Nice to see you got it finished, Taure. Did you happen to use that site that I linked you to?

 

I did indeed, used the second one (Microsystems or something like that). I found them very reliable, the mobo was here within 2 days and undamaged, unlike ebuyer.

 

I'm not going to upgrade until late next year, after Vista has come into cycle.

When Vista comes into use, hardware companies are going to scramble to provide more affordable hardware that can run new technologies.

Current generation hardware will suffer a price drop and we'll see more newer technologies come out at lower prices as well.

 

Compaq Presario Laptop

AMD Turion 64 Mobile processor ML-34 1.8 GHz, 1MB L2 cache up to 1600MHZ system bus

1024MB ram
80GB Hard drive
Super Multi 8x DVDR/RW with double layer support.

15.4 inch High Def widescreen display.

Wireless LAN with 125HSM booster support.

ATI Radeon 200M, whatever that is.

Got it for about $950 when compared to the Acer I got a year before. (I am now broke) which was something like 1.5 GHz, 60gb, crystal bright video card, with a unusable wireless LAN for $1500, from NCIX.com, which is usually a great site.

Compaq came with a multi use printer that is 4800x1200 DPI and a 512mb external hard drive plus the new correl package.

 

Anyone running Core 2 Duo procs here?

 

I have dual core if that's what you mean. My computer knowledge stretches to what I learned from PC Gamer.

 

No, that's isn't what he means. The Core 2 Duo is a dual core Intel processor. There is also Core 2 Extreme and Core 2 Solo (single-core). Apparently there's also a quad-core version in development.

 

O.K. sorry.

So does it give you like 2 6400's or what? Is it like having dual harddrives, video cards, ram where it just doubles up or are there unique features?

 

Desktop 1:General Comp Use (Gaming, Writing, WebSurfing, Anime/Music/Movie downloads)

Pentium 4 3.0GHz (Overclocked to 3.2)
2GB Corsair XMS DDR2 RAM (4 x 512MB)
Maxtor 300GG HardDrive (72,000RPM)
ATI Radeon X800XL 256MB GDDR3

Desktop 2: (Use for mainly school stuff - 3D Modeling and Multimedia (Studio Max, 2D Animation Xtended Series, PhotoShop, ImageReady, etc)

Pentium Extreme Edition 965 Presler 3.73GHz (Overlcocked to 4.31)
ATI100 FireGL V7100 256MB GDDR3
Seagate Barracuda 500GB (72,000RPM)
4GB Corsair XMS DDR2 (4 x 1024MB)

Laptop - (Used for travelling, working during bus rides to school, etc.)
Sony Vaio VGNsz210

Intel Core Duo T2300(1.66GHz)
1GB RAM (2 x 512MB DDR)
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 and Intel GMA950
80GB Maxtor HardDrive

 

Jesus Christ, those are all beast, those two desktops musta been at least $2500 each, well I"d say $3000 for the second and $2000 for the first. Wow.

 

A bit more then 3000 for the first and 2000 for the second, due to everything else such as motherboards, cooling systems, DvD drives, monitors, sound systems, combo printers, keyboards and mouses, etc. The second I was only able to obtain because of discounts through school

 

Wow, I envy you, I am unable to play HL2. It almost makes me want to become emo because my life is like a black abyss without it.

 

Laptop:
AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile ML40 2.2GHz
1 gig of RAM (even though it shows up as 2 gigs on my task manager....)
80 gig 5400 rpm Hard drive
256 MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS
SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio

That is pretty much all I remember and I hope this isnt necroposting...

 

Desktop
1.83GHz Intel Core Duo
2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM
120GB harddrive
21 inch widescreen LCD monitor

Laptop
1.33GHz Power PC G4
1.25 GB DDR SDRAM
60GB harddrive
12.1 inch screen.

 

I hereby resurrect this thread!

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
GIGABYTE S Series Motherboard
1GB DDR3
GeForce 7600GT 256mb
200GB HDD
Realtek HD Audio
19" widescreen

 

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ running at 2.4ghz each
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256mb
768 RAM
80Gb HD, and two 40Gb HDs
Realtek AC'97 Audio
I built this myself for about $950.

 

Actually I almost got the exact same as you

AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
nVIDIA GeForce 7600GT 256
1.5GB RAM
200GB HDD
Realtek HD Audio

Bought mine for $1300 AUD

 

I got a new system a few months back.

Core 2 Duo 6400
GeForce 7950 GT
2 GB DDR2 ram
250 GB HD
Vista (annoying buggy pos)

Was planning to upgrade video card as soon as some more DX10 ones came out – but just realised my 450w PSU probably won’t be able to handle it.