~~Post your PC Specs~~

[Shooting Palanx]

Well just like the title says, feel free to discuss about your PC Specs or just post them up here.

[Punkster]

i have the following:

Pentium 4 3.20ghz
Nvidia 8500GT (512MB)
2GB RAM
160GB hard disc

i can just about play some older games on medium-high settings, but the framerate is not very good on newer games. i'm not too bothered right now coz i have the 360 to keep me occupied.

until i get a decently paid job of my own, i won't bother trying to get a better PC to play a few good PC games. it's not worth it imo unless you've a lot of money to spend on yourself.

[halo-fan-4ever]

i have the following:

Pentium 4 3.20ghz
Nvidia 8600GT (512MB)
2GB RAM
160GB hard disc

i can just about play some older games on medium-high settings, but the framerate is not very good on newer games. i'm not too bothered right now coz i have the 360 to keep me occupied.

until i get a decently paid job of my own, i won't bother trying to get a better PC to play a few good PC games. it's not worth it imo unless you've a lot of money to spend on yourself.

i fort u had a 8500gt?? but if u do have a 8600gt i read on the net that it is more powerfull than 360 and ps3 anyway

mine are:

AMD Athlon 64x2 dual core 6000+ 3.00GHz
3 GB RAM
windows vista home premium 64bit
Gigabyte technology´s Motherboard with nforce 430i chip
nvidia geforce 8600gt 512 OC´ed
320GB HDD

[Punkster]

sorry, you're right. i have the 8500GT not 8600GT. i doubt the 8600GT is more powerful than the xbox 360 or ps3. the 8800GT being more powerful is feasible, but not 8600GT

[Shooting Palanx]

Nice specs guys, I'd probably think my comp is the crappest haha...

Intel Pentium 4 processor 2.4Ghz
256MB RAM
60.0GB Hardrive
Combo drive:- CD RW and DVD READABLE not burner :(
Intel Extreme Graphics card....

Woe is me...

It does what it wants me to do....lol....don't play games on the pc too much either.

[flameboy118]

i think i win this imo

Twin 8800gt in sli
Quad Core Intel Proccessor at 2.6ghz
4gb ddr2 800 ram
500 maxtor HDD
etc

and my laptop
8800m gt
Dual Core Intel Proccessor at 2.6ghz
4gb ddr2 800 ram
160HDD (ouch)

and my sooped up old pc
Twin Club 3d 8600gt in sli
Single Core, Intel Pentium 3 Processor at 3ghz
2.5gb ddr2 667 ram
120HDD

[halo-fan-4ever]

sorry, you're right. i have the 8500GT not 8600GT. i doubt the 8600GT is more powerful than the xbox 360 or ps3. the 8800GT being more powerful is feasible, but not 8600GT

seriously search on google: "8600gt vs 360" or "8600gt vs ps3" there are tons of forum sites and stuff saying that its more powerfull, plus on games like COD4 for pc i get better graphics with my 8600gt than my friend gets with his ps3

[canveyboy]

Case: Antec 900 with 6 chassis cooling fans + 4 internal cooling fans (excluding psu and card fans)

Maximus formula x38 Gamers republic motherboard
Corsair 4GB Kit (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz (8 GIG installed) running @ 887MHz
Intel core2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz cpu @ 3.81 GHz
Fatality Extreme music 7.1 (24 Bit sound card)
Samsung 20" widescreen 3000:1 and 2ms response time monitor
Razer reclusa Keyboard
razor wired optical gaming mouse
650 watt power supply with 2 x 6 pin video card sockets
Cooler Master Sphere CPU Cooler
2 x 250 GIG hard drives installed (raided) seagate
sennheiser P160 360 degree surround sound supa dupa headset.
Sapphire HD4870 graphic cards (two of these in crossfire mode, max settings)

[halo-fan-4ever]

and my sooped up old pc
Twin Club 3d 8600gt in sli
Single Core, Intel Pentium 3 Processor at 3ghz
2.5gb ddr2 667 ram
120HDD
are the 8600gt´s good in sli, i was maybe thinking of getting another 8600gt and running it in sli

