Your Computer? [Archive] - Page 4

renegadevikingPS3

06-14-2008, 05:01

Oh yeah, I be sure to use the redneck/moron translator more often so I can "emulate" LSD consumers. Haven't you seen Transformers? Didn't you know that the Zeta are a Urban Legend in America? How about that successful NASA rover that landed on Mars in it's North Pole trying to discover water/bacteria under it's "Ice Caps"? That's like a dual mission so that astronauts can land on it and live using a Marsion Lander from the Orion/Ares spacecraft in 2020 when we're suppose to land on Mars.

street racer 275

06-25-2008, 20:02

CPU: Q6600 OCed @ 3.00 GHz
GPU: eVGA 8800GTS 512
RAM: 4 GB DDR2 800MHZ G-Skill
HDD: 250 & 500 GB
Antec 900 Case
750Watt Antec Power Supply
Gigabyte P35C-DS3R Mobo

joeold

07-15-2008, 05:39

InfernoReaper

07-15-2008, 06:39

So I finally got all my components that I wanted and I'm happy to say that it is all finished.
It is comprised of:
Case: Antec Three Hundred
Motherboard: Intel DP35DP
CPU: Intel Q9300
RAM: 2x2GB Corsair XMS2 DHX
HDD: 80GB SATA, 500GB SATA
CD/DVD: 16xDVD burner (can't remember the brand.)
PSU: Antec EarthWatts 650W
GPU: EVGA GTX 260 (sorry Guitarras I know. I'm sorry! :()
Everything is at stock speeds and I'm probably not going to be overclocking anything.

Nice build. How much did that cost you?

Two problems, err, comments. In my opinion, you should have gone 750-800W for future upgrades, if you plan to upgrade that is. And as much as I hate single slot coolers, 2 8800GTs would have worked better. That's just my nitpicking before GDA swoops in on the ATi horse, swinging his Crossfire club. :mrgreen:

joeold

07-15-2008, 07:40

Nice build. How much did that cost you?

Two problems, err, comments. In my opinion, you should have gone 750-800W for future upgrades, if you plan to upgrade that is. And as much as I hate single slot coolers, 2 8800GTs would have worked better. That's just my nitpicking before GDA swoops in on the ATi horse, swinging his Crossfire club. :mrgreen:
In total about 850-900. Seeing how the mobo could only support one PCI-e card I was kind of forced to go with a single card.

InfernoReaper

07-15-2008, 07:47

In total about 850-900. Seeing how the mobo could only support one PCI-e card I was kind of forced to go with a single card.

Touche my good sir. Nice build indeed.

Illusion

07-18-2008, 03:06

My Current Setup:
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+
1 GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS
250GB HD
21" LCD Screen
Windows XP Home Edition

minhlehong

07-21-2008, 12:29

MyPC's just enough to search net :(
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Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E4600 2.4Ghz
Window Vista Home Premium
RAM 3GB
500 GB Hard Disk
VGA NViDiaGeForce 8400 1498 MB
Monitor Dell , Display Mode 1680x1050
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Playstation_3

07-22-2008, 18:30

pc1,,,
Q6600 go@3.6 (Q6600@3.6) ghz 4gig ddr2 6400 big sata 2 drives 5:1 sound w/ 5:1 headset ATI 4870 gddr5 wolf king gaming pad a4tech X7 multishot mouse, smasung 19" ws lcd.dual boot xp64 vista 64bit os.
pc2...
amd 4400@2.6ghz 2gig ocz ddr400 5:1 sound w/ 5:1 headset xfx extreme oc 8800gts sata 2 hdd 19" ws lcd.xp64 os
pc3...
intel core 2 2.2ghz 1gig ddr2 vista os 17" lcd asus 8600gt.
pc4...
amd 3800 2.2ghz 1.5gig ddr400 asus 7800gt, 19" lcd.xp32 os

xbox360 ps3 2xps2 2xWii 3xgba,
2meg dsl wireless 20meg cable internet.
as you can see my family likes gaming.

Playstation_3

07-23-2008, 23:40

So I finally got all my components that I wanted and I'm happy to say that it is all finished.
It is comprised of:
Case: Antec Three Hundred
Motherboard: Intel DP35DP
CPU: Intel Q9300
RAM: 2x2GB Corsair XMS2 DHX
HDD: 80GB SATA, 500GB SATA
CD/DVD: 16xDVD burner (can't remember the brand.)
PSU: Antec EarthWatts 650W
GPU: EVGA GTX 260 (sorry Guitarras I know. I'm sorry! :()
Everything is at stock speeds and I'm probably not going to be overclocking anything.
All very nice you should of got a ATI SAPPHIRE 4870 GDDR5 FTW, and only £170. and will own the 260 and probely the 280 in some games.

Lemonade727

07-24-2008, 00:24

Main Rig:
Case: Antec P182
Motherboard: eVGA 780i SLi
CPU: Intel C2D E8400 @ 3.850Ghz 24/7
HS/F: Xigmatek HDT-S1283
RAM: 2x2GB G.Skill DDR2-1000
HDD: 500GB Samsung SpinPoint (upgrading soon to velociraptors)
PSU: Thermaltake ToughPower 700W
GPU: 2x eVGA 8800GTS 512MB G92 SLi

Secondary: (I love the 939 board :) )
Case: Thermaltake Tsunami Dream
Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLi Deluxe
CPU: AMD64 3800+ Venice core
HS/F: Thermaltake Big Typhoon
RAM: 2x1GB Corsair XMS DDR 400
HDD: 160GB WD
PSU: Antec True 480W
GPU: eVGA 8600GTS (no more SLi due to getting this as a RMA replacement :( )

Laptop: (Black Friday Deal)
Sony Vaio VGNR100E
CPU: Intel T2310
GPU: Intel X3100 Integrated
RAM: 2x1GB G.Skill DDR2 667 (upgraded)

Renzoblade

07-25-2008, 12:05

you people are insane, making me going to upgrade my pc now, its to crap to mention.

faaeng

07-26-2008, 05:58

Well, my desktop is outdated to say the least. I built her around a decade ago. Fret not. I am in the stage of building up another rig to replace her, but i am currently in need of a new laptop for work, so I went that route first seeing as it's more of a priority. XD

I'll post up about my rig once it's completed. No point posting my current "plans" seeing as they may or may not change as time progresses, bur for the time being this is the new lappy i picked up for work and I'm Loving it!

ASUS F8P (blk w/blk leather trim and palm rest)
*14" widescreen TFT display
*Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 (2.1 ghz, 3MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
*2x2GB Kingston DDR2@667MHz (was hoping the refresh of the Santa Rosa platform would've brought along support for DDR2@800MHz but no such luck)
*AMD/ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 256MB dedicated VRAM+ Hypermemory
*250GB HDD 5400rpm 16MB Cache
*1.3MP swivel cam, fingerprint reader, 5 USB 2.0 slots (2back+2right side+1 left side), IrDA, 8in1 flash card reader, 801.11A/G/N wifi and all the other usual stuff (DL DVD burner (no lightscribe unfortunately), bluetooth, PCI expanion card lot, etc....)

Very happy with the investment. It sure turns some heads at work aswell. I thought it was bad enough all the attention I got when I am seen using my eeePC while on break. It's just as bad with this lap awell. Only now its when I'm on break (eeePC) and when I'm working (F8P). It's a sea of Dells and Gateways with a smathering of an Apple here and there around this place. The occasional Viao will be seen once in a blue aswell. Noone around here has ever heard of ASUS before but it seems they've taken more notice recently. I should get paid for this advertisng at work lmao.

I do have 1 complaint tho. However, it's not realy the laptops fault. I just wish that the fingerpint scanner worked under Linux. I seldomly, if ever, boot up the windows partition on this thing.

skulpt

07-27-2008, 05:18

I've got a MBP running XP, but I'm just about to buy an HP for $650 which comes with

Q6600
3GB
2x 360GB HD
Crappy 8400GS (Soon to be replaced by an 8800GT either now or I'll wait a year or so)
TV Tuner
HD-DVD drive (useless now though. LOL)
Windows Vista Premium Media Center

I do a crapload of video editing, Photoshop, and webwork, so I can't freaking wait for the quad core to run multiple apps at once. My MBP just chokes on the more serious work I'm trying to do. Gaming will be secondary to this system for me, but I'm sure I'll end up getting Alan Wake, Mass Effect 2, and maybe APB when it comes out. When those games come out, then I'll probably upgrade my graphics card and power supply.

killzone_71

07-27-2008, 14:35

As of now i have:

P4 2.0Ghz
1GB ram
7600GS
120GB HD (40+80)

But im planning on getting a:

Intel Q6600
4GB ram
250GB or 500GB HD
8800GTX
and a ****loads of games to play... :snicker

ttech10

07-31-2008, 03:47

Ordered a Q6600 today so adding that to what I got it'll be:

CPU: Intel Quad Core Q6600 @ 2.4GHz
RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX
HDD: 1TB Western Digital
GPU: GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB (non SLI mobo)

I'm looking at putting in another 2GB RAM later down the road.

MrMiller

08-01-2008, 08:31

i posted my computer and setup on here before under another name but I can't find my password. I created this name around the same time maybe alittle earlier so....

Anyways

Case: coolmaster stacker

QX6850 3.0GHz overclocked to 3.8 (liquid cooling)
Nvidia 680i A1 motherboard
2x 8800GTX
Fatal1ty soundcard
2x 150GB raptor 10,000rpm (raid 0)
1x 150GB raptor 10,000rpm (for windows)
1x 320GB WD 7,200 rpm
dual boot Windows XP and Windows vista 64
4GB 1066 Dominator (RAM)
1000w PSU
24" Samsung 245BW

Bigdoggy

08-04-2008, 00:19

GarnetandBlack

08-05-2008, 04:19

Main rig:
E8500 @ 3.8 (4.1 for benching)
2x MSI GTX 280 OC in SLI @ 715/1430/1270
8GB G.Skill PC2 8000 @ 1000 mhz
EVGA 780i Ultra MoBo
Thermalright Ultra Extreme 120 Black w/ 2 Ultra Kaze fans
LG 16x DVD burner
LiteOn 4x Blu-Ray drive
WD 320 GB SATA II HDD
Acomdata 750 GB external USB drive
Silverstone OP1000E PSU
Antec 1200 case
Logitech RX1000 laser mouse

Vantage score: P24,233
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=264638

EVGA Mods Rigs link (# 8 vantage score on the 780i !!)
http://www.evga.com/community/ModsRigs/comment.asp?sysid=11491

Better pic (Mods Rigs limits to 100 KB on their page... Here's an imageshack thumbnail to a better pic).
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/9123/10002681ns1.th.jpg (http://img366.imageshack.us/my.php?image=10002681ns1.jpg)

2nd Rig
E6750 @ 3.2 Ghz
XFX 8800gt Alpha Dog
MSI p35 neo
8GB Supertalent PC2 6400 @ 800 mhz
Corsair 650 watt PSU
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
120 GB HDD
16x DVD burner

Both rigs are running to the same Sony Bravia 40V3000 TV.

The main rig is soon to be tri-SLI (looking to get a Q9550 as well.... maybe later, though). I'll update my mods rigs page when I get the card in. I've also done a few minor things since that pic was taken, like replacing that awful red SATA cable with a black one, putting an after-market fan on the northbridge heatsink, and overall cleaning up the cable management a bit. I haven't updated the photos yet, though. Again, I'll likely do that when the third GTX 280 arrives.

SolidSnakeUS

08-05-2008, 04:39

If I could, I would definitely have this to upgrade my computer:

Antec Nine Hundred
3 WD 640GB
VisionTek 4870 512MB
Asus P5Q-E P45 Motherboard
Corsair 650W PSU
Extra 120MM fan

GarnetandBlack

08-05-2008, 12:48

If I could, I would definitely have this to upgrade my computer:

Antec Nine Hundred
3 WD 640GB
VisionTek 4870 512MB
Asus P5Q-E P45 Motherboard
Corsair 650W PSU
Extra 120MM fan

The only thing I might change would be the Antec 900 case. They are an absolute mess for cable management. For around $10 less, you could get an NZXT Tempest case with far superior cable management options and basically the same air flow ability. Great little case that I considered for a bit before deciding that I just needed a little more room.

