This is a call for all of you out there to post a comment telling us what you’re running right now for a computer. It doesn’t matter if it’s old or new, pre-built or custom, fast or slow, laptop or desktop, etc. Post your specs.
If you have multiple computers in the home, go ahead and name them all.
What I’m looking for here is a simple one-liner for each computer containing its specifications, monitor resolution, the current operating system on it and how long you’ve owned it.
Here’s an example using my two computers:
Custom build, 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, 16x DVD Burner, EVGA nVidia 512MB video, dual monitor, 1680×1050, Windows 7 RC, 3 years
Dell Inspiron 6000, 1.5GHz Celeron M, 1GB RAM, 60GB HDD, 8x DVD Burner, integrated video, single monitor, 1680×1050, Windows XP SP3, 4 years
If you don’t know all the above info for your box, just take your best guess or put "unknown" for the ones you don’t know.
If you want to add in additional info like make/model/dimensions of components such as for motherboard, RAM, monitor(s) and so on, feel free to post that as well.
Why am I asking for this info?
A few reasons:
- There’s going to be a swath of you considering upgrading to Windows 7 in October. If we know your specs, we can give better advice and tips because not everybody runs a super-duper-fast quad core machine.
- For those running older hardware, this gives us a better idea of what Linux distributions to recommend to keep you modern without the need for hardware upgrades.
- Using a laptop? Would be nice to get a general idea of how many of you have one.
Go ahead and post your specs!
1. Home built, AMD 4000+ Athelon, 4GB memory, 200GB HD, 500GB HD, Nividia Gforce 6200 512 Turbocache, two 16x DVD/CD RW, Hauppauge PVR 150 TV card, Logitech Pro 9000 Webcam. OS is triple boot Ubuntu 9.04, Kubuntu 8.04, Windows XP, running Windows 7 in VM in Ubuntu.
2. HP DV1000 laptop, memory upgrade to 1GB. Dual Booting XP and Xubuntu 9.04.
3. HP Pavilion 6253, upgraded to 1 GB memory, dual boot, XP, Xubuntu 8.04.
4. Old compaq for the kids, running 512K memory, Xubuntu 9.04.
Custom Build, 3.0GHz (OCed) i7 920, 6GB RAM, 750GB HDD, 22x DVD Burner, 1GB 9400GT, using 46″ HDTV as monitor, Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit, 4 months
Hi Dave,
Thanks for letting us brag a little bit.
My main computer Custom Build-
ASUS P5K D/WiFI
Q6600 Kentsfield @ 3.05 GHz
OCZ PC2-6400 @ 400MHz
OCZ 64Gig SSD- Boot Drive, Maxtor 370Gig, WD 350Gig
NVidia GeForce 8500 GT
Finally – Mulit Boot – XP, Win 7 32bit, Win 7 64bit
Boot time after post – 18 seconds – SSD is great!
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Laptop IBM T-30 (upgraded)
P4 2.5 GHZ 533 FSG 1.5 Gig PC2100 Ram
Transcend 64GB SSD
XP
Boot time after POST -16 Seonds!
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At this time I am experimenting with Windows 7 32Bit and Windows 7 64Bit, the funny thing is I have not seen one Blue Screen, where as Vista was a bugger to get installed and Blue screened on the ASUS three times before I deleted it.
My 64-bit Win 7 RC hasn’t blue-screened yet either, although I did have to run the recovery disc after I added more RAM and installed the current graphics card: For some unexplained reason it said NTLDR was missing, yet it was working fine beforehand, and AFAIK the hard-drives hadn’t even been touched when I installed the components. -?
I’ve been poking around in the services, GPO’s, and the registry.
But I am doing this with Virtual Machines (VM Ware – 4.0 didn’t have support for the network/sound/video so I had to bite the bullet and upgrade to 6.0.5) I have five VM’s two that are 32 and 64 bit source then three with different configurations. (One Multi Boot configuration had XP, Vista, Win 7 32, and 64, Vista bit the dust in about an hour).
Even with poking around looking at different things (I wrote a book about it) and changing things I haven’t made it blue screen. I have only used the recovery console twice, one to see how it worked (easier than Vista or XP) and once when I changed a series of GPO’s and couldn’t get logged back in.
And I like the repair console but on my ASUS I couldn’t get the F8 key to go to the console the boot sequence is to fast, cool.
