[crimsonc]

My main computer is a Compaq Presario which has held up the last few years. It's running;

AMD Athlon 3000+
512MB DDR RAM (I may have upgraded this, I honestly don't remember)
ATI Radeon 9200 128Mb graphics card

Everything else is onboard except the wireless controller card

I also have a Dell Inspirion wide-screen laptop

Both are running XP Home Edition. I did have XP Pro on the Compaq but took it off after corruption.

[Tom_Sean]

Laptop - Aspire 5101 AWLMI

AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology MK36 (2.0 GHz, 512KB L2 cache)
15.4 WXGA Wide CristalBrite TFT LCD
ATI Mobility Radeon X 1300 512MB HyperMemory
60GB PATA HDD
DVD-Super Multi double layer (support DVD+R Double Layer/DVD+-RW)
2x512MB DDR2

[CompGal]

I have a Hewlett Packard.machine. I don't know much about it though as far as specs. I've been told I got a good deal on it. It's been running pretty well the whole time I've had it (more than a year). I'm having trouble with the mouse now though.

[SimonTrucker]

I've got a custom build based on what I could afford at the time, total was about £300, reusing my old keyboard, mouse and very old monitor.

I did a bit of research on the net to price up the bits I wanted, for a machine quick enough for what I needed it to do and what I could afford, with-out having to go for a cigarette break while waiting for it to do a task

I then took my spec sheet to my local shop and asked them to give me a quote on it.
They quoted £10 more than I could build it for, so they got the job.
A week later I went back and collected :-

1.15 GHz AMD Athlone,
120 Gb 7200 Maxtor HDD,
512 Mb RAM,
nVidia G Force 2 mx card,
on a PC Chips DDR 333 mobo.

Nothing special, even back then, but adequate for my needs and a huge step up from the 386 I had been using before this one.

Since then I've upgraded to a 160 Gb HDD, same spec otherwise, because the 120 gave up the ghost and I've put in another 256 RAM stick.

I'm considering a faster cpu, another 256 of ram and a better video card, possibly a decent sound card, but none of them are essential for the way I use it.

My first computer was a Commodore 64, with tape drive (an old cassette tape player).
Second was a 133MHz and then the 386
I've used C++, Windows 3.1 with DOS 6.2, Windows 95 and 98 and now XP Pro with sp2

[grush]

3 home builds1xc2d 1xamd 64 3.7 1xamd duron 450, I build Frankensteins from scrounged parts to give away to the less fortunate

[alex]

Originally Posted by grush

I build Frankensteins from scrounged parts to give away to the less fortunate

Nice one. :)

[wiseman]

I have a Compaq (soon to up graded) atm i am running on a

AMD Aempron Processor 3000+ 1800 MHz
512mb Ram
Mainboard - MSI AMETHYST-M
Graffics Card - ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series
O/S - XP home SP2

Soon to be

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Prosessor
EVGA GeForce 8600GT 256MB PCI-E DVI Graffics Card
OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 ReaperHPC (2 x 1GB) Ram Abit AB9 PRO i965 WiFi Edition Mother Board
Tacens Valeo 560W Smart PSU
total cost - £402

With probably Windows XP home

[alex]

Mine's changed rather a lot since my original post

Case: Lian Li V2000
Mobo: Asus Commando
Cpu: X6800 Core2 @ 3.19ghz
Ram: Corsair XMS2 CL4
Gpu: 640mb 8800GTS (Vanilla,soon to be oc'd)
Hdd: Samsung Spinpoint 250
Psu: Enermax Galaxy 850w
Tft: Samsung 244T
Ext hdd's: 2x320gb, 1x160gb,1x750gb

[RUNDOWN666]

hey guys i no nothing about the hardware side of computers but i have an HP invent laptop it has:
AMD Turion x2 (does this mean its a duo core)
NVIDIA GeForce 7200
when i right click my computer and look at the specs it says that the processor speed is 1.61 with 1GB RAM to me this sounds good but if this comp is duo core isnt !.61 pretty pants cna some on please get back to me and let me know if there is something wrong with it coz it runs a bit slow on some games although it will play Battle field 2142 fine

[RUNDOWN666]

hey again guys i actually have a HP pavillion dv6000 does this mean anything to you
and when talking about core 2 processors when it say AMD turion x2 1.61GB does that mean in total there is actually 3.22 GB of processing speed. im not sure if that sound dumb coz i dont know much bout hardware