Poll: Your computer

[RicoADF]

I have 3 machines:

Desktop 1 (main PC):
Core 2 Duo E8400 3Ghz (plan to upgrade to E8600 etc and give the E8400 to the 2nd Desktop)
Gigabyte S series motherboard (GA-G31M-S2L)
4GB 800 RAM
ATI Radeon 4850HD 512mb
32bit Windows Vista (Home Premium) works great for me.
1x 250GB (windows installed on this HDD) and 1x 700GB HDD's


Desktop 2 (secondary PC):
Pentium 4 HT 3.2ghz (planned upgrade stated above)
Gigabyte S series motherboard (GA-G31M-S2L)
2GB 667 RAM
ATI Radeon X1950 GT 512mb
32bit Windows XP Home (SP3)
1x 120GB HDD


Laptop:
Celeron 2.66Ghz
Unknown motherboard (it's an Acer laptop)
1GB RAM
32bit Windows XP Home (SP3)
1x 120GB HDD

Desktop 1 is 6 months old or less, the case is 5 years old and its just been upgraded as I go along so its age depends on what hardware peice your looking at, desktop 2 has the old processor of desktop 1, same motherboard (bought the 2nd motherboard within a week of desktop 1's) and same ram as desktop 1 did have, its also got Desktop 1's old video card. Basically I use Desktop 2 for MSN etc so it takes the leftovers .
My laptop is approx 5 years old, I grabbed it for use in school for typing and simple stuff and it still serves the job well (with only a HDD and RAM upgrade needed in its lifespan).

 

[MrTub]

3,2 quad, Rareon HD 4800 2x, 8gb ddr 5 RAM, 2x 1TB hard drive, Vista 32 bit & ulitmate.
Cost me a fortune, but it's worth it.

Hmm 32bit doesnt support 8gb ram.. or am I wrong?

 

[Spitfire175]

3,2 quad, Rareon HD 4800 2x, 8gb ddr 5 RAM, 2x 1TB hard drive, Vista 32 bit & ulitmate.
Cost me a fortune, but it's worth it.

Hmm 32bit doesnt support 8gb ram.. or am I wrong?

You're not wrong, but there are a lot of places you can put that ram. especially if you have a dual motherboard system. (I'm runnnig two computers at once)

 

[Slash Dementia]

I don't know...how do I check? All I know is that my computer sucks and is a Compaq with Windows XP Pro that can't run good games without lagging like hell (unless it's 2D).

 

[DrDeath3191]

It's been a while since I built her, but I'm going to guess duo.

 

[MorteSphere]

No "Single" option? Tsk, tsk, tsk.

 

[Simalacrum]

I have a White Macbook (the last generation of its design), with an Intel Core 2 Due processor with 2.4 GHZ, and 2GB memory, 120 GB hardrive and runs on Leopard.

Not exactly a gaming system, but it plays The Sims 3 alright... on the lowest settings.

 

[Joa_Belgium]

Mine has a Duo processor. Then again, I'm working on a laptop most of the time. So it isn't all that powerful. But I'm still happy with what I'm working on.

 

[WlknCntrdiction]

GPU: nVidia Geforce 8800gt(will upgrade to 2X Asus nVidia GeForce GTX 275 896MB and maybe another monitor once my uni loan comes through)
OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit
Processor: Intel Quadcore Q6600 2.4GHz(overclocked to 3.3)
Power: 600 watts(don't remember make)
Case: Nexus Clodius Ventilation Pro Case
Motherboard: nVidia SLI 690i Motherboard
HDD: 1X 320GB Samsung HDD, 1X 1TB Hitachi HDD(will need another TB soon because I'm already getting close to filling them both up, and I only built the thing 7 months ago lol)
Memory: 4GB OCZ RAM

 

[MrTub]

3,2 quad, Rareon HD 4800 2x, 8gb ddr 5 RAM, 2x 1TB hard drive, Vista 32 bit & ulitmate.
Cost me a fortune, but it's worth it.

Hmm 32bit doesnt support 8gb ram.. or am I wrong?

