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[penguinrusty]

What are the specs of your computer? Here's mine:
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Overclocked to about 2.9 ghz
DFI LanParty NF-4 SLI DR
2gb Geil Value Select Ram in Dual channel
AOpen Double layer +/- DVD burner
100gb Maxtor SATA hdd
Geforce 7800GTX
500 Watt X-Connect PSU

According to the Microsoft Game Advisor: Your computer is in the top 1% of all computer scanned by the Game Advisor

Score in 3d Mark 04: ~20,000 w/o any oc's on the gfx card or processor

Edit: I forgot, it's not the X2, just a regular A64.

 

[Dracil]

Ever notice the people who start these kinds of threads are just showing off their new computer?

 

[Tucan]

Ever notice the people who start these kinds of threads are just showing off their new computer?

noooo....don't be silly

 

[Sketcher]

Wonder if he paid for it and built it himself or if Daddy financed it.

 

[micro]

penguinrusty
How does your dfi board compare to other boards as far as overclocking?
What other boards have you had?

I like msi but we got my friend a dfi board. Next upgrade i may get a dfi just to try them out. I know dfi is a great mobo though.

 

[Breetai]

Wonder if he paid for it and built it himself or if Daddy financed it.

What's up with the "small" hard drive on that thing anyway?

I just got a new computer too. I bought it myself. I spent about 800,000 won on it (about $800 US). I don't feel like posting my specs. I don't know if it's because I don't want to brag, or if I'll just feel inadequet...

 

[Silent Enigma]

Let's see....

Gamecube with 4 reg controllers & 1 wireless, s-video cable for a clear picture, and the a/c adapter so that I can plug it in and make it turn on. Plus the Gameboy player for retro gaming.

That's all the specs I need to know!

 

[penguinrusty]

Wonder if he paid for it and built it himself or if Daddy financed it.

I paid for it and buit it myself. You can ask him if you like. he's remmett on these forums.

How does your dfi board compare to other brands as far as overclocking?

This board is extremely easy to overclock. In the bios, there is a seperate section just for overclocking, and it makes it really easy. I can't do much oc'ing right now because i still have the stock AMD heatsink/ fan, but this board has a lot of potential. As far as the build of it, it's much nicer than the Asus and MSI boards I've had. It came with a lot of extras, too. It had some yellow UV cable sleeving, this front expansion port that fits into a 5.25 inch drive bay and has firewire and some other ports, a cool case carrying thing, and lots of other goodies. From now on, all I'm buying is DFI mobos, but MSI looks pretty promising with their new Quad-SLI mobo.

 

[Breetai]

I paid for it and buit it myself.

You say that you're 15 years old. That naturally leads to the question; how did you get the money to pay for it yourself? Did you earn it, or were you given it?

I'm still wondering why you "only" have a 100 GB hard drive.

 

[micro]

Breetai
Whats the big deal? I only use an 80 gi. There is no real reason to have over 10-20 gigs for the average person.......

 

[penguinrusty]

You say that you're 15 years old. That naturally leads to the question; how did you get the money to pay for it yourself? Did you earn it, or were you given it?

I'm still wondering why you "only" have a 100 GB hard drive.

Threre years ago, I saved up around $250-300 from Christmases/Birthdays. I really wanted to buy a computer, so I bought one used. The guy I bought it from lied to me about what it was, so I decided to build my own. I built my first computer using a Celeron 2.8ghz proc, radeon 9250, and generally not very good parts, but then again I only had about $300. When the total came to about $400, my parents loaned me money until I was able to pay them back by working for my grandparents. Afterwords, I sold that computer to my mom's friend for $400. Using that money, I bought my motherboard and processor. ( I already had bought the case a while back, right after I sold my Celeron system, it was a one-time sale type of deal, and it was a great price). I waited about 3 or 4 months until Christmas (this year) rolled around, and for Christmas I got my hard drive from my parents and a DVD burner from my grandparents. I also had some money saved up (about $160) from doing computer repair work for people and other odd jobs. With that money, I bought my memory. So, now I have a dvd burner, case, psu, motherboard, cpu, hard drive, and memory. Finally, my friend got rid of his SLI mobo and upgraded to motherboard that was not SLI and loaned me this graphics card until I could buy my own, which will be a while cause those cards are expensive.

 

[morningstar2651]

You say that you're 15 years old. That naturally leads to the question; how did you get the money to pay for it yourself? Did you earn it, or were you given it?

I'm still wondering why you "only" have a 100 GB hard drive.

I have a 200 GB hard drive and about 115 GB free. I have all the games I play regularly installed (which reminds me, I need to get back to playing Thief III if I ever get the time to play it), a couple of betas that I'm going to be removing soon, all my schoolwork, my portfolio, and every CD I own has been imported to iTunes (including the stuff I don't like anymore) - that's 2.1 days worth of music.

