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[drz01]

Post your rig

As you may see that I am serious about the sound of my system. Aside from the normal stuff like monitor, printers (colour & laser), scanner web cam and cpu I have a few extras that the normal computer buff may have.
Here is the system.
Athlon XP 3000+
ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe
1gig ram
ATI AIW 9600 XT
Samsung Monitor
6 hard drives (60 gig boot, 30 gig backup, 80 gig audio files, 40 gig video files, 30 gig backup, 120 gig audio files)
400 watt PS
Hardware DVD Card Hollywood Magic
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS
DVD – RAM
CD RW
2 Printers
Scanner
Digital Cam
Web Cam
Gamepad
Wheel


Now for the not so normal stuff..
500 Watt receiver (Sansui)
200 Watt Amp for bass (Marantz)
ADS3way speakers front
ADS2way speakers back
ADS centre speaker
Homemade Sub (2x10 speakers)
SVHS Video Deck
Camcorder
Turntable
Region and Macrovision free DVD player

So here is my rig lets see yours…

 

[breezie]

Pentium 4 3.0C @ 3.6
MSI Neo2 865PE Mobo
2x 512mb PC4000 Kingston HyperX
Radeon 9800 PRO w/ VGA Silencer and OCZ Ramsinks
ATI TV Wonder VE
Soundblaster Live 5.1
2x 160gb Maxtor Diamond 9 on Raid 0
1x 120gb Western Digital 8mb cache
IO Magic 52x CDRW
Pioneer Slot Load DVD
Antec True 330watt PSU
Aspire X-Dreamer II case with Round IDE Cables
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Cambridge Soundworks FPS2000 speakers
NEC 17' LCD
Samsung 17' CRT
Dell Axim X5 Advance PDA
Logitech MX Duo
Logitech Clicksmart 310 Webcam
Canon S230 Digi
LG V6000 Cell Phone
Epson Printer (pos)


--ok that's all i remember---

 

[ElementalDragon]

wow...... Gonaads, about the CD-RW..... buying a new one wouldn't be THAT bad of an ideal. lol. i mean come on. 16x/10x/42x!! that's friggin slow!! i can probably fill a DVD faster than you can fill a CD wit that thing, and my DVD Burner is a 4x

 

[Xie]

wow...... Gonaads, about the CD-RW..... buying a new one wouldn't be THAT bad of an ideal. lol. i mean come on. 16x/10x/42x!! that's friggin slow!! i can probably fill a DVD faster than you can fill a CD wit that thing, and my DVD Burner is a 4x

Wait and see in the long run who's cds stay error free longer.

 

[gonaads]

I've been thinkin of putting my CD Burner into one of my Daughter's XP boxes. and getting a new one anyway.

Either the TDK veloCD 52x ... $99.00 (attachment 1)

Write Speed ... 52X
Rewrite Speed ... 24X
Read Speed ... 48X
Rip Speed ... 48X
Burst Read ... 16.6 MB/sec.
Data Buffer ... 2 MB

Or the Midnight veloCD ... $169.99 (attachment 2)

Combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive
Write Speed ... 48X
Rewrite Speed ... 24X
Read Speed ... 48X
Rip Speed ... 48X
DVD Read Speed ... 16X
Burst Read ... 16.6 MB/sec.
Data Buffer ... 2 MB

Now the Midnight is the exact same frickin color as my case, *drools* but I already have a DVD-ROM drive.

Now the veloCD 52/24/48X, it's blue... Well the tray anyway. Now it would look very nice also. The important thing is, it's CHEAPER!

Now you may ask, why TDK? I have had excellent results with my Burner. And yeah, my CDs are error free.


Ooooooo... TigerDirect.com has the veloCD 52/24/48X for $79.99 and a $20.00 rebate. Best of all it's balck. (attachment 3) WooHoo!

 

[dreamliner77]

Eh, just get a black liteon 52327s. They're cheap, and is probably the same drive as the TDK.

 

[SPeedY_B]

PowerMac G4

• Dual 1.25GHz PowerPC G4
• DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - 2GB (4x512MB)
• IBM / Hitachi 80Gb 7200rpm Hard Disk
• IBM / Hitachi 120Gb 7200rpm Hard Disk
• Toshiba Combodrive (DVD/CD-RW)
• 20" Apple Cinema Display (Active Matrix LCD - 1680x1050)
• ATI Radeon 9000 AGP - 64mb
• D-Link DSL-300G+ Ethernet ADSL Modem
• Apple Pro Keyboard
• Apple Pro Mouse
• Apple Pro Speakers
• Gigabit ethernet
• Apple iSight WebCam
• 40GB 3rd Generation iPod + Remote + Dock
• Fujifilm Finepix A201 Digital Camera
• Gemini EX-26 Mixer
• 600 Watt Audio-Warrior SB600 Amplifier (real watts, not the crap PC speakers are rated at)
• 2x 15 Inch Zebra DJZ1550 P.A. Speakers

