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Tea
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 Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:48 pm Post subject: Post your PC specs! |
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Now Now Now. I see that today most computers are total OVERKILL.
Dual cores only work is the application or OS supports it.
There's no reason why you need 4GB of RAM. You need a faster clock speed, not more. Even 512mb does FINE for every day tasks.
Modern games are made BLOATED to help the PC market gather more money. Yay Microsoft. OpenGL running the same level of detail as Crysis works FINE on my rig.
P4@2.8Ghz+Tandem 1.2Ghz Xeon cluster
1GB+512mb RAm @ 400mhz
Nvidia GeForce 6200LE
Unix based OS.
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coloringzebras
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor1 Q9300 (2.50GHz,1333MHz FSB, 6MB L2 cache)
Genuine Microsoft® Windows Vista® Ultimate (64-bit) SP14
4096MB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM (4-1024MB module) Expandable to 8GB
1000GB 7200rpm Serial ATA hard drive w/ Raid 0 (2-500GB hard drives)5
DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti Drive featuring Labelflash™3
Hybrid Blu-Ray/HD DVD Player and SuperMulti Format DVD-RW DL Drive (Vista ONLY)
NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800GT 512MB Factory Overclocked (Dual DVI, VGA adapter and TV Out)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer PCI Sound Card
9-in-1 Memory Card Reader
External Ports (7)
Expandable to 8GB
Systemboard with NVIDIA® nForce® 680i LT Chipset
700 Watt Power Supply
fx542x
$800
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Tea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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| coloringzebras wrote: | Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor1 Q9300 (2.50GHz,1333MHz FSB, 6MB L2 cache)
Genuine Microsoft® Windows Vista® Ultimate (64-bit) SP14
4096MB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM (4-1024MB module) Expandable to 8GB
1000GB 7200rpm Serial ATA hard drive w/ Raid 0 (2-500GB hard drives)5
DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti Drive featuring Labelflash™3
Hybrid Blu-Ray/HD DVD Player and SuperMulti Format DVD-RW DL Drive (Vista ONLY)
NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800GT 512MB Factory Overclocked (Dual DVI, VGA adapter and TV Out)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer PCI Sound Card
9-in-1 Memory Card Reader
External Ports (7)
Expandable to 8GB
Systemboard with NVIDIA® nForce® 680i LT Chipset
700 Watt Power Supply
fx542x
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Are you ever going to use 90% of it?
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FlatEarth1024
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Tea wrote: | | coloringzebras wrote: | Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor1 Q9300 (2.50GHz,1333MHz FSB, 6MB L2 cache)
Genuine Microsoft® Windows Vista® Ultimate (64-bit) SP14
4096MB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM (4-1024MB module) Expandable to 8GB
1000GB 7200rpm Serial ATA hard drive w/ Raid 0 (2-500GB hard drives)5
DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti Drive featuring Labelflash™3
Hybrid Blu-Ray/HD DVD Player and SuperMulti Format DVD-RW DL Drive (Vista ONLY)
NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800GT 512MB Factory Overclocked (Dual DVI, VGA adapter and TV Out)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer PCI Sound Card
9-in-1 Memory Card Reader
External Ports (7)
Expandable to 8GB
Systemboard with NVIDIA® nForce® 680i LT Chipset
700 Watt Power Supply
fx542x
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Are you ever going to use 90% of it? |
Maybe not...but its good to know its there. You do like Milton Berle...you whip out just enough to win!
Then again, keep in mind that my first computer had 2.1g hard drive and 133m ram running Win95 and people couldn't conceive what I would ever need all that "firepower" for.
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coloringzebras
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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video games
like the new tomb raider that recommends a 9800.
it runs amazing.
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Buckster
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz
4 Gigs Ram
ASUS P5N-E SLI Mobo / 1333 MHz fsb
NVidia GeForce 8800 GTS
10 TB Hard Drive Space
Samsung Syncmaster 2493HM 24" widescreen monitor
Vista Ultimate 32bit
I built this rig earlier this year primarily to work with ginormous Photoshop files and digital video stuff, but it works well for everything I throw at it.
