RedHawke Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 Originally posted by stingerhs this wouldn't mean your using pci express for that video card, would it??? Yes it does! It is funny too as the system test that KOTOR runs gave me a warning about the video card not meeting the requirements... Bwahahaha... It is too new a card for the game to know about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Saxman Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 In 4 days my new computer will be here! At the moment however my computer is: 200 Mhz Pentium Pro 80 Mb Ram (unknown type) two hard drives, a 1.2 gig and a 6 gig 16 MB Voodoo 3 PCI graphics card Sound blaster 16/AWE 32 sound card To quote someone: "Beat THAT"!!! I use it to play Jedi Outcast on, believe it or not! My new computer (sigh of delight) is: Intel Pentium 4 540 w/HT Technology (3.2GHz) 1 GB DDR / PC3200 (2 DIMM) 40GB 7200 rpm SATA Hard Drive 256MB DDR ATI Radeon X600 Pro with TV-Out and DVI Integrated Intel High Definition Audio A sweet setup, but for a reasonable price. The Saxman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 I have 4 systems, but these 2 are my babies... Done some shopping recently.. hehehe My Specs: My Mac Dual 3.0GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon Mac Pro 16GB DDR533 SDRAM 2x750GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm nVidia QUADRO FX 4500 512mb SDRAM Bluetooth Module + AirPort Extreme Card 16x SuperDrive double-layer (DVD+R DL, DVD(+-)RW, CD-RW) PCI-X Gigabit Ethernet Card Fibre Channel PCI-X Card My Main PC Dual AMD Opteron 252 2.6 GHz 64-Bit 4GB Corsair XMS Dual Channel DDR SDRAM (up to 550MHz) 2x400GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm Dual NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI Express 512MB DDR3 (SLI) M-Audio FireWire 410 4-In/10-Out External FireWire Recording Interface NEC ND-3520 16x Dual Layer DVD(+-)R/W Drive Creative GigaWorks THX S750 - 7.1 700-Watt Speakers Extras (2) Apple 23" Cinema Displays 2 external 250GB Firewire Drives 2 external 300GB Firewire Drives (2) Dell 24" Ultrasharp 2407WFP Widescreen Monitors (still waiting on delivery) I did say I was a media editor right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth333 Posted November 7, 2004 Share Posted November 7, 2004 Originally posted by ChAiNz I 4GB DDR2 (533) Mushken RAM NVidia Geforce 6800 Ultra (2) Apple 23" Cinema Displays.... ...having fun as I see . . . . getting ready for your old days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted November 7, 2004 Share Posted November 7, 2004 Originally posted by Darth333 ...having fun as I see . . . . getting ready for your old days? Yeah, if my place was on fire...I'd save the computer before anything else sad thing is just 1 of the monitors is worth more than the whole system... They always say the mind is the first thing to go...then the eyes... Dare I ask what's next... still, I don't feel half as bad as I do for where I work. They forked over roughly $16,000 apiece for the 2 edit systems we use... dual 2.5ghz G5 Powermacs fully loaded *drool* 8GB RAM, (2) 30" Cinema Displays, over 3 terrabytes storage (xsans raid), all fiber...*ramble* *ramble* heh, just go to http://www.apple.com / store / and customize the 2.5ghz system...pick every 'top' option and that's what we have... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilles Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 I went shopping AMD Athlon 64 3200+ ABIT AV8 Motherboard 1GB Kingston HyperX DDR BFG NVidia Geforce 6800 OC Maxtor 120GB HDD Win XP Pro (SP 2) ViewSonic 22' CRT monitor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth333 Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 Originally posted by Achilles I went shopping AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 1GB Kingston HyperX DDR BFG NVidia Geforce 6800 OC Maxtor 120GB HDD Win XP Pro (SP 2) ViewSonic 22' CRT monitor finally not a bad thing the other PC died... enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilles Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 Well, I could have fixed the old one, but I've been meaning to upgrade my processor/mobo for a while now. This was just the impetus to finally do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeskywalker1 Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 Mines decent. Win XP 512 MB RAM 2.8 GHZ 76 GB HD Intel Peice of Crap Card O.o;; (82845G) uhh yeah.... but it still runs games fairly well. Some games. All I need is a new video card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 Originally posted by Achilles I went shopping AMD Athlon 64 3200+ ABIT AV8 Motherboard 1GB Kingston HyperX DDR BFG NVidia Geforce 6800 OC Maxtor 120GB HDD Win XP Pro (SP 2) ViewSonic 22' CRT monitor ooooo... you got the 6800 OC (over clocked)!! I have to ask, how is that card? I've been reading up on it, and tempted to switch from my 6800 ultra, but not sure if it was worth it as their in the same series family... it's just that the OC looks so damned good *drool*... