SH3 and Our Computers

[Stealth Hunter]

I've finally bought another computer from Circuit City for $700. Firstly, this thing runs it like Lance Armstrong cycling in the Tour de France. It's a Gateway. The specs on it:

-2048 MB
-180 GB
-Dual-Core AMD Processors 4000+
-Nvidia GeForce 6100

The reason I have created this thread is to find out what types of computers you guys have and maybe, god willing, this thread will survive on here to provide a guide to people who want to compare their computer to what we have to run the game. Anywho, I'll wrap it up.

Good hunting!

-SH:ahoy:

[LZ_Baker]

I build a new box in Nov.

My first SH3 Computer:

AMD Athlon 64 3000+
nVidia 6600GT - 128 mb
1 gig ram
160 gig Hard Drive


My new box:

AMD Athlon X2 4200+
nVidia 7800GT - 256 mb
1 gig DDR2
2x 250 gig Hard Drives

:up:

[Deep-Six]

Here is mine:

Intel Prescot 3.0Ghz
1.5gigs of RAM<----Subject to change:)
7800GS OC 512megs RAM
300gig HDD

[spork542]

Here's mine.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
NVidia GeForce 7800GT 256megs
2gigs DDR400 RAM
250gig HDD

I play on 1024x768 with 8x AA and 8x AF.

[stabiz]

My two comps:

#1:

ABIT KV8 Pro (socket 754)
512MB RAM
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
GeForce 6600GT 256MB GDDR3 AGP8X
350W PSU
80GB harddrive
Crappy Q-Tec case
17" CRT Screen

#2:

ABIT KN8 SLI (socket 939)
2048MB RAM
AMD Athlon 64 3800+
Asus 7950GT 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express
Audigy ZE
Lian Li case with 4 Mist fans
500W Mist PSU
750GB hardrives
19" CRT screen

[VIICDriver]

AMD 3500+ Clawhammer
ATI X850XT
2 gb RAM
240 gb HDD

[Gizzmoe]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
2GB DDR 400
ATI X1950XT, 256MB
5 harddrives, 820GB total

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

My lovely PoS:

Dell Dimension 3000
Intel x86 ~2992 Mhz
512 MB RAM
70.94 GB HD
Radeon 9250/256MB adapter RAM

[Firebird]

You all have pretty good computers :). Mine's getting a bit older...

AMD Athlon XP2000+
Abit NF7-S rev 1
1 GB DDR400
Hercules 3D Prophet 9800 Pro 128 MB
4 int. HDs + 1 ext. for 1 TB
17" AOC + 19" Philips 109P40 CRTs

[Teho]

AMD64 3800+
1gig DDR
7900GTX 512mb
250 GB HD

[nightdagger]

Pentium D 805 @ 3.8 GHz
ASUS P5ND2-SLI
eVGA 7900GT
2x1024MB G.SKILL DDR2 @ 780MHz
Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer
WD Caviar 250GB 7200RPM SATA
NEC DVD+/-RW
Thermaltake Purepower 500W

@ Stealth Hunter: It would be more like a Formula 1 car racing Lance Armstrong if you paid the same amount but custom built it though...

[azn_132]

You all have pretty good computers :). Mine's getting a bit older...

AMD Athlon XP2000+
Abit NF7-S rev 1
1 GB DDR400
Hercules 3D Prophet 9800 Pro 128 MB
4 int. HDs + 1 ext. for 1 TB
17" AOC + 19" Philips 109P40 CRTs

Mine is way older...

AMB Athlon XP 1900+
1.47 GHz
512 of RAM
ATI Radeon 9200 series
A Princeton montior
4 decktop speakers
two mouses
a keyboard
a mic

Can I keep goin?

[Enchanter]

:stare: I'm embarrassed! But I'll upgrade this year...probably! If I need any incentive I'll check this thread! Then again...as long as she runs SHIII...:-?

AMD Athlon XP 1900+
718 MB Memory
Nvidia GeForce 5200 128MB
19" High Resolution

Yup...definitely time to upgrade!! :stare:

[Mooncatt]

some nice systems you guys have mine is..

