Your Gaming Machine

[KraZy_SkitZy]

Jus like to see what you you guys are using as your PRIMARY gaming machine or primary system... I wonder how many people are still using Pentium 2 or K6-2 or lowers systems? lol

My Machine:

Pentium 4 2Ghz
Gigabyte GA- 8IE
512MB PC2700 DDR
Maxtor 40gig 7200rpm Hard Drive ATA/133 (Primary)
Maxtor 60gig 7200rpm Hard Drive ATA/133 (Secondary)
ATI Radeon 8500 128mb DDR (Retail, Built By ATI)
MSI TV @nywhere
Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo II Digital Edition
US Robotics 56k Voice V.90
Macronix 10/100 Network Card
Pioneer 16x40x DVD Slot Load
LG 48x16x48
Thrustmaster FireStorm Dual Power Gamepad
Enmax 350w Power Supply Dual Fan
Logitec Cordless Freedom Optical
Logitech Z-680

[cbh]

My PC Configuration:

AMD 1.2GB Thunderbird Athlon
ABit KT7E motherboard (Without RAID)
320MB SDRAM
IBM 12GB harddisk
Ricoh 40x10x40x CD-RW
Asus 40x CD-ROM
SoundBlaster Live 'Value' sound card
Intel Pro/100+ LAN/Network card
Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra 64MB video card
HP inkjet printer
HP multipurpose keyboard
Trekker mouse
Cambridge SoundWorks 2-point surround system
Matsui Floppy drive
Iomega 100MB zip drive (External)
Motorola cable modem (Starhub)
Casing? Dunno the brand

:D

[Kanata X]

Upgrades coming soon..

AMD Athalon XP 2400+
K7S5A Mother board
1 GB DDR PC2700 Ram
Maxtor 40gig 7200rpm Hard Drive ATA/133
ATI Radeon 7500 64mb DDR 4x AGP
A-Open Cobra AW-850 5.1 Sound Card
5.1 Logitech surround speakers and subwoofer
52x A-Open cdrom
40x-12x-48x Liteon Burner
Logitec Optical mouse with cord
Microsoft Gamepad 10 button
On board LAN (Yuck)
Com 21 Cable modem
17" Compaq 7550 moniter
Win XP pro

Last but not least, a piece of a card board box for a mouse pad! ^_^ ;)

[cbh]

I like to know whether my PC needs upgrading or not?

[KraZy_SkitZy]

Originally posted by cbh
I like to know whether my PC needs upgrading or not?

My theory on "needing to upgrade" is... Only upgrade components when games you play or like to play can't be played on your current PC configuration at all or at a Descent framerate (30fps+ is all you need) Not just upgrade wen ever something new comes out or your components have been forgotten about at the store you bout your component at a week ago, lol...

But I think your system is fine, it still plays games I bet, maybe get a video card that is DirectX 8/8.1 and 128mb, somethin like a Radeon 8500LE, or 9100/9200 would suffice, other than that I believe your system is good enough, maybe add some more ram, (it's SDram right?) cuz iSDram is cheap, and more ram is always good, :t

[RamonGTP]

ok, my turn...

EPoX 8K3A+ (KT333) motherboard
XP2100+ @ 2400+ (150 FSB)
1x512 MB PC3200 & 1x256MB PC2700 (Corsair XMS)
PNY GF4 Ti4400 (285/600)
Sound Blaster Audigy2 Platinum sound card
Cambridge SoundWorks 5-piece speakers
60GB 7200RPM IBM hard drive
20x10x40 Yamaha CDRW
DVD
Super Flower all aluminum black case w/6 fans (2 of them neon)
Microsoft keyboard and optical mouse
Enermax 350watt PSU

I think thats about all the important stuff

UPDATE: My XP2100+ @ 2400+ is now running @ 2700+ by upping the FSB to 166 :D :cool:

[Kanata X]

Originally posted by cbh
I like to know whether my PC needs upgrading or not?

Your system is decent. There a thing or two that I would personally focus on. Your processor is fine, but will probley need an upgrade soon (Like in the next year, not right away. Just for next generation games soon to hit the shelves.)

The main thing I would focus on (And this is all personal preference, its not really a nessecity) Would be getting rid of the Hercules. I used to have one, and though it runs well, i don't find its compatability and textures are that great. I have run into a few games that I had issues with because of the hercules 3d prophet I had. Even with the games it did run, I found textures looked much better when I installed my ATI Radeon card. Textures looked completely different, and ran smoother.

But again, I'm not trying to knock on hercules head here. Your system isn't too bad. One of my friends is running a P3 600Mhz with 384 SD pc133 ram and a ATI radeon 9000 128meg DDR vid card, and he is able to run almost as much as I can, it suprised me but I've seen it. Sometimes it takes lower graphics settings though. But he is still running games like Mafia, Battlefield 1942, Hitman 2, and more. The only thing I've seen him have a problem with so far is Unreal 2 and GTA3.

Well, check others opinions too. :cool:

[darrenw1967]

AMD 2400+
Asus nforce 2 deluxe
2 x 256 mbs ddr ram
Albatron 128 mb ti 4200
80 gb wd with 8 meg cache
16X dvd
A05 dvd writer
IBM 9516 TFT monitor

Scores 10500 - 10900 in 3d mark 2001 se without overclocking

all change

Amd 2600+ running at 200 X 12
still asus a7n8x deluxe
2 x 256 crucial pc 3200 ddr
msi ti 4800 running at 320/700
80 gbs seagate serial ata hdd
rest as was

3d mark 2001 se 14286

[Mr Schmick]

Pentium 4@2.4Ghz
512Mb DDR RAM
Triplex Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128mb
MSI MAX Mainboard 6580
Seagate 80G HDD
Samsung 957p 19" flat monitor
Boston Acoustics BA7500 4.1 sound
SB Live!

My 2nd PC is a PIII 600@797Mhz, ASUS mobo, 512mb SDRAM, Geforce 2 MX400, Maxtor 12G HDD, 15" monitor, generic sound card.

I upgraded to my current system about 6 months ago as the old one was having problems running some of the latest games...

[ngc457]

AMD 2000+
Shuttle ak31 rev 3.1
1024 gig ddr ram have that much for photoshop.
ATI 8500le 128 ram
maxtor 80 gig
liteon 16x dvd
liteon cd-rw
SB Audigy2 Plat.
Klipsch 2.1 speakers
Samsung 955df 19" monitor
antec 400w ps

[cbh]

Originally posted by KraZy_SkitZy


My theory on "needing to upgrade" is... Only upgrade components when games you play or like to play can't be played on your current PC configuration at all or at a Descent framerate (30fps+ is all you need) Not just upgrade wen ever something new comes out or your components have been forgotten about at the store you bout your component at a week ago, lol...

But I think your system is fine, it still plays games I bet, maybe get a video card that is DirectX 8/8.1 and 128mb, somethin like a Radeon 8500LE, or 9100/9200 would suffice, other than that I believe your system is good enough, maybe add some more ram, (it's SDram right?) cuz iSDram is cheap, and more ram is always good, :t

How to check whether the video card is DirectX 8/8.1? I have installed DirectX 9A. I can't play C&C: Generals or Renegade. I can only play CS 1.5 and Delta Force: Task Force Dagger.