You're not wrong, but there are a lot of places you can put that ram. especially if you have a dual motherboard system. (I'm runnnig two computers at once)

okey thanks =) may I ask why u havent got 64 bit os?

 

[Vespire]

meh why not
AMD 2 - x4 945 quad core (4 x 3 GHz)
4 GB DDR3 1333 MHZ
4870 (Graphics card)
500gb hard drive

 

[Dauntlessidiot]

my pc is quite good, apart from a failing pentium d processor which iu can neither afford to, or be bothered to replace

 

[Uncompetative]

- My computer -
Grafic card: Radeon 4500hd
processor: Intel quad 2,83ghz
ram: 4gb
hdd: 1x 500gb & 2x 250gb
OS: Vista ultimate (loving it. No flame please )

its about a year old and costed me 8000kr ($1135)

So Im woundering what kind of stuff you got in your beloved computer and why you choose it and what did you pay for it? and how old is it?

Last thing.. What do you prefer for gaming Quad or Duo?

Personally, I think that the things you haven't mentioned are more important to your computing pleasure:

- Fast unlimited broadband
- Large monitor: 23" or greater 1920x1200 resolution
- accurate 2 button or greater laser mouse with scroll wheel
- A4 or greater WACOM graphics tablet with tilt & pressure-sensitive stylus
- a keyboard that you actually like to type on with some productivity enhancing media keys
- BOSE speakers and cabled earphones (it helps if your computer doesn't sound like a jet about to take off)
- a large capacity backup drive, surge and spike protected power supply

of lesser importance:

- iPhone
- scanner
- Xbox 360 gamepad
- Windows Wireless gaming receiver

of even lesser importance:

- fax
- printer
- camera / web camera / iSight

of least importance:

- graphics card (integrated graphics are fine)*
- expensive (quad-core) 2 GHz or greater CPU
- oodles of RAM (unless your OS really needs it)

*My Mac Mini which has a 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo and 2 Gb RAM is more than enough for Snow Leopard given that I just do web-surfing and word-processing and a bit of language-hacking whilst listening to music. I have a 360 for gaming.

Fast broadband and large screens will do more to boost your productivity than a 3 Ghz Quad-Core CPU will ever do and GPUs don't help much in accelerating your "workspace" if you actually tend to spend most of your time tapping text into one static foreground window. Unless you are throwing wild shapes around in Maya, I can't see that there is much justification for all that power. Really, if it weren't for all these stupidly decadent, resource-hungry, PC games the computing industry would have imploded upon itself due to lack of repeat business.

 

[Spitfire175]

okey thanks =) may I ask why u havent got 64 bit os?

I do have a 64 bit os. Along with 32 bit.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Pfff... my computer's still single core, it only needs one core because it's hard core!

Plays L4d on high and everything.

 

[MrTub]

- My computer -
Grafic card: Radeon 4500hd
processor: Intel quad 2,83ghz
ram: 4gb
hdd: 1x 500gb & 2x 250gb
OS: Vista ultimate (loving it. No flame please )

its about a year old and costed me 8000kr ($1135)

So Im woundering what kind of stuff you got in your beloved computer and why you choose it and what did you pay for it? and how old is it?

Last thing.. What do you prefer for gaming Quad or Duo?

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Well I just woundering what you had in the computer. But true those things improves the computer experience alot but why should you have example a 50" tv with full hd when your computer cant keep up with it?

 

[Abedeus]

I love how so many people are proud that they have quads and 4GB RAM, while they bottleneck their PC with crappy Radeons below 47xx or GeForce 9800.

 

[MrTub]

I love how so many people are proud that they have quads and 4GB RAM, while they bottleneck their PC with crappy Radeons below 47xx or GeForce 9800.

May I ask what kind of computer do u got then?

 

[Abedeus]

I love how so many people are proud that they have quads and 4GB RAM, while they bottleneck their PC with crappy Radeons below 47xx or GeForce 9800.

May I ask what kind of computer do u got then?

"Do you have" is correct.

I have an E2160 1.8GHz at 2.4GHz (can overclock to more, but I'm too lazy), 2GB RAM 667 DDR2 (4GB tomorrow) and 9800GT overclocked.