Describe Your Computer

Home built Intel e8400 core2 clocked to 3.6 although will do more with zalmans heat sink n fan, asus p5q mother board, 4 gigs ocz sli ram ddr2 800 running at 1003 mhz with dominator ram cooling fans, bfg nvidia 8800gt graphic card unclocked but still 675 mhz, 500 gb sata2 seagate barracuda hard drive, creative lab sound blaster fatalty with front i/o panel and remote control, win tv 2000 hybrid tv tunner, all in one card reader n fan controller, 750 watt win power psu, asus dvd recorder, cool master case. Phew

 

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4Ghz
Vid: PNY 8800GT
RAM: 4GB DDR2
MB: Gigabyte P-35
HDD: OS/home directory 2x 74gb software RAID1/LVM
Media storage: 1 TB with 3 Norton Ghost Backups of data on my OS drive.

 

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB41.00C1.B00
SMC Version: 1.31f0
Serial Number: W8828FXK0P1
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled

 

My computer I just got not to long ago, I have a Gateway GT5670 AMD Phenom 8400 triple core processor, 3 gigs of RAM, and 320 GB Hard Drive. All I really need for this machine is a graphics card and a better PSU. You can upgrade this machine quite a bit. It has Windows Vista Home preimium SP1 and runs it flawlessly.

My old computer was a Gateway with a celeron D 2.66 GHz processor and 2 GB RAM and that machine had no slot to install a better graphics card.

 

I built a:

Biostar tf560 motherboard
AMD 5000+ Black Edition X2
2gig ddr2 800 RAM
80gig hd
Nvidia 7950gt OC
Onboard sound AC888 (I think)
Optiquest Q20wb 20in LCD 1680X1050

Doesn't play the heavy stuff like World in Conflict and the newer games, but I don't really play too many commercial games anyway. Mostly myspace games such as Mobsters or flash games.

 

That should play the heavy games just fine. I bet the video card driver is old or the standard 2D driver. Go to Nvidia.com and download the latest driver for true 3D support. Then you will be rockin.

 

My main system build from scratch running dualboot debian /arch/slackware linux
Processor:AMD Phenom X4 9750+
Videocard:ATI X3850Pro 512mb
Ram:4096mb / 4GB DDR2 800Mhz
Hdd:1000GB(1x1TB) 32Mb
Media: DVD +/-RW DL + LableFlash

my firewall/router:Soekris net 4801 -48 running Freebsd

 

Oh it'll play World in Conflict demo to an extent. But I have to lower settings and stuff to get a good frame rate. That game's a beast!

 

Amd aint the chip to have compared to intel at the present time coz amd's are power hungry run very hot and not very clockable and only 65mns technology at best. Best chip i'd say at present time is any intel wolfdale core. My wolfdale e8400 stock speed is 3gigs but happily runs at 4 and even 4.5 gigs with some pushing even my mates intel dual core 2.5 wolfdale very cheap chip around 60 pounds in uk which is all by name a dual core2 duo its kinda like ya celeron version with its cut down cache will do 4 gigs. As for 4 cores and above when they come not that good at the moment due to slow speeds and lack of software support.

 

The best chip eh? Best chip for what?

Some chips are better than others for each different application and environment. You can break 4Ghz with an Intel chip but that doesn't mean it's better for everything.

AMD is technically better for games because the Northbridge sits right on the chip. Less hops across the mobo to transfer data in/out of the RAM and Video card.
Intel is better for crunching numbers, clocking, and synthetic benchmarks. Although, technically the Intel sub-architecture is a bit slower for gaming.

It's all about what you want to do with the machine. :cheers2:

 

Fair point that one. Amd do have the 3d now instruction set thats supported by direct x. Btw have you notice from direct x 8 to 10 not really been much changes apart from bump mapping volcometic or what ever they call it smoke effects and shading so that would suggest the rasta draw method is reaching its limit and only really speed that can be added. Whooo hooo maybe a return to cpu drawing again lol

 

Mine is a Compaq Presario, DVD+RW/DL burner, 2 gig ram, ATI Raedon 1650x Pro series, 160 Seagate Harddrive. It could use a RAM upgrade, maybe jsut replace the 2 gig sticks, and a new video card wouldn't hurt either.

