.I was looking at the PC forums, and I noticed something: There was no thread explicitly for bragging about hardware. I could not stand for this travesty, and took steps to rectify the problem immediately. This is the result.
Ok, anyway, here's mine:
OS: Windows Vista Business x64/ Ubuntu 8.10 x64
CPU: Intel E8500 (OC'd)
Mobo: XFX 780i SLI
Memory: DDR2 800 OCZ Reaper (4x2GB)
Video: SLI ZOTAC 8800GT (x2)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (3x500GB)
Case: XCLIO Windtunnel
Other thoughts: I have aftermarket cooling on both GPU's and on the CPU. It is really more necessary on the CPU though. I have the CPU OC'd to 3.8Ghz (brought FSB up to 1600). I have gotten the cpu above 4.0GHz stabely, but the RAM is the bottleneck, unless I have it under 800MHz, and getting the CPU that hight isn't really necessary. Also, I am not sure I have ever used all 8 gigs of memory, so unless you are gonna do multimedia editing, I wouldn't bother putting that much into a gaming rig.
Anyway, thats all for me. Ask questions, make comments, or post your own configuration. or even all three. Really. I won't stop you.
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Hardware: The Thread
OS : Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit
CPU : C2D 7300 3ghz (Will overclock more when I get my new heatsink)
mobo : Asus P5Q deluxe
Graphics card : XFX 8800GT alpha dog edition (695/1000/1711)
RAM : Corsair Dominator DDR2 1066 (OC'd to 1125) dual channel
Storage : 1 320gig Seagate HDD 16mb cache
Monitor : Samsung SyncMaster 953BW 19inch
Case : Antec 900
Ripped from xfire:
Processor: | AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+, ~2.2GHz |
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Memory: | 2.58GB RAM |
Hard Drive: | 200 GB |
Video Card: | Radeon X1600/X1650 Series |
Monitor: | Hannspree HF199H 19" |
Sound Card: | Speakers (Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS (WDM)) |
Speakers/Headphones: | |
Keyboard: | USB Root Hub |
Mouse: | USB Root Hub |
Mouse Surface: | |
Operating System: | Windows Vista™ Business (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080917-1612) |
Motherboard: | |
Computer Case: |
No complaints, not big into PC gaming, and it runs all of the game that I have on it. Again, not complaining, because it runs smoothly and my brother gave this computer to me. Aside from monitor, which was given as a Christmas present. I believe the computer is like 3-4 years old, and sounds like a fucking freight train. Since I have no knowledge in the building of PCs, this will probably be the current and future specs for awhile.
Vista x32 premium
".I was looking at the PC forums, and I noticed something: There was no thread explicitly for bragging about hardware. I could not stand for this travesty, and took steps to rectify the problem immediately. This is the result.Nice system you got there, why didn't you go with a Quad? and what RAID do you have your barracudas in?
Ok, anyway, here's mine:
OS: Windows Vista Business x64/ Ubuntu 8.10 x64
CPU: Intel E8500 (OC'd)
Mobo: XFX 780i SLI
Memory: DDR2 800 OCZ Reaper (4x2GB)
Video: SLI ZOTAC 8800GT (x2)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (3x500GB)
Case: XCLIO Windtunnel
Other thoughts: I have aftermarket cooling on both GPU's and on the CPU. It is really more necessary on the CPU though. I have the CPU OC'd to 3.8Ghz (brought FSB up to 1600). I have gotten the cpu above 4.0GHz stabely, but the RAM is the bottleneck, unless I have it under 800MHz, and getting the CPU that hight isn't really necessary. Also, I am not sure I have ever used all 8 gigs of memory, so unless you are gonna do multimedia editing, I wouldn't bother putting that much into a gaming rig.
Anyway, thats all for me. Ask questions, make comments, or post your own configuration. or even all three. Really. I won't stop you.
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Nice system you got there, why didn't you go with a Quad? and what RAID do you have your barracudas in?I didn't get a quad because the C2D is a better overclocker, and is also way cheaper. I could upgrade to a quad, but I think my next major upgrade (whcih wont be soon) will involve getting an LGA1366 Mobo and an i7. I actually dont have my Barracudas in RAID at all, I have linux on one, and the the other two NTFS with vista. One I have all the programs on, and the other I have partitioned, with my my stuff on one, and the OS on another partition.I was planning to RAID them, but I did some research, and RAID 0 would have sacrificed stability and only slightly improved game loading times, nothing else, and RAID 1 of course would be slower. I looked at RAID 5 too, but apparently it really sucks without a full hardware RAID card.I'll post my specs soon, when I get my final piece. =P
OS: Vista x64 Home Premieum
CPU: Intel Q6600 2.4 Ghz @ 3.0 Ghz
GPU: XFX Nvidia GTX 280
Motherboard: Asus P5N-32E 680i
Memory: OCZ 4GB 800mhz
Hard Drives: Seagate 250 GB 7200.10
Seagate 500 GB 7200.12
Western Digital 320 GB (for games)
Soundcard: Turtle Beach Montego sound card (using C-Media driver, vista x64 is not supported with default driver -_-)
Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling 750W
Case: Antec 1200
Monitor: Samsung 2493HM (24 inch monitor)
Beast:
Q6600 @ 3.15GHz (not the best OC because i kind of cheaped out on the mobo but hey, its got 4 cores) EDIT: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro for cooling.
