Post your system specs!

prince1142003 · Post by **prince1142003** » 01 Jan 2007, 09:26

Mess around with the cables and try to boot with just one hard drive (the affected one). My BIOS did this exact same thing the other day. I wasn't able to figure out what caused it, but was able to fix it by unplugging and testing different configurations.

xHaZxMaTx · Post by **xHaZxMaTx** » 01 Jan 2007, 09:32

I decided to just take the drive out, it was more trouble than it was worth and way too slow. It's a seven year old drive from my dad's Compaq.

Nasadus · Post by **Nasadus** » 02 Jan 2007, 02:31

I have just ordered the parts for my new gaming / multimedia PC wich should all arrive by the end of January. My main goal was performance and to make sure i can upgrade the CPU and GPU in the future without having to change my motherboard. This is how it looks:

Case - Cooler Master CM Stacker 832

Monitor - Samsung SyncMaster 225BW

Motherboard - Asus P5N32-E SLI, nForce 680i SLI

Processor + Cooling Fan - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, Zalman CNPS9700 NT

Video Card - Asus GeForce 8800 GTX

Memory - 2GB PC6400 Kingston CL4 DDR2

Harddrive - 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10, 320GB

Soundcard - Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic

Speakers - Logitech Z-2300

DVD Player / Writer - Samsung SH-S182M 18x Black

Floppy Drive - NEC 3,5" External Disk Drive Black

Mouse + Pad - Razer Copperhead Blue, Corepad Deskpad XXXL

Keyboard - Logitech G15

Power Supply - Zalman ZM600-HP 600W

I'll be sure to post some photos when i have it running.

xxNEMO01xx · Post by **xxNEMO01xx** » 02 Jan 2007, 03:14

Damn are you planning to rob a bank ???

The graphics card alone cost a lot..

Skyline_man · Post by **Skyline_man** » 02 Jan 2007, 03:57

Nice setup Nasadus, how much have you paid for it ?

Southend Rage · Post by **Southend Rage** » 02 Jan 2007, 10:27

My current PC is ultra crappy just look at the specs

Processor:Intel Pentium 3 @ 1.7 gigs
Integrated video:SC pro savage somthing
DOn't hhave a clue what the MOBO is

My soon to be PC (20 days)
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3800+(Does anyone know what the 3800+ means?)@2.4 GHZ
video card:NVidia 7600GS 256MB
RAM:1024MB (2 512MB corsairs)
160GB HD.
My 1st PC in the year 2000, Pentium 3, NVidia TNT2 Card other than that I don't know.

xHaZxMaTx · Post by **xHaZxMaTx** » 02 Jan 2007, 10:34

Right, well, I gutted my bro's PC since he wasn't using it and pick up an extra 512MB DDR333 RAM and an ATi Radeon 9200SE which I put in my dad's computer and an 80GB hard drive and CD-RW drive which I put in my computer. So now I have 240GB of storage space and that secondary hard drive I've been aiming for.

ASRock ULi M1695 Mainboard
Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM IDE
Western Digital 160GB 7200 RPM IDE
NVidia GeForce 6600GT 128MB AGP
AOpen DVD-R CD-RW
Lite-On CD-RW
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 2.2GHz
2x 512MB DDR333 PC2700 Dual Channel

xxNEMO01xx · Post by **xxNEMO01xx** » 02 Jan 2007, 11:30

Southend Rage wrote: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3800+(Does anyone know what the 3800+ means?)@2.4 GHZ

Its the so called PR (Pentium Rating) That means that the AMD cpu (@ 2.4 GHZ) performance is similar to an Intel Pentium with real 3,8 GHZ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PR_rating

Nasadus · Post by **Nasadus** » 02 Jan 2007, 13:20

Skyline_man wrote:Nice setup Nasadus, how much have you paid for it ?

Well, the total cost is â‚¬2414 and that includes shipping costs. It's approx â‚¬80 less if you don't include shipping costs.
My current PC is limited to AGPx4 and dates back to 2001. Because of that the upgrades i could buy for it are very limited and i would sooner or later have to switch to PCIe anyway so i didn't bother with buying upgrades for it except for the video card wich broke and i bought a 6600GT.
A fresh start was neccesary and i figured now that i'm doing it i might aswell do it good.

I didn't include the operating system in that list because i'm still not sure wich version of Vista i'm going to buy. Still haven't decided between Home Premium and Ultimate.

Abrams · Post by **Abrams** » 02 Jan 2007, 14:10

Id rather picked 2 x250Gb Raptors with 16Mb cache, 10krpm and set em into RAID (stripe). Would be better then just 640 gigs of space, unless your fan of movies ofc.

t3ice · Post by **t3ice** » 02 Jan 2007, 14:27

@ nasadas : Whoa!!... 7000$ + ..thats totally awesome dude!!

