have just bitten the bullet and spunked a load of dosh on an i7 processor, 8gig of ram, a new silly motherboard and a gtx560ti graphics card to bring the old cheezetech into this century.
going hoping it will give bf3 a good hiding as my old 2gig 8800 dual core setup was not up to the job.
as this is stw, shirley theres some willy waving to be had on this subject?
windows XP
Not sure I can willy wave but my work laptop has an i7 and 8 gig too! Gfx card is a bit lacking though. Got a hybrid drive that has started making odd noises from time to time which is rather worrying too. I'd quite like double that RAM!
i7 with 4Gb RAM, Windows 7 Pro 64.
This has potential to be the saddest STW thread ever.
Our desktop is broken and I've no idea what's inside it. Currently using a laptop I was given with a duff battery.
I think it's already legendary sadness quality
Like any proper man, Ive gone for power over performance.
My desktop is driven by a Corsair HX1000 😉
amd phenom ii x6 processor (support the little guy...I7 is better though!). 16gb of 1600 ddr3. ocz ssd. 2x 2tb hdd.
radeon 5770 graphics. ...currently I cant get on the thing as my daughter has minecraft monopoly.
This has potential to be the saddest STW thread ever.
What's the difference between this and people comparing bike bling?
Not my personal interest, but a hobby is in the eye of the beholder.
This has [s]potential[/s] to be the saddest STW thread ever.
FIFY
I posted a what tyres thread on engadget and got called a sad weirdo.
Q9400 Core2Quad, 4GB RAM, 8800GTX GFX card, but it's running Mac OSX not windows, so it might as well have 2 6 core processors and 64GB of RAM quite frankly! 😉
Toying with the idea of updating it with i7 Sandybridge processor and mobo, and a newer GFX card, but funds are extremely tight and I had to buy a new laptop (core i7 MacBookPro) recently anyway.
3.1ghz i5 27" iMac 8gb ram
It's so pretty 🙂
crumbs and fluff mostly.. and some computer stuff.. 😳
Ssd needs to be included for a x3 improvement in loading times!
Oh, and a Q6600 G0 over-clocked to 3.2 with 8GB RAM on an ASUS Commando with an 8800 nVidia something. New TV and car this year, computer next!
MountainMutant - Member
3.1ghz i5 27" iMac 8gb ramIt's so pretty
Snap 8)
I bought myself a new pc late last year. First in about 10 years!
i5 3.2 ghz sandybridge, Nvidia gtx 460, 4gb ram, Blu ray rewriter.
Runs battlefield 3 like a dream........
Whats your ID on BF3 cheez0?
Intel Core i5 2500k Overlocked to 4.0 GHZ (Boot can change to a different preset so it boots at 4.7GHZ)
P8P67LE MoBo
8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
ATI 6850 1GB
1TB HDD
Corsair TX650 PSU
Win7 Home 64bit
some metaphorically well endowed folks so far, we're not taking about our real willies, yunki!
bf3 id is cheez0-0, though I haven't played it much, kept crashing etc.
am working away this week but will be getring under the bonnet at the weekend
..and how does a discussion on pc hardware differ from any of the other 'tell me what you've got' threads?
..and how does a discussion on pc hardware differ from any of the other 'tell me what you've got' threads?
Because twenty years ago, having an interest in computers was "sad." Unless you've got a virus, then suddenly you develop amnesia and the geeks are your bestest friends.
Desktop:
Pentium 3 slot 1 866ghz with 1Gb ram
ATI Radion 8500 AGP and used to have an unknown brand S3 PCI graphics card so I could use a 3rd screen when doing programming.
It's not what you got but how you use it 🙂
Current laptop is a Dell Latitude X300 with a Pentium-M 1.4Ghz and 1Gb of ram. I was given it a few years back (being thrown out from a company). It's a bit worse for wear though as the wifi packed in the night before I had to print out my PhD thesis and the right hand screen hinge packed in a couple of weeks ago so the screen half falls off every now and then. Oh and I've gone through a hard drive and 2 normal batteries and 1 high capacity one in the last 2 years as I rely on my PCs quite a bit.