I’d like to read that book eventually. How do I get hold of a copy? Your blog? (I haven’t even had a chance to look yet. – In response to my question I’msure the PC Mech moderator won’t mind you doing some veiled advertising. – (?)
Mine is a custom build as well. I have 1 file server, 2 desktops & 3 notebooks so I will just post my new desktop that I built recently.
ASUS Rampage II Extreme LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 965 Nehalem 3.2GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor
CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit
LITE-ON Black Blu-Ray DVD Drive & DVD Burner with LightScribe
GeForce GTX 295 1792MB
Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EADS 1TB SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit
DESKTOP:
HP Pavilion Elite m9340f Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66 GHz, 2TB SATA HD, 750GB SATA HD, 8GB RAM, nVidia GeForce 9500M GS graphics chip, 16x DVD/CD RW w/ Lightscribe, TV tuner card with FM tuner, Windows Vista 64 bit Home Premium, 2x 22″ Samsung 2232BW monitors, 1 yr
LAPTOP #1:
Compaq Presario CQ50-105NR, AMD Athlon X2 QL-60 1.9GHz, 160GB HD, 2GB DDR2 RAM, nVIDIA GeForce 8200M, DVD SuperMulti w/ LightScribe, Vista Home Premium 32-bit, 15.4″ WXGA+ BrightView LCD, 1 yr
LAPTOP #2:
Compaq Presario R4000, AMD Athlon 64 4000+ 2.4GHz, 60GB HD, 2GB DDR SDRAM, 128MB 200M ATI Radeon Express, DVD/CD-RW Combo w/Double Layer Support, Windows XP Professional with SP2, 15.4″ WXGA BrightView widescreen, 5 yrs
I’ve got a custom desktop and a laptop.
Desktop:
Asus M3N78-EM Motherboard with NVidia GeForce 8300 integrated graphics
AMD Phenom II X4 920 quad-core processor
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 video card
8 GB (4×2GB) Corsair DDR2 memory
250 GB and 750 GB Seagate Barracuda HDs
Lite-on SATA DVD-ROM and DVD burner
Microsoft Windows Professional x64
Laptop is a Dell Inspiron something or other, Turion dual-core processory, 2 GB RAM.
I’ll probably be switching to Windows 7 when it comes out.
Home built about 2 years ago, minor upgrades since then: Antec quiet case (PS and HDs in bottom of case in sealed compartment), Seasonic 500watt PSU, ASUS P5K-C MB, Q6600, 2GB DDR3, Radeon 1650 512mb PCIE video, Pinnacle PCI video interface card, generic 3 antenna 802.11g, PCI-E multiport serial card (for controlling ham radio gear), 80GB WD SATA, 1TB Seagate SATA, ASUS SATA DVD burner, SONY IDE burner, ancient HP 8X IDE CD burner, 1.44 floppy, 19 inch LCD using DVI cable. XP Pro.
Laptops: All running XP Pro, Thinkpad T41, Thinkpad T60p, Thinkpad T61 – mostly used as internet appliances
Junk box custom mid tower used as file/print server: XP Pro, ASUS P3 1Ghz TUSCL2(?), 512mb DDR2, NEC DVD reader, generic CD reader, 80GB IDE WD, 200GB IDE WD, 250GB IDE Maxtor. Tripp Lite Net 2200 Pro UPS monitoring
Garage: Compaq 500mhz P3 SFN desktop, 512mb RAM, low power USB connected FM stereo transmitter, broadcasts MP3 collection to any FM radio in the house and used to jack into cars OBD-II computers for check engine/error codes, and view PDF shop manuals.
Dual lcd monitors 19″Sceptre and 20″LG
NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT
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Asus AM2 Motherboard
2GB Kingston HyperX Ram
5 Seagate HD’S totaling 2.5T storage
LG Super Multi DVD/CD
AMD X2 Dual core Processor 5600+
Thermaltake Xaser3 Case
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XP Media Center Edition
I installed Win7 RC1/32 bit on this system for a couple of days and it worked just fine. I could use a bit more ram but the system was very fast and I encountered no difficulties. I intend to install the 64 Bit version shortly and then go through the process of learning a new OS. I do not anticipate any problems with my hardware. I build my own systems and have since my first computer around 1980 which came in a box od parts requiring assembly similar to the old HeathKit items, for those of you old enough to remember that fine company.
