Proposed Forum Members Gear Sticky

[SeeMoreDigital]

Like many members on the forum I've opted to detail the specifications of some of my computer gear within my signature.

But given that you can use up to 500 letters in your sig, if every member used this facility the threads would soon look very untidy....

Anyway, I was wondering whether it might be useful to have a dedicated sticky located somewhere on the forum where members could list the specifications of their computer gear and/or maybe even their audio/video gear as well. Each member could then place a link in their sig pointing to their "gear" post.

To get the ball rolling (so to speak) I've placed a list of my gear is in the post below this one....


But.... What do you guys think?

[SeeMoreDigital]

HOME SERVER/BACK-UP COMPUTER: -
CPU: 2.8GHz Pentium 4 (CoreDuo) |
RAM: 4GB (via 4No 1024MB modules) |
INTERNAL HDD's: 80GB (Boot Drive) | 500GB (Temp Back-up) |
EXTERNAL HDD's: Xtreamer eTRAYz with 2No 1TB disk drives |
EXTERNAL DISC DRIVES: LG GGC-H20L hybrid ROM drive |

HOME THEATRE GEAR: -
HIGH-DEF 1080P TV: Panasonic TH-46PZ81B (DVB-T/S2) |
SATELLITE RECEIVER: SkyDigital (DVB-S) | VBox (DVB-C) |
SURROUND SOUND AMP: Onkyo TX-SR607 |
NETWORK MEDIA PLAYERS: Ziova CS615 | Xtreamer Mk1 | XtreamerPro | XtreamerPro |
BLUE LASER PLAYERS: Toshiba HD-EP35 (HD-DVD) | Panasonic DMP-BD35 (Blu-ray) |
VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDER: JVC HR-S7500 (SVHS) |
LASER DISC PLAYER: Pioneer CLD-1450 |

HI-FI GEAR: -
AMPLIFIER: Audiolab 8000A |
CD/DVD-A/SACD PLAYER: Pioneer DV-575A |
SPEAKERS: KEF 103.2 |
CASSETTE PLAYER: Sony
TURNTABLE:

[Mug Funky]

yeah, sounds like a good idea. not sure how useful a lot of it is (it's more a hardware forum thing where this info is needed), but it's good to know what everyone's using.

geek box:

- athlon 64 3500 939 pin
- gigabyte k8 triton nforce 4 blah blah mobo
- gigabyte GF 6600 gt w/ 256 ram, PCI-e
- 1 gig RAM (expanding soon...why not?)
- 650 gigs in various drives (also expanding soon - there's still lots of empty drive bays in my box)
- 19" trinitron (ex-gov IBM with dents in, but nice picture)
- V-Stream DVB-T PCI
- antec sonata (quiet!) case.

A/V equipment:

- no-name 68cm CRT TV w/ composite, YC and component inputs (and warped edges, but a clean enough picture for monitoring encodings)
- crapful DVX mpeg-4/DVD player that decodes mpeg-2 wrong
- yamaha a-250 reciever (65 watts of justice, 2ch)
- jensen dx-7 speakers (130 watt, 35-24000 Hz)
- koss R-80 headphones (totally need the pads replaced... ew. great sound though)
- cables everywhere, linking everything with everything else

[Doom9]

not sure how useful a lot of it isMy point exactly.. it isn't really useful except in rare cases. And even in hardware forums I see it more as a form of gloating than anything else.

[Doom9]

@Forum moron (p.s. with such a name if somebody calls you moron I'll have a hard time justifying a strike seeing as this is half of your username): I think I already made that point. I currently have a PC to show off as well but there's really no need for me to show off.. And if there are hardware problems, we have a hardware forum where you can post specs where appropriate.

[sNNooPY]

I agree with Doom9.
If someone has problems, let him include his gear description in the post.
By posting here...this thread would have become huge, and searching the thread for a specific user, well...it would be rather messy.

[SeeMoreDigital]

By posting here...this thread would have become huge, and searching the thread for a specific user, well...it would be rather messy.Not if you create a link to your individual post in this thread ;)

[sNNooPY]

Not if you create a link to your individual post in this thread
didn't think of that...um..um...sounds good. I'm for it! :cool:

[Dayvon]

My gear:

HTPC: -
Case: MicroFly MicroATX Cube Case
CPU: 3.0 GHz e6400 Intel Core2Duo
MoBo: Gigabyte GA-G33M-DSR2 Socket775
RAM: OCZ Reaper 4GB DDR2-1066 PC8500
Video: Nvidia 9600GT 512MB
Audio: Creative Extigy - External USB Soundcard
Internal DVD~R/RW Drive: Lite-on
Internal HDD Drives: 500GB-SATAII | 500GB-SATAII
Input Devices: Logitech MX700, ATI Remote Wonder II
O/S: WinXP SP3

