Sijun Forums :: View topic - How big is your errrrrr.....computer set up?

Vgta · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 10:09 am

PII 400
192mb
4.2Gig HD
GeForce 2
32x cd rom
8x4x32 CD-R
USB Zip Drive
Scanjet Scanner
21" Sony monitor about 7 years old but it works.
and okay laugh at me now an inexpensive 8x4 drawing tablet that I found at CompUSA for about 70 bucks after a mail in rebate (named Pablo,lol). Couldn't afford the Wacom at the time, and hey it works pretty good for the time being.

artboy · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 2:06 pm

Here's my out-dated system, but still good for what I use it for:

Dual PII 350MHz CPUs
Supermicro P6DBU mobo
256MB RAM
9.1 U2W SCSI HDD
32x SCSI CD-Rom
IDE 6x4x32 CD-RW (It was only $55!)
3D Labs Oxygen 202 16MB SDRAM
1 GB SCSI Jaz drive
19" Hitachi SuperScan
Artec Scanner
Canon BJC5100 Inkjet Printer

What's a Mac? j/k Actually, the ratio of 3D and graphics apps ported to PC vs. Mac is embarrasing. I'm majoring in computer animation and we have ONE Mac lab. The rest of the computer labs are NT boxes. I don't "hate" Macs, I just never need to use one. But I gotta say, the new G4 Powerbooks are sa-weeet!

-Artboy

Briareos · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 2:22 pm

ummmmmm

1.1ghz T-Bird
Abit KT7-A-Raid Mobo
324mb RAM
Geforce2 MX
SCSI Ultra2
Pioneer DVD
20GB drive
5x6 Wacom
19" Hitachi
17" MAG
(dual monitors)

Damn I need to upgrade.... being a starving student/artist sux.

Plouffe · member Member # Joined: 17 Nov 2000 Posts: 225

this is my 4 year old machine hehe havent been upgrade even once ever since =)...

@home
amd k6 355 mhz
128mb sdram
17 inch monitor
60 gig hardrive
cdrw 4x 4x 24x ( i think)
dvd rom not sure how fast but plays the movie withouth flaw =) soo who needs a faster one =).

ati all in wonder 8mb
sound card is built in the mother board which play just great.
Intuos 6x8 usb
cordless mouse and keyboard

i think thats about it.. no need for me to upgrade for an other year though.. hehe im happy with what i got... Maybe ill get a better cpu if i can afford it and all because college is going to cost me A shit load lol

[Lifter] · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 5:07 pm

Tbird 1000axia
512 Ram
40 Gig 7200rpm HDD
Sony 12x8x32 CD-RW
Wacom Intuos
Geforce2 GTS 64DDR MB
17" Monitor

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Justin Kramer · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 6:15 pm

Athlon 500 overclocked to 800
256MB RAM
30 or so gigs of HD
Wacom 6x8
SGI 1600SW monitor (cost more than the rest of my setup combined, but my eyes are happy)
GeForce 256 DDR
Sound Blaster Live Value
HP CD-RW, Asus DVD-ROM
Epson something-or-other scanner
Windows 2000

Other than RAM and video card, I'll probably stick with this setup for a long while yet.

[ July 17, 2001: Message edited by: Justin Kramer ]

Collosimo · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 6:45 pm

I have:

SuperDRIVE INFINITY 40,000 ghz mainframe super l@@t haXor GOD MACHINE. (thats right I control you all!)

Liquid nitrogen cooling system (in layman's terms, its an esky with ice in it!)

1000 gig, 250,000 rpm harddrive jet stream cooled. (Even faster rpm's than an epileptic cheetah on a bicycle!)

..........

Last if not most importantly of all, I have a keyboard with a LARGE backspace key... none of that <- tiny arrow shit.

Fafnir · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 9:46 pm

can I win a prize for crappiest pooter?

166mhz processor
1mb video card
1.9 gig hdd
24xcdrom
floppy drive
ethernet card
4gig hdd with linux on it
oh yes and to crown it off, 16mb ram
oh yes almost forgot my wacom graphire....
wish i didn't have the blue one...i like the grey ones...
anyhoo, hopefully I will be building my own megalomaniacs comp, HOPEFULLY!!

oh yeah, bleh, and a 15" monitor...

[ July 17, 2001: Message edited by: Fafnir ]

jasonN · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 11:01 pm

Question....
Some of you guys have insanely powerful systems. Well, to me they are anyway.

