Re: Your 'Rig'
, Fri Feb 11 2011, 09:11PM

Lets see..... the newer "speedy" stuff in the box:

Windows 7 Pro 32 bit (no need for over 4 gigs of ram atm)
Asus P7P55D Pro Main board (w/SATA 6Gb/s and USB 3.0)
Intel i-5 (Lynnfield architecture) quad core at 2.8 GHz (stable overclock to 3.4 so far, but left at stock speeds 99% of the time)
G.SKILL Ripjaw series 2 X 2 Gig RAM (with heat spreaders, DDR3, running at 1600)


The rest of the system is salvaged from my older computer, and I am planning on upgrading these components as soon as possible:

Saphire Radeon 4670 video card
Seagate 500 Gig hard drive
Sony 22x DVD burner (currently an IDE, want a SATA drive when true 22-24X media becomes common place)
Antec 400 W "eco" power supply (thought I would need to upgrade this to support the newer mobo/processor, but so far its working fine, so i will probably just keep it till it dies)

Re: Your 'Rig'
BRooNiE, Fri Feb 11 2011, 09:16PM

Forget to mention it was 4 gigs of RAM I had, made the mistake of buying the 1333 instead of the pre-overclocked 1600 for a couple of quid more [do'h].

True with the powersupply to, can't remember the brand name but it had a good write-up, had it for 3 years now and apparently runs at 700w. Might consider replacing it soon.

Re: Your 'Rig'
, Fri Feb 11 2011, 09:28PM

My current video card is one of the best out there for "frames/sec per watt".... its so low powered it doesn't require a separate power connection, it gets all its power from the PCIe bus. If i upgrade this to a newer more power hungry card, the power supply might have to be upgraded. Till then, I'm gonna keep it.

Also, forgot to mention, even with that 3 year old video card.... with the new speedy core components in the box I can run any game I have, including Crysis, at full 1080p on my 22" LCD monitor, all eye candy turned on, with no frame rate issues. So for now the card and PS unit is fine. Gonna concentrate on getting a bigger hard drive first.

Was kinda waiting on a true SATA 3 (6Gb/sec) to come out and be priced reasonably low, but there are not a lot to choose from right now, and the ones that are on the market are not living up to the SATA 3 potential. I definitely want a solid state drive at some point, but not at the price-per-Gig they are at right now. I would much rather have storage over speed at this juncture.

Re: Your 'Rig'
, Fri Feb 11 2011, 11:25PM

Meh lovely rig.

Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250 Processor (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory: 3326MB RAM
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT
Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz)

Re: Your 'Rig'
, Sat Feb 12 2011, 10:06AM

My crap pc that can barley run minecraft.
Intel celeron 743 1.30ghz (I bet your pissing your selfs loling)
3.00gb of some shitty ram (I dont know what brand cuz it was ready made of the shelf)
Windows 7 Home premium 32 bit
Intel HD graph card

My pc is the best in the world (sarcasm)

Re: Your 'Rig'
BRooNiE, Sat Feb 12 2011, 11:08AM

Sounds like a laptop? Theres a GMA booster in the section that might work with your card. Make sure you have a GMA series and read up up on it first.

Re: Your 'Rig'
, Sat Feb 12 2011, 01:37PM

I run a MacBook (Mac FTW!!!) (a laptop of course) with 2gb memory, Intel core 2 duo with 1.83ghz, Mac OSX 10.6.6
Not great, but I love the computer.

Re: Your 'Rig'
, Sat Feb 12 2011, 01:42PM

Yes broon its a laptop advent vernionia i think my card is gma it just says intel hd in the propiteies bit so I dnt know if you could provide i link to the booster that would be awesome

Re: Your 'Rig'
BRooNiE, Sat Feb 12 2011, 02:00PM

http://web.crazy-fools.co.uk/p/links_page/links.php

Its on there under 'GMA Booster', I used it for my Netbook and works fine

Re: Your 'Rig'
, Wed Feb 16 2011, 01:01AM

Asus Republic of Gamers G51JX
OS: Win 7 Home (64 bit)
Motherboard: PEGATRON CORPORATION G60JX
CPU: Intel Core i7-720QM
RAM:2g DDR3 SDRAM 666.7 MHz (x3)
GPU: nVidia GeForce GTS 360M w/ 1g GDDR5 SDRAM
HDD: 500g SATA 3 Gb/s

Need to upgrade the RAM, but best laptop I've ever owned. Got it for cheap too considering the setup.

Re: Your 'Rig'
conathan, Wed Feb 16 2011, 09:30AM

Linux LFS (www.linuxfromscratch.org)
Windows 7 Professional x64 (Mostly unused)
AMD Phenom II X4 945
4GB DDR3
Seagate 7200.12 1TB Drive for data
OCZ Velocity II SSD 40GB for linux OS
Seagate 7200.10 320GB drive for windows
GA-890GX-UD3H (Using integrated graphics, Radeon 4290)
- Using Mesa 7.10 Opensource Drivers
2x monitors (21" and a 19")

also have a Asus EeePC 1008HA, beautiful machine.

