Mac OS 10.4.4
700 MHz PowerPC G3
384 MB SDRAM

Thats all that I can give you. I'm probably the only Mac user here. I'm all alone.

 

1.97 gHz Athlon.. or 2.02 ghz... depends how it's feeling.

'bout a gig of RAM... I think half of it might be decent stuff, maybe kingston, the other half is shit.

A 120 gig hdd... just your basic bog standard IDE.

The gfx card is a geforce I think... 5700 fx maybe... I just had to stick in whatever was lying around the house when my Radeon died.

Can't actually remember what the motherboard is... it's been ages since I put the thing together so it's all a blur.

And I do remember that I was too cheap to buy a sound card, so I just use onboard sound. I'm practically deaf from excessive ipod (and before that discman) use anyway, so I wouldn't notice the difference.

Having read this thread though, the suppressed geek in me is getting jealous and wants to go sign up for a credit card so I can compete.

 

P4 processor W/ Hyper Threding *yeah Hyperthreading*
P4P800E Deluxe Motherboard
Onboard Sound it's better than my old generic Motherboard Sound uke:
Geforce 8600 128 MB It came pre Overclocked
1 Gig PC3200 Ram
120GB Hard Drive
Syncmaster 955Df It's a giant monster monitor, Weighs way too much

A very nice setup if I do say so myself.

 

Laptop:
CPU: AMD AthlonXP 3000+
RAM: 512 MB
HD: 40GB
GCARD: Radeon 9000
MONITOR: 15" 1024x768

Desktop:
CPU: AMD Dual Core 3800+
RAM: PC3200 DDR-DIMM 2048MB
HD: Samsung 80GB SATA2
MOBO: Abit KN8-Ultra - nForce4 Ultra - Socket-939
GCARD: Sapphire Radeon X1300
CASE: Cooler Master Cavalier 3 - Black
MONITOR: FSC 19" Widescreen 1440x900

 

Pentium 4 3,4 GHz
2046 MB RAM
160 GB HD
NVIDIA GeForce 5700 FX

I can't remember more

 

My simple computer.

3500+ AMD Sempron Processor
512 MB Memory
160 GB Hard Drive
DVD/RW & CD-Rom
Intergrated ATI Radeon Xpress 200
PCI Express Slot

 

My crappy 5 year old soon to be junk computer then.

AMD Athlon 1.8ish ghz prossesor
256 MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce4 ti4200 64MB
DVD/CD ROM
80GB hard drive
Sound: some crap

Im starting to look for a brand new comp soon. I hope =P

EDIT:hardrive to hard drive

 

Built in 2003 by me.

Badass case with 4 fans i think.

2.53 Ghz pentium 4
1 Gig of Ram half kingston other half?
Radeon 9500 pro vid card good at the time.
80 gig 7200 rpm drive it's a western digital i think
soundblaster live 5.1
Bought a pvr 150 works good, but my burner is shit right now.

I might upgrade once the new intel conroe chip comes out and Amd drops their prices to be competitve. I really want an amd in my next computer because they're better for gaming and cheaper too.

I'll probably buy a sli board, but not sure if ill ever buy a second video card not sure if it will ever really be necessary. As of now, there isn't much of need for such a setup except maybe for Oblivion, but once the Vista comes out having a second video card might be dumb if the new OS is less of a strain than lets say xp. I'm just gonna wait it out for awhile I think.

 

My opinion on SLI:

SLI right now is pointless and a waste unless you're going to be running massive resolutions with shittier cards, and still wanting to run the best games out now on full. I had a test PC given to my by a friend, with dual Geforce 6800s. I can max out Oblivion with that easy, we're talking full AA, everything.

Going back to my normal PC with 1 Geforce 6800, the AGP version, I loose maybe 10 fps, and I can't crank up the shadows and FSAA to more then 4x. Overall, in a side by side comparision I did when I had the second rig, the difference wasn't noticable enough to warrant the extra couple hundred bucks for a SLI mobo and an extra card.

That being said, the only game so far I'd preferred SLI in, was Battlefield 2, and that's only due to the detail in the game. 64 person matches, with multiple flying and ground vehicles, plus gunfire and explosions combined with 30+ high res characters on screen at once tends to clog one card. Now that game made use of almost all the 2 card's power, plus maxed out 2 gigs of RAM, it's a monster.