Nasadus · Post by **Nasadus** » 02 Jan 2007, 15:49

Abrams wrote:Id rather picked 2 x250Gb Raptors with 16Mb cache, 10krpm and set em into RAID (stripe). Would be better then just 640 gigs of space, unless your fan of movies ofc.

It's more of an issue with noise. I don't want to hear my PC running or atleast as little as possible and those 10k Raptors make quite a bit more noise than a 7200 drive, or so i've heard.

I also don't think there's much of a performance gain going from 7200 to 10000 and since i'm not much of a RAID person i didn't bother with them.

t3ice wrote:@ nasadus : Whoa!!... 7000$ + ..thats totally awesome dude!!

It's actually $3185 but thanks.

Abrams · Post by **Abrams** » 02 Jan 2007, 19:01

Well, point is that youll have 2 10k rpm drives running as one, wich will combine into same as 1 HDD running at 20k rpm, wich will certainly unlock more performance from CPU+GFX combo.

p.s. well, 10k ones doesnt do whole lot of noise if you have a good case, you might hear them better in quiet room at night but thats about it.

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 02 Jan 2007, 19:53

Nasadus wrote:
Skyline_man wrote:Nice setup Nasadus, how much have you paid for it ?
I didn't include the operating system in that list because i'm still not sure wich version of Vista i'm going to buy. Still haven't decided between Home Premium and Ultimate.

Go Ulitmate, it's worth it. Trust me, I've been running vista for a while now and have used both versions... Ultimate is totally worth it.

EDIT: MY 7600GT IS HERE!!!

Abrams · Post by **Abrams** » 02 Jan 2007, 21:25

I wont be switching to Vista before all apps I use will fully support it, and vista will have all its security holes patched up. Right now it looks like a good cheese.

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 02 Jan 2007, 22:28

Abrams wrote:I wont be switching to Vista before all apps I use will fully support it, and vista will have all its security holes patched up. Right now it looks like a good cheese.

Same here. But I got a FREE XP to Vista Business upgrade. Ill probably use that when Vista gets rid of bugs. (Ill have to use it before my dad does though. =\)

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 03 Jan 2007, 01:49

Acually, if you have RC1 it's really secure, I've never used a virus program because the included Microsoft software is all you need. Crap, I lost my RC1 cd though, AH! I need a program asap.

PS. Beta 2 sucks!

Abrams · Post by **Abrams** » 03 Jan 2007, 19:05

Whoever says that windows firewall is secure enough just dont know how unreliable it is. You can adjust any kind of personal preferences, more of that if you dont use even a simple anti-virus your just asking for tons of spyware. You do know that spyware also exists in registry values and you cant track it down just by searching your HDD?

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 03 Jan 2007, 23:34

Yup, Vista RC1 comes with Spyware program, and If you don't like that, you can get a Windows OneCare for Windows Vista.

Abrams · Post by **Abrams** » 04 Jan 2007, 00:14

ok, major part of spyware removals scan only for files, but most of spyware hides in registry and activex controls.

furthermore security doesnt only means viruses/spyware, worms and other stuff usually goes right into the security bugs that is called a bug because an attacking application bypasses built-in detection software.

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 04 Jan 2007, 00:16

Well that would explain pop ups, even though other programs didn't find them. Hey, how can I go from 11% to 22% an that PC rater thing when I upgraded from a nVidea FX5500 to a 7600 GT???? That ain't right!

S2000_Skyline12 · Post by **S2000_Skyline12** » 04 Jan 2007, 00:24

Something weird: I downloaded this PS2 emulator and in the script program it scanned and said that my Celeron D 64 was in the Pentium IV (4) family lol

Jmac- · Post by **Jmac-** » 04 Jan 2007, 03:48

Updated system specs:

AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+
1 GB PC3200 Memory
MSI MS-7191 RS482M4 Motherboard
XFX GeForce 8800 GTS
Seagate 200 GB IDE Hard Drive
Seagate 320 GB SATA2 Hard Drive
BenQ DW1650 DVD Burner
Lite-On DVD-ROM

3DMark06 Score = 6975

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 04 Jan 2007, 04:11

Man... You're lucky. 8800 GTS.

Think of when that thing will be like the FX5200s of today. Imagine: *Man 8800 sucks... Buy the new 20800 GTXQRZ instead...* lol...

NFSBLUECIVIC · Post by **NFSBLUECIVIC** » 04 Jan 2007, 07:07

rofl, we got quite a ways until the geforce 20 series. BTW are there going to be any more 8 series cards coming out that will be a bit more comparible in price and performance as the 7950 gt?