Was just about to buy a new laptop as I need it for work (self employed) but needed a new gas pipe in my flat 🙁
no idea if this is good or not but...
Celeron 2.0Ghz processor, 2.0Gb of ram, NVIDIA Gforce 6200 graphics card, XP home SP3
Intel Pentium 4 processor @ 2.66ghz
768mb of ram
250gb hard drive
another hard drive (cant remember the capacity)
64mb geforce 2 card
17" CRT monitor
This website with all the flash adverts makes it lag
I might buy a new computer tonight.
Hex core AMD 1075T running at 3.3ghz, 8Gb of OCZ RAM, Asus Direct CU II 6950 2Gb thats runs quicker than a stock 6970, 3.5Tb spread across four disc drives. All in a Zalman case with four 120mm case fans running at min RPM via a front panel fan controller, super quiet Nesteq PSU and a Scythe Mugen heatsink with a Noctua high static pressure 120mm fan, all makes for a very quiet but cool even under heavy load PC.
Mine below is the biggest so far, I await a beating...
Dual Quad core -thats 8 cores on a server motherboard
32 GB of ram (ECCREG)
dual striped 128gb ssd's
nvidia 2grand graphics card
Its a CAE machine, and its still too effin slow.
how do I find out ?
😳
(I do sort of know, honest but how do I really find out - dig out the handbooks ?)
/teenyimaginarynob
I'm sort of perversely proud that mine still has a Q6600 G0 in it, still doing the business after 5 years of being overclocked til you could cook on it. Stuck in 8gb of fast ddr2 ram just lately, not because it's useful or anything but just because it's so cheap now. Shows no signs at all of being outmoded tbh, teh internetz told me it'd hold back my 560ti graphics card but it turned out not to.
how do I find out ?
Download something free but respected like CPU-Z (link below) and it will tell you all about your motherboard, CPU and RAM.
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
All sorts of wonderous electrickerological gadgetry which I have absolutely no desire to know anything about.
Or magic.
I think my smart phone has more oomph than my desktop and laptop put together 🙁
crumbs and fluff mainly and some bits with wires and stuff hiding in the corners
I5 2500k cpu clocked @4.2 ghz, 16 Gb ram, Asus Sabretooth mobo, Crucial M4 SSD 320 Gb, Raptor drives set up as a raid 0 for storage, 2Nvidia gtx 480 Sli, 850 watt corsair psu. It runs anything on max. Ps. The misses hates it!
Dell Precision M6600 laptop.
I know that because thats what flashes up when I switch it on.
Beyond that I couldnt tell you much, but I the IT bloke said it has a raid. Whatever a raid is.
Oh, & it weighs a ton.
Some pretty impressive machines there for desktops!
I think my smart phone has more oomph than my desktop and laptop put together
I work for a company that makes, among other things, chipsets for mobile phones and tablets. There's a crazy arms race going on right now!
My desktop is a pretty boring 3 year old Dell laptop, Core2 duo, 4G. But the servers at work that I've been involved in setting up...
Intel Xeon, 3.5GHz
12 core (+ 2way hyperthreading = "24 core")
148G DDR
About 1Tb RAID1 SAS storage.
Athlon 1700, 160GB drive and 1GB RAM. Even then, the RAM was a recent eBay purchase (just so iTunes would run as I was fine on 256MB), meaning my total PC hardware spend for the past decade was £5 (including postage and packing).
Cool I'll add you. My ID is kudos1000
I'm more interested in the older machines still proving good service. I have a P4 3.2Ghz 1gb running Ubuntu which is fine for office applications.
Anybody else using Geekbench to benchmark where they're at?
6920 for my new 13" MacBook Pro
5843 for my Hackintosh
Not incredible, but certainly not bad
a pissing contest about computers just proves that none of the contestants have penises
Mines well outdated now but thinking about going for an upgrade late this year.
E3500 Wolfdale with 4GB after the other 4GB died and GT460, off the top my head though and it runs BF3 ok but I've stopped playing it and switched to Star Wars The Old Republic for now.
Have to laugh at he people saying how sad it is posting form their computers.
a pissing contest about computers just proves that none of the contestants have penises
I'll just check....