:(

[Scavenger7]

Pentium 4 2.4
Asus P4PE/L
1024 of corsair XMS pc2700
Maxtor 120 gig
Toshiba DVD
Toshiba DVD R/Rw
ATI Radeon 8500 128 (Built By ATi)
Planar CT1905S 19" LCD monitor
Motorola cable modem (Cox Communications)
Thermaltake Xaser II A6000 A Plus ( SILVER ), Aluminum ATX Full Tower .

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Epox 8rda+
XP2400+ (not o/c yet)
512mb PC2700 (good for 400FSB+ at CAS 3 ive seen)
Gf4ti4200 64mb overclocked (i know, i do need to upgrade)

Ive got the following parts in the cupboard which would maje a decent low end gaming syetm if and when i get around to buldign it for my dad

Abit kt7a RAID
tbird 1.33 @ 1.43
512mb PC133
Gf2mx400 64mb

--Jakk:t

[Cyan]

cbh - I'd say it's about time for a new video card and a lil bit more ram (video card first)

[DocEvi1]

http://www.students.ncl.ac.uk/stefan.carlton/Image10.jpg

I keep organised :D The prices are from when I bought it, all the kit is fairly old now - the newest is the gcard which is already a year old :(

Stefan

[Logan2002]

tualitn 1ghz i had it at 1150mhz but my 3d games kept crashing
1.256 gjgs 2512 and 256 pc133
ati radeon 7500 64megs ddr
40 gig hdd
52xcdrom
17 generic monitor
230 watt psu
i have been avigaltoffun withtis setup
i really like the tualitin cpu ceries

[d3sTrUcT0r]

1x AMD Athlon XP 2000+
2x 256mb Crucial DDR (pc2100)
1x Fujitsu 40 Gigabyte HDD
1x 10/100 LAN Card (For our small LAN parties with our mates)
1x Intel HaM 56k Modem
1x XFX Geforce 4 MX440SE (AGP 8x, running on 4x)
1x ECS K7S5A Motherboard
1x Samsung Combo (DVD/CD/CDR/CDRW) Drive
1x Floppy Drive
2x Nasty pink flat-panel speakers (a present..)
1x "Gaming" Headphones with mic.
1x USB Logitech Webcam
1x PS/2 Keyboard
1x Optical Mouse, USB, but running through PS/2 adapter

This system does me fine for gaming, Although I want to upgrade the graphics card. The graphics card just about manages Unreal II in 1024x768, provided I disable Anisotropic Filtering and FSAA, and overclock it to the max. therefore, any better games (Doom 3 anyone?) is never gonna run on this card. Im thinking R9500 or better :)

[KraZy_SkitZy]

Originally posted by cbh


How to check whether the video card is DirectX 8/8.1? I have installed DirectX 9A. I can't play C&C: Generals or Renegade. I can only play CS 1.5 and Delta Force: Task Force Dagger.

:(

Just look for a review on a video card and usually will tell you what direct X generation it is, or goto the manufactures website, or simply just look on the video cards box (if it isn't OEM) or ask your retailer. :p From my understanding the GeForce 3 and up are DirectX 8, and the ATI Radeon 8500 and up are Direct X 8.1 :t

[ReefDogg]

My system is Athlon 850 w/ 512 133. I can't upgrad mobo or memory type at the moment, cuz $$$

I'm using a Gainward 32 meg video card I bought over a year ago. I'm looking at buying a new video card either 64 or 128, I think that will help improve my gaming. Until I can buy a new mobo and memory, I've seen the prices drop on combos at Fry's.

If any one has any suggestions on a decent video card, let me know.

[ReefDogg]

maybe i should overclock?? :t

[Cyan]

Vid Cards? You'll find many 'good' deals, It depends on the performace you want.

Budget
Radeon 7500?
GeForce 4 MX Series

[ReefDogg]

Thanks for the tip. I've heard that Radeon and G Force are two different cards. The G Force uses Nvidia? I know my dino Gainward is Nvidia.

[Aznmask]

My gaming machine.. i feel little shame to post it.. :D

Athlon 1700XP
Pc133 512Sd-RAm
Voodoo 4500 32mb
Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm
4X2X8 CDRW.
Logitech Z640 Speaker
17 inch monitor Samsung SyncMaster 753DF
onboard sound card



currently game i play right now is
Counter-strikes
Warcraft 3
GBA roms (emulate)

also for watch animes too.... (contract me if you are animes freak)

[Cyan]

<-- Anime Freak

My Machine

Asus A7V333
Athlon XP 2100+
2xDDR333 - 512 = 1GB total
Msi GeForce4 Ti 4400
DVD Rom
Plextor CD-RW
40GB Maxtor
80GB Maxtor
Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum
Antec Sonata
380W PSU (one that comes with Antec)
Floppy Drive :rolleyes: (hey, I still need it for my old games)
Logitech Dual Optical Mouse
Logitech Wingman Pro Game Pad (I think)
Lannin Card
Viewsonic G220fb (black 20"(viewable)))
a keyboard :rolleyes:
Altec Lansing 5.1 Surround.

[PacNW CE]

AMD 2500+ Barton @ 2800+
MSI KT3 Ultra2
512 MB Corsair XMS 2700 cas2
40gb WD 7200 ata 100
MSI gf4 4400 @4600 speeds
Sony cdrom
3 intake fans
3 outflow fans
on board ac97 6.1 audio
and my trusty 56k zoom modem

[NUBlackshirts]

My PC:

AMD Athlon XP 1600+
DFI AK75-EC Motherboard
512 MB PC133 SDRAM
TI4200 64MB
Sound Blaster Live
WD 40GB 7200 RPM HD
19" Viewsonic monitor

Wife's PC:

Intel P4 1.5
QDI PlatiniX 4X MB
640 MB PC800 RDRAM
TI4200 64MB
Sound Blaster Live
Maxtor 80GB 7200 RPM HD
19" Viewsonic monitor

Neither one is "top-of-the-line" but they work well enough.

