Whats your gaming rig...

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Finesse

Look, Ma! Two Heads!
I used to use an old amd k2 300mhz, with a voodoo 3 2000 16mb video card (great card for it being 6 years old... never let me down) until 2 months ago... This is what I got now

TYPE: Custom built by me :)
CASE: Sidewinder (got 2 120mm fans for intake, outtake and another 2 80mm fans blowing directly on mb)
CPU: AMD 64 +3000
MB: ECS 755-a2
RAM: Kingston DDR400 512mb (getting another gb soon...)
HD: 2 raided sata 7200rpm seagate 80gb barracudas with NCQ (raid 0, stripe)
Video: xfx geforce 6600 256mb with dual dvi out
Monitor: crappy 14'... getting 17 lcd real soon
Speakers: crappy desktop speakers not even worth mentioning...
Mouse: Logitech optical
Keyboard: Cheapest one I could find out there... it works good too!
OS: windows xp sp2... wanna try windows 64 (any good?)
also use a LG 16x8x16 dvd burner for cd rom (48x24x48 for normal cd's)

What do you guys have? 8)
 
An Athlon 2500+ clocked to 3200+, on a Shuttle AN-35(N) 400 Ultra with 1 gig of 3200 DDR RAM, a RADEON 9700 Pro and an ok Philips Sound Card. HD space: 240 GB.

I use a Logitech MX 700 Wireless Duo for my mouse and keyboard.

It was good a few years ago... :p
 
Lazarus Plus said:
An Athlon 2500+ clocked to 3200+
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Wow thats quite the overclock... (I take it you overclocked it 700mhz?) I think I can get about 300mhz out of my cpu before I have to adjust the voltage...

Oh, my soundcard is built on the mb... but I have a creative sound blaster live x-gamer edition kicking around but I dont know how good it is... it only does 4ch surround where as my mb does 6ch.

I wonder how much faster my pc would run if I used my creative soundcard? (because my onboard sound runs off cpu, stupid onboard crap)
 
Why dont you guys just get out the mm ruler and measure, instead of wasting your time writing?
 
Finesse said:
I wonder how much faster my pc would run if I used my creative soundcard? (because my onboard sound runs off cpu, stupid onboard crap)
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That's really not a huge difference. There'd be some, but not a whole lot. It generally would just make your sound better quality.
 
My current desktop system is almost 3 years old, yet it still runs most new games with no problems.

CPU - P4 Northwood 2.4 GHz
Motherboard - Intel D850MV
RAM - 512 MB RDRAM 1066
Video card - Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB
Sound card - Creative SB Live!
Hard drive - Maxtor 60 GB
Display - Hansol 17" LCD

Currently, the weakest part of my rig is RAM. 512 MB simply isn't enough to run some of the newer games comfortably. To make matters worse, I have so many DVD images sitting on my hard drive that I have only about 4 GB free space left. That means I can't defragment the drive and since my pagefile is fragmented as hell, you can imagine what slugfest I experience when the OS starts swapping memory. My short term goal is to get a DVD burner ASAP - preferably a non-crappy one - and finally burn all those DVDs. My long term goal is to upgrade RAM. That is a huge problem in itself, as RDRAM is incredibly scarce nowadays, and when available, it's expensive as hell. The cost of one 256 MB stick of 16-bit RDRAM 1066 equals the cost of one 512 MB stick of DDR 2! So you can see why I seek an alternate solution. I would very much like to upgrade my system with a brand new motherboard, CPU, RAM and possibly hard drive, but that poses new problems. I want to get a PCI-E motherboard with nForce 4 SLI chipset (call it foresight), but that would mean ditching my Radeon 9800 Pro, which is only one year old and still a very adequate video card. Since I presently can't afford to buy a GeForce 6800 GT in addition to all other components, I'm seeking a compromise - either an nForce4-based motherboard which integrates both PCI-E and AGP bus (I don't think any are in making) or Albatron's AGP-to-PCI-E bridge card (I can't find it anywhere in Croatia).

