Who's got the crappiest system here? - Tilted Forum Project - TFP - Sexuality, Philosophy and Political Discussion

Tex · 08-15-2003, 06:48 PM

Hey, just wanna see if anyone can top my monster of a computer.

Right now I am running a...

Athlon 750
384 mb of ram
20 gig HD
GeForce 2 MX
SoundBlaster Live!
17' monitor

I'm in dire need of an upgrade, but I'm just a poor college student trying to get by.

Hanabal · 08-15-2003, 07:22 PM

omg you call that crappy, Im in envy,
P3 600
64 Mg ram
8gig HDD
14" monitor
sound blaster 64

ninety09 · 08-15-2003, 07:23 PM

P3 450mhz

Latch · 08-15-2003, 07:46 PM

Not me.. but the girl I live with has a Laptop (read: Size of a bloody dictionary) that's a pentium 90 or something like that. Another guy I live with brought his computer here (res) from home. It's in an old 386 case (with the Turbo button, speed display, and all). I can't wait till he starts it up hehe.

JStrider · 08-15-2003, 08:04 PM

gateway 486... 14 inch monitor... gotta hit it on the side when the monitor starts to go black....

ok its not my primary computer... but i do have it...

Tandem · 08-15-2003, 08:32 PM

My In-Laws are in the process of upgrading their trusty 286 with Windows 3.1 to a P4/3G beast.
They're stalling on whether to get a 17"LCD or 19"CRT (go figure - at least they're upgrading).

viejo gringo · 08-15-2003, 09:22 PM

running an old Dell P2 V350 with 8 gig hard drive, and
windows 98SE....got a love it.

The_Dude · 08-15-2003, 10:31 PM

this is not my primary pc, but i do have this.

athlon k6-2 500mhz!

it was crappy, but i made it a lil bit more respectable.

184mb ram.
radeon 7000
30 gb hd.

nick1701a · 08-15-2003, 10:41 PM

P3 450
256 MB RAM
20 GB HDD
Sound Blaster Live
GeForce3

I also have Pentium 166 that I use as a file server and a 486DX/33 that isn't hooked up.

a_divine_martyr · 08-15-2003, 11:23 PM

Celeron 500
128 sdram
8 gig hard drive
Integrated sound card (or whatever)
GF2

Speed_Gibson · 08-16-2003, 12:16 AM

my "slowest" here is a mostly OEM (changed the video card/HD/soundcard/added NIC) Gateway PIII 650 with 320 MB of RAM that is my primary server. Used to run win2k server with active active directory and DNS until I moved and had to make some changes for my present DSL setup.

the other three systems have a mean speed of 1.5 GHZ or thereabouts

chewybaca96 · 08-16-2003, 01:49 AM

of course my main machine is fast.
AMD 2.0

next in line is my previous comp
PIII 800

and just a step below is my server
PIII 733, (but what i lacks in speed it makes up in HD's... Carries 12 right now)

Next would be the
celeron 500

and now i'll skip a few and go to the slowest i own.
Radio Shack TSR-80
if u can categorize it with the computers above??

poof · 08-16-2003, 04:05 AM

I suppose that would be me. I hate bran, love jalepenos., My systen is regular. I might scream while being "regular", but, gotta love those chiles.

Oh, you were talking 'puters! Crappiest one? The Gigabite bitch I built. The same customer service ASUS offers. Non existent. ASUS sucks and seems to be competing with Gigabite as far as customer service.

They both suck.

zubrei · 08-16-2003, 05:42 AM

I have a RM Nimbus 286 with 2mb of RAM and a 20MB Hard disk. Oh also have a 14" VGA (Not SVGA) monitor. Still in use occasionally when I need to run a very old programme.

