Your Computer?

[x6Teen]

GASP! I bet you have a time machine to smuggle futute tech!
I want a super Hi vision TV 4320p!

And it also has .. Wait for it .. WINDOWS 7!

[itachi73378]

And it also has .. Wait for it .. WINDOWS 7!

I'm still on Vista (and my piece of crap barely manages that too )

[keefy]

What are your specs itachi?

either its very old POS or you have a virus that makes it run at or close to 100% CPU.

[GreyFox747]

My PC does everything I want it to do. Which includes hardcore gaming.
Specs are:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 at 2.67GHz
4Gb DDR2 Ram (2x2Gb)
EVGA Nvidia GTX 460 Superclocked edition
250Gb HDD + 750Gb HDD, both at 7200RPM
19" 4:3 Dell monitor at 1280x1024
My headphones are the Tritton AX Pro

Becuase my resolution is relatively small, this computer runs demanding games at awesome FPS. I haven't had a single hiccup in FPS in Crysis 2, Two Worlds 2, Portal 2, GTAIV, and more.

I'll be upgrading my PC within a couple months to:
Intel Core i7-2600K at the stock speed of 3.4GHz
8Gb of DDR3 1600MHz RAM (2x4Gb)
I'll be keeping the same video card, the GTX 460, and I'm considering getting a second GTX 460 to run in SLI
2TB Western Digital Caviar Black HDD
SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium HD
For a mobo, I'll probably pick up the Asus P8P67

I'm thinking of holding out on buying a new PC as my current PC does it all. So once a game comes out that I can't run on max settings (probably Battlefield 3), THEN I'll get a new one.


EDIT: I forgot to mention that I'm running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.

[jonathanm1978]

As soon as I clicked this thread, the PC crashed a 8th time in a row. And as I type this its roaring like its gonna murder me any second. but thanks jonathanm1978 will do (as soon as I figure out what capacitators look like )

The machine is dying...thought of upgrading it but realised there's no point since the only thing that doen't need to be upgraded is the casing...*some thing falls off* oh wait nvm, I need a new PC!

Capacitors, or caps for short, are round objects that protrude from the motherboard. They vary in color but most have a silver top on them. The top should be flat on all of them. Look for any that are busted or swelled on top.




Sent from my LG Optimus S

[keefy]

They can look like this when broken and leaking, check for brown stuff on the tops.



If you loook carefully they hve a slight "bulge" or "dome" on top

[Centurion]

That's an interesting configuration. Is it used for CAD or 3D software development?

I have trouble believing that someone bought a Xeon processor and FirePro video card for normal home use and normal gaming, and the video card and 600GB total drive space suggests it's not being used as a server.

That's a professional's machine, so if you don't mind me asking, what do you do for a living?

It's for software development.

[itachi73378]

What are your specs itachi?

either its very old POS or you have a virus that makes it run at or close to 100% CPU.

Its a very old build:
3.2Ghz Pentium
1.5GB RAM
80Gig Hard drive
Acer 17" LCD 1280x1024
Not sure about specific details and not sure about the mother board too.
I first thought that since my C drive is always full (only 100-400mb free at all times) maybe that sometimes caused it to crash.I don't think I have a virus cuz I haven't noticed anything strange going on.
What happened was, a couple of months ago my PC stopped displaying stuff on the moniter. Turned out to be a psu problem, so I replaced it.After that its been crashing more frequently.
I'll check the capacitors too.

[UberMadness]

Soon to be mine pc:

i7 2600 turbo boost
8 gig memory
Geforfce gtx 570 hd super clocked
1 tb
24" led screen

Should be shipped by the end of the week

[itachi73378]

Soon to be mine pc:

i7 2600 turbo boost
8 gig memory
Geforfce gtx 570 hd super clocked
1 tb
24" led screen

Should be shipped by the end of the week

Nice!

[UberMadness]

Nice!

Yea... i am giving up my laptop gaming... so expensive.

[keefy]

Its a very old build:
3.2Ghz Pentium
1.5GB RAM
80Gig Hard drive
Acer 17" LCD 1280x1024
Not sure about specific details and not sure about the mother board too.
I first thought that since my C drive is always full (only 100-400mb free at all times) maybe that sometimes caused it to crash.I don't think I have a virus cuz I haven't noticed anything strange going on.
What happened was, a couple of months ago my PC stopped displaying stuff on the moniter. Turned out to be a psu problem, so I replaced it.After that its been crashing more frequently.
I'll check the capacitors too.

