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[finch]

$330 got me this Gateway GT5408 from TigerDirect:
1.8ghz Core 2 Duo
1gb ram (upgraded to 3gb for another $45)
DVD+/-RW / CDRW drive
320gb SATA II hard disk
Vista Home Premium (upgraded to Vista Ultimate for free because of my MSDN subscription)

I have a $16 1gb flash drive plugged into the back just for ReadyBoost.

And I spent another $40 on a 4 port KVM switch, so the 3 computers at my desk can share the same monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

The graphics chipset is just an Intel i945G, but it runs Vista Aero great as well as almost all of my games, after figuring out how to manually install the latest driver, because the setup.exe refuses to install if you have an OEM motherboard. Before the update, every single 3D game crashed the system within minutes, probably explaining why it was so cheap.

[Just4FuN]

Acer Aspire 5502ZNWXMi
Pentium M Processor 740
14.1 WXGA
Intel Graphic Accel 900
1024Mb DDR2
80Gb int. + 300Gb ext. + 750Gb ext.
802.11b/g WLAN
Creative Professional EMU1616M. >> amplifier


all are about $2100.

[Zanoe]

Acer Aspire 4520 TL-56
AMD Turion 64X2 1,8GHz
1GB RAM
80 GB HDD
Nvidia GeForce 7000M
And for the OS I use Ubuntu. with this machine I use my desktop like this :


I have a lot of fish on my desktop

[sailormari]

I still using a slow processer

its a amd 1.2 ghz
with 640 mb ram
80 gb hard drive
Nvidia GeForce 128 mb video card
soundblaster sound card
3 cd/dvd rw r drives
in a mod case with 3 blue led fans and blue light witre wrap around everything to make it pretty
and dsl

I want to upgrade my cpu when i get the money

[chr0nik©]

Intel Dual Core 2 e4300 (1.8Ghz overclocked to 2.7Ghz)
4 GB of Ram
933.8 GB (4 hard drives) + 250 GB network drive
Nvidia 7900GS 512mb video card
Realtek HD Audio
2 DVD R/RW drives
20" Acer Monitor
WindowsXP Professional

[Redrum]

Still chugging along. Though very tempted to build a new comp for those hi-def h264 files

[zeroyon]

Here's mine:

Intel Core2 Duo E6600 @ 3.2GHz
Corsair 2GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Lian Li PC-V1000 Plus II case
Thermaltake Toughpower 750W
Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS 640MB
3.05TB HDD space over 7 HDD's (1x 1TB, 2x 500GB, 3x250GB, 1x300GB, all internal)
SIIG 7.1 soundcard
2 liteon DVD/RW drives
32" Sharp LC32GP1U HDTV (main display) at 1920x1080, 22" HP w2207 (secondary display) at 1680x1050
Vista Home Premium (no problems or crashes yet )

I switch over to my other monitor (the 22" HP) when I want to free up my HDTV to watch TV or play Xbox360.


I just upgraded my computer about 8 months ago, I had been using a 550Mhz Pentium 3 for a LONG time.

[Nights4Saturn]

Sad as this is, its the computer I use most of the time:

Pentium II 450MHz
Asus P2B-F motherboard
576MB of 100MHz SDRAM
Ensoniq AudioPCI Audio Card
16MB Diamond SpeedStar A90 S3 Savage4 AGP Graphics Accelerator
3Com Fast Ethernet PCI Card
Generic 4-Port USB PCI Card
Generic 24x CD-ROM
2x 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Disks
External Backpack CD-reWRITER (I also use this with my 486 laptop )
8.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot 3600RPM Hard Disk
60GB Samsung Spinpoint 5400RPM Hard Disk
Scratched Up Beige Case (The vendor's plaque had fallen off by the time I found it)
250W Powersupply from an IBM Netvista
WindowsXP Pro


I pieced this whole thing together about 2 years ago from various scrap parts I had found. The original powersupply in the case that I had found caught fire about a year ago and I replaced it was the one from the IBM. Ran fine ever since!

[Orn]

My Rig
AMD Opteron (Denmark) 180 @ 3.2GHZ w/Thermaltake Blue Orb-II
MSI K8N SLI-F
4 gigs of G.Skill DDR400 Ram
Asus 16x DVD Rom
HP 48x16x32 Combo Drive
2x 8600GTS's
Creative Sould Blaster X-FI Xtreme Music
THermaltake Toughpower 600w psu
Thermaltake SopranoDX VE7000BWS
4x150GB sata hdd's,external 2tb hdd(all wd's)
17" Philips CRT flat(will be buying a 22" Asus LCD)
Microlab DTX6600 7.1 Home Theatre
Windows Black Edition
My Lappy
AIRIS 755IIO
P4 northwood stock 2.8(uc to 1.8)
1gb of pc2700 PQI ram
upgraded to a 120gb 2.5" pata hdd from a 80gb
15.4" TFT
VIA AC97
Modded AMI bios for 845g by Arnar
what else? intel gma 845?
Windows NESS version

[Zorr]

Damn there's some nice builds on here, in fact Orn's spec just above mine looks awesome.

