August 29, 200817 yr I'm thinking about upgrading my computer's video card, I added a Blu Ray drive today. Here's what I'm running at present. Intel Pentium 4, 3.40GHz Hyperthreaded 160 GB HD 3.0GB of RAM NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit Edited August 29, 200817 yr by Pontiac Custom-S
August 29, 200817 yr I'm currently in the process of saving up for a new desktop, so the one I have now is my 5 year old Compaq desktop (my faster, newer Dell laptop has been dead for 1/2 a year) Compaq Presario (2004 model) 2.4 Ghz Celeron 512 MB RAM 160 GB hard drive (plus two 750 GB external hard drives that I put all my music and pictures on) NVIDIA GeForce graphics card (not sure on the specifics)
August 29, 200817 yr 1.8 Intel Centrino GeforceGo 6600 1GB RAM 100GB HD It's a great machine, but I regret thinking dual cores were a load of bull$h!, and buying a single core. PCS, I thought you had one of those HP Blackbirds?
August 29, 200817 yr 1) HP Compaq Presario laptop Intel Pentium Dual Core 1.86Ghz 3.0GB of RAM Windows XP Pro (my general purpose home machine for surfing the web, tracking my finances, documents, etc) 2) Apple Mac Book Pro laptop Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5Ghz NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 4.0GB of RAM Mac OS X (which of course has pure UNIX goodness inside.. (my professional machine for learning, writing code, development, consulting, etc) I have 4 old desktops (2 with Linux) and an old Sun Sparc Ultra workstation back home in Denver, but rarely use them anymore..what with splitting my time between Denver and Phoenix and travel, I use only laptops now... Edited August 29, 200817 yr by moltar
August 29, 200817 yr Author 1.8 Intel Centrino GeforceGo 6600 1GB RAM 100GB HD It's a great machine, but I regret thinking dual cores were a load of bull$h!, and buying a single core. PCS, I thought you had one of those HP Blackbirds? I do in the USA, but not in Germany.
August 29, 200817 yr yeah I hope my computer has balls. qx9450 quad core intel 2.66 oced to about 3.0 im ordering 8 gbs of ddr3 and 2 or 3 Geforce gtx 280s right now its 2gbs of ddr3 8800 ultra evga 790i so it can handle solitare and mine sweeper it sounds like my motto q has more processing power than some of your computers.... surfing the net in sprint speed right now.... on a smart phone. c and g isn't coded for smart phones well
August 29, 200817 yr practically maxed socket A system. 1 Gb ddr400 athlonXP 3000+ the 400mhz fsb one 160gb hdd and 250hdd sata 1 x800pro that's agp. asus mobo k7(x)600 or something very close to that.
August 29, 200817 yr I have four computers... I most often use my... for everything personal... Lenovo T61 14 inch laptop 2.1ghz Dual Core 2gb ram XP Pro 100gb HD cd burner, dvd read (basic graphics card) Adobe CS3 Creative Suite (paid out the a$$ for that) Microsoft Office Enterprise Edition '07 I have a 1/2 Tera Maxtor One Touch IV I plug into tho... and my Epson Printer... for work... Mac Book (generation II) 2.0 ghz Dual Core 2gb ram OSX 10.4 160gb HD Microsoft Small Biz Edition '04 Adobe Creative Suite CS1 cd/dvd burner 128mb graphics card (good one not sure of brand) home/family... HP Pavillion a620n 2.4ghz Pentium 4 HT 160gb HD XP Home 512mb Ram basic graphics card cd/dvd burner Microsoft Office Home and Student '04 Photoshop Elements 4 and 6 (200gb Maxtor One Touch III hooked up) hooked up to an HP PSC all in one home/family/docking station... Compaq Evo 1.8ghz Pentium 4 40gb HD XP Home 768mb Ram basic graphics card Microsoft Office Enterprise Editon '07 Photoshop Elements 5 Adobe CS3 Creative Suite Hooked up too a Nikon Coolscan Slide Scanner and Epson RX680 printer (I doc both my notebooks here too) I have way to much computer stuff... As for my digital cameras... Pentax K-100D 6mpg Pentax K-10D 10mpg Sony Cybershot H-1 5mpg and a bunch of 35mm lenes and other DA lenes for the Pentax camera's. I have other 35mm SLR bodies that I can't bare to part with. I have too much electronic crap and my son and I want a PS3 but the wife says no. Because will be hooked and then its still 400 bucks! Edited August 29, 200817 yr by gm4life
August 29, 200817 yr Yay, another nerd thread, I love these. :] AMD Phenom X3 8450 @ 3013mhz (287x10.5) 1.28v. 2000mhz HT/NB (stock 1800) Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 "All-Solid Capacitor" eVGA GeForce 8800GT Superclock (at stock now until I get the balls to flash the BIOS) OCZ 2gb DDR2-1066 (running at 764mhz though because of a problem with my motherboard memory settings) Seasonic S12-430 430 watt PSU 250GB & 160GB HDD's Cooler Master C5, custom interior and HDD bays. full sound deadening and insulation I have a laptop too, but it's just a college laptop and nothing special. I don't even know exactly what's in it. Compaq something, Turion CPU, 1GB ram, bleh.