You say you use win7 on this?
Delete some crap from the drive you could try bleach bit its a free app that sifts through your drive and finds unwanted crap.
i used it just a couple of days ago and it found 3.5GB of stuff that wasnt needed.
There ar eLinux versions too.
http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net

Might tide you over until you get a new PC because the one you have must be at least 5 years old.

[Completely Average]

I'm thinking of holding out on buying a new PC as my current PC does it all. So once a game comes out that I can't run on max settings (probably Battlefield 3), THEN I'll get a new one.

Are you ready for this?





ARMA 3 MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS....

•OS: Windows 7 / Vista
•CPU: Intel Core i5 or AMD Athlon Phenom X4 or faster
•GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 or ATI Radeon HD 5770, shader Model 3 and 896 MB VRAM, or faster
•RAM: 2 GB
•HDD: 15 GB free space
•DVD: Dual Layer compatible
•DirectX: 10


It's scary knowing that your CPU doesn't even meet the minimum requirements for this game.

[UberMadness]

My PC does everything I want it to do. Which includes hardcore gaming.
Specs are:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 at 2.67GHz
4Gb DDR2 Ram (2x2Gb)
EVGA Nvidia GTX 460 Superclocked edition
250Gb HDD + 750Gb HDD, both at 7200RPM
19" 4:3 Dell monitor at 1280x1024
My headphones are the Tritton AX Pro

Becuase my resolution is relatively small, this computer runs demanding games at awesome FPS. I haven't had a single hiccup in FPS in Crysis 2, Two Worlds 2, Portal 2, GTAIV, and more.

I'll be upgrading my PC within a couple months to:
Intel Core i7-2600K at the stock speed of 3.4GHz
8Gb of DDR3 1600MHz RAM (2x4Gb)
I'll be keeping the same video card, the GTX 460, and I'm considering getting a second GTX 460 to run in SLI
2TB Western Digital Caviar Black HDD
SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium HD
For a mobo, I'll probably pick up the Asus P8P67

I'm thinking of holding out on buying a new PC as my current PC does it all. So once a game comes out that I can't run on max settings (probably Battlefield 3), THEN I'll get a new one.


EDIT: I forgot to mention that I'm running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.

Since you are going to have to upgrade your mb, you should wait little bit more for the new socket. That way you would have some more room to upgrade in the future without changing the mb.

[jonathanm1978]

So BF3 calls for nothing under a x4 core processor? wow.

The only area mine would fail in is graphics. I've got a beast, x6 AMD Phenom with 8gb of DDR3...
1TB 7200 drive..

But graphics...I got this:

XFX HD-465X-ZDF2 Radeon HD 4650 1GB 128-bit DDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card

[F34R]

I'll have to do some upgrading, possibly a new pc all together, for when BF3 hits. I'm still rocking a X2 5000 @ 2.6ghz with a 8800GT.

[jonathanm1978]

I'll have to do some upgrading, possibly a new pc all together, for when BF3 hits. I'm still rocking a X2 5000 @ 2.6ghz with a 8800GT.

Sounds like my lappy -- she's an oldie, but a goodie and I'm being told I should just sell the thing and get a new one...but my 17" Toshy with AMD Turion TL-64 x2-core--maxxed with 4gigs of ddr3...

But, I can't justify buying a new laptop at present..barely use it, and not enough to warrant needing "bigger, better, faster"...

It still does what I need it to do -- get online and surf websites. That's honestly the only thing I ever use it for (I hit power, click on FFox, and surf, hit power, put it up... rinse and repeat as necessary)

[GreyFox747]

UPDATE!

I'm gonna get the ASUS Geforce GTX 580, which is a monster of a card!
And a 64GB Solid State Drive on SATA III (6Gb/s) To install Windows 7 on along with my games.

This is to go along with my previously posted specs.

[keefy]

I'll have to do some upgrading, possibly a new pc all together, for when BF3 hits. I'm still rocking a X2 5000 @ 2.6ghz with a 8800GT.

At least your 8800GT is still working, mine died aroud this time last year was a BFG one so it was under warranty but the replacement died and BFG had already gone bust.

[brebaz]

My specs

Case : Haf-X
Motherboard: Asus Crosshair IV
CPU: AMD Phenom II 1090t @3.8GHz
RAM: 8GB Patriot Sec 5 @ 1333Mhz
VGA: AMD 6870
HDDs: 1x256GB SSD M4, 1x64GB SSD C300 & 1TB WD black Sata III
Monitor: 22" LG IPS


Still thinking of building myself a new RIG when AMD octa core (8 cores) Bulldozer comes out.