Windows Box

• 1000Mhz AMD Athlon Thunderbird
• ChainTech 7VJDA Main board
• Mercury ATX Switching PSU - 300w
• DDR-SDRAM PC2100 - 512mb
• Creative Sound Blaster PCI128 (WDM)
• Fujitsi MPG3204AT 20.4GB 5400rpm Hard Disk
• Samsung CD-R/RW SW-408B (8x8x32)
• LiteOn DVD-Rom 16x
• Hauppauge WinTV GO Card
• 17" Hansol 710P - max 1600x1200 @ 75hz
• nVidia GeForce 2 MX 400 AGP - 64mb
• USRobotics Sportster Flash PnP 56k External Modem
• Genius Keyboard
• Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical 1.0A (5-Button)

More pictures can be seen here: Link

 

[gonaads]

Nope... Liteon is what use to be JVC. Liteon bought JVC.

TDK is TDK. And I like my TDK.

TDK Corporation (NYSE:TDK) - global electronics company focused on ferrite materials, electronic components and semiconductors, wireless computer networking products, magnetic heads for hard disk drives, and digital recording hardware and media.

 

[indyjones]

What about plextor thy make black drives ?

 

[sean.ferguson]

12" iBook G4

• OSX 10.3.3
• 800MHz PowerPC G4 Processor 256K L2 Caché
• 133MHz System Bus
• 640MB PC2700 DDR-Ram
• 40GB Ultra ATA
• Slot-loading Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
• 12.1-inch (diagonal) TFT XGA
• ATi Mobility Radeon 9200 with 32MB of DDR SDRAM
• One FireWire 400 port at up to 400 Mbps
• Two USB 2.0 ports (480-Mbps each)
• Video mirroring supports VGA video out to an external display or projector (requires included Apple VGA Video Adapter) and S-video and composite video out to a TV or VCR (requires optional Apple Video Adapter, sold separately).
• Built-in 56K V.92 modem
• Built-in 10/100BASE-T Ethernet
• AirPort Extreme
• Bluetooth

Slackware Box

• Slackware 9.1 (2.6.6)
• 600MHz Intel Celeron
• 64MB PC133 SDRAM
• 6GB IDE HDD
• 12x CDROM
• 12.1 -inch TFT XGA
• Cyberglade Trident II 16MB
• Built-in 56K V.90 modem

Both are going to be going up for sale soon

 

[Henyman]

Laptop:
Toshiba A30-141
Mobile Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
1024Mb Crucial pc2700
Mobility Radeon 9000 with 128Mb DDR
30Gb drive
CD-RW/DVD Rom
15" screen (1024*768)
Linksys 54G wireless card
Adaptive cooling
2 X usb 2.0
4 pin firewire
Tv out
Parrelel port
Serial port
built in lan card
internal v90 modem
Logitech Quickcam Zoom Webcam
Microsoft optical Mouse

i also have a main Pc, but it's crap:
HP Pavillion 7945
P4 1.5GHz
512mb p133 sdram
40Gb 5200 RPM harddrive
Geforce 2 mx 200 with 32Mb ram
17" crt
10 USB 1.1 ports (6 + hub)
2 serial ports
2 paralllel ports
speakers + microphone
wireless mouse + keyboard
internal 56k modem
scanner
camera

 

[Unleashed]

Athlon XP 3000+
MSI K7N2 Delta - L
512Mb Crucial PC3200 DDR RAM
Radeon 9800 PRO with VGA Silencer
Soundblaster Live! 5.1
1 x 60gb IBM/Hitachi Desktar 180GXP
1 x 120gb IBM/Hitachi Desktar 180GXP
Artec 16x40x DVD-ROM
Artec 52x32x52 CD-RW
Dual Fan 550W PSU
6050MD Black modded with side window, 3 blue LED fans and a blue cathode tube and blue round IDE cables
19" CRT monitor

 

[mooo]

p4 2.8
1gig Crucial 3200 DDR
Radeon 9600 pro
soublaster audixy (spell)
1x110gig
1x100gig
tdk 12x8x32 cdrw
Pioneer A06 4X DVD(+-)R/RW
17 crt monitor

 

[Xie]

Nope... Liteon is what use to be JVC. Liteon bought JVC.

TDK is TDK. And I like my TDK.

Actually my TDK dvd burner is a rebadged plextor

 

[gonaads]

Really??? hmmm....
I do remember something about Plextor and TDK, but I don't recall what it was. It did have something to do with their Drives.