August 29, 200817 yr Just a few Gateway computers..... The desktop....Yes. The labtop....not so much. And I want to build a desktop too.... Edited August 29, 200817 yr by daves87rs
August 29, 200817 yr I'm thinking about upgrading my computer's video card, I added a Blu Ray drive today. might want to look at an ati card.. but i've not seen how the nvidia cards run blu ray. i just know that newer amd/ati laptops run bluray video beautifully and can do other things at the same time without making the video choppy. there are youtube vids of this, amd/ati vs intel.... but I know intel doesn't make even basic gaming cards, integrated or not. ati's 46xx range should be coming out in the next 2 weeks,
August 29, 200817 yr nVIDIA + SLi = WIN Though it's time for an upgrade, my comp is still pretty good. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Windsor 2.4GHz Socket AM2 89W Dual-Core Processor CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) RAM Foxconn FV-N795M4D2-OD GeForce 7950GX2 1GB 512-bit GDDR3 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive Foxconn C51XEM2AA- 8EKRS2H AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard I also just bought: ICY DOCK MB559US-1SMB 3.5" Mirror Black USB 2.0 & eSATA External Enclosure Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive My girlfriend's computer, which is my old computer needs to be replaced, or at the very least upgraded. From memory... AMD Athlon XP 2700+ 2.2 GHZ Processor ABIT KW7 Socket AMD 462 Motherboard Asus nForce n6600 Video Card 1 GB DDR Ram Western Digital 200 GB HD Edited August 29, 200817 yr by Dodgefan
August 29, 200817 yr might want to look at an ati card.. but i've not seen how the nvidia cards run blu ray. i just know that newer amd/ati laptops run bluray video beautifully and can do other things at the same time without making the video choppy. there are youtube vids of this, amd/ati vs intel.... but I know intel doesn't make even basic gaming cards, integrated or not. ati's 46xx range should be coming out in the next 2 weeks, AMD has the best integrated graphics at the moment, however for discrete graphics AMD and Nvidia are pretty much neck and neck.
August 29, 200817 yr nVIDIA + SLi = WIN The new ATI 4XXX has the 280s slaughtered. +1 to seigen. I love these nerdy my threads. Two Machines: One is a dinosaur Dell 8300 P4 HT 3.0 XP Pro 4GB DDR400 120 Maxtor 256 MB NVDIA GT7600 DVD + DVD RW One is turning old Dell Latitude D410 12" Screen 2.1 Centrino (can you believe it is actually faster than the P4 with more clock speed?) 2GB DDR2-533 80 GB 5400 HDD Shared 256MB Video Card
August 29, 200817 yr Home Phenom 9850 OC to 3.01 GHZ 8 gb of ram Ati 4870 X2 Work Laptop Core 2 duo 2.16 ghz 2 GBs of ram ATI Radeon Mobility x1300
August 29, 200817 yr The new ATI 4XXX has the 280s slaughtered. you mean the 4870X2... the ATI is the better deal, but they are close with more than one app. I read supposedly Nvidia may be the first to 40nm. video cards are skipping the 45nm "node".
August 30, 200817 yr forgot to mention 2 raptor 10k rpm 150 gig drives in raid 0. And i have a Server just chillin around dell poweredge 2500 twin 1.1 ghz P3 4 gigs of ram. Dual gigabit fibre outs. to two cisco switchs and a HP procurve router all in CAT 6 and fibre uplinks. it has 2 TB's total capicity in 15k rpm SCSI drives. Its a nice little toy to play with.... and learn with. As ATI vs Nvidia goes well it pointless. Im a straight Nvidia guy but i have seen enough results and benchmarks to say that no program is the same for both cards. the 4870 will beat a single GTX 280 in some things but not others. However SLI is more stable than crossfire. the one good thing is competition means no more $700 cards. even cpus have before cheap.
August 30, 200817 yr Author The Blackbird is what I run at home in Delaware. Here in Germany, see post #1. Review http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/hp-blackb...7-32592299.html Home Page http://h20435.www2.hp.com/#/HOME Edited August 30, 200817 yr by Pontiac Custom-S
September 15, 200817 yr I just bought a macbook 2.4 core 2 duo 2gb ram 250gb hard drive....I am really excited for it to get here, but it doesnt touch most of your guys computers. Should do plenty for me.
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