post ya pc specs

[raggie33]

i finaly beat 20000 in 3dmark 2001 and there website is down been down for the last day or so.

 

[Neg2LED]

AMD duron 1000
384mb random RAM
CD burner
DVD reader
dual 10gb HDDs
floptical
zip drive
nVidea GeForceFX5200

--neg

 

[Luxman]

Gateway
P4 - 3.4 GHz
1 GB RAM
(2) 250 GB drives
2 DVD
ATI X800 XT (about to upgrade to NVidia 6800)
Sound Blaster 2Zs
3.5 drive
USB, IEEE 1394
CF ports
Sony 300sf CRT
Technics 100W Rcvr
Kef speakers
Yamaha Subwoofer

 

[V8TOYTRUCK]

it really depends. it is possible that adding memory can give you extra startup time with BF2, but i think there are diminishing returns. what is the latency on your ram?

also, what kind of games are you playing? if they are mostly video intensive (which i think they are), the faster hard drive won't help it perform any better, it will help it load up faster if it loads from the hard drive. if it loads from the cd/dvd, then hard drive speed will have very minimal impact. i would say the bottleneck for games nowadays are the video cards, not the hard drives. getting a 10k or even a 15k will make everything in general be faster, but know that you will have to have a sata port or a scsi controller to use those faster hard drives. sata2 might be worth the wait...

from the looks of it, your video card is fairly recent too. are you having issues with your game? if so, i would first start with drivers and windows, then go to hardware issues. tweak the settings on your video card.

also, if you can, replace your memory with lower latency if yours isn't the lowest, that may garnish the most gains for you. faster hard drives are always nice, but again, the law of diminishing returns applies here too. the hard drive is overall the bottleneck with the computer, but with games, i think the video is moreso.

hope that helps...

I have no idea what the latency is..its OEM Dell so I am assuming not too good. I am guessing I have 2x512 in the 4 available slots. I am thinking about adding some Corsair Value Select 2x1GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145527

I am not having issues in the game, I play on the high settings with 0 lag. And that game has been called a vid card whore I was thinking adding ram and a faster HD would help map loading times which are about 30-45 seconds. (Loaded from HD I believe) and enable faster switching between game and other apps.

 

[raggie33]

im now trying to beat 20000 in 3dmark 2001 with out overclcocking cpu .i got up to 19490 .cant get higher

 

[DarkLight]

Almost 2 years old now and still fast enough

ABit IC7 Mainboard
P4 northwood 3.0 @ 3.8ghz oc'd on air.
2 gig Pc4000 Hyperram
Ati X800 PRo 256 meg running Silencer cooling oc'd to 540/540 core/mem speeds
Dual 36gb Raptors Raid zero 32k stripe System drive
WD 120gb Caviar storage drive
Audigy2 ZS sound
8xDVD RW CDRW Liteon
500 Watt Power Supply


3dmark03 12497
3dmark05 5532

 

[raggie33]

darn i new we had some pc geeks here lol.man i wish i had more better budget

 

[gnef]

yes, getting a faster hard drive should help with that then, but is that necessary to cut down a few seconds? if you don't already, try installing and loading the game from a separate drive from your OS drive, see if that helps. i don't think more ram will help with map loading since it will be loading into ram, and it would only help if you were using so much ram at the time that you were paging back to the hard drive...

hm, cas latency of 4 seems a bit high, but honestly, i don't know too much about the ddr2 spec. for 'regular' ddr, most of it was 2.5, some of the better stuff was 2. i don't know how this would compared to ddr2 though, you may want to look into it.

if you have the funds, try going for a faster rpm hard drive, but the cost may not be justified for your returns. i personally appreciate the build quality of scsi over ata, when ata had 3 year warranties, scsi had 5, and even when they moved to 1 year, scsi still had five. now seagate and some other manufacturers are moving to 5 year warranties on some of their ata drives, i believe, but i still feel that scsi drives are built better. it could be in my head though.

