Just thought it would be interesting to see what everyone else has for a setup! Not for people to ridicule, just to compare.

I wanted something for both gaming and PVR function. Using some existing parts on hand and some new ones came up with:

Thermaltake Bach Media Case w/VFD display
AMD 3700+ San Diego core (stock speed)
BFG 7800 GT OC
2 GIG Dual Channel PC3200 Ram
2 X 200GB Maxtor H.D.
Evga 133-K8-NF41 SLI motherboard
Sound Blaster Live! Gamer 5.1 soundcard
Logitec 5.1 speakers
32" 16:9 LCD Toshiba T.V. (using DVI connection @ 1080i)
19" Flat Screen CRT secondary monitor
LG DVD Burner
Haugpauge PVR 150 w/MCE remote
Windows XP Media Center 2005
Logitec bluetooth cordless mouse, keyboard & gamepad

I can now sit in my comfy chair and not have to move!

Abit 3200 Motherboard
Hiper Type-R 580W Modular Power Supply
Case:Cooler Master
AMD OPTERON 170 Dual Core OC to a stable 2.9 with water cooler
2 x ATI X1900 XTX GPU in Cross Fire OC at 710mhz with water cooler
OCZ 2gb 3200 memory
XFI Sound Blaster Fatality
NEC ND-3550A Dual Layer DVD±RW
Samsung SyncMaster 997mb 1900x1400 19" Monitor
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB Hard Drive

Tax w/ shipping
$2,577.77

Coolermaster Stacker 830 (Soon to be Lian Li V2100)
Thermaltake PurePower 520W PST
ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe
Opteron 170 @ 2,6Ghz/1,4v + Zalman 9500LED
Corsair TwinX 2048-4000PT
Western Digital Raptor 74GB
Seagate Barracude 7200.9 300GB SATA II
Sapphire ATI X1900 XT
NEC 3550 DVD Re-Writer
Logitech G15 keyboard
Logitech G7 mouse
Dell 24" 2405 FPW LCD

Soon to be watercooled..

What watercooling setup u got running? Pics or 3DMark05/06 links?

He built his own.

This is my "Browser" pc - secure setup.

Celeron 733
448mb pc100 (256+128+64)
Aopen AX33 pro
Gigabyte ATI Rage 128
Fujitsu (?) 4gb hdd
Seagate 2gb hdd
32x10x40 cdrw
3com pci 10/100 nic
Creative Vibra 128 pci sound
Repotec 802.11b/g WP0854A WiFi pci nic
No name ps2 keyboard.
Microsoft Intellimouse optical
Panasonic 3.5 fdd
Gigatech 21 in one card reader and usb.
Mitsubishi Diamond View 17"
Basic ATX case and psu.
Ubuntu Linux 5.10 (Breezy) Gnome desktop

No spyware or antivirus software.

All of the above except keyboard, card reader and WiFi nic leftover from personal and family/friend pc upgrades. Keyboard, WiFi nic and card reader cost $70 Aus.

(We have 2 other pc's in the house which cost a "little" more than this one)

This pc is built to be used purely for web browsing, Linux learning and e-mail. It also sees duty as backup MSN terminal and innocuous games like solitaire.

nice comp, mine is in my sig

Mine, too. Just add a floppy drive, and an HP keyboard and mouse. I plan on replacing the power supply with a little hamster running in a wheel

OK, here goes....

Opteron 170,
ASUS A8N SLI Premium
Dual ASUS 6800GT cards in SLI
4GB RAM
4-36G SATA Raptors in a RAID 0 array
250G WD IDE for storage
Sony DVD ROM
45X CD RW
Floppy (of coarse)
700W PSU (Because a 600W nuked)
No OC, air cooling so far.

($1,800 or so invested)

Centurion 534
Enermax Noisetaker 485 watt
Asus A8N-E
Opteron 165
2x1 GB Patriot DDR 400 2-3-2-5
eVGA 7900 GT @ 500 MHz core 1500 MHz memory
WD Caviar 80 GB
Seagate Barracuda 250 GB
Dual NEC DVD-R Drives
SB X-Fi Xtreme

Main game box, similiar to yours...
A64 X2 3800 w/ Zalman 7000/EVGA 133-K8-NF41/Gateway 500 tower/2x1gb PDP(patriot)DDR400 2-3-2-5/EVGA 7800GT/1x200gb,2x250gb/1xdvdrw,1xcd/SB live

My son's game box
A64 3700 w/ CM hyper 48/Gigabyte GA-K8U-939/CM Centurion 5/2x1gb Gskill DDR400 2-3-2-5/BFG6800GT/2x80gb/1xdvd,1xcd

File / print server
P4 2.4 northwood/Tyan Trinity S2099GNN/Aspire X-Navigator w/ ATX-AS500W/2x512mb transcend DDR266 CL2/10xIDE hdds 80gb~300gb/1xdvdrw,1xcdrw/1xcompaq pci sound

As for whats not in my sig -- 2 19" samsung 930B and 1 21.4" samsung 214T, Logitech z-5300e speakers-LX700 keyboard and MX1000 laser mouse, pioneer 111d burner and samsung ts-h352a cd/dvd reader -- 2nd comp - A7N8X deluxe 3000xp, 1gig dual channel samsung, 160 gig maxtor sata, standard keyboard and mouse, pioneer 111d burner, msi geforce4 mx460-vtp, 2 sceptre 19" crt's. nothing overclocked.

uh oh...well here goes...
(main compy )
FoxConn Case + 400w Powmax PS
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
Biostar M7VIG-Pro
256MB Crucial DDR 266 Memory
XFX Nvidia GeForce4 MX-4000 AGP 8x/4x
Lite-on 52x CD Burner + Acer 5x CD-ROM
17" Samtron CRT and Altec Lansing Black 2.1 Speakers
1999 Dell Generic KB w/ Microsoft Intellimouse Pro Ball Mouse
$400 3 years ago! w00t!
I'm looking for an upgrade for about $700 though...

