Post Your PC Specs
With all the new rig builds going on, lets show 'em off.
Post your current rig build and I'll transfer 'em over (eventually) to the GWJ DIY Guide in the Bookshelf.
Here is what I'm currently gaming on...
RichyRambo's Ride (built 6/2005)
* ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Motherboard
* AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.2GHz Socket 939 Dual Core (added 9/06)
* Zalman CNPS7000-CU CPU Cooler
* 2GB Corsair DDR400 XMS3200 Dual-Channel Memory
* ASUS EAX800XL/2DTV/256 Radeon X800XL 256MB Vid card
* ASUS DRW-1608PB DVD RW Drive
* Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB SATA Hard Drive w/16MB Buffer
* Cooler Master Cavalier 3 CAV-T03-UW ATX Mid Tower
* Antec SmartPower 2.0 400W Power Supply
* Logitech G7 Laser Cordless Mouse
* Saitek Eclipse Blue PC Keyboard
* Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 Speaker System
* Dell UltraSharp 2405FP, 24" Wide Screen LCD (added 3/06)
Note: Processor is overclocked to 2.5Ghz (technically 2.475Ghz).
Nothin' too special
*EPoX EP-8NPA SLI Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
*AMD Athlon 64 2800+
*ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro Cooling Fan with Heatsink
*SAPPHIRE 100106L Radeon X850XT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16
*XION Ultimate Engineering XON-003 Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower
*Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI Sound Card
*1 GB DDR RAM
*Generic DVD Burner of Goodness
I am hoping to upgrade RAM and processor soon, but we'll see.
"I like to hear people talking when they're not talking to me," I said. "It's soothing to know that I don't have to listen." -- Bill Harris describing a truism.
*Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe
*Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
*Zalman CNPS9500 CPU Heatsink/Fan
*2 GB Corsair XMS DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit
*eVGA 7800GT (2x in SLI)
* LG Black 16X DVD-ROM 52X CD-ROM E-IDE/ATAPI DVD-ROM Drive
*Lite-On SHW-1635S DVD Burner
*Cooler Master CM Stacker RC-830 Aluminum Full Tower
*Antec Truepower 2.0 550W PSU
*Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum
*Logitech G5 Mouse
*Saitek Eclipse Blue Keyboard
*Westinghouse LCM-22w2 22" Widescreen LCD
*7 120mm Thermaltake Thunderblade LED Lit Case Fans
Soon as I sell the 7800GT's they will quickly become 7950GT's. And one day, someday far off, I will own a Core 2 Duo X6800. It will happen.
XBLive: Thin J
PSN: Thin_J
I don't imagine master craftsmen leaping away from completed projects and shouting "Done, motherf*ckers! - 1Dgaf
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum
AMD64 3200+
1 GB OCZ El Platinum Rev 2
MSI 6800 GT
24bit SBLive!
Enermax Liberty 500W Power Supply
2 x 37.5 GB Raptors (raid0)
NEC DVD-RW
Thermaltake Tsunami Dream case
Samsung Syncmaster 204T
Logitech G15 Keyboard
Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse 2.0
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didnt want to post without contributing, so I wrote this all up just to ask...
7 120mm case fans?!?!?! Can it fly?
Warrior Asherr
Hunter Ghorin
This is my 1 month old gaming rig:
* Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe
* Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 (2.93 GHz, FSB1066, 4 MB L2)
* Corsair XMS TWIN2X2048-6400C4 EPP DDR2-800 2x1024MB
* Asus GeForce 7900GTX 512MB
* Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic
* 2 x Western Digital SATA Raptor 150GB in raid
* NEC 3.5inch 1.44 Floppy Drive (black)
* Lite On SHM-165H6S 16X DVD +/- R/RW w/Lightscribe (black)
* Antec P180 Mid Tower Case
* Seasonic S12 Series 600W Power Supply
* Thermalright SI-128 Heatsink w/ 120mm Scythe Fan
* Dell UltraSharp 2405FP, 24" Wide Screen LCD
* Saitek (of some sort) Keybord
* Logitec MX 1000 mouse
I have to say I'm pretty happy with it.