[flameboy118]

sorry, you're right. i have the 8500GT not 8600GT. i doubt the 8600GT is more powerful than the xbox 360 or ps3. the 8800GT being more powerful is feasible, but not 8600GT

yeah, i think youll find PCs are a lot more powerful than consoles- a lot. obviously it depends, but i would put my rig at 4X the power of a 360

[jpph]

i think i win this imo

Twin 8800gt in sli
Quad Core Intel Proccessor at 2.6ghz
4gb ddr2 800 ram
500 maxtor HDD
etc

and my laptop
8800m gt
Dual Core Intel Proccessor at 2.6ghz
4gb ddr2 800 ram
160HDD (ouch)

and my sooped up old pc
Twin Club 3d 8600gt in sli
Single Core, Intel Pentium 3 Processor at 3ghz
2.5gb ddr2 667 ram
120HDD

wow, how the hell do you afford that if your only 16????????

mine:
AMD Athlon 3800+ x2 2.0ghz
Evga 8600gt 128 bit 256mb gddr3
2gb 566mhz pc2 4300 ddr2 RAM
OCZ 500w psu
xp media center edition
200gb SATA 7200rpm HDD

[canveyboy]

ooooooh i didnt post my 2nd pc specs...

crappy case (the kids wreaked it)

intel core2 duo 1.86 GHz overclocked to 2.8 GHZ
2 GIG of corsair 800MHZ Ram
80 GIG hard drive ATA
Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 motherboard
19" flat monitor
Two HD3870 graphic cards running in crossfire mode (on this board 1st card @ X16, 2nd card @ x4)
shares my 20MB broadband service.

oooooooh ooooooooh i didnt post my 3rd pc specs

Its a laptop

Acer Travelmate 2200 series

dont know the specs as i never use it, the battery is dead and so is the AC adapter (should replace them really as its been a good laptop)

+ if i get it fixed i wont have to listen to my girlfriend moaning she wants to get online, saying she'll only be 10 minutes and me end up waiting 2 bloody hours. lol

[Beav]

Standered Dell dimension 3100 :( Kinda sucky but I dont play big games as I also have a 360. I play runescape and NFS-U2 the most but want a new graphics card due to nfs being laggy. :S

[flameboy118]

Standered Dell dimension 3100 :( Kinda sucky but I dont play big games as I also have a 360. I play runescape and NFS-U2 the most but want a new graphics card due to nfs being laggy. :S

thats not really specs there love

wow, how the hell do you afford that if your only 16????????


by working my arse off all day as a sailing instructor. course with work i dont have enough time to play pcs. and without work i cant affored them. :(

intel core2 duo 1.86 GHz overclocked to 2.8 GHZ

you overclocked it by *a gigabyte*! thats over 70% in your case. sure it hasnt melted yet?

[Dante]

Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4Ghz
2GB Ram
500GB Hard Drive
Two Nvidia 8600GTS in SLI
19" Fancy LG Monitor Thingy

And my mouse has a button which makes my World of Warcraft character run indefinitely in a straight line.

[Punkster]

would there be any point of me upgrading to an 8800GT with the following specs i currently have?

Pentium 4 3.20ghz
2GB RAM
305W PSU
geforce 8500GT

the games i currently play on PC are BF2 and BF2142. i'd like to play Crysis, but with the other specs i have, i know just a graphics upgrade won't be enough. i can get an average of about 40 frames per sec on the lowest settings in 1024*768 or whatever on BF2 in 64 player games.

my bday is coming up soon and my parents usually get me something i want. there's no xbox 360 games that i want atm, so do you think a graphics upgrade will be worth it? or should i wait til i get a new PC altogether.

i'm not PC tech savvy so i'm not gona bother trying to change any other parts of my PC other than the grpahics card.

[Dante]

the games i currently play on PC are BF2 and BF2142. i'd like to play Crysis, but with the other specs i have, i know just a graphics upgrade won't be enough.

