Fanboys - A Field Guide

Thread starter Dragonfly
Start date Mar 3, 2010

Dragonfly

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Power User

Mar 3, 2010

#1

You've heard stories about them. You may even have encountered one in the wild. Or in an Internet forum, where they commonly congregate and are notorious for their savage and often ill-thought-out verbal attacks on other fanboys and noobs. You knew you were looking at a fanboy of some kind, but you weren't sure which kind it was.

Fanboys - A Field Guide (from PCWorld)

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number: Self built

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32 & 64 -(Boot Camped Snow Leopard on a Mac Mini)

CPU: AMD Athlon A64 X2 6000+ 3.1GHz

Motherboard: DFI LanParty Jr 790GX M2RS

Memory: 4GB Corsair XMS RAM

Graphics Card(s): Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD4550/512MB/DDR3 passive cooled

Sound Card: latest RealTek HD/HDMI drivers

Monitor(s) Displays: Samsung LN40A550 (primary); Zalman 7" LCD (secondary)

Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 ; 800x600

Hard Drives: WD Raptor for OS
Seagate 7211 640GB
Two Samsung EcoGreens for TV in RAID 0 = 3TB
Two WD MyBook 1TB externals for B/U and Movies
Optical Drive:
LG GGC-H20L Super Multi Blue BluRay/HD-DVD internal

PSU: Corsair HX520W

Case: Zalman HD160XT

Cooling: Zalman CNPS9500Cu on processor - Four Nexus case fans

Keyboard: Gyration wireless Media Center Keyboard

Mouse: Gyration Cordless Optical Air Mouse

Internet Speed: 6344 kbps Down/1043 kbps Up (Comcast cable)

Other Info: HDMI audio/video out to Yamaha RX-V1065 receiver.
All controlled by a Harmony One universal remote.

Four other home built computers plus a Mac Mini, but this is my main Win7 testbed.

Lee

Stroke X3 Still Here

Guru

VIP

Mar 3, 2010

#2

Excellent. . .

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number: HP Pavilion a4302f

OS: Win 7 Pro x64, VM Win XP, Win7 Pro Sandbox, Kubuntu 11

CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 @ 3.0 Gbz

Memory: 12GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x4GB, 2x2GB

Graphics Card(s): ATI Radeon HD 4350 HD Graphics/Audio with 512MB

Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio

Monitor(s) Displays: 1. Dell 23" SP2307, 2. Mitsublishi 40" HDTV, Hannspree 25"

Screen Resolution: 1. 2048x1152, 2. 1920-1080, 3. 1920x1200

Hard Drives: Int: 1 120 Gig SSD i
1 - 2.5" 500 USB External HDD
1 -1 Tb USB External HDD

Case: Mid Tower

Cooling: Standard Fans - 5 fans (very quiet)

Keyboard: Microsoft Wireless 2000

Mouse: Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000

Internet Speed: 10 Mbit (realistically 500 Kbit - 1.2 Mbit)

Other Info: Speakers - Bose Desktop (Excellent Sound)
1 external CD|DVD\Blue-ray Recorders/Players (Sony)

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