Post your system specs!

Kurushii · Post by **Kurushii** » 01 Mar 2007, 11:47

Amd Athlon 3000+ (OC'ed to 2.31 Ghz)
1 Gb Corsair RAM (really old... not good)
HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ3 Turbo
1 x 20Gb Maxtor hdd (Windows, Office etc)
1 x 150Gb Western Digital (Documents, games etc)
DVD drive
19" LCD monitor
Onboard sound, 4 speakers (soon to be upgraded to 9.1 surround sound)

And thats my rig!

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 15 Mar 2007, 23:13

ECS Mobo (If they ever fix it)
Sempron 3400+ 2.4GHz
1.5 GB DDR 3200 RAM (Dual Channel)
220GB Hard Drive (Total space between 2)
575Watt PSU
SONY DVD-RW Drive (2)
*NEW*------>7.1 Surround Sound<------*NEW*
A Nice new Paint Job a A nice New NEON Glow that likes to move to the beat of my nice new subwoofer! (If you get what I mean)

weedman173 · Post by **weedman173** » 15 Mar 2007, 23:28

Here's my setup, only 2 new items since last time:

Processor:
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.4GHz

Memory:
1024MB RAM

Hard Drive:
500 GB

Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB

Monitor:
Benq 20.1" Widescreen Monitor

Sound Card:
Realtek HD Audio output

Speakers/Headphones:
Sony 5.1 650Watt Surround Sound

PSU:
Thermaltake 750watt

underoath285 · Post by **underoath285** » 16 Mar 2007, 00:38

nice weedman.

how does the X24600+ and the GTS with 1GB work out for ya?
im looking to get a new system with exactly that and just wondering how that is.

also what OS?

weedman173 · Post by **weedman173** » 16 Mar 2007, 00:49

XP Home edition. It's working out pretty good, but I need another gig of RAM, my computer is a little slow lately, under idle conditions with only necessary programs running, 40% of the RAM is being used.

arabnight · Post by **arabnight** » 16 Mar 2007, 01:13

From top to bottom.

OS: Windows XP Pro, will turn to Vista when "Hellgate London" comes out.

Tower: Thermaltake Armor Extreme Edition VA8004BNS
MOBO: ASUS M2N-E Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 Ultra
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+(65W) Windsor 2.0GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2
VGA: EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB

RAM: OCZ Gold 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 800
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 700W
Drive: LG Super-Multi DVD Burner

Speakers: 5.1 1K Watt connected to a Pioneer Receiver to my computer

Headphones: Bose Triport Headphones

Monitor: 20in Dell/ Soon to be a 36inch Sony TV

prince1142003 · Post by **prince1142003** » 16 Mar 2007, 04:42

weedman173 wrote:XP Home edition. It's working out pretty good, but I need another gig of RAM, my computer is a little slow lately, under idle conditions with only necessary programs running, 40% of the RAM is being used.

Give XP enough RAM, it'll eat it all up. Up your page file size if you haven't already. For some reason, with a large enough page file, XP uses part of the page file rather than the RAM.

weedman173 · Post by **weedman173** » 16 Mar 2007, 13:21

Prince, I don't want to raise mine anymore than it is. I set it to use 8-12gb, so I think that is enough.

vellu · Post by **vellu** » 16 Mar 2007, 19:35

8-12 GB page file? What the heck are you running to need that much? Are you actually seeing page file peaks of that level?

Mine is set to 1.5GB to 3GB (from equal to double my physical RAM amount) and I generally peak at 600-700 MB, and even with extreme loads I've never been able to touch the roof...

On a side note, my system too eats up around 512MB after boot (being about 33% of total).

weedman173 · Post by **weedman173** » 16 Mar 2007, 23:54

Like I said before, I set it that high because I have the space. If I start running low on space I can lower it, it does not really matter what I have it at cause it's not hurting anything.

darknight788 · Post by **darknight788** » 17 Mar 2007, 07:11

i just set my pagining file size to what my comp recommended ... 3069MB

Jmac- · Post by **Jmac-** » 19 Mar 2007, 07:45

I disabled it once I upgraded to 2 GB of RAM ... Much quicker once the page file is disabled ...

arabnight · Post by **arabnight** » 19 Mar 2007, 16:48

i lost it hahah im using a 37" tv now for my monitor

darknight788 · Post by **darknight788** » 19 Mar 2007, 17:10

@ jmac, your comp gets quicker once you disable the page file ? hmm interesting

vellu · Post by **vellu** » 19 Mar 2007, 18:46

Jmac- wrote:I disabled it once I upgraded to 2 GB of RAM ... Much quicker once the page file is disabled ...