 

macbook basic model nuff said

 

Dell Vostro 1700, Intel[R] Core [TM] duo CPU, T5670 @ 1.80GHz, 789 MHz, 0.99 GB or RAM

I don't know a whole lot about computers, but I bought this one because I needed a laptop, and I do a TON of ten key. (I do accounting.) This laptop has a ten key pad on it, and a larger screen than most laptops. I love it.

 

I have a SONY desktop I bought about 5 years ago. It was top of the line then and is still better than many made today. 512mb RAM , 180GB memory , Pentium 4 CPU 3GHZ. Cdr drive and dvd-r drive. 2 things I really love about this computer are the speed, and the service. For the first three years, if anything went wrong with it(and I did burn out 2 modems while on dial up long ago), Sony would send someone to your house within 2 days and it would all be fixed for free. Otherwise, I have had no other problems with this computer whatsoever, and it is still faster than many of what my friends have, new or old.

 

This is just my backup system until I get the big boy done!!!



System information report, generated by Sysinfo: 11/28/2008 7:23:50 PM
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsysinfo

SYSTEM INFORMATION
Running Ubuntu Linux, the Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) release.
GNOME: 2.22.3 (Ubuntu 2008-07-09)
Kernel version: 2.6.24-22-generic (#1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:32:42 UTC 2008)
GCC: 4.2.4 (i486-linux-gnu)
Xorg: unknown (13 June 2008 01:08:21AM) (13 June 2008 01:08:21AM)
Hostname: mitch
Uptime: 0 days 7 h 55 min

CPU INFORMATION
AuthenticAMD, AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Number of CPUs: 1
CPU clock currently at 2210.072 MHz with 512 KB cache
Numbering: family(15) model(44) stepping(2)
Bogomips: 4424.26
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm ts fid vid ttp tm stc

MEMORY INFORMATION
Total memory: 946 MB
Total swap: 2768 MB

STORAGE INFORMATION
SCSI device - scsi0
Vendor: ATA
Model: Maxtor 6Y200P0
SCSI device - scsi1
Vendor: LITE-ON
Model: DVDRW SOHW-1633S
SCSI device - scsi4
Vendor: Generic
Model: USB SD Reader
SCSI device - scsi4
Vendor: Generic
Model: USB CF Reader

HARDWARE INFORMATION
MOTHERBOARD
Host bridge
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
PCI bridge(s)
nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
USB controller(s)
nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
ISA bridge
nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Unknown device 0cad
IDE interface
nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Unknown device 0cad

GRAPHIC CARD
VGA controller
nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Unknown device 0cad

SOUND CARD
Multimedia controller
nVidia Corporation MCP51 AC97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Unknown device 0cad

NETWORK

NVIDIA GRAPHIC CARD INFORMATION
Model name: GeForce 6100
Card Type: PCI
Video RAM: 256 MB
GPU Frequency: 425 MHz
Driver version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 169.12 Thu Feb 14 17:53:07 PST 2008


The big boy will feature a quad core 64 bit processor, a 1 gig graphics card, 1 terabyte of hard drive space, and 4 gigs ram, and a beast 1280 watt power supply to follow suit. i have everything except the graphics card. I paid ATI to make a Linux kernel for the card I want. You're welcome to the drivers Linux users when I get it and it works flawlessly.


My old windblows computer would sustain 200+ fps on doom3, 60+ fps in the most strenuous situation on world of warcraft (if a city got raided, I would be the oonly one not dying with 60 fps) laughing my ass off.

 

mmm dual core :drool

 

That sounds like a powerful rig. I'd be interested in the ATI kernel module.
What type of ATI video card is this for?

(I hope you don't mind that I clipped for a quote.)

 

just a ole macbook

 

Mine is a business computer from Dell - Vostro 200 mini tower a little over a year old.
- Windows XP Professional
- Intel Core 2 Duo processor 1.6 Ghz
- 160 GB hard drive
- 2 GB RAM
- CD/DVD burner
- 17" flat panel monitor
- Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition

Nothing really fancy. It does what I want it to do very well (web surfing, e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets, etc.).