Ok, I thought it would be cool if we all explained the specs of our computers, im sure there are some who dont know what they are, but im also sure there are those of you who want to show off, so tell all.
Im not asking for pictures of your computer but I suppose that would be alright.
Ok, ill go first.
Its not the best, but its not the worst..

Intel 2.8Gig with HT
512meg of RAM in dual channel running at 400mhz
80gig HDD (7200rpm)
LG Super Multi DVD Burner
Sony 16x DVD rom
RADEON 9800Pro (128meg)
Winfast TV200 Expert edition (TV card)
I cant think of the name of the motherboard, so ill post that later.

Intel pentium III 733 mHz
128 MB RAM
HD1: 20 GB (windows, don't use it though :D )
HD2: 40 GB, only gives 32 GB though (jumper for 32GB clip is off or should I have that on to make it 40GB?) - Debian Linux SID on kernel 2.6.8.1.
52x CDROM
10x4x32 CD-burner
NVIDIA RIVA TNT 32 MB video card
ASUS AX-34 motherboard with:

It's actually a linsys wmp11v2.7 wireless card.

Rock solid and fast enough for my needs. But I wait with upgrading. It runs NWN pretty good in sp. Haven't tried mp yet but I guess it'll be bad cause I'll have less fps in fights. Still have to get BG to work but first I have to wait till NWN linux client is downloaded, 900 MB to go :(

I think your RAM and Graphics card are whats lacking, but if your graphics card was upgraded, you would surely be able to play NWN smoothly.

Hey, philip, I had one of those nVidia 32 meg card by Diamond. One of the most solid cards I have ever owned. Anyway, I am saving up for a new rig, but this one does everything I want:

P3 1.2 GHz
ASUS TUSL2-C Tualatian motherboard
512 megs of 133 RAM
ATI Radeon 9200 128 meg video card (brand new; works like a charm)
80 Gig 7200 rpm 8 cache Western Digital HD (brand new also)
48x CD ROM
40x CD R/RW burner
Samsung 17" flat screen monitor

Well the RAM doesn't have to be much I think cause winME didn't have a swap drive while in linux I use one. But I'm not sure for the graphics card. My motherboard is pretty old and it seems that if I start with upgrading one thing I've got to upgrade the rest too. And over here it's pretty hard to find cheaper than $100 graphics cards, I know they exist like in the states it doesn't seem to a problem getting parts cheap but since it'll be only a small upgrade and for NWN only I don't want to spend too much on it. I hear GForce4TI are good isn't it (I'll stay with NVidia cause ATI often gives a lot of trouble with linux and with NWN as well)?

Due to an error I couldn't post this ^ and in the meantime I looked and found a gforce fx 5200 magic for $58 and a gforce fx 5200 for $73 and gforce fx 5500T for $70 or gforce5200TD for $73. Brands are ASUS, MSI and XFX. All have 128 MB cause 256 MB wasn't really good then yet isn't it?

I've been looking on tom's hardware and it looks that in shooters 5200s are pretty fast but these games are made to be light on graphics. The other games the 5200s run around 30 fps which is some improvement on the 5-10 I'm getting now. However they have hardware that supports them to the max while I only have 4x AGP (reverse compatible aren't they?) so could these be worth buying?

Also I found that upgrading my RAM is only $27 but with video card above and this I'll still have below required CPU. Will it still be worth to do. Like if it's going to 20-30 fps I think playing online becomes really possible isn't it?

Intel Pentium 4, 3.0Ghz processor.
1GB RAM.
120GB HDD.
CD Rom + CD Rewriter + DVD Rom + DVD Rewriter (All combined... somehow... don't know their speeds though)
Radeon 9600SE 128MB
I forgot how big my monitor is... it's a flatscreen LCD though.

Strange... Even with a Radeon 9600, I still have to set my Call of Duty preferences relatively low so that it does not freeze... I'm thinking of upgrading to some sort of GForce, as these seem to be popular and reliable.

hmm... my computer is pretty good for a student budget

1.8 P4 equivalent (2000xp AMD)
512 ram
80 HD
Asus motherboard A7 forgot already but its good
gforce fx5200
17inch monitor (with compliments of memnoch)
cd-rom
cdwriter
and my newly acquired external lg multiformat writer (supports dual layer with external to boot :D ).

p4 2.66
256mb ram
80gb hard disk
17 inch flatscreen monitor
cd rom+rw
geforce ti 4400 128mb ram.


