Computer Specs

[Brasel]

So I upgraded from an AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 2.2 Ghz Processor to an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 2.2 Ghz Processor and man oh man is the difference very nice. Everything is running so much faster than it was. I'm very happy with it. Worth every penny, so I'd recommend the upgrade to anyone who still has a single core processor and has the money and technical know-how to change it out. I only had to shell out about $140 for it on newegg.com. Much better than the $289 price tag it had a couple months ago.

Anywho, here's what I got:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ 2.2 GHz 939 Socket
2 GB of RAM
NVidia GeForce 7300 GS 256 MB (512MB Shared)
180 GB SATA Hard drive
21.5 Inch Flat Panel Wide Screen POS Monitor by Star Logic

I'm looking at upgrading to a GeForce 7900 or 7950 series in a month or so. I like buying last generation computer parts because its always cheaper than getting the best on the market right now, and it changes every six months or so anyway, so its just cheaper not to try and keep up with the new crap. I'm not sure if I am going to go ahead and buy a new video card or not since I'm leaving for Iraq in September. When I get back though, I'm looking at dropping near $1500 to $2000 on a sweet rig with all the extra pay I'm going to get on my deployment. Thats still up in the air though, seeing as I'll be buying a new car and a house as well.

So whats everyone else running?

[Sir_Johnamus]

I am running a Windows XP pro laptop 2002 Version with SP2.
Gateway M680 Intel Pentium M 1.86 GHz processor wtih 1GB of RAM.

A 17 inch monitor I think.
2 harddrives, 68 gigs on the C drive and 25 on the D. DvD burner.

[biggiy05]

I'd hold off on the upgrade but if you really want a new card before you live pick up an 8600GT, they can be had for the same price or cheaper than the 7950.

I've got two rigs running in my room. One is just an older AMD XP setup I use for torrents and F@H.

Main system-

Gigabye 965P DS3
Intel Core 2 Duo E6320
Evga 8600GTS
2gb G. Skill DDR2 800
2x 250gb seagate hdd's
Corsair PSU
19" widescreen Hanns. G lcd monitor. I'm hoping to pick up a 37" widescreen lcd in the fall or winter.

Oh yeah LogitechZ-5300 5.1 speaker setup.

[Lilith]

post some fucken specs

[Brasel]

I am running a Windows XP pro laptop 2002 Version with SP2.
Gateway M680 Intel Pentium M 1.86 GHz processor wtih 1GB of RAM.

A 17 inch monitor I think.
2 harddrives, 68 gigs on the C drive and 25 on the D. DvD burner.

On your "My Computer" screen where it says that you have a C and D drive, that means you have one hard drive partitioned into two. Its the same hard disk, just split up into two separate formats so that the D drive can be used for recovery purposes or whatever. Not too smart on how Windows uses the two separate drive letters.

And Biggiy, I was thinking about an 8600, but I'm under the impression that a 6800 is better than my 7300, so I'd guess that the highest end of this generation would be better than the standard of the next. I'm not quite sure actually, I haven't really read up too much on the 8000 series yet. (Don't think that I believe me to be a computer guru or anything, I know that I'm not too knowledgable.)

[Mitsukara]

OS/Build: Windows ME (4.90 - 3000)
Resolution: 1024x768

CPU Info/Processor: 1-Intel Pentium II, 398MHz, 512KB
RAM Usage: 126/128MB (98.44%)

Hard Drive Info:
"ME-Tan" C:\ (Windows drive) (0.14GB Free, 9.43GB Total)
D:\ (0.00GB Free, 6.69GB Total)
"Hobobox" E:\ (0.89GB Free, 7.47GB Total)
(External laptop USB HD) G:\ (60.51GB Free, 74.50GB Total)
Other drives:
A:\ (3.3/4" floppy drive)

Mouse: Some dark blue Dell optical mouse
Keyboard: Compaq standard/enhanced keyboard with volume keys circa 1999
Monitor: 12.5" color monitor circa 1998, has a problem that causes all the colors to turn severely yellowed at random intervals (slapping it on the side actually tends to fix that)

Other features: USB 1 -> 4 adapter, however it cannot be plugged in when booting the computer or the computer fails to boot. It scared me the first time, but reliably, the computer boots without it and stops on the logo when it's plugged in. Scary.

HP Generic Scanner circa 2001, has very crapped up glass that tends to show white spots on certain things, but has good 3D depth range (so I can, say, take a picture of an action figure and see the figure okay, but there's also what looks like smears and dandruff all over the glass. I attempted to carefully clean it, but it didn't help. No idea what's up with that.)

Sad note: despite the horrific ME being installed, there's a sticker on the case that says "Designed for Windows 98". Whoever owned this computer before me was clearly either a moron, or at best severely disappointed with their "upgrade".

You know you want it!

[DarkDragon]

I am still using my 5 year old craptop: P4, 512 megs, 40 GB hard drive (with 80 GB external), Radeon 7500.

[Dark Knight]

[os] Vista Home Premium(fucking ew)
[cpu] 2008.4 MHz AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+ x86 running at 2008.4 MHz
[memory] 1024 MB DDR2 RAM
[display] NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 with 256 MB RAM, Dual monitor support and S-Video out port.
[hdd] 250 GB SATA HDD

Nothing exceedingly special.

