Currently, this computer is the working horse of my girlfriend's, doing wordprocessing and mail/surf-duty. And of course the occasional gaming. 8-)
The interesting part of Bettan is that she's running a Pentium II/333 overclocked to 416MHz (83MHz bus speed with a 5x clock multiplier). The system runs pretty cool. I ensured that not by installing an extra fan, but using software cooling - Rain.
Bettan rebuilt (again)
Another upgrade to Bettan has occured. The mobo was changed yet again to a more modern MSI K7N (MS-6340 v1.0). It also sports a Amd T-bird 950MHz CPU and 256MB PC133 RAM. It's finally fast enough for gaming. Counter-Strike runs excellent on Bettan! 8-)
| Chassies | Miditower, ATX-type, 300W, 4x5,25" and 3x3,5" external bays, 2x3,5" internal bays. |
| Hard Drives | 1x 8,3GB Fujitsu. |
| Floppy Drives | 1x 1,44MB, Sony, Mitsumi, NEC or something (...). |
| CD Drives | 1x CD-Reader Lite-On (48x). |
| Motherboard | MSI K7N (MS-6340 v1.0) with VIA KT133-chipsets. A budget-mobo really, but seems to perform quite well anyway. |
| CPU | Amd T-bird 950 (Socket A). |
| CPU Fan | Amd original. The cooling sucks bigtime with this fan. However I installed an extra case fan which helps a lot though. |
| RAM | 2x 128MB, PC133-type DIMM modules. |
| Graphics/Primary | Microstar MS-Starforce 817. Based on Nvidia Geforce2 MX chipset with 32MB onboard memory, supports AGP 4x. |
| Graphics/Screen | Gateway EV700 Crystal, 17". |
| Multimedia | AC'97. Mobo integrated. |
| Speakers | Two simple squeekers. |
| Keyboard | Gateway standard PS/2-type windows keyboard. |
| Pointer | ICL standard 2-button PS/2 mouse. |
| Network | D-Link DFE-530TX, a PCI-type 10/100Mbit/s busmastered NIC. |
| Operating System/Primary | Microsoft Windows XP Professional, English, with supplements and service packs. |
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