[Izdaari]

Chenming Dragon case, blue aluminum w/ lg. side window, 4 Antec blue LED case fans
silver round cable for optical drives, normal ribbon cable on hard drive (don't trust round ones for that)
Enermax 350W PS
Athlon XP 1800+ T'bred A, Volcano 9 w/ Arctic Silver III
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard
512mb (2x 256mb) Samsung original PC-2700
Western Digital SE 80gb hard drive, 7200rpm, 8mb cache
Artec 16x DVD-ROM drive
LiteOn 48x CD-RW drive
Samsung floppy
Albatron GeForce4 Ti4200 128mb
no sound card, onboard Nvidia sound is great
no NIC, using onboard 3Com LAN adapter
ADSL via LAN, US Robotics ext. modem as backup
Hitachi CM721F 19" flat CRT monitor
Altec Lansing 251 5.1 speakers
used Compaq Deskpro keyboard, full size "clicky" (much better than new ones I can find)
MS Explorer 3.0 optical mouse, USB
Windows XP Pro SP1

[Bankarin]

Antec Case w/350 Watt Antec PS
AthlonXP 2100+ @ 2700+ 333FSB (Runs cool... :D )
Asus nForce2 Deluxe
2x512 PC2700 DDR
VisionTek GF4 Ti4200SE 128MB
WD 80GB SE 8MB Cache
Maxtor 40GB
Older 24x Burner
Creative Labs 12x DVD
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (w/o breakout box)
MAG 19" CRT
Thrustmaster Top Gun For 2 Pro
Windows XP Pro

Some of the hardware is older then others, but I keep my good parts when I upgrade...hehehe Almost had the Athy at 2900+ speeds, but wouldn't POST, then at 2800+ speeds it froze during Windows boot. At 2700+ speeds ( 2.16 GHz ) it runs great. Going to back it down to 2100+ speeds soon though. I have to deploy over seas for a few months and she's taking the computer down south with her so she can keep in touch with me. Don't want it to crash on her when I'm not there to fix it. Don't run any really intensive games right now, not much time.

[Tech^salvager]

Mine main machine is a emachines t1100
1GHz celeron (coppermine)
256MB of pc100 sdram
20GB harddrive
shared agp graphics
32x cd-drive
5.1 sound card
10/100 network card

Thinking of building a new system soon probaly a amd athlon xp system.

Tech^:t

[bob05]

Check this BAD BOY out! :p

1.2 GHZ Cerleron
ASUS TUSC Motherboard
256 megs of PC133 SDRAM (runs at 100 beacuse of the bus speed for Cerelons :( )
40 Gig 5400 RPM Maxtor Hard drive
Geforce 2 MX 200 PCI
52X Asus CD-ROM
24X US Drives CD-ROM
56k AMR modem
On-board sound
On-board LAN 10/100
15" CRT Packerd Bell moniter
Windows XP Home
Floppy Drive
HP USB mouse

I LOVE MY MACHINE!!!

[cbh]

I am a bit confused in video card categories. I have two cards and I can only use Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra 64MB on my PC. The other card is Xelo GeForce 4 MX 440 128MB DDR but I can't use it. My PC hangs wherever I play Warcraft 3 and other intensive games.

My cousin told me that the motherboard and processor may not tolerate the intensive processing speed.

:(

[Logan2002]

Cool I am not the only tualitin user. You can get the ram to run at 133 by upping the fsb.

I got mine to 115

[RamonGTP]

Originally posted by cbh
I am a bit confused in video card categories. I have two cards and I can only use Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra 64MB on my PC. The other card is Xelo GeForce 4 MX 440 128MB DDR but I can't use it. My PC hangs wherever I play Warcraft 3 and other intensive games.

My cousin told me that the motherboard and processor may not tolerate the intensive processing speed.

:(

I don't know about all that... What are your system specs?

[cbh]

I post my system specs previously and I think it's in the first page.

Thks...

[RamonGTP]

I highly doubt it has anything to do with your mobo and processor not handling the intense processing speeds, thats just inaccurate info there, the MX line of cards are not all that powerfull... Its either gonna be a defective card, or some sort of driver issue. Maybe chipset drivers, or video card drivers.

[Kanata X]

Originally posted by cbh
I am a bit confused in video card categories. I have two cards and I can only use Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra 64MB on my PC. The other card is Xelo GeForce 4 MX 440 128MB DDR but I can't use it. My PC hangs wherever I play Warcraft 3 and other intensive games.

My cousin told me that the motherboard and processor may not tolerate the intensive processing speed.

:(

Make sure your system isn't over heating as well. I find the Gforece MX cards give out a little too much heat. I had the same problem with my Gforce 64mb MX card. I realized it was over heating, and instead of buying more fans to keep it cool, i just traded it in for an ATI Radeon 7500 64mb.

Check your system temp, it might be the issue. Maybe no very likely, but is possible. As I said, I've seen it. Only when I play newer and graphics hard games it happened.

[Rugor]

My Gaming Rig

Generic Deer Case
400W Macron PSU
Athlon XP 1800+
Gigabyte GA-7DX 4.3 (AMD761/VIA686B)
256MB PC2100 DDR
20 GB Fujitsu 5400 RPM HD
56xCDRom
SB Live Value
Radeon 9500 Pro

The rest is irrelevant.

I know I need more RAM and a bigger faster HD, but it plays NWN just fine.

[Disk11]

Chieftec Full tower
Enlight 420 W PS
SOYO TISU
1.1A Celeron @ 1.21 (11*110):(
Thermalright AX-7 w/ 80 mm fan
384 MB of RAM (one pc 150 and one pc 166)
MSI GF3 Ti 200 @ 250/490
2x 800BJs in RAID 0 on Promise TX4
16x/40x DVD-ROM
6x scsi-2 bruner
5 fans (1x 120, 1x 100, 3 80)
SB live value
Win 2k

[Bizkitkid2001]

XP 2100+ T'Bred (no o/c yet)
EPOX 8RDA+
Aeroflow VA4-C7040
Cheiftec Sever Dragon Case BLUE
450watt foxconn/austin PSU
512mb of PC2700(Not really, havn't RMAed it yet, will this weekend)
GeForce2ti450 Gainward :(
12x8x32 LG CD-RW drive
6 year old gateway floppy with the front panel broke off:( :p
40gig WD 7200RPM
8gig IBM 5400rom
10 year old 1.5gig Maxtor(Don't know the rpm, but I think its around 2800RPM, its good for Word documents storage and stuff like that):D
6 year old 17" Gateway Vivitron17(This is a good monitor, even though its old)
3 case fans, and one desk fan(Look at my desk mod at TechIMO)
Am going to get some kind of Fan Bus Speed Controller
Logitech Z680!!(THis is the only thing I can really brag about, so, neener, neener, neener
:p )
And if I feel like it, this weekend I am going to Quadruple boot my machine with Windows XP home, Windows 200 pro, Windows 98, and Windows ME.

The week point of my system is the video, I am saving up money to get either a Radeon BBA 9500pro or 9700pro.


I will be getting a faster CD-RW drive and a DVD-ROM drive from my grandpa as soon as he gets back from South Texas from his cricket match!

BF1942 gaming server:

1.2ghz T'Bird
IWILL KK266+
512mb of PC133
8gig Maxtor 5400RPM
10year old 5x Acer cd-rom drive
10year old acer floppy
10year old Acer 13" monitor with max resolution of 640x480(Hey its color!)

Internet connection(RR cable)
2200 kilobyte down
350-400 kilobytes upload.


Soon to be teamspeak client/server:
300mhz P2
128mb of PC100
Unoficial hard drive size(Havn't got for it yet)
No vidoe card yet
Old sound blaster sound card.
Gateway boom microphone.

[Logan2002]

disk 11 those pc150 and pc166 ram sticks do you have them running at 150 and 166? Or does the mobo prevent you from doing so.....like mine does with 133.

