The most obnoxious computer???

[juandeez]

Let's get a little contest started here to see who has the most obnoxious computer. Meaning the one with the most bragging rights..... Here's my entry:
InWin Q500A Case
300 watt power supply
ABit BH6
Pentium 2/450
192Mb RAM
Toshiba m1202 IDE DVD-ROM
Iomega IDE Zip 100
Quantum fireball 13.6Gb IDE HDD
Epson 5.25" HD floppy
Panasonic 3.5" HD floppy
Adapted 2940U2W SCSI adapter
Plextor SCSI Plexwriter 4/2/20
Seagate Ultra2 SCSI Cheetah 18.2Gb
ATI All-in-wonder 128 (32Mb version) -- Have Playstation hooked up to this
Sound Blaster Live w/ daughtercard -- connected to 500 watt Kenwood home theatre reciever w/ surround sound + 250 watt subwoofer
Netgear 10/100MBps NIC
Creative DxR3 DVD decoder
3Com 56K voice/data/fax modem
3 fans
Gateway 17" monitor
Gateway multifunction keyboard
Logitech Marble mouse
Gravis gamepad pro
Connectix USB quickcam
Windows 98 SE, and will set up Win2k dual boot very soon

And I think that's it!

[Jester2]

Obnoxious? I'll tell you obnoxious. This is my system, and i'm still using right now to play Starcraft and Office 2000


Compaq Presario Pentium 133
73 MB EDO RAM
3.1 Western Digital Caviar Hard Drive
1 MB S3trio+ Vid Card (Integrated!)
ESS 1888 Sound Card (Integrated!)
ADI MicroScan 5AP 17" Monitor
Altec Lansing AC-40 Speakers
MS Intellimouse
Compaq Keyboard


Bahahah. Obnoxious is the key word :P

[pickel]

Were you able to get this all in one room?? http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[juandeez]

Yeah. But just barely http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif My room is really small, and my parents hate it because it is either too loud, or I spend too much money on it!! hahahahaha I love it though!

[daveleau]

How's about this...a very loud system...slightly powerful as well...

SuperPower ATX Case
Gen 300W PS
Abit BF6
Cel 2 566 @ 901
384 MB SDRAM (128 Gen PC133, 256 PNY (Infineon) PC100)
G400 Max 32MB Dual head
Card slot AGP cooler
SBLive! Value
3COM 10/100 NIC
NetGear 10/100 NIC
FastTrakk RAID (modified Promise ATA66 card)
2--20GB WD ATA66 7200 RPM 2MB buffer hdds
2--small AMD K6-2 retail CPU fans strapped tot he side of my hdds with rubber bands to cool the hdds http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif (cheap but effective and quiet)
52X Kenwood TrueX CD-ROM (installing tomorrow)
HP 8250i CD-RW
mitsumi fdd
USR ISA Faxmodem 56K (for backup when my cable goes down)
4 80mm box fans
USB Zip 100
USB Altec Lansing 3 peice speakers
USB Intelimouse Explorer
Logitech Deluxe 104 keyboard

Whew ok that's my system. first time I think I've posted the whole thing...
Dave

[This message has been edited by daveleau (edited 06-07-2000).]

[Mntsnow]

OK...Twist my arm http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Main system

Triple booting (Win98, Windows2000 and Mandrake 7.0)
Intel Pentium 3 450 running at 600mhz @ 2.0 Volts (133fsb x 4.5) Alpha heatsink and YS-tech fans
Abit BX6-2 Motherboard
256megs of PC133 7.5ns ram (2 sticks of 128megs each) Infineon branded
3dfx VooDoo3 3500 (AGP) 16meg.
SB-live Value (2nd generation) (PCI)
Siig Ap-40 Ultra Wide scsi card (PCI)
Realtek 10/100 NIC card (PCI)
Promise Ultra66 converted to Fasttrak66 raid card using
(2) Maxtor 20.0 gig 2 meg buffer 7200rpm ATA66 (IDE) in stripe mode (raid 0) (Booting system)
(2) Seagate 9.1 gig 512k buffer 7200rpm (SCSI)
(1) Pioneer 303S 6X DVD Drive (SCSI)
(1) Plextor 8x bunner (SCSI)
(1) Plextor 40x reader (SCSI)
(1) 8gig 4mm tape drive (4mm 120 meter)(SCSI)
(1) Internal Iomega Zip drive (IDE)
(1) Mitsumi 1.44meg floppy drive
In a "TTGI" model #880 Full tower case with 2 extra case fans.

