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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: doublefresh on 17 November 2002, 17:52

Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: doublefresh on 17 November 2002, 17:52: I'm curious to know what % of Linux users build their own machines. So please let me know if your computer was store bought from Dell, Gateway etc... or if you built it yourself.

While we are at it why not list your system specs.

I'll start.

I've been building my own for 5 years. I get most of my parts from www.pricewatch.com (http://www.pricewatch.com)

At the moment I've got 6 computers at my desk all running on one 19" monitor with a KVM switch. I use a LinkSys DSL Router to share my internet connection.

My slowest machine is an old Celeron 300A Overclocked to 450 and my fastest is a Dual PII 500 server with a raid 5 SCSI setup.

I run one machine as a MP3 server for the rest of the house and it's plugged into an Onkyo stereo in my bedroom and a sony stereo in the living room.

Your turn...
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: CaptainCool on 17 November 2002, 18:35: Right now I'm running a P3 1GHZ Compaq pc that came with windows installed, but now has Linux on it.
I have 2 other pc's one is a cyrix 300 and a Amd K6-2 at 450 MHZ.In a couple months I'll be building a new P4 Box.
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: trc3 on 17 November 2002, 18:51: (http://homepage.mac.com/sk8mafia/mac.jpg)
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: slave on 17 November 2002, 19:21: I built my computer
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: voidmain on 17 November 2002, 23:09: I have around 12 machines, 8 of which are still in operation, a few on an Apex KVM (haven't thrown out the old 486s yet). The slowest one still in operation is a P100 that I built several years ago and has been serving as my Gateway/Proxy/Firewall for about the last 3 years or more (was using dialup and MASQ until I got my cable modem a couple of years ago).

But I started building my own machines around 1988. Right now my fastest one is an Athlon 1600 w/512MB in my kitchen as the main family desktop. Also have a couple of K6-2 450Mhz. I do have 3 Dells (2 Latitude laptops and one Dimension P90 acting as an PDC/Wins/DHCP/DNS server, whoops, guess that's my slowest one still in operation). Most of my machines are down stairs in my spare family room that I use as my hobby room, I have my house wired up so I can plug a laptop in just about anywhere.

Oh and that's not counting my servers I have in other locations. Ranging from Compaq to Dell to Penguin Computing rack servers.

[ November 17, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: Master of Reality on 18 November 2002, 00:24: i started building my own machines when i was like 10.

My main computer i bought at some small computer shop and then switched around parts from my other computers in/out of it.

I built my other 2 computers completely from parts salvaged from dead computers and "donated" from companys.
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: preacher on 18 November 2002, 00:36: My computer started out as a 433mhz emachine. It ran Windows 98se, 32mb ram, 4.3 gb hard drive, integrated 4mb video card, and pci winmodem. Since I bought it I made a few changes.

Added: Mandrake Linux 9.0, hard drive controller card, 2-256mb sticks of ram, cd burner, 2-30 gig hard drives, geforce2 video card, and a nic.

I didnt quite build the whole machine, although I could easily do that.
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: hm_murdock on 18 November 2002, 00:40: Steve Fucking Jobs!

G3/500
512MB RAM
20GB craptastic Maxtor 5400RPM drive
Cheeseball Rage 128 video
Mac OS X 10.2.2

And a bunch of badass mice.

[ November 17, 2002: Message edited by: Jimmy James: Mac Commando ]
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: voidmain on 18 November 2002, 01:23: Jobs hasn't built a computer since 1976. Since then he could afford to have people do it for him.
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: DC on 18 November 2002, 03:16: I build my own computer (AMD 1.2 Ghz, 512 MB RAM, Linux) myself, with 80% of the parts coming from the same store and the rest being scrap from my old one (those parts have been replaced since, except the speakers).

My dad did the same thing (AMD 1.4 Ghz, 512MB RAM, WinXP/2000/98, slower than mine ;) ), my mother and sister's computer are mostly composed of leftovers from me and my dad (700-ish, 500-ish and 300 Mhz, 64-196MB Ram range, all Win98 and excruciatingly slow), except my oldest sister's which she got from her boss.

My secondary PC, a Pentium 166 running at 133 Mhz because the motherboard can't go faster, 48 MB and Linux is compared of the best of the scrap metal I could find on the attic, and is destined to become a router/firewall when we get broadband.
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: Bazoukas on 18 November 2002, 03:28: I will be dammed if i buy a prebuild PC or have another person build my computer.
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: Fett101 on 18 November 2002, 05:07: Built myself. And I put another together with crap that was sitting around for use as a kazaa/ftp machine. (Wonderful when you can build a full pc from stuff just sitting around your room.)
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: Doctor V on 18 November 2002, 06:06: My comp is a sotec. I have yet to build a computer, but am planning on building my next one , and it will be a laptop. Unless of course laptops start coming without windows.

V
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: Siplus on 18 November 2002, 06:31: i've had a computer since i was nine (i didn't build it, my dad build it for me)...it was a 486 w/ windows 3.1 on it for a long time...since then was about 6 years ago, i've upgraded many times, and i've bought the peices from pricewatch.com, tiger direct, staples--any place that had a good deal

currently:
1 ghz Athlon
384m ram
GeForce 4 128 m ram
40 gb harddrive

i've gone from win3.1, to 95, to 98, 2k, and now LINUX (RH8)

but i'm going to upgrade soon...and buy a laptop (http://smile.gif)
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: Mr Smith on 18 November 2002, 21:46: Here is my old computer info:

AMD K6 350Mgh
128 M/Ram
20 Gig HD
3dfx voodoo 3 64 M/ram
some sound card
and a cheap modem
old but funtional
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: Kintaro on 18 November 2002, 14:36: yeah... heres some specs

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Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: pkd_lives on 18 November 2002, 20:08: quote:
Originally posted by Doctor V 0.8.7:
... but am planning on building my next one , and it will be a laptop. Unless of course laptops start coming without windows.

V

Yep. If you come across any good sites accessable to US for laptop parts please post them. I am hunting around for such things now, and would love to build my own laptop. Then I could guarantee it working well.
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: hm_murdock on 19 November 2002, 02:11: void main:

Steve did too make my computer! He flew all the way to Taiwan in his personal jet, made it, and put it in a box just for me! :D
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: voidmain on 19 November 2002, 02:24: Heh heh. Would that be from the signature series? (http://smile.gif)
Title: Survey, Who built your computer?
Post by: HPC GUY on 19 November 2002, 07:20: I built all of tha machines in my house (my windows box, my dads cpu and the living room machine) except my linux machine. my linux box is a modified Dell machine.