What kind of computer do you have?

[BK 0]

Im a computer gamer and I take pride in my rig. I just got a compaq notebook for work too. Anybody else here game on your computer? What kind do you have?

Home:

AMD X2 +3800

a gig corsair value select ram.

2 bfg7600gt oc running in sli.

the rest is pretty generic..

New Notebook

Celeron M @ 1.6ghz

512 mb ram

Widescreen clearview (glossy looking) screen.

dvd burner.

^^^not bad for $450.

[hamstercaster 2]

I used to play games on my PC and a couple of years back and some I had a decent PC for gaming

AMD Athlon 2800+

ATI 9800 Pro

1 Gig Kingston RAM

19 inch Samsung monitor

rest pretty generic like you said... but now my gear is pretty much obsolete for gaming but I don't care as I don't play games on my PC anymore. Use my PS2 more now..

[dieselbro 0]

I game pretty heavy on my comp, and it runs smoooth

Intel Pentium Dual Core 3.0GHz

ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe motherboard

1 gig of RAM

21 inch Viewsonic monitor (widescreen)

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

DVD-rom and a CD-rom drives

Antec sonata 2 case

and this TV Tuner card thats hooked up to my TV so I can watch TV on my comp :P

[SickLife 2]

i guess it's getting kinda old at this point, i built it atleast 3 years ago.

asus p4pe board, p4 2.4B chip OC'd to 3.02

geforce ti4200 vid card, audigy soundcard, 1gb ram (pc2100 though :()

all the other necessities. 3 internal hard drives & 1 external (totaling like 800gb or some crap), usual dvdr & such. nothing terribly exciting.

[RadioGaGa 162]

i guess it's getting kinda old at this point, i built it atleast 3 years ago.

asus p4pe board, p4 2.4B chip OC'd to 3.02

geforce ti4200 vid card, audigy soundcard, 1gb ram (pc2100 though :()

all the other necessities. 3 internal hard drives & 1 external (totaling like 800gb or some crap), usual dvdr & such. nothing terribly exciting.

Gocha beat (on the old system):

P3 550 (ASUS P3V4X Board)

384 Meg

40 + 10 Gig HD's

Dual Monitors (17" & 15" **NOT LCD/Flat Screens either)

128 Bit Sound card (although I do have a sub woofer *L*)

52 X Burner / 32 X CD Rom

*sigh*

I really should upgrade.

[Jbone 0]

My cousin builds computers. He built me one and I guess it's alright, but it could be much better. Nether the less, it get's the job done.

80 GB Hard Drive

1 GB Memory

I've upgraded all the cards like the sound, video cards and USB and firewire slots.

17 Inch Acer Monitor.

Altec Lansing speakers except I hooked up 2 10" Pioneer Premier subs to it.

52x DVD/CD Burner

I really only use this computer for my iPod and screwing around with programs I'lve downloaded. I do the odd homework on it to.

[LoXish 0]

My desktop that I built a year and a half ago and have upgraded a bit consist of:

3.4ghz P4 HT

1.5 GB of Mushkin DDR2

200 GB SATA

74 GB Raptor SATA

BFG 7800GT Video

More or less, that's it.

[Project_2501 0]

AMD Opteron 170

DFI motherboard (wow I feel retarted for not remembering...)

ATi X850XT PE

1gb Mushkin Redline, stable to 1.5-2-2-11 (final digit is high due to better latencies when set there on AMD, and yes, that is a 1.5 CAS latency, that is insane)

M-Audio ReVolution 7.1 sound card

440gb of hard drive space

HP Lightscribe burner

Coming soon: Either Dual core, or SLI Alienware notebook...

[Perry94 0]

okay, clearly my computer is better than all your computers added up together...

Intel Celeron 433mhz

GeForce 4 MX440

13 gig HD

196 Mb ram

it purely pwns :P

[Project_2501 0]

Hahaha, it beats my grandmother's last computer. Some HP pos that had an Athlon K6-II at, I think, 350mhz, had 64mb of ram, and a 6gb hdd, oh, and no standalone videocard.