Custom built, AMD x2 4850e 2.5GHz, 4G Ram, 250GB HDD, nVidia 512MB video, DVD burner, 1680×1050, Ubuntu 8.04.2, Ubuntu 9.04 in VirtualBox, 8 months
Sager NP9280
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-950 Processor ( 8MB L3 Cache, 3.07GHz, 4.8GT/sec QPI )
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M Graphics with 1GB DDR3
RAM: 6GB Triple Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz – 3 X 2GB
HDD: 500GB 7200rpm SATA 300 Hard Drive
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium
1) Custom (own) build, Gigabyte GA-M720-US3 AMD Nvidia 720D Socket AM2+ 7.1 channel audio ATX Motherboard, AMD Phenom X3 Triple Core 8650 2.3GHz Socket AM2+ 2MB L3 Cache CPU, 8GB DDR2 800MHz RAM, 250GB SATA2 Hitachi + 160GB SATA 1.1 Seagate SATA HDDs, 20x IDE DVD-RAM drive, Gigabyte 7200GS 256MB GDDR2 VGA DVI TV out PCI-E Graphics Card, old Logix 17″ CRT monitor, 1024×768, Windows 7 RC 64-bit, 2 months
2) Custom (own) build, Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2 GeForce 6100 Socket AM2 onboard VGA 6 channel audio mATX Motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Socket AM2 (2.2GHz) Energy Efficient 1MB L2 Cache Processor, 2GB DDR2 667Mhz RAM, 250GB SATA 2 Hitachi HDD, 20x SATA DVD-RAM drive, Asus nVidia 6200 64MB Turbocharged to 512MB graphics card, 19″ Proview TFT monitor, 1024×768, Windows XP Professional 32-bit, 6 months.
3) (Spare computer.) Custom (own) build (Barebones.) Asus M2V890 Socket AM2 5.1 chanel audio mATX motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2GHz) Socket AM2 L2 1MB 2×512KB Processor, 2GB DDR2 533MHz RAM, 150GB SATA2 Hitachi HDD, 20x IDE DVD-RAM drive, 64MB onboard graphics, 14″ AOC Spectrum 5glr CRT monitor, 1024×768, Windows XP Professional 32-bit, 2 years.
Custom
Asus P5Q
Gigabyte 9800GT
1TB hard drive
4 gb of ram
1680 x 1050 (dual 22″ monitors)
Win 7 build 7100
LG dvd/cd burner/reader(ata)
3 months
DELL XPS 420
INTEL CORE 2- QUAD CPU Q9300@2.50ghz
8.00 GB RAM
PRIMARY HARD DRIVE 500GB
SECONDARY HARD DRIVE 500GB
64 BIT OPERATING SYSTEM
ATI RADEON HD 3870
Allow me to take you back in time….
ASUS P4S800D-X
Pentium 4HT 3Ghz
Corsair 2×1GB
Sapphire HD3850
21″ CRT @ 1024×768
XP Home SP3
2 months
Hi Dave;
My setup is a custom build,”by others”.
Specs are as follows:
Windows XP Home SP3
Intel Pentium 4, 3.07 Ghz
1 Gig Ram
570 Ghz Hard drives
ECS P4M800PRO-M 1.0 board
DVD 16X 16X
19 ” ACI ASUS VW193T Monitor
AVG Internet Security Ver. 8.5.0.359
I am considering upgrading to Windows 7 when it comes out.
I will be following your recommendatione regarding moving up to Windows 7.
Thanks Frank Donnelly Mick at The Lake
custom laptop
Compal JHL90 barebones
intel core 2 duo T9400 2.53GHz
Nvidia 9600m gt w/vga and Hdmi out
320gb harddrive
2gb of ram (soon to be expanded to 4)
15″ monitor
Vista 64 bit, Kubuntu, Linux Mint. tri-boot using Grub
my main one:
Custom built
MSI K8N-Neo3 Mainboard
AMD Sempron 3300+ CPU @ 2.01Ghz
2 GB RAM (2×1GB Adata DDR400)
1x 250GB HDD for data and 1x 40GB HDD for OS only (XP Prof SP3)
ATI Radeon x550 Video card (DVI & VGA)
19″ Widescreen monitor @ 1680×1050 resolution, DVI
16x dvd burner
been using it for ~4years, although I just recently acquired this monitor – was previously using an HP mx70 monitor @ 1024×768 resolution, VGA.
almost time for an upgrade, still suiting my needs – just.
