what system (computer) do you have

[Roads88]

My kind of thread. Check out others folkes stuff and talk about your own. hehe

Here is mine:
Intel 2.4 Hz Duo2
Asus, P5B, Delux P965, SLI mother board
2GB (in 1GB dimms for more ram room when needed), PC6400
EVGA GeForce 7950 GT KO. 512MB GDDR3
650w power supply.

Runs everthing at max settings.

I get myself a new computer every 5 years if i need it or not.:rotfl:

[jumpy]

- Athlon 64 X2 3800+ cpu (for now).
- Asus M2N32-sli-dlx nforce590 PCI-E DDR2 (socket AM2) mobo.
- Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TWINX ram.
- Hiper HPU-4M670 TYPE-R 670W ATX2.2 psu.
- Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 10 NCQ 250GB 6V250FO SATAII 16MB CACHE hd. Plus my 160gb ide drive as a backup.
- BFG GEFORCE 7950GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/DUAL DVI PCI-E grafix card.
- vented side panel for my Akasa Eclipse 62 case and some assorted cables.
- 2 monitors - 19" iiyama vision master pro 454 & 17" generic flat screen crt monitor.
- creative 5.1 sound card (old but does the job so far).
- creative 5.1 surround sound speakers.. plenty loud enough and only 30 quid
- 2nd edition black ice mat.
- logitech G3 gaming mouse.


I may consider some more HD space in the future, but I can't see what I've already got filling up any time soon. More RAM? maybe another graphics card to run SLI? not sure if that' worth it. Probably a new cpu in about 12 month when some of the prices have reduced a bit.
Whatever happens the basics at the core of this stuff should last me a few years at the very least and hopefully with some room for improvement without having to lash out on a whole new machine, but that all depends don't it?

[elite_hunter_sh3]

amd is also a good way to go even with C2D because AMD isplanning on releaseing a patch (what ive heard) that purely utilizes 100% 64bit programs, thus increasing performance, amd is planning on releaseing version of their athlon and fx and X2 series purely for 64 bit and not 32 bit. (mainly for business)

[Konovalov]

You strike me as a bit of an AMD fanboy elite_hunter_sh3.

[elite_hunter_sh3]

AMD owns intel, intel just has more advertising :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

cant wait till native quad core comes out, then i can replace my Quaqd FX with 2 native quad cores giving me a total of 8 cores !!!!

[Zantham]

elite_hunter, have you considered adding the Gigabyte iRam drives to your computer? Western Digital Raptors are very fast drives, but can only sustain a theoretical 120MB/sec in a RAID0 config (realistically around 90MB/sec). If you get two (or more, with all those SATA ports you have) you can add in iRam drives and RAID those. You eliminate seek time completely (5.5ms in the Raptor to 0.0 in the iRam), plus you will achieve a true 300MB/sec throughput (with two of them RAID0, 600MB/sec). You need 4x1GB DDR RAM per iRam (putting in larger sticks has no benefit, they only support 4GB each) and even old PC-2100 is enough to fully saturate the SATA bus to give you max speed. They use your system's power to maintain the memory even when your system is shut off (just dont unplug it from the wall or shut off the power bar), and they have a battery backup in case you do need to unplug your system. You can install Windows on them and use them as you would any other hard drive. My usage scenerio would be: 2x iRams (8GB) Windows install and maybe one or two commonly used progams. Then maybe another pair (or more) of iRams that I would use for installing games onto. Just a thought if you are planning on building the ultimate computer anyways

[elite_hunter_sh3]

is that like those hdd that u jus place memory in em, ive seen those, im not sure about it , im concerend for hdd space, (games, movies, pics, more games, movies, programming languages and i tinker andmodify windows OS and mac OS )

ill stick with my raptors for now, but thanks for the info ill look into it

[Zantham]

Yup, you'd use them with your Raptors. Put the stuff you want to load fast in the iRam drives then the important stuff (I'd put backups of the iRam's too) on the Raptors.

Here's an article from AnandTech about the iRams and some benchmarks.
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2480

I dont think they played around with raiding the iRams in that tho. But a single iRam is a fair chunk faster than an single Raptor, and the speed difference would be even more noticeable when you start raiding them vs raiding raptors. Your motherboard should have 12 SATA ports on it...its not like your gonna run out of places to plug in drives anytime soon

[elite_hunter_sh3]

update* ive just sold one of my 8800 gtx's in anticipation for ATi's r600, my other 8800 gtx will be just fine without it

[elite_hunter_sh3]

cant wait for native amd barcelona and ati r600, !! yay, o wait now i have to wait until crossfire motherboard for socket F is out

[elite_hunter_sh3]

bump revive an oldy, still waiting on tem r600s and amds quads

[flintlock]

Originally Posted by elite_hunter_sh3

still waiting on tem r600s

As am I.

My entire next build is on hold until I see what this next GPU brings to the table.

[elite_hunter_sh3]

funny thing is the r600 is a complete redesign, its designed to be PURE DX 10, it will work with dx9.0c, even faster then the 8800 series, but the 8 series is half dx 9.0c half dx10, r600 decimated the 8 series.. nvidia said they r gonna release the 8900 gtx which is just a faster clocked version of the same core... still not gonna beat the r600.

AND NEW UPDATES!! from wut ive read on dailytech.com,

r600 and amd quad core benchmarks and specs shud be out within the next 2 weeks and r600 released close to end of this month and quad core be released few weeks after atir600 comes out.

[geetrue]

But you will need Vista for DX10 ... I don't have the 8800 yet, but the 8800GTS is down to $299 and who knows what it might come down to after more DX10 cards come out ...

But I just put Vista home premium on a Seagate 320GB hdd sata 3 16mb cache and it runs great ... I love it ... had some problems with Creative sound drivers, but I switched to the mobo sound and it sounds better than my sound card did.

The new ati video drivers are still being rejected, but it will all work out ... Vista ain't going away, it's getting better everyday.

One warning put Adaware on before you surf the web ... I added a bunch of new (what they call) gadgets to the new sidebar and let some trackers in. Blue screened me for a couple of days, before I figured it out.

Great recovery, repair system ... I'm very happy with Vista ... I have XP on two other hdd's in case I need them, but they are getting older and farther away everyday.

Il post my computer

Amd Anthlon 3200, 1.9 ghz, runs at 3.2 ghz according to System Requirements lab. (Winchester Model)
ATI Radeon x1950PRO( )
250gig Hiatachi Dexster Sata Hard-drive
450W PSU.
1.5 Gigs of RAM.
MSI, MS-7093 Motherboard
Standard Emachines Case.