Solbadguy

08-07-2008, 18:05

My Set up:

Case - Cooler Master Cosmos S
HDD - Seagate 500GB
CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2.90Ghz
Ram - OCZ 2x 2GB = 4GB
GPU - Palit Ati Radeon HD4870 512MB DDR5
PS - OCZ 610W
MB - Asus M3A32-MVP
Disc Drive - Pioneer 18x DVD+/- Writer

Need to sell my 2900XT 1GB DDR4 so I can get a better processor.

sweetvar26

08-14-2008, 05:41

just so you know, MrMiller is my alt name but I finally found my password for this account.

Since I already said my specs here is a picture just so I can back up what I said, easy to overclock to 3.8.

Dude, i have the exact same Internet Modem, Wireless Router and the same Light switches you got in your room. I stay in dorms by the way.

Terabyte

08-17-2008, 19:09

Just upgraded from some old pc i used to a emachines with a 2.2 ghz processor, dual output video card, agp that is. 500 GB hard drive, 1 gb ram. These are just the basic features, not going to get into big detail.

Phaded

08-18-2008, 15:21

Pentium 4 3.0ghz
512ram (Just bought 2gb for like 20 quid though, it's only DDR)
GeForce FX 5200
80 GB HDD

It's a PC World PC I had bought for me years ago... I kid you not.

Of course i'm going to be buying a new laptop and make my own setup soon, and sooner rather than later hopefully >_>.

Zatoichi

08-22-2008, 18:50

What kind of computer do you have and what kind do you want?

I have 2 Dell Dimension 4200 Desktops with 17 inch flat panel monitors. Both have 80 GB hard drives, 2.8 GHz processors, 512 MB of RAM, and CD burner/DVD Player combo drives.

If I could afford it I would get a fully customized Dell Dimension XPS Gen 5 with a 1.5 TB hard drive (actually 3 HDDs would be required), 4 GB of RAM, 3.8 GHz processor, 24 inch flat panel LCD screen, Dual Drive 16X DVD-/+RW and 52X CD Burner. This system costs about $5000.
I take back what I said. ibuypower and cyberpowerpc are ripoffs.

GarnetandBlack

08-23-2008, 19:49

Update to my first post:

I got my third MSI GTX 280 in last week and it had the dreaded triple digit temps problem. 105 celcius in minutes while the other two stay under 83... Waiting on the newegg rma now. I did, however, also get a PC power and cooling 1200 watt PSU - the thing is loud, but it did handle the three cards well in my setup for the short time that all three were actually in there.

Once I get my third card (back) in, I'm going to work on finding my higest stable OC because I hear Tri SLI 280s like to be over 4 ghz... WIll post results and pics soon after.

Regard all!

Zatoichi

08-25-2008, 20:07

Nice build. How much did that cost you?
And as much as I hate single slot coolers, 2 8800GTs would have worked better.
yes, but two GTX 260s would have been even even better (if not a little pricey).

SDiablo123

09-03-2008, 01:23

Dell 2400 series, 556mb RAM, 45 gig storage, some more REALLY CRAPPY stuff, i got it like, 6 years ago..

Centurion

09-04-2008, 04:14

Intel Centrino Duo 2GHz
1GB DDR667 RAM
160GB hard drive

IBM Cell Broadband Engine 3.2GHz
256MB XDR RAM
40GB hard disk

joeold

09-04-2008, 18:20

GarnetandBlack

09-06-2008, 21:00

I'm already drooling just by reading that.

I got my RMA in a few days ago. Here is the link to my Mods Rigs build - I'm number 4 now, and I think I can go higher. I still have not updated my pics - I know, I'm lazy, but my camera's batteries are dead! :mrgreen:

http://www.evga.com/community/ModsRigs/comment.asp?sysid=11491

P29261 in Vantage. I'm using 177.89 drivers in that run - the 177.92 drivers seem to be producing better results for folks, but they are terribly unstable on my rig. I'm waiting for the "Big Bang II" drivers before I make any more runs.

I will eventually update my pics, and will post here when I do.

Lemonade727

09-06-2008, 21:56

I got my RMA in a few days ago. Here is the link to my Mods Rigs build - I'm number 4 now, and I think I can go higher. I still have not updated my pics - I know, I'm lazy, but my camera's batteries are dead! :mrgreen:

http://www.evga.com/community/ModsRigs/comment.asp?sysid=11491

P29261 in Vantage. I'm using 177.89 drivers in that run - the 177.92 drivers seem to be producing better results for folks, but they are terribly unstable on my rig. I'm waiting for the "Big Bang II" drivers before I make any more runs.

I will eventually update my pics, and will post here when I do.

Very nice setup and very nice results. You almost make me want to go out and upgrade my PC...maybe I will for Christmas 8).

Can't wait to see your new runs when the drivers come out. 177.92 was unstable on my rig as well, but it somehow worked itself out.

GarnetandBlack

09-07-2008, 18:01

Very nice setup and very nice results. You almost make me want to go out and upgrade my PC...maybe I will for Christmas 8).

Can't wait to see your new runs when the drivers come out. 177.92 was unstable on my rig as well, but it somehow worked itself out.

Yeah... So about that whole "no more runs" thing... I fibbed. :mrgreen:

It was just a little fib, though.

I decided to give the 177.92 drivers another run - defragged my HD and tightened the ram timings a bit and gained ~ 450 points. Not a lot, but my new score is 29708, and that puts me in 3rd!

Hmmmm... can I find a way to squeeze 300 more points out of this setup? I'd really like to break 30K. As it is, my CPU OC in that bench is about as high as I'm comfortable with on air, and I just can't seem to work up the cajones to move to water cooling....

Now I'm really done until the Big Bang II drivers appear (unless some uber powerful betas appear before then! :DD).

Regards all!

EDIT: I updated the pics on my page. Here's the link again:

Cocky (http://www.evga.com/community/ModsRigs/comment.asp?sysid=11491)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The above is what I named my rig, and is a reference to my favorite college football team - not my overall state of mind. :snicker

PHiLCORE

09-09-2008, 18:15

Ive jsut finished building my first ever "Home build computer"

To start with Ive got to say I was pretty suppprised to how easy it all went together mainly thanks to the case

I got a Thermal Take Tsunami Dream Case in Black with the almost mirror finish, nice case, runs cool thanks to the in built intake/exhaust fans and the blue LED's built into the door are just right! not to bright to distract you while playing games, watching dvd's or working

Ok then the specs, obviously I was new to this I didnt want anything to dominate the world jsut something that would run smooth and play most new games.

CPU - AMD X2 AM2 Dual Core 6000 @ 3.0ghz x 2
CPU cooler - Thermal Take Blue Orb II
GPU - XFX Geforce 8800GTS Overclocked
RAM - 4 GB Corsair Dominator
HDD - Western Digital 250GB
DVDRW - Samsung lightscribe S202N
Mother Board - MSI K9N2 SLI Platinum Motherboard
PSU - Gigabyte Superb 720w

Monitor purchase as well HP w2207h 22" HDMI

GarnetandBlack

09-09-2008, 18:31

PHiLCORE

09-09-2008, 18:43

Yep got it VERY cheap, Novatech where I orded everything from made a mess of things after I orded their own 8800GTS which was £50 they discontinued it so they didnt charge me any extra and sent me...

GarnetandBlack

09-10-2008, 03:07

That is an extremely nice build for that budget! 
 
Don't forget to register that card at XFX for the warranty. :) 
 
If you haven't already, download Rivatuner here: 
...

Lemonade727

09-10-2008, 07:47

I got a Thermal Take Tsunami Dream Case in Black with the almost mirror finish, nice case, runs cool thanks to the in built intake/exhaust fans and the blue LED's built into the door are just right! not to bright to distract you while playing games, watching dvd's or working

Yea, I'm running a Tsunami Dream case on my 2nd PC. Been in love with the case for the past 4-5 years I've owned it.

PHiLCORE

09-10-2008, 20:52

Yea, I'm running a Tsunami Dream case on my 2nd PC. Been in love with the case for the past 4-5 years I've owned it.

Yeh I really like it the black look real clean lovely case

PHiLCORE

09-10-2008, 20:53

That is an extremely nice build for that budget!

Don't forget to register that card at XFX for the warranty. :)

If you haven't already, download Rivatuner here:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/RivaTuner-v2.10-download-163.html

And see how far that card will go! I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. :mrgreen:

Yeh Ive registerd the card, dunno about rivatuner like

Acid Snake

09-11-2008, 05:46

Not exactly the best setup but it gets the job done. I can play most games out today with no problem.

AMD ATHLON 64 6000+ X2 @ 3GHZ
ABIT KN9 SLI
4 GIG DDR2 @667
1 SEAGATE HDD 120 GB
1 WD HDD 250 GB
ANTEC PSU 650 WATT
8800GTS VIDEO CARD
SAMSUNG SYNC MASTER 906 BW
RAID MAX NINJA CASE

GarnetandBlack

09-11-2008, 12:57

Yeh Ive registerd the card, dunno about rivatuner like

Rivatuner is an app that lets you overclock your graphics card's core, shader, and memory clocks for better performance. That particular card has proven time and time again to be quite overclockable, and that results in a noticeable performance increase in games,

The forums at guru3d (the site I linked to for you to download Rivatuner) is a great site for talking to other users about overclocking graphics cards, and it even has its own rivatuner section if you are the least bit curious about it.

Phaded

09-12-2008, 17:08

Recently bought this setup on a budget, it's on it's way.

Antec 900 Gaming Case
Extra 2 x Xilence 120mm fans for the case
MSI P45 Neo-F Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Socket 775 (3.0GHz) 1333FSB 6mb L2 Cache Processer that will be overclocked to 4.0GHz
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Corsair 4GB DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 DHX Memory
EVGA GTX260 896MB GDDR3 will be overclocked to run like the FTW edition (best edition of GTX 260 afaik)
Seagate 500gb SATA II 7200rpm 32mb Cache
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Soundcard
Corsair 650w TX Series PSU

Peripherals;

Logitech G11 Gaming Keyboard
Logitech MX518 Gaming Mouse
LG W2252TQ 22" TFT Monitor

My current PC is like over 6 years old so I went for a complete overhaul.

I like this what do you guys think for my first build? :). The peripherals are more of a long term investment.

09-12-2008, 17:15

My friend just got a £900 computer, and it was the best computer they had ever had in the shop!
4gb of ram
(can't remember the graphics, but brilliant)
He can run any game on full graphics, including Crysis!

Sylar

09-12-2008, 17:27

I've got a pretty bog standard gaming pc

Operating System is Windows Vista Home Premium (yes it runs fine)
Intel Core 2 Quad Processor
8MB Cache
4GB Memory
8 in 1 Multicard reader
Multiformat Disk Drive
2 x NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600GS Graphics Cards
1TB Hard Drive
6 USB ports
20" HP widescreen LCD monitor
Creative Inspire A200 2.1 Speakers with Subwoofer

I don't know any fancy stuff lol

Phaded

09-12-2008, 17:56

hoho87

09-21-2008, 01:14

yeh even the most expensive computer has some kind of flaw

Phaded

09-21-2008, 16:40

Zatoichi

09-23-2008, 16:19

No computer currently on the market can run Crysis on full everything, as far as I know. Unless maybe they had four 4870 X2's in Quadfire or 3 GTX 280's in SLi along with an extremely overclocked Quad Extreme with a lot of water cooling.
It depends on the resolution. In 1440x900 it would only take 2 GTX 280's. At the biggest resolution with all settings at highest, yes, it would take 3 GTX 280's, but quad core isn't necessary. Dual core is way better for gaming right now; Crysis would not utilize all four cores in a quad core. An E8500 overclocked to 4GHz would do the job perfectly well, and it's been proven to be able to run at a stable 4.5GHz.

You can can only run two 4870 X2's in crossfire, because that's the equivalent of four graphics cards, but 3 GTX 280's does a much, much better job (if you can get the cooling under control). 4870 X2's in xfire would not be able to run Crysis at the highest settings.

In short, it takes three GTX 280's and just a halfway-overclocked dual core.

GarnetandBlack

09-23-2008, 16:27

It depends on the resolution. In 1440x900 it would only take 2 GTX 280's. At the biggest resolution with all settings at highest, yes, it would take 3 GTX 280's, but quad core isn't necessary. Dual core is way better for gaming right now; Crysis would not utilize all four cores in a quad core. An E8500 overclocked to 4GHz would do the job perfectly well, and it's been proven to be able to run at a stable 4.5GHz.

You can can only run two 4870 X2's in crossfire, because that's the equivalent of four graphics cards, but 3 GTX 280's does a much, much better job (if you can get the cooling under control). 4870 X2's in xfire would not be able to run Crysis at the highest settings.