DD

Well I bought this off my own budget. I've got it about 4-5 months ago.
CPU: 2500+ Barton @ 333MHz
MBO: ABIT NF7 nForce 2 Ultra 400 +MCP-T(downclocked to 333MHz)
HDD: 160 GB @ 7200 + 1 back-up of 40GB @ 5k rpm
RAM: 2x512 Kingmax SuperRAM 433MHz(downclocked to 333MHz)
GPU: Radeon Sapphire 9600XT 128MB
CDR: Plextor 48/24/48 A w/ PowerTools
DVD: LG 16x
MON: 15" AlphaScan 520
COL: Zalman AlCu T/2
+3 more coolers around the case
+ADSL 384/64
+2.1 sound set(small room)

And I'm not trading my little baby for nothing! It's mine, all mine!!! [img]smile.gif[/img]

I built mine at the beginning of the year:

CPU: AMD 2800+ overclocked to 3000+
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA7N-400-pro2
Ram: 1 gig DDR @ 400 mhz in dual channel
Video: Radeon 9600 LE, 256 DDR 2 ram
HDD: 2 x 120 gig @ 7200rpm in RAID array
Moniter: 19" CRT
Sound: Yamahar DS1 card, 4.1 speakers (but i much prefer headphones)

Other:
digital TV card
gigabit ethernet
52x32x52c Cd burner
16x dvd reader
zip drive

i think that's it, i'd like to get a real 3000+ proccessor, or whatever is the latest 32 bit AMD processor, but i won't do that for a while, especially since i don't have a job, and i have exams and stuff.
I will buy a dvd burner soon though, but apart from that, i'm happy with my system, a graphics card upgrade could happen next year though, but i'll see.

[ 11-13-2004, 06:34 AM: Message edited by: Intrepid ]

<span style="color: lightblue">Even though it's new, I have no idea what my motherboard is... other than that,

Intel P4 3.0 GHz with hyperthreading (The store apparently put a 3.2 in there, but Windows reports a 3.0 and a 2.99).
512 RAM
80 GB Harddrive
Radeon 9200 SE
LG CD-RW 52/32/52
Win XP, no service packs.

The laptop is much older:
Intel Celeron 300 MHz (or thereabouts, can't remember the exact figure offhand)
128 MB RAM
6 GB Harddrive
An unlabelled CD ROM drive
MandrakeLinux 9.0 , default kernel, glibc... soon to be switching to something newer. I can't update glibc without problems, and I can't update my kernel or install Firefox without a newer glibc...

It was a 333 from memmory, or maybe it was a 233...

Hmm,

Beneath the US Government sticker, one can read the label, Dell. It gets worse from there. It's a latitude with a attitude, and luckily I can administer justice when it needs it!

Hmmm I have 5 computers and a laptop, but my best specs are:

Intel P4 3.4ghz
500gb SATA RAID 1 HDD
2gb RAM (think its DDR 440)
Radeon 9800Pro
DVD/CD burner (the fastest in the world, the name slips me, but I think possibly a plextor)
CD drive
Win Xp SP2
19" Flatscreen monitor

If you don't mind, Ross, I'm going to sneak into your house in the middle of the night and steal that uber-computer of yours. :D

Not if I get there first [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Newest box I just bought (I remember most of the stats), this one's for work though :( , but I've got it at home right now installing software and benchmarking, it's a beast.

BoxxTech Integrated system, Full Tower case, 550W P/S
Dual Opteron 250's
IWill dk8n NForce NUMA motherboard
4 GIG Low Latency Registered DDR400
Adaptec 2200S 64-bit PCI SCSI Raid Controller
2x73 Gig 15,000 rpm U320 SCSI drives (RAID 0 - 146 GB)
Raidcore 64bit pci SATA raid controller
5x250 gig 10,000 rpm SATA Drives RAID 5 (1 TB)
ATI FireGL X3 Graphics Card
2 x NEC FP2141SB 22" Displays
Motherboard Gigabit ethernet
Soundblaster Audigy
Cheap speakers
Logitech cordless rechargeable Mouse/KB combo

Windows XP Pro, Windows 64 going on this weekend, probably Suse's 64 bit version of Linux in the near future.

I've got a couple other dual processor boxes at work (dual XEON-2.5's), fastest system I've got at home is an Athlon XP 2400 (liquid cooled overclocked) with 1Gig DDR400, 500 Gig HDD, BFG Geforce 6800 GT OC, 19" LCD, 15" LCD, Audigy, Monsoon speakers, Logitech rechargeable cordless combo, it's nice but underwhelming after playing with the opteon system.