[cbh]

Originally posted by Kanata X


Make sure your system isn't over heating as well. I find the Gforece MX cards give out a little too much heat. I had the same problem with my Gforce 64mb MX card. I realized it was over heating, and instead of buying more fans to keep it cool, i just traded it in for an ATI Radeon 7500 64mb.

Check your system temp, it might be the issue. Maybe no very likely, but is possible. As I said, I've seen it. Only when I play newer and graphics hard games it happened.

On the heat issue, I can agree with you. Becos wherever I play intensive games, the games will either hang on me or the PC restarts itself. And a blue Windows warning screen will appear on my monitor.

Are they enough info for you?

:confused:

[Kanata X]

Yeah, same thing that used to happen to me.
Try installing more fans into your system, or if you are really cheap like myself. Take the side off your computer, and point a house fan towards the inside! LOL

It worked for me for weeks until I bought my radeon. And I still run the computer with the side off..(No fan though)
I guess Im just weird.

http://www.ki-tera.com/distinctiveanime/mycomputer.jpg

hehe

[cbh]

I am currently opening the side panel and my PC is on top of my table. With my monitor beside it, of course! And I think Raedeon is much cooler right?

[Frenzy]

My Machine:

P4 2.4 Ghz (533 FSB)
Asus P4T533-C
768 megs of 1066 RDRAM (Samsung)
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
2 Western Digital 60 gig 7200rpm hd's
Extigy Sound Card
Logitech Z560 THX 4.1 speakers
Thermaltake Xaser III V1000A Case
19 inch Sony Flatscreen Monitor

[Logan2002]

nice pic! I think we should revive the old thread where people would send in pics of their computers.

My computers never have the case on them. We use the cases for the mouse pad :)

[nh3com]

dependent on what desk i'm sat at


p4 2.8ghz
120gb wd
ati 9700 pro
liteon 52x24x52
512 ddr333
SB audigy
22" iyama
logic explorer keyboard
ms explorer 3 mouse


amd 2100xp
80gb ibm
pioneer dvd-r/w
512 ddr266
nforce sound
ti4600
19" lg
ms explorer mouse
compaq keyboard

[killer_teddy]

XP 1700+(OCing it soon)
HSF: Cooler master HAC-V81
MSI K7N2-L
Gainward Geforce 3 Ti200(arriving Friday)
256 Crucial DDR PC3200(running at DDR420)
Lite-On CD-RW
Cheapo CD rom
2x 40Gig HDD Seagate and IBM.
15" CRT:(

[jdoria13]

P4 2.26b @ 2.550 (150*17) @109 degrees F.
Vantec AREOFLOW CPU cooler
Abit BH7
Mushkin Level II black PC3200 222 512mb
Xtasy GeForce4 Ti4200 @ 290/310
40gb 7200rpm 8mb cache Western Digital hard drive
Sound Blaster 5.1 live!
Logitech Z-680 speakers
Antec LANBOY case w/350w power supply
TDK VeloCD 52x CD-RW
Teak DVD 16x
Round IDE cables
2- 80mm Vantec Stealth fans
Red 12" cold cathode light
NEC 1880sx 18.1" flat panel -black
On board Nic
Microsoft wireless blue mouse -usb
Ratpadz mouse pad
Microsoft natural keyboard -usb
No FLoppy
Windows XP Professional SP1a

I need a new video card. (Radeon 9700pro)

[Disk11]

disk 11 those pc150 and pc166 ram sticks do you have them running at 150 and 166? Or does the mobo prevent you from doing so.....like mine does with 133.

I think its my processor that is holding me back. Out of the box me and a friend tried to oc it to 133 and it wouldnt post, even with 1.825 volts. So I ran it at stock to install/burn in. Then I was able to run it @ 1.46 (11*133), but had to be over 1.7 volts to get into windows. Now, it wont post again @ 133 fsb, so im now running @ 110 fsb with 2-2-2-5-7 memory timings and is solid. I did Sandra and it misreports the memory as pc 100 and pc 133 sticks. And in the post, it whines about running cas 2 but no problems yet. I was so mad, cuz I was hoping for like 150 fsb +.

[Beeblequix]

Athlon XP 2200+
Asus A7N266-C nforce 415-D chipset
Soundblaster Live Platinum 5.1 (works much better for 98 than nvidia's)
Creative Inspire 5200 5.1 speaker system (sounds wonderful)
MSI Geforce 4 ti 4600
2x Western Digital 40BB 7200 rpm hard drives
Lite-ON 12x10x32 CDRW
Toshiba 16x40 DVD/CDROM drive
flippy
325W PS in CasEdge Midtower case
DLink 530TX+ NIC
Actiontec aDSL modem ($0 1-year lease) with 256/256 DSL line
Windows 98se on first hard drive FAT32
Windows XP SP1 on second NTFS (melikes)
Gravis GrIP gamepads (works only on 98 partition)
M$ Optical Wheelmouse
M$ Internet keyboard
17" ADI Microscan monitor (used intensely for over 3 years without a single problem)
15" Sceptre monitor (it's free and useful for more screenspace)


cbh, you should post these issues of yours in another topic since it's not relevant to the original post. Of course we'd be glad to help you.

ß

[Mr Miyagi]

Nautilus

-ECS K7S5A
-AMD Athlon XP1800+ @ 1690 (147x 11.5)
-512MB Samsung PC2700
-ATi Radeon 9500 (Hacked to 9700)
-SB Live! 5.1
-60GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus

Duchetes

-ECS P6S5AT
-Intel Celeron Tualatin 1.2 @ 1600 (133 x 12)
-512MB PNY PC133
-ATi Radeon 8500
-SB PCI 128
-40GB Maxtor Diamond Max

[Kanata X]

Yes, Radeon's run cooler, much cooler i find.

[cbh]

Originally posted by Kanata X
Yes, Radeon's run cooler, much cooler i find.

What about the performance between GeForce and Radeon?

:confused:

[Rugor]

That depends on which Radeon and which GeForce.

A Radeon 9800 Pro is the fastest card you can buy. Period. A Radeon 9700 Pro is comparable to a GfFX5800 Ultra.

The 9700 is faster than a Ti4600.

The 9500 Pro is slower than a Ti4600 without AA/AF, faster with.

I hope that helps.

[cbh]

So GF FX is much newer than GF 4 Ti?

[Kanata X]

for awhile, radeon 9700 pro was the fastest on the market, then newer cards came out for both GF and radeon. Those are the two leading and are going head to head in competition with each other.

The way I see it, at this point, Gforce and Radeon's top cards are going to beat each other out just a little bit every month or so, each taking its own spot in the lead for short periods of time. There may be one in the lead, but there difference between the two cards are very small, they are just going for braggin rights as the top spot holder. It's REALLY about who are you more "Loyal" to I guess, ATI or Nivida, Gforce or Radeon, because the difference between their highest performence cards are small.

(Again I state this is my opinion only. Look for others imput aswell)

[cbh]

Thanks for your info! I don't know you're a guy who knows so much. Are you working in a computer company?

