I saw a lot of topic like this in many other forums so why not put it here in Rosa Mystica forums as well?? and a little Spec sharing wont hurt, right? and oh yes, why not include your Games in your PC or what are your usual activities w/ it.

This computer is a 1 year old system, except for the board and graphics card

-AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+
-AMD 570x Motherboard
-AMD/ATi Radeon HD3650
-Kingston 2gb RAM
-Seagate 160gb S-ATA HDD
-Samsung 80gb IDE HDD
-Samsung WriteMaster
-Samsung SyncMaster 740n
-Altec Lansing ATP3
-A4tech Keyboard and Optical Mouse
-Windows Vista Ultimate


Mostly I do Gaming, like Crysis, Call of Duty 4 and others.
I also do a very little of video editing. but the usual is just playing my Anime Mp3s and Internet.

Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
1 GB RAM
Windows XP SP2
Delicious onboard video
Western Digital SATA 200GB HD
Western Digital USB 2.0 500GB external HD

As you might notice, I'm not one for having awesome specs. ;p

Intel core2duo E6750 (@2.66ghz) processor
Asus P5K-E motherboard
2GB ddr2-ram
Xfx Geforce 8800GT 512MB
Western digital 500GB SATA2 HDD
Wester Digital Mybook 500GB external HDD
Maxtor 40GB HDD in external casing
Lacy 40GB external HDD
Asus DVD-RW(16x)
Asus DVD-R(16x)
Onboard sound
Samsung Synchmaster 226BW
Windows XP SP2

I am totally having the biggest e-penis when it comes to storage space.

Also, I play games (the witcher, unreal tournament 3, crysis), edit photos, listen to music, internet, get my feet wet in the arts of php every once in a while, watch stuff, bit of everything.
More weird things include translating shit with systran, running a bunch of test servers(web and database) and sometimes bother to run (multiple) virtual machines in vmware.

So yeah...

I disagree!

Me too, as I don't have enough.

Hello, I'm just wandering if your XFX GeForce 8800GT is providing the "High" settings when set on "Optimal Settings" in Crysis?, I was planning on upgrading on one of those, because my Mainstream ATi can only gave me up to Medium. tnx in advance

I am not sure if I understand correctly, but when I first started Crysis the settings defaulted to 'High', so yes.
It also plays very nicely on Very high.

Umbra-tan: made myself <3

A64 X2 3800+ with Zalman 7000B AlCu
4x1GB DDR modules from Crucial
Abit AV8 mb
Radeon 9800 Pro with some Arctic Cooling heatsink-fan thing replacing the original
Zalman PSU

~550GB across four internal disks, 150 of which are in a RAID 0* array
Nec DVD burner
AOpen CD-writer/DVD reader
D-link wireless PCI card with aerial about as tall as my monitor

17" Sharp LL-172G-B LCD monitor
Razer Diamondback mouse
Sennheiser HD 201 headphones
Some random Labtec keyboard
Trust graphics tablet

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Chibi: customised Dell XPS M1330 laptop

Intel Core2 Duo T7500 (2.2Ghz)
4GB DDR2 RAM
128MB nVidia GeForce 8400M GS
13.3" widescreen (1280x800)
320GB hard disk

Fingerprint reader
Remote control storable in Expresscard slot

Often used with Razer copperhead mouse, and some form of folding Sennheisers.

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...I'm looking into replacing Umbra-tan's processor with a high-end s939 Opteron, or possibly switching the Radeon for a newer one, considering how I suspect Chibi might be the more powerful of the two. I mean, at the moment my laptop seems to run Portal better than my desktop does, and that's a bit weird... XD


* It seemed like a good idea at the time... :unsure:

My laptop is more powerful than my desktop. Of course, it's also almost two years newer. ;p

Edit: In fact, I may as well put the specs up:

Veca (Mac mini):
2GHz Core2 Duo (666MHz FSB) (upgraded from original 1.66GHz Core Duo)
2GB 666MHz RAM
200GB 7200RPM Seagate HD
integrated graphics (GMA950)
20" LCD screen
500GB Western Digital HD in an external case
250GB Western Digital HD in another external case

Yemi (MacBook)
2.4GHz Core2 Duo (800MHz FSB)
4GB 666MHz RAM (Great Skill) (Veca would have some too but it doesn't seem to enjoy them)
200GB 7200RPM Seagate HD
integrated graphics (GMAX3100)
13" LCD screen

Yeah, I'm overdue for an update. Built it myself 2 years ago:

Name: Ultrima 9332G

AMD Athlon 64 3200+
ePox 9HEAI Mobo
NEC DVD+-RW 12x speed
Phillips CD-RW 4x speed (this one is from another computer)
400 watt PSU
nVidia 6600LE
Chaintech AV-710 (best soundcard EVER! No joke!)
Standard floppy drive
Intergrated Flash Card reader
120GB SATA 1.5 - Hitachi (main)
300GB SATA 3.0 - Seagate (audio/video production)
80GB IDE - Samsung (mp3 files and personal photos)
19 inch Sony CRT screen
Windows XP Home SP3

That's about the rough jist of it. I'm upgrading next year. I get my stuff from Newegg.

Umbra started off with one of those. It was replaced with a X2 3800+ after a while, though, and (a few days back) that got switched for an Opteron 180. =3

Any plans for components? I'd currently probably go with a Phenom-based system if I were to get a chance to make a new computer...

Oh yes, I plan to get a Phenom anyway, but I am going quad-core. By then it will be cheap enough and I would like it to last me another 2-3 years.

Here at Newegg, a Phenom 9750:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819103250
I was gonna go with that, but I'm sure by then they'll have something much more improved.