Bah, it must be crap then. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

<font color=lightblue>I am no comp'wizzie so I will only post what I know:
AMD 1.2 GHZ
Geforce 2 MX-400
256 RAM
17" monitor
DVD
Plextor CD burner
Win 98

Yes it's pretty old but played Doom 3 on it so it's a legendary system for me. Also I have Cable Modem wich is pretty good for me. I think it's time to upgrade tough. [img]tongue.gif[/img] What do you think?</font>

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[ 10-22-2004, 12:30 PM: Message edited by: Xen ]

Bah, it must be crap then. [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]Well... it IS for work (mostly ;) ). I just couldn't rationalize a couple hundred bucks for a 7.1 speaker setup when the box is going to end up crunching images for me in a cleanroom... I really tried (rationalizing that is), but just couldn't do it.

<font color=skyblue>My Handcrafted PC

(remember I am on a family budget...)</font>

</font>

• Intel Pentium 4, 1800 MHz</font>
• 1024 MB (RDRAM)</font>
• BIOS Type: AMI (03/28/02)</font>
• NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 (64 MB)</font>
• Monitor: CyberVision C70-2 (5V90622130)</font>
• Creative Audigy 2 Platinum Sound Card</font>
• Western Digital 40GB HD</font>
• ATAPI CDROM CD-ROM 44x max</font>
• TDK CD-RW 32x/10x/40x</font>
• Microsoft PS/2 Port Mouse (IntelliPoint)</font>
• Creative 5.1 Speakers</font>
• Belkin 7-port USB hub (2 top-load, 5 back-load)</font>
• 12 minute CyberPower battery backup</font>
• Microsoft Router (hardware firewall)</font>
• Tower has three intake fans and two output fans</font>
• Windows XP Home Ed.</font>

<font color=skyblue>I guess that covers everything of importance.</font>

Sounds like a "Mine is bigger than yours" thread!

I'm confident enough that I don't need to post the "size" of my system.

Thoran, what kinda work do you do? Those Dual Xeons must be nice. I was thinking about getting a Dual Xeon setup for home, but then decided there isn't really any point since thye cost so much and I don't actually need it.

Intel Celeron 2.1 GHZ
382 MB RAM
Some cruddy Philips monitor
40G hard drive
Windows XP

Now, I just gotta fix it!

AMD Athlon 64 939 3800+
ASUS AMD-Socket 939 A8V Deluxe
2GB Corsair DDR500 64MX64 Twinx
ASUS ATI AX800XT 256MB
1xWD Raptor 74GB 10.000rpm
2xWD 250GB 7200 rpm SATA
2xWD 250GB 7200 rpm ATA
Logitech MX510 optical
logitech cordless keyboard
Samsung 19" 193P Zilver LCD
1GB network card
Winxp pro and all the other peripherals needed to compute.

I come from Holland and we call it "inkoopsprijs". You know, the price the store pays for it and then add their profits on top of that price, so for me it was dirt cheap. Otherwise I could never afford this baby, im a student you know.....

My beast was originally constructed purely to beat my friend Ross' benchmarking scored (3DMark 03 6500+)

Althlon64 3400+
Radeon 9800XT
1GB DDR 400 RAM
160GB HDD

:( He went and spend £400 on a X800XT...only the best VGA on the surface of the earth, now he scored 17000 on 03.... grrrr

Project Engineer... they actually pay me to play with this stuff. [img]smile.gif[/img] I do a bit of a lot of different things, hardware/software/systems design (primarily in the PC arena but also some DSP and FPGA based support systems), precision motion, project management.


The Dual processor boxes are for vision systems... processing really large amounts of image data as quickly as possible. All these systems end up having DSP or FPGA based front ends... because even dual processor boxes are pitifully slow for the data rates (many hundreds of megabytes per second), so I use dedicated hardware to cut the bandwith required to a point where a high end PC (or multiple pc's) can cope.

The Xeon boxes are nice but right now the top shelf stuff (raw performance wise) in the Windows world is Opteron. The benchmarks I've seen only give the Xeon's an advantage when the code is highly Intel-Optimized... and since I'm writing the code, I can optimize it for whichever platform I'm developing to... and that means NUMA Opteron.

dang.. i wish all of you guys can donate your spare parts to me :D . (ah wishful thinking). [img]tongue.gif[/img] . enjoy your computers guys. they look good indeed!

Zuvio, how much did that cost you?? Fancy sending me one if I post you the money?

Thoran-sounds like a nice job, that's just what I would like! Yep Opteron's are very nice too, although a pair of 3.6ghz Xeons are pretty hard to beat!