-Xino
*Intel ® Core™2 Duo Processor E6600 (2.4GHz, 1066 FSB, 4 MB L2)
*1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz
*DataSafe 250GB Hard Drive
*Single Drive: 16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability
*256MB nVidia GeForce 7900 GS
*Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
*19" AL1914 LCD Monitor
*Logitech G7 Laser Cordless Mouse
*Logitech Speaker X-230 2.1
*Saitek Cyborg Evo Joystick
Quintin_Stone wrote:
lunabean wrote:Athlon 1800 XP +
6600GT 128MB
Audigy 2 ZS
1GB RAM
60GB HDD
250GB HDD
600w PSU (I think.)
Hatchet Job - intelligent and irrevent gaming discussion.
Shuttle SN25P
Opteron 146
BFG 7900GT OC
1gig Geil Golden Dragon PC3200
1 36 gig Raptor
1 120gig Seagate
1 200gig Maxtor
Hyundai L90d+
xbox live: Lester King 17 | WoW: Pawley - Holy Paladin
AthlonXP 2800+ FSB333
MSI K7N2 Delta-L
Corsair TWINX 2048MB PC4000 LL
ATI RADEON X800XL 256MB AGP
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Promise FastTrak TX2000
2xWD 80GB In RAID 0 (160GB)
Pioneer 16X DL
LG 52X CD-RW
ViewSonic VX924 19" 4ms
Logitech Z-3000 5.1
Razer Copperhead Blue
Logitech G15
Antec 380W
"We're taught from a young age how to dodge rock hard objects moving at incredible rates of speed while simultaneously beating folks half to death with sticks. We do this for fun." -kung fu grip
http://blog.digital-lifeline.ca
Sempron 3100+(Socket 754)
Radeon 9800 Pro(128Meg)
2g DDR400 RAM
Ancient SBLive.
Hyundai Imagequest L90D+
Man, dwarf fortress flies!
"And my son, too, thinks everything is a launchpad, every bug a meal, and every sunny day a reason to take all your clothes off and roll around in the grass." - rabbit
Athlon XP 2000+
Radeon 1600 Pro (AGP, 512MB)
1 GB PC2700 RAM
Soyo Platinum Dragon KT333 board
20" Widescreen Princeton LCD
* ASUS A9N Crosshair AMD AM2 SLI Motherboard
* AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.0GHz Socket AM2 Dual Core Processor
* Zalman CNPS9000-AM2 CPU Cooler
* 2GB Corsair XM6400 Dual-Channel Memory
* XFX 7600GT 256MB x 2
* Creative X-Fi
* Samsung DVD RW Drive
* 200GB Seagate SATA Hard Drive
* Corsair 420W Power Supply
* Logitech MX518
* Saitek Eclipse Blue PC Keyboard
* Nostromo N52
* BENQ 19" Wide Screen LCD X2
" Did my love gun hit you?" -Gaald to Certis while playing Sins of the Solar Empire.
ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 3700+
2GB PQI PC3200
NEC 90GX2 4ms 19" LCD
Dell 2005 FPW 20" Widescreen LCD
EVGA 7950 GX2 1GB - through EVGA Step-Up program
Creative X-FI
Logitech X-530 5.1 Speakers
Sennheiser PC150 Headset/with dead mic boom
Logitech USB Mic
Logitech G5 Mouse
MS Keyboard
NEC DVD Burner
2-74 Gig Raptors Raid 0
Lian Li aluminium PC 65 case
Antec Neo HE 550
BF2
BF2142
Asus A8VM-CS NForce4
2Gb RAM DDR400 (1Gb Corsair)
Athlon64 3500+ Cpu
Zalman CPU cooler
Antec Sonata II
Geforce7900GT
Maxtor 250Gb SATAII
G7 Laser Cordless Mouse
Creative Audigy
Roo: "Just to cheer you up if any of the above made you sad: Boobies."
Koning_Floris, on my online 'skills': "Stinking is a skill too!"
Giga-Byte GA-G1975x Intel 975x Crossfire Supported <-------pissed to all hell at gigabyte for not providing Conroe support for this board or freakin SLI
2Gb G.Skill DDR2 667
Intel Pentium4 640 2mb cache 3.2ghz o/c'ed to 3.84ghz
Thermaltake 120mm Big Typhoon Cpu cooler
BFG 7800GTX OC o/c'ed to 501mhz/1.33ghz <-- Got to good a deal on to pass on hence the aggrivation on the no SLI w/ the Giga-Byte mobo
Creative Sound Blaster Live 24-bit on-board Audio
160Gb Seagate SATA 150
80Gb Western Digital IDE
Generic CD-RW/DVD ROM
Thermaltake Xaser III Blue
G5 Wired Laser mouse
19" Samsung Syncmaster 920n LCD
17" Samsung Syncmaster 720bm LCD
Dante: I'll smoke it with ya bro, we'll go to the loony bin together. I don't give a f*ck.