[GreyFox747]

I'll have to do some upgrading, possibly a new pc all together, for when BF3 hits. I'm still rocking a X2 5000 @ 2.6ghz with a 8800GT.

BF3 and Skyrim are the reason I bought my new PC. I should be able to run them on max settings without a single hiccup.

I think if you're wanting to do the same, you'll definitely need a whole new PC.

[Xelis]

Looking to upgrade my computer. I have very limited knowledge when upgrading parts, so any recommendations etc? Also what graphics card should I look at? Its not my priority at the moment but I will eventually be upgrading that too.


8GB (2x4GB) Corsair XMS3 DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-27, 1.65V - £69.79
600W Corsair CMPSU-600CXv2 Builder Series, 80 PLUS, 80% Eff', EPS 12V, 120mm Fan, Single 12V Rail - £50.38
Intel Core i5 2500, Socket 1155, Sandy Bridge, Quad Core, 3.3GHz, GPU 850Mhz, 95W, Retail +Free Game - £154.98
Gigabyte GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3, Intel Z68, 1155, PCI-E 2.0, DDR3 1866/2133, SATA 6Gb/s, RAID, MATX - £124.42

[brebaz]

Looking to upgrade my computer. I have very limited knowledge when upgrading parts, so any recommendations etc? Also what graphics card should I look at? Its not my priority at the moment but I will eventually be upgrading that too.


8GB (2x4GB) Corsair XMS3 DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-27, 1.65V - £69.79
600W Corsair CMPSU-600CXv2 Builder Series, 80 PLUS, 80% Eff', EPS 12V, 120mm Fan, Single 12V Rail - £50.38
Intel Core i5 2500, Socket 1155, Sandy Bridge, Quad Core, 3.3GHz, GPU 850Mhz, 95W, Retail +Free Game - £154.98
Gigabyte GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3, Intel Z68, 1155, PCI-E 2.0, DDR3 1866/2133, SATA 6Gb/s, RAID, MATX - £124.42

This looks very good, but what is your GPU?

[MATRIX 2]

Looking to upgrade my computer. I have very limited knowledge when upgrading parts, so any recommendations etc? Also what graphics card should I look at? Its not my priority at the moment but I will eventually be upgrading that too.


8GB (2x4GB) Corsair XMS3 DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-27, 1.65V - £69.79
600W Corsair CMPSU-600CXv2 Builder Series, 80 PLUS, 80% Eff', EPS 12V, 120mm Fan, Single 12V Rail - £50.38
Intel Core i5 2500, Socket 1155, Sandy Bridge, Quad Core, 3.3GHz, GPU 850Mhz, 95W, Retail +Free Game - £154.98
Gigabyte GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3, Intel Z68, 1155, PCI-E 2.0, DDR3 1866/2133, SATA 6Gb/s, RAID, MATX - £124.42

Dvd:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=10&subcat=951

cpu:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=6&subcat=1275

motherboard:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=5&subcat=1906

HDD:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...14&subcat=1279

case:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...id=7&subcat=29

power:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...23&subcat=1084

ram:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=8&subcat=1517

Video:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...14&subcat=1341

or

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...56&subcat=1752

[C-Carcharias]

Looking to upgrade my computer. I have very limited knowledge when upgrading parts, so any recommendations etc? Also what graphics card should I look at? Its not my priority at the moment but I will eventually be upgrading that too.


8GB (2x4GB) Corsair XMS3 DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-27, 1.65V - £69.79
600W Corsair CMPSU-600CXv2 Builder Series, 80 PLUS, 80% Eff', EPS 12V, 120mm Fan, Single 12V Rail - £50.38
Intel Core i5 2500, Socket 1155, Sandy Bridge, Quad Core, 3.3GHz, GPU 850Mhz, 95W, Retail +Free Game - £154.98
Gigabyte GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3, Intel Z68, 1155, PCI-E 2.0, DDR3 1866/2133, SATA 6Gb/s, RAID, MATX - £124.42

If you keep 600 Watt PSU, your best bets are the 6950 2gb or the GTX 560Ti 1gb. If I remember correctly they are around the same price point and theres little different in performance. The 6950 is less power hungry, but the GTX allows you to take advantage of games that utilise the PhysX engine. (EDIT: lol, MATRIX beat me to it.)

Upgrading the PSU to 700-750W will open up the 6970, GTX 570/580 - providing there is at least 38-42A on the 12+ rail. Hope that helps.