WorkLaptop: -
Make: Apple MacBookPro 15"
CPU: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
RAM: 2GB DDR3
Video: Nvidia 9600M GT
Audio: Internal
Optical Drive: Superdrive DVDRW
Internal HDD Drives: 250GB
Input Devices: Multitouch Trackpad
O/S: Mac OSX
Software: Final Cut Studio 3

A/V GEAR: -
Display: Panasonic 42" LCD 1920x1080p via HDMI
DVD Player: HTPC :D
Speakers: Logitech Z-560's 4.1 system

[Doom9]

well, if you want gloat, you can have it:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
Shuttle SN25P barebone system
2x 512 MB PC3200 Kingston HyperX DDR RAM CL2
Gigabyte Geforce 7800GT GFX card, 256MB
Primary HD: WD Raptor 150GB (10k RPM, SATA II)
Secondary HD: Hitachi Deskstar 250 GB (7.2k RPM, SATA II)
NEC ND3540A (unfortunately not SATA, NEC: step up to the plate and give me SATA)
Primary monitor: DELL 3007WFP (2560x1600, dual link DVI)
Secondary monitor: Philips 230W5B2 (1920x1080, single link DVI)

Still, I just had to gloat a little since I recently upgraded my box (Raptor & the most awsome screen there is for a PC (which by the way supports 1280x800 as a native resolution.. it's a quarter of what the display can do so it just puts 4 pixels together and treats it as one.. makes it an excellent choice for DVD playback without much of any scaling)..

[zilog jones]

I'm certainly not gloating about my... well junk:

"Good" PC:
- Pentium III-EB 933MHz
- Gigabyte 6VX7-4X mobo (Via Apollo Pro 133A chipset)
- 512MB PC133 SD-RAM
- GeForce 2 Ti 64MB (it's only...five generations old)
- 80GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7
- 20GB IBM Deskstar (I found it in some crappy Duron system being thrown out ^_^)
- Sony DDU1621 DVD-ROM drive (really a rebranded Lite-On)
- USB 2.0 PCI card (NEC controller)
- Crappy 17" Gateway EV700 CRT monitor - getting darker every day!
- Win98SE/Win2k/Ubuntu 5.10

AV stuff:
- 14" Hitachi CRT TV (UHF only as it was bought in the UK, so useless for cable here - handy for monitoring VHS captures though)
- Crap JVC HR-J595EK VHS VCR (only good thing about it is the heads are new and clean)
- Yamada DVD-6500X DVD/MPEG4 player
- Sony CMT-CPX11 MP3 CD hi-fi
- '91 Pioneer A-P710 component hi-fi (I plug the PC into the "LD" inputs)

Now I have a real job for 7 months I can hopefully afford a real PC!

(EDIT - 7 months later)...And I did :D :
- Core 2 Duo E6300
- MSI 975X Platinum PowerUp Edition (i975X chipset)
- 2x512MB PC2-4200 DDR2 RAM
- GeForce 7600GT 256MB
- NEC ND-3520AW DVD burner
- Pinnacle PCTV Stereo (Philips SAA7134) capture card
- WD Caviar 320GB HDD
- Dell P991 19" Trinitron
- Windows XP Pro SP2/Kubuntu 6.10
- Maxtor External 300GB USB/FireWire HDD

[siddharthagandhi]

Wow. My Computer Sucks.

[Rockas]

Just to make you envy (is the spell correct?)... I won't post anything :D
I have 6 PCs so it would be a lot of trouble to put them here :o

[Scorpion_fg]

Primary PC:
Toshiba Satellite M60 Notebook
- 1,73 GHz Pentium M 740
- 1GB DDR2 RAM
- 80GB HDD
- ATI Mobility Radeon X700 128MB
- 17" Widescreen TFT (1440x900)
- WinXP Pro SP2

Server:
- AMD K6-2 450 MHz (hoping to upgrade to VIA-EPIA soon)
- ASUS P5-B Mainboard
- 384MB RAM
- 1x 16GB IBM DTTA
- 2x 100GB IBM 7200RPM (RAID-0)
- 32MB TNT2
- FreeBSD

Still standing around:
- AMD Athlon 1,2GHz
- Shuttle AK32A Mainboard
- 512MB RAM DDR266 CL2
- GForce 2 GTS 64MB
- 250GB Samsung

[NULUSIOS]

Display: Hitachi 42" high-def 16:9 Panel

Erm... no offence but that doesn't say much for the specs, does it?

What is high-def for your display?

[NULUSIOS]

Server/main machine: P4@3.2GHz, 1GB HT RAM, 160GB SATA, Asus mobo, nVidia 6600Pro/256MB, WinTV/Radio, 2x DVD-R DL (one lightscribe), Win2003Srv.