In short, it takes three GTX 280's and just a halfway-overclocked dual core.

Well, kind of. My rig has an E8500 @ 3.8 Ghz (though I have tested at 4.433 as well) with tri SLI GTX 280s, and at 1920 X 1080 with Very High settings, I can run 4X AA at very good frame rates. 16 X Q AA still drops me down into the teens or worse.

I don't think a quad would fix that, but I do agree with Phaded that there is no rig available on the market today that can turn on every single piece of eye candy at 2560 X 1600. It just doesn't exist.

At lower resolutions, maybe... Maybe.

Zatoichi

09-23-2008, 16:36

Well, kind of. My rig has an E8500 @ 3.8 Ghz (though I have tested at 4.433 as well) with tri SLI GTX 280s, and at 1920 X 1080 with Very High settings, I can run 4X AA at very good frame rates. 16 X Q AA still drops me down into the teens or worse.

I don't think a quad would fix that, but I do agree with Phaded that there is no rig available on the market today that can turn on every single piece of eye candy at 2560 X 1600. It just doesn't exist.

At lower resolutions, maybe... Maybe.
I was just basing my opinion on a tech demo on youtube. Maybe it was BS.

skarekrow

10-04-2008, 06:08

My Wifes Hackintosh, built last night.

http://xs232.xs.to/xs232/08406/dsc01423504.jpg

A top Raptor Mid tower Atx case.
Q6600 @ Stock (currently)
Zalman CPU cooler (red Led)
2 Gigs of Crucial PC6400 DDR2 800 with red led tracers
Zotac 8800 GT
DFI Bloodiron P35 motherboard.
XION 600w Dual 12v rail modular PSU
WD 160 Gig Sata HDD (System disk)
WD 640 Gig Sata HDD (Storage)
LG Supermulti Dvd-Burner

Total Cost: $925 (after Shipping)

http://xs232.xs.to/xs232/08406/dsc01434510.jpg

http://xs232.xs.to/xs232/08406/dsc01428152.jpg

http://xs232.xs.to/xs232/08406/dsc01432892.jpg

http://xs232.xs.to/xs232/08406/dsc01441788.jpg

http://xs232.xs.to/xs232/08406/dsc01442516.jpg

Setup to Dual boot with Vista Ultimate and Mac OS X Leopard.

joeold

10-21-2008, 02:20

That is sexy setup you have there for your wife skarekrow. I am very jealous.

Kyaw

10-27-2008, 14:36

I currently have a vaio laptop:

CPU-Intel Pentium M 750, 1.86
RAM-1024MB Memory
HDD-100GB
SCREEN-17 inch screen
GRAPHICS-ATI mobility Radeon X600 256MB

It is not that good but it is like a family computer.
I want to build a desktop budget gaming rig.

These are my components for the rig:

MOTHERBOARD-Gigabyte Motherboard Atx Ga-m57sli-s4 Amd Socket Am2 £65.00
Processor-AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ / 3 GHz
£62.98
GRAPHICS-XFX Graphics CardGeforce 8800 Gt 512mb Pci-e 600mhz £120.00
DVD-ROM-Lite-On SOHD-16P9S 16x DVD-ROM IDE Drive (Black)
£15.00
PSU-Trust 370W Psu Low Noise
£22.00
HDD-80GB Maxtor IDE Harddrive Brand new sealed 2mb Cache
£35.00
MEMORY-Corsair Value Select - 1 GB*2 - DIMM 184-pin - 400 MHz/PC3200 £20.00
MONITOR-LG L194WT 19 Inch Widescreen LCD Monitor
£95
CASE-Advance - 8702B Turboost PC Case in black
£29.00

I don't if they are all good. Can anyone tell me are they any good and are they compatible? And the price is incredible for less than £500!:2gun::2gun:
They are all from amazon.co.uk So if there are any good prices let me know.

Cheers:-D

Riizke

10-30-2008, 15:23

I recently bought a new computer.
Quad Core.
4GB RAM.
300GB HDD.
LightScribe Drive.
NVIDIA 9500 512MB.
22" LCD.

A-D-L

11-07-2008, 00:13

Parts just arrived. Will be built in a few days, will post pics.

CPU - Core 2 Quad @ 2.44Ghz
GPU - EVGA 9800GTX
RAM - 4Gb @ 800Mhz
Mobo - EBGA 132-CK-NF78-A1
PSU - 550W (I think I might replace this)
Case - Antec 900

Very happy with what I have.

Phaded

11-07-2008, 13:23

Just bought everything for my new PC too.

Case - Antec 900
CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
CPU Cooler - Zalman 9700
Graphics Card - Sapphire 4870 1gb
RAM - OCZ Reaper 4GB
Motherboard - MSI P45 Neo
PSU - Corsair 650w TX
HDD Western Digital Blue Caviar 640gb x 2 (possibly 3)
Soundcard Asus Xonar D2X
Monitor - Samsung T220

Can't wait to get this bad boy running xD.

A-D-L

11-08-2008, 15:16

Same case as me Phaded. Antec 900 FTW!

kyaw25, i'm not sure if that power supply can power your system. I would not recommend putting it together until you know. I would recommend anything over 500W.

PsychoMantis

11-08-2008, 15:28

HP setup got it in 2004 or something like that, I also own a Compaq laptop as well. I'm not that high tech with all so I don't know exactly what type of computer it is as long as it works its all good with me. HP FTW! screw the rest!

A-D-L

11-11-2008, 19:12

I have replaces my PSU, with an 800W BFG ES Series. I think i'm good now.

MentallyCritical

12-14-2008, 04:37

mine :)

Cost : Rs. 80,000+
motherboard : ASUS P5QL pro
processor : c2d e8400
ram : memory power 4gb
cabinet : cooler master mystique
smps : cooler master real power pro 650w
cd drive : LG sata dvd/cd-rw.
hdd : seaget 500gb hdd (internal) + seaget 500gb hdd (external) = 10000 gb (1 TB?)
keyboard & mouse : ...(TBA)
GFX CARD : ATI 4850 http://www.palit.biz/main/vgapro.php?id=853
http://ps3forums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2802&stc=1&d=1229226484
http://ps3forums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2801&stc=1&d=1229226515

TommyFewty

12-14-2008, 04:41

Doom you has teh sexy wires under teh table :)

MentallyCritical

12-14-2008, 04:45

Doom you has teh sexy wires under teh table :)

hell to the yeah :snicker

ttech10

12-16-2008, 06:00

With Christmas time here it's upgrade time. In a few days I'll have this and I'll post pictures back when it's all setup.

MOBO: EVGA X58
CPU: Intel i7 920
HSF: *Waiting for a good one*
RAM: 6GB G.Skill DDR3
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 280 SLI
OS: Vista 64bit/Windows 7 64bit
MONITOR: Samsung 22" SyncMaster
PSU: Antec Quattro 1000W

HaTriX

12-16-2008, 11:54

I just bought a super budget new computer for $250 with no graphics card atm: CPU: Athlon 64 X@ 6000+ RAM: 2x2GB DDR2 800 MOBO: PI-AM2RS780G PS: Rosewill 550W RP550V2 Awesome build for the money imo. Will be buying either a 4830 or 4870 soon :)

rycexboi

12-16-2008, 13:12

Almost a year old computer, running strong and quiet, but need to upgrade the GPU soon..x_x

Motherboard: ASUS P5E
Cpu: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 OC 3.00ghz
Hs: Themaltake Utltra 180
Fans: Running all Scythes
Memory: 4GB CORSAIR XMS2
GPU: Asus 8800GTS 512MB
OS: Vista 32
Monitor: Dell E228W
PSU: Corsair 520W
Case: Antec p182

JamesJodo

12-21-2008, 03:14

Motherboard: ASUS P5K-SE
Cpu: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Overclocked at 3.2GHz
Memory: 2GB Geil 800MHz
GPU: NVIDIA geForce 8800GT
OS: Windows XP
Monitor: Peice of crude lol
PSU: Tagan 600W
Case: Antec 300

Upgrading to this 0nce I get a job:

Motherboard: ASUS Rampage Extreme 2
Cpu: Intel Core i7 965 Extreme
Memory: OCZ 4G DDR3 Platinum 1800Mhz x2
GPU: NVIDIA geForce GTX 295 x2
PSU: Cooler Master Real Power Pro 1250W
Case: Antec TWELVE HUNDRED
Cooling: Zalman Reserator XT Water Cooling System and fans to fill all available slots
GPU cooler: Thermaltake TMG ND4 Liquid Cooling System x2
Memory cooler: Patriot Vortex Memory Cooling FAN with Led
Monitor: Samsung 275T 27 inch wide TFT Monitor VGA DVI Speaker
OS: Windows XP
Mouse: Logitech G9
Keyboard: Logitech G15

Metal Warrior

12-25-2008, 09:48

Motherboard: ASUS P5Q Deluxe
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83 GHz
Memory: 8 GB (4 x 2GB) OCZ DDR2-1066 Reaper
Video: Club3D Radeon HD4870x2
HDD: Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA/300 7200rpm
Sound: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Pro
PSU: ThermalTake Thoughpower CM 850W
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 2693HM 26"

Quite a beast. It plays through Crysis on the highest settings at 1920x1200, but for good measure I turn off any AA (who cares at that resolution). That's at a solid 30FPS on avarage, sometimes 60, but when it gets really bad there's still noticable framedrops. The chaotic last few levels border on the unplayable, so a few drops in quality are still necessary. But it was as good as you could get with a single card (though it's actually 2) a few months ago. It eats up every other game, but Crysis is a real *******.

XMW

01-01-2009, 13:30

My graphics card is so bad I can't even play CoD 3 on my PC. I might buy a new graphics card. Just to play Oblivion with mods, but I dont know how to change the graphics card, and I heard they're pretty expensive.

Virk

01-14-2009, 01:37

lol nice rigs

A-D-L

02-01-2009, 15:51

Finally got around to taking some pictures of my rig.
Antec 900 Case
EVGA 780i Motherboard
EVGA 9800GTX
Corsair 2x2Gb RAM PC6400

Please note that cable management in an Antec 900 is terrible due to there only being two holes and i'm not good enough to cut custom holes.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/5125/1000850dh3.jpg

This was midway through the setup process, that's why all the molex's aren't connected and stuffs.
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2120/1000658dy7.jpg

Case from teh outside.
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/6319/1000849iu1.jpg

I am so happy with it. Though future upgrades will be moving into an Antec 1200, SLI 9800GTX and moving to 8Gb of SLI enabled RAM.
http://img209.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000658dy7.jpg

the_End

02-01-2009, 16:26

Recently got the new Aluminum MacBook, using it as my main. I'm hoping the release new Mac Mini's which should have the same specifications as the MacBook's if not a bit better.

Acid Snake

02-02-2009, 14:03

New setup for me.

Core i7 920 Oc'd @ 3.3 ghz
6 Gb Corsair Xms3 1333
Asus P6T
Seagate 1TB
Wd 250 GB
Nvidia 9800gtx
Samsung Sync Master 906 Bw

gruddy

02-07-2009, 09:39

Quad Core
Geforce 9800 GTX+
4GB RAM
17" Monitor

Those are the main features that I am happy with. The bad thing is that I don't have many games to make use of the graphics card and other parts.

xlr8ter

02-10-2009, 19:10

Just out of curiosity, when you guys upgrade your pcs, what do you do with the "old" stuff?

StrifeTribal

02-13-2009, 18:10

Currently using

a 22" Syncmaster Samsung Monitor

500GB hard drive

4870HD ATI graphics card (GDDR5 FTW)
The Q6600 quad core not overclocked (as I don't see the point yet)
4GB of OCZ ram
Asus P5Q Deluxe Mobo
Onboard sound (go me:))
And Windows 7 64 Bit Beta (works quite well atm. Only crashed once and thats because I had 20 different things going at once).

skarekrow

02-14-2009, 02:15

Just out of curiosity, when you guys upgrade your pcs, what do you do with the "old" stuff?

Sell it for the original price it was bought for, typically on ebay. Obviously, the hardware is still good, just a little used, however if you open the packaging very carefully and store the box in a dry place where it wont get damaged and maintain your pc components, you can make it look like its barely been used. :D

Motherboards and cpu's we try to blow up. :mrgreen:

360DiedOnMe

02-14-2009, 07:27

Just finished the build a few hours ago.

I7 920
GTX295
6gb OCZ @ 1600mhz
Asus x58 Deluxe
Xclio Windtunnel Full Tower
Windows XP 64bit

skarekrow

02-14-2009, 14:28

Just finished the build a few hours ago.

