it's been a while since I posted...so
 
 
this system will be completed on Friday:

Harbinger:
 
Asus A7N266-VM:AA nForce mATX
Athlon 2400+ (Thoroughbred-
Alpha 8045 w/ LED fans
Inwin V523b black mATX case w/ rear 80mm LED fan and front 120mm
Enermax 300W PSU w/ LED fan
512mb PC2100 DDR
GF2MX onboard *until Radeon 9500Pro is available at newegg
Leadtek TV2000XP tv capture card
Dlink DGE-500T Gigabit NIC
onboard Soundstorm audio
LiteOn 48x12x48 black CDRW
LiteOn 16x48 black DVD
black Teac floppy
working out a deal on a WD 40 & 80gb hdd
MS Natural Pro keyboard
MS Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 mouse
ratpadz
Planar PL150 15" 1024x768 native analog LCD
Windows XP Pro
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that's my LAN system and media center.
 
here's my home gaming system, to be completed around Christmas.

EVILution:
 
Asus P4G8X Deluxe
P4 2.8 (C1 stepping) --Will overclock it
Alpha 8942 w/ TT smartfan2
Lian Li PC-7323b black full tower w/ 6 blue LED fans
Antec TrueBlue 480W PSU w/ blue LED fans
1024mb Corsair XMS3200 DDR
Radeon 9700 Pro
Intel Pro/1000MT gigabit NIC
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
LiteOn 48x24x48 black CDRW --Will flash to 52/24/52
LiteOn 16x48 black DVD
LSI Logic MegaRAID i4 RAID 5 controller
2 Vantec black EZ-Swap w/ LCD
1 WD 100gb SE for OS
6 WD 100gb SE for RAID 5 stripe.
Seagate 10gb for Linux
MS Natural Pro keyboard
Logitech MX700 wireless mouse
ratpadz
Dell 2000fp 20.1" 1600x1200 native DVI LCD
Windows XP Pro (on the 100gb OS drive)
RedHat 8.0 (on the 10gb drive)
 
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that should do it for now.

I picked up a nice 1700XP for 50 bucks, retail.

Fortrex "Magic" MG-780 ATX Full Tower case
Macron MPT-300 PSU
Athlon XP 1900+ [1.6Ghz] cooled by Zalman CNPS5100-Cu
Abit KT7A-RAID v1.3 [northbridge HSF = Zalman ZM-NB32J & 45mm fan]
768MB RAM [2x128MB + 1x512MB PC133]
60GB Maxtor 5TO60H6 [DiamondMax Plus 60]
30GB IBM DeathStar 75GXP
ATI Radeon 64MB DDR ViVo
Creative Labs Audigy [OEM, cos it's cheaper ]
Lite-On LTR 12101B [12x 10x 32x]
Lite-On LTR-16SH DVD
3.5" FDD
Antec EzUSB
2 Realtek RTL8029 based NICs
Kensiko translucent blue PS2 keyboard [the ones Staples sell]
Logitech USB Dual Optical Wheelmouse
Motorola Surfboard 3100 cable modem
Eizo Flexscan 9400 20" monitor

check the sig for the new work comp
 
 
also, i am buying a new mobo / mem for my vaio, having alot of probs and the fact is it pc133 in there now really kills it.
 
anyone know of a good microATX board? with preferably pc2100 or higher support, or even rambus?

Although I am not an AMD fan, I would take a look at the Nforce2 boards, Mr. Guvernment... I know Asus has some microatx boards with the Nforce2 chipset.