As far as mobos, I will TRY to stick with ePox, or even MSI. Gigabyte has given me WAY too many problems in the past. I had 3 Gigabyte mobos, and they all failed on me for some reason.

Crap
Garbage
Trash
Junk
Scrap metal
A FLAMING PIECE OF SHIT THAT NEVER SEEMS TO WORK WHEN I WANT IT TO.



Eh....... Yeah, That just about describes my old computer. I honestly don't know what I have on my new one.

At least you guys have your Newegg, but to me I have to wait for the local stores around me to update their list. The Athlon X2 BE series is still nowhere to be found here.

3 Gigabyte Mobos? that's too bad, I was planning on buying their 780G board for micro-ATX form factor, maybe I should reconsider it.
My Asus board died for no reason, it also gave me a lot of problems one of which is heat problems. it caused me a lot since PC components here are more expensive.

Computer's life span you say? my mom's Dell Dimension XPS pro 200n is still at working condition, She can still do some word processing like MS Office 98. I don't know the exact specs of it except for this

Intel Pentium Pro 200mhz
98mb of RAM
10gb HDD
PCI Graphic card
Creative sound card (Bigger and longer than GeForce 8800 series)
Dell 15" Monitor
Windos 98 SE

It beat my old sytem which is damaged by a power surge and was only able to serve me for a year.
AMD Sempron 3000+ s754
1.5gb DDR 400
nForce 3 250
nVidia 5500FX

I hope the shops here will at least have an A X2 BE or the 4xxxe.

God thing is that life span was never an issuue with me. I'm very fortunate to have computers that have lasted me a long time. I have one that is still going strong for about 10 years. I also have a working 486 (yes, I said 486! Before Pentiums!) that I use occaisionally.

I always like to refresh and update my computer to last itself with the times. It also saves me money to do that as well. I don't have to replace anything that generally works. The only things I would have to update from time to time are the Processor, Motherboard and Memory.

The good advantage about building your own computer is that when something goes wrong, you can pretty much pinpoint what is, and replace that part without worrying about any type of warranty as a whole computer.

Oh, and here's what I will be updating to hopefully...

AMD Phenom x4 9750
Biostar TA770 mobo
Mushkin memory - 2GB DDR2 800

It'll be pretty sweet.

My comp is:

AMD Athlon XP 2000+
256mb ram
GeForce FX 5200
Soundblaster Live! Value
80mb HDD
Win98
SyncMaster 700IFT CRT monitor (for some weird reason it has much better display than my mother's LCD).

Yeah, that's my comp. I don't think I'm going to upgrade it very soon.

I'm mostly using it to browse internet, listen to music, watch movies and play games, like Fallout, Baldur's Gate 2, Operation Flashpoint, Close Combat, etc.

Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2,6 GHz
768 MB RAM
GeForce FX 5700 LE
80 GB HDD + external 250 GB
Win XP + SP 2

Fujitsu Siemens 19" TFT Monitor
Logitech MX 518 Mouse
Logitech HID-Compliant Keyboard
Sennheiser PC 160 Headset

Yeah pretty shitty System... I´m only working on my Comp anyway as I´m a Consolegamer, but I´m gonna upgrade my System next year I think...

Perhaps the LCD is not at its native resolution? They tend to look pretty fuzzy if that's the case...

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I've recently been collecting parts for an upgrade (much of the reason being to jump ship from s939 and AGP to AM2 and PCIe); so far all I have is a Phenom 9850 (quad-core CPU), but I've also ordered a MSI K9A2 Platinum (790FX/SB600 based motherboard), and am planning to add in probably 4 GB of DDR2 and a Radeon HD 4850. I'm waiting for certain things before getting those, though. ^^

Since the last time I mentioned my setup, though, I did switch out that RAID array for a 1TB disk. Not having to worry about disk space (for a while, anyway) has been rather nice. <3

I don't think so. The main problem is that colours are pretty awful. The display is set to 32-bit but it looks like 16-bit.

Ah, that's frequently a problem. Sometimes to cut corners they skimp on the actual display color range, so the monitor basically discards the final 8 bits and things look cruddy. First I've heard of a desktop monitor doing it, though.

Umbra's new setup:

Phenom 9850 BE (currently stability testing at 3GHz)
Corsair HX 620W PSU (Yay for modularity! <3)
MSI K9A2 Platinum
2x2GB Corsair Dominator DDR2*
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850**

Samsung SpinPoint HDDs of 1TB (SATA), 160GB (IDE), and 250GB (IDE)
NEC DVD-RW (IDE, but connected to a SATA port via an adapter)
AOpen CD-RW/DVD drive (currently disconnected because I didn't yet get a second IDE-SATA adapter)

And for cooling the CPU***:
MC-TDX waterblock
PA 120.3 with 3 Scythe 1600RPM 12cm fans
Laing DDC pump
Various compression and self-seal fittings, about 5ft of Tygon R-3603, and 800ml or so of Feser's blue nonconductive coolant

=3

* This came with a rather nice (albeit tall) heatsink/heatspreader thing on each module, as well as a fan to be mounted above the RAM slots. O_o
I'm wondering if I should use it, considering I've not overclocked the RAM at all, but the extra airflow could potentially keep the board cooler...
** Currently using stock cooler, but I'm thinking I'll switch it for a Zalman VF-900 when I get appropriate heatsinks for the power circuitry.
*** It sounds so excessive when put like that! Since it can cool a CPU running four threads of prime95 to about 35C, though, and do it as quietly as my previous (quiet) setup, I'm pretty happy with it. ^^

I have a new computer because my previous one got close to dying:
Celeron 2,400
512mb ram
Geforce 4 MX 4000 128mb
Soundblaster Live! Value
80mb HDD
40mb HDD
DVDR

SyncMaster 700IFT CRT monitor - it's going to die soon, I think.