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Old Oct 9, 2002 | 12:39 PM
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What do you have?



POS GE 25" TV

Technics SA-DX940 Receiver

Crappy technics center channel

Custom built main speakers with 12" pioneer woofers, 4" midrange, and big *** horn tweeter (meant for club use really )

Technics tower speakers with 2 10" woofers a 4" midrange and 2" paper tweeter for rear surrounds

JBL Powerbass 10" sub

Playstation 2 handles the DVDs and occasional games alongside a Gamecube



Also got the computer here hooked up to everything for playing games and MP3s.



Athlon XP1800 with Dynatron HSF

Abit KG7-RAID with 9M BIOS

1x512 Corsair PC2100 DDR

"Built By ATI" Radeon 8500LE 128mb 7.006 bios modded to CAS 2 and retail 275/275 running 2.3 catalyst drivers

Maxtor Diamondmax ATA100 60gig

SB PCI 128

HP 10x CD-RW

Win XP Pro

400watt Antec PS

Flashy black case



Add Time warner digital cable and road runner, stir well, use as needed
Old Oct 9, 2002 | 12:48 PM
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I have Kenwood Reciever, can't remember the model, but it was the top of the line until about 2 weeks after I bought it. It had the most optical inputs so I went with it.

-Kenwood surround speakers and 10 inch self powered woofer.

-Panasonic DVD, dolby 6 channel.

-Dishnetwork DD surround sound reciever 4900

-Playstation 2

-Sony 250 CD Changer

-JVC 36 Inch TV, but I am buying my neighbors big screen very soon!



I think that is it for home theater, don't even know where to begin on puters.... I guess just mine.



-Lian Li Aluminum Case

-AMD 1800 XP (2100 on the way)

-MS Turbo MB

-768 Memory

-Adaptec SE Card

-DDS- III DAT Drive SCSI

-Panasonic SCSI DVD Drive

-24X CD Burner

-Adaptec Ultra 160 Card

-4/ 70 gig, 10,000 RPM Ultra 160 LVD Seagate Drives

-NVidia 64 Meg Video Card

-120/240 Battery Backup

Umm and take your pick 21 or 22 inch HP (Sony) Monitors scattered throughout the room.



I think that is it.
Old Oct 9, 2002 | 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by phinsup' date='Oct 9 2002, 12:48 PM
-DDS- III DAT Drive SCSI

-Panasonic SCSI DVD Drive

-Adaptec Ultra 160 Card

-4/ 70 gig, 10,000 RPM Ultra 160 LVD Seagate Drives






















































































Definitely a nice setup! :bigok:
Old Oct 9, 2002 | 12:56 PM
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Um...I have a really old stereo, with a Sony CD, some old tuner, Pioneer (I think) amp, and Martin speakers.
Old Oct 9, 2002 | 12:58 PM
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Sony 57" Widescreen rear projection TV

Sony (dont remember model) DVD player

Kenwood home stereo system with digital surround sound receiver



PC

Athalon XP 2100

Gigabyte 7VRXP motherboard (will never buy Gigabyte again)

512M PC2100 DDR RAM

Western Digital 120Gb Hard Drive

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy X-Gamer

MSI G4Ti 4600 VTD 128Mb RAM

Creative Inspire 5.1 5300 Speakers

Toshiba DVD Drive
Old Oct 9, 2002 | 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by UniqueTII' date='Oct 9 2002, 12:56 PM
Um...I have a really old stereo, with a Sony CD, some old tuner, Pioneer (I think) amp, and Martin speakers.
I had to manage with some 70s cabinet unit rigged as a rear surround for a boombox for a long time :redface:
Old Oct 9, 2002 | 01:01 PM
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Yea I will never buy Gigabyte or Asus again. MSI or Tyan from now on.
Old Oct 9, 2002 | 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by twyatt' date='Oct 9 2002, 12:58 PM
Sony 57" Widescreen rear projection TV

Sony (dont remember model) DVD player

Kenwood home stereo system with digital surround sound receiver



PC

Athalon XP 2100

Gigabyte 7VRXP motherboard (will never buy Gigabyte again)

512M PC2100 DDR RAM

Western Digital 120Gb Hard Drive

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy X-Gamer

MSI G4Ti 4600 VTD 128Mb RAM

Creative Inspire 5.1 5300 Speakers

Toshiba DVD Drive
Another very nice system! :bigthumg:



What problems did you have with the gigabyte board?



I would never go with a VIA chipset again. It took me a month to get the bugs worked out of this board :rant:
Old Oct 9, 2002 | 01:06 PM
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The Asus board is *****, I have talked to many people and at one point in time was running 3 of them in my own systems, I have gotten rid of all but one. They constantly reset themselves in the BIOS. You will pull a reboot and it will set itself to the default proc and clock speed. I have browsed their forums and people are always bitching about it and yet Asus does nothing.
Old Oct 9, 2002 | 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by phinsup' date='Oct 9 2002, 01:06 PM
The Asus board is *****, I have talked to many people and at one point in time was running 3 of them in my own systems, I have gotten rid of all but one. They constantly reset themselves in the BIOS. You will pull a reboot and it will set itself to the default proc and clock speed. I have browsed their forums and people are always bitching about it and yet Asus does nothing.
Ouch, thats not good. I picked a pretty bad combination myself. For one, Via chipsets and ATI cards dont mix. Also, this board has major issues if you dont set the CPU driving factor to maximum, and the radeon will cause the CPU to crash if you dont up the core voltage. thank god I bought a good heatsink/fan



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