XFX 8800GT Extreme 512MB (great card, starting to age after over a year but it plays what i want)
2GB Corsair XMS-2 (probably gonna upgrade to 4GB soon)
MSI P6N SLI Platinum (not the best for OCing my quad but oh well. it's SLI compatable if i decide to be crazy)
WD 320GB
onboard sound
Thermaltake Armor case with 25cm fan (great huge case, cool lights)
Other stuff:
Acer P221w 22" monitor (love this thing)
Creative GCS300 speakers
Shitty $30 Logitech headset
Microsoft Habu mouse -EDIT: Just bought a Logitech G5, I use that now!
Generic mousepad...
Regular Gateway keyboard (LOL)
So ya thats my hardware. I use Vista Home Premium x64.
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium x64
CPU: Intel q9300@3.3ghz
Mobo: EVGA 780i
Memory: DDR2 1066 2x2gb Corsair
Video: EVGA GTX 295
Storage: G.Skill 128gb SSD, WD Velociraptor(300gb), Seagate(300gb), WD MyBook 500gb
Case: Antec 900
Soundcard/Speakers: Bose Companion 3 2.1, Soundblaster XFi Titanium PCI-e
Headset/Mic: Bose headhpones/Logitech Deskmic
Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech g15, Microsoft Sidewinder(I really like the sidebutton layout on this mouse)
Monitor: LG 22" Widescreen(IM legally blind and i love this monitor reallyy is easy on my terrible eyes)
Thats all the relevent info. I really love my setup runs fast and cool and stable
Only thing i may buy rather soon is the g19 with the color lcd in the keyboard. Any other upgrades will have to wait till around the holidays.
Coulda sworn there was another thread like this... meh w/e.
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
CPU: Intel e4500 OCed to 3.00 GHz
Mobo: ASUS Maximus Formula
Memory: G.Skill 4gb 4-4-4-12 800MHz
Video: 9800GTX
Storage: WD 250GB HDD
Case: Crappy Apevia/aspire case
Soundcard/Speakers: Standard/standard
Headset: 50 dollar HP headset
P.S I totally stole the guys layout above me.
Processor: | Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.8GHz |
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Memory: | 4GB RAM but according to 32bit vista, 2556MB RAM |
Hard Drive: | 739 GB |
Video Card: | Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 SLI |
Monitor: | Samsung 50" DLP HDTV |
Sound Card: | Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi) |
Some wireless Logitech Keyboard and Mouse and for a mouse pad I'm using the Snes Mario Paint mousepad lol...
I will add to my hardware list -- I use a Logitech G5 mouse, a G11 keyboard, and occasionally an Xbox-360 controller (mostly on ported games without good kb/m controlls).
Also, just a general hardware comment, I am glad to see, as an Nvidia loyalist, that they are back on top (with the new GTX295 topping ATI's 4870x2, as well as being (very slightly) cheaper).
"You know that x32 OS's only address a total of 4gb. Basically 4gb-Vram on GFX Card and other things then w/e is left over from the 4gb total is what your system memory will be. I dont know if that makes sense, but if you put 4gb of ram in a machine you really should get a x64 OS. You've spent enough on the rest of the system upgrading the OS to use all your ram shouldn't be a big deal.and Vista 32-bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.8GHzMemory: 4GB RAM but according to 32bit vista, 2556MB RAMHard Drive: 739 GBVideo Card: Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 SLIMonitor: Samsung 50" DLP HDTVSound Card: Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi)
Some wireless Logitech Keyboard and Mouse and for a mouse pad I'm using the Snes Mario Paint mousepad lol..."
Vista HP 64bit
AMD Phenom 9850BE 2.5gig Zalman cnps 9700 cooler 28c idle 35c load, fan almost off.
Biostar T-Series mobo
Radeon 4850 Thermalright T-rad2 cooler OC 700core 1k mem 30c idle 40c load
4gigs G-Skill DDR2 1066mhz mem
Western Digital 7200rpm 250gig HD
Sony cdrw/dvdr drive
Coolermaster lan case. Don't remember the model, but it's convenient as hell.
If I could get the phenom to OC I would, because my cooler isn't being pushed at all, but I can't get the damn mobo to let me do it. The black editions were supposed to have unlocked multipliers, but the mobo doesn't give me the option to overclock at all besides the custom OC feature it has, and even that doesn't work. sigh.
Just built a new PC from scratch this month (first home build) -
Case: Antec 1200
Motherboard: MSI Eclipse X58
Processor: Intel i7 920
Memory: 6GB DDR3 Corsair Dominator
Graphics Cards: 2 x BFG GTX280 OC in SLi
Power Supply: Corsair HX1000W
Hard Drive: Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB
Sound Card: Creative Xfi Xtremegamer
Monitor: Samsung T260
DVD/BluRay: LG GGC-H2OL
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit
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