The "post your computer specs" thread

[DeepInMisery]

IBM MODEL M KEYBOARD, THE ONE AND ONLY ACCEPTABLE TYPING DEVICE

i've seen this mentioned somewhere on UM before. are they really that great? me, i've always liked keytronic's

 

[SculptedCold]

Tech forum flames are electrical flames....electrical fires ARE. NOT. GOOD!! argghh :hotjump: :hotjump:

 

[xenophobe]

That's....like.....the most awesome computer a civilian could possibly have..... lol

Thanks! I bought it specifically for Half Life 2 and Doom 3... too bad both are set back indefinitely...

what do you use your computer for mostly xeno?

Surfing the internet and playing games... some graphics editing and some html scripting.

 

[Arch]

P4 2.53GHz
512MB RAM
266 GB of HD (120 + 120 + 26 GB)
15" LCD
CD burner
Sound Blaster Audigy
LS-120 drive
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV

 

[SculptedCold]

they sound like a lot of fun.

 

[Russell]

I have a laptop here at uni:

P4 2.66 GHz
512 Mb ram
DVD +/- RW
16.1" SXGA+ screen (don't ask me, but I think it rocks!)
40 GB HD

And that's all I know. I've been using it for the last week to run models of the temperature and heat flux around igneous intusions as they cool over 1,000,000 years, giving out JPGs, VTK's and text files for graphing. That has really used up all the system resources when running, and the program can take hours to days to finish depending on time scale, but it has coped surprisingly well

 

[Tanith]

heh, we've both got the same sucky vid card.

Yeah, its horrible. I'ma gonna get me an ATI Radeon 9600 as soon as possible.

 

[NAD]

AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 333mHz FSB
512MB DDR PC3200
120GB HD
GeForce4 MX 440 w/ 128MB
CD / DVD / CD-RW combo drive
blah blah
dual boot with WinXP and Mandrake Linux 9.1

I was getting back into computer geekdom when I bought this thing last year, but all I do is go on the internet and play Morrowind.

 

[The Serpent King]

P4 2.26 Ghz
512 MB RAM
Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB
200 GB HD

 

[xenophobe]

Well, that's marketing-speak rather than tech-speak, but good enough... Just thought it looked silly to emphasize teh HYPER-THREADING TECHNOLOGY!!! like that, because that's exactly what Intel likes to do... attempt to look better than AMD by capitalizing on stuff like MMX and hyper-threading which aren't really the mega-innovative revolutions they make them out to be. Not that AMD is much better.

At least HyperThreading works.

HyperTransport seems to be a good idea, but the Nforce chipsets seem to have too many problems.

3DNow! is dead.

I would have bought AMD, but Intel is superior right now. My last computer was an Athlon 700, and I've owned other AMD processors in the past, but this time around Intel is teh win.

 

[DE]

AMD Athlon Barton 2500+ CPU @ 2310Mhz
1gb Adata PC3200 RAM @ 220FSB
Asus A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro @ 378/337 ()
Maxtor Diamon 120gb SATA HDD (8mb cache)
Samsung DVD-ROM, Samsung CD-RW
Creative SoundBlaster Live! soundcard
Coolermaster Jet 7 HSF
Chieftec Dragon Midi-Tower Case
Hitachi [random model number] 17" TFT, 16ms response time

Xenophobe: The Nforce3 will kick ass eventually, new chipset's out soon and should be great. However, an A64 3200 even now owns your Pentium and my lowly Athlon

 

[xenophobe]

Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro @ 378/337 ()

http://www.entechtaiwan.net/ps.htm

I have the XT, and am running 418/364.5, but I've gone as high as 430/376, but I get VPU recovers... so I went back to default... yours should be able to bump up a bit... though the program costs some money.

Xenophobe: The Nforce3 will kick ass eventually, new chipset's out soon and should be great. However, an A64 3200 even now owns your Pentium and my lowly Athlon

Eventually. The nForce3 WILL kick ass, but there are just too many problems, especially with video cards. I don't want to pay money to be a lab rat...