(add-ons)
Cambridge 4 point speakers with Sub
Logitech Wingman Formula Force (forcefeedback) Steering Wheel W/pedals (usb)
Microsoft Force-feedback joystick (joystick port)
Kensington Netcam (usb)
21" Viewsonic Monitor
Lexmark 3200 color inkjet printer
HP III-D laser printer


2nd System (server)
Dual Booting (Win98se (1% of time) & Windows2000 (99% of the time))
Abit BP6 Motherboard
(2) Celeron 366's running 550mhz (5.5x100) at 2.0 volts with globalwin heatsink and fans
512megs of PC100 8ns ram (2 sticks of 256meg each) Micron branded
Diamond A90 AGP video card (16meg Savage4 chipset)
Soundblaster AWE64 soundcard (PCI)
SIIG AP-40 Ultrawide scsi card (PCI)
Realtek 10/100 NIC (PCI)
Promise Ultra66 converted to Fasttrak66 raid card using (PCI)
(2) Maxtor 27gig 2 meg buffer 7200rpm ATA66 drives (IDE) (Booting system)
(2) Seagate Barracuda's 9.1 gig 512K buffer 7200rpm (SCSI)
(1) HP 9110+ CDR-W 8x4x32 burner (IDE)
(1) Aopen 56x CD reader (IDE)
(1) Seagate 8gig 4mm 120 meter tape drive(SCSI)
(1) Internal zip 250 drive (IDE)
(1) Teac 1.44meg floppy drive
All housed in a TTGI #880 Full tower case with 3 extra case fans


3rd System (May soon become my main system after I get thru "loading it up"!) http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Win98se
SoyoTek 6VCA slot1 motherboard
(1) Celeron II 533 cpu in an Abit slocket III running at 960mhz (8x120) at 1.8volts using Alpha heatsink/fan (can boot 992mhz but is not stable http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif )
128 megs of PC133 ram (1 stick) Generic brand
3DFX Voodoo3 3000 AGP 16meg video card
Soundblaster Live! (digital out) (2nd generation) (PCI)
(1) Maxtor 40gig ATA66 drive (IDE)
(1) Phillips CDR-W 4x4x24 burner (IDE)
(1) BTC 44x CD reader (IDE)
(1) SIIG AP-10 scsi card (PCI)
(1) Pioneer 303S DVD drive (SCSI)
(1) Seagate 8gig 4mm 120 meter tape drive (SCSI)
All housed in a Cal-PC Full tower case with 3 extra case fans

Then there is a "few others" in the house but these are what I mainly "play with"

Mntsnow
*edited for spelling* A lets see you run all that thru the spell check!...I just got tired of clicking ignore http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif


[This message has been edited by Mntsnow (edited 06-08-2000).]

[Ultima]

Well,

My first system contains the following:

A-open Q800 case with 300W PS
MSI 6167 mainboard
Athlon 650 0.18 Micron(though I'm not sure)
256Mb pc100 infineon ram CL2
Asus v3800 running 180/210(4 fans on it)
2 Q'tum fireball 18.2Gb 7200Rpm
3com etherlink 100Mbit card
diamond mx300 soundcard + add-on card
Sony cd-writer 4x4x24
cdrom 50 speed
4 case fans in it
2 satellite speakers 120W each
300W woofer, also Labtec
And a 17 inch monitor

Second system:

AT case with 300W PS
Asus P5A-B motherboard
Amd-k6-2 450Mhz@518 (4.5x115)
64Mb pc133 Toshiba
Q'tum fireball 10.2Gb 7200rpm
44 speed cdrom
Innovision mighty banshee 16Mb pci.
Aureal a3d soundcard
3com pci ethernet adapter 10/100Mbit
15 inch monitor
Gravis gamepad pro
2 Target speakers, 120W each
and a whopping 24 system fans build in.

Try and top that, well at least the amount of fans, hahahha!!!
At least I have one thing to brag about.

Pim

[alpha]

Well, they ain't obnoxious, but here goes:

Stripped down hulk of a PII350 with no PSU
Jetway VIA133
64mb PC100
2gb HDD
40x CD
FDD
V2 sli rig.

It doesn't do anything as you'd imagine.

[mgordon99]

Mntsnow is clearly the winner, hands down.

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[zzzreyes]

Nice systems... is there a rehab group for people that loose their babies!
mine:
full size ATX case A-bit got STOLEN
20 gig hard drive maxtor got STOLEN
19 inch Sony Monitor got STOLEN
32 megs v3800 asus video got STOLEN
amd k6III 450 with special cooling fan got STOLEN
A-bit motherboard got STolEN!

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif
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That's it I can't continue the message.
Yesterday, last night someone broke into my house and stole my baby! they just stole my computer, nothing else!