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilles Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 So far I'm lovin' it. Here's a (dark) screenie of the load screen. It's not a night-and-day change from my ATI Radeon 9800 PRO (256) card, but there are some noticable differences. http://img20.echo.cx/my.php?image=loadscr5dp.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Originally posted by ChAiNz.2da ooooo... you got the 6800 OC (over clocked)!! I have to ask, how is that card? I've been reading up on it, and tempted to switch from my 6800 ultra, but not sure if it was worth it as their in the same series family... it's just that the OC looks so damned good *drool*... if you really want an OC, just overclock the card yourself. you don't have to go so insane with it that you need a heatpipe, just bump it up a bit. and the best part of it is that you can use the Forceware Drivers to do it. (you just have to 'mod' the drivers just a tad to enable the overclocking feature). and not only that, but the Forceware drivers also come with a utility to find the fastest possible speed that won't overheat the GPU. From PCWorld.com NVidia has even built overclocking settings into its latest drivers. To enable them, open the Windows Registry editor by going to Start, Run, typing regedit, and pressing Enter. Navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/NVIDIA Corporation/Global/NVTweak/," right-click the right pane of the editor and choose to add a new DWord called coolbits. Edit that entry and give it a hex value of 3, then close your Registry editor. The NVidia tab (Figure 5) under your PC's advanced display properties settings will now feature a "Clock Frequency Settings" page that allows you to adjust memory and graphics chip clock speeds for your board. Click the "Detect Optimal Frequencies" button if you want the utility to try to find safe overclocked settings for your graphics board. citation: http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,119267,pg,2,00.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Pentium 3 1.0 Ghz 512 MB RAM nVidia GeForce FX 5200 I28MB Creative Vibra 128 Sound Card 80 GB Samsung HDD + 10 GB Seagate HDD That's all that is necessary, folks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 you know what? i realized that my specs i posted earlier in this thread are for my family's computer (as opposed to the computer i currently use). so, here's my machine: AMD Athlon 3200XP (Barton Core) ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (overclocked to 365 MHz core & 350 MHz memory); AGP 8x 1024 MB DDR-333 RAM NForce2 Integrated Sound NForce 2 northbridge chipset 120 GB HD DVD +/- R/RW the most interesting part about it is that i only paid $625 for the machine. it's an EMachines (and yes, the GPU is something i installed myself). i want to build my own machine, and i probably will eventually. but for now, my current machine works just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarEagleAU Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (2412 mHZ) 1 GB DDR PC 3200 @ 200mhz 2.5-3-3-8 250 Western Digitsal HD Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb 372mhz core 325mhz memory HP DVD Writer 630i TSST Corp CD-R/RW 9-1 Media Card Reader MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum MB nForce 3 250 Compaq GXZ5000 Gaming Comp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MdKnightR Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Ah, another resurrected thread (and I'm not the Necromancer this time) But seriously, welcome to the forums WarEagleAU. Be careful about resurrecting these old threads. We have some finicky moderators in these parts. Here's mine. Built it myself 2 years ago with.... AMD AthlonXP 2400+ Barton 512MB DDR 80GB HD 30GB HD LG 52x CD-RW AOpen DVD NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 ASUS motherboard Panasonic floppy Maxtop case Compaq 7500 monitor Logitech Elite Keyboard Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_H Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Custom Build, but not by me: Microsoft Windows XP Professional: Service Pack 2 1.63 