A couple years ago I posted this same thread (located here if anyone wants to see the results). Now I would like to see some updated results as our systems change. Feel free to post any specs of your systems below. This is especially interesting now due to the clock speed differences due to dual core and intel vs amd
My home system is currently the same one posted later in that thread:
2.8C Ghz P4
Abit IS7 - Has since been fully replaced once (due to popped out fan brackets) and the northbridge fan 4 times (current one now dying again)
1GB DDR400
2x 160GB Seagate 7200.7 SATA
300GB Seagate 7200.8
Radeon 9500 Pro 128MB
SB Audigy 2 Platinum
NEC ND-3500 16x DL DVDRW
Now use for programming during robotics (and at my house rest of the year):
HP nc6000 Laptop
1.8GHz Centrino
512MB DDR 333
40 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive
Mobility Radeon 9700
and
Older HP Laptop
Athlon 2500+
512 DDR 266
30 GB Hard Drive
1.42 GHz G4 Processor (PowerPC for lizz-ife…or until I can afford a Mactel)
1 GB of RAM (trust me, it screams with a gig, especially after life with 512 MB)
80 GB Hard drive
OS X 10.4.4 (the most beautiful OS I’ve dealt with)
AMD64 clock speeds are typically lower than Intel P4 clock speeds for similar performance. This poll cannot accurately compare performance of people’s computers as-is.
I have a desktop P4 @3.00GHz and a laptop AMD64 3200+ @2.0GHz and my laptop can run faster than the desktop depending on the circumstances.
I already mentioned this in my initial post. While the difference may be more exaggerated now, this offset was there for the original poll as well. My main purpose here was for comparison, and since both manufacturers have increased clock speeds, this is still somewhat valid.
I run a Homemade Computer
AMD Athalon XP 2600+ (2.08 Ghz)
1GB of Ram
256mb Gforce FX 5600
160 Gb storage
DVD Burner
CD Drive
Floppy (yea its old school but i still use it)
Onboard sound, but i am thinking of sticking a Sb sound card i got lying around back in…
Gateway EV700 17" CRT Monitor
and my favorite toys, my Logitech G7 Laser Mouse and G15 Keyboard
Home Made:
Dual 2.0 GHZ AMD M
512MB Will become over 1.5GB in a few days.
80GB+
160GB+
200GB+
200GB+
52xCD
16XDVDRW
Radeon 7000
Win2003 server
Apache
My server which I run about 6 websites off and do major video editing on, I have never seen the usage go above 30%. Runs constant every day unless I do hardware upgrades, longest run time between restarts was I believe 120days.
The fastest computer I have is my “good” Toshiba Satellite laptop, a 1.6 P4 with 512MB, 30GB and XP home.
The second fastest I have is my “second/beater” laptop I got off eBay for a toatl of $412 including shipping. Is also a Satellite with a 650MHZ Celeron, 320MB, 30GB and 2000 Pro.
Then I have an HP Pavilion but it’s currently dead right now. It’s a 533MHZ P3, 256MB, 30GB and has 98SE on it.
The computer I’m on now is a built computer with a 500MHZ AMD K-6, 256MB, 20GB and 2000 Pro.
Then there’s also my oldest still running computer that’s also still part of my home network as is all the above computers. It’s a built 233MHZ P1, 256MB, 4.3GB with 98SE.
DUAL XEON 2.0ghz
Nvidia 6600 256 AGP OC’ed to 380MHZ
1.5GB of RDRAM (error correcting)
40GB IDE
80Gb IDE
160GB IDE
4x16x40x dvd-rw
Toped off with my homebrewed Water coolant system machined my coper waterblocks for my CPU and and my GPU Oilcooler with a real nice fish pump in a 5 gallon bucket
Here’s for my desktop, I’ll post my laptop specs later if I get a chance.
Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Model: pavillion 533w
Processor: Celeron 2.0 GHz
RAM: 2x256MB
Hard Drive 1: Maxtor 60GB
Hard Drive 2: Maxtor 30GB
Hard Drive 3: Western Digital 250GB
CD Drive 1: 16x/8x/8x/40x DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive
Other Drives: 1.44 MB (3.5-inch)
USB Ports: Six (two front and four back)
Serial Ports: One
Parallel Ports: One
Could’ve sworn that I had more than 2.0ghz, as well as a pentium, but I guess not…