Here's the desktop I'm thinking of building:
NewEgg Wish List
It's based on the recommended systems at ArsTechnica and ExtremeTech.
Case: Antec Sonata II (relatively quiet, good looks, front USB & headphone jack)
MB: Asus P5B
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 Conroe 1.86GHz (cheapest Core 2 Duo)
Memory: Corsair Value Select 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR2 667
Graphics: eVGA Geforce 7600GT 256MB PCI Express (good value under $200 review)
HD: Samsung Spinpoint P series, 250GB, 8MB cache, 7200rpm (said to be quiet here)
CD/DVD: Lite-On 16x CD/DVD burner with Litescribe
OS: Windows XP Media Center Edition (will add a TV tuner/remote later)
Monitor: Dell 2007FPW 20" widescreen LCD (widescreen = good)
Other stuff: Logitech wireless keyboard & mouse, Linksys wireless adapter
Total = ~$1360 (before tax & shipping)
Does anybody see any problems with this build? It will be my home PC for internet, CD burning, digital pictures, gaming. I just want something that's pretty good right now and will be decent in the future with minor upgrades. I also want to join in on some of the multiplayer goodness here at GWJ (the laptop I'm typing this on laughs when I ask it to play Jedi Knight II and that was released in 2002). I'm not hardcore, so I don't need SLI. My last desktop was incredibly loud so I'd like this one to be "decently" quiet.
gtnissanfan is on the front lines, building a Kritzcharge
Looks like a really good value for a Core 2 rig and leaves you some nice wiggle room as far as your upgrade path goes. Looks like a good setup to me.
XBLive: Thin J
PSN: Thin_J
I don't imagine master craftsmen leaping away from completed projects and shouting "Done, motherf*ckers! - 1Dgaf
You need to blame Nvidia for no SLI support.. they want to push their own chipset.
Aint nothing new about the world order..it's been playing since the day they put George Washington on a quarter
85's face the truth you're too dumb.
http://www.myspace.com/armyofthepharaohs
gtnissanfan, GF7600 is not the best value for money atm, I think you're going to bottleneck your system. A GF7900GT (or ATI equivalent, whatever that would be atm) would be better, though a tad more expensive.
Roo: "Just to cheer you up if any of the above made you sad: Boobies."
Koning_Floris, on my online 'skills': "Stinking is a skill too!"
Really? It seems like a 7900GT card is about $100 more than the 7600GT I listed. Does it really provide that much more performance? I'm not heart-set on running recent games with all the graphical effects turned to max. I just want something that's playable. I'm thinking I might want to save a little money and upgrade after the DirectX 10 cards come out.
gtnissanfan is on the front lines, building a Kritzcharge
Dante: I'll smoke it with ya bro, we'll go to the loony bin together. I don't give a f*ck.
I think you should look at the just released 7900GS, performance often on par with the 7900GT for around $200.
Posting on the boards is easy. The trick is to kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Chiggie Von Richthofen on how to transition from lurker to poster.
Best value by far is the ATI X1900XT 256mb card for around $240. That outperforms Nvidia's $299 card
Aint nothing new about the world order..it's been playing since the day they put George Washington on a quarter
85's face the truth you're too dumb.
http://www.myspace.com/armyofthepharaohs
Really? According to reviews I have seen at Toms and Anandtech the 7900GS performs better or on par with the X1900XT for $40 dollars less, with the only exception being Oblivion where the ATI card still leads but not by a wide margin. Tom's review took from this that the $300 Nvidia card (7900GT) is basically a dead product now.
Posting on the boards is easy. The trick is to kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Chiggie Von Richthofen on how to transition from lurker to poster.
Thanks for the opinions guys, I'm glad to see most everything seems okay. As much as I hate to be the guy who asks for opinions and then ignores them, I think I'm going to stick with the 7600GT. Right now there's a rebate that makes it only $130. Even then, I'm pushing my budget. If you said there's a card for only $10 more and a 50% increase in performance, I'd go for it. Remember I'm coming from a laptop and anything with double-digit frame rates will be a huge improvement. If the 7600GT turns out to not cut the mustard, I'll eat some crow and go for something better.
gtnissanfan is on the front lines, building a Kritzcharge
eh?
