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[Mjolnir]

You definitely should not be using that much RAM with only those things open.

You are correct, I shouldn't be, but Microsoft has designed this wonderful new OS called vista, and it has a larger appetite than its older brother XP.
Also, as I mentioned I am running monitoring programs, programs for the LCD on the Keyboard, as well as Steam, Antivirus, and antispyware utilities. I don't mind using this much RAM since I actually have it, but it would be a pain if it had to use the paging file.

 

[matrixshaman]

Not my whole computer - just my hard drive - 'bout 40 Megabytes (yes that's Megabytes not Gigabytes or Terabytes) and that's a little less than a Megabyter per pound :D

State of the art .... :whistle:

 

[Lumenshroom]

I lolled

 

[LuxLuthor]

I remember the days when I posted all over about my |33t PC setup and various benchmark score links. Problem is that in 6 months no matter what you have, it becomes a snoozer.

A year later, you are looking at which relative you can pawn it off on--in a seemingly noble gesture to justify getting yourself a new |33t rig. A couple years later you wonder if the recycle places are still offering free disposal of old computers.

I have refused to get involved with Vista, as about the time it starting getting fixed, Windows 7 began arising from the Redmond Grotto. My next upgrade will be after Windows 7 - SP1 has been released. Meanwhile, my current rig is not worth mentioning. Usually people who start threads like this are wanting everyone to know about their |33t setup. Been there. Done that. :whistle: Have fun!

 

[brucec]

I remember the days when I posted all over about my |33t PC setup and various benchmark score links. Problem is that in 6 months no matter what you have, it becomes a snoozer.

A year later, you are looking at which relative you can pawn it off on--in a seemingly noble gesture to justify getting yourself a new |33t rig. A couple years later you wonder if the recycle places are still offering free disposal of old computers.

I've gotten rid of all of my old computers except my first. There's always something about that first one... I think the specs are:

Apple II Plus (1980?)
64k RAM
Dual 5.25" disk drives, no HD
300 baud modem (the kind you put the phone receiver on)
rotary dial phone
13" color monitor

At the time, it was a pretty impressive setup. I think my dad spent around $3000, which would be nearly $8000 in 2008 inflation adjusted dollars.

 

[Flashanator]

Hey lumenshroom,

What speed RAM could i get? isn't 2000mhz the limit? i only want stock stuff. Im not sure if I can get a Mobo that can use high speed RAM?

I want as much as possible.

cheers.

 

[jtr1962]

Primary computer:

AMD XP3200 @ 2.21 GHz
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard
3 GB PC3200 DDR RAM
128 MB Geforce 6200 video card
200 GB Maxtor HDD
Windows XP SP3
Lian-Li PC-60 case
Seasonic 330 watt power supply
2 DVD-RW drives
1 3.5" floppy
1 Zip-100 drive
1 card reader

Secondary computer:

Socket 7 Celeron @ 1.3 GHz (slotkit adaptor)
AOpen AX6B motherboard
1 GB PC133 SDRAM
16 MB Voodoo 3 video card
80 GB and 100 GB Maxtor HDDs
Windows 98
generic case
Seasonic 300 watt power supply
2 CD-RW drives
1 3.5" floppy
1 Zip-100 drive

The above two machines share the same keyboard and mouse via a switchbox. I use my ViewEra 19" LCD monitor for both (primary machine uses the DVI connector and secondary machine the D-Sub connector).

Tertiary computer (not used any more but it's still sitting in my room):

80386 processor @ 40 MHz
32 MB 30-pin RAM
1 MB video
8.4 GB Maxtor and 1.2 GB WD HDDs
DOS 5.1/Windows 3.1
generic case and power supply
CD drive
2x 3.5" floppy drives

I have about half a dozen other lesser machines mostly found by the curb and built up with spare parts (processors ranging from Pentium 200s up to Pentium II 450s). I also have a 8086 machine a neighbor gave me with a pair of huge 20 MB HDDs and a whopping 640 KB of RAM. While of course useless for anything but DOS-based word processing it's a hoot to turn it on once in a while. Believe it or not it even came with a color VGA monitor (still functioning) which was considered great for the time (mid 1980s).

