Just curious what everyone's working with. Mine needs a GPU upgrade but it's surviving.
P4 2.8ghz Northwood Core @ 3.4 w/Zalman cooler
eVGA 6800GT w/Arctic Cooler
1GB Kingston DDR400 ValuRam
Asus P4P800-SE
Fortron 400w PSU w/120mm fan
Antec Sonata II Case
Zalman Fan Speed Controller
2 Seagate 400gb HDs
Viewsonic 19" 2ms LCD
My system is pretty dated by now, the only alteration from its stock off-the-shelf form was the change of a PSU (from 300W to 350W because my old one couldn't handle the new vid card strain) and the video card because the original GFTi4200 128mb I had I managed to actually SLAG.
The system is as follows:
Intel Pentium 4 2.53 GHz CPU
256MB+512=768MB DDR RAM (don't ask me the make, please, because I don't have a good memory for this stuff) :D)
ASUS GF6600GT 256mb AGP
80GB and 120GB Seagate HDDs
Creative SB Audigy (the very first one without any postfixes) - with the fancy OpenAL beta drivers
Nothing to write home about, but it gets the job done :D
Heh...my system.. built on the cheap about 3.5 years ago...
Cheap generic case, (500Watt PSU fitted later)
Amd Athlon XP 2100+ (clocks at 1600MHz or so),
Some cheap,generic mainboard
1gig DDR cheap generic
Geforce 7600GT (bought 4 months ago so I could see fancy MUA lighting for meshing purposes)
2 80 gig and one 120gig HDD
Creative Audigy (bought cheap because it was unpackaged)
20 inch monitor thats @three feet deep and weighs @700lbs(bought secondhand for bargain 20quid!)
Well, it's not here yet, but it's coming:
Alienware Area-51 M9750 (laptop):
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7600 2.33GHz 4MB Cache 667MHz FSB
Operating System: Genuine Windows XP Professional (the hell with that Vista garbage)
Chassis: 17" WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD with Clearview Technology
Memory: 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz - 2 x 1024MB
System Drive: 200GB Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ NCQ & 16MB Cache
Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 8x Dual Layer CD-RW/DVD±RW
Video/Graphics Card: Dual 512MB NVidia GeForce Go 7950 GTX - SLI Enabled
Wireless Network Card: Internal Intel PRO Wireless 3945 a/b/g Mini-Card
Sound Card: High-Definition Audio with surround sound
Case: Yeong Yang YY-0221(http://www.yeongyang.com/yy-0221.htm) a.k.a The Borg Cube
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13 GHz (Zalman CNPS 9500)
MOBO: ABit Fatality FP-IN9 SLI (NIC, Sound)
RAM: 2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 MHz
GPU: EVGA NVIDIA 8800 GTS 640MB
HD: Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA 7200 RPM
OS: Windows XP Professional
Guy- crazy case! Any advantage of using that vs. a standard desktop? Nice GPU too :D
Rage- SLI in a lappy :eek: Hope that's got a huge battery with it, or at least good power eating figures at idle. Sounds like you'll be keeping that one for a long time
Quote from: THX on May 20, 2007, 07:32AM
Guy- crazy case! Any advantage of using that vs. a standard desktop? Nice GPU too :D
Not really any advantage persay to using it; it's actually more of a disadvantage to using it over a standard desktop case because of the slightly higher ventilation requirements. It was designed to be used with hosting a server in mind.
I have read however that alot of people use this particular case in order to use a watercooling solution. My thoughts are always that water / electricity don't mix, so I just go with air driven silent cooling.
Quote from: THX on May 20, 2007, 07:32AM
Rage- SLI in a lappy :eek: Hope that's got a huge battery with it, or at least good power eating figures at idle. Sounds like you'll be keeping that one for a long time
Most definitely. The model is a brand new one which is made to support heavy power usage like this, and Alienware has been using SLI in laptops for a while now. The battery is on steroids, and I got an extra one to go along with it. I'll always have it plugged in while at class though, so I won't have to worry about it. I figured if I'm going to get a laptop, might as well get the most advanced stuff out there I can so I won't have to upgrade for a while. With the chassis it has, it's easily removable so I can upgrade my processor too, which can't be said about the Dell I currently have. It's going to be hella fun though. :)
Link (http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/Area-51_m9750/area-51m_overview.aspx?SysCode=PC-LT-AREA51M9750&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT&from=PCG&source=PRAD0031)
Nice Rig GuyIncognito, it looks a lot like my current NewEgg wishlist... :p~
I'm torn between Corsair and Crucial RAM and now that the ATI DX10 cards came out...
How do you like your GPU for price / performance?
The 8800 GTS was a long story... it started out as two EVGA 7900 GS KOs (with the intention to go SLI); one that I had purchased on NewEgg and the other which I had purchased on eBay. Unfortunately, I wasn't that well informed on EVGA's Step Up Policy until it was too late, so I only utilized their Step Up Program for one of the cards.
