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[boon23]

I just bought a few new parts... and I hope I am set for now. ;-)

This is my PC:
CPU: AMD X2 6000 (it's perfect for fanediting)
Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 X2 (there is no better one currently)
RAM: 2048 MB MDT (good and cheap and 2GB is way enough for almost anything)
Mainboard: ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe (it's a good one, even though I don't use SLI)
DVD Burner: LG GSA H12N (I am happy with it, although it has no lightscribe)
HDD: 1 SATA II HDD Samsung with 400GB, 1 SATA II HDD Samsung with 250GB, 1 IDE HDD Hitachi with 250GB
3 External IDE HDD: 250GB, 160GB and 80GB
(so I have enough HDD space to work on fanedits and even save them for a while)
Printer: Canon Pixma IP 4500 (great one and printing costs are ok)
Scanner: 3200F (it's rather old now, but still absolutely sufficient)
Monitor: Samsung Sync Master 930BF (only 19", but an awesome image)
OS: Windows XP pro

all in all this is IMO a great multimedia PC. I built it by myself by buying every part. It was (with the exception of the graphics card) quite cheap.

so... what system are you on, guys?

 

[Tubes]

iMac G5

CPU: PowerPC G5 (3.0) 1.8 GHz
RAM: 1GB
Graphics Card: nVIDA GeForce FX 5200
HDD: SATA 250GB plus 750GB Firewire external
DVD: Panasonic Superdrive
OS: OSX Tiger 10.4.11

Still good enough for me to edit/burn movies. Lacking in any form of gaming outside of emulating video game consoles before 1995.

 

[joebshmoe]

boon - you want 4GB of ram FOR SURE while video editing/compressing/etc. you will notice a huge difference.

you want CAS4 ddr2 800 ram:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820145194
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820144120

 

[AvP]

you cant run 4 gb on xp

 

[boon23]

it will display as 3.2 GB
I will think about it, joebshmoe. Good hint and the prices for RAM are great currently.

 

[ThrowgnCpr]

I have 4GB on my new work computer. I have to do some very intensive spatial calculations that used to take me overnight. It whips through them super-fast now. I am thinking of upgrading at home.

 

[joebshmoe]

you'll need to geek on this...

essentially: you WANT 4GB. you may not be able to access all of it because of a long list of reasons (with a 32bit OS), but it is "best". read about PAE, 3GB, AWE, 4GT and NOLOWMEM and also consider running a 64bit OS (Like XP 64bit).

in boon's case (or anyone with a current AMD 64bit processor) you'll definitely want to look into this to squeeze out valuable performance that is up for grabs.

reading:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pl ... AEmem.mspx
http://www.brianmadden.com/content/arti ... ally-mean-
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt/RAM.html
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366796.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=93594

 

[Ghostcut]

Currently running:

LAPTOP 1 - DELL INSPIRON 6400

I purchased this in January this year.

Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo 1.73GHz
2GB RAM
80GB Internal hard disk (7200RPM) + 750GB external Seagate FreeAgent Pro hard disk
4 USB 2.0 ports + FireWire
Bluetooth (currently deactivated, no idea how to turn it on w/o Windows)
Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (32-bit, will change over to 64bit soon)
Windows XP SP2 32-bit in VirtualBox

LAPTOP 2 - SONY VAIO PCG-FX801

I bought this laptop way back in 2003. All my fan edits up to The Meteor Shower were edited on this rig. And my next projects were edited mostly on this until I got the above laptop.

AMD Athlon XP 1400+
256MB RAM
20GB Hard disk
Windows 2000 / Ubuntu Linux 7.10 dual-boot [10GB each]
DVD-ROM drive
2 USB 1.1 ports + FireWire
Non-functioning LCD screen
Dell external monitor
Falling to pieces

 

[nOmArch]

Workstation:

AMD64 3200+ CPU
2Gb Ram
ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 512Mb Gpu
160Gb 7200 HDD
2 x 17" Dell Ultra Bright TFT's
5.1 Surround Audio
DL Burner
Lexmark Scanner
Nisis 8x6 Graphics Tablet
Win Xp Pro SP2

