What CPU do you have in your main PC?

Just bored just thought I would see if anybody actually has an Intel CPU in their main home PC.

 

the laptop i'm using now has a pentium m in it and the one i use to write code on has some sort of amd doohickey in it. not sure which i'd class as my 'main' pc tho.
cheers


julian

 

The PCs in my house are as followed (note they are not all owned by me)

My main machine: AMD Athlon XP 2000, 512MB RAM, 80GB HD, XP Home, Madrake 10 and loads of other bits such as DVD ReWriter etc.

My coding machine: (used for web services and .NET development as it has XP Pro), Pentium III 750, 256MB RAM, 10GB HD, XP Pro

My laptop: Intel Pentium 233MMX, 64MB RAM, 3.2GB HD, Vector Linux - soon to sell.

Parents machine: AMD Duron 1GHZ, 384MB RAM, 15GB HD, XP Home

Sisters Machine: AMD Athlon XP 2200, 256MB RAM, 80GB HD, XP Home.

Sexy machine: MOS Technologies 6510A 1Mhz, 64K RAM, Data Cassete, Commodore Basic V2 (Microsoft Derived).

 

Tbird 1400. She soldiers on, recovering in older age from 2 years clocked at 1633.

 

Yep, I am running a P3-1ghz, I really must get around to upgrading my machine, but like they say if it works don't fix it! My wife has a AMD XP1700+ its good, but I think its false advertising, they should be made to only market there TRUE clock speed not some PR stunt. I've also got a couple P2-400mhz boxes lying around and a P2-333 Notebook, its like a computer musium here!

 

PIII 933Mhz, 512Mb RAM, 80Gb + 20Gb HDD, DVD drive, DVD+RW drive, Radeon 9600XT GFX card, Win XP Pro. Still perfectly fine but tempted to upgrade to a Shuttle PC with Athlon 64, probably a 3200+

Michael.

 

You can't measure a modern processors speed on Mhz though, MIPs is the only realy important measure and a 1700XP will perform roughly the same as P4 1700.

In fact for games your wifes AMD 1700 will out perform a P4 1700 but for video editing the P4 will win.

My PIII 750 can cope with Visual Studio 2003 perfectly not bad considering it only cost me £60.

 

I didn't see Celeron on that list. Currently using my 5 year old laptop on 400Mhz. Need to upgrade, but it's not top of the priority list - I only use it for internet access anyway.

 

Main PC: Shuttle PC with Intel Celeron D 2.66Gz CPU, 1GB RAM, 120GB/160GB HDDs, DVD-/+RW (Dual Layer), NVidia GeForce 5700LE graphics, Leadtek TV card and Win XP Pro.

Used as my main desktop and HTPC for DVD/VCD/MP3 duties. Feeds a 15" LCD monitor used for TV/HTPC/PC use.

Laptop: IBM ThinkPad X20 with a PIII/600 Speedstep CPU, 320MB RAM, 20GB HDD and Win XP Pro

 

I only had 10 choices, and I just forget that they even existed. I used a 2.2Ghz work Celeron laptop once, it was so slow it was scary.

 

Can you play any modern games on it? That video card is like a Ferrari Engine in a Mondeo. I've got the crappy 9600SE (which is perfectly fine as I most modern game I play is GTA3).

 

Yep. Splinter Cell "Pandora Tomorrow" played perfectly. Even Half-Life 2 plays pretty well. Anything more taxing than HL2 I don't think it would be able to handle though.

Michael.

 

The new Celeron D processors seem to be quite a bit better. Intel have upped the cache on them to 256KB and this seems to have improved performance considerably. However, I agree with you about the earlier Celerons. Remember that many laptops have slow 4200RPM hard drives, although this is changing, with the availablity of 5400/7200RPM drives for laptop PCs. It's also a possiblity that being a Celeron, it was a budget laptop with limited memory. A good, fast hard drive (my boot drive is a 120GB Maxtor with a 7200RPM speed and an 8MB cache) and plenty of RAM really do help to improve performance.

 

p4 2.8ghz HT

seems fine. my geforce3 ti200 could be slowing it down a bit, but thats been overclocked to 502mhz memory clock frequency and 209mhz core clock frequency. Not bad for a 3yr old card

 

P4 3 gig HT 2Gig Ram Dual ddr pc 3200, 2x80gig sata, ati9800pro 128mb all running stock speed.

Huge jump in speed between p3 933mhz/756mbpc133/geforce2pro to amd xp2000/1Gig pc2700/geforce 4 4200, but not such a big jump in speed when moving to P4 (except photoshop) P3 must be 4-5 year old now and used as games machine (for 3 year old) for daughter number 2, daughter number one has Amd M/C

 

P4 2.8GHz HT Prescott in my main PC which runs quite happily at 3.2GHz
P2 400MHz in my server running BT and my website
P1 266 in my diddy Sony Vaio laptop
P4 2.6GHz HT Northwood in another machine I use via remote desktop
AMD XP1800 in another machine I use via remote desktop

 

Rory - I used to run mine full time at 235/480 (very nearly Ti500 speeds), and could push for a benchmark run in a cold room at 240/496.

 

AMD Athlon XP 1700+
512MB PC2700 RAM
Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard
Matrox Millenium G450 graphics card
40GB Seagate Baracuda 7200.7

Bought all the bits for this PC nearly 3 years ago (IIRC) to replace a 1Ghz Althlon Thunderbird system that was dying. As I'm not a great games player, having the latest processor with state of the art graphics capabilities wasn't on the agenda, so I went for the cheapest equivalent processor to the previous processor I had available at the time which was either a 1600+ or 1700+ Athlon XP. The 1700+ was cheaper (!) so that's what I got. The motherboard is quite a fancy one, I don't use half the features on it like the onboard SATA RAID controller, but the on-board sound and 10/100 ethernet controllers (2 of them) have served well enough that I've not needed to go out and buy separate cards.

Have always been a fan of the Matrox cards for image sharpness and stability for general Windows (i.e. non graphics intensive game playing) scenarios.

Only upgrades in mind are for a quieter CPU cooler and silent PSU (something from QuietPC.com). Although that's not to say tha the PC is noisey, it ain't, but it ain't silent either and as it's in the same room as the hi-fi it sill gets shut down when a serious listening session is in progress; especially with music that has quiet passages. Oh and maybe an LCD display when this Iiyama Vision Master Pro 17 inch starts breaking down.

 

Athlon 64 3000+, with Corsair 1gig RAM and a nice Seagate SATA HDD...

I, errr, screwed up on the graphics though - my wanderbox has a crappy GeForce 4 Mx 440 with only 64 megs. To be upgraded - one day...

 

currently main machine is a AMD64 3200+ but might be swapping that out for a dual opteron as a main machine.

i have a few older machines but wont bother listing.

still AMD 64's are great.