[Caael]

So Split and Toasty can carry on their willy-waving discussion in a relavent topic.

[Someone Else]

Yay, a topic where I can show off my e-penis.

Processor:
Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory:
2046MB RAM
Hard Drive:
74 GB
Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT

New video card is all I need, but my compy can handle Crysis at (usually) 15 or so FPS, so I think I'm fine for this year. I've had this set up for more than a year, yet I don't see the need to upgrade in the near future. Kind of goes against the stereotypes of PC gaming but oh well.

[Toasty]

Year after next you can expect more games that will make your PC cry. Itll take about that long for developers to fully take advantage of Intel's new Nehalem platform.

Anyway,

CPU
Intel Pentium 4 HT Edition model 631 @ 3.0GHz. One core, two threads. 2MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB
Overclocked to 3.6GHz w/940MHz FSB

RAM
2GB G.Skill DDR2 800, CAS Latency: 5-5-5-15

Hard Drive
2x Western Digital 80GB SATA Caviar, 1x Seagate 250GB IDE Barracuda. All drives run at 7200RPM

GPU
XFX GeForce 8600GT 256MB XXX edition. Core @ 620MHz, Memory @ 800MHz

Motherboard
Gigabyte EP35-DS3R, Intel P35 chipset

Hoping to get my hands on a Pentium E2180 though. It'll be nice to have a real dual core rather than a virtual one.

[inthenameofDT]

CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0 GHz with 1333MHz FSB and 6MB L2 cache

RAM
2 GB Geil, i believe at 4-4-4-12

Hard Drive
Western Digital 160 GB at 7200 RPM

GPU
EVGA GeForce 9600GT 512MB

Motherboard
Intel BOXDQ35JOE LGA 775 Intel Q35 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Monitor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16824005096

[Toasty]

I'd upgrade to a P35 (P45 if you can spend a little extra cash) chipset motherboard if I were you. That processor is awesome though.

[Kuchiyose]

CPU:
Quad core AMD Phenom.
Clocking Speed 2.8 (Overclocked).

RAM: G Skill 4 gig

Motherboard.
MSI K9A2 Platinum AMD 790FX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 ( I upgraded xD).


GPU.
Asus ATI Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 512 MB

Hard Drive:

Samsung SpinPoint F1, 1 TeraByte SATA-II 32MB Cache

[Toasty]

Whoa dang.

How much did it set you back?

[Split Infinity]

Operating System: Windows XP5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3
Memory: 248MB RAM
Processor: Intel Pentium III, 697MHz
Hard Drive: 9.40GB
Screen Resolution: 1024 X 768 - 32 bit

Laptop, runs just fast enough to do everything I want. About the most impressive thing I can get out of it is SimCity 3000. :(

[Toasty]

I'm amazed you can even run XP. :(

My friend over here has a laptop with similar specs. I have yet to see it though.

[Nosferatu]

Go XFire spec. detector go!

Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000)
Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ (2 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 320 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Edit: Kuch., I'd steal your hard drive if I couldn't afford it myself.

[Split Infinity]

Toasty, on Aug 13 2008, 05:24 PM, said:

I'm amazed you can even run XP. :(

My friend over here has a laptop with similar specs. I have yet to see it though.

The old ME install was almost impossible to use. It kept freezing up every ten minutes which could only be fixed by killing Explorer, and even that didn't relaunch half the time. XP does everything literally ten times faster, plus it's compatible with a lot more apps.

[Kuchiyose]

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Whoa dang.

How much did it set you back?

This cost me £489, kinda proves its cheaper to build it yourself (I did get lucky) I buy my parts from overclockers.co.uk, they usually have 'special offers' got lucky with CPU and harddrive (which is still on special offer xD).

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AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ (2 CPUs), ~2.4GHz

AMD is the way!

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Edit: Kuch., I'd steal your hard drive if I couldn't afford it myself.

I'd cry if you stole it xD

[Toasty]

AMD had better get their act together. They're in serious trouble if they can't pull a near-miracle out of their asses by Q2 2009. Intel's Nehalem chips are stacking up to be monsters.

Though I'm really happy ATi's back in the game. Nvidia was getting to comfortable.

[Kuchiyose]

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AMD had better get their act together. They're in serious trouble if they can't pull a near-miracle out of their asses by Q2 2009. Intel's Nehalem chips are stacking up to be monsters.

So far I've only seen them releasing new versions of Phenom with a higher clocking speed and performance rate, so errm wheres the 45nm versions? Whoa what are these new intel chips capable of doing, I haven't found any info on them? I haven't found any info on these but yeah AMD are in a heat of trouble if nothing is done :S

EDIT: OH shi- eight-core chips, Nehalemis gonna be a 8 core chip! AND the first one thats gonna be shipped in fall is a quad core for servers? Okay iv gotta get saving!

[Toasty]

Hold your horses man.

The Octal core is for servers only (at least for now). The enthusiast chips will be released first, and I believe that only includes quad-cores and not the hexa core (which will come after the 32nm shrink).

But seeing as they'll all be designed on the 45nm process, and later shrinked to 32nm, they'll be offering a crapload of transistors with (more than likely) minimal heat gain.

But Intel is also going to be integrating a memory controller into most of the chips (like AMD is already doing) along with introducing "Quick Path" (similar to AMD's "Hyper Transport")

Early benchmarks on just the chip Intel gave out to mobo manufacturers for testing shows that this new archiecture mops the floor with the Core 2 archiecture.

More here


[EDIT] And this is what will be popping up in the market only two years now.

Come to think of it, that's also when Windows 7 is slated to be released around then. 2010's shaping to be a pretty awesome year imo. At least for people with cash. XD


[EDIT 2] This is what's supposed to be comming out this fall. Why spend $1500 on a QX9775 now when you can spend $999 on a Core i7 900 Extreme Edition this fall? (though to be fair, it's probably going to be upwards of $1000 upon it's initial release)

[MetalHacker]

OS: WinXP Pro SP.3
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2,4Ghz)
RAM: 4gb DDR2/800Mhz
VGA: Asus 9600GT/512MB
HDD: Western Digital 1x320GB + 1x500GB
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 2232BW 22"

I bought this PC recently, it cost me about 600euros and another 200 for the monitor and now i can play almost all latest games at 1680*1050 with full details!:(

P.S: WindowsXP ftwwwww!!

[Toasty]

Hmm...not bad for about $880 USD.

What motherboard is it using?

[Caael]

I need a better CPU.

Preferably a dual core, recommend me products. I have a budget of about £70-£80 though so if there's not any in that range, i'll have to rethink my plan.

[MetalHacker]

Toasty, on Sep 1 2008, 06:58 PM, said:

Hmm...not bad for about $880 USD.

What motherboard is it using?

ASUS P5KC

[Toasty]

Nice. You got a good deal.

Caael, on Sep 1 2008, 06:13 PM, said:

I need a better CPU.

Preferably a dual core, recommend me products. I have a budget of about £70-£80 though so if there's not any in that range, i'll have to rethink my plan.

Well first off, what do you currently have? And what motherboard are you using? The northbridge chipset will determine what you'll be able to put in there.
Anywyay, this one usually goes for around $70 to $85, this one is a little faster an usually $10 more, and this one will push your budget a bit, but it's a really good 45nm CPU. Well worth the $120.