I've just decided to upgrade 128megs of ram with another 256. So that will make 384 megs. Now that is a huge amount to me, but some of you guys just casually say "512" or "768" as if it's a standard thing. With that much ram you must have no slowdowns in photoshop at all? Am I right? I'm just really paranoid that even after installing another 256 megs of ram, photoshop will still run slow considering the large amounts everyone else has.

oh and my computer is a:
P3 600
128 sdram
8 gig HD
32 meg tnt 2 m64
15 inch monitor
8x dvd

wootkoos · member Member # Joined: 20 Jun 2000 Posts: 64

quote

Quote:

wootkoos, how is the performance of the Geforce 3 card? im very tempted at including it in my new computer i will be ordering in a couple weeks...hopefully :-) thanks for any info....

It's a good card seeing that we blasted it with in house tests here at work and it preformed very well! If it's in your budget then nab it, that or wait until the prices drop a little.

n8 · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2001 9:04 am

Collosimo ..1000gig is a terra =)
jason ...if you are running windows 98 i dont htink it can utilise more that 256meg ram properly??..something technical and all that stuffs...
anywho..mine
ime special =) 21' samsung syncmaster
10gb?, 6gb scsi, 40gig 7200rpm..
wacom intuos 6x8
514 ram..
logitech ifeel optical mouse (AU$130.its a special mouse

)
crappy cdrw
crappy cdr
no dvd
only p2 400mhz
sony dsc-s75 digital camera coming soon
sblive
cambridge speekers
tnt2 m64
and a flashy led light i got from the packaging of the mouse...its been flashing on 2 aa batteries for around 4 months now...ha..it sits ontop of my monitor...its late...im tired...ill sleep now...
ps. i spend too much money...
pss. i work hard so i spend hard..
ppss. i dont have a real job..
pppss. anybody wanna gimme a real job??
pppsss. ill stop psing now

stefan · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2001 9:55 am

I've just been spoilt at work by getting...

Dual 1.7Ghz P4 Xeon
1Gig PC800 ram
64mb Fire GL2
scsi etc
A4 wacom
24inch Sony Widescreen monitor

No excuse for not getting the work done now.

MoleculeMan · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2001 9:40 pm

I hate some of yoos!

My setup is
Celeron 433 megahertz,
64 megs RAM,
8 gig HD,
Mouse,
Some Crappy Scanner/Printer
15" monitor.

::Cries::

Mordecai · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2001 10:29 pm

quote:
Originally posted by MoleculeMan:
I hate some of yoos!

My setup is
Celeron 433 megahertz,
64 megs RAM,
8 gig HD,
Mouse,
Some Crappy Scanner/Printer
15" monitor.

::Cries::

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

not another "celery" chip :-) man...i cant wait to see the demise of that chip....perhaps....you should upgrade like i will in...under 2 weeks....the countdown begins

MoleculeMan · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2001 7:23 am

quote:
Originally posted by Mordecai:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

not another "celery" chip :-) man...i cant wait to see the demise of that chip....perhaps....you should upgrade like i will in...under 2 weeks....the countdown begins

Booo! BOoO! I am prolly stuck on this lame machine until 1. I beg my parents to spring for one, or 2. I save up enough cash to buy one by next summer

Bein a college kid sucks heh. I should do a commercial "Hey Ms. Blunderman, this is Jake, your next door nieghbor! Dell has this great...."
Atleast i am treating my self to a tablet soon.

Mordecai · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2001 11:08 pm

quote:
Originally posted by MoleculeMan:
Booo! BOoO! I am prolly stuck on this lame machine until 1. I beg my parents to spring for one, or 2. I save up enough cash to buy one by next summer Bein a college kid sucks heh. I should do a commercial "Hey Ms. Blunderman, this is Jake, your next door nieghbor! Dell has this great...."
Atleast i am treating my self to a tablet soon.

haha i dont blame you man...ive been working basically since the first day classes ended in college....determined to save up for my new computer for the next semester when i transfer to a new school.... an right (thankfully) now i have enough to get a new one....

Briareos · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2001 3:41 am

Actually I ran a dual celeron 500 machine for a while, it did really good in photoshop, cuz photoshop has good SMP code.

So if you looking for a cheap upgrade you can pick up a set of cheap celerons and a Abit BP6 board. 3D Studio Max also has SMP support. Not a bad setup... My next system is gonna be a dual AMD, soon as the boards stop costing $800...