I7 920
GTX295
6gb OCZ @ 1600mhz
Asus x58 Deluxe
Xclio Windtunnel Full Tower
Windows XP 64bit

So youre one of those ones who took my card :mad:.
GTX 295' are selling like crazy right now and looks like you're going with the same setup im about to go with outside of the case and OS. Ill be going with the Armour+ and Windows 7 x64

360DiedOnMe

02-14-2009, 17:24

So youre one of those ones who took my card :mad:.
GTX 295' are selling like crazy right now and looks like you're going with the same setup im about to go with outside of the case and OS. Ill be going with the Armour+ and Windows 7 x64
i was trying to install windows 7 that i had but it kept hanging so i just insatlled xp. I couldnot find the 295 anywhere, everybody was out. Then i found it left on tigerdirect and i ordered it and it dissappeared off of the site. I assume i ordered the last one lol

skarekrow

02-15-2009, 01:18

i was trying to install windows 7 that i had but it kept hanging so i just insatlled xp. I couldnot find the 295 anywhere, everybody was out. Then i found it left on tigerdirect and i ordered it and it dissappeared off of the site. I assume i ordered the last one lol

What build was the windows 7 that you were using? The 7000 (actual beta) was the only one I could get to instal correctly.
As far as the GTX goes, thats excellent, talk about luck of the draw.

360DiedOnMe

02-15-2009, 07:46

yea the gtx is amazing. Far Cry all maxed out at 1920x1080 with 16xQ looks amazing and runs great. Here's a pic of what it looks like under spoiler http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/1203/farcry21080kh8.jpg

AraxusAnima

02-15-2009, 22:30

Just build a PC couple weeks ago

Motherboard: Gigabyte EX58-DS4
Processor: Core i7 920
Graphics Card: ATI RADEON 4870X2
Memory: Kingston 1333 6GB
HDD: WD 750 GB and 320 GB

Playing all games at more than 60 FPS with 1920x1080 8xAA 16xAF except Crysis that game is a killer lol. Such a great things to see every games in all its glory and played so smoothly.

Now I believe PS3 or 360 wouldn't be able to touch what PC can do right now.

360DiedOnMe

02-15-2009, 22:36

^ far cry 2 is the only other game i don't run over 60fps with anti aliasing and everything maxed out. I haven't tried stalker clear sky so don't know how that would be either though.

AraxusAnima

02-16-2009, 13:26

Whoops just found out there is an Ultra high setting in Farcry 2.

There is not much different in quality between very high and ultra high though. I just tested with Ultra high 8xAA 16xAF I got about 40-65fps and with 4xAA 16xAF 50-80fps. I think 4xAA is good enough since I cannot see enough difference with 8xAA just lower fps.

For Clear Sky should run about 45fps from some website haven't tried run it myself.

IshIsGod

02-17-2009, 06:21

AraxusAnima

02-17-2009, 14:04

Yeah you're right it only run at 30 average on Max 4xAA 16AF but the graphics really bad though. I meant the quality there is nowhere near Farcry2 or Crysis. I think it is just very unoptimized game.

mobbology

02-17-2009, 20:48

Just finished the build a few hours ago.

I7 920
GTX295
6gb OCZ @ 1600mhz
Asus x58 Deluxe
Xclio Windtunnel Full Tower
Windows XP 64bit

thats a very similiar build im looking into. what the board, cpu, memory and card cost you and what 3dmark06 and advantage score did u get on stock settings.

ttech10

02-18-2009, 05:21

Just wondering, for the people with the 920, did you overclock and if so what's your speed?

360DiedOnMe

02-18-2009, 06:31

thats a very similiar build im looking into. what the board, cpu, memory and card cost you and what 3dmark06 and advantage score did u get on stock settings.
stock speeds i got 17100 on orb, overclocked to 3.6ghz i got about 22k. The card was 500(which i think is bad i am getting horrible artifacts at times), cpu was 290 and mobo i got for 200 i believe with acombo deal.

ttech10

02-23-2009, 00:12

I just ordered the CM Storm Sniper. It's going to be a nice step up from the Antec 900 I have right now since I have NO extra space, it's extremely messy and because of the V8 I can't put the side panel on.

**EDIT**
Alright, I got my case in today and got it all set up. I took a before/after picture of the two cases.

Antec 900:
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r255/eaglesoccer016/PS3/DSC01878.jpg

CM Storm Sniper (on/off):
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r255/eaglesoccer016/PS3/DSC01881.jpg
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r255/eaglesoccer016/PS3/DSC01887.jpg

With the Antec I wasn't even able to close the case and the cable management was HORRID due to the small space... the CM is a LOT better.

skarekrow

03-05-2009, 07:36

The storm sniper is an amazing case, I personally think I favor it over the HAF 932.

With that being said, my i7 specs:

Asus Rampage II extreme x58 Mobo
Intel i7 920 @ 2.66 (currently)
6 GB OCZ DDR3 1600 @ 7-7-7-24
XFX GTX 285 Black edition
Ultra x2 750w PSU
CM Storm Sniper case
WD Caviar Black 1TB 32 MB cache @ 7200 RPM
LG Dvd Burner
CM V8 CPU cooler
SupremeFX Xfi sound card (came with the mother board).

Pix:
http://img7.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/3560/35600520b901724b363a2b6d22c29a13aaa445b.jpg

http://img4.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/3560/3560051578edb3916d52afc0f7448331ab5f67a.jpg

I/O Shield in the Dark:
http://img3.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/3560/3560050081fc82aaa4421ac4336326e150d66e6.jpg

http://img9.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/3560/35600490ff2eaac5e7355756720a6e21c4cf8f4.jpg

On the fly over clocking controls:
http://img7.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/3560/3560048c0463d8f6c764d2cd2ccfbf146a93bb8.jpg

ttech10

03-11-2009, 01:57

^ I like how we have pretty much the exact same PC build.

skarekrow

03-11-2009, 14:42

^ I like how we have pretty much the exact same PC build.

Me too, I thought it was kind of funny when I went to post my pix and you pretty much had my set up. The CM Storm Sniper is definitely a great case and so far, my favorite out of all of the cases I've looked at aside from the murderbox or the blackbird.

Honestly though, my motherboard is the bread winner (pride and joy) of my pc and it's rather funny because it was only $100 more than the EVGA board I was looking at and has a ton more features.

Also, Im planning on removing the mesh on the side panel, clearing out the "guides" and installing a plexi or acyrlic window with a 230mm Haf 932 Clear blue fan. Ive got other plans in store for it as well such as a wireless quick connect for the side panel fan.

Killller

03-13-2009, 23:39

Got done with my first build yesterday.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a242/elcubanitox/DSCN1626.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a242/elcubanitox/DSCN1630.jpg

Sigma case + 500W psu
GIGABYTE EP45-UD3L
Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0 GHZ
G.Skill 2x2GB 1066 RAM
Sapphire HD 4830
Seagate Barracuda 500GB

skarekrow

03-19-2009, 19:08

For TTech. If you decide to get another 200mm x 230mm for the side panel, you'll have to drill out the holes and Coolermaster's shipping is very lackluster, I would use FrozenCPU over CM. Just a heads up and yes it will fit, even with the V8. Also, the Fans from CM dont have the LED controller seperate like they do on the case fans so it has to remain on unless you mod it, but the fan controller will dim it.

Just finished modifying my side panel window. For those of you who have looked at the storm sniper, she comes with a msh side instead of a window.

Pictures:

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3444/1000531w.jpg
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/6061/1000533.jpg

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/4697/1000529q.jpg

for those who are wondering, she still has the "Dust filter" screen in place.

Virk

03-27-2009, 04:20

Haf 932 is very roomy comes with twist ties really awesome looks sick three 230mm fan, one on front, side and back front one with red led looks sick

ttech10

03-27-2009, 08:24

skarekrow, thanks for the heads up. As of now the temp has been fine, though it hasn't actually hit summer yet so I won't know for sure whether or not I'll need another fan.

Treefrog

04-09-2009, 21:05

smiggy

04-12-2009, 12:39

Heres mine :D

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/8540/dsc00152y.jpg

Pentium 4 2.4ghz
1.2GB RAM
Integrated GeForce MX 420
60 GB HDD

Is an absolute beast, trust me ;)

Xelios

04-12-2009, 19:08

So, today I decided, enough was enough, and started looking around for a new motherboard.

Nothings wrong with my current set up. Although, I'm just sat here, watching my GPU do folding instead of playing games.

I currently have a Asus P5N-SLI (http://www.asus.com/Product.aspx?P_ID=JCYhbJmty7zBzLL2). It has dual PCIe X16 ports. Which is great and all, but I'm looking to upgrade it to being PCIe 2.0.

Looking around the web, I found an adequate replacement. The Asus P5N-D (http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=MBA-P5ND). It has dual PCIe 2.0 X16 ports. Ideal for what I'm after.

All my existing components will be compatible with the new board, although i will buy some more RAM for the system, once the new motherboards been installed and running correctly then I'll look at buying a newer GPU. I currently use a GeForce 8600 GTS.

Just wondering if theres any reason i shouldn't upgrade to this, or if any of you know of anything similar or better for under £100.

Go for it. Looks great. Though, having dual PCIe with 16 lanes isnt really relevant. When you go SLI, it turns both of them into X8. Thats all the motherboards are capable of, except for the newest boards made for the Core i7. Just make sure, that if you do choose another board, its either Crossfire or SLI certified.

Heres mine :D

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/8540/dsc00152y.jpg

Pentium 4 2.4ghz
1.2GB RAM
Integrated GeForce MX 420
60 GB HDD

Is an absolute beast, trust me ;)

Looks...terrible :lol: I don't know how you could survive on that thing. I'm surprised Photoshop even runs on it :p

And nao, its time for my self built somewhat beast!!!

Case
[IMG]http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa281/Xelios01/Smilodon/b9d8f581.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa281/Xelios01/Smilodon/3c0dc815.jpg

Innards
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa281/Xelios01/Smilodon/DSC00198.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa281/Xelios01/Smilodon/DSC00196.jpg

Raidmax Smilodon Extreme Black case
4GB Patriot Viper 800MHz (oc'd to 966 4-4-4-12)
Athlon X2 4200+ (oc'd to 2.89GHz)
ASRock A780GXE
Nvidia 7600GS (oc'd as well)
Zalman CNPS9500NT HSF
320GB Primary HDD (WD Caviar Blue)
250GB HDD Secondary HDD (Hitachi Deathstar)

smiggy

04-12-2009, 19:17

That bad huh ;)

Was that the case you mentioned aaages ago? The green LEDs look nice ;)

Xelios

04-12-2009, 19:19

That bad huh ;)

Was that the case you mentioned aaages ago? The green LEDs look nice ;)

Well, the GPU is older than my cousin, and P4s arent really that good :p

Ja, it is. Purchased it in January for 123 bucks. Put a nice dent in my wallet :(

smiggy

04-12-2009, 19:26

Xelios

04-12-2009, 19:29

You know it cost 1000 new :lol:

I thinks about 8 years old now and it only came with 256mb of RAM o: getting on a bit though, PS takes about 2 minutes to open and everything grinds to halt untill its open :D

Case looks nice though, they still make them now?

:o Srsly? Damn, thats a lot. Man, you need an upgrade really bad :lol:

Yeah, they do. I got it off of newegg, but they dont ship to europe.

smiggy

04-12-2009, 19:33

ORLY? As if i didnt know :lol:

Its not like only one thing needs upgrading though and unfortunately i dont have the money to do it all at the minute :(

Xelios

04-12-2009, 19:37

ORLY? As if i didnt know :lol:

Its not like only one thing needs upgrading though and unfortunately i dont have the money to do it all at the minute :(

I know, I just wanted to rub it in :p

You shouldnt have to. You could do upgrades little by little like me. Plus, parts are pretty cheap now anyways. Wouldnt cost anymore over 200 for a processor, motherboard, and RAM. Plus you guys over there get paid to go to school, then get all your bonuses and all that lucky crap. I actually had to earn my money...

smiggy

04-12-2009, 19:41

Nah i wouldn't be able to do it bit by bit, i'd have to do it all at the same time.