Multimedia/gaming machine: P4@3.2GHz EM64T, 1GB RAM, 200GB SATA, Asus mobo, ATI X700Pro/256MB (bliah - this machine has seen better days), Audigy2, DVD-R, WinXP x64 (not sure I've done good).

...both machines on an Eizo 17" TFT.

HEPC: P4@2.6GHz, 512MB HT RAM, 120GB SATA, on-board 7.1 audio card, great Ahanix silver case with VFD, Chaintech Zenith mobo, Hauppauge PVR-350 TV, Logitech z-550 5.1 speakers (great for the price), Marmitek PC Control remote (IR/RF), DiNovo keyboard/mouse/mediapad (great), WinXP SP2 and MediaPortal... all this on an old 21" Sony WEGA CRT TV.

...plus three removable disks (USB2/FW/FW800): 1x500GB, 2x320GB.

...plus various other things I forget or want to forget.

Soon:

- Replace TV with Amoi LC37AF1E TrueHD 1080p 37" LCD (maybe within the month).
- Better gfx card for the multimedia machine.
- Maybe the whole HEPC will switch to something different (inside).
- A nice MCE/3D mouse/remote I've seen coming soon.
- Add DVB-T/S card(s).

[Unrealbr]

Ykes, here we go.
HTPC/GAMING PC and ENCODING PC
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13ghz
Asus P5NSLI MoBo
1GB DDR2-667 Kingston @ 4-4-4-15
VGA: XFX GeForce 6800XT 512mb DDR3 350/1000 @ 465/1200
Crappy Casemall Solid Case (needs replacement)
HD1: 80gb Seagate 7200rpm 8mb buffer for windows
HD2: 320gb MAXTOR 7200rpm w/ 16mb buffer for files.
Monitor: LG Flatron 795FT Plus
Soundcard: Onboard AZALIA 6.1 HD
Speakers: Creative Inspire 6.1 6600 120rms

TV: CCE 21" A/V IN and S-VIDEO IN ... great crap but thats all i got.
VCR: JVC 1999 random crap.

PS: I got money enough to buy a new 320gb HD or a new CASE, i dunno wich one i should buy. Btw, PLASMA/LCD TVs are still too expensive here so i cant afford :(


EEK, almost forgot the soundcard and speakers

[SpAwN_gUy]

ehm.. as far as i've made a BETA(not final.. soon to come) upgrade.. i think i'll post too..
HOME/Gaming and Video watching:
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E6300 (soon to be overclocked)
MB: ASUS P5WDG2 WS Pro
MEMORY: 2x 1024Mb Apacer DDR2 667(i guess)
Case: FSP 350W Black
HDD: 250Gb SATA Seagate | 320Gb SATA WD | 250Gb USB2.0-IDE WD (Portable Floppy ;) )
DVD: ASUS ... (something Pioneer 111A within) | NEC 3540 (patched)
Video(temp..): GF 7600GS 256Mb (soon to be Radeon x1950)
Monitor: 17" LG TFT (old one...)

WORK(x264farm controller): p4-HT/IntelMB/512DDR/120Gb+40Gb IDE HDD

thanks

[Blue_MiSfit]

What fun...

Main PC:
Corsair HX520 in Antec P180
Core 2 Quad @ 3GHz w/ Scythe Ninja (silent)
Asus P5K-E Motherboard
2x 2 GB DDR2 800 MHz @ 667
eVGA GeForce 8800gt
LiteON DVDRW
LiteON BDROM
Xbox360 HD-DVD
2x 500GB HDD
3x 250GB HDD

Lappy:
Dell Latitude D630 - 15.4" Wide
Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz
2GB DDR2 667
DVDRW
120GB HDD
WiFi, GSM, Bluetooth

Audio Gear (shared between the 2):
E-Mu 0202 USB Audio Interface
Sennheiser HD-580
Sony MDR-7506
Klipsch ProMedia 5.1 with sketchy volume pots :D

HTPC:
Dell Sempron 3000+
1GB DDR2 533
Radeon 2400pro
Hooked up via component to my Toshiba 37" SDTV CRT :D

Camera Stuff:
Canon Digital Rebel XTi (400D)
Canon 17-40mm F/4 L
Canon 70-200mm F/4 L IS <3
Usual accessories

Oh.. and an iPhone... and a 2003 Infiniti G35 - but those are pretty out of scope... until I build a car pc!!!

That's about it for now...

[SeeMoreDigital]

Jeeeez,

You've got loads of good stuff :eek:

[Adub]

ASUS P5B Deluxe
E6600
4 GB DDR2 800 RAM
2x 250GB
1x 500GB
ATI X1950Pro (soon to be 8800GTS Volt Modded!!)
Fortron 700w in Antec 900.

19" Benq 1280x1024

[setarip_old]

Abacus and an Etch-a-Sketch

[HymnToLife]

Clay tablets.

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