Author Topic: Post Your Computer Specs in this thread! (Read 47439 times)

ROMate · « **Reply #20 on:** December 01, 2006, 01:38:24 pm »

If I try to look up the specs for this heap I'm working with now, I'll get depressed, cry, eat chocolate ice cream by the pint, and think of hurting myself. >_< This thing just blows.

bfg00 · « **Reply #21 on:** December 02, 2006, 12:56:45 am »

AMD Athlon 3200+
1 GB RAM
160 GB HD
Nvidia GeForce 6800
Some integrated sound card.

DualSoul · « **Reply #22 on:** December 02, 2006, 02:24:22 am »

Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.8C
DFI Lanparty Pro875B
2GB Corsair TWINX Pro PC4000
~~2 x 300Gb Seagate SATA1~~ 2 x 500Gb Western Digital SATA2
~~ATI X800XT PE~~ ATI X850XT PE
Audigy 2 ZS hooked up to Logitech Z640
LG 4160B DVD burner/ROM
Enermax 465
~~19" HP F1905 LCD~~ 20" widescreen Dell 2005FPW x 2 for dual screen
Windows XP Pro
Black Ultra Aluminus case

Some new parts!

tetsaru arigashi · « **Reply #23 on:** December 02, 2006, 03:05:26 am »

Good news and bad news. As of now, my folks say that they'll still get me a computer, but it's a matter of how soon we'll get the money to pay for it, since we're a bit short right now. I'm planning on getting a Dell XPS 410 model with the following components:

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6600 (4MB L2 Cache,2.4GHz,1066 FSB)
Windows XP Professional
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 2 DIMMs
250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
Dual Drives: 48x Combo + 16x DVD+/-RW w/ dbl layer write capable
256MB nVidia GeForce 7900 GS
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Dell USB Keyboard
Dell Optical USB Mouse
13 in 1 Media Card Reader and 3.5" Floppy Drive
56K PCI Data Fax Modem
IEEE 1394 Adapter

Here's a link to the model and its features:

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsdt_410?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

The cost for this will probably be around $1,400-$1,500, and it does not include a monitor (still gonna need to save some money towards that). I was trying to strike a good balance between the performance I was wanting and my parent's budget. I've also asked my relatives to only give me money for Christmas/birthday to help pay for this (as well as avoid unwanted gifts - we all know how distant relatives will often buy us the most random things sometimes... >_<; ), so hopefully I'll be able to get it soon enough.

One of my graphic design teachers also showed me a website where students can order software and other stuff at highly discounted prices:

http://www.journeyed.com/itemDetail.asp?ItmNo=19981033

In the above link, buying Adobe CS2 would save me around $800, but would still be rather pricey. I've also heard that CS3 is supposed to come out in the spring. Anyone know if/where I could pirate this without having to worry about software registation or any similar B.S.??

Dell also says it's providing a free upgrade to Windows Vista, but I know nothing about it. I'd probably just stick with Windows XP Professional until I know exactly how good this new O.S. works, as I'm sure it'll have some bugs and stuff to work out at first.

Any info/suggestions about the above mentioned things would be greatly appreciated.

KEdakumi · « **Reply #24 on:** December 02, 2006, 09:19:11 am »

Specs? Aren't those glasses?

Hey I have a computer that works... most of the time. It gets online, does the work I need and was lovingly hand built with mostly bootleg software by my geek little brother. If I have issues (computer, not personal

) then I call a family member to beg a fix.
I don't really need to know more then that a this point in life.

Snorlax.RAYZR · « **Reply #25 on:** December 03, 2006, 04:22:00 pm »

I'll be getting a laptop soon. Does anyone know if AMD Turion's any good? I'm trying to find Core Duos but none of them have any graphics (INTERNAL WTF). Only the Turion laptops do.

tetsaru arigashi · « **Reply #26 on:** December 10, 2006, 02:39:30 am »

Quote from: Snorlax.RAYZR on December 03, 2006, 04:22:00 pm

I'll be getting a laptop soon. Does anyone know if AMD Turion's any good? I'm trying to find Core Duos but none of them have any graphics (INTERNAL WTF). Only the Turion laptops do.

Sorry man, the computer I've got right now has been the only one I've ever really owned, and it's a Gateway brand. =/ I had thought about getting a laptop for my new computer, but I decided I'd prefer better hardware over the ability to take my work wherever I need to.

Still no word yet from my folks on when they'll be able to get it for me... I'm going home soon, so maybe I can find a job over the Christmas break to help pay for it, but I highly doubt it, especially seeing how I live in a rather small town, and most places wouldn't want to bother hiring someone for just a few weeks... kinda makes me wish you could run around and randomly encounter a cow or something, then beat the shit out of it and somehow it'd drop $10 and a Mythril Dagger, lol...

DualSoul · « **Reply #27 on:** December 10, 2006, 04:10:20 am »

I wish my folks would help me pay for something...