:p

[XtReAmTwEaKist]

ok, here we go

Athlon XP 2100 @ 2.22 (177x12.5)
MSI KT3 Ultra2 w/out raid
768mb ddr400
soundblaster live Platinum Ed.
Antec 425w PSU
Antec soulutions case (like the lan boy but w/out the window)
2x80gb WD SE HD
2x 8x4x32 burners (ones better then the other)
intellipoint mouse optical
Radeon 9000 pro 128mb (bout to be a 9500 modded 9700)
and Windows XP pro

TwEakist

[Kanata X]

eh Me? Computer company? Naw. I'm 21, computers are just fun to play with. I really don't know that much. Closest to a computer company I've worked for was Comcast (DON"T GET COMCAST LOL, I HAVE ALL THE INFO AND DIRT ON THEM) lol :r

[cbh]

You are the man! :t

[Sedai]

Cbh, I think your PC is fine :) It doesn't need upgrading, except for maybe the CPU, rest is fine :)

My system:
Amd Athlon XP 1800+
Asus K7266-E
1024 Mb DDRAM
Soundblaster Audigy
Nvidia GeForce Ti4200

Well, I don't only use my PC for gaming, mostly for rendering :(

[cbh]

The problem is I need to upgrade my PC so that I can play Doom 3or other intensive games. I don't want to gace another hanging of PC when my games crash due to heat or other stupid problems. I am very disappointed with my current PC but the computer spare parts in Singapore are damned expensive. For GF Ti video cards! They can cost up to $300 - $400 plus Sing dollars. Sometimes the price can jack up to $600 plus. I really admire some of you when you said you can spend $600 or $800 to complete a fully capable PC.

:(

[$1500-P4 gamer]

AMD XP 2200+ Tbred A
@11.5x 166mhz (stock is 13.5x 133mhz)
Asus nforce2 Deluxe
Kingston pc2700 cas 2.5 synched with cpu and 256mbx2 for dual
(512mb total)
ATI Radeon 8500 LE BBA 250/275 stock
OS XP
80gig WD800JBL 8mb cache 7.2k rpm ata100 hdd
Sony Cdr-w ata33
Pioneer slot drive dvd ata 66
ATI tv wonder tuner card
100mbs switch and lan network to mac and other pc's.
Hydrolic full size case and 400 watt AMD/P4 aproved psu
M$ keyboard and usb Inteli mouse (real important hehe)
19" CTX monitor
5.1 surround sound Altec Lansing 251 100watts
Mucho paddles including PS and sterring wheels, flight sticks. You name it. LOL
Thats me gaming setup. Max cpu temp is 45c so far.:)

[Logan2002]

i prefer a opical mouse to a traditional wheel mouse. I now need more usb slots because one is allways used by the mouse.

[Rugor]

I think you mean you prefer an optical mouse to a ball mouse Logan.

I have a Logitech Optical Wheelmouse and don't think I will ever go back. But, I always use my mouse in the PS/2 Port, I've other things to use USB for.

[Paco103]

AMD XP 1800+
256MB PC2100 (gonna put in another 256 when I get home from college)
Radeon All-in-Wonder 7500 64MB DDR (gonna upgrade to Radeon 9500 Pro 128MB DDR when I get home, and seperate tuner card)
SoundBlaster Live! Platinum
40x24x48x LiteOn CDRW
16x Artec DVD
Dual 10/100 NIC
56K modem
80GB IBM @ 7200
30GB Maxtor @ 7200
(dedicated cooling fans on each drive)
ZIP 100 IDE internal
Maxtor ATA 100 expansion card (total of 8 drive max)


At school I'm running laptop only, bringing back the real thing next year

Laptop is
2.2Ghz P4
512MB DDR PC2100
32MB Radeon M6 Mobility (101 3dMark 2003 score :p)
40GB @ 4200 rpm (shudder)
10/100 / 56k / Firewire
15.1" XGA monitor
8x8x8x24x DVD/CDRW
802.11b wireless LAN card

anyone know anything about upgrading video in a Medion (German brand) laptop, pm me (I might loose it in this post)

[Kanata X]

Hey everyone,
I thought I would post my stats for my gaming machine again just because so many new posts came alone. If 'we're going to post our gaming machine stats, everyone might as well see them right?

Anyways, here they are.

AMD Athalon XP 2400+
K7S5A Mother board
1 gigabyte of Ram DDR PC2700
Maxtor 40gig 7200rpm Hard Drive ATA/133
ATI Radeon 7500 64mb DDR 4x AGP
A-Open Cobra AW-850 5.1 Sound Card
5.1 Logitech surround speakers and subwoofer
52x A-Open cdrom
40x-12x-48x Liteon Burner
Logitec Optical mouse with cord
Microsoft Gamepad 10 button
On board LAN (Yuck)
Com 21 Cable modem
17" Compaq 7550 moniter
Win XP pro

Maybe I seem like bragging, but I know there are better computers out there. I just like to show and prize mine. I spent almost 2000 dollars on it in the last 2 years, I think I have a right to do so, even if its not the best on the market. ^^

All you home computer builders with the skills know what I'm talking about.

Thanks again guys

Kanata X

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Kanata X. decent enough system but your being held back by the mobo a rather small hdd, and a vid card thats very long in the tooth. If i wer eyou i would adress the vid card issue soon

--Jakk:t

[BigBirdZ28]

Athlon XP 2100+
768 DDR333
nVidia Geforce 4 MX440 (**** I know, but it was free)
WD4000BB
Creative PCI128
Creative 5.1 Speakers
Microsoft Sidewinder (the one that moves around lol forgot the name)
Microsoft Game Voice
Logitech Mouseman Dual Optical Mouse
Imation 52x24x52x

[darinu]

AMD 3000/333 Athlon XP Barton CPU
Asus A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard
2x512MB PC-3200C2 DDRAM
2x120GB WD1200JB HDs
16X DVD
52x24x52 CDRW
SB Audigy 2
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
Klipsch Promeida 5.1 THX Speakers
Logitech MX 700 Mouse
Adesso Mini Keyboard
Thrustmaster Tacticalboard
Windows XP Pro
19" Viewsonic CRT
15" Sony CRT
Motorolla Cable Modem


:)

[Kanata X]

Yeah, I have already ordered my ATI Radeon 9800 128MB. It should be in within the next day or so. I just hope it doesn't run to hot. I don't think I have much roon for another chassis fan. But the fan on the card should be good enough since I run my machine without the side on it.

What do you guys think?

[Optimus Prime]

GIGABYTE GA-7VKML £52.88

AMD Athlon XP 2000 [1.67GHZ] (OEM) £55.23

Coolermaster Silent Copper Heatpipe £24.68

2x Enermax Vari-Speed 8cm Case Fan £11.76

Chieftec Dragon Black £45.83

CHERRY SOFTTOUCH PS2 KEYBOARD £16.45

MICROSOFT WHEELMOUSE OPTICAL £11.75

Gainward Ti4800SE 64MB £119.85

512MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM £46.41





Total £384.84


The mobo good enough?