My primary machine is still plenty adequate for what I do (including playing MS Train Simulator). I'll probably upgrade in a few years once I need to do tasks requiring more than 3 GB RAM. As a general rule I don't even consider upgrading until the point that a reasonably priced (~$500) set of parts will allow me to build a machine at least 5x faster than what I'm already using. Thankfully with processor clock speeds not going much past 3 GHz, and multi-core/64-bit being the only way forward at this point, the time between upgrade cycles is increasing.

 

[NA8]

Main user is an old AMD64 2.4ghz with an AOpen VIA motherboard with a 1 meg stick of memory and a 9800Pro video card. Runing Win2k Svpk4.

Got a backup/game box that is very similar with a newer AMD64 2.2ghz cpu and I think the last Epox socket 754 nforce4 motherboard ever made. The one with dual video slots. Got a 8800GTS 512 video card and a PC Power & Cooling power supply in that one, but they really need a better home. Been meaning to build a new box for years, but these cheezey computers seem to do everything I want and the longer I wait, the more money for flashlights, knives, recliners, HDTV, and beer.

Over in the corner is a BX/Coppermine Slot 1 KludgeMonster. Dates back to the last century. Funny to think it started life at 266mhz with a 66mhz memory bus, 64K of memory, and an 11 Gig hard drive. Now it runs about 667/133 Mhz overclocked with some Slot 1 adapter card. Put in 512K of memory when it got cheap. It's got an old 3dfx 3500 with the TV tuner. It's got a LOT of cards in it. Those were the days. I'll probably grab the soundblaster and the network cards out of it one of these days. I think there's a 33k faxmodem in there running on the REALLY old ISA bus slot dating back to the 486 days.

The 486DX33 (no heatsink) and the XT are LONG GONE, victims of noisy hard drives, long boot times, and gross video cards.

Looking forward to the day you can do it all with a pair of gloves and sunglasses.

 

[RA40]

Nice to see some of these older boxes still kicking. :)

I'm thankful that what I pay today is still basically the same as what I paid back in the mid 80's for a pooter. Amazing to compare the technology too. ;) It would be a kick to load up DOS 6.2 and see how Win 3.1 would fly. :D

 

[Lumenshroom]

I remember the days when I posted all over about my |33t PC setup and various benchmark score links. Problem is that in 6 months no matter what you have, it becomes a snoozer.

A year later, you are looking at which relative you can pawn it off on--in a seemingly noble gesture to justify getting yourself a new |33t rig. A couple years later you wonder if the recycle places are still offering free disposal of old computers.

I have refused to get involved with Vista, as about the time it starting getting fixed, Windows 7 began arising from the Redmond Grotto. My next upgrade will be after Windows 7 - SP1 has been released. Meanwhile, my current rig is not worth mentioning. Usually people who start threads like this are wanting everyone to know about their |33t setup. Been there. Done that. :whistle: Have fun!

You don't have to replace a computer cause a single part is outdated- just grab new parts as they arise.

 

[Mjolnir]

It isn't what hardware a person has that matters; it is how much they overclock it.

Of course, this isn't really true in online "computer 1337ness," where people need to have the newest hardware, even if it isn't all that much better, or even necessary. Faster memory, for example, doesn't really help performance all that much, yet there are now 2 Ghz memory kits. I doubt they offer much more performance than slow old 1 Ghz memory sticks (which are still faster than my 800 Mhz sticks), yet people buy them simply for benchmark performance.
Of course, people would never have buying habits like these when it comes to flashlights... :sssh:

 

[Graham]

...and you're pretty much covered as far as hardware for 5 years even if you're not gonna upgrade.

Famous last words ;)

 

[AMD64Blondie]

Main PC:
Gigabyte Aurora 570 full-tower case,Gigabyte GA-M790-GP-DS4H mobo,AMD Phenom II 955BE,8GB of OCZ DDR2-800,a 1GB Gigabyte 9800GX2...let's see,about 4 TB of various hard drives.(Hitachi,Seagate,Maxtor,and Samsung.)..Logitech Z5500 speakers,1991 IBM Model M keyboard+Logitech G5..HPA7217A 24-in widescreen CRT,plus a LG Blu-ray/HDDVD combo drive as well as a Gigabyte 16X DVD burner.. all powered by a PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750.(OS is Widows Vista Ultimate 64-bit.)


