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Eric's Computers

Here are my computers, I'll try to keep the specs up to date!

Pics are below.

Some of my old computers are HERE.

See a sample of my drive setups HERE.

 

My Computer
(See Pictures Below)
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-EP35C-DS3R
Processor Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 (Yorkfield), 2666 MHz
Memory G.Skill F2-8500CL5-2GBPK, 4096 MB (DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM)
Cooling CPU - Noctua NH-U12P
Chipset - Noctua NC-U6
Video BFG Tech NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT
(BFGE88512GTOC2E) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16
Sound Realtek ALC889A High Definition Audio Controller (for now)
Network Realtek Gigabit
Hard Drives

2 x WD Raptor 150's in Raid 0 (operating systems)
2 x WD Raptor 75's  in Raid 0 (XP page file, Vista page file, docs)
WD Raptor 36 GB (mp3's)
WD 500GB (everything else)

DVD Burner Samsung SH-S203B
Operating System  Windows XP Pro (32-bit), Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit), waiting on openSUSE 11 
Monitor Samsung SyncMaster 226BW (22" LCD)
Keyboard Saitek Eclipse II
Mouse Logitech MX Revolution
Speakers Logitech Z-5500
Power Supply Corsair CMPSU-620HX

 

 

 

Utility

Wife's

Mobo

 

Abit IC7-Max3

P4P800 SE

CPU

 

3.4GHz Northwood

3Ghz Northwood

Memory

 

1 GB OCZ

2 GB OCZ

Video

 

Nvidia 6800

Hauppage TV card

ATI X1650

 

Sound

 

Audigy 2 ZS Plat.

Audigy 2 ZS Plat.

Network

 

Onboard Intel Pro 1000

Onboard Intel Pro 1000

Other PCI Cards

 

Promise ATA133

 

Hard Drives

 

74GB Raptor - XP MCE

74GB Raptor - openSUSE 10.3

120GB WD JB

74GB Raptor

Maxtor9, 160GB

Other Drives

 

DVDRW

Lite-On DVDRW

Floppy

OS

 

XP MCE

openSUSE 10.3

Vista

openSUSE 10.3

other

 

MX700 mouse

Lexmark Z52 printer

Samsung SyncMaster 930b monitor

Samsung SyncMaster 712n monitor

MX1000 mouse

Logitech Z-560 speakers

Samsung SyncMaster 220wm monitor

Mine and Utility share Logitech Z-5500 speakers.

All printers are shared successfully across XP and Suse.

 

File & Print Server

Multi-Media

Laptop

Mobo

TUSL2-C

CUSL2

Dell XPS M1710

CPU

1.2 Celeron

P3, 1GHz

Intel DualCore 2GHz

Memory

512 Crucial

512 Crucial

2GB DDRII 667MHz

Video

ATI Radeon 7000

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

Hauppage TV card

nVidia 7900 GS

Sound

none

Audigy 2 ZS Plat.

onboard

Network

D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit

Linksys 10/100

Intel Pro/Wireless

Broadcom 10/100/1000

Other PCI Cards

Promise ATA133

usb 2.0

none

Hard Drives

Maxtor 80GB

Maxtor 40GB

Maxtor 200GB

Maxtor 80GB

Hitachi 100GB

(SATA 7200rpm)

Other Drives

Liteon DVD-RW
Floppy

Lite-On DVD

DVD/CDRW Combo

OS

openSUSE 10.3

XP Home

Windows XP MCE 2005

Ubuntu 7.10

Vista Ultimate

other

Printers:

HP Officejet 4110

HP Deskjet 3745 printer

 

 

MORE INFO & PICS HERE

Other Stuff

Netgear Broadband Router

Dell PowerConnect 2608 Gigabit Switch

Netgear 8-port switch

Linksys 4-port switch

Kodak DC260 camera

Kodak DX6490 camera

Network also successfully incorporates my wife's iMac from work.

 

 

Pics Of My Computer

 

my comp 1

 

my comp 2

 

my comp 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Cool Web Sites 

*Warp2Search*

[H]ardOCP

Dailyrotation

Freshnews.org

FreewareFiles

 


 

 
 Software I Use 

 

 

I use True Image 11.0

for all my OS backups and Disk Director 10.0 for all my partitioning and dual-boot requirements.

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