[Bigjakkstaffa]

I have already ordered my ATI Radeon 9800 128MB

Veeeeery Nice :D

--Jakk:t

[Optimus Prime]

Originally posted by Bigjakkstaffa


Veeeeery Nice :D

--Jakk:t

If a bit expensive :O

[stix_kua]

To start, I must say this:

As long as your computer gets what you want it to do done, then you are perfectly fine. If it can do what you want it to do (satisfactorily) then you do not need to upgrade.

As for my specs:

AMD Athlon XP 2000+ running as a 2100+ @ 1.76GHz
MSI KM2M Combo L (MS-6738)
-6 USB 2.0 Ports
-6.1 onboard sound
-S3 ProSavage 8 32 MB onboard video
-10/100 Mbps LAN
Kingston PC2100 768 MB RAM
Maxtor 40 GB HDD
Fujitsu 10 GB HDD
48x CD-ROM (temporary replacement for broken 16x DVD...)
8x/4x/32x CD-RW
Floppy Drive
Actiontec 1394 Firewire Card
LinkWorld Black Mid Tower ATX Case
LinkWorld 400 PSU
Windows XP Professional
Full Software Suite
15" NEC Monitor

This system is quite new and is not fully complete yet but is in working order.:)

Some upgrades to come...

Lite-On 16x Black DVD Drive
ATI Radeon 9100 128MB
17" Samsung, ViewSonic, or NEC monitor

Here is a pic:



Sorry about the bad angle...

[Bigjakkstaffa]

If a bit expensive :O

You get what you pay for though.

I think im gonna go the whoel hog at chrimbo and get the latest and greatest, after that i dont think i can afford to be keeping this up much longer :eek:

--Jakk:t

[stix_kua]

Sorry about that, here it is....

[stix_kua]

Originally posted by Optimus Prime


AMD Athlon XP 2000 [1.67GHZ] (OEM) £55.23
Coolermaster Silent Copper Heatpipe £24.68




How well does that heatpipe cool your XP 2000+.

[MalRic]

Specs:

MSI KT3 Ultra2
AMD XP1800
Thermaltake Volcano 7 Heatsink and Fan
MSI GFTI4400 128MB
OC 512MB Ram PC2700
Win 2K
Aluminum Case w/ 7 Fan
60GB Maxtor ATA133 7200RPM HD
40GB Maxtor ATA100 7200RPM HD

3Dmark: 1476

[Disk11]

Is it just me or am I the only person who posted a system with RAID? I can barely stand non-RAID systems now:x

[AdamP]

My Primary system:

-Pentium 4 2.4 w/533 FSB w/Intel HSF
- Asus P4PE w/ Intel 845PE chipset
-512MB PC2700 RAM
-WD spec. ed. 80GB 7200 rpm (ATA100)
-WD 30 GB 7200 rpm (ATA100)
-PNY GF4 Ti 4600 128MB
- Audigy 2 sound
- Hauppauge stereo TV tuner card
- SIIG 5 port USB 2 card
- 3COM NIC
-v.90 modem
- Internal Zip100 drive
- Pioneer 10X DVD
- USB2 Hi-Val 48/16/48 CDRW
- 19" KDS monitor w/trinitron FD tube
- Altec lansing ATC3 3 piece speakers plus 2 labtec satellites
- HP 5100C scanner and 960C inkjet
- Cyberpower 900VA UPS

[Logan2002]

many here use 60 and 80 gig hdds.

How do you allocate space?

I mean how much to games, mp3's ect.

[killer_teddy]

I have 80gigs in the form of 2x40's I have one given completely to Linux and one for windows with a windows partition of about 10 a file for the virtual memory of 1.5 and the rest for anything else.

[cbh]

Even you have Executive Diskeeper, you have to wait quite long to defragment an 80GB harddisk. Right? My 12GB harddisk needs 15 minutes to complete defragmentation.

:(

[whyyyyy]

3.5ghz
1 gig ram
140 hd and second is 60gig hd
readon 9700 pro
52 x cd room
450 power supply
20 inch monitor
soround system
sound blaster
cable modem
800MHz FSB-based P4
i think 533l2 cach

[Bigjakkstaffa]

How do you allocate space?

I just blat it all on, if i run out of spage i got a 30gig sitting here collecting dust

--Jakk:t

[ESHAW]

my spec's

xp 2600+ tbred b 333 fsb runing @ 350 new to o'cing
1 gig pc 2700 6/2/2/2.5t
asus a7n8x nforce 2 mobo
msi ti 4200 128 meg
w.d. 60 gig h.d ata 100
volcano 9 heat sink
many sunon fans in chieftech case


idle temp's are 29 celcius and 34 celcius under hard load just built this machine 3 month's ago first build will probally upgrade graphics card and hard drive and use the old one's in my second build for my son. Just stating to overclock some now newbie
:D

[_Mystical_Night]

* AMD Athlon XP 2400+
* Western Digital 80gb 8mb cache SE Hard Drive
* ATI Radeon 9500 Pro
* Windows Xp Pro (retail box version)
* Klipsche 5.1 speakers
* 17 inch Compaq monitor
* Epox 8RDA+ Mobo
* 52x24x52 Lite-On CD-RW Drive
* Mitsumi Floppy Drive

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Originally posted by cbh
Even you have Executive Diskeeper, you have to wait quite long to defragment an 80GB harddisk. Right? My 12GB harddisk needs 15 minutes to complete defragmentation.

:(

Takes me about 10 minutes to defrag my 80gig with diskeeper lite. You should run defrag often-after any major (like 1 gig) file deletions, instalations. If it takes you that long on a small hdd then either the hdd is stone age tech or the drive is heavily fragmented and you only run defrag like once a month or so.;)

[Paco103]

I have an 80 and a 30GB. I have 60GB for just data files. Mp3, backup, video, my TV tuner recordings, etc. I have the rest partitioned into 10's for Windows/Linux/CDImages/archives, etc.

I'm going to change it when i get my 120, to having the 120 for data, and the 30 in a 20/10 for windows XP/linux respectively. My 80 I don't expect to last too long, it's an IBM DeskStar (aka DeathStar) and I haven't heard good things about their reliability:( Anyone else know anything about these?)

[bassman]

My gaming rig is my working rig is my only healty rig:

Athlon 800MHz (should be @ 1GHz :rolleyes:)
MSI K7T Pro2
384MB SDRAM
Maxtor D740X 40GB
SB PCI128
Matrox G400 32MB
Samsung CD-RW | LG CDROM

And it never fails! :D

[Bigjakkstaffa]

My 80 I don't expect to last too long, it's an IBM DeskStar (aka DeathStar) and I haven't heard good things about their reliability Anyone else know anything about these?)