Firstly, my old PC, and despite the low spec, still a really nice, fast (for what it does) and most importantly trouble free Computer.

Specs aren't going to be too detailed as I don't have all the info to hand and can't remember it all.

AMD Sempron 2800+ 1.6GHz processor
An Asus motherboard (have no idea which one offhand)
1.5GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 6600 (256MB RAM)
250GB Samsung PATA hard drive
Benq DVD RW
Windows Home (Sorry guys but I do like this OS, I have thrown tons of software and hardware at it over the years and it always worked)

I use this fella for word processing, picture editing (using photoshop elements) and as a semi back up in case my main PC decides to die. In the 2+ years I have owned it I have had no problems with it though try using any modern games on it or hi resolution media and it has a heart attack It was formerly my main PC up until 2 weeks ago when I brought:

Intel C2D E6850 3.0GHz
ASUS P5GC-MX 1333FSB
3GB Crucial PC5300 RAM (1x2GB and 1x1 GB)
Nvidia GeForce 7300 256MB RAM (I actually got this for free, but thats a long story)
1xSamsung 160GB SATA Hard drive
2xSamsung 500GB SATA Hard drive
Samsung DVD RW
Windows Vista Home basic 32bit (Absolutely the weakest link in my system)

This is a HTPC and it runs nice and quiet but Vista is still giving me hell with lots of different things.

Any comments on either of my PC's are welcome but please be gentle, I'm still not sure if my new PC has the best components I could have chosen as I still have a lot to learn.

[Orn]

^thanx building that pc really tested my patience(for 1.5yrs),before I got my opty and gts's I had a 3500+ and a radeon x550 on the same mobo(now these are left for me to build a pc for my little bro)<-I'm looking at the TT VF1000BWS for this

I'm not surprised by your first rig,one of my friend has an old sempron 2400+ on the good'ol socket A and he still uses it with a gig of ddr333 and a agp Radeon HD 3850(yes it does exist),besides Semprons lasts longer and performs better than a crappy overpriced celeron
and also amd rocks

[yoshikix]

new system!

[Orn]

^a USD1000 qx9650?

[yoshikix]

too good a price to resist!

[zeroyon]

Orn, I'm just a bit curious, so I have to ask...

Why did you choose to go with 2x 8600GTS's, instead of a single 8800GT or GTS?

[yoshikix]

Today's buy(s)!



Still undecided on what motherboard to pair up the QX and these babies.

Orn, I'm just a bit curious, so I have to ask...

Why did you choose to go with 2x 8600GTS's, instead of a single 8800GT or GTS?

better more multi-monitors usage, more graphic processing power.

[zeroyon]

better more multi-monitors usage, more graphic processing power.

I guess it makes sense if you want to use 3 monitors for browsing, etc (can't use more than 1 monitor in SLI though), but the "more graphic processing power" statement doesn't make sense to me....

[yoshikix]

better more multi-monitors usage, more graphic processing power.

I guess it makes sense if you want to use 3 monitors for browsing, etc (can't use more than 1 monitor in SLI though), but the "more graphic processing power" statement doesn't make sense to me....

you might want to read up on SLI


http://en.wikipedia...._Link_Interface

[zeroyon]

you might want to read up on SLI


http://en.wikipedia...._Link_Interface

It says on that page that "Currently, all SLI configurations work only with a single digital video output."
You can't use SLI mode on multiple monitors. You can use multiple monitors with dual cards, but you have to turn off SLI.

I'm not trying to bag on Orn for making a bad decision (IMO), I'm just wondering why he went with two 8600GTS's. Maybe he had one at first, then decided to get another later? The 8800GT just destroys SLI'ed 8600GTS's in performance.
I mean, depending on what app you are using, a single 8800GT can be almost 2x as fast as dual 8600GTS's. A single 8800GT costs less than two 8600GTS's as well.
I don't want to start an argument or anything, I'm just curious...

[yoshikix]

you might want to read up on SLI


http://en.wikipedia...._Link_Interface

It says right on that page that "Currently, all SLI configurations work only with a single digital video output."
You can't use SLI mode on multiple monitors. You can use multiple monitors with dual cards, but you have to turn off SLI.

uh huh, your point being?