[krusty the klown]

b@st@rds

Low-life burgling scum really p!ss me off!

[F=ma]

Geez this is so pathetic! This is a testosterone-filled mine-is-bigger-than-yours contest. Posting your machines for bragging rights, Okay man, brag to all us random ppl all over the world, and see how much we care. Maybe I speak for myself, but I just think you're silly.

[Ultima]

Well F=MA,

I think it has more to do with the fun you have with it!!!

Just to see what people got standing around.

Nothing else, and certainly not pethatic, as you say it!!!!

So just join the fun and brag a little yourself, or maybe you have such a system you would be embarresed to talk about???

Don't be ashame, you can't help it, just save some money for a new power thingie!!!
LOL

Pim

[alpha]

Yeah it's just a bit o' fun comparing systems. My system hasn't ran for ages - it's just a stripped down hulk and I'm still including it.

[tonym]

C'mon F=ma, doesn't everyone love a pissin contest??

Size does matter!

To whit:

1GHz Athlon processor
MS-6195 mobo
256MB SDRAM
Seagate 4.3GB primary drive
Hot-swap removeable secondary drive: right now Maxtor 13.6GB
300W Redundant PSU
Inwin Mid Tower case w/4 fans (2 in/2 out)
HP 9100 CDRW
Jaz 2GB
Zip 250MB
1.44MB FDD
3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 AGP
3Com 10/100 Enet NIC
Adaptec 2630U SCSI card
Sound Blaster Live! Value S/C
Zoom Model 2929 56K Dualmodem
NEC Multisync 90 19" monitor
IBM ruggidized keyboard
Logitech wheeled mouse
Altec Lansing surround sound w/subwoofer
HP 970Cse printer
APC Matrix UPS 3000 (10 systems supported by this UPS)

The above system is my personal workstation, the others are used by guest employees and consultants.

I've got three other identical workstations except they have 750MHz Athlons, and I've listed the remaining 6 systems in the past so I'll save characters here.

My next buy will surely be most obnoxious, a rack-mounted Proliant server!

But it occurs to me that the hardware is NOTHING without solid, versatile software. I've got about $20-25K of software on my machines...I need ten (yes, 10!) copies of OS's and Office. The expensive stuff is the CAD and design software...sometimes as much as $10K per seat. Obviously a business expense, it becomes impractical for a home user or tinkerer.

Jeez, I'm going to need a sysadmin real soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Tony


[This message has been edited by tonym (edited 06-08-2000).]

[Red Rage]

Well, gota post even though i'm not as beastly as others...

Supermicro 750a Case w/300watt
128/256mb ram (depends long story)
PIII650@806 when its cool
14gig IBM Deskstar
SBLive Platinum w/live drive
STB Velocity 4400 TNT
SLI Voodoo2's
Misuami CDR 4x8
6x DVD by Creative
RedHat 6.2/Winblows98

Thats basicly it, to save time i won't post the others.

~Joe

[pickel]

Until a little over a year ago ,I knew nothing about computers. With the help from many folks here and on other BBS, I've ,all by myself, which I take great pride in ,compiled my little but sweet running computer. I seldom run my mouth about it , but after F=ma's comments, I can't help but particpate in this threads. Bigger isn't always better. It's the time you spend and the self satisfaction you get from your acheievements.

Pionex AMD 300@350 100fsb
6.4 Seagate Hdd
160 Mb PC 100 SDRAM
Liteon 40x CDROM
A Open Video
ESS Audio
1.44 Floppy
Digital Reasearch Tech Scanner
100 Mb USB Zip Drive
Creative Labs USB Web Cam
Lexmark Printer
Labtec skrs w/ Subwoofer
Blackout Buster & APC pwr strip w/ phone line
Philips 4x4x32 CDRW
Con Air Phone and Radio Shack speaker Phone
Y2K Bug, Christmas Rabbit, Crashing computer
and " We can never Forget" POW-MIA flag

May not be the biggest or the baddest but there's NO ONE that could out produce my wife
in any word processing on any computer.
125-135 wpm w/ 2-3 errors ( on a bad day)
Don't mind bragging on her!!!!
the pickel

[Toadman]

Athlon 700
FIC SD-11
128mb RAM
40g Maxtor
DVD-ROM
HP CD-RW
Viper TNT2
"19 CTX monitor
SBlive!
Cambridge 4-point surround w/woofer
Intel PCI NIC
cable modem
Epson Stylus 660
Logitech webcam

Man, sorry to hear about your PC theft zzzreyes. Hope you have homeowner/renter's insurance.. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

[This message has been edited by Toadman (edited 06-08-2000).]

