Main Machine:  "Balthazar"

Balthazar's primary function is as my main work-station.  It's a Dual-Head Tri-Head (three monitor) machine with lots of number crunching and data-moving power.  Because it's based on a RAID 0, programs load faster, and hard-drive throughput is almost tripled.  (Even more with very large files.)  The processor usually runs at about 1500Mhz (overclocked.)  And it's all in a nice, black cube-case package.  <Link>  I don't play to many games on it, but it does very well when I do.  Mostly I use it for Photoshop and Internet stuff.

 
CPU AMD T-Bird 1333Mhz @ 1500 Mhz
MotherBoard Abit K7V-RAID
RAM 512 MB pc-133  (Micron)
Primary HD 20 GB Generic (7200 RPM)  OS and Backup.
Secondary HD 28 GB Maxtor (5400 RPM)  Backup only.
X-Roms 40x Plextor Burner
RAID 4x 30 GB IBM DeskStars on RAID 0 array.  (64K block)
Video 1 & 2 Radeon VE (dual head card) & Diamond Viper
Sound Sound Blaster PCI 128
Com 3Com Modem.  Brand-X 100Mbit NIC.
Peripherals Intel web cam.  Razer Boomslang 2000 DPI mouse.  Logitech track-ball.  Kinesis Classic keyboard.  HP DeskJet 895 Cxi.
OS Windows 2000 (with a custom LiteStep shell)
Screen Shot

 

Flame Kitten's Box:  "Rocks"

Rocks is a pokey little box, but has a good bit of speed for such an old computer.  It'll play most games and somehow manages to keep up.  Every PCI slot in it is full.  It's gone through about 9 upgrades.  Mysti gives it plenty of use and it's a pretty souped up little K6.  It's called rocks because "It's dumb as Rocks."

 
CPU AMD K6 II 350Mhz
MotherBoard Asus Socket 7
RAM ~390MB
Primary HD 18 GB WD.
Video GForce II MX
Sound Jon's sound card.  :)
USB Generic PCI USB card.
Com Brand-X 100Mbit NIC.
Peripherals Logitech track-ball.
OS Windows 2000

 

The Living Room Computer:  "Nalistar"

Nalistar is another K6 like Mysti's (but not souped up like hers).  We use it to play DVDs, Vid CD's, MPEG files (music videos), MP3s, surf the web, etc...  It's turning out to be really handy having a computer in the living room.  (I love these ASUS motherboards.  They boot really quick.  This one can get into windows in about 20 seconds.)

 
CPU AMD K6 II 350Mhz
MotherBoard Asus Socket 7
RAM ~256MB
Primary HD 15 GB WD.
DVD Creative DVD ROM and DXR3 Decoder card.  (Hooked to TV.)
Video Old Diamond AGP card.
Sound Old ISA SB16
Com No-name modem.  HP 10Mbit ISA network card.
OS Windows 98SE

 

Gogyen's Computer:  "Melkior"

Melkior is a PC Gogyen and I built together.  It was his first big do-it-yourself project so I lent a hand.  It's a rather impressive system, and has more raw power than mine.  (Hey.  Balthazar is over a year old...  Starting to feel its age just a little.)  With a 333 Mhz FSB, this PC has plenty of pipe to move data around with.  It's unfortunate that he purchased an IBM drive for it.  But so far it hasn't crashed so we'll just keep crossing our fingers.  I'll have to get Gogyen to send me a screen shot.

 
CPU AMD Athlon XP2000+  (HSF - Alpha PAL8045 w/Blue LED quiet fan)
MotherBoard ASUS A7V333 SKT
RAM DDR 256MB 333MHz - PC2700 - CL2.5 (x2 sticks)
Primary HD 60 GB IBM - 7200 RPM - ATA 100
CD-Burner Tom's old HP 4x CD Burner.
Video MSI GeForce4 MX440 (Dual Head)
Sound Built in Sound Card running a nice amplified system with a subwoofer.
Com DFE-530TX+ 10/100Mbs PCI NIC; Generic 56K Modem
OS Windows 2000

Ex-Web Server:  "neo (networkerror.org)"

Unfortunately, Jason's firewall/switch was unable to deal with my server.  I am now hosting from his web server so the box described below is now a play thing for Kimball to practice on.  (Everyone needs a Unix box to play with.)  I know he'll give it a good home and do wondrous things with it.  May it some day be online again.

This computer, due to it's many old drives, weighs (I kid not) about 30+ pounds.

    
Have some screen shots.  Laugh...  Enjoy...

 
CPU Intel Pentium 100Mhz  (WOO HOO!)
MotherBoard Intel BX board.  (I think.)
RAM 32 MB EDO
Primary HD 2 GB WD
SCSI Adaptec ultra wide 2
SCSI Drive 1 2 GB Quantum Fireball (UW)
SCSI Drive 2 2 GB Baracuda (UW)
SCSI Drive 3 2 GB Baracuda (UW2)
SCSI Drive 4 1 GB Jaz Drive (UW)
Video Trident ISA card.  256K video RAM.
Sound Build In Sound Blaster 16  (No drivers installed.)
Com 3Com NIC.  (10Mbit)
OS FreeBSD