By VM

Dos 6
Win98

By Emu

ZX Spectrum
Amstrad CPC
Commodore 64
Amiga
Atari ST
BBC Model B
N64

ViewStation:

Dell Optiplex GX270
P4 2.8Gb MMX Cpu
1Gb Ram
80Gb 7200 HDD
19" WS LCD TV
2.1 Audio
82856 Intel Video *cringe* 8Mb (96Mb + shared) *sob*
Vista Basic/Ubuntu 7.10

Laptop:

Fujitsu Amilo Pro 2045
Centrino 1.73 Gb Cpu
2GB Ram
ATI X300 Radeon 64Mb Gpu
60Gb HDD
DL Burner
Wn XP Home / Ubuntu 7.10

And for comic relief my,

EliteStation: (For playing Elite)

Risc PC 600
64mb EDO Ram
2Mb VRam
Risc OS 4.02 / Win 3.1 via Intel 80286 Board

i know the specs look laughable now but, for its time, was a very high spec PC.

 

[Heinrich]

that?s my computer:

and that?s the cable setup:

impressive hmm?

8)

 

[nOmArch]

you have the same burner as me.

 

[AvP]

boon go and sort his wire's out!

 

[nOmArch]

nah thats normal for puter cables

 

[Ghostcut]

I have a desktop tower the exact same model, only much greyer. As it is caked with filth.

 

[Heinrich]

excuse me mister but mine is caked with filth too!

it?s my understanding of case modding...

it?s an honor thing you know...

 

[GyRo567]

I'll keep this in the super compressed, three component layout. (mostly because I don't want to type out twenty different components)

Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 2.93 Ghz
3 GB DDR2-800 RAM (it's currently at like 733 or something - I have more room to overclock without even overvolting the CPU, but I have no reason to do so)
7600 GT PCI-e (placeholder...)

Athlon XP 2700+ Thoroughbred B @ 2.3 Ghz
1.5 GB DDR-333 RAM (due to this limitation, the CPU overclock is by multiplier - how sad)
7800 GS (just put this in today - I RMA'd a three year old 6800 GT that finally died of heat stroke of its own stock clock, self destructive fault; it ran way hot, being lucky to idle in the 60s celcius with additional airflow - this new one is idling at 34c)


Obviously I edit on the first one. My old box has been bumped down the line. It exists to host servers for me (LAN & WAN) and run all of my communications.

 

[Realbmansweden]

Here goes mine:

CPU: AMD athlon x2 dualcore 6000+ 3.0ghz
Graphics Card: 8600gx times 2
RAM: 2048 MB 4 channel 733-somthing speed
Mainboard: ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe
DVD Burner: optiarc dvd rw ad 5170-a
HDD: 1 SATA HDD Samsung with 500GB,
1 ide HDD Samsung with 200GB
Monitor: philips 19 wide
OS: Windows XP pro (tweaked as hell)

 

[Realbmansweden]

I have a desktop tower the exact same model, only much greyer. As it is caked with filth.

a friend of mine put his motherboard on the wall and then he wired everything to it (dvd-burner, grfx-card and so on) and made it work..its so easy to clean....

 

[Simba7]

Here's my Setup:

Since I don't play pc games anymore, I haven't invested in a speedy PC, instead I invested money in making the PC very very quiet: the motherboard doesn't have any fans on it. I've removed the fan from the display adapter and replace it with a passive element by Zelman. The power and CPU fans are big and quiet, and the sound card is Terratec phase 22, which is an ok card - nothing amazing. Notice the Genelec 1030a, magnetically shielded, Active monitors...

 

[messenjah14]

I bought a new PC today. This screen is too fucking big. It makes me feel as if I was compensating for something. And as Heinrich knows, I have nothing to compensate for Here's four specs I actually know about this thing:
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 5000+ processor
3 Gt memory (2 x 1024Gt + 2 x 512 Mt)
1 Tb HD ( 2 x 500 Gt)
NVIDIA? 8600GS GPU (VGA and DVI, HDMI)
Also, it runs Vista. I know. I'm fixing that problem ASAP.