I downloaded OpenOffice for writing with. I have 2,000 words (minimum) worth of writing to do tonight.

I, however, have an excuse for such specs - I'm a game developer. I admit that the hookup for cable television and the remote control is a bit excessive.

Oh, and my PC is almost 3 years old now.

(Photo coming soon)

 

[Breetai]

Breetai
Whats the big deal? I only use an 80 gi. There is no real reason to have over 10-20 gigs for the average person.......

Large hard drives are cheap, so why not get a big one when you get a new computer? Especially when someone as knowlegable as penguinrusty (he does seem to know what he's talking about so far!) builds his own system.

I figure that I'm an "average person" (whatever that is...), and I go though tons of hard drive space. I bought a 200 GB hard drive just before Christmas, and I have about 90 GB left (Actually, I have two 200 GB hard drives now). It goes fast for me. I like to store everything on my hard drive. 100 GB just seems small to me now!

 

[Breetai]

Threre years ago, I saved up around $250-300 from Christmases/Birthdays. I really wanted to buy a computer, so I bought one used. The guy I bought it from lied to me about what it was, so I decided to build my own. I built my first computer using a Celeron 2.8ghz proc, radeon 9250, and generally not very good parts, but then again I only had about $300. When the total came to about $400, my parents loaned me money until I was able to pay them back by working for my grandparents. Afterwords, I sold that computer to my mom's friend for $400. Using that money, I bought my motherboard and processor. ( I already had bought the case a while back, right after I sold my Celeron system, it was a one-time sale type of deal, and it was a great price). I waited about 3 or 4 months until Christmas (this year) rolled around, and for Christmas I got my hard drive from my parents and a DVD burner from my grandparents. I also had some money saved up (about $160) from doing computer repair work for people and other odd jobs. With that money, I bought my memory. So, now I have a dvd burner, case, psu, motherboard, cpu, hard drive, and memory. Finally, my friend got rid of his SLI mobo and upgraded to motherboard that was not SLI and loaned me this graphics card until I could buy my own, which will be a while cause those cards are expensive.

Hey, that's a really cool story!

 

[Breetai]

What are the specs of your computer? Here's mine:
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Overclocked to about 2.9 ghz
DFI LanParty NF-4 SLI DR
2gb Geil Value Select Ram in Dual channel
AOpen Double layer +/- DVD burner
100gb Maxtor SATA hdd
Geforce 7800GTX
500 Watt X-Connect PSU

According to the Microsoft Game Advisor: Your computer is in the top 1% of all computer scanned by the Game Advisor

Score in 3d Mark 04: ~20,000 w/o any oc's on the gfx card or processor

Edit: I forgot, it's not the X2, just a regular A64.

I guess it's only fair that I compare my specs to yours now.

-Pentium 4: 3.0 Ghz (not overclocked); 64-bit (you have me beat here)
-Asus P5SD2-X Motherboard (SoundMAX digital audio sound card and Gbit LAN are intergrated)
-1024 MB RAM (2x 512 DDR-2; 667 MHz) (you beat me here)
-Samsung 200 GB Hard Drive (7200) SATA (8MB buffer)
-Samsung 200 GB External Hard Drive (Ultra ATA; 7200; 8MB buffer)
-LG 16x DVD/CD +/- Rewriter
-3.5" disk drive (hey, I did buy it!)
-GeForce 6600 128 MB (you have me beat here)
-LG 4-bay tower w/LCD readout (black)
-350 Watt Power Supply (I had to buy that too!)
-Creative Inspire 5200 5.1 Speaker System w/sub-woofer
-Plain black Microsoft infrared mouse
-Plain black Samsung keyboard
-Used 17" Hyundai CRT moniter (only about $20!!!)
-Panwest Lebeca Webcam

Total cost was 742,000 won, not counting the webcam or the speakers (about $742 US).
According to the Microsoft Game Advisor: Your computer is in the top 18% of all computer scanned by the Game Advisor. (you TOTALLY have me beat here!) That's the only benchmark I did. This is my 5th computer.

My first computer was a Pentium 75 MHz (overclocked to 100 MHz), 16 MB RAM (upgraded from 8 MB), 1 GB hard drive, 4x CD-drive (still have at my parents house).

My second was a Celeron 400 (overclocked to 466 MHz), 384 MB SD RAM (64 MB before I upgraded), 13 GB Hard drive, 60 GB Hard Drive (later upgrade), GeForce MX200 64 MB graphics card (upgraded from NVidia RIVA TNT 16 MB card), Sound Blaster Live soundcard. I built it myself (still have at my parents house).

My third was a 15.4 widescreen Compaq laptop: Pentium 4: 2.4 GHz, 256 MB RAM (integrated 64 MB graphics card), 40 GB Hard Drive (sold). I will never buy Compaq/HP again, nor will I ever buy a computer from a large chain store again. TERRIBLE service at those giant stores.