And we only get up to 30 a week most of which will go on driving lessons later on in the year :)

Tyrien

04-12-2009, 19:42

Xelios

04-12-2009, 19:45

Why's that? You'd rather get it over with than do it slowly or something? You'd be better off doing it slowly, as you get the huge performance increase over that old POS :p 
 
30 a week?? Only??...

smiggy

04-12-2009, 19:53

I dunno thats just the way i would do it :)

And theres a lot more to it than just sitting in a seat :lol:

Xelios

04-12-2009, 20:05

My desktop is a PoS Compaq Presario with an intel pentium D whatever the hell the clock speed on that is supposed to be, probably a 2.0 Ghz Dual Core. I've put a Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT in it and upgraded to 2 GB of ram.

It's slowly dying.

My laptop is an alienware Area 51 m15x with an intel dual core, the model number fails me at the moment, running at 2.4Ghz using 4GB of ram and a GeForce 8700M GT.

I honestly don't find any of the other spec relevant ^_^

Damn, that thing must have cost a small fortune :lol:

I dunno thats just the way i would do it :)

And theres a lot more to it than just sitting in a seat :lol:

Thats the way I thought of it before I actually started building. Found doing it little by little was easier though, since you get some practice out of putting parts together and you can do it one by one so you can isolate problems. But kay, your choice.

You still get paid even if you sleep all day, dont you?

smiggy

04-12-2009, 20:29

We have have to 12 hours minimum a week to get paid but we do have days were we have no lessons :)

Ok, so if i were to do it that way what would you suggest first, motherboard?

Xelios

04-12-2009, 20:33

Man, I have school for 7 hours everyday. I could get that much in 2 days of school :(

Well, since its a P4, your going to need a new processor, motherboard, and RAM at the same time. A new motherboard wil be incompatible with that processor, and your RAM probably wont work on it either. Is it DDR or DDR2? If its DDR, your definitely going to need new RAM then.

smiggy

04-12-2009, 20:46

7 hours? The most we have here is 5 hours lol. What times do you visit school?

Its DDR2, thats was actually upgrade sometime last year :lol:

Xelios

04-12-2009, 20:52

7 hours? The most we have here is 5 hours lol. What times do you visit school?

Its DDR2, thats was actually upgrade sometime last year :lol:

Yeah, then youll need a motherboard and new processor. An integrated video on most modern motherboards would outperform your card as well :lol:. You could find a motherboard and processor for around 100-150 depending on the kind of performance you want.

EDIT: School starts 8 am, ends at 2:30 pm. Ok, so I exaggerated. 6 hours and 30 minutes actually.

smiggy

04-12-2009, 20:55

Nice.

Guess ill start looking around then, although i do prefer intel over AMD though for no reason :lol:

Xelios

04-12-2009, 20:59

Nice.

Guess ill start looking around then, although i do prefer intel over AMD though for no reason :lol:

Intel definitely performs better than AMD, but theres the problem. You pay the premium for that performance. I dont mind having a weaker processor, considering I pay A LOT less for what I'm getting. Plus I overclock as well, so I get much more performance over a stock setup.

smiggy

04-12-2009, 21:05

Well, money is tight so ill likely end up with going AMD.

My school starts at 8:30 and finishes at 3:00 but we only have 5 hours of lessons.

Xelios

04-12-2009, 21:25

Lols kay. PM me if you need halp.

Omg, thats like the same time as me pretty much, but with less lessons :(

Mikael

04-13-2009, 16:04

I currently have two decent gaming machines; one in my home office and one HTPC in the living room.

Office PC

Lian-Li PC-A10A
Corsair HX520W
Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.6 GHz (9*400)
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3
8GB DDR2-800
GeForce GTX 285 @ 702 core/1584 shader/1350 mem
Soundblaster Audigy 4
Western Digital Caviar SE16 640GB
Samsung SpinPoint HD321KJ 320GB
Samsung SH-S183A DVD writer
Logitech MX1000
Logitech UltraX Flat
Vista Home Premium 64-bit

3219

3220

[Slightly old pic from when the HD4870 was still in there.]

HTPC

Some µATX Chieftec case
Corsair HX520W
Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.0 GHz (9*333)
Scythe Ninja
Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
4GB DDR2-800
Radeon HD4870 1GB
Western Digital Caviar SE16 640GB
Pioneer BDC-202BK Blu-Ray reader
Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 8000
Vista Business 64-bit

3221

3222

Killller

04-13-2009, 23:47

Just finished installing my new Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a242/elcubanitox/DSCN1660.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a242/elcubanitox/DSCN1671.jpg

Temps are 27C idle with this thing, down from around 35 with the stock cooler, with an overclock to 3.2GHz. Gonna go for 3.6 now.

HaTriX

04-14-2009, 01:07

Man. I need to upgrade already. I want to get one of the new Phenom X2, 2GB more of ram, and a better GPU.

Treefrog

04-24-2009, 21:40

Well then, after some time on the internet, the parts that i want for my upgrade are as follows.

Asus P5N-D (http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=MBA-P5ND)

Coolermaster 620W PSU (http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=PSC-620RP)

Corsair 2GB DDR2-6400 800 MHz (http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=MEC-D22048HX8K)

Geforce GTS 250 1054Mb (http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=GC-XNGTS2501)

Pricing
Motherboard - £90.79
Power Supply - £75.84
2Gb RAM - £26.26
Geforce 250 - £124.14

Totals to £316.94 including VAT, theres also £5.95 delivery.

All that I'm really after here, is to see if anyone can beat that costing from 1 website. I spent ages going to different sites, and they all cost significantly more.

All those parts are the ones I want, I used Eclipse Computers and live in the UK.

*UPDATE*

I'm in a dilemma now. I just remembered about the Vista upgrading rule, saying that you can only change a limited amount of components before you need to reactive your system.

The problem is, that the system I own, was built by PackardBell. From reading round the web, it looks like Microsoft won't reissue a key, to a pc built from a pc hardware manufacturer.

Should I risk upgrading the system, or also buy another copy of Vista while I'm at it ?

chwisch87

05-03-2009, 22:08

Well i will be setting up my i7 rig here in a month or so .... will post pictures then :)

dc89

05-05-2009, 13:40

I have a 2.4ghz Alu Macbook for on the move.

I have a 20" Intel based iMac for not moving :P

SpyroViper

05-05-2009, 14:03

I have an iMac 20" mid 2008 revision, MSI Wind U100 Netbook and soon my new gaming rig codenamed 'Betsy' (in my sig).

Cyn

05-10-2009, 15:51

My rig:

Mobo: Asus P5N-D
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad 3.0GHz
RAM: 4 GB Kingston
GPU: SLi Nvidia GeForce PNY 9800GT x2
HDD: 160GB Western Digital SATA, 500GB Western Digital SATA
DVD Drive: Optiarc DVDRW
Moniter: 18" GNR TS702
Case: Antec 300
OS: 32 bit Vista Ultimate SP 1

Pestilence

05-11-2009, 05:51

Mine's a P4 2.4b 533mhz bus
Asus P4P800 mainboard
ATi 9500 pro 128mb
1gb OCZ 433mhz DDR
random Western Digital HDDs totaling around 200gb

Don't laugh, it was pretty damn fast when I built it in 2003.

ArminvanBuuren

05-17-2009, 08:10

AMD Phenom X4 9750'
2 GB of DDR3 Quad-channel
Radeon HD 4870 X2 Crossfire
2x 1 TB of HDD RAID1 SATA 3 Gbit <-- I actually lossy compress my audio so 940 GB is sufficient
Windows 7 build 7000
Fedora 11 Preview
Samsung SyncMaster 2443BW
Sennheiser HD650 Stereo Headphone (love these)
Ultra 1000 Watt PSU
Ultra Ult33046 1200 watt UPS

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i95/slitechguy/Keen%20Machine%20PCs/RealNET%20Gaming/HAF932-5-1.jpg

Don't laugh, it was pretty damn fast when I built it in 2003.Gnome would run really faster on it. Try Fedora

killzone_71

05-17-2009, 11:11

My 2004 bought PC is still running... :lol:

ArminvanBuuren

06-18-2009, 00:20

What bluray software do people use? Just the Vista SP2 built in or something else?

silvermanor

06-18-2009, 00:29

Mine:

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=&storeId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=8198552921644570897

http://www.sonystyle.com/wcsstore/SonyStyleStorefrontAssetStore/img/vaioimage/static_images/z_series/z_series_keyboard.jpg

http://www.sonystyle.com/wcsstore/SonyStyleStorefrontAssetStore/img/vaioimage/static_images/z_series/z_series_top.jpg

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/vaio-z-series-design2.jpg

Treefrog

06-23-2009, 21:46

So I just bough my parts, slight change to what I was looking at before.

Motherboard = Asus P5N-D http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=MBA-P5ND

CPU = Core 2 Quad 8400 2.66 Ghz http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=CPI-Q8400

GPU = nVidia Zotaic Geforce GTX 275 AMP 856mb http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=GCZ-XNGTX275A8

PSU = CoolMaster 620W Modular http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=PSC-620RP

RAM = Corsair TwinX 2Gb DDR2-6400 http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=MEC-D22048HX8K

And because I know that Vista will want me to have a new keycode, I bought the OEM of Vista Premium. Decided to throw them my 1 and only bone to them.

All that came to £627.52, and should be with me by the end of the week. Should be funsies getting the new system up and seeing it's performance.

=Tac=

06-24-2009, 20:33

skarekrow

06-25-2009, 05:35

AMD Kuma 7750 @ 3.1ghz
4gig GSKILL 1066
ECS Black A780GM-a
Evga 275 GTX FTW! Ed.
OCZ SXS 700w
WD Black 640gig
Sony DVDrw 20x
Cooler Masters HAF 922 (spacious and very good airflow)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/tjracer/SDC10946.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/tjracer/SDC10954.jpg

My laptop is a Toshiba P305D with 4 gigs of Gskill PC6400 and a huge *** scratch/cut on top.

Nice setup, especially love the HAF 922. Dont have any of the "mid towers" but ive got the 932 and the Storm Sniper... I wouldnt mind having either the 922 or the Scout. Theyre all amazing Cases.

Just for ****s and gigles, Ive got the hackintosh inside of the 932, I call it the HAFintosh. :snicker

MiNiMaL_sAnItY

06-25-2009, 06:41

My PC at the dorm:
Intel core2quad Q6600 B3 @3.2ghz
4gb OCZ
XFX 680i SLI LT
XFX 8800GTS 320MB
Zebronics 650W PSU
WD Caviar 1TB x2
Coolermaster Mystique case
Coolermaster V8
Viewsonic 22" 16:10 monitor

PC at home:
Intel E8400
4GB generic ram
ASUS P5Q pro
Palit Radeon 4850 512GDDR3
Coolermaster Mystique case
Generic seagate HDD
Coolermaster 600W PSU
BenQ 24" 1080p monitor

=Tac=

06-25-2009, 23:33

Nice setup, especially love the HAF 922. Dont have any of the "mid towers" but ive got the 932 and the Storm Sniper... I wouldnt mind having either the 922 or the Scout. Theyre all amazing Cases.

Just for ****s and gigles, Ive got the hackintosh inside of the 932, I call it the HAFintosh. :snicker

HAFintosh lolol, nice.

I love the 922, my temps have dropped a good bit from my old case. On HWMonitor at idle TMPIN0 is at 19* (was at 24 before) and my TMPIN1 is at 30* (was at 44 before!). Isn't that like CPU and mobo temps or something? I get confused lol.

dc89

06-25-2009, 23:37

I upgraded my Ram and I thought i'd repost now, and add a bit more detail:

I have a 2.4 Ghz Alu MacBook.
4GB DDR3 Ram
250GB HDD
Nvidia Gefore 9400M

<3 love it.

the_End

06-26-2009, 15:29

Upgraded my ram:

Aluminum MacBook
2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB DDR3
160GB HDD
Nvidia GeForce 9400M
320GB External HDD

Thinking of building a Hackintosh/PC Combo :shock:. Because, the mini is basically my MacBook, don't want an iMac and seriously don't need a Mac Pro. Hackintosh seems to be the logical route for me, more bang for my buck.

360DiedOnMe

06-29-2009, 02:57

I just picked up a laptop. Toshiba E105-s1402 for 599.99 before tax. We had 20 percent off at best buy so it was a killer deal. P8600 processor, 4gb of ram, Home Premium, Wireless N, Good battery life, THE CASE IS SUPER HOT THOUGH LOL

Killller

07-01-2009, 23:14

Just finished installing this puppy.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a242/elcubanitox/PIC-0070.jpg

HaTriX

07-01-2009, 23:36

Nice on the 4890. I was looking at buying one to upgrade from my 4830. Decided to go for something else though:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127429

I will be upgrading in a couple months. Don't have the money right now.

