System # 1 - For Home Use
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ Retail 1.47GHz (133 x 11.0)
-AMD Retail Socket A Heatsink / Fan
-1.75VCore
Soltek SL-75DRV4 ATX Motherboard BIOS K4.1 KT266A Chipset
Gainward GeForce4 ti4200 128MB AGP
-56.72 Nvidia Detonator Drivers for Windows XP
512MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM OCZ Technology CAS 2.5 (Running at CAS2)
Hitachi Deskstar 80GB 7200 8MB ATA100 HD
Toshiba SD-M1912 16X/40X DVD ROM
Sony DW-D22A 16X DVD +/- R/RW +R DL Burner
Iomega IDE ZIP 100MB
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Value
-Cambridge SoundWorks FPS1000
Linksys Network Anywhere NC100 10/100 PCI Ethernet Adapter
Logitech USB Optical Wheel Mouse
SONY HMD-A440 19" 0.24AG Monitor
ATX 4 Bay Mid-Tower Case
Sparkle 350W ATX Power Supply
Hewlett Packard LaserJet 1000 USB
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Creative Labs Web Cam 3 USB
FPS Figures:
Q3 Arena (Demo001) 1280x1024x32 Everything Maxed - TBD
Unreal Tournament (Timedemo 1) 1280x1024x16 Everything Maxed - TBD
System #2 - Mostly Used for LAN Parties
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (133 x 12.5)
-Socket A Heatsin/Fan
-1.75VCore
ASUS A7V266-C BIOS 1014
Chaintech GeForce3 ti200 64MB AGP
-56.72 Nvidia Detonator Drivers for Windows XP
512MB DDR SDRAM
Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 30GB 7200rpm ATA-66 HD
AOpen 12X/40X DVD-ROM
Creative Labs 8x4x32 CD-RW
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Value
-Use Headphones When LAN-ning
DLink DFE-530TX+ 10/100 PCI Ethernet Adapter
LogiTech USB Optical Wheel Mouse
ATX 4 Bay Mid-Tower Case
250W ATX Power Supply
DiGiView HR-95 19" 0.25dpi Monitor
Hewlett Packard LaserJet 5L
Hewlett Packard ScanJet 3300C USB Flatbed Scanner
Operating System (Dual Boot)?: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Mandrake Linux 9.1
FPS Figures:
Q3 Arena (Demo001) 1280x1024x32 Everything Maxed - TBD
Unreal Tournament (Timedemo 1) 1280x1024x16 Everything Maxed - TBD
Have each system sharing cable internet connection using Linksys Network Anywhere router.
Each of the systems I built I tried to use the same parts for commonality purposes.
AMD Duron Processors: AMD Athlon XP Procressors
EPoX Motherboards: KT-266A Motherboards
Nvidia GeForce4 ti Series
Logitech Mouses: Logitech in my opinion has the best feeling, best responding mouses for the money. They consistently have a high durability and that is good for me because I can quickly test the durability during gaming.
On my primary system I use an aperature grill (AG) model monitor. I find AG monitors to be the best monitors as far as visual quality. The particular AG model monitor I have uses the Sony trinitron picture tube. Sony is clearly the leader in monitor CRT's. The System #2 I own has a 19" shadow mask CRT. While it is acceptable, it does not match the Trinitron in visual quality.
Below I have included screenshots of benchmarks on both systems.
