Specifications:
Case: RaidMax Case-A268 ATX Mid-Tower (Black)
CPU: 2.4ghz Pentium 4 (Hyper-Threading and 800mhz system bus supported)
Motherboard: Springdale MSI Neo-2 (supports 800mhz system bus and dual-channel
memory)
Memory: 1 sticks of 512MB PC3200 Kingston DDR (running single-channel at
the minute)
Video Card: Geforce FX 5600 Ultra 128MB Note: Don't buy these; buy
ATI's Radeons instead.
Harddrive: 80 Gig Western Digital (8mb cache)
Sound card: Sound Blaster Audigy 2
Speaker/Headphones: Koss Deep Bass headphones
Monitor: Viewsonic E220 (21 inch)
Mouse: Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0
Keyboard: Standard
Webcam: Intel Pro Webcam
Media Writer/Readers: 3.5 Floppy (Black), 16X DVD (Black), 52/24/52 CD-RW
(Black)
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition
About $1200
Benchmarks:
Not done yet
Possible future upgrades:
Speakers/Headphones: Logitech Z-560 (4.1 configuration, 400 Watts, THX
Certified). Lowest price I've seen was $140.00 including shipping/handling/tax.
I will probably order them when they reach about $120.00 total.
I just got a kick ass powerful home speaker system which I'm going to try
to figure out how to connect to the computer. They are some sort of yamahas,
probably two-250 watt speakers. I also have an equalizer, RCA 101-cd disc
player, and a decent reciever.
Going to probably add another 512MB PC3200 Kingston DDR to enable dual-channel
memory (doubling the bandwidth and resources).
Probably going to switch out the Geforce FX 5600 128MB Ultra for the Radeon
9800 128MB.
Far off in the future (1-2 years): Change the 2.4ghz Pentium 4 for a Prescott
Pentium 4 3.6+ghz.
Far off in the future (1-2 years): Switch out the existing video card for
a new ATI or Nvidia card (whichever is faster). Hopefully in the future,
8X AGP will still be supported. I have heard that PCI-Express is supposed
to take over the video card market soon.
Add a TV-tuner eventually. Email
me if you know of a good brand/type.
My other computer (bought it 11-25-02):
CPU: 2.4ghz Pentium 4 (533mhz system bus)
Motherboard: i855 Intel
Memory: 2 sticks of 256MB RDRAM 1066mhz
Video Card: ATI Radeon 9700 128MB
Harddrive: 120 Gig Western Digital (8mb cache)
Sound Card: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Speaker/Headphone: Altec 95-watt 4.1
Monitor: Samtron 77V (17 inch)
Mouse: Microsoft IntelliMouse
Keyboard: Standard
Media Writer/Readers: 3.5 Floppy, 16X DVD, 48/12/48 CD-RW
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition
About $1500 (more expensive than the computer above because
its over 8 months older)
Benchmarks:
3dMark2001: 13,335 marks
3dMark2003: 3,521 marks