OK Here We Go :
In The Case :
AMD 64 3000+ 20% OverClocked To 2.16GHz (From 1.8GHz)
CPU Cooler : AKASA EVO33 For Socket 939
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Edition
Leadtek GeForce7800GT ( OverClocked To 450/1100 By Me )
2Gb (4x512Mb) Kingmax Dual DDR 400 (2.5-3-3-7-2T) @ 200MHz
Maxtor 80Gb Sata Hard Driver
Toshiba SD-R5112 (4xDVD-R/RW)
ACBel 550Watt SLI Ready PS2 Power Gold Edition
Green Midi Plus 2005 Case
No Floppy
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Out Of Case :
Logitech G5 Laser Mouse
VKer 2.1 Speaker 8500Watt ( You Should See It )
Samsung SyncMaster MB1784 (17inch CRT)
An ADSL Modem (FiberHome)
And A NOKIA N-GAGE ( Lots Of Fun )

CPU - Intel Pentium 4 531, 3000 MHz (15 x 200)
Motherboard - Asus P5AD2-E Deluxe
System Memory - 2 x 512MB DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM Geil Ultra
Video Adapter - Connect3D RADEON X850 XT 256 MB DDR3 / 256 Bit R480 PCIe
Monitor 1 - IBM 6652 P275 [21" CRT]
Monitor 2 - IBM 6652 P275 [21" CRT]
Audio Adapter - Creative Audigy 2 ZS (SB0350) Sound Card
Speakers - Creative THX 550 5.1
Disk Drive 1 - Seagate ST3200822AS (200 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA)
Disk Drive 2 - Seagate ST3200826AS (200 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA)
Optical Drive - ASUS DRW-1608P2S
Keyboard - Standard IBM mechanical 102-Key Keyboard
Mouse - Logitech MX1000

Check my sig, which I will soon have. I plan to OC to around 2.2 Ghz, which shouldn't be too difficult.

DDay

My rig? Its in the process of change, but for the moment:

X-Navigator case
420 wt PSU (soon to be replaced for more power)
ASUS A8N-32-SLI Deluxe (failed and presently on RMA, I'm using my kid's computer for the moment)
X2-4400 CPU
2 gig Corsair XMS ram
7900 GTX 256 (will be replaced, but not sure whether 512 7900 GTX or X1900 XTX yet)
Viewsonic VX924 moniter
1st drive 160 GB Hitachi SATA hardrive
2nd drive 80GB Seagate SATA
1st CD Sony CDRW
2nd CD Sony DWQ-28A Dual format
X-FI platnum
Klipsch THX 5.1 speakers

Nothing fancy, but it works well enough for me. I'll probably go to a DFI motherboard later, especially if I have any more troubles with the ASUS board.

| Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
| P4 3.2 Presscot
| Corsair TwinX2048-3200C2 PRO
| Asus 6800GT
| 2 X WDRoptor 74GB (Raid0)
| Seagate 7200.8 120GB sata
| Thermaltake V2000A case
| Seasonic S12-600w
| Zalman Reserator 1 Plus
| Creative X-Fi
| Creative Megaworks THX 550
| LG DVDRW + LG CDRW
| Logitech Mx keyboard MX700 mouse
| UV neon & uv sensitive cables
| LG F700P CRT
| & Silence!

My comp is in my sig and you can add :

logitech cordless click plus
BTC superslim keyboard
Creative 5300 5.1 speakers
logitech rumble pad

Here is my antiquated system until I upgrade to either Conroe or AM2:

Cooler Master Centurion 532 Case
Athlon XP-M 2600+ (OC'ed to 2.2GHz)
1GB Corsair Value RAM (CAS2.5)
Radeon 9800Pro 128MB
AOpen AK79D-400VN
SB Audigy 2
Planar PX191
Seasonic S12 500
Saitek Eclipse Keyboard
Logitec MX510 Mouse
Logitec Z-640 speaker system
NEC 3550a DVD Burner
Pioneer 106-S DVD ROM
WD 80GB HD
Seagate 80GB HD
** The original IBM "Deathstar" 75GXP 60GB ** No errors or crashes since 1999/2000.

-AMD 64 3200+ @ 2.4ghz
-Corsair XMS 1gb (pc3200)
-Asus A8n-Sli Mobo
-6800gs 490/1.1ghz
-Creative Labs Soundblaster Live !
-100gb Maxotor diamond Max 10
-Ultra 500watt PSU
-Lg CD-rom drive
-Ultra Dragon Case
-5 , 80mm fans
-Arctic Freezer Pro 64
-emachines CRT
-logitech MX518
-and logitech Keyboard =]

take a look

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Don't laugh but here it is:

MSI KT3 Ultra
Athlon XP 2000+
512MB Kingston PC2100
Xtacy 9200
Creative SB!Live 5.1
2x Maxtor 20GB HDD's
1x Seagate 160GB HDD
Case (Ancient Antec)
Cooling 12"oscilating Fan (oscilation turned off)
+2 120mm fans
Dell Keyboard
Logitech Optical Mouse.

I live Vicariously through others. I think I can manage to boot up Spider Solitaire, and play the ocasional minesweeper.

In all seriousness I am in the process of getting my wishlist together for a new Puter. I think its time to put this one out to pasture.