funkmunky80

Ok, so as I can't see a hardware discussion thread anywhere, I thought I'd start one...

What are your system specs guys and gals? Are you running a beast of a machine, or a netbook? Future proof or extinct tech?

To get it started I'll list my specs... It's a fairly decent mid range machine, can get as much as 350fps from CoD4 at max settings and a res of 1440x900. I dno't let it run that fast though, as the GPU gets a little warm :P

HBK

You got a Beast there

My PC isn't much powerful but gets the job done(somewhat lol), I don't know much about mine I'll just resume:

Manufacturer: Sony Vaio

OS: Windows Vista Home Premium x32 SP2 (FAIL)

CPU: Intel Core2 Duo T7800: 2.6GHz

RAM: 4GB DDR2

HDD: 320GB SATA

GPU: nVidia Geforce 8800GTS 640MB

Monitor: 17" 1440x900, I sometimes plug it into my plasma 32" FULL HD (I once plugged it the living room "60, but I can't play well on big screens for some reason :S)

Mouse & Keyboard: I just use normal cheap £10 ones lol.

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Bobo

OS: Windows 7 RC Build 7100 and Vista Dual Boot
CPU: Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q6600
CPU COOLER: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler
MOBO: Some POS foxconn dont know what it is but im thinking of getting a new one.
RAM: 3GB of cheap ass stuff, would get better but the mobo wont let me.
GFX CARD: HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5
PSU: Corsair VX 550W
HDD: Seagate 500GB

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Dante

Moved to "Tech Support" seemed to fit more here.

My specs:

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funkmunky80

Fair enough

abc

dante - why no 120mm fans in the front of the 300? either you're poor and could only afford 9cm fans or you are very good at typos

Manufacturer: myself
Operating Systems: Vista Home Premium SP3 32bit/x86
Motherboard: Gigabyte AMD 770 UD3 (MA770UD3 rev1.1)
Processor: Phenom II X3 720
CPU cooler:Thermalright Ultra 120a (TRU120a)
CPU cooler fan: Akasa SmartFan 120mm
NB chipset cooling: did run a 20mm fan, but it was useless due to low CFM
Memory/RAM: Buffalo Firestix Pyro 2x2GB 1066MHz C5
Hard Drives: Samsung SpinPoint F1 160GB/16MB cache OS drive, Seagate Barracuda 250GB/8MB cache
Video Card: Club3D Radeon 4830 non-refference Artic Cooling HSF & copper RAM sinks
PSU: CoolerMaster Extreme Power 650w
Monitor: Dell 19" widescreen 1440x900 5ms/1000:1 contrast/300cdm^2 brightness (Dell SE198WFP)
Sound Card: Onboard Realtek 7.1 HD Audio (whatever one they use on SB710...)
Speakers/Headphones: Logitech X-530 5.1 surround sound
Keyboard: Dell Multimedia
Mouse: Trust GM4200
Computer Case: Antec 300 w/ custom cable routing holes & red Thermaltake thunderblade VGA in 92mm
Cold Cathodes: blue front bottom, red back top


PROs

• Very OC'able: MOBO does 300+ MHz FSB, CPU cooler at lowest speed is 29 degrees load, RAM uses D9GMH chips so should hit 1200~ MHz on CAS 5 maybe 4, CPU is a black edition obviously, refference 4830s get close to 4850 performance when OC'd mine has pure copper RAM sinks (like the best bit of my computer lol) and a rather effective "flower" HSF so should match 4850 performance.
• Antec 300 is pure win for cheap, expandable, great airflow and decent looks.
• SpinPoint F1 hard drive is very quick
• MOBO supports 140w CPUs and AM3 is backwards compatible so should be good for at least one more CPU upgrade.

CONs

• HDD is only 160GB xD :facepalm: (was going to RAID 0 two 160GB but in the two weeks it took me to save for the second one they end-of-lined the 16MB cache model)
• MOBO is rev 1.1 not rev 2.0 which would have had ACC thus unlocking fourth core thus getting quad core for 3/4 of the price of a real one
• rev 2.0 also means rated at DDR2 1200 not DDR2 1333MHz
• no CrossFire (but hey, how was I to know the £40~ premium for a CF mobo would be worth it since my GFX card now costs £50 and two in CF beats a GTX280. nevermind, 5850 should be win by the time I need to upgrade)
• screen is not 22"
• should've got a corsair PSU
• should've got a modular corsair PSU
• PSU temp sensor is cleverly placed on the 2nd hottest component of a PSU, hence fan spins quite fast which = noisy all the time.

