What spec of computer?

[Fine Line Darrel]

Hello everyone, just curious as to the hardware that everyone is using? Did you buy "off the shelf" like a DELL, Gateway, HP etc or did you have it custom made? And what kind of specs? How well is it working for your digital requirements?

The other day I was working on a wrap file, bunch of pictures, digital vehicle outline, and moving back and forth from corel draw X3 to paint, I could see beads of sweat running down the front of my DELL and I'm sure I heard grinding noises (I think the hamster wheel needs some oil!!) So I'm curious what do you use, and how well is it doing the job.

Thanks, Fine Line Darrel :Canada:

 

[DARLAK]

i built a system with an AMD dual core 6000 and 4 Raptor 15,000 RPM sata drives running in RAID 0.

It never sweats....

 

[FatCat]

Right now I use 2 rigs side-by-side:

1. Mac G5 DP - 2GB ram, 500GB storage

2. Dell tower with Dual Pentium 2.8, 2GB ram, 320GB storage

Both are holding their own, but as soon as funds are available I'll be upgrading to a MacPro w/4GB ram and Adobe CS3 and will run both the MacOS and WindowsOS on it. Hopefully I'll be able to buy when Apple releases their new Leopard OS this fall and get it bundled with the computer.

 

[Craig Sjoquist]

off the shelf with intel pent 4 ... off brand cisnet ...but works great no problems welll XP thats another story but alot better then 98 like night n day do not see myself downgrading to vista, unless only choice
my old pent 2 still works also with XP

13 folds

 

[kra]

Just finished building this system last night.

Intel quad core 6600 2.6g
Asus P5KC mother board
640 mb GeForce 8800 video card
3 gb DDR2-SDRAM PC 800 DIMM (2-1 gb matching and 2-512mb matching)
2 Western Digital S-ATA 10k Raptor hard drives (150g & 500g)
750 w power supply
Antec Nin-Hundred tower
ASUS 22" wide format HD monitor (running dual monitor setup with 19" Sceptre monitor)

Replacing a dual processor (AMD 1600's) with 3 gb memory

 

[allstargraphics]

For my main machine:
Mac Pro Dual Quad-core 3GHz (8 cores)
9GB DDR2 667
150GB 10K rpm raptor boot drive
3 x 500GB RAID0
ATi X1800
Dual Dell 2407WFP monitors

I do all my graphic design, video and photography work on that machine.

For my vinyl cutting, I'm not sure what I'll use yet. I have a pretty sick dual core AMD machine that I might use.

 

[rcook99]

Just finished building this system last night.

Intel quad core 6600 2.6g
Asus P5KC mother board
640 mb GeForce 8800 video card
3 gb DDR2-SDRAM PC 800 DIMM (2-1 gb matching and 2-512mb matching)
2 Western Digital S-ATA 10k Raptor hard drives (150g & 500g)
750 w power supply
Antec Nin-Hundred tower
ASUS 22" wide format HD monitor (running dual monitor setup with 19" Sceptre monitor)

Replacing a dual processor (AMD 1600's) with 3 gb memory

If you don't mind me asking, what did it cost to put that system together?

 

[Techman]

Home built Intel 2.4 g P4 with a gig of memory. XP corp Pro SP1. Have no need or desire to use SP2.

The registery and services are stripped down to the bare bones so that only esential services are running. Nothing extra is running and hogging resources.

Runs like a champ,, never freezes, always up to the task. One dvd + one dvd burner, floppy drive, SATA main drive and 3 IDE hard drives. Wireless key and mouse. tablet scanner, video inputs, dvd rendering softs.

Lean mean machine that does exactly what its supposed to do. Never reformated since first install when XP first came out. I can see absolutely no reason to change to anything else. Its faster than many higher end CPU's achines. (i wonder why) and has no conflicts with any software or hardware. Has no porn or maleware.

This is one happy machine and an even happier user/tweaker.

 

[Columbia Signs]

We had a computer built with a RAID system (raid 0, I think). It runs 2 hard drives at the same time. They mirror each other and act as one hard drive. We had that computer built thinking it would be an extra level of protection in case on of the drives went bad..... and LAST WEEK ONE OF THE HARD DRIVES WENT BAD!

It took us a couple of minutes to take out the bad hard drive and we started the computer back up and kept working without missing a beat or any data. After we installed a new hard drive the computer rebuilt the "array" and we're back to having 2 hard drives working as one.

Might be worth looking in to. I know we would have been SOL if we would have lost that computer all day.... and ever worse all the data!