Strawberrysauce · member Member # Joined: 04 Feb 2001 Posts: 356

i must be the only one here that uses a
laptop for their artwork!...(need to travel)

Dell 750mhz
384mb ram
30 gig hd
16 mb ati card
wacom A5 tablet

+ .. LOTS AND LOTS of illegal software
(poor student!)

sham
sham

tzekin · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2001 4:51 am

Here is what i have.

Beige PowerMac G3@300MHz
256MB RAM
8GB HDD
24xCD-ROM drive
100MB Zip Drive
17"SONY Trinitron 200GS monitor
Wacom Intous A5 (6x8) Tablet

I hope to have enough money to get a G4 Titanium PowerBook for the time I'm in college.

MoleculeMan · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2001 9:25 am

I have a friend whose mom does the booking or something for some Photo-Editing Company. he was telling me about thier machines. I hate them heh. I think that anyone who has over a gig of ram sucks heh. NO one should have more than 10 times of anything of mine!

Also another thing. I had the impression that a really large amount of Artists were Mac users. Is that not true? Or is it just a larger amount than the general populous than normal.

Mordecai · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2001 2:48 pm

quote:
Originally posted by MoleculeMan:
I have a friend whose mom does the booking or something for some Photo-Editing Company. he was telling me about thier machines. I hate them heh. I think that anyone who has over a gig of ram sucks heh. NO one should have more than 10 times of anything of mine!

Also another thing. I had the impression that a really large amount of Artists were Mac users. Is that not true? Or is it just a larger amount than the general populous than normal.

well since im more of a graphic design guru than an illustrator or animator, i was under the impression at least in my field that it is predominatly Macintosh which i cant stand....Animation generally PC based....but honestly...for me i guess i just prefer using a PC right now...whenever i move out of my cardboard box, ill purchase a couple workstations both mac an pc...of course this could all change within a few years seeing as how the computer industry is ALWAYS RAPIDLY CHANGING...hehe...thats what sucks about it...ah well...back to drawing

Mordecai · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2001 8:06 pm

hmmm has anyone heard about any companys having comptuer sales? or ummm lol prices dropping? i heard intel is shipping their new chip in a month or so??? can anyone clarify that? an umm one more question...
where the hell can i buy a cheap second monitor??

thanks to all once again

faustgfx · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2001 8:48 pm

drats. i forgot the photo of my cuties. or did i? well, here goes. the chip is at 1010mhz at the moment, waiting for proper overclocking though. not 900mhz.

=\

MoleculeMan · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 3:12 pm

Well its not a computer, but i just ordered my first Tablet! A Refurbished USB 6x8 Wacom Intuos! Wahoo! Next stop, more ram!

Is it just me, or does it seem like 98% of the merchandise on Ebay hot (stolen!). I just saw someone auctioning a sweet-ass comp (worth like $1200) for $100. To many good deals to be true?

As for nice prices, i would check www.pricewatch.com for good deals.

PuckDewd · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 11:09 pm

Sorry for the blurry pic, i couldn't see the screen to focus the cam. Also sorry for the late reply, been on holiday for the past week. The setup conties around to the right with my tablet, scanner and printer (but didn't think you wanted to see those)

**EDIT** Tossed in the pic of the tablet as well for you viewing pleasure

[ July 24, 2001: Message edited by: PuckDewd ]

Ysg · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 11:53 pm

I just downgraded from an intuos 12x12 to a 6x8 because the 12x12 is too huge for me to use.

Athlon 950
512mb 133mhz RAM
LG 12x CDR
Creative DVD player (old, when I bought it the only place I could find dvd's was suncoast video)
SB Live value
Geforce 2 GTS 64mb
2 network cards
win98 and win2k

faustgfx · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2001 10:09 am

Mordecai · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2001 8:28 pm

just out of drunken curiosity...

faust, what kind of webcam do you have there? it seems to take some decent snapshots...i need to pick one up with the new computer of course...seen too many shitcams...would it happen to be a logitech?
i hear they have decent models...

faustgfx · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2001 10:03 pm

yeah. Logitech Quickcam Pro 3000. the only decent webcam i've witnessed.

have a look at http://faustgfx.0wns.org/webcam/arch/cocker/ .......taken with the pro3k webcam.

PuckDewd · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2001 10:36 pm

Can also look here... http://www.electricsynapse.com/boredom/

Also a Logitech Quickcam Pro 3000. Ignore the image called stolen.jpg, I just wanted a reminder of the jackass that was linking to stuff on my server

[ July 25, 2001: Message edited by: PuckDewd ]