I'd recommend getting a new processor. I used to have a Core 2 Quad @ 2.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, and a single 8600 GTS and I got playable framerates on medium settings with Crysis. An 8800 would probably only be worth getting with at least a dual core CPU, and that, I'm guessing, would boost playable framerates to... very playable, I suppose :P. Without a multi core CPU, your computer would stumble with Crysis I'm afraid.

With a new multi core processor, that would be a pretty fine computer really.

[Punkster]

i'd need a better PSU as well. now to watch miss hong kong yay!

[canveyboy]

Quote from Flameboy=you overclocked it by *a gigabyte*! thats over 70% in your case. sure it hasnt melted yet?

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its been working fine for over a year at that speed with no problems, i had it higher (3.1Ghz but it sometimes crashed on more intensive games)

I never use standard cooling fans either, i think the fan on it is called an "artic pro" cpu heat is a stable 40-50 degrees dependant on load.

guess i just got lucky with that chip :p

if I rember rightly i clocked the FSB to 440MHz

[flameboy118]

fair enough.. yeah how much a chip will overclock is luck, often say a 2.4ghz processor and a 2.8 one are the same chip, set at different speeds, so they would overclock to the same speed.

@punkster il save it for the shoutbox, but an 8800gt on that would give you a decent fps on high on crysis if you comprimised BIG on resolution. and if your definiton of a decent framerate is around 10 fps. in all honestly, each part is as bad as the last- it all needs changing or nothing needs changing, if you see wharimean. that said, most of a games power comes from graphics. course you could get leave the cpu if you dont mind loading screens, get another 2gb of ram (but make it 800mhz) and give yourself 4 gig ram total (some fast some slow), then upgrade to a 500W reliable PSU then get another 8500gt and run it in sli, or just buy one 8800GT

[jpph]

fair enough.. yeah how much a chip will overclock is luck, often say a 2.4ghz processor and a 2.8 one are the same chip, set at different speeds, so they would overclock to the same speed.

@punkster il save it for the shoutbox, but an 8800gt on that would give you a decent fps on high on crysis if you comprimised BIG on resolution. and if your definiton of a decent framerate is around 10 fps. in all honestly, each part is as bad as the last- it all needs changing or nothing needs changing, if you see wharimean. that said, most of a games power comes from graphics. course you could get leave the cpu if you dont mind loading screens, get another 2gb of ram (but make it 800mhz) and give yourself 4 gig ram total (some fast some slow), then upgrade to a 500W reliable PSU then get another 8500gt and run it in sli, or just buy one 8800GT

get another 8500gt and sli it?
thats completely and utterly pointless, i trusted you man!:p

and punkster its p!ss easy to upgrade the psu, which you would definitely need to do for an 8800gt. maybe the best thing for you is to get an 8600gt, if other stuff is out of the budget. you probably wouldn't need to upgrade your psu then, and despite what people say, its a great card, i've decided to delay my hardware upgrade because theres nothing it cant handle pretty well.
bioshock 1024 by 768 completely maxed, great fps, completely playable, and holy smokes that game looks good.
crysis 1280 by 1024 no aa, all medium (cept maybe shaders), looks frigging amazing, 20 to 30 fps which is plenty for crysis seeing as its not very fast paced.
cod 4 1024 by 768 4aa everything else maxed, i get perfectly playable frame rates (havent measure them yet, i would estimate about 30-40) and thats on the demo, which is less well optimised.

[Punkster]

i agree that getting two 8500GT's in SLI is quite pointless. you don't get double the performance as most people would hope for, instead you only get about 40% performance boost.

i'd rather for for the 8600GT coz it doesn't cost too much and i don't have a mobo that has two graphics card slots.

EDIT: scrap that, i've decided i want the 7950gt instead.