[Nicholas Steel]

On your "My Computer" screen where it says that you have a C and D drive, that means you have one hard drive partitioned into two. Its the same hard disk, just split up into two separate formats so that the D drive can be used for recovery purposes or whatever. Not too smart on how Windows uses the two separate drive letters.

? you know this how? i got a C: D: E: F: drives all of which are partitions on one 200gig hard disk but still, how do you know that he has only 1 hard drive? he could have 2 hence why he used the plural " harddrives" and mentions he has 2 hard drives... or is it highly unlikely a laptop would have 2 hard drives?

[Dark Knight]

Given that laptops generally don't have alot of space...most don't have a second hard drive. I'm not saying it isn't possible though. Just not common.

[Darth Marsden]

It's been so long since I checked, I don't even remember what the specs for my PC are. How'd you find out what they are? Y'know, assuming you don't have the boxes anymore. Any way for your PC to tell you?

[Brasel]

? you know this how? i got a C: D: E: F: drives all of which are partitions on one 200gig hard disk but still, how do you know that he has only 1 hard drive? he could have 2 hence why he used the plural " harddrives" and mentions he has 2 hard drives... or is it highly unlikely a laptop would have 2 hard drives?

It is extremely highly unlikely a laptop would have 2 hard drives.

[Nicholas Steel]

ok lol.

[biggiy05]

And Biggiy, I was thinking about an 8600, but I'm under the impression that a 6800 is better than my 7300, so I'd guess that the highest end of this generation would be better than the standard of the next. I'm not quite sure actually, I haven't really read up too much on the 8000 series yet. (Don't think that I believe me to be a computer guru or anything, I know that I'm not too knowledgable.)

That depends what you think the standard is. If it's the 8500 then yes. The 8600GT can be had for almost $60 less than the 7950GT and the performance is a bit higher.

I'm not an expert and run into issues all the time that I can't figure out but I know my parts and can build a range of different systems.

[Brasel]

I've actually looked into the 8600 since you brought it up and I've decided to go ahead and go with that one. It seems that I'd be getting a better bang for my buck, so I'm sold.

[biggiy05]

I'm not big on dropping $400 for a new video card every time someone comes out with a new series or a refresh brings in higher specs.

My AMD 3700+ worked well for a few years but catching deals on newegg for my current setup was hard to beat. I won't be upgrading for a while.

[AlexMax]

I'm not big on dropping $400 for a new video card every time someone comes out with a new series or a refresh brings in higher specs.

My AMD 3700+ worked well for a few years but catching deals on newegg for my current setup was hard to beat. I won't be upgrading for a while.

You never need a $400 graphics card. Why bother, when you can get a perfectly good Geforce x600 (6600, 7600, upcoming 8600) for more than half the price and only marginally less performance.

My current setup. I'm having video+motherboard conflicts with it though, so I wouldn't recomend it unless I just turn out to have a defective video card/motherboard. I've had this computer for two years already with similar parts and I don't forsee myself upgrading in the forseeable future.

CPU: Athlon 64 3000+
Motherboard: ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
Graphics Card: eVGA 7600 GS AGP
RAM: 1GB PC3200 RAM
Hard Drive: Western Digital 80GB, Maxtor 200GB
Optical Drive: NEC 3520A CD/DVD Burner
OS: Ubuntu "Feisty" 7.04 (Primary), Windows XP SP2 (For playing games that won't run natively/in wine)

[Grasshopper]

Heck, just buy an eVGA graphic card and hope it messes up on you every year, (like mine has), and you just get you a better one each time you get it replaced. :)

[biggiy05]

You never need a $400 graphics card. Why bother, when you can get a perfectly good Geforce x600 (6600, 7600, upcoming 8600) for more than half the price and only marginally less performance.

Talk to some of the hardcore geeks out there and they will swear on their life that buying a new video card on every release is worth the $400. I don't see the point in spending that kind of money just to turn all the eye candy up in a game. I'm happy with my 8600 and it runs the games smooth and it looks good. That's all I care about and I saved $370.

The myth about computer hardware being obsolete after so many months is bull shit.

[biggiy05]

You never need a $400 graphics card. Why bother, when you can get a perfectly good Geforce x600 (6600, 7600, upcoming 8600) for more than half the price and only marginally less performance.

Talk to some of the hardcore geeks out there and they will swear on their life that buying a new video card on every release is worth the $400. I don't see the point in spending that kind of money just to turn all the eye candy up in a game. I'm happy with my 8600 and it runs the games smooth and it looks good. That's all I care about and I saved $370.

The myth about computer hardware being obsolete after so many months is bull shit. The hardware companies just made it up so increase sales.

[Sir_Johnamus]

This thing is wide enough. I think that there maybe 2 drives in this thing. As for graphics cards, I think that it is good if it works, and shows things smooth enough. I do go alot for the sound cards though. I like those to be good.

[biggiy05]

The chances of there being two hdd's in your laptop are about as high as Darth Marsden becoming king of Africa.

[Majora]

The myth about computer hardware being obsolete after so many months is bull shit. The hardware companies just made it up so increase sales.

IMO obsolete means "useless, inadequate and can be outdone, however, if your machine is considered "obsolete" but it's good enough for you, then it's not obsolete.

My computer is an
eMachines T6524
with an ATI Radeon Express 200 series GFX card and
a 2.2Ghz AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3500+ with
894 Megs of RAM and
200 Gigs HD space.