I have no idea what the latency is..its OEM Dell so I am assuming not too good. I am guessing I have 2x512 in the 4 available slots. I am thinking about adding some Corsair Value Select 2x1GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145527

I am not having issues in the game, I play on the high settings with 0 lag. And that game has been called a vid card whore I was thinking adding ram and a faster HD would help map loading times which are about 30-45 seconds. (Loaded from HD I believe) and enable faster switching between game and other apps.

 

[BigHonu]

AMD64 3200 Winchester 2420Mhz @1.525V
Zalman 7000B CU
Kingston HyperX 220Mhz 2-3-2-6 @1.8V
Gigabyte K8NF-9 Mobo
Gigabyte 6600GT with Zalman ZM80D
WD Raptor 36G
WD Caviar 250G
MadDog DVD R/W
NEC DVD read only
Sunbeam Fan Controller
Antec TP380 II
Antec Sonata rigged for silence

Folding 24/7.

 

[raggie33]

BUMP o im sure we have updated since this post i have
i have a intel 6300 duakl core at 2300 mhz
1 gig a ddr2
300 gig hardrive
7600 gt video card
mobo is ecs 965
and a amd 6000
1 gig a ddr2
onboard video cheap ecs mobo with via chipset a 60 gig hardrive
i use both pcs to fold and work my intel pc has a 19 inch lcd widescreen
the amd uses my hdtv olivia there both very stable never crashes and both run folding at home on both cores 24/7

 

[jtr1962]

Asus A7N8X-E motherboard
Athlon XP 3200 Socket A (not overclocked)
3 GB DDR400 RAM (3 x 1GB sticks)
EVGA brand Geforce 6200 128 MB video card
200 GB Maxtor PATA HDD
2X Samsung Lightscribe DVD burners
Zip100 Drive
1.44MB Floppy
Card Reader
Seasonic 330 Watt power supply
Lian-Li PC60 case

 

[knot]

The legendary Abit NF7-S v2.0 with AMD mobile Barton
1 gig of ram
ATI Radeon 9500 soft-modded and bios flashed to 9700
Viewsonic 22" LCD
Lite-on DVDRW-DL
CD ROM
2xSeagate drives
500 watt Ultra
Cooler master case with 2x120mm fans

 

[TOOCOOL]

Opteron 1.8ghz
160 & 80 gig drives both Seagate
Lanparty MB
2 gig o ram
EVGA vid card
nice case and P/S

Can't remember all the details been a while since I built it,also have a Dell Inspiron 6000 lappy 2.00 ghz

and four other desktops and the wifes Dell dual core lappy

 

[TigerhawkT3]

Originally (in February 2002), my computer had this:

-Asus P4T-E
-Maxtor 120GB HDD
-Intel P4 1.9GHz
-SB Audigy Gamer
-D-Link Gigabit Ethernet
-DVD-ROM
-CD-RW
-0.5GB of RDRAM
-Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP (PVR)

Since "something" went "wrong" a couple years ago, it now has this:

-Abit KV8 Pro
-AMD Athlon64 2000+
-1GB PC3200 DDR
-Sony DRU-820A
-1x120GB HDD
-3x250GB HDD

Things that haven't changed:

-Envision 19" CRT
-ATi Radeon 8500LE
-MS Office Keyboard
-IBM Optical Navigator mouse
-Antec Soho case (sort of like this one, only the really old version)

 

[Mad1]

This is my kinda thread.

Intel Core2Duo E4300 1.8Ghz @ 2.67Ghz
Asus P5N-E SLI Motherboard
2GB OCZ Platinum DDR2 PC6400 ram (to be upgraded to 4GB)
x3 250GB Western Digital SATA hard drives
x1 200GB Western Digital ATA hard drive
x1 160GB Western Digital ATA hard drive
x1 74GB Western Digital Raptor SATA hard drive
NEC DVD-RW ND-2500A (to be replaced by an uptodate SATA)
19" and 15" CRT's in dual configuration
BFG 8800GTS 320MB
Tagan EasyCon XL 700W PSU
XP Pro / OpenSUSE 10.1

The 160gig drive is on it's way out and will be replaced by another 250gig or a 500gig.