Oh, we're putting monitors as well? In that case:

19" Viewsonic, 2ms refresh rate. Hate that the max res. is only 1280x1024...

[jcp2 2]

G4 iMac with the 20" screen.

It's the one that looks like a monitor stuck on half of a volleyball.

[Vapor 0]

main machine

13" black macbook

2.0 ghz dual core intel

2 gb ram

collecting dust machine

15" powerbook

1.33 ghz G4 PowerPC Processor

2 gb ram

If I go downstiars or need to do something intensive communal computer

G5 Powermac

Dual 2.0 ghz G5 PowerPC Processor

4 GB of Ram

A happy family of Apple Computers

And coming soon...

20" iMac

2.0 dual core intel processor

2 gb of ram

[mack 44]

That said, Vapor you're going to love that iMac. I got the 20" widescreen, 2.0, 2gb RAM and the disgusting 500gb hard drive. I am loving Front Row.

[Thockey17 1]

Dell XPS M1710 Notebook

Duo Core T2700

2gb Ram

100gb HDD

512MB NVIDIA GeForce

And for a desktop, i have a loaded Dell E50, but im getting a PowerMac G5 sometime soon

[Stampeder 2]

13" MacBook, and some shitty 4 year old HP Pavillion mx70

[Fire0nIce228 1]

What do you guys think would be a good notebook to use to travel back and forth to school this fall?

I dont do much gaming..Lots of internet and IM'ing and i'm sure i'll be typing the occasional paper :)

[Vapor 0]

looks like you are describing a macbook

[kosydar 0]

looks like you are describing a macbook

If I needed a computer for just what he said, I'd have gotten a Macbook in a heartbeat.

[New Player 0]

Home Rig

Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHz w/Hyper-Threading

Abit NI8 SLI motherboard

1GB DDR2 800 Crucial Balistix Tracer

Three 500GB SATA II set up in a raid array

120GB SATA

Sony DVD/CD RW Drive

Thermaltake Armor case

Thermaltake Toughpower 750W PSU

Chaintech nVidia GeForce 6600 video

Right now I'm waiting for someone to make a Core 2 Duo motherboard with an nVidia 590 SLI chipset so I can decide what SLI video configuration I want to go with.

[M-Cohen 0]

Wow, that is a monster setup. Why not more ram though?

[Project_2501 0]

Wow, that is a monster setup. Why not more ram though?

One reason: He wants to run a 1T command rate on the memory as Intel systems need large amounts of memory bandwidth to compensate for the Too-long pipelines on the processor. This is at the expense of generic latencies, such as cas, ras to cas, etc.

Other reason: He didn't expect to need it when he built the system.

And his graphic cards take away any "mega" rating it merited. Oh, and it's not AMD, and this past generation, AMD was king. (Yes, in all aspects.)

[QandA 0]

What do you guys think would be a good notebook to use to travel back and forth to school this fall?

I dont do much gaming..Lots of internet and IM'ing and i'm sure i'll be typing the occasional paper :)

Don't mean to jack this thread...but I have the same usage, but I download music and use Itunes as well. Macbook still appropriate?

[Chadd 916]

looks like you are describing a macbook

Since he's not doing anything productive with it, I'd have to agree with you.

[Vapor 0]

looks like you are describing a macbook

Since he's not doing anything productive with it, I'd have to agree with you.

you got balllllls. These days, windows PCs are less usefull than Macs. A Mac can run anything, a windows pc... cant.

[Fire0nIce228 1]

All I'm going to be doing is internet, chat, downloading music and typing papers. I'm not in an architect or graphics program or anything like thatwhere i'm going to need a super monster PC to run those types of programs. Business major, pretty much all about writing papers.

I would like something that runs fast though, but I've never used a mac before..