Also have a celeron 400 which is pants as well.

catback · 08-16-2003, 06:03 AM

Worst puter that I still own is IBM Aptiva

Pentium 166 Mhz
16MB RAM
1.6 gig HD
1MB Video RAM upgradable to a whopping 2!
6X CD-ROM
28.8Kbps Modem, software upgradable to 33.6Kbps

Makes for a nice heavy paper weight right about now. Tried upgrading just a tad but system refuses to allow itself to be upgraded. Compatiable with virtually nothing I say

cliche · 08-16-2003, 08:27 AM

I use a celeron 333Mhz with 160Mb, 40Gb HD - it's actually not bad - even runs Office XP without too much trouble!

Dave · 08-16-2003, 08:43 AM

I have a sunpc "accelerator" in my sparcstation 20. The sparc part kicks major arse for something with 2x60MHz processors, but the sunpc (486DX 25) is slower than slow.

soopafreek · 08-16-2003, 10:03 AM

i don't use it anymore, but i've got a Texas Instruments laptop running a P-75Mhz, maxed out at 40MB RAM, running Win 95. the thing weighs a ton. no USB, no ethernet, nothing useful.

westothemax · 08-16-2003, 01:10 PM

My dad said he just tossed out all my old computer stuff that was cluttering up the house, but I think he said he kept my AMD 486DX/100 for some reason.

I was pissed he ditched the old <a href ="http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html">Compaq Portable</a> and my 386DX/33.

When I was last home during Christmas, I put together a fraken-puter with all the "best" parts from all my computers that I was going to bring out here, but he tossed that too. It was a mish-mash of parts from 1980's to 1990s. I think I put my 80meg Maxtor HD in there for just for kicks.

sub zero · 08-16-2003, 01:13 PM

I'm on a celeron. I think that says enough.

lakefire · 08-16-2003, 05:35 PM

current machine:
2100xp

2nd in line:
1.2 tbird

3rd (missing case and HD)
450 mhz k6-2

macthelist · 08-16-2003, 06:59 PM

Sinclair ZX-81. 300 bps modem. 8-inch b&w composite display (aka a little TV). A hard wooden stool.

And one hell of an attitude.

Gotenks · 08-16-2003, 08:10 PM

Main -- abit - barton 3000 - 1024mb ddr - fx 5900u
Second -- abit - 1.33 thunderbird - 1024mb sdr - ti 4200
third -- asus - 733 p3 - 512mb sdr - ti 4200
fourth -- Have no clue - k6 266 - 16mb ram - onboard 8mb gfx

My fourth was my second computer. The first was a compaq something or other.

kel · 08-16-2003, 08:20 PM

My primary computer that I use to write this post.

PIII 450

poof · 08-16-2003, 08:22 PM

Dealing with a 300bps modem has to suck. But, a hard wooden stool? Stop eating all that cheese.

Empty_One · 08-17-2003, 02:41 AM

OK, from best to last:

P3 550
256M ram
32M Geforce256
bunch of random HD's from 4 to 35 gig
MB is an old Abit with 4 IDE controllers

Celeron 500
256M ram
crappy onboard video
8G HD (Wife's machine)

K6-III 450
256M ram
16M TNT video
20G HD

Toshiba P166 Laptop
64M ram
2G HD (posting from this one)

Dell P150 Laptop
80M ram
1.5G HD

All PC's and latops are used every day, the laptops are used for sitting on the couch browsing and chatting and stuff. All machines except the wifes celeron are running Linux

sixate · 08-17-2003, 04:17 AM

This thread is depressing to me. I'm usually not a compassionate guy, but I really feel bad for some you.

Mr.Deflok · 08-17-2003, 04:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by sixate
This thread is depressing to me. I'm usually not a compassionate guy, but I really feel bad for some you.

I know what you mean, I found myself subconciously tying a noose power cables reading some of the posts above.

punx1325 · 08-17-2003, 11:09 AM

The worst PC I have is a Gateway 2000 (when they still had the 2000)
p1 - 120 mhz
1 gb hard drive
32 mbs RAM
4x cd-rom
14k modem
ethernet card (added on)

I haven't turned the thing on in 4 months, I like to think of it as a really expensive paper weight.

titsmurf · 08-17-2003, 11:19 AM

What you guys call a crap pc is nirvana to me.

