It has arrived!

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Sun May 28, 2006 2:50 pm

Harshboy's Compy (Mine, as in, not my families):

3.2 Ghz P4 CPU
1 GB Ram
Nvidia GForce 6800 GT 256 MB Gfx Card
Sound Blaster Audigity 2 ZS
250 GB Hard Drive
19 in. LCD Flat panel LCD
5.1 Surround Sound

Extra info:

8 Internal USB ports. 11 total including Hub
TV Out, VGA, DVI ports
Linksys Ethernet Card
Gigabit Ethernet Card
Linksys PCI Wireless Card (WMP54G)
Dell Photo All-in-One 962 (Fax, printer, coppier, scanner)
3 Xbox Ports (for mem cards and controllers).....Via USB Hub/ports
Linksys WRT54GS Router (wireless and wired)
Comcast High Speed Internet (6 MB/sec) and RCA Modem

I'm going to upgrade Ram to 2.5 GB and hard drive to 500 GB

So i just need to buy:

1 GB Ram
512 MB Ram
250 GB HDD

...i'm also buying a Macbook with my money i get from my summer job.

HomicidalBarber · Post by **HomicidalBarber** » Sun May 28, 2006 6:57 pm

2.5 gigs seemed a little overkill to me. I heard that any more than 2 gigs becomes inefficient.

Post by **Skyone** » Sun May 28, 2006 8:44 pm

I have 2 gigs - I've never used more than 22% of my memory. Plus, pairing 1GB with 512MB is horrible. The CPU doesn't handle the RAM well that way. Use pairs like 1GB and 1GB.

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Sun May 28, 2006 10:10 pm

yea that is ture about ram thy need to match off each other (jsut wait a year and get two 2Gig sticks)

However, I do run 768 ram in the PC i am using right now, however, it only has two ram slots and I do not play any real powerful games (NWN and Morrowind are pushing my wal-mart 128MB Graphics card, NIVIDIA designed though)

anyway Try not to mismatch pairs It doen't work as well as it does on paper ( I only did it because I had to)

Post by **Skyone** » Sun May 28, 2006 10:24 pm

Pft... alright:

3.6 Ghz P4 CPU
2 GB Ram
ATI 100-435705 Radeon X1800XT 512MB
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
250 GB Hard Drive (in case)
1.5 Terabytes external raid (yes, that's 1500 GB)
19 in. LCD Flat panel LCD
7.1 Surround Sound
Wierd-ass TV card

Next month I will be getting:

AMD Athlon 64 FX60 2000MHz 2.6GHz
Socket 939 Motherboard

Cash flow, eh?

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Mon May 29, 2006 1:13 pm

I recently overhauled my PC, but it's over a year old. Still, it kicks butt as far as this house is concerned...

3E GHz Pentium 4 Prescott, 1 MB cache, 800MHz (200MHz quad-pumped) FSB (in actuality, 200MHzx15)
1GB DDR 400 RAM (2 512MB stick set up in Dual Channel)
4 USB 2.0 ports on the back, 4 more internal (need a USB header)
3 firewire (added later)
DVD+/-RW with dual layer capability
1.44 MB floppy
ZIP100 drive
120 total GB
256MHz Diamond card with ATI 9550 technology
(hooked to both my monitor and my TV for DVD/video file playback)
Compact Flash 1 and 2 reader
Microsoft Sidewinder USB 1.1 gamepad
10/100Mbps Ethernet
2 port KVM switch for testing other boxes
Wired and Wireless router

I'm planning to add a lot more to this box, since I went to a programmer's yard sale and cleaned house. I actually got a pair of 2 port KVM switches, the cables for them, a USB webcam, the firewire card, a compart flash wireless 802.11b card, two USB optical mice, and one of those USB Dazzle video dongles all for $19 US. Once I get drivers for the other stuff and a USB hub or a header for the internal ports (internal USB cards make my system's I/O act generally flaky, even disabling both PS/2 ports) I will RE-overhaul it.

I also have at least a dozen sub-1GHz tinker boards, ranging from a 386SX-40 to a Celeron 900.

My laptop is...

Toshiba Satellite 100CT or CS
(forget which, this one has independent Passive LCD controller board)
100MHz Pentium, complete with "F00F" bug
40MB RAM
400MB Hard Drive (soon to be 1.2GB, maybe)
1.44MB floppy drive
External (Parallel port) 100MB ZIP
(still slow, but a better way of installing Windows 95 with the CD's
drivers. Turns out to be about 95 MB or so.)
256 color video (pain to find the driver for it, too.)

HomicidalBarber · Post by **HomicidalBarber** » Mon May 29, 2006 1:16 pm

I have a hard time comparing ATI to Nvidia, what could you compare the X1800 to?

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Mon May 29, 2006 1:19 pm

I've never used the X1800, sorry. No clue. In addition, I don't play too many modern games. I'm a UT:GOTY player, usually, and you can play that on a Pentium MMX machine.

sniper_spike · Post by **sniper_spike** » Mon May 29, 2006 1:56 pm

HomicidalBarber wrote:I have a hard time comparing ATI to Nvidia, what could you compare the X1800 to?

Depends which X1800 you're talking about, but around the 7800GT-GTX (256MB) range.
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2552&p=10

Edit: Skyone-thank goodness you're getting an AMD chips, that 3.6ghz P4 is really holding your X1800 back. >_<