Also on my upgrade list:

Case - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811156063

Power Supply - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817517003

CPU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103471

and then I'm adding 2GB more of ram to total 6GB.

Totaling about $600. Got to buy a car first though.

Killller

07-02-2009, 00:24

^^ Yeah, all the 275's just dropped in price out of nowhere. I would've bought one but i'm almost 100% sure it's too big for my case :\

HaTriX

07-02-2009, 00:31

^^ Yeah, all the 275's just dropped in price out of nowhere. I would've bought one but i'm almost 100% sure it's too big for my case :

Hm that sucks. They are pretty cheap though now, and the one I posted performs much better than the 4890, and all of the other 275's.

AndyD

07-02-2009, 02:50

Just finished installing this puppy.

I got one of those too. 180 shipped can't be beat right now.

HaTriX

07-02-2009, 02:58

I got one of those too. 180 shipped can't be beat right now.

It can. The 275 I posted for 215 blows it away.

Killller

07-02-2009, 03:03

It can. The 275 I posted for 215 blows it away.

I don't know about 'blows it away' lol. I've seen a trillion 4890 vs 275/260 benchmarks and they're really weird, but for the most part if you overclock a 4890 they sometimes reach the performance of a gtx 285!

HaTriX

07-02-2009, 03:12

I don't know about 'blows it away' lol. I've seen a trillion 4890 vs 275/260 benchmarks and they're really weird, but for the most part if you overclock a 4890 they sometimes reach the performance of a gtx 285!

Read through this test: http://hothardware.com/Articles/The-GeForce-GTX-275-and-HD-4890-go-HeadtoHead/

http://hothardware.com/articleimages/Item1321/3dmvantage.png

http://hothardware.com/articleimages/Item1321/quakewars.png

Killller

07-02-2009, 03:27

HaTriX

07-02-2009, 03:43

Whatever man, lol. Any 3D mark/vantage will give 275's higher scores for whatever reason. I dunno. I've read benchmarks where sometimes the 4890 wins, and sometimes the 275 wins, and the other half of people say they're even.

For example, in that article, the 4890's do as good, if not better than the 275 in Crysis. They trade punches a lot.

edit: Actually the 4890's do just as good as all the others for most of the benchmarks in that article lol. Especially in HAWX, where the 4890's whoop ***. I'm telling you bro, they trade punches.

In some games yea. I'm not saying the 4890 is bad, im just saying the 275 right now is a better deal for the money, surprisingly as it may seem.

Killller

07-02-2009, 03:45

Yea exactly, the prices are getting down there. I did want that EVGA.. the graphic on the front is sick. but the GTX cards are long as a mother ****er :lol:

HaTriX

07-02-2009, 03:52

Well hopefully they will fit in my midtower. I really want that 275.

AndyD

07-02-2009, 13:35

In some games yea. I'm not saying the 4890 is bad, im just saying the 275 right now is a better deal for the money, surprisingly as it may seem.

Its articles like this one
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTYzNiwsLDExMA==
and the tom's hardware one that swayed me.

I game at 1080p.

So at higher resolutions, the 4890 trounces the 275, not in framerate but in sustaining the same framerate with higher AA and AF. And for 30-40 dollars less, it was a no brainer.

the_End

07-15-2009, 16:24

Update on mine:

Aluminum MacBook
2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB DDR3
500GB HDD
Nvidia GeForce 9400M
320GB External HDD

I'll end up updating my external drive sometime down the road.

georaldc

07-28-2009, 18:57

Here's my system (everything at stock clocks):

Intel e8400 Core2
Emaxx P35 Pro
Inno3D GTX 275 896mb
2x1gb Team Elite + 2x2gb Zeppelin (cheap *** memory lol) DDR2-800
250gb HDD
HEC Cougar 700w
Coolermaster 690

Runs most games fine @ 1680x1050 + AA (cept Crysis of course). Hopefully, I get to upgrade the cpu and mobo for a good quad setup before the next round of GPUs come out. The GT300 sounds good, but it'll be interesting how the new ATI cards will do.

Kyaw

07-28-2009, 19:25

Well here we go, but most of you will already know about this!

AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition @ 3.20GHz OC
Gigabyte 790X CrossFireX
Kingston HyperX 4GB 800MHz DDR2
XFX XXX 4870 1GB
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W Modular
Seagate Barracuda 500GB

Acer 22'' Monitor
Antec 300 Case
Logitech EX-110 Wireless Keyboard and mouse

I game at 1680x1050 in most games and get around 50-70 FPS at everything high, high AA.

But on Crysis I get 30 Average @ 1440x900 with Lifesis Mod and No AA.

CPU idle @ 38 C (full fan speed)
CPU full @ 58 C (Prime95)

GPU idle @ 41 C (30% fan speed)
GPU full @ 55 C (Crysis) (40% fan speed)

Kael

07-28-2009, 19:49

I got this right now:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ @2.6 Ghz
3Gb RAM DDR2
Nvidia GeForce 9800GT (512mb, 256bit)
320Gb SATAII HDD @7200rpm
COOLER MASTER eXtreme Power Plus 500W
Gateway 19" Widescreen Monitor @1440x900
Logitech S 510 Slim Wireless Desktop

CPU in idle: 35-41 C
GPU in idle: 45 C

Runs the games I currently play (cod5, oblivion, grid, coh) fantastic on high settings. Could use a bigger HDD tho. :D

Treefrog

07-28-2009, 21:09

After my upgrade might as well list my PC spec.

Asus P5N-D Motherboard
CoolerMaster 620W Modular Power Supply
Intel Core2Quad 2.66GHz
Corsair TwinX DDR2-6400 2GB
Zotac 896mb nVidia Geforce 275GTX AMP Edition
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Sythe 18 in 1 Card Reader & Floppy Drive

And the zombie components from my old build are my 500B HDD and my DVD drive.

Running Vista 32bit, but have Windows 7 on preorder.

MavSkipper

08-03-2009, 02:10

An update from here:
http://www.psu.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1079485&postcount=498

Intel Core i7 920 @ 3045MHz (Cogage TRUE Spirit HSF)
MSI X58M m-ATX (Mighty Mouse Review (http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3568))
OCZ Platinum 6GB DDR3
LG LG GGC-H20L BD Drive
Saitek Eclipse 2 Keyboard (Still the same)
Logitech MX1100 Mouse
Thermaltake Shark Full Tower Black (still kicking)
Zotac 8800GT @ 693/1900
Samsung F2 1TB HDD
Enermax Galaxy 850W
Creative X-fi XtremeMusic
and the same old Creative Inspire T7700 still with the DDTS100 Decoder

AndyD

08-03-2009, 03:37

Whatever man, lol. Any 3D mark/vantage will give 275's higher scores for whatever reason. I dunno. I've read benchmarks where sometimes the 4890 wins, and sometimes the 275 wins, and the other half of people say they're even.

For example, in that article, the 4890's do as good, if not better than the 275 in Crysis. They trade punches a lot.

edit: Actually the 4890's do just as good as all the others for most of the benchmarks in that article lol. Especially in HAWX, where the 4890's whoop ***. I'm telling you bro, they trade punches.

This. In actual games at high resolutions and high settings, the 4890s edge out 275s more than 50% of the time.

That said, they both run so well that it is marginal differences.

But the real reason I came into this thread was to post my new rig:
Athlon X4 940.
4gb ram.
A 4890.
And a 24 inch Samsung 1080p LCD.

Runs everything beautifully. And the whole PC upgrade was $600 including the monitor!

SDiablo123

08-03-2009, 03:39

i got a 8 year old Dell Windows XP peice of crap...i dont think u wanna know the specs...512MB of ram...run World of Warcraft at like 5frames per sec..

Paper Shredder

08-03-2009, 04:46

New iMac for my house

2 year old MacBookPro for my work

the_End

08-07-2009, 01:33

i has a computer it is windos vista

Wow, that has to be the best description ever!

skarekrow

08-07-2009, 04:48

I will be building a shuttle (small form factor) over the weekend.

The parts will include :
CPU: Q6600
MoBo: Zotac Mini-ITX 9300 w/ Built in Wi-Fi
OnBoard Graphics: GeForce 9300
RAM: Crucial Balistix Tracers 4 GB ddr2 800 (multicolor LED)
Cooler: Zalman CNPS8700
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache Sata
DVD Drive: LG Combo
PSU: XION 600w Dual Rail Modular
GPU: XFX GTX 260 core 216
Case: Thermal Take Lanbox Lite
OS: Win7 RC or Win7 RTM

d0pingp4nda

08-09-2009, 12:53

Core 2 duo 2.33 OC @ 3.0 (i think)
HD4890
4GB of ram
700w OCZ power supply
Antec 900 case
Scythe Ninja CPU heat sink

Sorry i dont know much about computers but I just decided to post cuz I got my new card and such. Probably gonna get another 4890 sometime soon.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/Venadyn/photo.jpg

maltrophstitan

08-14-2009, 11:01

Mainboard: Asus P5Q SE2
CPU: Intel QX6850
Ram: 4GB Crosair Dominator @ 1070w/ 5-5-5-15
Video Card: Radeon 4830
HDD: Hitachi 1TB 7200rpm
PSU: BFG 550w

cooling:
OCZ Vendetta CPU cooler
Scyth Slip Stream 1900rpm 110.31cfm rear exhaust
Scyth Slip Stream 1200rpm 68.54cfm side intake
NZXT Blue LED 1100rpm 32cfm front intake

Upgrading:
8GB Crosair Dominator 1066
Radeon 5870 (later this year when the DX11 cards come out)
G.skill Falcon 128GB SSD for OS Games and Main programs (planed upgrade for Jan 2010)
Intel Q9650 or higher (around Jan 2010)

some time during this i'll be starting an i7 build hopefully sooner rather then later
also upgrading my old P4 machine with a new mainboard to support upgrades so i can sell it.

update changed memory to corsair dominator running stock at 1070

n0na90

08-15-2009, 18:55

Heh I have no idea what mainboard's in my pc, it's old, that's for sure. I got a Radeon x700 card wich is dying on me and a Athlon 64 3500+ cpu.
Two 512mb sticks, I have no idea what kind but I bet they ain't that powerful :P And I'm running XP. I really need a new PC :(

Toxickitty

08-30-2009, 20:49

my PC is a a little old now so I'm about to rip out the inside and rebuild it. But right now I have this.

Processor- AMD 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory- 4GB DDR2
GPU- Nvidia 8800GT
Monitor- ASUS Black 24" HDMI Widescreen Full HD1080p. Along with my Sony 20'' LCD monitor I'm running dual monitors.
Sound card- Creative sound blaster.
OS- Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

Jndarazi

09-01-2009, 21:25

Ok...

Here's the deal...

I have a Dell inspiron 530S Slim Tower
Intel Pentium Dual Core running at 2.50GHz
3.00GB RAM
32-Bit Operating system

Here's the best part!! :D

Intel GMA G33/G11 Family chip set :(

I dont think that graphics card can handle my 1080i 30' TV I also use for my PS3 :D

SonyJunkie

09-05-2009, 06:30

This is my set up. Custom Built. Pretty new and some people may already know what I got on these forums cause they helped me build it. :)

AMD Phenom X4 940 3.2GHZ OC'ed w/ stock cooler
EVGA GTX 260 Core 216
4GB's G-Skill RAM 1066Mhz
640GB Western Digital HDD
Windows 7 RC

Don't really need anything more but who wouldn't want the best of the best. I would get:

Intel i7
Geforce GTX 285 or 295
4GB's RAM, whatever is best at the time
Blu Ray drive
Sound Card

MjW

09-05-2009, 11:31

Here's my near two year old computer:

Intel Core2 Q6600 @ 3.2GHz
Zalman CNPS9700LED Copper 110mm
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 iP35
Corsair HX Series Modular Power Supply 620W
Lian-Li PC7 Scandinavian Edition V3
Corsair 2x2GB DDR2 800MHz DHX @ 4-4-4-12 1:1
ATI Radeon HD4850 Powercolor
2x 640GB Western Digital Black
D-Link DWA-556 Extreme N PCIe
Saitek Eclipse + Logitech MX 518 + Logitech diNovo Mini
Samsung SyncMaster 22.6" 226BW. Response time 2ms.