If its a GXP120 then it isnt a deathstar, they run quit well, as does my 80gb GXP120. However the older GXP60/70's are notorious for packing up at the drop of a hat

--Jakk:t

[flyingV]

haha, I love replying posts like this, hmm, lemme check my pc first, okay, here is mine:

P4 2.4GHz (never intend to OC)
Asus P533 board
1G DDR PC2700, the brand is.........er.......it's been a while, oh, samsung.
VisionTek GeForce4 Ti4400
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 with Sound Blaster 6.1 speakers
Seagate 80 GB 7200 harddrive
WD 80GB 7200 harddrive
LAN card (forgot the brand)
a never used modem
Microsoft Forcefeed Wheel
Saitek Cyborg 3d Force flight stick
Thrustmaster Firestorm Dual Power 3
An extra headset (no name brand)
hmm, casing is evercase, I believe
Kensiko(have no idea about this brand) keyboard
Microsoft Optical Mouse(the one with four buttoms and one wheel)


well, because of my small room space, I'm using a 15" LCD, SYS is the brand.

[Paco103]

Cool, mine is the GXP120. I've been pleased with it's performance (and very quiet) so far. I guess a lot of people just never gave it a chance after the earlier ones then? Thanks Jakk.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Yeah thats why i got my GXP120, everyone was going off IBM's because of the 'deathstar' hottor stories, as a result the prices of the decent GXP120 drives were slashed, and i know a bargain when i see one :x

--Jakk:t

[Rax2]

This isn't my primary system, but I wanted to show what a 686 could do.. :-)

This is a totally free system that consists of handme downs from my other computers and/or parts from other ppl that were gonna trash it..

P2B-S mainboard...
Celeron 400mhz NOT O/C'd.. *p.s. I hate intel, AMD BABY!*
640mb pc100 generic/siemens
14gb seagate EIDE.. *I know a waste of a scsi mainboard*
Phillips CD-RW.. *can't member the speed*
Samsung CD rom *same as above*
PNY Nvidia Gforce 4, 440mx 64meg AGP..
Realtec Ethernet Adapter..

Just to let you all know what these old *** archaic free/virtually free systems can do, I read the post that some one couldn't play gta3 on his 600..

GTA3
Vice City
Sim City 4
C&C Generals

All absoutly flawless.. Generals is a little slow to load, especially after playing it on an 2.4 o/c'd Athlon... But it's all good.. ohh and why do I use this machine? It didn't cost me nothing like I said, and it sits next to my Dreamcast in the living room.. :-) nothing like C&C on the big screen.. :x Why do I still have a dreamcast? why would I want a bs2? :confused: hehe... My saying is don't trash the old ****.. There's a use for a door stop yet..

[Rax2]

BTW, i'm running WinXp on all my systems.. None have crashed to date, only problem on that system above, I had to take out the SB Live and put in a 16.. I can't get the sound card to run with that vid card in XP.. I never turn them off, and the only time they do go off is to restart for software or power outtages.. *any one with a cheap ups for sale? :-)*

[Logan2002]

wow is the celeron a coppermine?

[snowfall]

Could a P4 1.5@1.8 with 256DDR utilise an ATi Radeon 9800Pro properly? so it can run games like the future Doom 3 at a decent framerate?

oh and the mobo is asus P4B266 with 4or8x AGP i think..
would the card actually be compatible with the board?

it only has a leadtek GF3 Ti200:(

[asterias]

I have four systems I use for gaming, depending on the game that I'm playing.

No 1:

Athlon Thunderbird 1.33 ghz
ECS K7ama Motherboard
256 mb ddr ram
30gig maxtor 7200 rpm hardisk
Chaintech Geforce 4 440mx 64mb ddr
GNR 17" monitor ( excellent fot the price of £71 inc vat)
Two case fans
Nicole 2.1 speakers (excellent)
Windows 98se
Logitech pilot mouse
Nostrom n50 Game pad ( best thing since sliced bread)
Hercules museII lite

No2:

amd k6-2 400mhz
168 mb pc100 sdr ram
innovision geforce 4 440mx 64mb ddr ram
Cant remember the mother board
win 98se
Maxtor 740 7200 rpm 20gig hard drive
7 year old Compaq 151fs 15" monitor
Memorex mouse
Old compaq 386 laptop keyboard (not very much space)


No3:
AMD K6 300 mhz
80mb pc 66mhz ram
Graphics blaster extreme + orchid righteous 3d 4mb card
14 ctx 1451 monitor,
win 98 se
Some pc chips motherboard that I cant remember
Memorex scroll mouse (extremely cheap but reliable)
1 6 gig maxtor 5400 hard drive, 1 6 gig hard drive and 1 1.2 gb wd harddrive
integraed sound card

No 4:

Winchip 240mhz
24mb 66mhz sdr ram
1 1.1 gig seagate hard drive
4mb creative labs graphics blaster + 4mb voodoo 1 accelerator
win 98se
awaiting monitor after one passed away
integrated sound card


All the machine are networked together and share a cable modem internet gateway.

[Someone Stupid]

Trashed my computer late last nite, threw out some stuff I didn't need that I could sell for more than I needed it for - and since would have cash I took a chance on the mod since I already bought the coolers and I didn't screw up (surpisingly, as my soldering skills suck)

Althon 2500 XP at 2380mhz at 45 C idle at 1.85 volts
Lapped Volcano 9 (made it a decent cooler actually)
8RDA+ (modded) Vantec Icebrugs on the nb and sb, vdd to 1.86
Two Seagate 15k 73 gig drives, raid 1
1 120 GB WD Caviar Special Edition (JB)
1 gig 512x2 Corsair XMS 3200LL @ 414 mhz 2-2-2-6 timings
Plextor 48x24x48 CD Burner
Pioneer 4x 2x DVD Burner
Audigy 2 Platinum Ex (may ditch for onboard since Soundstorm is almost as good and would make me some money selling the current card)
A modem
Nice amp and speakers
21" Sony Trinitron Monitor
Radeon 9700 Pro (380/335
Completely Trashed Chieftech Dragon Case
440? Watt Enermax PSU

[paradox]

lot of nice systems here, finally retired the old slot1 and just built this rig:

still in the tweaking/OC faze
NEW
Athlon2500 @ 2200Mhz(200*11) 1.65V will go higher once i ditch stock cooler
50-55(from BIOS) 40-45(from software probe) Celsuis & stable
Asus A7N8X deluxe Rev2
2x512Mb 3200 OCZ Premier (dual channel, not kit though) will run as high as 215Mhz (well 430Mhz whatever)
WD120Gb 8Mb cache
ATI 9800pro got at steal of a price (not OC'ed yet)
Liteon 16xDVD
Liteon 52xCDRW
Enermax 350W (EG365P-VE) most quite thing in system
OLD
Maxtor 40Gb
logitech Z640 5.1 speakers
logitech "Original" Formula force wheel
joystick
gamepad
20" IBM P200 Monitor

all in a nice blue case

[Rax2]

Looking at the chip, I realized it's a 450.. Forgot, a 300 o/c'd to 400 was what I had in this mobo.. well it bit the dust... The 450 lists as an Intel Celeron Processor 451mhz.. I don't think it's a coppermine.. Hell dunno how to tell even... I wish these **** things were like the slot A's and totally enclosed with the model number written on the outside.. :-) it reads Intel Celeron on the back.. Can't read the actual chip right now, as I'm downloading movies to watch.. I'll probly check it out this weekend or so when I reboot to play the new stuff I'm getting.. :-)

L8r Rax...