Nope, you're wrong.
randomjeremy - Membera pissing contest about computers just proves that none of the contestants have penises
TBH it's more likely that every single one has a penis tbh
I.T. is not cool.
when people say "look at this, isn't it cool". it isn't, it's just a computer.
when people say "look at this, isn't it cool". it isn't, it's just a computer.
So there you go. Seventy years of people building modern computers and they could have saved themselves the trouble. MrS says they're not cool, they're "just a computer".
Or maybe it's national ignorance week again?
I.T. is not cool.
when people say "look at this, isn't it cool". it isn't, it's just a computer.
And to the general public, neither are mountain bikes! 😕
In fact, is anything universally cool? As well as Mountain Bikes and computers, I love cars, motorbikes, rugby, cricket, House Music, road bikes and have even been known to play a round or two of Golf! Don't expect anybody else to enjoy them all or think they're cool though if tht helps... 😉
Win 7 64 Home Premium SP1.
i5 750 @2.67GHz (not over clock ... yet)
4GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5450 cheapo shite but will do for now.
Corsair H50 water cool ... yes I can.
ASUS P7P55-M mobo.
PSU ... cheapo 500 watt stuff.
My system has been very unstable since I built it, massive BSOD if system is not used for more than 12 hr. Tried many things so suspecedt it could be the Power Option problem. Now I just leave it to max power option with no sleep or hibernation. Today is the first time I have a gap of 12 hrs without booting up and it booted up nicely without giving me BSOD so let see ...
Graphic card is a bit shite ... oh well ... still working for now.
🙄
computers are great when they work properly but still not cool.
people desire cool things, do people really lust after computers?
Built my current PC mainly for BF3.
i5 2400
4Gb Ram
Radeon 6870
h67 Mobo
A balanced mid range setup.
BF3 id is MTBDoug
I [i]should[/i] be astounded by the number of morons coming onto a thread on which they clearly have no interest, taking the time to read it, taking more time to post a derogatory comment, then yet more time to reply and contest their futile argument. I say [i]should[/i] because of course this is STW, so even if someone has no interest in a thread, they still feel the need to comment.
Anyway:
Work: some horrible Dell box with a C2D and 4gb RAM on XP3 (soon to be W7). This will allegedly last me the next 3.5 years 😯
Home: First-gen Core2 Quad O/C to 3.2GHz and 8 GB RAM on Vista64.
Lappy: MacBook Air, i7, 4GB, 256GB SSD - this runs LR3 in W7 inside Parallels (only 1 GB RAM given to W7) faster than my desktop does natively!
Bit outdated now but it still runs well. Q6600 processor (still needs overclocking), 4gb ram, 8800GT 512MB graphics card. Mainly Windows 7 but occasionally Snow Leopard if I'm doing video work.
Was considering a SSD for the main drive but probably not worth the money for me.
my does naked ladies.
Not looked through the thread but...
At work I have two of these under my desk.
Dell Precision 7400 with Dual Quad core Xeon CPU's @ 2.26Ghz
64GB of RAM
NVIDA Quadron FX5000 graphics card
1 TB SATA hard-drive
Running windows 7 64-bit.
toys19 - I think you might work in the same industry (and possibly even the same company) as me... specs look very simmilar.
WinNT
My machine is mainly for video editing and viewing STW..
i7 2600K
8gb RAM
Fatal1ty mobo
1Gb Cuda Graphics Card
1x Raptor Drive
3x 2tb Sata Drives
2x 1600x1200 monitors & 32" for video output
Asus Essence STX audio card
A case that sounds like a hurricane when the fans are on max, they are never on max.
Shuttle Premiere Pro keyboard
Griffin Powermate
I can easily run 4 720p@60fps files layered with FX in realtime, which is exactly what I wanted when I built it. I had a cheap mobo and footage would stutter, replaced with Fatal1ty and now its smooooth.
2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed
1066MHz frontside bus
4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB
1.1Tb of onboard storage.
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Mac clever stuff.
New Macbook has clever-faster stuff.