Disabling paging completely is NOT a good idea, since the system (and some programs) will use it for various things no matter how much RAM you have. Expect instability and odd behaviour... If your system suffers from paging get a faster HDD (or get a secondary HDD and move the paging file to that (that is, physically different drive than where your OS is located). Also make sure you mobo chipset drivers (ide/sata in particular) are properly installed and up to date.

S2000_Skyline12 · Post by **S2000_Skyline12** » 19 Mar 2007, 18:47

Right now (upgrade soon) I only have 512MB RAM so is 1500 a good paging file size?

vellu · Post by **vellu** » 19 Mar 2007, 18:50

S2000_Skyline12 wrote:Right now (upgrade soon) I only have 512MB RAM so is 1500 a good paging file size?

Sounds about right, the OS recommendation defaults to 2x physical, so you should be ok.

S2000_Skyline12 · Post by **S2000_Skyline12** » 19 Mar 2007, 18:53

Ok thanks

Oh yeah i've always wanted to know, would your comp run slower if you make it any higher than recomened or lower?

vellu · Post by **vellu** » 19 Mar 2007, 19:07

It really shouldn't affect performance. If too little you'll just see the occasional error message when some application (or the os itself) runs out of memory which usually causes atleast the application to crash. Too big doesn't really do anything except occupy disk space for no reason.

However, if you don't have enough physical memory for a particular application paging ALWAYS slows things down. RAM memory is geometrically faster to access then HDD memory (RAM access times are in the a 40 or so microsecond range, HDD access times in 10 or so millisecond range; about 250 times slower...not to mention bandwidth. RAM typically transfers a few GB/s, modern HDD's are in the 50-70 MB/s range). When an application has to use paging for it's normal operation things will slow down dramatically. When that happens it doesn't matter how big the paging file is, it's inevitably slow to access. If you have enough RAM, paging is only used for storing data that is occasionally needed thus freeing actually physical RAM for things needed more often.

PS. Rather off topic....back to topic.

Jmac- · Post by **Jmac-** » 20 Mar 2007, 09:46

vellu wrote:
Jmac- wrote:I disabled it once I upgraded to 2 GB of RAM ... Much quicker once the page file is disabled ...
Disabling paging completely is NOT a good idea, since the system (and some programs) will use it for various things no matter how much RAM you have. Expect instability and odd behaviour... If your system suffers from paging get a faster HDD (or get a secondary HDD and move the paging file to that (that is, physically different drive than where your OS is located). Also make sure you mobo chipset drivers (ide/sata in particular) are properly installed and up to date.

If you have 2 GB of RAM, you really don't need a page file unless you use a program that specifically requires one (i.e. Photoshop) and it does increase performance significantly when multi-tasking and switching between applications. The reason for this is because RAM is hundreds of times faster than your hard drive, both in transfer speeds and seek times (especially with a highly fragmented drive). Also, it decreases wirting and reading from the hard drive which will not only prolong the life of your hard drive, but it also means your hard drive can focus on just loading the application and/or files. I've yet to see any instability or odd behaviour in my system or any other system I've built that I've disabled the page file on.

Now, for your average person, I'd recommend keeping a page file on for maximum compatibility as they may not understand why Program X isn't working properly.

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 21 Mar 2007, 04:53

I got my job back at DQ so I'll be bringin in some major money (For a 13 yr old at least) so expect some changes in my rig... starting with a Processor and RAM!!! <-- Kick Ass!

t3ice · Post by **t3ice** » 23 Mar 2007, 19:25

Lol..what about graphics mate

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ahmad0410 · Post by **ahmad0410** » 24 Mar 2007, 07:33

- Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System
- Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5600 1.83 GHz
- Level 2 Cache 2 MB 667 MHz Bus Speed
- 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM
- 1.3 mp Webcam
- 14.1" WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen Display (1280x800)
- SATA 80GB (5400rpm) Hard Drive
- nVidia GeForce Go 7200 Graphics
- LightScribe Super Multi 8x DVD RW with Double Layer support
- Intel PRO/Wireless 3945a/b/g WLAN & Bluetooth
- Altec Lansing HD Speaker

Carcrazy · Post by **Carcrazy** » 26 Mar 2007, 09:18

I'm gonna buy another 7600GT OC and SLi them.

Might take a while considering my $85 cell phone bill.

Jana · Post by **Jana** » 28 Mar 2007, 17:49

ok,i want to buy some new parts for my computer!this is what i want:
CPU - AMD Athlon64 Dual Core 3800+
Motherboard - MSI NForce 550,PCI-E
RAM - DDR2 512MB 533MHz,RC/NCP (i already have 512MB so im just gonna upgrade)
Hard Drive - SATA2 250GB
Graphic Card PCI-Express - nVidia GF7600GT

is it good?