Just ordered a P4 2.66
ASUS P4PE
2 512 MB Corsair PC3200
Tricked out ANTEC case with all blue lights.
48x Burner
Radeon 9700
Audigy 2

Revised, thanks to AMD's bastardness
 
CHARON: (Primary Gaming rig until EVILution: then LAN rig/Media center)
Pentium4 2.4b @3ghz
Alpha PAL8942 w/ ThermalTake Smartfan2
Abit BE7-RAID
2x 512mb Corsair XMS3200
ATI Radeon 9700Pro
Leadtek TV2000XP tv capture card
Audigy2
Intel Pro 1000MT Gigabit NIC
3x Western Digital 80gb SE
LiteOn 48x12x48 CDRW
LiteOn 16x48 DVD
LiteOn 52x CDROM
Panasonic floppy
CoolerMaster ATC-111SX1 w/ 4 blue LED fans
300W Enermax PSU w/ blue LED fan
Dell 2000FP 20.1" UXGA LCD (DVI)
Logitech MX700
Logitech Cordless Comfort Pro
RatPad
Sennheiser 590 headphones
Infinity speakers(2.0 )
Windows XP Pro
 
 
 
ATHENA: (File Server & Bitch Box)
P2 266 (hope to upgrade to >400mhz P2 or P3)
IBM Proprietary 440BX motherboard
3x32mb PC100 (to be upgraded to 3x 128 PC100 by the end of the month)
onboard S3 Trio3d 4mb
Crystal Audio
Intel 55x onboard 10/100
SMC EtherEZ 10mb (for DHCP services)
Seagate 10gb hdd
Maxtor 8gb hdd
Hitachi 32x CDROM
Panasonic floppy
IBM Personal Computer 300PL
145W PSU
Dell 2000FP 20.1" UXGA LCD (Analog @ 1024x768)
HP PS2 Whellmouse
Gateway2000 PS2 Keyboard
RatPad
Windows 2000 Advanced Server (hell, I got it for free for taking the course, might as well use it)
 
CERERUS: My laptop
Pentium3 900
Toshiba Proprietary i815 motherboard
2x 256 PC100
GeForce2 Go 16mb
AC-97 audio
Realtek 8139a onboard
Orinoco Silver Wireless PCMCIA
56k Softmodem
IBM 20gb hdd
Toshiba 8x DVD
Toshiba floppy
Satellite 3000 -S353
14.1" XGA LCD
MS Intellimouse Explorer 3.0a
Everglide LAP (blue Complimentary)
Windows XP Pro
 
 
 
 
 
this system just got pushed back till Spring/summer, but here's what she's got so far....just sitting.:
 
EVILution:
Lian Li PC-7323b black full tower w/ 6 blue LED fans
Antec TrueBlue 480W PSU w/ blue LED fans
Intel Pro/1000MT gigabit NIC
LiteOn 48x12x48 black CDRW
LiteOn 16x48 black DVD
LSI Logic MegaRAID i4 RAID 5 controller
2 Vantec black EZ-Swap w/ LCD
1 WD 100gb SE for OS
4 WD 100gb SE for RAID 5 stripe.(will wait until I have 4 more to upgrade the array)
Seagate 10gb for Linux
ratpadz
Dell 2000fp 20.1" 1600x1200 native DVI LCD (Charon will use the PL150 15" LCD)
Windows XP Pro (on the 100gb OS drive)
RedHat 8.x (on the 10gb drive)
 
 
Intentions are for a Canterwood/HT chip, 1GB PC3500, and the fastest card I can fit in my budget (that being a 9900 Pro or an Nv30)

Quote:Although I am not an AMD fan, I would take a look at the Nforce2 boards, Mr. Guvernment... I know Asus has some microatx boards with the Nforce2 chipset.

thing is i don't want to buy a new cpu - be a waste of my 1.8 i already got. otherwise i likely would take a look.

Oops! I didn't even see that! Sorry...

