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Post your computer stats and a picture if possible. Try to follow this format:
Picture:
more pictures: http://www.poopinmymouth.com/net/pics/laptop/
Screen: 17" 1680x1050
GFX card: Quadro 1500m (think 7900 GT) 256mb
CPU: Dual Core 2 ghz
Ram: 2 gb 533mhz
HD: 80 gb SATA 8mb cache 5400 rpm (supplemented by my external 600 gb dual SATA 7200 rpm firewire drive)
Hopefully this will just be a fun comparison of system set ups.
Picture:
more pictures: http://www.poopinmymouth.com/net/pics/laptop/
Screen: 17" 1680x1050
GFX card: Quadro 1500m (think 7900 GT) 256mb
CPU: Dual Core 2 ghz
Ram: 2 gb 533mhz
HD: 80 gb SATA 8mb cache 5400 rpm (supplemented by my external 600 gb dual SATA 7200 rpm firewire drive)
Hopefully this will just be a fun comparison of system set ups.
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Here's the specs on my HP zd8000 Laptop (maybe pics later:
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 630 w/HT Technology, 3.0GHz
17.0" WSXGA+ BrightView Wide Viewing (1680x1050)
1.0GB DDR2 SDRAM, 533MHz (2x512MB)
80 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive
DVD+/-RW/R CD-RW Combo w/Double Layer
256MB ATI Mobility Radeon(TM) X600
54g(TM) Integ. Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN & Bluetooth
My Desktop is an AMD 3200 64 with 1GB 3200 DDR and a ATI 1600Pro Radeon.
PC:
Screen: 19" 1440x900
GFX card: GeForce FX 6600 128mb
CPU: Athlon XP 3000
RAM: 1 gb 400mhz
HD: 1 80 gb and 1 40 gb (unsure about the more technical bits...)
Yeah, I plan on upgrading around winter.
Laptop:
Screen: 15.4" 1280x800
GFX card: GeForce Go 6200 256 mb
CPU: Pentium M 1.7 ghz
Ram: 512 gb 400 mhz
HD: 60gb (once again unsure about the techy bits)
Screen: Samtron 19" 93 KHz (I think) running at 1280x960x85Hz
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ first gen 939
GPU: NVidia Geforce 6800 (AGP)
RAM: 2x512MB GEiL DDR-sumthin
Drives: IBM 160GB HDD, Samsung 80GB HDD, DVD drive (I'd have to look speed and manufacturer up by unscrewing it), DVD writer NEC 16x DL
Sound onboard, ASUS Wifi card, rt26x0 based, configured for Nintendo DS upload mode
Input devices: Logitech MX1000, Wacom Graphire, Speedlink Stormtrooper (gamepad), Microsoft XBox 360 controller, Microsoft Sidewinder Gamepad (gets connected on demand)
The Speedlink Stormtrooper has a nice deadzone for the analog stick in digital mode which makes it better for 2d games than the XBox 360 controller (which uses the dpad as a coolie hat and as such causes problems with many games).
So, do you like the screen on that now that you've seen it?
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Loooooove it. Great color reproduction, good contrast. If I could make an improvement, I would make it able to go brighter. It's great in the evenings and at night, but if it's too bright around, it's just a tad too dim. If it had one or two notches higher in the brightness I'd be happier.
