System Stats

[Rogue.Leader]

hey, what are the system specs on your computer...

I got in MY computer -

Motherboard - Aopen AX6BC
Memory - 192mb SDRAM 100mhz
Video - 32mb TNT2 nVidia m64 2/4xAGP
Sound - Blaster PCI 64
HDD - 15gb Quatum Fireball
Network - 3Com Ethernet 10/100 (Some Card Number)...its old
CPU - 366mhz
O/S - Windows 98 SE - I prefer its interface

And a heap of developer software

and DONT TEASE MY COMPUTER...i got it for around 250...and jeez...im 15, i don't have a job...and what money i do have i am "Trying" to save, so i can get some hours in so i can get my pilots liscence

But i am looking at getting some more cash....for a new motherboard and processer...and of course the memory

[oktronic]

sure, why the heck not...I'll play...

3.2Ghz Pentium 4 overclocked at 3.5Ghz
ASUS P4C800-E Intel 875P with 800Mhz FSB, OCed...
2Gig Memory
200Gig HD
Geforce FX 5900 Ultra Vid
Intel Gigabit Network on board
A90F monitor
400 Watt powersupply--of coarse...I'm why California has rolling blackouts....

And dude, you need a new computer... my laptop even faster then your comp.... :)

[Yves M]

Intel 486 DX33 Mhz
120 MB hard disk
8 MB RAM
Tseng Super VGA Graphics Card
Floppy drive

Oh wait, that's my first PC, not my current one ;)

[Gabriel Fleseriu]

Originally posted by Yves M
Intel 486 DX33 Mhz
120 MB hard disk
8 MB RAM
Tseng Super VGA Graphics Card
Floppy drive

Oh wait, that's my first PC, not my current one ;)

You shouldn't brag!

Intel 80286 @16 MHz (w/o math coprocessor)
2 MB RAM
32 MB HDD
FDD
128 kB Hercules Graphics adapter

[SolarFlare]

Up until a couple years ago, I still used my 286 :D. Then I upgraded to a 386! I'm a little bit better off now though.

[Gabriel Fleseriu]

Originally posted by solarflare
Up until a couple years ago, I still used my 286 :D. Then I upgraded to a 386! I'm a little bit better off now though.

As ususal, you americans have to brag with what you have. "I have 32 bits, yeah!"

Just kidding. :D

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by Gabriel Fleseriu
As ususal, you americans have to brag with what you have. "I have 32 bits, yeah!"

Just kidding. :D
Well the thing about my 386 was that it was a laptop, so I could just keep it in the keyboard tray and thus my desk was clear (well, that is to say there was no computer on it... it wasn't necessarily clean ;)).

The one before that, however, was a huge honking pile of ... computer hardware.

[Gabriel Fleseriu]

I still remember the 8086 laptop I used to have...An monocolor ORANGR screen. The head-ache factory per-se...We were young...
:p

[Mick]

Evolution....for me at least.

tsr-80
commodore64
Apple IIe
Apple IIGS
Amiga 2000
I miss my mojo err moto....

current is a 1.6 intel, and a 900 amd with all the bells and whistles, but then they were free so I can't complain ;)

[Gabriel Fleseriu]

Gee... I still keep the windows open, so my 600 PIII coppermine stays cool enough to work.

[hometown]

Family members like to stick together since Christmas time is coming near....:cool:

[Yves M]

Originally posted by Gabriel Fleseriu
Gee... I still keep the windows open, so my 600 PIII coppermine stays cool enough to work.
Hum, well, I have to keep my system hard disk outside of the case, next to a 50 cm ventilator when temperatures here in Spain hit 40 degrees in the summer. And that's on my current computer ;)

Well, to remain on-topic, here is my current computer:
Dual AMD Athlon 2000+
Asus A7M266D motherboard
1 GB RAM
2 x 120 GB harddisk in RAID 0
40 GB system hard disk
Gefore 4400
Audigy 2
21 inch LCD screen

[mdmd]

AMD 1.0gig
500meg PC100
Asus a7v
2 6.4 gig HDDs
1 80 gig HDD
Plenty of extra holes in the case for ventilation. Some larger ones
in the back are filled with duct tape. ( semi ATX case with real
ATX MotherBoard ). Floppy is on the bottom of the case where it
fell to last time I was fixing ( kicking ) the putor. Its hole is another
ventilation slot :D

And the lower end tester
Intel 400 mhz
64 meg
1 8.2 gig HDD

[Yves M]

Actually, does anybody else use dual PCs a lot ? Ever since I got my first one (a dual Celeron 500), I can't live without it anymore.

