468, 25mHz, 4mb ram, 124mb HD, 2x cd rom, sound blaster 16. That was my very first own pc (i've used older ones but they weren't mine). Back then i didn't think i could possibly fill my entire HD, it was considered pretty damn big :) I refused to put win3.1 on it, or win95 once it came out, msDOS was the way to go for me. (i've never developed a liking to windows till i installed 2k)
I've run Windows 98/SE, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP RC1/RC2, Linux (Debian, Redhat, Mandrake and Slackware), and about 20 formats later, i'm running crappy old WinME (i really wish i hadn't lost my damn 2000 cd)
This baby makes that my sluggish connection unnoticable, seeing that parsing the page takes more time than loading it processor p75 ram 128M drive 8.4G (had a second one, but it crashed) video 16M Mighty Banshee screen 17" ProVista misc scanner, printer, zip, the works.
-pIIIeb 800mhz (overclocked to 901mhz, jsut so i can laugh at my freinds who has basically the same setup, but a p3 900) -384mb pc133 ram -some 18" gateway monitor -geforce2 pro -15 & 20gb hdd's (7200rpm) -6x4x24 cdrw -some dvd drive i've never used (go tit for liek $30 at a computer show) -sm ergy keyboard -intelimouse explorer -pos scanner i've never used -dual boot win2k/98 (2k for stuff, 98 for games) -2nd video 3dfxvoodoo3 2000, on old 18" monitor -a chair.
i got 2 decent boxes: my server is a 1.4ghz athlon, 1.1gb DDR, 15gig ultra scsi 2 hd, no moniter running freeBSD 4.4 rc and this is a 667mhz PIII with 512 SDRAM running win2k pro and suse 7.2
My main box, lovingly named The Monolith: Black full tower(alienware sliding door style) Athlon 800@1000 (soon to be a 1.4) 256mb ddr ram Radon DDR VIVO, 64mb Soundblaster Live! Black IBM 17" monitor @ 1280x1024 Crappy compusa speakers(need to work on that) SCSI Zip100 two 30gb 7200 western digital hard drives in RAID 0 Generic SCSI controller D-Link 10/100 network Lucent winmodem, yay! 6x4x24x4 cdr, cdrw, cd read, dvd read 8x4x32 cdr, cdrw. cd read microsoft intellieye trackball (black with red glow) Black sega keyboard
I think that covers that one, plus I have another in the works that's in a small white tower and is getting a pair of dark blue racing stripes :)
Yeah my zip & monitor are purple. I just took the zip drive out of my old Vaio & used the monitor. Spent all my money on computer parts, no black spray paint money. ;(
its not a question of the processor, its the fan dude.
i have a similar system, (1.2 ghz) and it sounds like a fuckin jet engine cause my fan is doing 7000+ rpm keeping the temperature at 56 Celsius.
its even noisier than my way too noisy 50x cdrom and its being used a lot more than the CDrom and its so loud its driving me crazy. Ive been thinking about getting one of them chemichal cooler thingies. I think they use freon or something similar to make a refridgerator effect.
If you've got a 7000rpm delta (should be what it is) and you're running at 56c, somthing's wrong. you shouldn't be running that hot, that really isn't safe.
And you don't need anything as fancy as refridgerant to keep you're cpu cool. plain old water cooling would work great if ya want quiet, and there are even good standard heatsink combo's that use quiet fans and still cool really well.
They run at something like 2200rpm and have dual fans which are thermally controlled, which means they are pretty cool, and silent.
They also come in a wide range of Power outputs, all the way up to 650W which is more than effort for the average user.
I haven't got one yet, so I can't tell you just how quiet they are, but I have read quite a few reviews and they seem to be some of the best PSU's around...
i think 56c is okay. I had a much worse fan before that and without even noticing the processor was overheating to 100+ C!!
this was while i was building it, stupid computer store sold me a fan for K7 processors :P
and tell me, what kind of fan do you have and what porcessor, and what temp it has.
i have three more fans running together with it tho. One in the power box thingy, one industrial huge fan running 220V (a bastard to set up, had to put it through a relay) thats very silent sucking air in, and another the same type fan blowing air out at the other side. Im very proud of it.
I posted my specs on some other thread like this i think
I work on a PC that built myself. I refer to it as Noir. She consists of the Black Knight box from ColorCase.com. Her insides are an A-Bit motherboard, PIII 750, 384 MB of PC 133 RAM, TDK VeloCD (CD-R (16x) and CD-ROM(40x)), SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum, 3D Prophet 2 MX 32 MB, Wireless Intellimouse Explorer, and a basic black IBM keyboard.
12.8 gigawatt Macro"Superpants" processor w/ 3 million megs of organic memory (modified rodent frontal cortex), built into an old VW beetle chassis. 6.8 horsepower power suppy (pull start) It's powerful system, but limited by it's ability to only display on old drive-in movie screens. Also it takes about half hour to warm up in the winter months.
56C is waaaaaaaaaay too hot. Sounds like your fan isn't that good. My SuperOrb keeps mine at about 48C. And thats not even cool enough. But my case is frigid. 6 fans. :-P
56 isn't too hot, and neither is 48. anything under 70 will do and stay stable. Atleast that is what I've expierenced and read from AMD. I got an AMD T-Bird 1.4 ghz 512 megs of ddr pc2100 radeon 64 meg ddr vivo Asus A7A266 mobo Toshiba 8x DVD Plextor 24x32 cdrw 1 Maxtor 5400 20 gig 1 Maxtor 7200 20 gig 1 Maxtor 7200 60 gig An ATA100 Controller Volcano 6cu+ 7000 rpm cooling fan enermax 400 watt power supply with dual fans 6 ball bearing fans, some case mods 2 hard drive bay coolers and a Samsung 19' flat 1600x1200x32 monitor Oh and cambridge speakers..I think that is it. Running Win98 with Litestep :) 99% resources free And a sector9 sticker on the front of the case
Built it 2 weeks ago. It's loud as shit though. The hum helps me sleep
dsenior ... what AMD says just tells you of "operating safety standards" ... 48 and 56 is TOO hot. When you start rendering or playing games, ...anything that will put a workload on the CPU, the temp will rise hard core. Safe working conditions for the AMD TBird is like 36-40. The ThermalEngine heatsink performs this very well (its also a monster heatsink/fan). For overclockers, its a dream come true (aside from water cooling), and/or fridge).
Don't always read what the manufacter says. They are just giving you safe operating modes for a typical PC most people use it for (running Internet, Office Programs, easy CPU loads). Hell, my system says 80C is the brink of safety. Anything above 60 is scary and has a chance of damage to your CPU.
I should know, I went just barely over 60 and my system wouldnt boot up for a few hours. The CPU had to cool down for a bit before it finally booted back up.