[arcadeplayer987]

My specs:
CPU - E6750
Mobo - MSi Neo2 P35
GPU - 8800GTS 320mb
RAM - Corsair 2x1Gb
HDD - Seagate 250Gb Sata II
PSU - Seasonic S12 II 430W
Case - A+ Xclio II

[Love_Spinja]

My main PC specs I play on for Gaming.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
EVGA nForce 780i SLI MB
4GB PC6400 DDR2/800 RAM
500GB SATA-II HD
2 x NVIDIA GF 9800GTX+ 512MB Video
20X DVD+-RW Drive
16X DVD-ROM Drive
High Definition 7.1 Sound
NZXT Zero Full Tower Aluminum Case /w Xtreme Liquid Cooling Technology
Operated Extremely Quiet And Cool w/ Water Cooling

[halo-fan-4ever]

^_^ wow impressive

[Love_Spinja]

^_^ wow impressive

Thanks. :)

[Webster Returns]

Nice Spinja. What liquid cooling parts are you running? You should include some pics.

[Love_Spinja]

Cooler Master Aquagate ALC-U01 Liquid Cooling System :p

EDIT- I knew someone was probably gonna ask me that :)

I don't have pics of it yet but Id be gladly to take some and I'll be sure to try to take pics of the inside of the whole thing, But like I said I only use this PC strictly for gaming. I also have 2 other amazing PCs that my bf built for me but there not as good as my current one that I game on. :D

As you can tell me and my bf don't really have a budget when it comes to buying a PC or PC hardware, We only buy the best.

[Trunks]

Manufacturer: BIOSTAR Group
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 60 GB
Video Card: Radeon X1650 Series
Monitor: Dell M781p/M781mm
Sound Card: Realtek HD Audio output
Speakers/Headphones: Plantronics ultimate gaming headset
Keyboard: Logitech G15
Mouse: Logitech G5 Battlefield2142 special edition
Mouse Surface: Glass
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254)
Motherboard: BIOStar
Computer Case: a piece of junk

[halo-fan-4ever]

As you can tell me and my bf don't really have a budget when it comes to buying a PC or PC hardware, We only buy the best.

if u dont mind me asking, what do you do for work??

[Love_Spinja]

if u dont mind me asking, what do you do for work??

I thought I told you already I DJ lol...

[halo-fan-4ever]

I thought I told you already I DJ lol...

:eek: cool i didnt realize u did it full time

[Love_Spinja]

:eek: cool i didnt realize u did it full time

Yea I DJ Thursdays all the way to Sunday at nights :D

[aarathy]

My PC specifications

3 GB RAM
AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core 5000+
2 x 500 GB hard drives
Video card: XFX GeForce 8600GT 256MB DDR3 XXX
1 DVD drive
1 DVD +/- RW drive
Bluetooth keyboard and mouse
15 in 1 card reader built in
500 watt power supply
Windows XP

[Webster Returns]

Cooler Master Aquagate ALC-U01 Liquid Cooling System

Oh god, not that kit. What are your idle/load temps? I would be worried.

Anyways, specs in sig.

[Punkster]

soon i will upgrade from 8500GT to 7950GT, and also from 305W PSU to 550W PSU. this will either be the best or worst decision i'll ever make with upgrading PC hardware.

there are numerous problems i'm hoping i won't run into: overheating, the new 550W (overkill, i know) PSU might not have the right amperage on the 12V rail or whatever.

on the PSU's product description, i just read 550W and Dell Dimension 5100 compatible and i'm crossing my fingers it'll be ok.

i have no idea how i'll mount a fan inside my PC to cool the GPU if it does run hot. is it ok to use sticky tape or improvise with other simple materials to mount a fan that'll blow directly onto the GPU? in fact, i haven't even checked if my mobo has anymore power sockets for extra fans.

[halo-fan-4ever]

if u have enough space, leave the case open and just use a normal fan, thats what i do, also turn your fan settings to max in the BIOS/ Rivatuner / ntune, etc....

[Punkster]

if u have enough space, leave the case open and just use a normal fan, thats what i do, also turn your fan settings to max in the BIOS/ Rivatuner / ntune, etc....

haha, i was thinking of doing that. how much does it lower the temperature of your PC's components by specifically doing that? have you tested? also could you take a pic of it running like that and show us, just for the amusement.