Discuss.
 
AMD Sempron 2400+ ? 256MB DDR ? on board grapics ? auwtch, i hope you dont plan on playing any recent games Xavier
 
I would would think this would be a better system for you...

ecs 755-a2 $89.95 (I have this mb, its cheap and nice.. its got raid!)
sempron +2600 $119.95 (the s754 edition)
256mb ddr400 $33.95 (59.95 for 512mb)
lg or nec dvd burner (16x8x16) $89.95 (the other one is 4x)
Floppy drive $0 (just use the one in your old pc...)
Black Artec 868 Mid-Tower Case w/350W 89.95 (same case, but you can get cheaper cases for like 40 to 50 $ I didnt even look if you could use this case... which you probley cant with a s754 mb)

for video card, the low end 128mb are around $70 which would be way better then onboard graphics...

I thought you might want to use your 3 40gb hard drives because there not that bad... plus you can raid them together on this mb like me ;) but only think 2hd's can be raided at once on this mb, trust me its a VERY nice option


So it comes up to $494 (rounded off) canadian... so in total that comes to $396 american, and for 20$ more you can swap that 2600 for a 3100 too... remember to add taxes too :)
 
The Serbian Rat said:
Currently, the weakest part of my rig is RAM. 512 MB simply isn't enough to run some of the newer games comfortably
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Indeed, when you start WoW you'll lag worse than Kharn did when the orphan girls joined in the communal showers. Better upgrade to at least 1gig, Ratty.
 
As soon as the damn parts arrive my system will be:

Gigabyte 8GPNXP Duo motherboard with 1 GB of Corsair XMS 2-2-2-5 memory, a BFG 6800 GT video card and a 3.2 P4 Prescott processor, mounted an Antec P160W case. Reusing old parts until I can buy another monitor, HD and DVDR + CDR drives.

The reason I haven't got anything prepped and ready is that the morons at newegg don't want to accept international credit cards. Other companies do I know but they don't have the prices newegg offers.
 
Recently ordered a new computer, delays on the motherboard though (the fuckers)

AMD Athlon 64 3500 (Venice core)
Abit AN8-F motherboard
1GB DDR-400 RAM
MSI Geforce 6800 Ultra
200GB harddrive

I think I'll have to get a new PSU as well. The 6800 Ultra is notorious for sucking up huge amounts of power.
 
Volkov said:
The 6800 Ultra is notorious for sucking up huge amounts of power.
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Im getting one of those soon too... how good of a power supply do I need? My video card I have now said it needed on the website a 350w power supply, but really it needs 450w... those dumbasses
 
Old Q-tech case, modded with WW1 plane markings
Processor:Pentium 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Memory: 1024MB DDR 2 RAM
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT PCI-E
200 GB Hard drive
Logitech wireless mouse
10 year old keyboard
19" Monitor
 
Finesse said:
Volkov said:
The 6800 Ultra
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Im getting one of those soon too... how good of a power supply do I need? My video card I have now said it needed on the website a 350w power supply, but really it needs 450w... those dumbasses
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officially they say it needs 450W i think. which is bs.
it's not about what it says on the PSU, it's about the quality. I'm running a P4 with 6800GT + a full array of HDDs (that's eight) on a 380W PSU...

there are shuttle PSUs @ 250 to 280W that easily pull a computersetup with an ultra +1 hdd +1 drive.

why would you want an ultra btw? a GT gives way better bang for buck.

Xavierblazer said:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=51136&item=5203837398&rd=1

Not the best out there, but damn if it isnt cheap.
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lol i love those crap ads.

calling a sempron 'turbo' (semper: always, -ron: industry tag for cheap -> always cheap), using an awfully old chipset, using a graphics card thats probably worse than onboard solutions.

but yes, it is cheap...

edit: typo
 
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