I never noticed this thread before ...

Just for the lulz I add my system specs for my desktop and couchbottom. Several parts are second hand, third hand, etc. as are the two monitors. I never bought a new system, even the first was second hand, and I upgrade only occasionally and often with used parts - some friends are glad to get some bucks for financing their high-end stuff. Only hard disks are always new.


The desktop:
for - err - serious stuff

AMD-Athlon XP 2400+ / 2.0 GHz, 256 MB DDR
Graphic: ATI 3D Rage Pro, 8MB Ram
Sound: Via on board
HDD: 80GB Maxtor, another 80GB WD already waiting to be installed.
19" Monitor, Proview 986M (manufactured March 2000)


The couchbottom at one end of my couch.
for reading, writing, surfing, and controlling the model railroad

AMD-Athlon K7 / 750 MHz, 128 MB-Ram,
Graphic: Cirrus Logic 5430/40 PCI (RWR*) max. 1024x768 / 256 but I use it at 800x600 / 16bit
Sound: SB Audio128 PCI
HDD: 20GB (Maxtor I think)
19" Monitor, LG-Electronics CB910C (manufactured Oct. 1998 - I have been using it for a year now.)


Both Systems run with Windows 98 SE, and the desktop starts (and I think runs) a lot faster than most of the so called high-end pcs some friends run with XP or Vista
As an additional bonus: No one is programming viruses for Win98 anymore


*RWR = Ram? What Ram?

 

Processor: Intel Pentium D processor 925 featuring two processing cores (3.00 GHz 800 MHz FSB 2x2 MB Non-ht em64t

Memory: 512MB ddr2 sdram (667MHz) pc5300 dual channel

hard drive: 160 GB 7200rpm serial ata w/ 8mb cache

optical drive: 48x/32x/48x cd-rw &dvd-rom combo drive

video: ATI X 1300 128 MB with TV-out 2x DVI

sound: Integrated Intel 7.1 high defeinition audio

expansion slots 2 PCI, 8USB, 2 PS/2 ports, 2 IEEE 1394 firewire

dont really know much about specs so any good?

 

Seems like a powerful processor for only 512mb of ram.

I would suggest upgrading that, it's really cheap, another stick of 512mb would be under $150 and make any games you might want to run much smoother.

 

My System Specs

Mobo - ASUS P5B
Proc - Intel Core Duo 1.6 ghz
Mem - 2 gig
Video - NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
HD - 320 gig x 4
DVD-Rom Drive : LITE-ON DVDRW LH-18A1P SCSI CdRom Device x 3
OS: Windows SP2, Ubuntu 6.21 (not quite sure on the version #)

 

I think you mean 6.10, Edgy Eft.

 

My system specs:

AMD athalon 64 x2 Duel Core Processor(s) 5000+ (3.0ghz)
2024 MB DDR2 (667mghz) duel channel RAM
Nvidia GeForce 7950 GT (512MB)
NEC 22" flat screen Monitor
Samsung 22" flatscreen monitor.
Realtek HD Audio 7.1 intrigrated sound
10/100/1000 Nic
DLink Wireless N (draft) network adapter.

 

My own system specs, I have like 7 computers in my house. 3 don't work (they just sit and collect dust), 1 computer partially works, exe files won't open, except Nero works for some reason. Then I have 3 other computers that do work. The computer I use most right now has this:

Video Card: Ge-Force TI-4600 (I think it has 128mb ram).
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live! 24bit.
1 gig of memory.
DVD player that burns onto the normal 700mb disks.
CPU: AMD Athlon 3500+ 2.22GHz
OS: Windows XP Professional SP2
Don't have a clue which motherboard it is, seeing as how the PC is a tad old.

My computer in my dads room is this:

CPU: AMD Athlon 6600 2.40GHz
Video: Ge-Force 8800 GTS 256mb ram
Sound Card: Audigy 2 ZS
Memory: 2 gigs (If I remember correctly)
Don't know the motherboard model.
OS: XP Professional SP2
Also has cd-rom/dvd burner in 1 cd drive. Also reads at 58x.(I think or maybe its 64 or 68.) DVD burns at 16x, cd burner runs a lot higher. 58x maybe.)

The 3rd computer is this:

CPU: 5600, 2.00GHz(+ maybe), 1 gig of ram I think. (I haven't used this one in a long time)
Sound Card: Onboard sound, its as affective as a Sound Blaster Live! 24bit
Video Card: Ge-Force 7800 (2 of them) 256mb ram I think.
OS: XP Professional SP2
Don't know model of motherboard.