This is my best pc:

Pentium II 300
64MB Ram
S3 video card (1M memory)
4.2 GB Hard Disk
Aztec Sound Galaxy 16bit card. It has DirectSound issues.

My other pc is a Pentium 1, 166MHz with 16MB Ram and a 1GB Hard drive. No sound card, and a 1MB Graphics card.

Both of them run on windows 95, the first (and mostly unsupported) version. This thing has bugs you cannot patch.

Empty_One · 08-17-2003, 11:30 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by sixate
This thread is depressing to me. I'm usually not a compassionate guy, but I really feel bad for some you.

Well, when I built my top machine, it was the absolute best money could buy. Of course, that was almost 4 years ago now.

It's amazing how getting a girlfriend, losing your job, getting married, and having a baby affect your ability to upgrade a computer. I'm planning on a new one though, there are just too many good games comming out in the next year to wait.

08-15-2003, 06:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
Tex Crazy Join Date: May 2003 Location: Orange County, CA	Who's got the crappiest system here? Hey, just wanna see if anyone can top my monster of a computer. Right now I am running a... Athlon 750 384 mb of ram 20 gig HD GeForce 2 MX SoundBlaster Live! 17' monitor I'm in dire need of an upgrade, but I'm just a poor college student trying to get by. __________________ "All I know is that I know nothing..."

08-15-2003, 07:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
Hanabal Insane Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Auckland	omg you call that crappy, Im in envy, P3 600 64 Mg ram 8gig HDD 14" monitor sound blaster 64 __________________ I am Hanabal, Phear my elephants

08-15-2003, 08:04 PM	#5 (permalink)
JStrider Poo-tee-weet? Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The Woodlands, TX	gateway 486... 14 inch monitor... gotta hit it on the side when the monitor starts to go black.... ok its not my primary computer... but i do have it... __________________ -=JStrider=- ~Clatto Verata Nicto

08-15-2003, 08:32 PM	#6 (permalink)
Tandem Insane Join Date: May 2003 Location: Brisbane, Australia	My In-Laws are in the process of upgrading their trusty 286 with Windows 3.1 to a P4/3G beast. They're stalling on whether to get a 17"LCD or 19"CRT (go figure - at least they're upgrading). __________________ It is not a mistake, but an experience. But, if you've experienced it before then you should already know if it is a mistake.

08-15-2003, 10:31 PM	#8 (permalink)
The_Dude The GrandDaddy of them all! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Austin, TX	this is not my primary pc, but i do have this. athlon k6-2 500mhz! it was crappy, but i made it a lil bit more respectable. 184mb ram. radeon 7000 30 gb hd. __________________ "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Darrel K Royal

08-15-2003, 07:23 PM	#3 (permalink)
ninety09 Flavour of the Weak Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Canada	P3 450mhz

08-15-2003, 07:46 PM	#4 (permalink)
Latch In Your Dreams Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: City of Lights	Not me.. but the girl I live with has a Laptop (read: Size of a bloody dictionary) that's a pentium 90 or something like that. Another guy I live with brought his computer here (res) from home. It's in an old 386 case (with the Turbo button, speed display, and all). I can't wait till he starts it up hehe.

08-15-2003, 09:22 PM	#7 (permalink)
viejo gringo Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Deep South Texas	running an old Dell P2 V350 with 8 gig hard drive, and windows 98SE....got a love it.

08-15-2003, 10:41 PM	#9 (permalink)
nick1701a Rookie Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Kansas	P3 450 256 MB RAM 20 GB HDD Sound Blaster Live GeForce3 I also have Pentium 166 that I use as a file server and a 486DX/33 that isn't hooked up.