Backup OpenSuse 11 Linux PC: Some random Raidmax midtower,Gigabyte GA-M790X-DS4 mobo,AMD Phenom 9950BE,8GB of OCZ DDR2-800,Seagate 250GB 7200RPM 16MB cache single-platter HD,a PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 510SLI, and a 256MB EVGA 7800GT. Monitor is a Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 200 22-in CRT,keyboard is a 1991 IBM Model M,mouse is a Logitech RX1000. (Also a Toshiba DVD burner and a generic DVD-ROM.) The fun part of my backup PC is the beat-up Raidmax case hiding a rather powerful PC inside.

 

[mechBgon]

IBM Model M forevar! :bow:

 

[Lumenshroom]

It isn't what hardware a person has that matters; it is how much they overclock it.

Of course, this isn't really true in online "computer 1337ness," where people need to have the newest hardware, even if it isn't all that much better, or even necessary. Faster memory, for example, doesn't really help performance all that much, yet there are now 2 Ghz memory kits. I doubt they offer much more performance than slow old 1 Ghz memory sticks (which are still faster than my 800 Mhz sticks), yet people buy them simply for benchmark performance.
Of course, people would never have buying habits like these when it comes to flashlights... :sssh:

You won't see a Pentium 4, no matter how much it's OCd, beat a stock i7- let alone one at 4.2.

 

[Mjolnir]

You won't see a Pentium 4, no matter how much it's OCd, beat a stock i7- let alone one at 4.2.

I did not say that at all. Obviously newer components will outperform old ones, but just because someone can't afford a brand new computer every year does not mean that they can't have a "cool computer" by overclocking the CPU or video card.
Obviously a 9 year old single core CPU will not beat a quad core CPU that is under a year old, no matter how much it is overclocked. However, people who can't afford a brand new CPU shouldn't be looked down upon because of it.

 

[TigerhawkT3]

I was hoping to build a new computer, but I just don't have time with school. :( I'm planning on just paying iBuyPower to build one for me. My goal is to be able to play WoW and raid, or just hang around Dalaran, while getting frames per second (as opposed to frame, or less, per second).

 

[Coop]

I was hoping to build a new computer, but I just don't have time with school. :(

I just built a new computer, I re-used my old case & dvd writer, but everything else was replaced. Removing the old and installing the new stuff didn't take me longer than an hour. + another 2 hours for installing Windows and most of the tools i use on a regular basis (of which about an hour was taken by formatting my new 1TB harddrive). All in all 3 hours, and for the better part of 2 of those hours (formatting & windows install) you dont even need to stay with the computer, you can just do your homework (the analog way) or just start the process before you go to school to find it finished when you come back.
It really doesn't take up that much of your time, and you can spend the money you save by doing it yourself on a nicer graphics card to crank up that desired framerate a bit further...

 

[Flashanator]

I have gotten so much out of my older PC I had built back in 04.

Just a few small upgrades every ~ 2years & its still a great.

 

[seaside]

Primary computer:

AMD XP3200 @ 2.21 GHz
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard
3 GB PC3200 DDR RAM
128 MB Geforce 6200 video card

Secondary computer:

Socket 7 Celeron @ 1.3 GHz (slotkit adaptor)
AOpen AX6B motherboard
1 GB PC133 SDRAM
16 MB Voodoo 3 video card
80 GB and 100 GB Maxtor HDDs

Tertiary computer (not used any more but it's still sitting in my room):

80386 processor @ 40 MHz
32 MB 30-pin RAM
1 MB video
8.4 GB Maxtor and 1.2 GB WD HDDs

*snipped*

I am glad that jtr1962 has similar setups with what I have. But his systems are slightly powerful than mine. Here's my setups.

(My) Primary computer :

AMD Althon XP3000
DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra motherboard
1 GB PC3200 DDR RAM
128 MB Geforce 6600 video card
4HDDs about 800 MB (about 700 MB of music files)
DVD bunner that does not burn any more.

(Wife's recently upgraded) Secondary computer:

AMD barton XP2500+ Socket A (from XP1600+)
MSI KT3 Ultra motherboard
1 GB PC133 SDRAM (from 512MB)
ATI radeon 7500 video card
3HDDs about 2.5 TB (over 2TB of manga files)
DVD reader.

Tertiary computer (I still can play Master of Magic with this):

Celeron 300 processor Slot A
Abit BH6 motherboard
128 MB PC100 SDRAM
4 MB S3 trio video

They are old but quite ok for what we're doing, but when the time Diablo3 come out.... :P