Well seeing how I built this pc almost 2 years ago, I'm still running the same hardware except I only threw in there a few more HDDs and Windows 7 and still runs like a beast, although.. I have been thinking about getting a second 8800GTX to sli in there.
MotherBoard:
MSI Platinum Sli enabled
Processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory:
4.00GB RAM
Hard Drive:
520 GB + 400 GB External Hdd
Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
Monitor:
22" LG LCD Flat Screen
Sound Card:
Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Speakers/Headphones:
Logitech Z-2300 THX-Certified 200-Watt 2.1 Speaker System
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual 6000+ 3.01GHz RAM: 4.00GB Motherboard: Gigabyte MA770-UD3 Video card: Radeon HD 4770 Sound card: Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer Monitor: 19" (I know, I NEED to get a bigger screen) Samsung SyncMaster932b Storage: Two internal drives: 500GB and 250GB. External: 1TB Power Supply: 550W Corsair Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech wireless Case: Antec(thinking of getting a better one. Seems to be jinxing my mobos.)
Keyboard and mouse: Microsoft Keyboard and Logitech MX Revolution Black
PSU: Antec 750W
Case: Cooler Master HAF 932, 3x23cm fans, 1x14cm fan
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium x64, but upgrading to Windows 7 Home Premium x64 in like a week
Gamepad: Xbox 360 Wireless Controller with Wireless Receiver
Got the above rig from Digital Storm, for ~$1800 three months back. Best computer builder, quality build and it only cost me 10% more than to make it myself, and it comes with a 3-year extended warranty and lifetime technical support.
Home built pc: Antec 900 Case Core 2 Duo 2.13ghz @ 3.2ghz 2gb of DDR2 800 Ram ATI Radeon 4870 512mb 3 Hard Drives, 2 160s and 1 250gb Built in sound Arctic Cooler Freezer 7 Heatsink (for the overclock) 700 watt psu.
MOBO: XFX MIA78S8209 Nvidia Geforce 8200 CPU: AMD x2 64 bit 5600+ GPU: BFG GTX260 55 core I know my CPU is bottlenecking the crap out of it. New CPU on the way!
HDD: Western Digital 500GB (Thinking about doing a raid setup soonish) Memory: 3 Gb PSU: Generic 660 watt Case: Coolermaster Elite 341 Monitor: Acer H233Hbmid 23" HDMI Full 1080p widescreen LCD monitor Sound: Realtek HD sound Keyboard: Some random Dell one I had laying around Mouse: Razor Death Adder 1800dpi OS: Vista 32bit Premium Getting 7 once I have the money Gamepad: 360 Gamepad with xbox wireless reciever Speakers: Logitec 5.1 Surround Z5300
As you can see it's a work in progress and I am kinda doing things ass backwards especially with the GPU and CPU. Plan on getting faster ram as its pretty old ddr 2 sitting at like 333mhz .
MoB: ASUS M4A78 PRO CPU: AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black GPu: ATI HD4870 1GB RAM: OCZ Reaper HPC 8GB DDR2 1066Mhz PSU: Antec NeoPower 650 Blue HDD: 1. WD Raptor 300GB (10,000RPM) 2. HITACHI 1TB (7200RPM) OS : XP Pro/Windows7RC Dualboot Case: Antec Nine Hundred
Also, Logitech MX518 mouse(went through two G5s that both ended up crapping on me, 2nd one was free from Logitech after the first died). A Razer Carcharias Headset, 3rd different headset this year. Old black E-Machines Keyboard I found at a rummage sale for a dollar, and a $150 Xbox360 Street Fighter 4 TE Fightstick on top of my desk collecting dust after I played SF4 for about a day. Oh yeah and my two monitors: a crappy LG 20inch LCD widescreen 1600x900 monitor and my old ViewSonic G90f CRT that flickers like a son of a bitch but just won't die.
Edit : Steam is MushChampion@hotmail.com , Play CSS mainly, probably going to buy Borderlands.
" MoB: ASUS M4A78 PRO CPU: AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black GPu: ATI HD4870 1GB RAM: OCZ Reaper HPC 8GB DDR2 1066Mhz PSU: Antec NeoPower 650 Blue HDD: 1. WD Raptor 300GB (10,000RPM) 2. HITACHI 1TB (7200RPM) OS : XP Pro/Windows7RC Dualboot Case: Antec Nine Hundred
Also, Logitech MX518 mouse(went through two G5s that both ended up crapping on me, 2nd one was free from Logitech after the first died). A Razer Carcharias Headset, 3rd different headset this year. Old black E-Machines Keyboard I found at a rummage sale for a dollar, and a $150 Xbox360 Street Fighter 4 TE Fightstick on top of my desk collecting dust after I played SF4 for about a day. Oh yeah and my two monitors: a crappy LG 20inch LCD widescreen 1600x900 monitor and my old ViewSonic G90f CRT that flickers like a son of a bitch but just won't die.
Edit : Steam is MushChampion@hotmail.com , Play CSS mainly, probably going to buy Borderlands. "
8Gbs of DDR2? Woah, I've never put into any systems I've built more than 6GBs of RAM.