GHz AMD Athlong XP 1900+ 640 MB of RAM 2.00 GB of Total Virtual Memory ATI Radeon 9200SE graphics card 52X CD-RW Light-On DVD-ROM Maxtor 54098H8 - 38.16 GB hardrive Maxtor 9 2720U8 SCSI - 25.36 GB hardrive WDC WD300BB-00AUA1 - 27.96 GB hardrive VIA Sound Card Microsoft Keyboard Logitech Wireless Mouse Ethernet Internet Conection Lexmark Z615 printer Edit: I also have a 13" monitor and Dual Bios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Lion54 Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 I have a custom built one myself: Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz prosessor. GeForce FX 5600 , 256 MB vid card. (Though I think I will upgrade soon. Thanks for the advice on this ChAiNz!) 1.something GB RAM I just bought an Audigy2 (spelling) surround sound card to go with my surround speakers. The rest is unimportant (and I'm tired).... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snafu7 Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Here's mine, most of it's stock but I've changed my video card twice, and doubled my ram 3200+ AMD Athlon XP(2.2 GHz) ATI Radeon 9550 256MB(AGP) 1024 MB RAM 160 GB HD 5 USB ports 17 inch monitor DirectX 9.0c 48x max. read CD-ROM DVD+/-RW 8x Double Layer DVDRW NVIDIA nForce Audio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 well, my system hasn't changed much at all with a couple of additions: Volcano Heat Pipe on the R9700 Volcano Heat Sink/Fan for Socket A Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS (got it dirt cheap from a friend) those upgrades have allowed me to overclock my R9700 even further to 420Mhz core/400Mhz mem. i also managed to flash the BIOS on the motherboard, and that has enabled me to mess with the memory timings, voltage, FSB clock, and the CPU clock. after a lot of tweaking, i finally managed to find a great balance between system performance and stability. the results: +27 fps on Half Life 2 (from 48 to 75) @ 1280x1024 w/ 6x AA & 8x AF +13 fps on TSL (from 28 to 41) @ 1280x1024 w/ 6x AA & 8x AF definately an improvement that should keep my computer running nicely for another 6 months or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedHawke Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 The only thing I added to my system was another 1024 MB of Ram... EDIT: Changed the stat's above! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 yay ! geeky specs thread ! *puts on thick glasses and pen protector* hehe...nice compy chainz, how many liquor stores have you robbed to be able to afford it ?? Compaq Presario *AMD Athlon 64 bit 3200+ (2.0 ghz) *1024 ddr RAM / Running xp 64 bit edition *Every media port ever ! sd/xd/smc/cf/ms and firewire *So many usb 2.0s I cant be bothered countin em *Nvidia GeForce 6200 256mb *16x dual layered DVDRW(combo 40x CDRW) with lightscribe *Realtek 5.1 Dolby surround /Altec Lansing speakers *19" phillips LCD monitor workin great, startup in about 20s playing: NWN - Hordes of the Underdark Final Fantasy XI thinking of playing: Guild wars ?? mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MdKnightR Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 *16x dual layered DVDRW(combo 40x CDRW) with lightscribe Lightscriiiiiibbbbeeee I want one soooo baaaad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 yay ! geeky specs thread ! *puts on thick glasses and pen protector* hehe...nice compy chainz, how many liquor stores have you robbed to be able to afford it ?? hehehe.. luckily not too many.. the job did most of it for me... (32 years old and they still gave me an "allowance" ) Thing is, if I quit... so do the toys They kinda got me by the jollies on that one. Guess I won't be retiring anytime soon unless I win the lottery and can buy the toys on my own Yeah, and I'm with MDK... lightscribe sounds so "fun" to have. I hate making labels.. so most of my collection is in my chicken-scratch excuse for writing with a Sharpie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevanA4 Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 well mines nothing fancy but here goes Amd athlon xp 2200 (1.8 ghz) 1.5GB ddr266 ram (no page file needed here) Nvidia geforce 6200 256MB 2 cd/rw drives maxtor 120GB drive running window maxtor 40GB runing linux linksys wireless pci adapter 2.4ghz signal range and 54.0 Mb/s transfer rate D-Link 10/100Mb/s fast ethernet card edit: most of my stuff is new so I'm saving up for a new motherboard cpu combo really waiting for the dual cores to go down in price *drools* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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