My forth had almost the same specs as the one I have now. The case was nicer, but the graphics card was a little less powerful. I won it in a raffle, and sold it for $2500 Canadian (about $2000 US) a few months later.

Hey, that was fun!

 

[steverock]

Just did the game advisor thingy (didn't know about that till I read this!)

Mine is in the top 8% of all computers measured.

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+
GPU: ATI Radeon 9800Pro 128Mb (need to update this - XP Sp2 has some problems with it)
RAM: 1Gb Corsair (can't remember the exact model but it has the fastest timings)
HDD: Western Digital 160Gb SATA (only 20Gb left - never going back to IDE after experiencing SATA!)

Those are the main things i remember. My case is "blinged" with lights and see through side and stuff. I decided to have a bit of fun with it and make it look like there is no way it was shop bought!

I wouldn't get a hard drive that is less than 160Gb now. The next one i want to get is a 250Gb one. You don't want to have to uninstall games to install new ones and considering most new games take about 4Gb of space you need the space. The only pain with having a large HDD is virus checking takes AGES!!

 

[Breetai]

Just did the game advisor thingy (didn't know about that till I read this!)

Mine is in the top 8% of all computers measured.

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+
GPU: ATI Radeon 9800Pro 128Mb (need to update this - XP Sp2 has some problems with it)
RAM: 1Gb Corsair (can't remember the exact model but it has the fastest timings)
HDD: Western Digital 160Gb SATA (only 20Gb left - never going back to IDE after experiencing SATA!)

Those are the main things i remember. My case is "blinged" with lights and see through side and stuff. I decided to have a bit of fun with it and make it look like there is no way it was shop bought!

I wouldn't get a hard drive that is less than 160Gb now. The next one i want to get is a 250Gb one. You don't want to have to uninstall games to install new ones and considering most new games take about 4Gb of space you need the space. The only pain with having a large HDD is virus checking takes AGES!!

Here's a helpful hint for you, if virus checking is taking ages:

partitian your hard drive into smaller drives. I use one for Windows, one for games, one for MP3s, one for videos, one for documents, etc. Many of them have varying sizes. It really does help to organize things. Also, you can install multiple operating systems easily onto multiple partitians. If one partitian is infected with a virus, or has something wrong with it, you can always format it and not lose much of your information.

I think a one TB hard drive would be sweet.

 

[Dust and Ashes]

Here's a helpful hint for you, if virus checking is taking ages:

partitian your hard drive into smaller drives. I use one for Windows, one for games, one for MP3s, one for videos, one for documents, etc. Many of them have varying sizes. It really does help to organize things. Also, you can install multiple operating systems easily onto multiple partitians. If one partitian is infected with a virus, or has something wrong with it, you can always format it and not lose much of your information.

Very good advice. That's how I keep mine and the last time I reinstalled Windows, I didn't lose any of my games since they were on a separate partition. I just put shortcuts to the launchers on my desktop and I was back in business, though a couple of them had to recreate reg entries but I didn't have any that wouldn't work.

 

[steverock]

Here's a helpful hint for you, if virus checking is taking ages:

partitian your hard drive into smaller drives. I use one for Windows, one for games, one for MP3s, one for videos, one for documents, etc. Many of them have varying sizes. It really does help to organize things. Also, you can install multiple operating systems easily onto multiple partitians. If one partitian is infected with a virus, or has something wrong with it, you can always format it and not lose much of your information.

I think a one TB hard drive would be sweet.

Very good advice!
I don't really have a need for multiple operating systems. I was tempted to install a version of Linux just to have a play with it but I couldn't be bothered.

The only reason I wouldn't do that is I'd be worried that my stuff would take up too much space and I'd have music in the video partition or games in the music partition.
If I can be bothered to sit down and plan it next time I wipe and re-install I might go for it.

There are new disks that use holographic imaging which fit HUGE amounts of data on. In a few years time a TB hard drive will be avaialable. Question is will it be cost effective?

 

[Breetai]

In a few years time a TB hard drive will be avaialable. Question is will it be cost effective?

Eventually.

Here's some more quick advice about partitianing your hard drive:

Make the partician with Windows (or whatever your main operating system is) is the middle.

For example, if you have "C:", "D:" and "E:" partitian, you want to have your OP in "D:". The reason for this is that the instrument that is physically reading your hard drive will be in the centre of the hard disk, where it is often reading Windows information. It cuts down on the time that it takes to read the other parts of your hard drive. If Windows was on your "C:" drive, and you have partitians going up to "E:", "F:", "G:", etc., it takes a long time for the hard drive to read the information on them, then go back to Windows. So, when you install your main operating system on your partitianed hard drive, make sure you install it in the "middle partitian".