Hardware

Well, here you will find the specifications of my computer(s).  A lot of my time has been spent working on my machine so let's have a look at what I currently have.

Case Lian Li PC-6089 with Blue Cold Cathode
Power Supply:  Vantec Aluminum 420W
CPU AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 2000+
CPU Cooler:  Retail Heatsink & Fan
Motherboard:  MSI KT266Pro RU
RAM:  512mb PC2100 DDR SDRAM
Hard Drive 1:  40gb IBM 120GXP 7200rpm
Hard Drive 2: 160gb Western Digital RAID-0 (2x80gb)
DVD/CD-Recordable:  Pioneer A-05 4x DVD-R/W
DVD-ROM:  Pioneer 16x Slot-Load
Floppy:  Generic Floppy Drive
Video CardGainward Ti4400 Golden Sample
Sound Card:  SBLive 5.1 Platinum
Network Card 3Com 905b
Monitor:  NEC AccuSync 95F (D&E's)
Mouse & Keyboard:  Logitech Cordless Freedom
Printer 1:  HP DeskJet 970 Cxi (Networkd)
Printer 2:  HP Laserjet 2100TN (Networked)
ISP:  D&E Jazzd Bronze DSL
Router:  Netgear MR314 Wireless Router
Digital Camera:  Sony Cybershot F707
Digital Camcorder:  Sony HandyCam TRV33
Speakers:  Polk Bookshelf Speakers & Pioneer Amp

I am pretty happy with what I have.  I don't play as many games as I used to, but every once in awhile I will.  I mainly use my machine for Video, Sound, and Image editing.  The next piece that gets upgraded is the CPU/motherboard/RAM.  It is over a year old now and I can probably sell it for someone else.  Looks like I will be going back to an Intel chip for my next CPU, but that all depends on what AMD's 64-bit chip can do.  Needless to say, my next motherboard will have onboard Serial ATA and Dual channel DDR RAM support.  Due to my new hobby with customizing my car, I haven't used my computer that much lately.  Working with PC's for 8-10 hours a day doesn't help either!

Anyway, I still have a Sony F707 Digital Camera and I also just got a TRV33 miniDV Digital Video Camera.  The reason why I picked one up was because I use it to convert analog video signals to DV format for editing.  I then convert it to Mpeg2 and burn it to DVD.  So far I transferred our wedding video to DVD and soon I will be doing the same for my dad’s older vacation videos.