P4 3.0ghz
1.5 RAM
X700 256mb sapphire hybrid

[Boris]

Mine's incredibly similar ro Gizzmoes:

Athlon 4800 x64 X2
ASUS A8N32 Deluxe
ATI X1950XT 256mb
2gb Kingston DDR
5 Harddrives: 1.2 Tb
Audigy 2ZS

Acer 22" wide LCD

[fabel]

Amd64 2800+
512 mb ddr ram
ati radeon 9250 128 mb

This runs Silent Hunter 3 smooth, the only thing I would like to improve is the memory to 1024 mb.

[Letum]

AMD 'A' Socket 3000+
ATI Radeon x1600
1.5GB RAM
Onboard AC97 sound

Convoy battles at ~32Fps and ~7FPS at x32 TC

[jaxa]

CPU: AMD Athlon 3500+
MB: Asus M2N-E AM2 socket
RAM: 2x512 MB Kingston DDR2 667 MHz
GPU: Asus EAX1950Pro (ATI Radeon X1950Pro) 256 MB
HDD: Samsung 250 GB SpinPoint 7200
Music card: Hercules Muse XL
Monitor: BenQ FP93GX lcd

Works fine with 1280x1024 resolution.

[HundertzehnGustav]

3013mhz P4
512mb RAM
256MB ATI 9600
250 Gigs HDD
a off the shelf system of the year 2004

runs good

[Sailor Steve]

I had to go with what I could afford:

Pentium 4 3 Gig
512MB RAM
160 Gig hard drive
ATI video card (don't remember what type)
Onboard sound

It runs okay, and I've had a lot of fun. Job first. Apartment next. Upgrades third. GWX fourth. SH4 fifth. Then I'll probably need a new system.:damn:

[azn_132]

I had to go with what I could afford:

Pentium 4 3 Gig
512MB RAM
160 Gig hard drive
ATI video card (don't remember what type)
Onboard sound

It runs okay, and I've had a lot of fun. Job first. Apartment next. Upgrades third. GWX fourth. SH4 fifth. Then I'll probably need a new system.:damn:
Ur daily things to do right?

I have to wait for a new comp so hopefully Ill have a new comp that can run SH4 on.

[AVGWarhawk]

AMD 3200+
Nvidia 6200OC 256MB
1 gig RAM
One hamster on treadmill to run cooling fan!

[Enchanter]

Oooh hamster cooled! Thats kewl!:rotfl:
I was faced with a dilemma this evening. Save up and buy a new pc when SH4 comes out (:rock: ) or save up and take open water diving lessons and go diving in June (:|\\ )
:hmm:

[elite_hunter_sh3]

my rig :rock::rock::rock:

Intel Core 2 Quad extreme (quad core)

2 gefore 8800 GTX in SLI

2gb dual channel corsair dominator ram ddr2

2 150gb 10k rpm raptors in raid 0
2 300 gb WD in raid 1

(mostly for animation skool work , 3dsmax , modding css , hopefully modding sh3 game engine but still havent fully decided)

[elite_hunter_sh3]

and my gaming comp for sh3 is <drumrolll>

AMD opteron 165 oc'ed to 2.2 ghz
Asus A8VE-SE
BFG 7800 GT
OCZ platinum 2-3-2-5-1T 2GB dual channel ram
1 300gb maxtor 16mb hdd
1 74 gb 10k raptor
thermalrock gaming tower case with 600 watt enermax liberty PSU

[Tool]

Just built this 2 months ago:

Intel 965LT MB
Intel Dual Core E6400 (2.13 ghz)
1gig Crucial DDR2
BFG 256mb 7600GTOC
Game Theatre XP 7.1
80gig Maxtor SATA
200gig Maxtor IDE
Antec 1050X 500watt Case

:cool:

[GT182]

My specs for a 2 year old computer I built... my first homebuilt

Intel P4 3.2E (stock not oc'd)
Asus P4P 800E-Deluxe
XFX GF6800XTreme 256mb DDR3 RAM, 256 bit
2gigs PC3200 DDR Ram (2-512 sticks matched RAM/gig)
Maxtor SATA 120gig HDD
Thermaltake Xaser v1000A case

Now a question.
Is it possible to use SATAII with the Asus P4P 800E-Deluxe motherboard? I want to go to a 200gb Maxtor SATAII HDD I found today. Price of $79.00 on sale that I can't pass up. I was told by the manager that if the connections with SATAII are the same as SATA it could be possible, but he wasn't sure.

