The hardware description is as follows :

Main PC: (WinXP pro SP2)
Mainboard : Asus A8V rev 1.02, BIOS 1.18beta, socket 939, 4x SATA, 3x PATA, 6x USB2.0, 1x 1394, GB lan, 6 channel Via sound Athlon64-X2 S939 4200+ @2200MHz, 1GHz CPU bus, Cool & Quiet
Graphics board : Club3D 7800GS AGP Specifications:
256MB GDDR3 memory - 256BIT memory interface
275MHz Core / 600Mhz mem / 400MHz RAMDAC
16 DirectX® 9.0 pixel-pipelines, 8 Shaders
AGP 8x
VertexShaders 3.0 / PixelShaders 3.0
2048 MB : 2x 1024 MB PC3200 CL2.5 MDT DDR ram CPU cooler : Zalman CNPS7700Cu Silent heatsink with 900-1900 RPM fan
Creative Soundblaster Audigy2 ZX Seagate 160G Baracuda 7200.7 SATA ST3160023AS
2x Seagate 200G Baracuda 7200.7 SATA, ST3200822AS Seagate 300G Baracuda 7200.8 SATA ST3200831AS
5 port gigabit Ethernet switch :
3COM 3C1670500 officeconnect, gigabit switch.
Iiyama E2200WS-B 22inch LCD widescreen monitor 1680x1050 (DVI + DSUB)
Scanner : Hewlett Packard Scanjet 4200C (USB) Printer : Hewlett Packard Deskjet 970cxi (USB)
DVD player : Pioneer DVDrom DVD-106 40x/16x Slot in model. DVD writer : BenQ DW1620 (16x/4x/40x, DL 2,4x)
Logitech Z2300 (2.1) Microsoft Forcefeedback wheel (USB)
Thomson/Alcatel speedtouch 546i ADSL modem for ADSL2+ over ISDN Sitecom external USB hub (1 up / 4 down)
Etech Bullet 56K V90 internal modem PCI, hardware modem/ Rockwell/conexant rsh chip Zalman ZM460APS 460W power supply
Midi tower Lian LI PC7, aluminium, 3 silent case fans KPN Smartvox basic ISDN modem (external, USB)
Noname joystick Logitec optical mouse 3.5" floppy drive Compaq keyboard

Running WinXPpro SP2

Nude Pic of the PC :

You can find a lot of Asus motherboard users on usenet in the asus motherboard news group


Second PC : used as router and webserver running on linux slackware 10.2 :
Check phpsysinfo
Via EPIA Nehemiah 1000Mhz
512MB PC133 SDRAM CL2 memory
Via onboard graphics (Trident Blaze 3D)
Via EPIA V10000 motherboard
Harddisk : Hitachi T7K250 : 160G
Harddisk : Western Digital WD3200JB: 320G
Via Sound onboard
NEC DVD5200 DVDROM (not connected)
Via RhineII 10/100 Mb network onboard towards adsl modem
3com 3C2000T gigabit lan connecting to main PC
compaq mouse and compaq keyboard
Aopen MicroATX case

Linux Slackware 10.2 kernel 2.4.31 with iptables firewall


Third PC : used as fileserver and streaming media server running on win XP SP2 :
Midi tower Lian LI PC60+, aluminium, 3 silent case fans + Lian Li 4in3 harddisk module Athlon64 3000+ S939 Venice Core
1024MB Memory (MDT 2x 512MB CL2.5) Asus A8N VM CSM micro ATX board with nvidia Nforce 430 chipset
Harddisks (10 disks) :
total 3.8 TeraByte :)

1x Seagate ATA 200G 7200.7
1x Western Digital ATA 320G
4x Samsung SATA2 500G HD501LJ
4x Seagate SATA2 320G Barracuda 7200.10
Iiyama A902MT 19inch flat screen monitor with USB hub and speakers
Highpoint RocketRaid 2300 (PCI-E 1x single lane) 4x SATA2 interface Powersupply Coolermaster iGreen power 430
NEC ND3550 DVD writer Labtec speakers
Previous motherboards/CPU combinations that I have used :

<=== Asus A7V133 <=== AMD Athlon ThunderbirdC 1000 & 1400
<===Asus P5A <=== K6-2 300
<=== Asus P55T2P4 <== K6-200

To tweak the T2P4 motherboard a lot of info can be found on Kalle's page that I copied from Kalle


Spec's of the Iiyama S901GT

With thanks to tomshardware for several of the pictures shown here.