All computers have a 19 inch monitor. 2 of them are flat screens. The one in my room I use most has a 19 inch "Proview" normal 50 pound monitor, lol. Its a good monitor though, supports 1280x1024. Although I keep it at 1024x768, its good enough for me.

 

Lmfao, I never noticed I didn't make a post in here updating

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo e6600 @ 3.4 ghz

Case: Thermaltake Kandalf LCS liquid cooled, with a Swiftech GTX waterblock

Mobo: eVGA 680i motherboard w/ a Swiftech NB water block

Monitor: Hyvision 22" LCD

Memory: 2 1gb sticks of Crucial Ballistix DDR2 @ 4-4-4-8 @ 1100mhz

HDs: 2 400gb Samsung SATA 2 drives

Sound: Creative Audigy 2 ZS

PSU: 680w Iceburg

Video: eVGA nVidia 8800 GTS 640mb

OS XP Pro SP 2. Vista's buggy as fuck, and I will not reinstall even for Dx 10.

Drives: HP Lightscribe DVD burner 16x.

 

My brand new one week old system:

Intel Quad Core Q6600 (2.4ghz)
2GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 SDRAM 1066mhz
eVGA 8800GTX 768mb
Seagate 500GB 7200RPM
750W PSU
Lite-On 16x DVD Burner
22" Dell Monitor
XP Pro
SoundBlaster X-Fi

 

What mobo you go on it?

 

I just got a new shitty desktop for $600. Not sure if it was a good deal or not.

17' Widescreen LCD monitor.

Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.0 GHZ

RAM 1015 MB

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 - Graphics Card

160 GB Hard Drive

And Vista home edition, which I am not really a fan of. XP seems much smoother.

Good deal, Y/N?

 

That's a damn good computer for 600 dollars, I'd say. Add 50 more bucks and you could buy another G of memory to go with that first one. You want to tell me where you got that computer from?

 

FUCK no. Nig you got robbed.

You paid 200 for the monitor. 200+ for Vista, 100 for the hard drive. The rest of the shit was picked out of the trash bin.

The worst part, the "card" is integrated graphics. Good luck with that. Most can't even hit 128 megs of memory due to stealing bandwidth from your RAM on your motherboard. So with the ram hogging back and forth you may as well only have 512mb of memory, and Vista runs sluggish for me in gaming with 2 gbs of high performance RAM.

Vista is a resource hog and will murder that computer. Run the Vista score assessment and see what you get. My score is like a 5.9, b/c run I use a IDE hard drive for music and pictures, so the slower transfer rate drops my score.

Vista needs a min of 2 gbs decent DD2 RAM, better to have 4gbs if you're going to game on it.

The CPU is a relic of ... like 4+ years ago. D's get hot as shit and don't hold up well. The D line was Intel's way of overclocking the piss out of old p4's and charging more for higher speeds, when folks though high clock value, and not chip architecture were the way to go



e6600 CPU, $200 ebay.
650i SLI $110
400gb hard drive $100 newegg
Cheap ass case $50 ebay
2gb Budget ram $75
XP home SP2 $80
nVidia 7900gs 256mb dx9 card $50-100 ebay/newegg
Use your old monitor.
665$ for budget


I just built you a PC five times stronger then the poor D you got screwed into. The 650i, if you toss on another 60$ for aftermarket cooling, could over clock that chip to one 8-10 times stronger then the one you have.

You can surf the net on the PC you just bought, but I'd bet it's slow as piss unless you have every single feature of Vista disabled, and very jerky. I'd love to know what your CPU temps are. Download Coretemp and lemee know.

 

I honestly thought that was a damn decent computer for that price (the only bad-side I saw in that was the Vista which sucks), but damn you raped me a new arsehole. Though I'm high-jacking the thread just a tad, that hypothetical computer you just layed out right there would be able to run .. what? Would I be able to play CoD4 or Hg:L on a high graphics setting with those specs and a good internet connection? I need a new computer and from the difference in opinion on Darius' specs I'd say that I don't know rats ass compared to you.

 

Well, I need a computer right away so I walked into Bestbuy and got one that looked decent .

It runs fine though, plays all the games that I've tried fine. Not amazing games by any means but so far: Fifa 07, NWN and Call of Duty 2 have run smoothly.

It's pretty damn loud though, I'm tempted to just pirate a copy of XP and install that though because start up times seem pretty slow and load times are a bit longer then I experienced before on my computer at home which is more or less the same thing but with XP.

EDIT: tried the coretemp thing but it said it wasn't an intel core so it could not continue.