 

[WNG]

I'm in the middle of purchasing items to build myself a dual-core system. So far I have:

AMD Athlon64 X2 AM2 3600+ 1.9 GHz Brisbane core.
Ultra Xfinity 600W ATX PSU.
(2) HP DDR2 PC2-5300 1 GB DIMMs (pending).
Maxtor 320 GB SATA2 HDD.
Shopping for an overclock-friendly motherboard currently.

Otherwise, I access CPF on my main PC. I have numerous older systems still kicking.

1. (Main PC these days)
Abit NF7S v2.0 NForce2 MCP ATX motherboard,
Athlon-XP 1700+ (T'bred) overclocked to 2083 MHz (166x12.5) @ 1.55V.
Arctic Cooling 2TC heatsink/fan.
1 Gig (2x512 MB) GEIL PC-3200 DDRAM.
MSI Geforce4 MX440 64 MB AGP8x DVI card.
Seagate 400 GB PATA HDD.
NEC 8X D/L DVDRW.
Lite-On 48x CDRW.
Adaptec 2930 SCSI PCI card.
Airnet x.11b/g Wifi PCI card.
In-Win S500 midtower ATX case.
Mad Dog 350W PSU.
Win XP Pro sp2 OS.
Dell Ultrasharp 20.1" LCD 1600x1200 native res.


2. (back up PC)
ECS P4IBMS Intel chipset Socket 478 mATX motherboard.
intel P4 1.8a Northwood core cpu with intel OEM heatsink/fan.
1 Gig (512x2) of PC133 SDRAM.
ATI Radeon 7000 32 MB AGP4x dual DVI card.
WD 80 Gig PATA.
Lite-On 52x CDRW.
Lite-On DVDROM.
LeadTek WinTV cable/video capture card.
ALI chipset Firewire/USB 2.0 ports card.
In-Win v500 microATX case.
unknown 300W PSU.
Win2k sp4 OS.
Dell Ultrasharp 18.1" LCD 1280x1024 native res.


3. (HTPC)
Acorp VIA KM400a chipset FlexATX motherboard with a lot of built-in I/O.
AMD Athlon XP 1900+ Palomino.
Arctic Cooling 2TC heatsink/fan.
512 MB PC-2700 DDRAM (various mix of brands).
MSI Geforce4 MX440 64 MB AGP8x DVI card.
WD 80 Gig PATA.
NEC 4X D/L DVDRW.
In-Win v500 microATX case.
Thermaltake Toughpower 350W PSU.
Win XP MCE OS.
Dell Ultrasharp 18.1" LCD 1280x1024 native res.


4. (Linux-XP dual boot)
Intel D815EFV mATX motherboard.
Intel 1.1 GHz Tualatin Celeron.
Thermaltake Volcano 6 with 80mm fan grafted on.
512 MB PC133 CAS2 Micron SDRAM (maxed-out unfortunately, stupid i815 chipset.)
Nvidia Geforce4 MX440 64 MB 8x AGP DVI card.
60 GB Maxtor
KhyperMedia 48x CDRW.
IDE UDMA-100 HDD slide-out chassis. (with 80 GB Maxtor)
VIA chipset USB 2.0 PCI card.
In-Win v500 microATX case.
Powerman 145W mATX PSU.
Ubuntu 7.04
Win XP sp2.
sharing a Dell Ultrasharp 18.1" via VGA connector.

The above systems are accessed with a Belkin 4x KVM box and Logitech wireless mouse and Micron brand windows keyboard.


5. (linux box)
Asus P3V4X VIA chipset slot-1 ATX motherboard.
intel P3-933 coppermine slot-1
1 GB of PC133 SDRAM (4 x 256 MB Crucial brand DIMMs).
generic heatsink/fan.
PNY Radeon 7200 32 MB AGP4x VGA/DVI card.
WD 8 Gig PATA.
Lite-On DVDROM.
TDK 12x CDRW.
IDE 100 MB Zip drive.
CompUSA PC midtower ATX case.
Powerman mini sized 145W ATX PSU.
Ubuntu 6.06 OS.