8Gbs of DDR2? Woah, I've never put into any systems I've built more than 6GBs of RAM. "
Well theres a story behind that. When I built the PC I ordered 4gb (2x2), but when I put everything together it wouldn't boot depending on which stick of ram was in the first slot (aka.. one of the 2gb sticks was bad). Since the sticks came together I couldn't just RMA one of the sticks, I had to send them both back, which would have left me with no ram at all. So instead of waiting another two weeks to be able to turn on my new toy, I ordered another 4gb set and when they arrived at my house I RMAed the original sticks back to OCZ. So then a couple of weeks later I got the replacements giving me a total of 8GB. On this dual boot system I use XP Pro (32bit) about 90% of the time, so I'm rarely ever using those 8gb.
Q6600 running at 2.8 8800GT 512mb 3 Gigs DDR2 500 GB HDD Blu Ray drive
Not too bad for a Dell I bought two years ago and paid well less than a grand for. Still runs everything beautifully to this day. Will be getting Windows 7 shortly and possibly considering buying a 5850 if I can find one.
" Q6600 running at 2.8 8800GT 512mb 3 Gigs DDR2 500 GB HDD Blu Ray drive Not too bad for a Dell I bought two years ago and paid well less than a grand for. Still runs everything beautifully to this day. Will be getting Windows 7 shortly and possibly considering buying a 5850 if I can find one. "
...'less than' a grand for a computer that is pretty mediocre?
The machine I spend most of my time on is a Sun T5140 that runs about $30,000 in its current configuration. It also heats up most of my home in the winter. I task it mostly with compiling a rather large code base as well as debugging enterprise services software in a more realistic environment. (And no, I didn't pay for it as it's a work machine that they'll be expecting to get back if I ever leave the company).
Processor is overdocked to 6.0ghz. Core 2 duo. I have the newest GeForce (sorry, I forget the name) and it's the fastest thing out there and I got it for next to nothing thanks to my shrewd haggling skills. I have 10gb of RAM and a 5tb HDD.
8Gbs of DDR2? Woah, I've never put into any systems I've built more than 6GBs of RAM. "
RAM is so cheap these days, you almost can't afford the hassle of not having enough when it comes down to it. My T5140 has 32GB of RAM (it'll hold up to 128gb) and my mac pro has 16gb (it'll hold up to 32gb). If you were stuck using windows, I couldn't imagine running it (along with a full system of applications and games and everything else) on less than 6gb or preferably 8gb.
Of course, that's nothing compared to my first computer -- the VIC-20 which would hold (if you had the cash for it, which I didn't) as much as a whopping 64KB! If I recall it shipped with 5KB or 10KB. Ooooh! :)
8Gbs of DDR2? Woah, I've never put into any systems I've built more than 6GBs of RAM. "
RAM is so cheap these days, you almost can't afford the hassle of not having enough when it comes down to it. My T5140 has 32GB of RAM (it'll hold up to 128gb) and my mac pro has 16gb (it'll hold up to 32gb). If you were stuck using windows, I couldn't imagine running it (along with a full system of applications and games and everything else) on less than 6gb or preferably 8gb. Of course, that's nothing compared to my first computer -- the VIC-20 which would hold (if you had the cash for it, which I didn't) as much as a whopping 64KB! If I recall it shipped with 5KB or 10KB. Ooooh! :) "
That's a humongous overkill considering few, if not any, applications use up 32gbs of RAM. But if you're an computer/tech enthusiast then I'll leave the big boys' stuff to the big boys and play with my toy rigs. :)
8Gbs of DDR2? Woah, I've never put into any systems I've built more than 6GBs of RAM. "
RAM is so cheap these days, you almost can't afford the hassle of not having enough when it comes down to it. My T5140 has 32GB of RAM (it'll hold up to 128gb) and my mac pro has 16gb (it'll hold up to 32gb). If you were stuck using windows, I couldn't imagine running it (along with a full system of applications and games and everything else) on less than 6gb or preferably 8gb. Of course, that's nothing compared to my first computer -- the VIC-20 which would hold (if you had the cash for it, which I didn't) as much as a whopping 64KB! If I recall it shipped with 5KB or 10KB. Ooooh! :) "
That's a humongous overkill considering few, if not any, applications use up 32gbs of RAM. But if you're an computer/tech enthusiast then I'll leave the big boys' stuff to the big boys and play with my toy rigs. :) "
If you're doing a lot of media editing, 16 or 32gb is definitely not too much and can all be beneficial. Or in my particular case, compiling very large code bases while using a central machine to run multiple linux and solaris guest OS environments for some very basic testing or running XEN environments on the solaris box to reproduce actual full customer deployment environments (entire LDAP deployments, Identity deployments, communications deployments, etc) for debugging without having to have multiple physical machines.
Even just running VMWare on a machine can eat up a ton of memory. Let's say you run a linux guest and maybe a windows guest. And lets say you allocate 2gb to each system. Well, there's 4gb right there. Plus whatever you allocate for the virtual video cards. And whatever your actual host OS requires. It can add up.
Still, for gaming and such... using Vista or Windows 7 . . . I can't imagine using anything less than say 6gb or 8gb. Considering how cheap RAM is and mobos hold a lot of ram these days, it truly is worth jamming them full of as much as you can (though 16gb is probably way overkill, granted...!).
Hell, I keep pushing for more RAM on my T5140 as when I'm dealing with large data sets (in the hundreds of gigabytes), 32gb is actually a hinderance and can involve a ton of paging. One of these days my expense request will go through (since we make the damn things, after all.... argh!).
I am currently running a Dell Inspiron laptop! YA! Those PC's that people use are just WAY to expensive for me to buy and constantly upgrade. I am jealous of you all. :(
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