08-15-2003, 11:23 PM	#10 (permalink)
a_divine_martyr Insane Join Date: Apr 2003	Celeron 500 128 sdram 8 gig hard drive Integrated sound card (or whatever) GF2 __________________ Censorship and thought control can only exist in secrecy and darkness...

08-16-2003, 12:16 AM	#11 (permalink)
Speed_Gibson Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Hotel California	my "slowest" here is a mostly OEM (changed the video card/HD/soundcard/added NIC) Gateway PIII 650 with 320 MB of RAM that is my primary server. Used to run win2k server with active active directory and DNS until I moved and had to make some changes for my present DSL setup. the other three systems have a mean speed of 1.5 GHZ or thereabouts

08-16-2003, 01:49 AM	#12 (permalink)
chewybaca96 We can't stop here! This is bat country! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: SL,UT	of course my main machine is fast. AMD 2.0 next in line is my previous comp PIII 800 and just a step below is my server PIII 733, (but what i lacks in speed it makes up in HD's... Carries 12 right now) Next would be the celeron 500 and now i'll skip a few and go to the slowest i own. Radio Shack TSR-80 if u can categorize it with the computers above?? __________________ Brian: “Ok, all we’ve gotta do is find the American Embassy, and they’ll help us get home” Stewie: “Home? I have no intention of returning to that disgusting hovel with that intolerable woman, that fat slob, and that insufferable dog… Oh, you’re right here aren’t you? Oh well, I stand by it."

08-16-2003, 04:05 AM	#13 (permalink)
poof Psycho Join Date: Apr 2003	I suppose that would be me. I hate bran, love jalepenos., My systen is regular. I might scream while being "regular", but, gotta love those chiles. Oh, you were talking 'puters! Crappiest one? The Gigabite bitch I built. The same customer service ASUS offers. Non existent. ASUS sucks and seems to be competing with Gigabite as far as customer service. They both suck.

08-16-2003, 05:42 AM	#14 (permalink)
zubrei Tilted Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: England Home of RWC Champions	I have a RM Nimbus 286 with 2mb of RAM and a 20MB Hard disk. Oh also have a 14" VGA (Not SVGA) monitor. Still in use occasionally when I need to run a very old programme. Also have a celeron 400 which is pants as well.

08-16-2003, 06:03 AM	#15 (permalink)
catback Psycho Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: North America	Worst puter that I still own is IBM Aptiva Pentium 166 Mhz 16MB RAM 1.6 gig HD 1MB Video RAM upgradable to a whopping 2! 6X CD-ROM 28.8Kbps Modem, software upgradable to 33.6Kbps Makes for a nice heavy paper weight right about now. Tried upgrading just a tad but system refuses to allow itself to be upgraded. Compatiable with virtually nothing I say

08-16-2003, 08:27 AM	#16 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Oxford, UK	I use a celeron 333Mhz with 160Mb, 40Gb HD - it's actually not bad - even runs Office XP without too much trouble! __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-16-2003, 08:43 AM	#17 (permalink)
Dave Rookie Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Within GMT+10	I have a sunpc "accelerator" in my sparcstation 20. The sparc part kicks major arse for something with 2x60MHz processors, but the sunpc (486DX 25) is slower than slow.

08-16-2003, 10:03 AM	#18 (permalink)
soopafreek Psycho Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: ask your mom	i don't use it anymore, but i've got a Texas Instruments laptop running a P-75Mhz, maxed out at 40MB RAM, running Win 95. the thing weighs a ton. no USB, no ethernet, nothing useful. __________________ aaarrrrrgggghhhh!!!!

08-16-2003, 01:10 PM	#19 (permalink)
westothemax Crazy Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bay Area	My dad said he just tossed out all my old computer stuff that was cluttering up the house, but I think he said he kept my AMD 486DX/100 for some reason. I was pissed he ditched the old <a href ="http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html">Compaq Portable</a> and my 386DX/33. When I was last home during Christmas, I put together a fraken-puter with all the "best" parts from all my computers that I was going to bring out here, but he tossed that too. It was a mish-mash of parts from 1980's to 1990s. I think I put my 80meg Maxtor HD in there for just for kicks.