Say hello to Desky, her innards include:
ASRock SATA-II mobo
AMD 64 4000+ (running stock 2.4ghz)
2 gigs of Corsair RAM PC3200
7200rpm 160gig HDD
Geforce 6800GT
19 inch viewsonic
This one here is Lappy, and she's a little bit more feisty
Intel Core Duo 2.0ghz
2 gigs DDR2 at 667MHz
60 gig 7200rpm HDD
Geforce GO 7900GS
17 inch widescreen WXGA+
- Thermaltake Black Armor case
- Thermaltake Tough Power 650w PSU
- BFG GeForce 7950GX2
- Corsair XMS PC6400c (2x1GB)
- ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe X16
- Western Digital Caviar HDD 500GB (2x250GB) Raid0
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (picking this up tomorrow)
- Misc Zalman cooling products (cpu/gpu)
Excuse the shitty cell-phone cam pic:
Screen: 17" Gateway EV700
GFX card: Radeon 9800PRO 128MB
SFX card: Live 5.1
CPU: single core Athlon 64 3200
Ram: 512MB PC3200
HD: 160GB Seagate ATA
CD: PX-716A DVD-RW Dual layer burner
OS: Kubuntu Dapper / Windows XP Professional x64 edition SP2
I'm building a new one next week, so I'll post the component pics tonight. Here's the specs:
- Thermaltake Black Armor case
- Thermaltake Tough Power 650w PSU
- BFG GeForce 7950GX2
- Corsair XMS PC6400c (2x1GB)
- ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe X16
- Western Digital Caviar HDD 500GB (2x250GB) Raid0
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (picking this up tomorrow)
- Misc Zalman cooling products (cpu/gpu)
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Hey, no fair posting future specs :P Otherwise I'm going to talk about my 3 Terrabyte processor
Neo - everything came up to just under $2200. Since Conroe's are still hard to come by, I'm also paying a slight premium (about $100 extra). The expensive mobo ($260) was from lack of options. It's the only Conroe-compatible mobo to have pci-e x16 SLI support. I could have waited another month for the Nforce5 boards, but they offer little more in performance. Once they come out though, the price on this mobo will likely drop to $200 or less.
A similar system built from Dell are Alienware is about $3000 or more.
And just for notman, my current specs
- Athlon64 3500+
- ASUS A8N Deluxe mobo
- Generic 350W PSU
- Alienware case
- 2GB Corsair XMS PC3200LL(2x1GB)
- Nvidia Geforce 6800GT
- Plextor 52x CDR+RW
- Lite-On 8x DVDR+RW
- 3HDDs (1x120gb)(1x80gb)(1x60gb)
- Creative Audigy 2ZS
^^The only thing that's stock alienware now, is the case and plextor drive :P
Runs current/past gen games great. Stuff like FEAR, Company of Heroes or Oblivion makes it look old, though.
And here's my "mobile desktop":
- Intel P4 3.2ghz
- 1GB ram
- GeForce Go 6800
http://oxtongue.co.uk/crap/baghdad.JPG - dust and spider web infested internals.
Screens: CTX 21" (1600*1200), Panasonic 27" (1024*768)
GFX card: XFX 6600gt 128MB
Mobo: MSI 745 Ultra
CPU: Athlonxp 1600+(1400MHz)
RAM: 1 gig (2*512 MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
HDD: 80gig, 40gig Western Digital
Optical: Lite-On dvd+-R/RW, Lite-On cdr/rw
Soundcard: Creative SB PCI128
Speakers: 13 year old Altec Lansing soon to be replaced by Logitech Z5400
Network: D-Link DFE-530TX+ PCI Adapter
ADSL/Router: Linksys WAG354G
Soon to be inside a MAME/fileserver cabinet.
Athlon 64 3500+
Gigabyte Geforce 6600gt with this silent pipe thing
Wacom Graphire3(A6 size, saving for an A5 Intuos)
1 gb ram(2x 512mb Kingston Hyper X)
Asus A8V-E SE mainboard(slow on start up)
Asus TA581 case
400Watt LC Power PSU
80gb IDE + 80gb SATA hdd
No name DVD writer
Zoom G2.1u sound card
I use my guitar amp as a speaker(which is mono
NEC 17" LCD(1280*1024) multisync 1770nx
Tomorrow I'll install two new case fans(Arctic Fan 8) so the case will hopefully be as silent as possible
1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 processor
1GB RAM
40 GB hard drive
40 GB backup Drive
19 rock hard inches of LCD pleasure
Sexy bits
Stuff
Once her PC is built, you can have first dibs on the parts.
There should still be enough to build a whole PC. I think even the older PC has a 1.5ghz chip.