To answer the question of price / performance, worth it unless in the future we go to a 3-card SLI standard. I went from playing Titan Quest on a laptop with an ATI x300 (128 mb) with all advanced effects off to a playing it on the rig I stated above with all the advanced effects on.
Unless you absolutely need the 768 mb GTX there really shouldn't be that much of a noticeable difference which would warrant the extra money.
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On a side note, I'm now contemplating mods to my case.
I've already cut a whole in the side for 120mm LED fan as a exhaust... but the fact that the LEDs on the motherboard glow red and the fan glows white almost begs me to mod the case further.
Show me dual 768mb 8800 GTX cards on a rig and I'll be one happy man (which is what I want eventually... overkill, yes, but very nice overkill nonetheless). On that note, since I got my souped up laptop coming, it's time to start upgrading my desktop. Has anyone tried or heard anything good/bad about Intel's quad core? I'm not sure how it will interact with programs, since not everything is multi-threaded yet. I mean, the dual core has problems enough as it is (a lot of older games have issues with a dual core processor because they are single-threaded programs and were not designed to use both cores of the processor, thus using only one and operating at half your processor speed), but a quad core? That's just asking for trouble I would think. Any opinions?
Quote from: Burning Rage on May 21, 2007, 04:57PM
Show me dual 768mb 8800 GTX cards on a rig and I'll be one happy man (which is what I want eventually...
I'll see if my friend has any pictures of his watercooling setup.
As for Quad Core.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/10/four_cores_on_the_rampage/page14.html
I'm finally getting my laptop! They decided they were going to stop delaying the order and build the damn thing. I've changed the order a tad since then, now featuring two fast as Chocolate egg hard drives... in RAID 0! Updated specs:
Alienware Area-51 M9750 (laptop):
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7600 2.33GHz 4MB Cache 667MHz FSB
Operating System: Genuine Windows XP Professional (the hell with that Vista garbage)
Chassis: 17" WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD with Clearview Technology
Memory: 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz - 2 x 1024MB
System Drive(s): Dual (2) 200GB Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ NCQ & 16MB Cache (RAID 0 configuration, 400gb total)
Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 8x Dual Layer CD-RW/DVD±RW
Video/Graphics Card: Dual 512MB NVidia GeForce Go 7950 GTX - SLI Enabled
Wireless Network Card: Internal Intel PRO Wireless 3945 a/b/g Mini-Card
Sound Card: High-Definition Audio with surround sound
I should get it in the next week or two. :)
Quote from: Burning Rage on June 26, 2007, 04:28PM
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7600 2.33GHz 4MB Cache 667MHz FSB
Your not going to wait for/get the 800MHz FSB?, obviously your not, but I guess then, why not?
Quote from: Burning Rage on June 26, 2007, 04:28PM
I'm finally getting my laptop! They decided they were going to stop delaying the order and build the damn thing. I've changed the order a tad since then, now featuring two fast as Chocolate egg hard drives... in RAID 0! Updated specs:
Alienware Area-51 M9750 (laptop):
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7600 2.33GHz 4MB Cache 667MHz FSB
Operating System: Genuine Windows XP Professional (the hell with that Vista garbage)
Chassis: 17" WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD with Clearview Technology
Memory: 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz - 2 x 1024MB
System Drive(s): Dual (2) 200GB Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ NCQ & 16MB Cache (RAID 0 configuration, 400gb total)
Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 8x Dual Layer CD-RW/DVD±RW
Video/Graphics Card: Dual 512MB NVidia GeForce Go 7950 GTX - SLI Enabled
Wireless Network Card: Internal Intel PRO Wireless 3945 a/b/g Mini-Card
Sound Card: High-Definition Audio with surround sound
I should get it in the next week or two. :)
I'm jealous! :P Mind to tell how much it costed for that deal?
Quote from: Norrin Radd on June 26, 2007, 06:34PM
Quote from: Burning Rage on June 26, 2007, 04:28PM
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7600 2.33GHz 4MB Cache 667MHz FSB
Your not going to wait for/get the 800MHz FSB?, obviously your not, but I guess then, why not?
Because Alienware doesn't offer that with any of their Intel laptops. Dell doesn't even offer it with their XPS laptops (I don't know if the Core Duo has an 800MHz for a laptop... they do for a desktop). The AMD comes with 800, but the Core Duo doesn't. It doesn't really matter that much, as the processor is still fast, and isn't the slowest component. I orderd the thing two months ago. At this point I just want to get it.
Quote from: iammingy on June 26, 2007, 10:52PM
I'm jealous! :P Mind to tell how much it costed for that deal?