[Someone Stupid]

The slot idea has long since past. The area it (saves) is really just as much as the area it takes up. Throw in a modern heatsink and it would take up much more of the board than any manufacturer would want it to. I also hated those boards.

[rraehal]

My primary PC is this: :(
ASUS Aladin P5A-B (XT Mainboard)
AMD K6-2 350 (100FSBx3.5)
256 MB PC100 SDRAM
nVidia GF4 MX 440 (Upgrade from Rage 3D Pro Turbo)
Creative Labs Soundblaster AudioPCI with Ensoniq Chip (128 bit 8 MB Waveset) (Free upgrade from SoundBlaster Vibra 16X)
10GB HDD
Win98 FE
DX9

My work PC's are this: (Though I have not been able to use these lately)
Dell Precision 220
Dual P3-667
256 MB RAM
nVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64
SoundMax Integrated Audio
9 GB SCSI
Win2k on one WinXP on the other
DX9

I am currently working on replacing the K6-2. It doesn't play Warcraft 3 so it is time. It works perfect for my wife and kids so I have decided to keep it working. I will buy a GF4 Ti series card or an ATI Radeon card when its time. Looking to go to at least Intel 2.4 GHz or AMD 3000+ - the price diff is only $50 but I want SSE2 for Photoshop and CAD software.

[frankielopez]

I built my machine on a budget..so it is not the greatest stuff but it will run what I want to play fine.

Intel P4 2.4BGHz
ASUS P4S8X mobo
256 mb pc2700 ram(soon to add 512mb)
Maxtor 80gig 7200 rpm HD
GeForce 4 MX440 64mb(possibly upgrade to Ti4600 or better)
Microsoft Optical mouse
The keyboard from my first computer(Packard Bell-personal value)
350watt PSU

I spent about $500 including the case, so it isn't the fastest but works for me.

[chriswhitelaw]

Dreamcast Specs
Processor Hitachi SH-4 running at 200 Mhz.
360 MIPS
Memory 16MB main RAM
Display 8MB video RAM. 3 million polygons/second peak rendering rate . Perspective-Correct Texture Mapping. Point, Bilinear, Trilinear and Anisotropic Mip-map filtering. Gouraud shading. z-buffer. Colored light sourcing. Full scene anti-aliasing. Hardware-based Fog
Bump mapping. 16.77 million colors.
Hardware-based texture compression
Shadow and Light volumes. Super sampling
Sound 2MB sound RAM.
32bit RISC CPU. DSP for real-time effects. 64 sound channels. Full 3D sound support. Hardware-based audio compression.
Ports 4 controller ports.
Built-in 56kbps modem
Built-in high-speed expansion ports

[The_Chuck]

Intel 2.8C running at just over 3ghz
Radeon 9800 running at stock clock speeds (for about another 2 days)
786mb of corsair xms
SoundBlaster Audigy 2
Creative Inspire 6.1 speakers
Some random ASUS mobo with AGP 8x
500 watt psu

[Radi0h3ad]

AMD Athlon XP 1600
64MB GeForce 4 MX 440
512 DDR Kingston RAM
Abit KR7A
Soundblaster Live! 5.1
60GB HDD
Windows XP
------------------------------------------------

Need to upgrade when I can afford it. System runs nearly every game out now, but the likes of HL2 and D3 are going to make it struggle!

:t

[Solkin]

Intel Pentium 4 2.53ghz 533fsb
Asus P4P800 Mobo
CoolerMaster Case w/ 420w TT PSU
1GB PC2100 266mhz DDRRAM
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB
Pri: 60GB Maxtor ATA133 HD
Sec: 12.7GB Quantum ATA66 HD
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum
52x CDROM
12x10x32 NEC CDRW
Logtech 2.1 Z340 Speakers

:t

[steevo]

Primary

Athlon xp2600
MSI KT400 mobo
2x512mb DDR 2700
geforce fx 5200 (upgrading to radeon 9700pro soon)
160GB 7200rpm HD
17" standard HP monitor
DVD burner
DVD rom
Standard cordless k/b mouse
On board LAN
On board 5.1 surround
XP home (****) I'm gonna stick xp pro on it.

Secondary

P3 1Ghz
512mb pc133 SDRAM
40GB 7200rpm HD
17" standard HP monitor
54x CD-rom
geforce 2mx 400 64mb (soon to be upgraded to an fx5200)
Standard keyboard and mouse
10/100 NIC
onboard sound
2K pro

I also have a P2 350 that is my promary domain controller. All PC's are through a 3com mini hub.

[Running]

heres my 2

gaming/vid capture encoding

p4 1.4
asus pt-4e
768 samsung pc800
over 200gigs hdd (ibm/wd)
radeon aiw (works great w/ all of the games)
herc game theatre xp (no probs yet)
ms optical mouse
nostromo speed pad (wouldnt leave home w/o it)


gaming/wife&daught machine

duron 700
asus a7n266
512 cosair 2100
gforce 4 mx 440
--->onboard gforce 2 (2nd monitor)
15 gig ibm
40 gig wd
onboard sound

<400 dollars

works well with all games except neverwinter nights
and gets stutters from c&c generals ... but what do you expect

[Menge]

home pc:

Athlon T-Bird 900Mhz (yah... old...)
Asus A7S333
256Mb DDR266
PNY Verto GeForceFX5200 128Mb
Samsung SyncMaster 750v (17" ) + Philips 105B (15" )
Creative SB Live! 5.1
Crappy stereo speakers
Seagate ATA100 5200RPM 40Gb
Lg 16x48x DVD/CD-ROM
Sony 24x10x48x CD-RW

that's about it! need new processor :P

[VaCreeper]

EP 8RDA
AMD XP 2600+(2083MHz no OC)
512 MB Crucial PC3200 DDR
(2) Maxtor Diamondmax HDD
MS XP Pro(80gig)/MS 98SE(60gig)
Albatron GF4 ti4200 turbo(tweaked a little)
Enermax 461
U.S. Robotics V90 Gamer Modem
Audigy II Gamer
Creative 5.1
Cheiftec Silver
Vantec Iceburg
Tweakmonster HS
Thermalright HS
Thermaltake HSF
Thermaltake Smartfan II(4) case fans

Mostly flight sims, and music mixing.:t

[Ankerson]

P4 3.06 GHz
Intel D850EMVRL MB
512mb PC1066 ECC RDRAM
Adaptec SCSI 19160
Seagate Cheetah X15 18gb 15,000rpm
Fijitsu 18gb 10,000 rpm SCSI HD
60g WD 7200 rpm
Pioneer DVR A05 4x DVDR RW
Lite-On 16x DVD
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
SB AUDIGY 2
431w PS
Creative Labs Inspire 6:1 Speakers
Samsung 191T LCD 19" Monitor