JG · « **Reply #28 on:** January 01, 2007, 08:29:49 pm »

I built a new PC for my parents for Christmas. Their old one really was on its last legs - old, knotty, withered legs in fact - with a bad heart (irregular PSU) and worse memory (ram and/or hdd errors)
Thanks to after-Thanksgiving sales and recycling some components, I managed to build this for them for a little under $400:

AMD Sempron64 3400+
ASUS K8N-VM (PCIE based, intregated video and sound, SATA-2 connections)
Dynapower MicroATX case (had a very tough height limit of a mere 13.5" to work with, hence the small form factor)
LOGISYS 350W MicroATX power supply
NEC floppy drive
Plextor 12x DVD+/-RW (recycled from my PC when I got a dual layer drive)
160GB Western Digital SATA-2 HDD
512MB Kingston HyperX PC3200 memory with heat spreader
3com USRobotics 56k PCI Faxmodem (recycled from their old PC, since they still use dialup)
MAG 17" LCD monitor 1280x1024 max resolution
APC Back-UPS ES 500VA

tetsaru arigashi · « **Reply #29 on:** January 06, 2007, 01:29:56 pm »

Sup everyone, sorry for my recent hiatus over the past few weeks.

Guess what?

I got my new computer in yesterday.

I'm using it to type this post right now. >=D

ROMate · « **Reply #30 on:** January 06, 2007, 02:00:42 pm »

specs or GTFO

tetsaru arigashi · « **Reply #31 on:** January 06, 2007, 10:19:45 pm »

Quote from: ROMate on January 06, 2007, 02:00:42 pm

specs or GTFO

http://www.sognadigitalmuseum.com/forum/index.php?topic=788.msg16554#msg16554

Same as I posted here, except with Windows XP Media Center Edition and a beautiful 20" widescreen flat panel monitor, which alone has 4 USB ports on it. >=P

Now if I can just get all my files and software straightened out...

黒い灯影 · « **Reply #32 on:** December 04, 2007, 12:08:59 pm »

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6600
Windows XP Professional
2 GBs Kingston RAM
----------Drives: ----------------
750GBs Maxtor
300GBs Western Digital
300GBs Seagate
250GBs Maxtor
100GBs Maxtor
---------------------------------
2x 512MB nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX (SLI Mode)
Augidy 2 ZS w/ Outboard Unit.. something that sits ontop the compter, can plug headphones, mics, 1/4inch inputs, midi, digital (Coaxial SPDIF and Optical - Hardware 5.1 audio decoder), Firewire
620Watt Enermax Liberty series PSU

Yeah, I know Im overloaded with free space, time to download HDTV movies now
I built this rig for Gaming in mind, didnt realize that after I finished building it, i dont play much PC games
anyways.. its cost me over 2000 bucks so far, especially with the latest addition, the 750GB Harddrive

Nitorin · « **Reply #33 on:** December 04, 2007, 11:35:14 pm »

hahaha mine sucks! But was free...
pentium III 733 MHz! 500 RAM not sure what else..
humm Ge Force 5200...no DVD driver xD and a big 20 GIGs lol
I don't care that much tho.I only hang on the internet,play emulator(Znes yay),hang on old MMO like ragnarok(can't run anything else xD) etc...I'll get a new one.Working on it.

DualSoul · « **Reply #34 on:** December 06, 2007, 07:58:36 pm »

Upgrade time is almost upon me! Just received my Q6700 and motherboard bundle from the Intel retail purchase program. Just need RAM, a new PSU and video card for it, and the ol' P4 becomes another machine in the long line of hand-me-downs in my family.

Hyperguy · « **Reply #35 on:** January 02, 2008, 09:45:29 pm »

It's 2008 and I'm still rockin' on 1 GB of memory.

MMX · « **Reply #36 on:** January 05, 2008, 11:09:17 am »

Quote from: Hyperguy on January 02, 2008, 09:45:29 pm

It's 2008 and I'm still rockin' on 1 GB of memory.

We one gigs have to watch out for eachother. All these >1G's are going to try and separate us and pick us off one at a time.

BUT THEY'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE! *cocks handgun, holds to head*

bfg00 · « **Reply #37 on:** January 07, 2008, 07:38:53 pm »

Quote from: Bang Doll on January 05, 2008, 11:09:17 am

We one gigs have to watch out for eachother. All these >1G's are going to try and separate us and pick us off one at a time.

BUT THEY'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE! *cocks handgun, holds to head*

I'm with you there buddy. TO THE DEATH! *pulls out remote control with a big red button on it*

Hyperguy · « **Reply #38 on:** January 07, 2008, 08:33:38 pm »

My 200GB stopped working the other day. It's the one that has everything on it. When I boot up it makes 10 clicking sounds, stops, and makes 10 more clicking sounds. I think it may be off its spindle.

I don't know what I'll do. I think I'll try a data recovery service as soon as I'm able. Luckily, I backed up the site's files a month prior, but otherwise, all of my other projects are toast(Except for the VN game I'm making, which had all of its files on my laptop).

bfg00 · « **Reply #39 on:** January 08, 2008, 05:00:09 pm »

Well, here's hoping that you will recover your data.

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