[Deep-Six]

I found this on the Asus website. And will answer your question;

Intel is the world's first chipset maker to integrate Serial ATA (SATA) and RAID 0, 1 functions into the South Bridge. The latest ICH5R chipset now delivers 150MB/s fast data transfer (SATA) and striping performance to enhance computing efficiency.

Your friendly neighborhood PC tech :)

Source:
http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=12&l3=31&model=178&modelmenu=1

[Deep-Six]

BTW,I am using a hdd w/ SATA2 and made no changes to the hdd.

It works just fine.

[nightdagger]

My specs for a 2 year old computer I built... my first homebuilt

Intel P4 3.2E (stock not oc'd)
Asus P4P 800E-Deluxe
XFX GF6800XTreme 256mb DDR3 RAM, 256 bit
2gigs PC3200 DDR Ram (2-512 sticks matched RAM/gig)
Maxtor SATA 120gig HDD
Thermaltake Xaser v1000A case

Now a question.
Is it possible to use SATAII with the Asus P4P 800E-Deluxe motherboard? I want to go to a 200gb Maxtor SATAII HDD I found today. Price of $79.00 on sale that I can't pass up. I was told by the manager that if the connections with SATAII are the same as SATA it could be possible, but he wasn't sure.

It doesn't matter because no hard drive uses the full bandwidth of SATA 1. I think the WD Raptors get close, but still.

@ elite_hunter_sh3: I hate you. You put all of our computers to shame, even mine.

[TriskettheKid]

2.54 gHz P4
1gig PC800-40 RDRAM
256mb 7800 GS OC

[airwolf48453]

Dell XPS
Dual Core(Intel)
CPU6400
2.13GHZ
1GB RAM
WindowsXP Media Edition
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE

[Chaotic42]

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
2048MB DDR2-800
Nvidia GeForce 7800GTX
Soundblaster X-Fi Sound Card
Adaptec U160 SCSI Controller with 36GB 15K RPM Fujitsu as C:
Dell 2405FPW 24" LCD

My computer is overkill for SH3, but I play Battlefield 2 and other stuff and I need the power to push the triangles for this monitor.

[JU_88]

Athlon 64 3800
Asus A8N SLI deluxe
2GB DDR400
GF 7600 GT

[Turkina]

Here is mine:

AMD Athlon 64 3000+
nVidia 7600GT - 256 mb
1 gig DDR
200gig HDD

[gouldjg]

Because I dont know what mine is, I got the book out to find out,

NASA Military spec p50 at 5gig processor

Direct pipe to silicon valley for 1000 gig ram

Hard drive = Microsoft main server

Running sh3 at 27fps so I think I need to replace the microsoft components,

Ok the truth now

Median 3.6
Nvidia 6600
1 gig ram
160 gig HD
SB live

Average about 30-40 fps unless in port = 15-20

[fabel]

Because I dont know what mine is, I got the book out to find out,

NASA Military spec p50 at 5gig processor

Direct pipe to silicon valley for 1000 gig ram

Hard drive = Microsoft main server

Running sh3 at 27fps so I think I need to replace the microsoft components,


:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[GT182]

Thanks for the info guys. ~S!~

I'm going to get a 200gig SATAII HDD today at Staples. Last day of the sale on them at $79.00. Besides, I need a larger HDD anyways, this 120 SATA is almost full. ;) I might just get 2 of them for RAID setup or a spare. :)

I have found tho that my SATA is faster than the WD ATA HDD I had before. And too Maxtor is a very good HDD. The only thing is Seagate has bought out Maxtor and hopefully Maxtor HDDs won't disappear altogther.

Chaotic42, very nice pc but I wouldn't say it's overkill. The best you can possibly have for a pc today will be outdated very soon. Especially with all the new hardware coming out now. When I built mine I thought I was all set. Within 6 months it was old and out of date. Your's won't be outdated for at least 9 months. LOL ;)