😀
Mac Pro:
8-core 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon 3500 processor
13GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 4870 with 512MB of GDDR5 memory
120Gb SSD drive ordered. Fed up with joining BF3 after the round has started. 🙁
mudshark - Member
I'm more interested in the older machines still proving good service. I have a P4 3.2Ghz 1gb running Ubuntu which is fine for office applications.
Snap to the machine spec, though happily running Win7 on mine. Not doing anything but browsing, office, iTunes on it though.
Had thought I'd need to replces it as the primary ATA controller is seemingly dying (not finding the disc & booting), so now running on the 2nd..... & it just keeps going.
Very impressed with Win 7's performance on such an 'old' spec, got an older P4 I may load it on just how low you can go
whats under the bonnet, a CD rom drive by the looks of it...
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I used to have one like that, but then I found a T60 with a broken screen on ebay and bought that for a few quid. It's used headless so that's no problem for me.
As far as computing power goes, I have about 500 servers, a thousand laptops and about 4000 desktops. ROAR!
While I'll happily admit it goes beyond sad, it keep me happy and is yet another one of those expensive past times I seem so keen to enjoy:
Needa a bit of a tidy up in there and some fancy cables to make it look neater but it performs as it should do. Temps never above 45 degrees and its silent apart from when I turn up the rad fans slightly when gaming/stressing.
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On my XBMC machine I've got an AMD X3e CPU and an AMD 4550 GPU. Cheap, totally silent and only 40w at idle. Need to find a horizontal case which looks like an Antec Fusion but has 4 3.5 bays to improve its spouse acceptance factor 🙂
I've got a couple of slightly dated OC'd Core 2 Duos. Have just built this for a customer though. Ws 24h prime stable @ 5.2ghz but have backed it of for day to day reliability.
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My work laptop is an i7 with 8Gb, 1080p screen and Nvidia Quadro 1000M. Battery lasts 6 hours too. Is that good? 🙂
[furrows his brow in a desperate attempt to understand the situation]
what language is this thread in - it seems to be a mixture of hexadecimal and some kind of mongolian geek speak.
I wish I could be arsed to understand whats going on.
[/furrows his brow in a desperate attempt to understand the situation]
almightydutch - Member
While I'll happily admit it goes beyond sad, it keep me happy and is yet another one of those expensive past times I seem so keen to enjoy:Needa a bit of a tidy up in there and some fancy cables to make it look neater but it performs as it should do. Temps never above 45 degrees and its silent apart from when I turn up the rad fans slightly when gaming/stressing.
I shared a flat in my student days with a lad who made his own water cooling system. He'd spend hours polishing various bits of metal to them completely flat. He also put luminous die in the water so it lit up at night. I was very impressed it actually worked and didn't leak.
Isnt a pc just a tool ? I dont even know what make mine is .
Went on the old desktop earlier this week - first time since the summer 😥
Used to keep up fairly well with PC stuff - homebuilt PC, some of which might even date back 10 yrs or so.
However, performance has always been pretty good - kept it up to "best of outgoing generation" type standard. Currently using an Abit ix38 quad GT m/b, 4gb Corsair DDR2 memory. Cant remember what cpu - Q7700 rings a bell? Not too sure what gfx card either 😳
But lost the time to tinker and keep up to date. Most computing now done on a newish media type laptop, that significantly underperforms compared to the desktop.
Most gaming now done on the PS3 - which is what has really killed off the upgrade cycles on the PC
Oooh CaptJohn, thats takes me back a bit. I've prob been watercooling my PC's for a good 10 years. Done the self made blocks in a mates shed, also using Peltiers to get subzero cooling. Ooh them days!!!
Now its pretty easy for anyone to get into as long as you buy the right components. Admittedly it does look a whole load better than our early attempts but I dont get anywhere near the satisfaction of building a new rig even if performance is leap and bounds ahead fo the early days.
intel i7 overclocked to 3.8 ghz
12gb of ram
two 460gtx cards in sli
2 2tb harddrives
runing windows 7 ultimate
Greeble... thats hardly an overclock. Dont they 'Turbo' up to 3.8 anyway? Sorry