[halo-fan-4ever]

i´ll take one tomorow, everyones asleep i dont wana start bashing around lol

[Punkster]

i'm so cheesed off now coz i think i've entered the credit card details incorrectly and now it's probably locked and it's my dad's card as well. i'm so frustrated right now, i want to destroy something.

[halo-fan-4ever]

i'm so cheesed off now coz i think i've entered the credit card details incorrectly and now it's probably locked and it's my dad's card as well. i'm so frustrated right now, i want to destroy something.

Nooooo not the pc!!!!!! spare it spare it!!!!!

[canveyboy]

you could always manually set your gpu fan speeds on your graphic card, i finally managed to get my fan speeds to manual, firstly i rewired my pc so theres virtually no wireing inside the main chamber and tightly tied them altogether so theres loads more space for free flowing air, imediatly my card temps dropped from 80c down to 70c, then i did a higher clock on the cards, gpu runs @ 900Mhz and memory clock @ 1200Mhz and i set the fans to 50% and my temps have now dropped to 40c on both cards.

[R2-Reetu]

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 (3.16GHz) Socket 775 Wolfdale 1333FSB 6MB L2 Cache
ASUS Rampage Formula Republic of Gamers Series iX48 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard
Sapphire HD 4850 1GB GDDR3 Dual DVI HDTV Out PCI-E Graphics Card
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800Mhz/PC2-6400 Memory GOLD DUAL CHANNEL Unbuffered CL5(5-5-5-18)
LG Blu-Ray & HD-DVD-Rom Combo 16x DVDRW SATA
LG GH20NS15 20X DVD±RW/DL/RAM SATA
Seagate ST3500320AS 500GB Hard Drive SATA II 7200rpm 32MB Cache
550W ATX Silent Neon PSU - 12cm Fan/PPFC

mine

[Damo001]

AMD CPU AM2 5000 Dual Core Athlon 64 Socket AM2 940 PIN
Asus M2N-MX SE Plus AM2 GeForce 6100 nForce 430 RAID SATA micro ATX
Samsung DVD RW TS-H653B/DEBH20x SATA black oem
Western Digital 160GB Caviar SATA II 300 7200rpm 8Mb cache Hard Disk Drive (JS) oem
2 x Samsung Original 1024MB DDR2 800 PC6400 RAM memory
3.5" Akasa Internal Multi Memory Card Reader, Dual Fascia (Black/White) USB 2.0 Port
LG 17" TFT Monitor

[MooCowMan]

AMD Athalon
GeForce FX5200
Western Digital 160g + Maxtor 40g
512mb of ram
HP+Emachines 16" monitors

[kkid]

windows vista home premium
service pack 1
Presario F500
AMD turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 1.60 GHz
1.00 GB RAM
32 bit operating system

[johnsirett]

i have the following:

Pentium 4 3.20ghz
Nvidia 8600GT (512MB)
2GB RAM
160GB hard disc

i can just about play some older games on medium-high settings, but the framerate is not very good on newer games. i'm not too bothered right now coz i have the 360 to keep me occupied.

until i get a decently paid job of my own, i won't bother trying to get a better PC to play a few good PC games. it's not worth it imo unless you've a lot of money to spend on yourself.

what do you mean it can't play newer games? i have an 8600 and it can play crysis on high with 8x antialising and it doesn't even slow down for a second!

[Punkster]

what do you mean it can't play newer games? i have an 8600 and it can play crysis on high with 8x antialising and it doesn't even slow down for a second!

whoops, i wrote 8600GT instead of 8500GT. i've got a 7950GT now but i still can't play crysis on even medium settings let alone high.

[baalnazzar]

Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHz
GF 9600GT OC 512MB
2GB RAM
250 GB HD

Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
Radeon HD 4850 512MB
4GB RAM
500 GB HD

2 PCs - 2 configurations :)

[Punkster]

Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHz
GF 9600GT OC 512MB
2GB RAM
250 GB HD

Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
Radeon HD 4850 512MB
4GB RAM
500 GB HD

2 PCs - 2 configurations :)

how well do they perform in games. as in what framerates do you get in crysis if you put on all high settings.