There, the histroy of the COD:WaW era version of ABC's computer.

Next on the shopping list will probably be a samsung SpinPoint F3 as they are very fast and very cheap for when I get too fed up with my 160GB drive, then I'll OC the nuts of off it when it can no longer handle the latest COD at max settings, then get a HD5850 then be done with upgrades till the next few COD games and far cry 3.


P.S. 3dmark06 of 11,000~ not exactly great by todays standard but worth mentioning. For refference an E8400 & 4850 typically hits 13,000~ but then 3Dmark06 does hate AMD and ATI stuff

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Wolfenstien1994

There kind of is already one of these topics. It's not a actual thread but it's discussion in the PC gamers group. I'll say them again anyway though

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 @ 2.00Ghz 2.00Ghz
RAM: 3.00GB
System type: 32-bit operating system
Manufacturer and Model (if you care): Dell Studio 1555
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium
Rating: 4.9 (yea i know that's not much but it runs sweet)
HDD: 250GB (yea i know, thats not much either, i'm working on getting a terabyte desktop external hardrive)
GFX card: can't really remember and can't remember where to find it but it is one of the new Radeon's

If you didn't know it's actually a laptop.

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*AoA*DntMssWthTx

Manufacturer: HP

Operating Systems: Windows XP

Motherboard: Asus...something.

Processor: Pentium 4 3GHz

CPU cooler: Stock fans...

Memory/RAM: 503MB DDR PC3200

Hard Drives: 180GB

Video Card: Intergrated FTL

PSU: Wat?

Monitor: Viewsonic 19"

Sound Card: Realtek HD Audio

Speakers/Headphones: KOSS TD/80

Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech S510 Desktop

Mouse Surface: Belkin with gel wrist insert

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Dante

That still cracks me up everytime :P

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Schosch

Manufacturer: Myself
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit SP2
Mainboard: Asus M4A79XTD EVO
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.2 GHz
RAM: G.Skill 4GB DDR3-1600
CPU & GPU cooler: stock
HDD: 2x Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB
Graphics Card: Leadtek GTX 275
PSU: Sharkoon Silent Storm 560W
Monitor: HannsG Hi221DP 22" TFT
Sound Card: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
Speakers: Teufel Concept E 5.1
Keyboard: Logitech standard stuff
Mouse: Logitech MX518
Mousepad: Razer eXactMat
Case: Cooler Master CM 690

funkmunky80

Oh weird, I didn't know they did the 955 in 3.2GHz flavour, I've only heard of the 3.4 until now :P

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*AoA*DntMssWthTx

Ubuntu only recognizes 486MBs.

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amw_drizz

I guess I'll start off my posting career here with my system specs

Manufacture : Me
OS : Windows 7 RTM x64 Ultimate
Mother Board : EVGA nForce 750i SLi FTW
CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Stock @ 3.0ghz OC'ed to 4.05ghz
Ram : 8 GB of Kingston HyperX High Performance PC2 8500
HD 1 : Sata WD 640gb 7200 RPM
HD 2 : Sata WD 80gb 7200 RPM
Optical : 2 Liteon DVD -+ RW / CD-RW Combo drive
Graphics : 2 BFG-Tech nVidia 9800GTX+ OC'ed Edition
All powered by a Corsair 1000watt PSU

funkmunky80

I'm guessing you're not a Microsoft partner? So seeing as build 7600 isn't actually going to be released for another 12 days, you shouldn't really have the RTM yet should you? Naughty

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Dante

lol, I'd just been thinking about 9cm CPU fans (what i'll probably get, whenever I get around to it), yeah I have 12cm in the front of my case >.<

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Dante

I only got ~10,000 of mine

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abc

Oh yay we are getting some of the (presumably) C4B PC people with decent homebuilt rigs

• I have an extra core (i.e. +50% on CPU score)
• then again I have an AMD (i.e. it hates)
• but LOL at the fact we have ~equal CPUs in COD games but my 4830 pwns your 4850 score
• my 13k estimate *may* have been based of 4.0GHz+ overclocked rigs.

ever updated the drivers since you built ya rig?