 

Hellgate maxed out. CoD4 maxed out, AA at around 4x, get 30 fps

Thats basically my computer, with the exception that I have a 400$ graphics card in it, and the 680i board, which just lets me have 3 slots for PCI-E if I decide to get a physics card

I run Hellgate fully maxed, and I mean everything fully maxed including AA, and don't go under 60-70 fps at damned 1680x1050 res.

Everyone gets burned when they buy prepacked by Dell/Gateway/HP/Compaq computers unless they pay out the ass. I got frustrated with my first 2 computers I bought, especially because I was stupid enough to believe that the Celeron line were just as good as the P3/P4's.

Building your own PC is stupid easy, everyone thinks it's uber hard for some reason.

You want Intel?

Buy an intel board. Read reviews, best one out right now for overclocking is the 680i board. Get the 650i if you don't want to SLI the cards. If you're buying bundled bullshit, you probably don't know what SLI is. That's fine.

Buy a e6600 or if you must, a quad core Q6600. But most stuff doesnt use 2 cores yet, much less 4.

Aftermarket heatsink. Zalman 9700

Case. Pick up whatever looks cool to you, I heavily recommend the Antec 900. It cooled almost as well as my water setup at 200$ cheaper. You want an ATX form factor case. Read, nearly every one out there. You'll see BTX, but that format has flopped. If not the Antec 900, get the Thermaltake Armor.

Ram. Crucial. Hands down. Their parent company is the people that supply everyone with the quality memory chips in the first place. 2gbs plus

Hard drive. Whatever

Sound, use onboard sound. If you're a bundler normally, you won't have speakers worth a fuck to appreciate slightly higher quality audio anyway.

Video. Either nVidia 7900/7950, or 8800 gts/gtx DO NOT was money on anything that doesn't have either an 8 or a 9 in the 2nd number spot. Anything lower in nVidia numbering means, budget. 8800gtx 640 mg card is the best bang for the buck out.

Power supply. 50-100 bucks, higher number the better, you want 2 12v rails pushing over 18amps each. Dirt easy to find on newegg.

It's now time to put it in the case, thanks to forced specifications, it's impossible to screw up putting this thing together. Power on. Let the Bios autoset itself in the 650i's case. Install OS. get into windows install drivers. Wait. BAM done. Saved hundreds by switching your car insurance to Geico.

Laugh at the poor bastard who can't even load porn to his shiny new Dell.



D whatever works for you, I'm just saying =P

 

Just swapped out a few parts in my PC.

OLD PC Parts:
AMD Spemron 3100+ clocked at 2Ghz.
1.5GB DDR 800 (1GB of Dual Channel Corsair and 512mb of single channel Geil)
Come random AGP Motherboard. ASUS I think. I can't remember.
ATI Radeon 9550R Gaming Edition 128mb AGP.
Seagate SATA 250GB HDD.
Pioneer 8x DVD-RW
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 5.1
400w PSU


NEW* PC Parts:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2Ghz
ASUS A8S-X MotherBoard
ATI CoolMaster Radeon x1600 GT PCI-e16x 256mb
500w

So new MoBO, CPU, Video Card and PSU for me. Swapped them out of my mates PC when I upgraded his PC to a AMD AM2 6000+ at 3Ghz(Going to fix the multiplyer soon and set it to 14x instead of 15x so I can get full memory performance), Gigabyte GeForce 8500GT PCI-E 512MB (In hind sight should've spent the extra money to go to a 8800), ASUS M2N8 MoBo and a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 7.1 SE.

So win-win for me and him. Only problem is of course windows XP had a complete physcho at me for changing over too much stuff and the work around I researched before hand failed.

Thus I had to try and save my data by installing a second version of XP which worked great until the SP2 CD I have gave way and failed causing the OPS to completely die and resist all my attempts to save it including swapping out files from the original version of windows via the recovery console.

Thus it wouldn't let me install any more copies of windows, tried 4 more times, and I was forced to do q quick format thus loosing all my data. I'm waiting on another PC upgrade for a friend tonight to use their HDD's to recover all my data (Which I found using a variety of tolls and can recover most of) and finally get back.

My computer was due for a format anyway, but I didn't want to do it in this way.

 

yeah it always sucks when that happens

 

It works for porn so that's about 90% of my worries gone right there ^_^

 

I have recovered basically everything, thank fuck for Xp taking up 10GB by itself so no data was lost. In the process of deleting everything which I don't need, e.g. system files etc that were rescued aswell, and it's taking a hell of a long time I'll tell you now.

I can see how people charge a fuck load of money for data recovery.