Bah, it must be crap then. [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]Well... it IS for work (mostly ;) ). I just couldn't rationalize a couple hundred bucks for a 7.1 speaker setup when the box is going to end up crunching images for me in a cleanroom... I really tried (rationalizing that is), but just couldn't do it.

<font color=skyblue>My Handcrafted PC

(remember I am on a family budget...)</font>

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• Intel Pentium 4, 1800 MHz</font>
• 1024 MB (RDRAM)</font>
• BIOS Type: AMI (03/28/02)</font>
• NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 (64 MB)</font>
• Monitor: CyberVision C70-2 (5V90622130)</font>
• Creative Audigy 2 Platinum Sound Card</font>
• Western Digital 40GB HD</font>
• ATAPI CDROM CD-ROM 44x max</font>
• TDK CD-RW 32x/10x/40x</font>
• Microsoft PS/2 Port Mouse (IntelliPoint)</font>
• Creative 5.1 Speakers</font>
• Belkin 7-port USB hub (2 top-load, 5 back-load)</font>
• 12 minute CyberPower battery backup</font>
• Microsoft Router (hardware firewall)</font>
• Tower has three intake fans and two output fans</font>
• Windows XP Home Ed.</font>

<font color=skyblue>I guess that covers everything of importance.</font>

Sounds like a "Mine is bigger than yours" thread!

I'm confident enough that I don't need to post the "size" of my system.

Thoran, what kinda work do you do? Those Dual Xeons must be nice. I was thinking about getting a Dual Xeon setup for home, but then decided there isn't really any point since thye cost so much and I don't actually need it.

Intel Celeron 2.1 GHZ
382 MB RAM
Some cruddy Philips monitor
40G hard drive
Windows XP

Now, I just gotta fix it!

AMD Athlon 64 939 3800+
ASUS AMD-Socket 939 A8V Deluxe
2GB Corsair DDR500 64MX64 Twinx
ASUS ATI AX800XT 256MB
1xWD Raptor 74GB 10.000rpm
2xWD 250GB 7200 rpm SATA
2xWD 250GB 7200 rpm ATA
Logitech MX510 optical
logitech cordless keyboard
Samsung 19" 193P Zilver LCD
1GB network card
Winxp pro and all the other peripherals needed to compute.

I come from Holland and we call it "inkoopsprijs". You know, the price the store pays for it and then add their profits on top of that price, so for me it was dirt cheap. Otherwise I could never afford this baby, im a student you know.....

My beast was originally constructed purely to beat my friend Ross' benchmarking scored (3DMark 03 6500+)

Althlon64 3400+
Radeon 9800XT
1GB DDR 400 RAM
160GB HDD

:( He went and spend £400 on a X800XT...only the best VGA on the surface of the earth, now he scored 17000 on 03.... grrrr

Project Engineer... they actually pay me to play with this stuff. [img]smile.gif[/img] I do a bit of a lot of different things, hardware/software/systems design (primarily in the PC arena but also some DSP and FPGA based support systems), precision motion, project management.


The Dual processor boxes are for vision systems... processing really large amounts of image data as quickly as possible. All these systems end up having DSP or FPGA based front ends... because even dual processor boxes are pitifully slow for the data rates (many hundreds of megabytes per second), so I use dedicated hardware to cut the bandwith required to a point where a high end PC (or multiple pc's) can cope.

The Xeon boxes are nice but right now the top shelf stuff (raw performance wise) in the Windows world is Opteron. The benchmarks I've seen only give the Xeon's an advantage when the code is highly Intel-Optimized... and since I'm writing the code, I can optimize it for whichever platform I'm developing to... and that means NUMA Opteron.

dang.. i wish all of you guys can donate your spare parts to me :D . (ah wishful thinking). [img]tongue.gif[/img] . enjoy your computers guys. they look good indeed!

Zuvio, how much did that cost you?? Fancy sending me one if I post you the money?

Thoran-sounds like a nice job, that's just what I would like! Yep Opteron's are very nice too, although a pair of 3.6ghz Xeons are pretty hard to beat!