I also didn't pay $800 for my CPU either. The A64FX was $800 more than my P4 3.2 when I bought it. As for the A64FX owning it, yes, but the Athlon 3200 doesn't. And the Athlon 64FX doesn't own the P4 Extreme Edition 3.2, which is roughly the same price.

 

[DE]

I have bumped it up a bit, but I get artifacts any higher. I'm getting an Arctic Ice cooler which will let me get lots higher

 

[DE]

And the Athlon 64FX doesn't own the P4 Extreme Edition 3.2, which is roughly the same price.

 

[Steve]

I'm embarassed that my 2 computers are prebuilt, but I didn't have to pay for them

HP
Athlon XP 3000+
512 MB RAM (DDR of course)
120 GB HD
DVD +/-RW Drive
CD RW Drive
Geforce 64 video

And while that one's being repaired my mom decided to get...

E-Machines (aarg!)
Athlon XP 2700+
256 MB DDR
80 gig HD
"S3 UniChrome Integrated Video"
CDRW Drive
DVD Drive

Right now with a 17" (16" viewable ) Princeton Monitor...

As soon as the EM is exclusively for my use it's getting a new video card (it has an AGP slot), more ram (probably 512 more since I don't think I'll use more than 768) , and possibly a new motherboard. And of course a reformat and repainting of the case so anythign to do wiyth emachines is gone from it. ugh.. emahcines.... once I have money to go towards a comp I'll be getting an athlon 3000+ or so, maybe a gig of ram, lots more HD space for all my shit, and a Soyo Dragon KT600 ultra platinum motherboard.

and on the subject of hyperthreading, I called up home shopping network a few months ago and bitched at their operator about how their "tech specialists" were idiots and they had no idea what they were talking about. apparently hyper threading technology takes one piece of data and gives half of it to each side of the processor like you can put several peas on a fork, then puts it back into one piece and sends it to the hard drive... what the fuck? I also told them that a 2.4 pentium with 256 megs of ram and a 40 gig hard drive (sony viao) is not top of the line. the op hung up on me after a minute...

 

[xenophobe]

A pentium 2.4 doesn't even support HyperThreading.

But, that's not exactly how it works... Hyperthreading is a second pipeline to take advantage of unused processing power, basically during waits on the initial pipeline, but the OS and/or Application must support it.

It's not really THAT much of a big deal, but it can increase performance 5-10% when an application can actually use it.

 

[the real thrax]

[font=verdana, arial, helvetica] AMD Athlon Barton 2500+
ATI Hercules 3D Prophet 9800SE All-in-Wonder 128MB (The one that can be turned into a pro.)
512 mb ram
160 gig hdd
19" CRT (Bah, CRT)

And I love it
I'm going to overclock it at some point, but I think I need to get something better to cool the cpu.

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[Steve]

A pentium 2.4 doesn't even support HyperThreading.

But, that's not exactly how it works... Hyperthreading is a second pipeline to take advantage of unused processing power, basically during waits on the initial pipeline, but the OS and/or Application must support it.

It's not really THAT much of a big deal, but it can increase performance 5-10% when an application can actually use it.

yeah, they were talking about how great it was... I don't remember if they even mentioned the computer having it or if they were just talking about it to make themselves feel smart... might've been a 2.6, sometimes it's hard to remember 4 or 6...
ah, i need sleep...

 

[xenophobe]

I think 2.8 is the first CPU to support it.

Generally, it IS a nice thing for computers to have, and in certain instances, where quick execution of a fast string of commands is necessary, it is worth having... especially since the internal speed of a CPU is faster than any periphial or device connected to it externally... it may prove to be very beneficial.

 

[Falconspirit]

Compaq Presario 5000 Series
PIV 1.5 Ghz
512 MB RAm
40 gig HDD
CD R/RW Drive
DVD Rom
Msi Nvidia Geforce fx 5600 personal cinema 256 mb ram
Sound Blaster Audigy