iBook Mac OS X 10.3.9
1.04 GHz PowerPC G4
768 MB DDR SDRAM
screen: 14 inch 1024x786
ATI Mobility Radeon 9200,AGP, 32 MB
40 GB harddrive (Azkaban)
DVD/CD-RW drive
Compaq PC
Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2
Intel Celeron CPU 2.93GHz
768 MB DDR
NVidia GeForce FX 5500 256 MB
17 inch Monitor @ 1280x960
80 GB harddrive Durmstrang(C:) 68.5 GB Beaubatons(H:) 5.98GB
250 GB harddrive Hogwarts(E:) 250 GB
DVD-RW drive
DVD/CD-RW drive
9-in-1 card reader
Compact Flash I, Compact Flash II, SmartMedia, Memory Stick Memory Stick Pro, MultiMediaCard, Secure Digital (SD), Micro Drive, XD Picture Card (xD = extreme digital)
harman/kardon speakers scavenged from a cousin's pc
Wacom Graphire tablet
SanDisk 256mb MP3 player
Kodak EasyShare CX6330 digital camera (used to take pictures)
Screen: 17" 1920 x 1200 (one of those ultrasharp/ultraclear/tru/clear thingies - shiny)
GFX card: GeForce 6800 Go 256 MB
CPU: Intel Pentium M 2 Ghz
Ram: 1 GB
HD: 100 GB 5400 rpm (Ultra ATA)
I've had it for a year, and still love it.
Getting old...but still good enuff...
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ overclocked to 1.82 ghz
1 gb DDR Ram
GeForce 6800 GS 256mb video card overclocked and opened up
Thermaltake Big Typhoon
Saitek Eclipse keyboard
Razer Copperhead mouse
Aluminum A-top Z-Alien case
Linux Gentoo
Imagine that, Irritant has aliens all over his case, who-da-thunk-it?
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I'm sure glad CheapAlert didn't post his rig!
no pic for mine, my desk is a mess;
24" Philips LCD Monitor
Pentium 4 3.0ghz
Geforce 6800 Ultra 256mb
1 gig DDR2 RAM
Half a terabyte of HD space
Wacom Intuos 2 6x8 Platinum
Isn't that one of those wind-up $100 PC's?
Isn't that one of those wind-up $100 PC's?
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Yeah, but I don't think the final producted ended up like that
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/08/17/100.dollar.laptops.ap/index.html
That and that they pissed off Bill Gates - enough to earn his scorn anyway
P4E 3.0 with 1mb cache
1GB Corsair XMSPro3200XL @ 2.2.2.5
256mb AGP Sappire X1600Pro
Seagate 200GB SATA
Seagate 40GB IDE (OS and swap file)
Maxtor 60GB (games and music)
DVDRW
This is a temp rig while I wait for parts for my new one
I am not particularly fond of my dining room table desk, so hope to get that replaced soon
Specs:
AMD64 3500+
ASUS A8N-E
2GB G.Skill PC3200
WD Raptor 74GB 10k rpm
WD 160GB SATAII
XFX Geforce 7800GTX
Samsung 204T
Hitachi CM721F
And you guys would recognise the other bits in there
specs:
2ghz intel core duo
1gb ddr2 sdram
250gb internal drive
128mb ati RadeonX1600 at 1680 x 1050 on a 20" LCD + 19" LCD both DVI
external drives (one usb, one firewire) Lacie Porche 250gb each
Widescreeen wacom tablet
Though, no offense, but i'd probably get so sick of those Drive "guard" things on the case... things like that just get in my way.
Is the 7950 all you could hope for?
Yeah, it's defineatly a great rig. It's about 120% faster than my previous setup. Oblivion has gone from 15fps up to 60fps solid. Other games are just as good.
The 7950 has it's problems with some games though. Do does the dual-core chip.
I play World War 2 online for example. That game isn't really optimized for dual-GPU or dual-core CPUs. So I only get around 30-40fps. And it's not a visually impressive game, either. Both of my cpu cores are at a mere 20-30% when playing the game.
So, it just depends on the game, really. But it IS a fast system
What do you think?
and btw. 2x250gb in raid0 like your's is better than a single 500gb? (all from western digital of course) (are they silent?)
Raid0 is perfect for gaming and sheer speed. You can have up to (I think) 4 drivers in a Raid0 array.
As for the mobo, I got the P5N32 SLI Deluxe, because it was the only pciX16 SLI board that supported Core2Duo.
I just use my laptop, its nothing too powerful, it does its job though.
I took this pic with my new cell phone, the "Chocolate" 1.3 megapixels.. quite swanky
As for the mobo, I got the P5N32 SLI Deluxe, because it was the only pciX16 SLI board that supported Core2Duo.
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Hum, i see, so. do you know any sites that does comparisions between components? Mobos and stuff?
Awesome site, updated with hardware related info more than once a week. The only one you need.
What im gonna do is set up a rig i would like to buy. then wait one more month and then buy it. Since the computer market fluctuates so much i might end up saving a few bucks. (or euros on may case. :P)