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Tea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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| FlatEarth1024 wrote: | | Tea wrote: | | coloringzebras wrote: | Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor1 Q9300 (2.50GHz,1333MHz FSB, 6MB L2 cache)
Genuine Microsoft® Windows Vista® Ultimate (64-bit) SP14
4096MB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM (4-1024MB module) Expandable to 8GB
1000GB 7200rpm Serial ATA hard drive w/ Raid 0 (2-500GB hard drives)5
DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti Drive featuring Labelflash™3
Hybrid Blu-Ray/HD DVD Player and SuperMulti Format DVD-RW DL Drive (Vista ONLY)
NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800GT 512MB Factory Overclocked (Dual DVI, VGA adapter and TV Out)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer PCI Sound Card
9-in-1 Memory Card Reader
External Ports (7)
Expandable to 8GB
Systemboard with NVIDIA® nForce® 680i LT Chipset
700 Watt Power Supply
fx542x
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Are you ever going to use 90% of it? |
Maybe not...but its good to know its there. You do like Milton Berle...you whip out just enough to win!
Then again, keep in mind that my first computer had 2.1g hard drive and 133m ram running Win95 and people couldn't conceive what I would ever need all that "firepower" for. |
The only reason you need to upgrade for is because developers are getting lazy. Programs aren't as light and solid as they once were. Back then, a lot of measures were made to make SURE something worked. But now... bleh.
People are forgetting that you can have a ton of fun with games without the dazzling graphics. The graphics are trying to make up for what games once were. And if the game is good, it's often bloated.
I'm telling you, folks. D3D is awful. I use OpenGL 2.1 on a Unix platform and it runs just as good on this machine as a 9800 would.
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joshuas3521
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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This is the laptop that I play my video games on at the moment. I have >30 computers (they are mostly in my mini-cluster), but sadly, this is the best video card that I have. I'm planning on building a desktop for video games later this year. That 9800 GX2 looks tempting...
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.00GHz
2gb RAM
80gb HD
nVidia GeForce 7900 Go
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3
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Tea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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| joshuas3521 wrote: | This is the laptop that I play my video games on at the moment. I have >30 computers (they are mostly in my mini-cluster), but sadly, this is the best video card that I have. I'm planning on building a desktop for video games later this year. That 9800 GX2 looks tempting...
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.00GHz
2gb RAM
80gb HD
nVidia GeForce 7900 Go
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 |
You should donate time to protein folding 
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hillbillyatheist
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I have an iMac G5 2.1 ghz CPU and 2.5 gigs of ram and a 250 gig HD running mac OS tiger. This is being posted from my new iPhone! |
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Chimp
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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Professional Coder coming through!
HAVE:
1.7GHz CPU, singlecore
1G RAM
60G harddisk @4200 RPM (HA! I wish...)
second monitor (21', I believe)
Run-of-the mill IBM Thinkpad graphics card and soundcard
OS: hackintosh w/ winxp & ubuntu via vmware fusion
WANT IN EXCHANGE:
boat-anchor and/or food
Better still - somebody thief Buck's rig for me. Discretely PM for offers! EDIT: SERIOUS OFFERS ONLY, YOU SCALLAWAGS!
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Chimp
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Tear wrote: |
Modern games are made BLOATED to help the PC market gather more money. |
Maybe you should play Nethack to vent a little steam?
Personally I'll take Fallout 3 any day, bloated or not.
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Tea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Chimp wrote: | | Tear wrote: |
Modern games are made BLOATED to help the PC market gather more money. |
Maybe you should play Nethack to vent a little steam?
Personally I'll take Fallout 3 any day, bloated or not. |
Beat it  I actually got bored of that a while ago. A week later, the partyvan showed up C:
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ShadowWulf
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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DFI LP DK 790FXB-M2RSH
Phenom 9850
8gb corsair 1066 ram
1x 250gb Seagate (windows) HD
1x 250gb Maxtor (linux) HD
Running Vista on one HD and various Linux distros on the other HD
24" Viewsonic flat screen
Hauppanage WINtv 1800 tv tuner card
dual Sapphire Radeon 4870x2 cards in x-fire mode (2gb total VRAM per card, 4gb total in x-fire...sometimes LOL)
my old trusty Audigy 2 ZX 5.1 surround card (ive been using this thing forvever...)
OCZ 1000w stealth PSU
the case is an older version of the COOLERMASTER COSMOS S RC-1100-KKN1-GP or something. Theyre very very similar minus the rails, but i dont think my version is sold anymore.
I built it myself of course, each part individually ordered from a few different vendors at the time.
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jambrose
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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2.8 ghz pentium 4 processor
2 gigs ram
radeon 7800 gs oc
some motherboard
some sound card
19 inch old dell monitor
and yet i still get 40 frames on counter strike source high
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