Too much. :laugh:
Intel Celeron 2.93 GHz
Windows XP Home
760MB Ram
Standard 80 Gig harddrive
Intergrated Intel Extreme 82845G 64mb Graphics
Pssh, I blow away any AlienWare with my parents 2-year old $600 Wal-Mart Bundle PC. :lamer:
When I can find a decent job, I want to get an AMD 3800+, 250Gig, 1gig Ram, 7800GT system for about $800 online, but that'll be a few more months. :hyper:
Quote from: Keero on June 27, 2007, 01:20AM
Pssh, I blow away any AlienWare with my parents 2-year old $600 Wal-Mart Bundle PC. :lamer:
:rofl: I'm sure... :p
QuoteWhen I can find a decent job, I want to get an AMD 3800+, 250Gig, 1gig Ram, 7800GT system for about $800 online, but that'll be a few more months. :hyper:
Why don't you build your own? Start with a case, basic hardware, and upgrade as you go. Fork over the cash for the motherboard and processor right away (or at least the motherboard), then the rest can be upgraded later (the motherboard and processor can too, but it's really a ton easier to get those set and leave them alone). Graphics cards are easy to swap, as are hard drives, sound cards, etc. I'm currently pretending to be in the process of rebuilding my desktop. However, I'm hardly ever home, so I got the laptop. I'll get back to my desktop eventually. For my desktop, the minimum specs I want are:
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme QX6700 2.66GHz 8MB Cache 1066MHz FSB - Overclocked to 3.2GHz
Operating System: Genuine Windows XP Professional
Case: something with liquid cooling... haven't looked yet
Memory: 8GB Low Latency Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 1066MHz - 4 x 2048MB
Primary Drives: Dual (2) 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/32MB Cache (RAID 0 configuration, 2TB total)
Storage Drives: 2 x 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/32MB Cache (2TB total)
Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 20X Dual Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Writer
Secondary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 20X Dual Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Writer
Video/Graphics Card: Dual 768MB NVidia GeForce 8800 Ultra - SLI Enabled
Physics Processor: Ageia PhysX PCI-Express Processing Unit w/ 128MB GDDR3
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer High Definition 7.1 Audio
Well, you know... the basics (that's pretty hefty minimum specs, and hits the wallet with a nice punch). I already have a 32" 1080p HDTV, so I can just plug the desktop in that. I'll start building it later this summer. Going to be another expensive project I tells ya!
Well I wanted to build my own for about $500 in the US (moved here last year), but sites like Newegg and such don't ship up here. So I found a few pre-built ones that are upgradeable for under a grand, but I just need to work to get some decent cash. I'm not that much of a gamer, so I play casually so the specs you posted would be overkill for what I do anyways. :P
Quotefrom Burning Rage
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme QX6700 2.66GHz 8MB Cache 1066MHz FSB - Overclocked to 3.2GHz
Operating System: Genuine Windows XP Professional
Case: something with liquid cooling... haven't looked yet
Memory: 8GB Low Latency Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 1066MHz - 4 x 2048MB
Primary Drives: Dual (2) 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/32MB Cache (RAID 0 configuration, 2TB total)
Storage Drives: 2 x 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/32MB Cache (2TB total)
Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 20X Dual Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Writer
Secondary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 20X Dual Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Writer
Video/Graphics Card: Dual 768MB NVidia GeForce 8800 Ultra - SLI Enabled
Physics Processor: Ageia PhysX PCI-Express Processing Unit w/ 128MB GDDR3
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer High Definition 7.1 Audio
I'm not 100 percent sure but I think you can land the space shuttle on Haleys Comet with that while hearing space dust fly by in wonderful surround sound :drool1:
Quote from: Burning Rage on June 26, 2007, 04:28PM
I'm finally getting my laptop! They decided they were going to stop delaying the order and build the damn thing. I've changed the order a tad since then, now featuring two fast as Chocolate egg hard drives... in RAID 0! Updated specs:
Alienware Area-51 M9750 (laptop):
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7600 2.33GHz 4MB Cache 667MHz FSB
Operating System: Genuine Windows XP Professional (the hell with that Vista garbage)
Chassis: 17" WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD with Clearview Technology
Memory: 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz - 2 x 1024MB
System Drive(s): Dual (2) 200GB Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ NCQ & 16MB Cache (RAID 0 configuration, 400gb total)
Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 8x Dual Layer CD-RW/DVD±RW
Video/Graphics Card: Dual 512MB NVidia GeForce Go 7950 GTX - SLI Enabled
Wireless Network Card: Internal Intel PRO Wireless 3945 a/b/g Mini-Card
Sound Card: High-Definition Audio with surround sound
I should get it in the next week or two. :)
After ordering it two months ago, I just FINALLY got my new laptop today. Let me tell you, SLI with these graphics cards I got phuking rocks! It's nice to finally be able to play with advanced lighting mode on with all the highest graphics settings, and lose almost no frame rates whatsoever... Also, a 1920x1200 screen resolution is just nut-bustingly sexy. This computers kicks ass. As awesome as it is, I would NOT recommend ordering Alienware though if you are in a hurry to get your computer. If you don't mind sitting around and waiting forever for it to come though, then Alienware is the way to go.
it works, thats all i want and need to know...
In the six months and a week that have passed since my last post here, there was only one alteration I've made to my rig, and that was swapping the 256mb RAM stick for a 1Gb one. Unfortunately enough, my dated motherboard won't agree to work with more than 1,5 Gigs of RAM. Shoot.