And to be honest I never intended on gaming a lot on it. Most played game on it is probably AoEIII :p

NateTheApe

09-12-2009, 19:16

Haha this is what I'm rocking. Its not intended for gaming at all. I just use it for school and its easy to move around.

http://www.itechnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/dell-studio-one-19-all-in-one-multi-touch-pc.jpg

Dell Studio One 19
All-In-One
Multi-Touch Touch Screen
Windows 7 RC
Intel Pentium dual-core E5300(2.6GHz, 800, 2MB)
4 GB of RAM
Slot load CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability
320 GB HDD
nVidia GeForce 9400 Integrated Graphics

I also run VirtualBox on it with Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Ubuntu Server and Desktop, Kubuntu, and even Fedora if the class requires it.

boogernose

09-21-2009, 03:43

After about a year of constant freezing with the "bigger" games (anything more graphically complicated than Feeding Frenzy, for instance), I finally decided to do a little upgrade on my aging PC.

Ordered a Radeon 4670 with 1gb ram along with 2gb system memory (which will add up to 4gb total). Oh well... nothing to brag about, but at least I'll finally be able to play some games.

I was going to upgrade my CPU too, but my motherboard is a socket 939. The processors are so rare now they're going for almost $500. Amazon.com: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Processor Socket 939: Electronics

:o

thatkidhugo

09-21-2009, 06:19

Ive had this computer for a few years now.. I remember when it used to be a beast! Haha.. havent updated it yet because I dont play computer games anymore. Its fine for what I need it to do.. just untill diablo 3 comes out :cool: then ill be dropping some nice money on a new system.

asus k8v
amd athlon 64 3000 2ghz
1.5 gbs of some kingston ram (cant remember what exactly)
ati radeon 9800 256mb pro
500gb western dig
1tb western dig external

Keops22

09-21-2009, 06:46

celeron d
2.8 ghz
1.5 ram
400gb hd

Nightcover

09-29-2009, 18:33

Processor:
Intel Core i7 CPU 920@2.67GHz
Memory:
6134MB RAM
Hard Drive:
250 GB | 500 GB
Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Monitor:
ViewSonic G90f-4 | Samsung 17" LCD
Sound Card:
X-FI integrated.
Speakers/Headphones:
Sennheiser PC350
Keyboard:
Logitech Media Keyboard
Mouse:
Razer Lachesis
Mouse Surface:
Icemat 2nd Edition Black
Operating System:
Windows 7 Ultimate RTM 64bit
Motherboard:
ASUS Rampage II Gene
Computer Case:
Antec P182

Right from Xfire :)

ogsneek

09-30-2009, 04:11

AMD Phenom II X2 550 processor
4 Gig
Windows 7 Ultimate (full version)
Sapphire ATI HD 4870 | 1Gb 3600 Mhz (quad rate)
Saitek Cyborg Keyboard
Logitech G5 mouse
23" acer 40,000:1 contrast ratio monitor

Oh, and i got all of this today :D
Currently playing crysis and left for dead on max settings:2gun:

eighty4roar

10-01-2009, 13:48

My beast!:

Pentium IV 3.0GHz
512MB RAM
80GB HDD
Windows XP Professional
Geforce 5200
IBM wired keyboard
Microsoft wired mouse
17" CRT monitor

My parents bought it just 7 years ago. Hey, what can I say, I was a spoilt kid. :)

georaldc

10-01-2009, 15:15

Here's mine:

Emaxx P35 Pro Mobo
Intel Wolfdale e8400 Core2 3.0ghz
6gb Ram (2x1gb ddr2 Team Elite + 2x2gb ddr2 of cheap *** ram haha)
Inno3d Geforce GTX 275 896mb
Coolermaster 690 RC case
LG w2252tq 22in LCD
1TB 7200.12 + 250GB 7200.10 Seagate HDDs
Cougar 700w PSU

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i106/georaldc/My%20Rig/DSC01422.jpg
(old pic, missing the 1tb hdd and 4gb ram)

skinny_jr

10-07-2009, 09:48

Here's mine :
CPU: CELL Broadband engine 3.2Ghz
256mb XDR ram
GPU: Nvidia RSX 550mhz
256mb Vram
SONY Blu-ray drive 2x
120gb HDD
OS: Cross Media Bar
Mon: SONY BRAVIA XBR4 40"
CASE: PS3 SLIM

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/library/20090825ps3slim.jpg
http://toonstar.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/ps3-slim-inside-0.jpg
I'm joking guys, I wish that I could afford a gaming PC!!!!

SYLiam

10-07-2009, 11:59

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
GeForce 8600GT 1GB
4GB PC2-6400 RAM

19'' Samsung 931BW
Windows 7

skarekrow

10-09-2009, 19:18

Here's mine :
CPU: CELL Broadband engine 3.2Ghz
256mb XDR ram
GPU: Nvidia RSX 550hz
256mb Vram
SONY Blu-ray drive 2x
120gb HDD
OS: Cross Media Bar
Mon: SONY BRAVIA XBR4 40"
CASE: PS3 SLIM

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/library/20090825ps3slim.jpg
http://toonstar.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/ps3-slim-inside-0.jpg
I'm joking guys, I wish that I could afford a gaming PC!!!!

Looks like your RAM and GPU need to be updated, but other than that... nice build.

don77

10-09-2009, 19:43

Intel Core i7 920
6GB DDR3 RAM
ASUS Rampage II Extreme
GeForce GTX 285
Antec P182
24" Samsung SyncMaster 2443bw
1 TeraByte HardDrive
Playstation 3 hooked up via DVI

also running 64bit win7 :D

skarekrow

10-10-2009, 05:14

Intel Core i7 920
6GB DDR3 RAM
ASUS Rampage II Extreme
GeForce GTX 285
Antec P182
24" Samsung SyncMaster 2443bw
1 TeraByte HardDrive
Playstation 3 hooked up via DVI

also running 64bit win7 :D

it looks like youve got pretty close to the same build I have outside of the case. The R2E is amazing is it not?

Mikael

10-10-2009, 12:40

Just upgraded to a HD 5870. Works great so far. :)

Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.6 GHz
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3
8GB DDR2-800
Radeon HD 5870
Soundblaster Audigy 4
WD Caviar Blue 640GB
Lian-Li PC-A10A
Windows 7 Professional
Benq G2400WD 24"
Acoustic Energy Aego M 2.1

don77

10-10-2009, 15:05

it looks like youve got pretty close to the same build I have outside of the case. The R2E is amazing is it not?

yeah rampage II extreme owns

Sindher

10-11-2009, 21:04

My PC that I got a little under a year ago.

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Processor i7-920 (4 X 2.66GHz) 4.8GTs/8MB Cache
Memory (RAM)
12GB CORSAIR XMS3 1333MHz - LIFETIME WARRANTY! (6x2GB)
Motherboard
ASUS® P6T DELUXE: DDR3, SATAII, 2 x PCI-e x16, 2 PCI, 1 x PCI-e x1
Operating System
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium 64 bit Edition
USB Options
8 x USB 2.0 PORTS (6 REAR + 2 FRONT) AS STANDARD (+2 on the G15 KB)
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
500GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
1st CD/DVD Drive
22x DUAL LAYER LIGHTSCRIBE DVD WRITER R/RW/RAM
Graphics Card
1024MB GEFORCE 9800GT PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT
Power Supply & Case Cooling
800W Quiet Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan
Keyboard & Mouse
Logitech® G15 Gaming Keyboard with Backlit LCD Display

d0pingp4nda

10-22-2009, 03:10

ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
OCZ 4GB DDR2 Ram
Sapphire HD4890
OCZ power supply (700w)
1.5tb HD space
Scythe Ninja CPU heatsink
Antec 1200 case

dc89

10-22-2009, 08:36

Aluminium MacBook:

2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB DDR3 Ram
Nvidia Geforce 9400M
250GB HDD

It has the Backlit keyboard which is nifty at times. The trackpad is good but I have two mice, Apple Wireless Might Mouse and the Logitech G5 for when I play WoW

It does what I need it to therefore Im Happy

My bro has the G15 keyboard!! Its cool.

Mikael

10-31-2009, 23:53

Just performed a big upgrade, so now I have:

Case: Lian-Li PC-A10A
PSU: Corsair HX520W
Motherboard: ASUS P7P55D
CPU: Core i7-860 @ 3.5GHz
CPU cooler: Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme
RAM: 8GB DDR3-1600
HDD1: Intel X25-M G2 80GB
HDD2: Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB
Graphics card: Radeon HD5870 1GB
Sound card: SoundBlaster Audigy 4
OS: Windows 7 64-bit

This machine is amazingly fast on everything, be it CPU, graphics or disk intensive stuff. It takes a mere 11 seconds from the point where Windows 7 begins loading until the login screen appears. :cool:

dc89

11-01-2009, 00:31

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww196/St1ss/SafariScreenSnapz001.jpg

Looks like I've been caught trying to find the FM 2010 Demo haha!! Look in my Safari Search Bar!!

Takes 13 seconds to load to Account Screen.
3 Seconds to shut down from pressing Shut Down button.

Nisse

11-05-2009, 21:01

Case: Silverstone Raven RV02
PSU: Corsair HX620W
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 940 Black Edition @ 3.2 Ghz
CPU cooler: Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme Rev. C
RAM: Corsair 4GB DDR2
HDD1: Seagate Barracuda 500 GB
HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 320 GB
Graphics card: HD4870 1GB
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 226BW (22")
OS: Windows Vista 64-bit

Really gotta upgrade to W7 :/

360DiedOnMe

11-05-2009, 21:07

^did you just try to link a picture off of your camera?

Nisse

11-05-2009, 21:15

^did you just try to link a picture off of your camera?

Lol no, tho I were copying some pics from the camera to the desktop... most have accidently dragged it to the reply box. :rolleyes:

360DiedOnMe

11-05-2009, 21:23

Lol no, tho I were copying some pics from the camera to the desktop... most have accidently dragged it to the reply box. :rolleyes:
ok. It had me laughing pretty hard. lol.

Nisse

11-05-2009, 21:50

ok. It had me laughing pretty hard. lol.

Hahah yeah, it most have looked pretty noobish ^^

keefy

11-05-2009, 22:32

Check first page for some funny "top spec" PC's, at least they were in 2005 :)

Xelios

11-06-2009, 03:06

Sadly, it still beats mine :(

Arn3lis

11-14-2009, 12:32

Case: Thermaltake Spedo Advance
PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 1200w
Motherboard: EVGA Classified x58
CPU: Intel i7 975™
CPU cooler: Zalman CNPS9900-NT CPU Cooler
RAM:Corsair DOMINATOR GT 6GB 2000
HDD1: Corsair Extreme X64 64GB 2.5"
HDD2:Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB
Optical Drive: LG BH08LS20 8x Blu-Ray-RW/DVD±RW Dual Layer
Graphics card: Point of View GeForce GTX 295 1792MB GDDR3
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium - Fatal1ty Champion Series 7.1 Sound Card
Monitor: Samsung F2380 23"
OS: Windows 7 64-bit

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/3322/dsc02259g.jpg
http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/5991/dsc02257q.jpg
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/1627/dsc02186a.jpg

HaTriX

11-14-2009, 12:58

Nice setup you got there :D

Arn3lis

11-14-2009, 15:15

thanks

Fenix

11-15-2009, 00:49

My Computer;
Case: Apevia X-Cruiser 2
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTS 250
Motherboard: MSI K9N2 Sli Platinum
Sound card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Gamer
RAM: 4GB of 800mhz OCZ Sli Ram
OS: Windows Vista Premium 64bit
HDD: 500GB WD

Was my first ever build. It's also my fastest PC I ever owned. XD

ArminvanBuuren

11-29-2009, 18:52

My build

Core 2 Q6600 @ 2.6 GHz
Foxconn Gaming heatsink
Windows 7
6 GB DDR2
Geforce GTX 380
- 1.5 GB GDDR5 RAM
- sucks a lot of power
Ultra 1000 Watt PSU
250 GB HDD RAID5
4x Phillips BDRE-ROM
large tower case.
floppy drive

unconnected GPUs in a box

- 2x BFG Geforce GTX 280 (1 may go into other PC. :)
- 2x BFG Geforce 8800 GTX
- 1x BFG Geforce 7800 GTX

SDiablo123

11-29-2009, 21:30

512 MB ram, ****ty gfx cards...8years old...the best of the best eh

Strawmouth Pete

12-11-2009, 11:49

i5 750, 4GB DDR3, GTX 260.

thinking about oc'ing the i5 to 3 ghz

valvegamer

12-15-2009, 18:56

Heres Mine:

Case: Antec 900
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400
PSU: Antec 650 Watt 80 Plus Certified
Ram: 4 GB DDR 2 800 Kingston
Gigabyte Mobo P45
Zalman CPU Cooler
BFG GTX 260 OC 2
500 GB Western Digital Harddrive
24x Lite-On DVD Burner
Windows 7 64-Bit
Monitor: Samsung 24" Sync Master 2494 SW

QQimo

12-27-2009, 04:41

AMD Athlon X2 5200+ @2.6Ghz, 3Gb DDR2 RAM, EVGA 9800GT 512Mb @256-bit, 320Gb Seagate HDD, 19" LCD @1440x900, Logitech S510 Desktop, Windows 7.