Computer: Laptop The only what I have
Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU
T4200 @ 2.00GHz
2.00 GHz,
2 GB of RAM
250 GB Hard disk
8xDVD Super multi Dl
System:
Windows XP
Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 3
Dell Latitude E6400 – 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P9500, 14.1″ WXGA+ (1440×900) LED display, 256mb nVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M graphics, 4GB DDR2-800 RAM, 320GB 72004pm hard drive (Seagate), DVD-RW, Backlit Keyboard and running Vista Business 64-bit.
Dell Studio 15 (1555) – 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9550, 15.6″ 900p (1600×900) LED TrueLife Display, 256mb (GDDR3) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570, 3GB DDR2-800 RAM, 250GB 7200rpm hard drive (Seagate), DVD-RW, Backlit Keyboard and running Vista Home Premium 32-bit. ***This is a warranty replacement unit for the ABYSMAL Studio 1535 that I bought in 9/08. After two motherboards replacements and a few other failed repair attempts, I sent an email to everyone on Dell’s Board of Directors! They sent me a new laptop! =)
Dell Inspiron 530 (Desktop) – 3.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, 512mb nVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT graphics card, 3GB DDR2-800 RAM, 500GB 5400rpm hard drive, Dual DVD-RW drives and running Vista Home Premium 32-bit, with a 20″ LG monitor.
Laptop
Pentium Dual Core 2.0GHz, 4GB of RAM, 160GB hdd, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M, 15.6″ 1366 x 768, 8Xdvdrw Ubuntu 9.04 x64 (1month)
Desktop
Core 2 Duo 3.0GHz, 4GB of RAM, 30GB SSD, 640GB hdd, 16x DVDRW, ATI Radeon HD 3850, 17″ 1440×900,
Ubuntu 9.04 x64 (2years)
Media Server
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 3GB of RAM, 250GB hdd, 500GB hdd, 16x DVDRW, NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE, 17″ 1280×1040,
Ubuntu 9.04 x64
Custom build: Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 QUAD CPU Q6600 @2.40GHz 3,24GB RAM 250HDD ATI 1550 PCI-EX 512MB Video, 16x DVD BURNER, single monitor 1024x 768, Windows XP SP3, 10 months
Home Built / Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor 3.0ghz / 4GB ddr2 800mhz PNY RAM / ASUS M2N-SLI mobo / Nvidia 8600GTS graphics card / 1TB western digital green drive HDD / 250GB Segate 7500 rpm HDD / Viewsonic LCD monitor 1400X900 60hz / Ubuntu “jaunty” 9.04 w/ Fedora 11 & windows XP in virtual machines using virtualbox.
Home Built 4 years ago
MSI K8N Neo3 Motherboard
AMD 3200+ (overclocked by 15%)
1.5 Gig Ram
2X 250 Gig hard drives
8x DVD Burner duel layer
52x CD Burner
Nvidia 7300 GS
Nvidia nforce Ethernet
450 Watt PS
10 USB 2.0 slots
15 inch Monitor/TV with remote
5.1 surround sound
Logitech X-530 5.1 surround sound speakers
Windows XP Pro SP3
HP Pavilion a6708f PC, 5GB Ram, Intel Dual Core Desktop processor E5200
2.5 GHtz, Intel Graphics Media Accerlerator 3100, Lightscribe DVD Supermulti Drive/CD Writer
Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit w/Service Pack 1
HP w2207h Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor w/Brightview Panel, 22 inch, VGA and HDMI input
1680 x 1050 resolution.
HP Mini Laptop XP
HP 4GB, 17 inch Laptop, custom order. Don’t have specs at the moment. Vista Home Premium service pack 1.
Custom Built
Antec 900 Mid Tower Case
Asus P5Q Deluxe Motherboard
Intel Core2 Duo E8400 (overclocked to 4.2Ghz)
8 gigs Corsair DDR2 1066Mhz Ram
2x 500gig hard drives
2x 20x dvd burner dual layer
2x Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1gig GDDR5 graphics card
Corsair 750Watt PS
22″ LG LCD Screen
Logitech z-5500 Surround Sound Speakers
Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1