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTE3MSwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzd...
Forget the 7900GS the X1900XT 256mb outperforms Nvidia's latest 7950GT.. you gotta stop reading Tom's. bleh.
Aint nothing new about the world order..it's been playing since the day they put George Washington on a quarter
85's face the truth you're too dumb.
http://www.myspace.com/armyofthepharaohs
Opteron 165 (@ 2.7Mhz - 9x300)
DFI LanParty NF4 Ultra-D
2x1024MB OCZ PC4000 OCZ5002048ELGE-K
1x 74GB WD Raptor 10K
1x 250GB Seagate 7200.8
NEC 3550A DVD-RW
eVGA 7900 GTX
Sound Blaster Audigy 4
Enermax Liberty 500W Modular
Antec P180 (Black)
Dell 2001FP (4:3)
Logitech G15 Keyboard
Logitech G5 Mouse
Xbox Live: Chumtastic
Deal.
I was genuinely curious, and now I know.
This is actually good news as I am still a few months away from building a new rig, the x1900XT should be down around $200 by then I would imagine.
Posting on the boards is easy. The trick is to kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Chiggie Von Richthofen on how to transition from lurker to poster.
CEJ's new-ish rig
* Antec LifeStyle SONATA II
* ASUS A8N-E Motherboard
* CORSAIR XMS 2GB DDR 400 (PC 3200)
* eVGA 256-P2-N516 Geforce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
* AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice CPU
* Thermaltake CL-P0200 Silent 939 K8
* Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L200S0 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive
* Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB 10,000 RPM
* ASUS 16X DVD±R DVD Burner
* HYUNDAI L90D+ LCD
* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Sound Card
* Saitek PZ30AU Black USB Wired Standard Eclipse Keyboard
* Logitech MX518 USB Optical Mouse
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I built this rig about a year and a half ago. Still handles anything I throw at it. Only thing recent is the monitor which I got for Christmas last year. Bit of a bear to lug to LAN parties tho, I'm thinking SFF for the next one...
CrazyHarry
ANTEC P-160WF case
ASUS A8V Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
2GB Corsair XMS DDR PC3200 Dual-Channel RAM
2x 36.7GB Western Digital Raptor SATA 10000rpm RAID0
120GB Western Digital 7200rpm
PNY nVIDIA GeForce 6800GT 256MB
Logitech Z-5300e 5.1 THX Speakers
Deck LED-Backlit Keyboard
Razer Copperhead 2000dpi Laser Gaming Mouse
Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW 20.1-inch LCD
dhelor wrote:
Xfire Profile
So, although it's not like I'll likely have the money available or anything, but I keep wondering about what I'd put together as a mostly gaming PC these days.
I think I'd get a Core2 Duo E6700 assuming it's available.
I'd be sure to get at least 2GB (2x1GB) RAM, but 4GB would be nice.
I'd get one of those 10K RPM medium-sized disks for the OS and most installs plus a large-ish second HDD (7200 RPM) for bulk storage.
But the question is what's best for video.
I think I'd like to get either an SLI or CrossFire setup, but I can't seem to decide which is the best choice for gaming satisfaction for the next 5 or so years. (Or even if a pair of video cards is even worth the benefits.)
And, with SLI you get also put together a homebuilt quad with a couple of 7950's.
Unfortunately, at the upper end of all of these choices (for example, 512MB), you'll end up spending $1000-$1300 getting a good pair of video cards plus around $200 on the motherboard. This, naturally, is the costliest part of the system.
Each time I try pricing such a box it ends up being more than $3K which seems way more than it "should" cost, but maybe I'm just stuck with GG desires but without a matching income.
So, I suppose one could instead get everything except the second video card, but then there's the eventual "game of chicken" where you need to decide whether to wait a little longer to complete the video card pair, but be sure that a matching card is still going to be available. If you wait too long, you'll end up again needing to buy entirely new card(s) and possibly a new motherboard since the world will have moved on to a new plug/bus connection by then. And you'd "only" end up saving $500-$600 by leaving out the second video card, which is "only" %20 of the cost of a $2500-$3000 system. (In other words, it isn't getting the cost down to reach the realm of possible purchase prices, at least for right now.)
So, is this gaming PC setup worth around $3K? Would it powerful enough that it can keep going strong for, say, 5 years? Opinions, anyone?
"Gamers With Jobs will take over the world someday. I hope they're benevolent overlords." -- Bill Harris