Network:
-Asterisk (Voip Server) running on a Linksys WRT54G
-Polycom IP501 SIP phone
-Linksys PAP2, let's me plug in 2 normal phones into my voip system.

oh, and I use openbox as my main desktop on linux. Almost instant performance

Design:
- I wanted something low power, and quiet, but a kick where it matters.
- Mostly use it for software compiling, occassionally 3d opengl programming.

Wishlist:
- 890FX motherboard
- another 4GB Ram
- Radeon 6870
- 3rd monitor w/ displayport
- Netbook w/ AMD Fusion Processor
- Router built using a MiniITX board w/ AMD Fusion Processor



Mostly buy things that give you a good bang for your buck, I think that rig cost under $500 altogether.

Re: Your 'Rig'
, Fri Feb 18 2011, 06:20AM

My PC was decent when it was bought... in 2004...

XP - Home Edition
512MB Ram
AMD Semptron 2800+ (2.0ghz Core)
GeForce FX 5900XT
250GB HD(Though in reality 232GB... hate how they always give you false figures.. you can never use all 250GB due to the file index thing. So they should stop skewing the figures)

When i have saved up some more money im thinking of getting something like This but with the memory increased to 8GB and graphics card upgraded to a GTS450. Would be a slight improvement to my current rig.

Re: Your 'Rig'
, Fri Feb 18 2011, 08:24AM

Stucuk, don't waste your money with 8 gigs of ram. Everyone and their brother thinks the more ram you put into a system, the faster it gets. It doesn't work that way. Once you have enough ram to run everything you normally open, plus some for system overhead, then any extra ram above that is wasted space. The sweet spot right now is 4 gigs. Save that extra hundred dollars the additional 4 gigs will cost and put it towards what really speeds up a system; the processor/motherboard combo. A fast quad core processor using the latest architecture on an up-to-date motherboard that can handle the higher data bus speeds... thats what will really speed up the system. You can always go back and add 2 more sticks of ram later if you find you have a genuine need for it.

Re: Your 'Rig'
, Fri Feb 18 2011, 08:28AM

Meh generic shop bought PC for convinience when pregnant and other PC broke

Windows Vista Home Premium
AMD Phenom Quad-Core 2.20ghz
4gb ram
Onboard graphics as meant to get a graphics card later but we never got around to it

Oh and ofc me and steven_crowe share the same computer, obviously so his specs are the same

Re: Your 'Rig'
, Fri Feb 18 2011, 10:09AM

My rig is getting pretty old now, but it's still capable of playing the latest games.

AMD Athlon 64 2400 dual core.
4gb ram,
Nvidia 9800 GX2
and one hefty PSU to power the above beast of a graphics card.

two 8gb SSD's in Raid0 (pulled from my netbook upgrades)
one 300g seagate sata hard drive
one 1Tb maxtor sata drive

as for operating systems, i triple boot with Win7, WinXP and Ubuntu 10.10

atm i have win7 on my raid0. from when the hardware bios list shows to booted and usable, is about 18 seconds

Re: Your 'Rig'
, Fri Feb 18 2011, 10:40AM

Operating System
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 920 @ 4GHz rock solid stable
Bloomfield 45nm Technology
RAM
6.0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 764MHz (9-9-9-28)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X58A-UD3R (Socket 1366)
Graphics
SAMSUNG 32" flatscreen
ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series clocked to 925Mhz 1290MHz
Hard Drives
977GB Western Digital WDC WD10EADS-22M2B0 ATA Device (SATA)



the most important part of my rig is my "lazy boy" armchair

Re: Your 'Rig'
, Mon Feb 21 2011, 02:27AM

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
MSI K9A2 Platinum
AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.6ghz
Corsair HX850w
ATI 5970
4 x Corsair Dominator 1Gb @1033
3 x Seagate Seagate Barracuda 500Gb
Coolermaster Cosmos S Case
28" Hanns.G Monitor
22" Dell Ultrasharp Secondary Monitor

Re: Your 'Rig'
SampleName, Mon Feb 21 2011, 03:33AM

OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Dell DM061
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6420 @ 2.13GHz, 2128 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. 2.2.1, 3/23/2007
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 2.00 GB

Re: Your 'Rig'
Flightster, Mon Feb 21 2011, 04:42AM

Not a monster, persé, but it gets the job done:

HP HDX X18-1050EB Premium Notebook PC
OS: Win 7 Home Premium (64 bit)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.26GHz
RAM: 4GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT + 512MB
HDD: 2 x 250GB (5400rpm)

Link for all specs:
http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=120&prodSeriesId=3769212&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3769212&objectID=c01667567