[Dave_H]

Here is my newest toy, about 2 weeks old.

Enlight 7237 Case
Abit BE6-II
P3-700
256 mb Micron RAM
2)WD Caviar 10.2gb HD's
ATI Rage fury AGP
Sound Blaster PCI
USR 56k V-90 ISA Modem
Adaptec AHA-2930U SCSI
NetGear FA-310 NIC
Iomega 2gb Jazz
Iomega 250mb Zip
HP 8200e CD-RW
HP ScanJet 6200C
HP 2000C Printer
Sony G200 Monitor
Logitech Trackman Marble+
POS Mouse (hate em)
Delta 48X CD-ROM
Mitsumi 3.5" Floppy
APC Back-UPS Pro 350 USB

Dave

[CtrlCXV]

Well I had this system for a while, and I just couldn't help myself to posting it here, just don't laugh:

Generic ATX Full tower with 300W power
PII 350 (not overclocked)
BH6 mobo
128 PC100 RAM (generic)
FirePort 40 SCSI
40X Teac CD
8/24 Plextor CDR
6.5 GIG WD
4.5 GIG WD
4 GIG SCSI2 Baracuda
Jaz Drive (ext)
Generic 10/100 NIC
17" Hitachi monitor
Cambrige SoundWorks 3pc Speaker system
SB LIVE Value
USR Courier V.Evrthing modem (backup when DSL is down)
STB 4400 TNT video

Its not much but it does what I need it to do.

[x35Agent]

Well here is my Puter

NO Case it is layed out on a work table http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
Asus VX97
128Megs of Simm
4Meg Trident
Sound Blaster Live
Diamond Express 56k
4Gig BigFoot SLOW ***** Hdd
Teac 1.44 Fdd
24xCD-Rom CyberDrive
15" KTX monitor

On the way I have a Full tower case
10.2 Hdd
16Meg ATI all in wonder
Asus P3V4X mobo
and a 10X DVD
The rest of the part I am getting in trade

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[rtyp3]

Here is my computer i wish
AMD Athlon 1.1 Ghz O/C to 1.3 Ghz
512mb DDRAM
40GB HD
16x CDR
32x DVD
64mb DDRAM Geforce2
Sony Trinitron 29" flatscreen monitor
Microsoft Intellieye Mouse
300Watt power supply
Please don't laugh, It's all I can afford.

[Mntsnow]

F=MA...Just to prove that I can be one of the little people too http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Win 1.1
Intel 486
33mhz
8meg fast page
1 meg vid
9600 modem
NO sound
14" mono monitor
and YES it still boots up! (just never gets used)

You will also find that there has been LOTS of these types of threads done here at SysOpt and on the other boards..... It's NOT done to try and "put down" anybodys system but a way to showcase your systems. Over the course of the year that I have been an active member of SysOpt I have received MANY emails from people that have seen these "bragging" threads....In them they ask additional questions about WHY did you choose this brand/model over someother brand/model? How is your stabablity? What has been your likes/dislikes of a certain setup? Asking me of my thoughts about a setup that they are thinking of building.

I find that we have all had a bit of fun with the ocassional "what's your system" thread. Further I have yet to see one of these threads here turn into a "slam or flame thread" were Members have ever made comments such as ...Sheeze your system stinks or that thing couldn't type more than 3 words without having to take a boot break. ect ect. If you were to search the archive for the past threads such as this one you will find that we have had member post the spec's their screamin machines to their old faithful's.

Just my humble thoughts http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Mntsnow

[blind to truth]

mine is very sad:
i got laughing rights:

Pentium 100MHz
3.5 floppy drive
120 MB tape drive
40 X CD-ROM (the kind of cd-rom that you can compare to the kind of 8-track player that you have to use the little piece of paper to keep from dragging)
any way,270 MB HDD(since my gig crashed)
16 whole MBs of memory
512K video card
16-bit sound card
windows 95 (1st!!)
case from '80s
12" CTX monitor
NO parrelle port!!

[alpha]

Hell, i think I'll make myself look like a worse looser while we're at it http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif j/k

Case with no cover, the sides kicked in, warped chasis, falling apart.
486@66mhz.
270mb HDD
FDD, 2x CD.
28mb ram - burnt, but still works.
onboard video
occasionaly, I stick in a sound card.