The second card didn't make the game look any better, it just gave me an extra 5-10 fps which made a difference between stuttering whenever 5 places flew by and dropped bombs, and being able to see it incoming and run abit faster.

I'd say buy a SLI board anyway, to future proof yourself, at least this way in the future, when games could out that will see a massive help from SLI, you can take 2 budget cards and run them, but for now I agree that it's just geeks feeling they need the newest and best


Raven: I had the beta for Vista several weeks ago... to say that it used more resources then XP, would be like saying Vernon ate slightly more then Harry growing up.

 

These are the official system requirements from Microsoft.

Vista Capable
800MHz processor
512 MB of system memory
A graphics processor that is DirectX 9 capable

Vista Premium
1GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1GB of system memory
128MB of graphics memory
40GB hard drive with 15GB free space
DVD-ROM drive
Audio output capabilities
Internet access.

Apparently most of the work will be done by the graphics card, I must admit, however, that I haven't really read that much about Vista, I'm not really interested. I've seen sites recommending at least 2GB of memory to be able to fully use Aero, however. I don't think I'll be getting Vista anyway, I think I'll me making the jump to Linux before then.

On another note Microsoft has announced that they won't be releasing DirectX 10 on Windows XP, so when games start needing DirectX 10 XP won't be able to play them.

 

Laptop (Taken away at the moment by the school until fall):

Intel Centrino 1.7 Ghz
512 Mb RAM
Intel Extreme Graphics
Onboard Sound
14 (or 13?) inch Monitor

Desktop:

P4 2.53 Ghz
512 RAM
Soundblaster 24 Bit
ATI Radeon 9700 Ti (Overclocked of Course)
20 inch monitor


I miss my laptop...so hard to type on a keyboard...

 

I'd heard that too, a4s well as MS forcing a good number of game makers affliated with MS, to release games as Vista only. It'll be another forced upgrade to give the fuckers more money for a buggy barely working product

 

I've just seen another couple of stories about DirectX 10 and it seems that Microsoft didn't announce it wouldn't be XP compatible, though they did refuse to comment on it. The original article I read had it quoted to a Microsoft official while all the others seem to be quoting it from an ATI guy.

 

I hate direct x updates. The video cards for the new updates will be more expensive and usually don't work as good on the direct x 9 and lower games. So technically the consumer pays for a more expensive card and gets shittier results with most games, untill games start coming out that are Dx10.

This is what happend with my Ati 9500 pro card it was getting beat by Nvidias cards that were for Dx8 and a hell of alot cheaper.

 

Laptop: (i'm getting a new one, so i'll post the specs for that)

Centrino Duo 2 GHz (667 MHz FSB)
2 GB DDR2 SDRAM (533 MHz)
80 GB HD 7200 rpm
256 MB Radeon X1400
Creative Audigy Soundcard
Dual-layer DVD writer/reader @ 16x, I think.

Desktop at home:
P4 3.06 GHz
1 GB DDR2 RAM
128 MB nVidia Graphics (dunno which card)
100 GB HDD (5400 rpm)

I don't really use the desktop much, which is why i don't know anything about it...there's two identical ones at home, and i have a laptop. This summer, though, i've ahd to use the desktop, as getting another connection set up for my laptop would be a hassle, and expensive.

 

AMD Athlon Winchester(Core) 3200+
1 GB DDR2 SDRAM (533 MHz)
160 GB HD 7200 rpm
128 MB nVidia 6600GT
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe

 

Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB)

Memory 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 2 DIMMs

Keyboard Dell USB Keyboard

Monitor 19 inch E196FP Analog Flat Panel

Video Card 256MB nVidia GeForce 7900 GS

Hard Drive 250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™

woo hoo just got a new computer, its pretty good.

 

Finally got round to building myself a new system:

Pentium dual core 3.00GHz processor (900 series)

1GB DDRII Ram 667MHz

256mb GeForce 7900GT overclocked

160GB SATA HD 7200 rpm

I'm quite happy with it at the moment - the dual core processing power is nice, running CS on full graphics at 1280x1024 in a window while browsing the web and listening to music smoothly is very satisfying after my previous PC.