08-16-2003, 01:13 PM	#20 (permalink)
sub zero Addict Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The one state that doesn't have black outs: TEXAS BABY!!!	I'm on a celeron. I think that says enough. __________________ Did you Google it yet? Join the TFP Typing team!!

08-16-2003, 05:35 PM	#21 (permalink)
lakefire Tilted Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: souf carolina	current machine: 2100xp 2nd in line: 1.2 tbird 3rd (missing case and HD) 450 mhz k6-2 __________________ .lakefire

08-16-2003, 06:59 PM	#22 (permalink)
macthelist Rookie Join Date: Jun 2003	Sinclair ZX-81. 300 bps modem. 8-inch b&w composite display (aka a little TV). A hard wooden stool. And one hell of an attitude. __________________ It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, dawn's the time to do it.

08-16-2003, 08:10 PM	#23 (permalink)
Gotenks Crazy Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: In a house	Main -- abit - barton 3000 - 1024mb ddr - fx 5900u Second -- abit - 1.33 thunderbird - 1024mb sdr - ti 4200 third -- asus - 733 p3 - 512mb sdr - ti 4200 fourth -- Have no clue - k6 266 - 16mb ram - onboard 8mb gfx My fourth was my second computer. The first was a compaq something or other. __________________ Mors ultima linea rerum est.

08-16-2003, 08:20 PM	#24 (permalink)
kel WARNING: FLAMMABLE Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Ask Acetylene	My primary computer that I use to write this post. PIII 450 __________________ "It better be funny"

08-16-2003, 08:22 PM	#25 (permalink)
poof Psycho Join Date: Apr 2003	Dealing with a 300bps modem has to suck. But, a hard wooden stool? Stop eating all that cheese.

08-17-2003, 02:41 AM	#26 (permalink)
Empty_One Addict Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Milwaukee, WI	OK, from best to last: P3 550 256M ram 32M Geforce256 bunch of random HD's from 4 to 35 gig MB is an old Abit with 4 IDE controllers Celeron 500 256M ram crappy onboard video 8G HD (Wife's machine) K6-III 450 256M ram 16M TNT video 20G HD Toshiba P166 Laptop 64M ram 2G HD (posting from this one) Dell P150 Laptop 80M ram 1.5G HD All PC's and latops are used every day, the laptops are used for sitting on the couch browsing and chatting and stuff. All machines except the wifes celeron are running Linux

08-17-2003, 04:17 AM	#27 (permalink)
sixate .::. Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Somewhere in Ohio	This thread is depressing to me. I'm usually not a compassionate guy, but I really feel bad for some you. __________________ Drug free Atheist for life

08-17-2003, 11:09 AM	#29 (permalink)
punx1325 Junkie Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: San Diego	The worst PC I have is a Gateway 2000 (when they still had the 2000) p1 - 120 mhz 1 gb hard drive 32 mbs RAM 4x cd-rom 14k modem ethernet card (added on) I haven't turned the thing on in 4 months, I like to think of it as a really expensive paper weight. __________________ If something seems too good to be true, then it probably is....

08-17-2003, 11:19 AM	#30 (permalink)
titsmurf Crazy Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Belgium	What you guys call a crap pc is nirvana to me. This is my best pc: Pentium II 300 64MB Ram S3 video card (1M memory) 4.2 GB Hard Disk Aztec Sound Galaxy 16bit card. It has DirectSound issues. My other pc is a Pentium 1, 166MHz with 16MB Ram and a 1GB Hard drive. No sound card, and a 1MB Graphics card. Both of them run on windows 95, the first (and mostly unsupported) version. This thing has bugs you cannot patch. Last edited by titsmurf; 08-17-2003 at 11:23 AM.