It looks like it was run over by a car a few times, but it runs. I've stopped burning the cpu, 'cos I've run out of replacements http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif~alpha~ http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[juandeez]

Here's a really bad system that I still have:

Intel 286
4Mb RAM
30Mb HDD
1.44Mb FDD
DOS 3.3

Maybe I should boot it up, and see how it handles the year 1900!! Hahahahahaha

[Ashley Rimmer]

Well here goes home made:-
AT Box
PC 100 MB
333 Cyrix Socket 7
80 MB ram
6.4 GB Western Digital
3.5 GB Fujitsu
856 MB Acer
Creative Labs AWE 64 Sound card
Creative Labs 3Mb Graphics card
Phonic Pro 56K modem
19" Smile monitor
Diamond Multimedia Web Cam


Well it does me, no complaints.

Ash

[LordLocksley]

Well... Its not all that obnoxious, but I am rather proud that I am this close to the top... I am never this close...

AMD K7 800
Asus K7V
128 meg ram
Matrox Millenium G400 Max DH
CTL 17"
Daewoo 14"
13.6 gig WD
1.6 gig Seagate(?)
SB Live X-Gamer
D-Link 10/100
Logitech Trackman Marble
connected to a 7 computer network that belongs to the assortment of roommates.
through a 384x384 ADSL internet connection.

There's my little system

[ghostface]

well, just to brag a little since i just finished putting this together. Not much but it was my 1st time building a system. now if i could just get a free slotket and run it at 800.

Celeron 533a @ 600mhz 75mhz FSB
GlobalWin FPK32 Heatsink/Fan
Tyan s1854 Via Apollo Pro 133a Mobo
128 mb PC133 Kingston Gold ValueRAM
Maxtor 7200RPM 30gb ATA/66 HD
Adaptec 2906 PCI SCSI Adapter
Pioneer Slot Loading 36X SCSI CD-ROM
Teac CD-R55S SCSI CD Burner
1.44mb floppy stolen from an old Gateway
100mb ATAPI Zip drive stolen from an old Dell
Antec KS-188 Tower Case
Antec 300W Power Supply
2 80mm and 1 120mm fans salvaged from random older computers.
Sound Blaster Live! Value
2 D-Link DE-528CT PCI NICs
Elsa Erazor X SDR GeForce Card
Optiquest Q95 19" Monitor
101 Key Keyboard stolen from a Dell
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Microsoft Sidewinder GamePad Pro
Thrustmaster X-Gamer joystick

[scotter]

Ok here goes
generic mid tower 250 watt power
4/ 5.25', 3/ 3.25" bays
AMD K6-2-450 clocked to 550 on a
Asus P5A mobo with 128 meg -7.5 ns memory
1) voodoo3 2000 AGP
1) 3D Blaster Savage 4 32 meg PCI
1) 17" VeiwMate moniter
1) 15 Techmedia Moniter
1) 10.2 gig WD ATA/66 Hard Drive
1) Quntaum Fire Ball EX 6.1 gig ATA/33 Hard drive
1) 48x creative CD-rom
1) 2x 24x DVD
1) creative Sound Blaster Live
1) 3com 10/100 NIC
1) cambridge Soundworks 4.1 sound system
1)Efficent Networks Speed Stream 4060 ADSL modem
1) Creative Modem Blaster DI 5630 56K internal modem
1) Logitech Digital Extrreme Joy stick
1) Acer Acerscan 310u USB scanner
1) HP Deskjet 670C printer
1) logitech USB quick cam
1) Kinsigton scroll mouse in a box http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
1) really cheap Keyboard but it works good http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
9) assorted fans in system
4) assoreted fans for water cooler
all fans running from 2nd 250watt power supply
+ another system for my kids that is networked to this one but thats another story lol http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif



[This message has been edited by scotter (edited 06-08-2000).]

[rtyp3]

Mntsnow- I was joking around with the people who do put that. That system is defintetly not mine, although I wish it was, and I was joking about why someone would laugh at that, as some people have been concerned about. I completely agree with you.

[Mntsnow]

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

I wouldn't mind having that system either! I just drool at the thought of all the Mkey's that could do on the RC5 project http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Mntsnow

[DEMENTEDEVIL]

Here is my setup:
Athlon 1 Ghz
Asus K7V motherboard
Triple fan heatsink
512MB PC133 memory
Asus V6800 Deluxe Graphics card (DDR) 32MB
DSL internet access
Creative Labs 8/4/32 CD-R
Creative Labs 8x PC-DVD encore with Dxr3 decoder card
NEC Sync Max 19" monitor
Altec lansing ACS-48 speakers
Sound Blaster Live! Platinum
Logitech Internet Keyboard
Two USB controllers from CH Products
Logitech Steering wheel with pedals
IMATION LS120 SuperDisk Drive (3 1/2 Floppy + 120MB Super Disks)
SCSI controler card plus Toshiba DVDRAM
4 case fans for cooling,
and so much more i don't wanna type anymore...