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PC Hardware, What have you got

djellison View Member Profile	Jun 21 2006, 03:20 PM Post #1
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	Thinking out loud here...project 'SHOFFICE' kicks off in July - the Shed that will turn into my little office and official UMSF HQ.... Come early winter, I'll be upgrading my PC, as I need more power for the bigger mosaics I'm working on... Currently my two machiens are.. 3.2G P4, 2048Mb DDR3200, WD Raptor 72Gb System disk, and then various 7200RPM SATA and IDE drives for other purposes, and a 19" tft ( 1280 x 1024 ) My laptop's a 1.83 Ghz Centrino thing with 2048Mb of DDR2 and a 100gb 7200 RPM drive, with a 1920 x 1200 17" screen. My plans will probably be for a mid-range Core 2 Duo CPU, 4GB DDR2, the 72Gb Raptor as the system disk, but a pair of 500 GB Segates in mirrored Raid as the main storage for 'live' projects, with hopefully, one of those cunning two drive NAS's again in mirrored raid for archived data etc. My current desktop machine will then become a little slave in the corner, doing things like forum backups at 2am when my ISP isn't counting the bandwidth etc I was lusting after the 30" Apple and Dell displays - but realisticly they're a bit too pricey - so I'll probably stretch to the 24" Dell 2407 display, possibly with the 19" tft as a second screen....not sure yet though. Storage is the real pain though - becasue obviously, every ounce has to be replicated for backup, but buy using a Raid array, one eliminates a single-drive-failure nightmare arrising. Anyway - thought I'd open up a thread to do comparisons...perhaps we could even set up a PTGUI project as an UMSF system benchmark? Doug

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djellison View Member Profile	Jun 24 2006, 06:54 PM Post #2
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	My current PC has a floppy drive that's more than a decade old.....so basically I've just been upgrading ever since Doug

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djellison PC Hardware Jun 21 2006, 03:20 PM

paxdan mmm how d'you like them Apples? I have a dink... Jun 21 2006, 03:38 PM

Borek I've recently upgraded my system to 1 GB RAM j... Jun 21 2006, 03:43 PM

DEChengst My collection as it was two years ago: http://par... Jun 21 2006, 03:50 PM

angel1801 I have a Intel(tm) Celeron(tm) D-330 running at 2.... Jun 21 2006, 04:02 PM

Nix I'm upgrading in a few months. FWIW, I was thi... Jun 21 2006, 04:10 PM

Nix Forgot; going up from 1 gig of memory to 2 does no... Jun 21 2006, 04:18 PM

djellison I'm thinking of starting at 2 ( really fast DD... Jun 21 2006, 04:25 PM

Nix Yup, fast is pricey. I should add my memory ... Jun 21 2006, 05:03 PM

djellison Part of me thinks I should go for a dual core S939... Jun 21 2006, 05:07 PM

Nix It's not a bad idea to invest in better ddr th... Jun 21 2006, 06:34 PM

Bob Shaw I always advise my clients to steer clear of whate... Jun 21 2006, 11:03 PM

lyford Here you go, Doug. And ditto Bob Shaw's goo... Jun 21 2006, 11:48 PM

jamescanvin I do all my processing on a 1.67GHz G4 Apple Power... Jun 22 2006, 12:42 AM

djellison I must admit - the Mac Book Pro is very VERY entic... Jun 22 2006, 12:49 AM

Bob Shaw Doug: Panorama Maker certainly works on pre-Intel... Jun 22 2006, 01:20 AM

paxdan QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jun 22 2006, 02:20 AM) ... Jun 23 2006, 10:50 AM

dvandorn I've got a 2.8 GHz PentIV system (HP Media Cen... Jun 22 2006, 12:52 AM

Sunspot I'm getting a new computer soon. My current P... Jun 22 2006, 08:38 AM

Nix Whatever you do, beware of Lacie D2 externals. I h... Jun 22 2006, 10:18 AM

PhilCo126 My PC sits (of course) in a Chieftec body, CPU Pen... Jun 22 2006, 10:44 AM

edstrick Frankenputer-IV is a 1800 mhz AMD running win 98se... Jun 23 2006, 10:17 AM

Tesheiner QUOTE (edstrick @ Jun 23 2006, 12:17 PM) ... Jun 23 2006, 11:35 AM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (Nix @ Jun 21 2006, 11:10 AM) I... Jun 24 2006, 07:07 AM

edstrick "..That reminds me of a situation many years ... Jun 24 2006, 10:38 AM

djellison My current PC has a floppy drive that's more t... Jun 24 2006, 06:54 PM

lyford Hmmmmm, anyone in the mood in this thread for an A... Jun 25 2006, 04:42 AM

Sunspot QUOTE (lyford @ Jun 25 2006, 05:42 AM) Hm... Jun 25 2006, 08:26 AM

CosmicRocker I think I have some Amigas and Ataris up in the at... Jun 25 2006, 08:43 AM

Nix I'd pick these; If I could; two 21" NEC... Jun 25 2006, 08:53 AM

CosmicRocker Thank you, Nico. I really do appreciate your comm... Jun 25 2006, 09:24 AM

Bill Harris From 1993 to 2004 I used a state-of-the-art 486 wi... Jun 25 2006, 10:52 AM

helvick I've noticed that the trend here seems to some... Jun 25 2006, 11:39 AM

jrdahlman While everyone else is talking about how big and f... Jun 29 2006, 07:24 PM

djellison I HAVE ONE OF THOSE... It's sort of retired n... Jun 29 2006, 07:42 PM

Bob Shaw QUOTE (djellison @ Jun 29 2006, 08:42 PM)... Jun 30 2006, 12:51 AM

DonPMitchell My PCs I like to have one machine with broad usab... Jun 29 2006, 10:00 PM

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