[Tom Frohman]

Originally posted by Gabriel Fleseriu
You shouldn't brag!

Intel 80286 @16 MHz (w/o math coprocessor)
2 MB RAM
32 MB HDD
FDD
128 kB Hercules Graphics adapter

Ok, I'll one down you. I got my first computer in 1988 it had:

Intel 80286 @16 MHz (with math coprocessor)
1 MB RAM (It could only use 640KB of this)
20 MB HDD
5.25" FDD
64 kB EGA Adapter


Before that I used my Sister's Kaypro CPM computer.

So there.

[Mick]

Originally posted by Yves M
Actually, does anybody else use dual PCs a lot ? Ever since I got my first one (a dual Celeron 500), I can't live without it anymore.

I've always been a little leary of them, since most companies (in my experience) don't test their code on a dual processor....maybe it's just another sign that I'm wacky :)

[Andy Tacker]

had one of those Abacuses :d
and then all those Pentiums one by one ;)
never look at configuration, should be working.
so, I can say that i am not capricious

[hometown]

Originally posted by andy_tacker
had one of those Abacuses :d
and then all those Pentiums one by one ;)
never look at configuration, should be working.
so, I can say that i am not capricious

Uhmm, someone here should listen to this carefully and keep it in your heart...
Thats a promise !!!!
:p :p :p

[Yves M]

Originally posted by Mick_2002
I've always been a little leary of them, since most companies (in my experience) don't test their code on a dual processor....maybe it's just another sign that I'm wacky :)
I've never seen current software break on a dual system vs a single CPU system. The only issue has been drivers.

[sbrothy]

This thread makes me nostalgic. I remember my first "computer" (sob!). A wonderful machine. Hacker's choice anno 1983:


MSX Toshiba HX-22 (http://msxmuseum.150m.com/museum/toshiba/toshibahx22.jpg).

[voidspace]

First PC:

CPU :286
1 MB RAM
FDD

Needed to boot from disk to work.

Current PC:
Work:
Del XPS 2.8 Mhz
Matrox Dual head
Two 19 inch Dell LCD monitors
1 GB ram

Home:
Homemade PC:
P 1.8 756 GB RAM, 60 GB HDD, 17 in Mon
ATI AIW 9700 Pro

[souldog]

First PC: I have no idea


Current PCs

Pentium 4 1.59 GHz
512 MB RAM
70 GB HDD
1 LCD monitor

Pentium 4 2.5 GHz Satelite Laptop
524 MB RAM
50 GB HDD
2 LCD monitors

Pentium 4 2.2 GHz
524 MB RAM
80 GB HDD


these last two get me pissed off whenever I even
look at them.:rolleyes:
1 GHz Power PC G4
256 MB RAM
50 GB HDD

3 MHz Power PC G3 Laptop
4 GB HDD

[Yves M]

Originally posted by voidspace Current PC:
Work:
Del XPS 2.8 Mhz
Matrox Dual head
Two 19 inch Dell LCD monitors
1 GB ram

Where do you work and do they need other C++ programmers ? :D

[voidspace]

I work for a genes company. My boss gave me this system thinking he would get a 3.2 Mhz :D he still has not:p

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by voidspace
I work for a genes company. My boss gave me this system thinking he would get a 3.2 Mhz :D he still has not:p
Genetics is so much fun :D. What do you do in your company?

[voidspace]

QPCR instrument software

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by voidspace
QPCR instrument software
Q???? Polymerase Chain Reaction? What is Q? Qwazy?

[voidspace]

Quantitative :)

[voidspace]

Enough about me ..

Where do u'll work solarflare and Yves

[CBasicNet]

Originally posted by Yves M
Actually, does anybody else use dual PCs a lot ? Ever since I got my first one (a dual Celeron 500), I can't live without it anymore. Does any IDE take advantage of the SMP? Not many programs do? I do know Adobe Photoshop is written specifically to take advantage of SMP when detected.

[Yves M]

The big benefit you get from a dual processor system is when you are running two high-load programs at the same time. E.g.
- compiling a C++ program
- working in VMWare
- Trying out our program
- working in VB
- working in an image processing program
- playing a game

So while I'm compiling a longish project (may take 10 minutes), I have time to play some Warcraft 3 and neither of them is slowed down.

AFAIK none of the compilers is multithreaded, but some make programs are. For example, recompiling the Linux kernel on a dual machine is roughly twice as fast as on a single processor machine. I'm not sure whether MS's nmake can also take advantage of dual CPUs, but my guess is yes.

[Edit: Hum, I didn't find anything related to multiple compiler invocations in the nmake reference, so maybe it's not possible :/ ]