This thread is dedicated to making your own Computer configurations in terms of software and hardware.you can and should share your dream machine along with any machine that you would recommend for anyone.
This thread should be the ultimate resource for making your own system and hopefully by making this thread certain members wont need to make a new thread.


Categories of users and systems;
General Users:
using the most out of the box systems or branded ones.
Office Users:
A little bit power but all the way a stable platform.
Gamers:
The heavy ones, extra power and extra graphic processing.
Graphic designers:
All the way professional approach, system should be able to accommodate heavy files and should be fast.
Servers;
Aimed for small to larger servers should be powerful and stable.

Programmers:
Open minded solutions.
Hax0r's:
Well any system would do as long as it's connected to the internet.

Well above is just a very small category you can expand it as much as you like.

Now the juicy part, system specifications.

Each category has different kind of needs and hence different system specs.Here you can provide your own specs and recommend them.
Please be as much informational as possible and do include RAM, Bus speeds and also quote your price.

For example:
PIII 733 Mhz
FSB 133Mhz
512 Mb RAM 133mhz
D815EEA2
Sound build-in.
VGA 32mb build-in. [Intel Solano]
USBx4.
HDD 80Gb
NIC 10/100 [Intel Pro]
ATX 230
DVD-Rom Asus
Price: 60~75$

Price may vary depending on region and components installed.

The above system supports WinSp2 and below,Linux all flavors {KDE,Genome,Xfce].

Any feed back would be most welcome, please contribute as much as you can and let your imagination run wild.

I'd like a small 2U server with about 1-2ghz power and 1-2gb ram. I'd like it to run Linux Slackware-current (12). No video card or monitor (or keyboard and mouse for that matter). Oh, and a nice T1 with good upload.

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My specs are a bit lacking as time has passed:

AMD Athlon 64 2.20GHz, 1600MHz FSB, 512KB L2 cache
512 MB ram (shut up)
ATI Radeon Xpress 200 128 MB
3d Labs Permedia 2 2D&3D (old card stripped from old machine for dual monitor action)
200 GB HDD
40 GB HDD
7 USB
1 Firewire
5 All purpose configurable audio jacks (surround sound capable)
Standard 10/100 NIC
Obse1337 Coaxnet/Game port/Ethernet NIC (10 MB only)
4 PCIe ports.

Cost: ~$650 (plus added video card, hard drive disk, )(Circa 2005)

Its running Debian Etch GNU/Linux Kernel 2.6.18-4. It CAN run windows, but who would WANT to?

Im planning to add a gig or so of ram and a dual head nVidia card once my pay increase is in full swing.

Edit: I seemed to miss the point of this thread, so heres my dream specs:

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 (FOUR cores, 2.66 ghz per core, 2 x 4MB L2 cache) $999
3 GB RAM (4 is a waste) $120 x 3 = $360
Dual nVidia GeForce 8800 $400 x 2 = $800
Twin Optoma WXGA DDR DLP Projectors $1300 x 2 = $2600
3TB internal storage $400 x 3 = $1200
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card $100
Belkin - N1 Wireless-N Desktop Card $100
NETGEAR - Gigabit PCI Desktop Adapter $30
Really big fucking stereo $400
Wireless mouse and keyboard $20 (ebay)
ATI TV Wonder 650 Tuner Card $130
GNU/Linux $0

$6739.00

System will sit next to a couch, keyboard and mouse will sit on a coffee table in front of couch, everything faces a blank wall. Twin screens projected on said wall. Stereo will have a speaker in each corner, and the sub udner the couch

Dell D600 laptop, £200 in this config about 2 months ago:
1.6ghz Pentium M
Dell TrueMobile WiFi
Intel Bluetooth module
1gb DDR266 RAM
40gb 5400rpm HD
14.1" 1450x1280 TFT
ATi Radeon 9000
52watt hour 6-cell battery

Capable of running almost anything apart from new games and Vista Aero. I don't game at all and I like Xp Pro so it's great...

My server:
Dual 733mhz PIII Coppermine
512mb RDRAM
20gb Seagate HD
Some crappy 8mb graphics card

Runs IIS and CGI/PHP scripts with ease on a broadband connection. Longest continuous uptime is 2 months, but I had to reboot after installing some updates.

Well i thinl 3Tb of HDD is way to large but still wicked, i have seen an 8TB server and i must say it was beautiful..
The point of this thread is to share your ideas, thoughts about Systems that people should get or should not get the above posters have done a brilliant job..
So what are you waiting for..

just to broaden the thread you can include any accessories as well.I pod cellphones the works.

On the "should not get" list I think I should add the following brands:
- Tiny
- Emachines (motherboards tend to just fry themselves very quickly)
- Philips (horrible support and drivers)
- Almost any budget laptop which isn't made by a big brand. It will be made badly, consumables like batteries will be hard to get and support will be patchy. In addition to this, parts will be virtually unobtainable at a good price.

For mobile devices, im gonna wait till they put linux on the iPhone (nerdgasm)

here are my specs:
- intel core2 duo e6600@stock [conroe s775 4mb l2] - stable 24ºC/75ºF w/ stock intel heatsink/fan
- gigabyte ga-vm900m
- atx-550w psu
- 1gb ddr2 800 pc-6400 [400mhz] x2
- maxtor 250gb serial ata hdd
- lg gsa-h10n 16x dvd
- writemaster s182s 18x dvd
- nvidia 256mb 8500gt
- 1gb/s pci-lan card

can somebody recommend me an averagely priced cpu heatsink/fan cooling system as i am looking to overclock to perhaps 3.6ghz, but need lower temps

thankyou
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I doubt you'll get it. Once I get around 3.4, my temps get to around 70C. That's with some massive heatsink/fan I bought.
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okay then, i'll just hafta make do i guess

thanks for the reply!
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