 

[Shrek]

My PC:
AMD Athlon 2800+ @ 2.2Ghz
Asus A7N8X-X
2 x 256 PC3200 DDR
ATI 9800Pro
Sound Blaster Audigy
80 gig Samsung 7200rpm
40 gig Maxtor 5400rpm
MS IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0
Logitech Internet Navigator Keyboard
Hyundai ImageQuest Q17 17" TFT
Epsom printer
Alloy case
Coolermaster Muskerteer
Webcam
Logic 3 speakers
500W Dual Fan PSU
Lite-on 16x DVD
Lite-on 40x12x48 CDRW

Other stuff:
Sony RXD8S hifi
Sony FM cordless headphones
Pace Freeview box
Toshiba 28" TV
Green Xbox
Black US Gamecube with wavebird
Dreamcast with Arcade Stick and Samba de Amigo maracas
Olympus C-120 Digicam

 

[ElementalDragon]

Xie... jus to let you know, an older, slower drive probably would have a better chance of having buffer underrun errors than a newer faster drive. Buffer Underrun protection rox.

Gonaads, i rather like Asus's CD-RW drives. work quite well. i've had it for i think close to 2 years, and i think i only had like 1 coaster each year. i actually had one yesterday, which i'm not exactly sure if it's a coaster yet or not. The Error that Nero gave me was "Could not perform fixation"..... sounds kinda creepy if ya ask me. You could also try getting a black DVD+/-RW. Mine's a LiteOn. got it for like $93 at the Market Pro's Computer Show. it also came wit a free copy of DVD X Copy, which alone is like a $60 program.

 

[Glaanieboy]

Workstation:
MSI-6309 mainboard
Pentium III 800MHz @ 133 Mhz
2x 128MB SD-RAM (Samsung and Kingston)
30 GB 7200rpm, ATA133 harddisk (Maxtor)
16x DVD, 40X CD-ROM drive (NEC)
24x10x40 CD-writer (Samsung)
Geforce 3 Ti200 videocard (Creative) (running at 190.40MHz core and 419.99 MHz memory)
Soundblaster Live! Digital 5.1 (Creative)
Cheap ass Realtek 10/100mbit networkcard

Attached to the workstation:
Creative Inspire 5300 5.1 speakers
Samsung Syncmaster 151s 15" TFT
Canon S750 printer
Canon D646u scanner
Sweex 100K pixels webcam
Logitech Cordless Optical Desktop
Cradle for the Compaq iPaq 31xx/36xx series

Server:
MSI-6430 Mini-ATX mainboard
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1 GHz
128MB SD-RAM (unknown brand, couldn't be bothered to pull it out to check the brand)
20 GB 5400 rpm, ATA133 harddisk (Maxtor)
8x4x24x CD-writer
nVidia Riva TNT2 Ultra 32 MB (Diamond Viper v770 Ultra)
on-board sound (disabled, not needed in a server)
Via-based 10/100mbit, goldplated netword card (Qware)

Attached to the server:
cheap, snotty keyboard (used for emergencies only, configuration goes via a SSH shell)
HP Laserjet 4L printer (for network printing jobs)

These two computers are interconnected through a router using a built-in 10/100mbit switch. This router is connected to a cable-modem running at 2048kbps down and 384 kbps up.

Seperate stuff:
Compaq iPaq 3630 with Pocket PC2002.

 

[drz01]

Shrek a man after my own heart. I actually cleaned up my desk before i took the picture... I also hook my rig to a 27" flat screen for gams and stuff.

 

[gonaads]

Xie... jus to let you know, an older, slower drive probably would have a better chance of having buffer underrun errors than a newer faster drive. Buffer Underrun protection rox.

Gonaads, i rather like Asus's CD-RW drives. work quite well. i've had it for i think close to 2 years, and i think i only had like 1 coaster each year. i actually had one yesterday, which i'm not exactly sure if it's a coaster yet or not. The Error that Nero gave me was "Could not perform fixation"..... sounds kinda creepy if ya ask me. You could also try getting a black DVD+/-RW. Mine's a LiteOn. got it for like $93 at the Market Pro's Computer Show. it also came wit a free copy of DVD X Copy, which alone is like a $60 program.

Hey Elemental... TDK and Plextor have had buffer underrun technology for like forever.

The first anti-buffer underrun technology, Buffer Under Run-Proof (Burn-Proof), was developed by Sanyo back in 1999.They introduced it with their 12x writer. Then everyone was either licensing the technology or like Ricoh and Yamaha, they created their own version.

So older drives (depending on manufacturer) would still have "Buffer Underrun Technology"


and ummm, "Could not perform fixation".

I think Nero like you.