old stuff that I had backed-up onto floppies, so was able to upload tons of pics that I didn't realize I still had.
That's about all I can tell you.
It does the job, but now struggles with programmes like Photoimpact 7 which I have used for years and never had a problem before.
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Post by merchant42 on Jun 21, 2011 20:25:49 GMT
This is me !
Operating System
MS Windows 7 32-bit SP1 (Pro)
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.20GHz 31 °C
Conroe 65nm Technology
RAM
1.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz (5-5-5-13)
Motherboard
ELITEGROUP 945GCT-M3 (Socket 775)
Graphics
XA7-192i @ 1280x1024
Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family
Hard Drives
488GB Matrox STM3500418AS ATA Device (SATA) 35 °C
Optical Drives
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110D ATA Device
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H652D ATA Device
All for £140 apart for it was running Win 7 Ultimate ( put on Pro) despite only having a Gig of Ram for what I need it to do thats plenty, never had a problem with it ! (fingers crossed !)
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Post by mikkh on Jun 22, 2011 1:10:13 GMT
You need 2 GB of RAM really - you *will* notice the difference, trust me
Especially as you don't appear to have a real graphics card, so you haven't even got 1 GB of RAM because some will be 'borrowed' for the graphics
Stick a cheap £25-£30 graphics card in it, get the extra GB of RAM and it will fly compared to what it's doing now. It will literally double in speed
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Post by merchant42 on Jun 22, 2011 10:07:37 GMT
No doubt it would Mikkh, and if I had the funds that is what I would do !!!
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Post by johnnybee on Jun 22, 2011 15:34:52 GMT
Hehe!
Thanks Mikk, it's good to be back, believe me!
Small query for Merchant here; how come your DDR2 is only running at 333MHz - surely that's gonna be a big bottleneck on the system, even if it is dual-channel?
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Post by merchant42 on Jun 23, 2011 16:21:31 GMT
^^^
No idea I am not that tech savvy, but it works and that is good enough for me !!
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Post by Pete on Jun 24, 2011 10:23:51 GMT
You can use a memory stick as additional ram on your win7 os, apparently? That may help.
Pete.
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Post by Pete on Jun 24, 2011 10:35:52 GMT
I am using MS Windows7 Home Premium 64bit
Intel core2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz,
3.0GB RAM,
NVIDIA GeForce 7100/...
Pete
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Post by mikkh on Jun 25, 2011 18:31:17 GMT
It's called 'readyboost' and it checks any flash/usb drive you insert to see if it's good (fast) enough to use as Pete suggested.
The problem is it's very fussy about what it deems good enough and I haven't found one yet, so I just disable the 'readyboost' service, as should everyone who has enough RAM already
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Post by johnnybee on Jun 28, 2011 13:31:27 GMT
Just bought another rig from a car boot; nothing grand, just a Sempron 2400 with 256M(!!) RAM, 40Gb HDD on an Asrock K7S41 'board, running XP SP2.
Blagged the PC, KB/mouse, deskjet 6100 and CRT monitor for £20, so well happy with that!
I've since added another 512 RAM and installed a Radeon X800 AGP GFX card, which has made a tremendous difference to the speed; taking off two extra accounts and a whole rake of old files and unused applications has made it even better still - amazing how much rubbish you get on PC's these days!
That will now go in the local paper for £80-90 or so - can't be bad for a few hours tidying up!
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Post by Lynnrose on Jun 28, 2011 14:55:07 GMT
Well done, looks like a good money-making hobby you have there.
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