940 - 3.0GHz AM2+
955 - 3.2GHz AM3
965 - 3.4GHz AM3





actually a congratz is in order, that is not at all bad on a 750 SLI AND using 9GB RAM AND using HyperX AND using stock cooler

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amw_drizz

No TechNet Subscriber Had it since aug when it was released to technet, msdn, and manufactures. Been running build 7100 since may when it was released and public beta since feb. I only ran XP x64 on this machine for 2 1/2 months till win 7 public beta came out.

and for others a snapshot of my rig using cpuz


At that time I was having a slight issue changing the ram timings. Since the ram I purchased wasn't working @ speed as advertised.

@abc on the cooler I should of mentiond that the cooler isn't stock, It is this

When I built this rig, I made it the way I did for 2 reasons. Speed, and gaming. I took about a month before I finilazed the hardware and made the purchase. I had quite of few other build lists but after alot of comparing and reading reviews and feedback on the selected products I choose them.

abc

ah, I assumed "E8400 stock 3Ghz - 4Ghz" meant stock cooler as opposed to stating that it is 3GHz stock clocked. nevertheless still a good OC on that mobo if you don't me saying.

what SM2, SM3 & CPU scores do you get?

I just got 12k with a mildy overclocked 4830 (still missing over 15% of the cores of your 4850) bad news for me is a CPU overclock really won't do the GFX any favours since my CPU only needs to go at 35% to keep up with the GPU at 100% in some of the SM tests...

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amw_drizz

I haven't run many tests on that scale. Just prime95 for 12hrs to make sure it was stable. Any link to the test app?

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Gaming System
CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 OC'ed to 4.05ghz
RAM : 8 gb DDR2 Kingston HyperX Gaming/High Performance
Video : 2 BFG-Tech nVidia 9800 GtX OC'ed Edition
Motherboard : EVGA nForce 750i SLi FTW Enthusiast board.
PSU : Corsair 1000w

abc

we are discussing 3Dmark06, the most popular of a series of benchmarks for benchmarking your rig. As you may have noticed after it does the benchmark it outputs a score for your system. link to 3dmark06 homepage click "download now." the basic version is free, if you buy a code you can stick that in and get some more options but whenever you see "3Dmark06" scores being discussed it will be using the default settings which are the same for the free and the "pro" version.

It is not, unlike prime95, a stress testing program for testing stability of overclocks. 12hours on prime95 is very acceptable for even the most diehard overclockers.

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kebab

Maker ME
Monitor Acer 24" at 1920 x 1200 res
Mobo XFX 780i tri sli
RAM 8 gigs OCZ Titanium
GFX 2 x GTX260 INNO freezer2 in SLI
HDD 1 x Samsung F1 750 gig 32mb cache 1 x Samsung 500 gig 16 mb cache
PSU 1200w BFG modular
FANS 1 x 20cm 4 x 12cm with filters
2 x dvd rw
O/S windows 7 ultimate x 64
CPU Intel quad core 8300 (my next item to upgrade)
G15 keyboard
Razer copperhead mouse
5.1 headphones and mic (cyber snipa)

Runs every game i have ever thrown at it at high settings nothing is overclocked and it runs pretty cool

rpsgc

The suck...

Manufacturer: Some douche known as rpsgc
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Mainboard: Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 3,4GHz
RAM: 8GB Team Group Elite PC2-6400
CPU & GPU cooler: Scythe Ninja Plus SCNJ-1000P & stock cooler
HDD: Crucial M225 128GB SSD & Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB
Graphics Card: Powercolor HD 4870 1GB (custom design)
PSU: Corsair HX-520
Monitor: BenQ G2400WD 24" & Samsung 940BW 19"
Sound Card: Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer
Speakers: JVC HX-RX900 headphones
Keyboard: Logitech Media Keyboard 600
Mouse: Logitech MX510
Mousepad: Steelpad QcK+
Case: Antec Solo

abc

ah, i see you paid hundreds and hundreds of pounds/dollars to load windows and programs 10 seconds faster...

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rpsgc

I paid £200, so what? I don't regret it one bit. You have no idea what an improvement it is. Once you go SSD, you'll never go back.