Wish I had money for an i7/SSD build :<

HaTriX

12-27-2009, 21:00

Yum, nice and dusty.

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/2834/0000016s.jpg

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/7375/0000022.jpg

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/8637/0000024.jpg

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/3297/0000025.jpg

martyl2007

12-29-2009, 17:22

Am buying a laptop with specs

ntel Core 2 Duo processor T6600
(2.2Ghz, 800Mhz, 2MB Cache)
Genuine Windows(R) 7 Home Premium (javascript:showEditorial('Genuine-Windows');)
4GB Memory
320GB Hard drive
NVidia G210M 512mb graphics

With a limited budget is this laptop any way good for playing games?

Kyaw

12-29-2009, 18:00

@ Hatrix : damn thats dusty!

I have to vacuum mine too...

HaTriX

12-29-2009, 20:40

@ Hatrix : damn thats dusty!

I have to vacuum mine too...

Yea I will get around to it eventually :snicker

You should have seen my moms old computer :shock:

Kyaw

12-29-2009, 21:45

You really should dust/ vacuum it.

Wouldnt really help with the air cooling. :lol:

SolidSnakeUS

12-29-2009, 22:10

When I have all the rest of the parts, my upgraded computer will be this:

Intel i7 860 2.8GHz (don't have this yet)
ASRock P55 Extreme Motherboard
4GB Corsair DDR3-1600 (2 Sticks)
Radeon 5870 (don't have this yet)
HT Omega Striker Sound Card
Zalman 9700 CPU Cooler
22x and 16x Burners
640GB WD Black
320GB Seagate SATA
1TB WD Black
Thermaltake ElementS Case
Corsair 650W PSU

F34R

12-29-2009, 23:18

funny stuff today... I was cleaning around my computer desk to make room for my new speakers (z2300's), and I found 4GB of ram in a package still! LMFAO. Now I'm sporting 6GB of ram.

HaTriX

12-29-2009, 23:33

funny stuff today... I was cleaning around my computer desk to make room for my new speakers (z2300's), and I found 4GB of ram in a package still! LMFAO. Now I'm sporting 6GB of ram.

Lol. Thats always nice :snicker

F34R

12-30-2009, 01:56

Hey! It didn't stop there. Just found an SATA DVDRW drive I purchased LAST YEAR! lmfao.... this is like Christmas all over again! I thought I had thrown it out by accident. I guess I should clean more often lol.

So, now I have 6GB of ram, and a new DVDRW drive installed hehe. Awesome.

Noxia

12-30-2009, 14:01

Q6600 (3.67ghz)
4GB Corsair Dominator Memory (Forget spec)
Asus Pxxxx Motherboard (forgot again)
Sapphire Radeon 4870 1gb
22" Generic HDMI Monitor (1680x1050)
Sounds Blaster Xtreme Gamer
G15 (v2)
Mx510 Mouse
Coolermaster Cosmos S watercooled case.
Fan controller thingy

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2647/4227673953_998078404e_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2505/4227675111_0d4f3e16fb_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2692/4227675775_93accbed23_o.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4227676505_c7705defaf_o.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/4227677185_12cbe2bde5_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2767/4227677869_93dfc4da7b_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2715/4228444492_fe7d88d76a_o.jpg

Vip3r

12-30-2009, 14:32

Am buying a laptop with specs

ntel Core 2 Duo processor T6600
(2.2Ghz, 800Mhz, 2MB Cache)
Genuine Windows(R) 7 Home Premium (http://javascript:showEditorial('Genuine-Windows');)
4GB Memory
320GB Hard drive
NVidia G210M 512mb graphics
With a limited budget is this laptop any way good for playing games?

Yup. I have a similar build on my laptop and Steam games like L4D2, TF2 etc work at medium to high settings. But UE3 games don't play too well.

stibz

01-01-2010, 17:57

Hi, I won't list the specs, just say my pc would have been an OK one like 10yrs ago :(
Now it's not upto a lot, junk really :(

onac255

01-05-2010, 16:58

HP Pavilion a6130n

It also has an Nvidia 8600 GT 1gb ddr2 that I added. I added this card solely because Starcraft 2 was going to be released but so much for that...

BlackRamsis

01-13-2010, 00:16

aspire one 150, its enough ps3 is for gaming

Captain Fabio

02-20-2010, 23:46

Built my computer just over a year ago now.

Q6600 Quad Core CPU running at 3.2GHz
4GB Corser RAM
8800GTX
500GB Sata HDD
XP OS

Going to upgrade to Windows 7 soon. Never bothered with Vista since it is horrid.

Kyaw

04-09-2010, 20:26

Built my computer last year August:

AMD Phenom X4 940 BE @ 3.00ghz
Kingston HyperX 2GB x 2 DDR2 1066MHz
Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD3P AMD 790X
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4870 XXX 1GB
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Modular PSU
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB
Antec 300 case
Samsung P2450 @ 1080p

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/7120/mypc1.jpg

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/5292/mypc2.jpg

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/9422/myworkspace.jpg

keefy

04-09-2010, 21:09

Thos samsung Monitors are great.

Kyaw

04-12-2010, 10:48

any CnC for my cable management?

The ATX power cable is too short from the psu...

Recipe7

06-24-2010, 03:05

Here is my PC. I asked for building advice from you guys a while ago. I finished it over a month ago, but I totally forgot to post the outcome, hehe.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/Palumb0/PC%20Build/IMG_4448.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/Palumb0/PC%20Build/IMG_4791.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/Palumb0/PC%20Build/HeavenBenchmarkv20.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/Palumb0/PC%20Build/3DMark06.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/Palumb0/PC%20Build/3DMarkVantage.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/Palumb0/PC%20Build/HeavenBenchmarkv20.png

=Tac=

06-27-2010, 03:04

very nice Recipe7, but OC that i7!

Recipe7

06-28-2010, 21:07

Oh, don't worry, I did, haha. I'm running it at 4.01 ghz at only 1.248 volts. I can hit 4.2 ghz but it costs 1.32+volts, a little too hot for me since I'm running on air.

Here is my CPUZ:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/Palumb0/PC%20Build/CPU-Z-1.png

hockeydude30

06-28-2010, 21:09

You got your 930 stable at 4GHz with only 1.248V? Wth I had to up my CPUVCORE to 1.25 to get it stable at 3.2GHz

Recipe7

06-29-2010, 06:28

I did some researching before I bought a 930... basically searched for a golden chip.

hockeydude30

06-29-2010, 06:35

Yes I know, I have one too lol that is why I am suprised.

Suley

07-06-2010, 22:06

Not too sure about all the specs but I've got a Dell Dimension 9200 had it for 3 years now.
The only thing I know it has a 500GB hard Drive.

emmerich

07-29-2010, 00:57

Centurion

07-29-2010, 01:28

Dell StudioXPS 8100 :

Intel Core i7 Processor 860 (2.80GHz, 8MB)
6GB RAM
2TB HD
Single 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTS 240 graphics card (thinking of upgrading to a 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5770 or better)
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

and a 23inch Monitor.

I have another PC in another room that's crappy that I have had for about 6 years now it has about 250GB HD and 1GB RAM lol

It's rather telling when we call computers with 250GB of storage and 1GB of memory "crappy" :)

I have a notebook (Dell Studio 14z) with 3GB RAM, 320GB HDD and 2GHz Core 2 Duo. I also have an older Athlon XP machine (2.3GHz) with 1.5GB of memory which has been decomissioned. And a stack of old Toshiba Satellites (All with Core Duo processors ranging from 1.6GHz to 2GHz) which will probably end up running <insert distributed computing project here>.

At work I use an HP workstation with dual quad-core Xeon processors and 8GB of memory.

Seahawkk

07-29-2010, 06:29

It's rather telling when we call computers with 250GB of storage and 1GB of memory "crappy" :)

I have a notebook (Dell Studio 14z) with 3GB RAM, 320GB HDD and 2GHz Core 2 Duo. I also have an older Athlon XP machine (2.3GHz) with 1.5GB of memory which has been decomissioned. And a stack of old Toshiba Satellites (All with Core Duo processors ranging from 1.6GHz to 2GHz) which will probably end up running <insert distributed computing project here>.

At work I use an HP workstation with dual quad-core Xeon processors and 8GB of memory.

PC with 1 gb ram 320gb harddrive

no gfx card.............................................. ...................... yep if anyone wants to donate a better comp to me i would greatly appreciate it :p maybe even rep you ;)

podsaurus

07-30-2010, 04:00

CPU - i7 720
nVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M VRAM 1GB
HDD - 500GB
4gigs memory

Not bad for a gaming laptop.

Xelis

08-07-2010, 01:51

Okay, for starters Me = PC building noob. Okay now that's done.

I'm looking to upgrade my computer but there is one major thing that is putting me off. USB 3. Can anyone give me a rough guess when it'll be out properly and is it worth waiting for? As I don't want to buy a new case then find a month later they have USB 3 built in, are the case USB ports easy to replace/cheap?

My set up atm.

ABIT IP-35PRO S775 MOBO
Intel Q6700 Quadcore CPU
Corsair TwinX 2GB DDR2 8500DOM
Geforce 512Mb 8800GT

I know I need to upgrade my memory but I'm too lazy to install Windows 7 x64 at the moment.

I'm also looking to upgrade while making things quieter, currently my PC is a bit too loud for me and I have to keep one of my HDD's (7200 rpm) disconnected cause it makes a seriously annoying vibration through the case.

keefy

08-07-2010, 02:00

USB 3 is out now in terms of motherboard support. Just a question f when peripherals support it fully.
There are more board than this that support it too just the first one i chose.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-379-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1692

Xelis

08-07-2010, 02:08

I read that a couple of motherboards had USB 3 support, £250 is a bit much for me though. I hardly game on my PC anymore, I'm more of a downloader hence the USB 3 and quieter PC. I've thought about getting a laptop instead of upgrading as I read they are starting to be supported.

keefy

08-07-2010, 03:11

Like I said other mboards support it so there are cheaper ones here is an AMD for £126
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-152-AB&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1782

If you shop around you will find cheaper ones too, that is the first one at the top of the listat that website again. Just use your eyes.

Icc

08-13-2010, 15:47

ProcessorIntel® Core™ i7 980X Processor Extreme Edition (6x 3.33GHz/12MB L3 Cache)Memory12GB [4GB x 3] 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM [Laptop Memory] - Corsair or Major Brand
Video CardNVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M 2GB DDR5 PCI-E 2.0 Video [D900F]
Primary Hard Drive500 GB 7200rpm Serial-ATA Super Slim Laptop Hard Drive
Data Hard DriveNone
Optical Drive2X Blu-Ray-R/8x Dual Format DVD±R/±RW + 16x CD-R/RW Combo Drive [D900F]
Flash Media Reader/WriterBuilt-in 7-in-1 Media Card Reader/Writer [Laptop]
Sound Card3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard
Network CardBuilt-in 10/100/1000 Mbps LAN [Laptop]
Fax ModemBuilt-in 56K V.92 Fax Modem [Laptop]
IEEE 1394 FireWire CardBuilt-in 1x IEEE 1394 FireWire Port [Laptop]
Internal Wireless Network AdapterStandard 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi

is it good? i'm not sure, i think i might be able to run pong on low lol.

seriously though decided to go all out. planing to get pretty heavy into PC gaming

arfi-gorgona-O

08-13-2010, 16:05

It is good but a laptop isn't ideal for gaming :) They get old pretty fast.

Xelis

08-13-2010, 16:47

Nakatomi Uk

08-23-2010, 17:56

Mines in my sig below I am going to be ugrading to AM3 in two months time but keeping the CPU, HDD, PSU just upgrading my board, RAM and G.Card the HD5770 1GB is my next upgrading in 2 weeks time, should sell my 9600GT 512mb on Ebay for nice half price of the HD5770 as it's got a custom cooler on it which in my past sales have gotten me good money.

I may buy a SSD drive for Windows 7 to use and use the 500GB as a slave for games and music etc but Windows 7 on my current set-up is fantastic.