My latest creation:
 
OTEP (LAN/showoff box)
-Iwill XP333-R (ALi Magik1)
-Athlon XP2000+@ 1.80GHz (2200+)
-256MB PC2700 (Samsung)
-ATi Radeon 8500LE @ 292/317 (no voltage mods as of yet)
-Hercules Fortissimo II
-Netgear FA-11 10/100 NIC
-Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM
-Samsung 52x CD-ROM
-Sparkle 300W ATX 2.03 PSU
-Heavily moddified Super Case Midtower

I just ordered this as a new Domain Controller & SQL Server to control 5 remote workstations over 128k ISDN lines & 4 home dial-ins for Terminal Services:
 
Arrakis:
Dell Poweredge 1600SC
Dual PIII Xeon 2.0gHz
1024mb RAM DIMM
Dual 74gb 10k SCSI HD in RAID 1
ATI RAGE XL 8mb
Floppy Drive
Tape Backup Unit DDS 20/40gb
Dual Intel Gigabit Ethernet NICs
Top Quality 56k Modem
Redundant Power Supply
CTX 19" Monitor (Existing)
USB Keyboard/Mouse
Power Cord
Handling & Insurance
3 years Next Business Day Parts & Labour
English Documentation
 
Running Win2k Server w/10 Lic

You'll like that PowerEdge!
 
 
Practicing >net Server on mine.

i wasnt aware that they made a p3 xeon @2ghz

Well the invoice from Dell says:
 
POWEREDGE 1600SC, INTEL XEON PROCESSOR 2.0GHZ/400FSB.
PROCESSOR #2, INTEL XEON PROCESSOR 2.0GHZ/400FSB.
 
Thus I have to believe that I'm getting a Dual Xeon rig.
Next I'll have to do my MCs and my CCNA so that I get payed more for running this system.

They're Xeon's. Just Xeon's. When Intel put out the Pentium 4 line of higher end CPU's (besides Itanic), they dropped the Pentium X part and just called 'em Xeon's.

Well i dumped my huge PC and got these instead here is 1 of my new things...
 
http://www.btinternet.com/~m4carbine/shuttle.jpg
 
Thats the intel 1, 1.6@2.3, 512mb, 80gb hdd, radeon 9700pro
 
but i really fancied trying amd again, so its now turned into 1 with an NF2 Chipset, an XP2100+ @ 2700+ , 512mb, 80gb hdd and a radeon 9700pro.
 
Cant say im sorry i switched at all, this amd one is without doubt 1 of the best machines i have ever owned, easily the match for any intel system ive ever owned in stability, not 1 crash so far. (and so tiny!) Havent got pics of the amd 1 but if anyone wants 1 i can always post some

going to be building a pretyt new rig for ym uncles.
 
he always uses intel - tiold him to try AMD for once.
 
i want to get him (and he usually gets what i recommend)
 
a dual 3000+ set up - if not, one for now.
 
waiting for ATI to pop out more 256mb cards or see what their new r350 can do.
 
 
not sure of the rest of the details yet. - likely dual 19" trinitrons, - or possibly LCD's if by the time we get to that part prices are decent.

LOL And old but goodie
 
Win 2000 pro
Pent 3 600
600 megs of ram
Asus P3BF MB
Matrox G400 32 MEG AGP Video Card
SB Sound Card
Labtec Speakers
Viewsonic Pro 19 inch monitor
Microsoft Optical 5 button Mouse
Logitech Internet keyboard
IBM Scanner
HP 952 Photo color printer
Iomega 100 meg zip drive
 
 
After I graduate I will buy a completely new system with a 24 inch Sony Monitor.
 

I'm a happy camper now.
My PowerEdge finally arrived today and it's one heavy sumbitch too.
 
On another note:
Does anyone have opinions on Mark Minasi's Win2k books.
Amazon and Amazon users give them a good rating and I was thinking of buying them.
 
The ones I am looking at getting are:
Mastering Windows 2000 Server
Mastering Windows 2000 Professional
 
Combined they are $AU285.
Thus I would like to know what ppl think and if there are better books out there.
Thanks,
F

Macintosh G3 450 MHz - Mac OS 10.2.4
512 SDRAM 100Mhz
20 Gig 7200
SDSL 768/768
 
Lots of other things .... servers, workstations, one thing I like to brag about is my 18 inch flat pannel