6.
HP Pavilion P3 800* MHz Coppermine cpu, BX chipset laptop. (*just swapped the 600 for an 800 that I was given.)
with 14" svga screen. 256 MB PC100 SDRAM, 20 Gig HDD and DVDROM.
Swap between Win2k and PCLinuxOS on separate HDDs.

7.
IBM Thinkpad T40
Intel 1.4 GHz Pentium M, 1 Gig PC2700 DDRAM, 40 Gig PATA HDD, DVDROM, 14.1" xvga screen.
WinXP sp2.

8.
DFI AK74-SC VIA KT133 ATX Socket-A.
AMD 1.4 GHz Athlon Thunderbird.
Thermaltake Volcano 6cu with 80mm fan grafted on.
340 MB PC133 CAS2 SDRAM.
Nvidia 16 MB AGP VGA card (unknown).
20 MB Maxtor.
Memorex CDR-W
Hitachi DVD-ROM.
(1) 3Com PCI NIC
(2) Netgear PCI NIC.
Micron-PC clientpro midtower ATX case.
TGR 250W ATX PSU.
Astaro Security Gateway

9. (DiVX box and internet gateway/router)
Compaq Uwave/FIC VIA KT133 mATX motherboard.
AMD 1.1 GHz Athlon Thunderbird.
512 MB PC133 CAS2 Micron SDRAM.
30 GB Maxtor (slim-line), 40 GB WD.
Compaq/Samsung DVD-ROM,
Philips CDR-W.
Mad Dog SiS TV-64 AGP 2x.
Airnet 11b/g WiFi PCI card.
NEC based USB 2.0 PCI card.
SMC PCI NIC.
In-Win mATX case.
250W Delta psu.
Win2000 sp4.

10.
Gateway 700c compact PC.
MSI-Brookings FlexATX motherboard.
Intel 1100 MHz Celeron-2.
256 MB PC100 SDRAM
20 GB Samsung HDD
24x CDRW. unknown brand
Netgear FA-311 NIC.
ASTEC 90w PSU.
Win2000 sp4.

What? Did you really think it was going to be a short list?

 

[RA40]

WOW!

Mine:

Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe
AMD X2 5600+
2G G Skill 4-4-4-12 memory
2-500G WD SATA drives with hot swap bays
Nvidia 7600 GT video
Corsair 550W PS
SuperMicro SM750A server case (Been through 4 builds so far)
Well aged IIyama 450 CRT
(This one runs Folding @ Home SMP projects 24/7)


MSI K8N-SLI
AMD 64 3800+
3G of Corsair Value select
750G of WD SATA drives with hot swap bays
Nvidia 7300GS video
Just PC 500W PS
Cooler Master Wavemaster case
Samsung 215TW monitor
(online play rig also running Folding @ Home projects)


Just taken down and sold:

MSI K7T mobo
AMD Athlon XP 1600+
1.5G of PC133 memory
500G WD IDE drives
Nvidia FX5500 video

 

[raggie33]

just a headsup newegg has a amd x2 4800 and a ecs mobo with nvidia chipset for 109

 

[albert]

here's mine.

AMD Athlon 64, 1800 MHz 2800+
Gigabyte GA-K8NS (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Audio, LAN)
1536 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
ATI RADEON 9700 PRO (128 MB)
IC35L060AVER07-0 (60 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)
ST380817AS (80 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA)
SONY CDU4811 (48x CD-ROM)
SONY DVD RW DRU-720A (DVD+R9:4x, DVD+RW:16x/8x, DVD-RW:16x/6x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/24x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW)

 

[Mad1]

just a headsup newegg has a amd x2 4800 and a ecs mobo with nvidia chipset for 109

It's a shame AMD suck now.