What are the specs on your PC?

I have a SoundBlaster soundcard... I hardly notice any difference with it so I just don't use it. (I had limited PCI slots at the time due to other components). Now that I have the space for it, I've grown onto the onboard.

If I ever muster up the nerve to purchase a "good" sound card and good speakers so that my crap ears can actually notice a difference then I will.

Will be a long while for that though.
 
well i've got my pc hooked up to a top spec (at the time) kenwood stereo

so i could tell the difference immediatly.

The main one was that lower spec sound cards or onboard sound tends to crackle up when you raise the volume to a high level. I also notice that Creative give a number of nice utilities like wave sound ripper / mp3 codec and ripper / jukebox and a great sound mixer all in all i love the sound card 😀
 
Here's what my new setup will be once the rest of the parts arrive later this week. It'll be nice to play games on high settings again. Once I get some more money to throw at this thing I'm going to bring the DVD-RW drive up to current standards, get a real sound card and speakers and maybe even switch to SATA.

SAMSUNG 997DF-T/T 19" CRT Monitor

Aspire X-Alien Aluminum Server Case

Antec TruePower 2.0 550W Power Supply

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1Ghz FSB Socket 939 Processor

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard

OCZ EL Platinum Revision 2 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit

BFG Tech Geforce 6800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card

Samsung 160GB ATA133 Hard Drive (7200RPM, 8MB Buffer)

Lite-On CD-RW Drive (Write 52x/32x, Read 52x, 2MB Buffer)

Pioneer DVR-106D (DVD Write 4x/2x, DVD+ Write 4x/2.4x, CD Write 16x/10x, DVD Read 12x, CD Read 32x)

Logitech Internet Keyboard

Logitech MX510 Optical Mouse

Canon LiDE 20 Scanner

Creative 2.1 Speakers and Subwoofer

Plantronics .Audio 90 Stereo Headset
 
Originally posted by mal@Tue, 2004-02-17 @ 09:53 PM

Antec Sonata case

ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe

Athlon 3200+ (Overclocked 2500+)

Zalman CNPS 7000A-Cu

1024mb DDR PC3200PRO Corsair ram

Pioneer 106 DVD-RW

Radeon 9600 (to be replaced by a 9800XT?)

2 x 200GB Seagate 7200.7 drives

VisionPlus Digital Terrestrial TV card

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Heh, my PC has evolved a bit since then. 😀

Antec Sonata case with a Neo 480W PSU

ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe

Athlon 3200+ (Overclocked 2500+)

Zalman CNPS 7000A-Cu

1024mb DDR PC3200PRO Corsair ram (soon to be 2GB)

Pioneer 109 DVD-RW

Radeon x800 pro with a Zalman ZM80D-HP

1 x Seagate 120GB SATA

2 x Seagate 200GB IDE

2 x Seagate 400GB SATA

Adaptec 1210SA SATA controller - and a pice of incompatable shit it is too :rant

I had all sorts of problems with the Adaptec card - resets and blue screens - until I tried a few different driver revisions and found one that mostly works... it just hard crashes/resets if I try to run Nero.

When I get the time I'm going to replace the 120GB SATA boot disc with another 200GB IDE and just use the onboard SATA for the 400GB drives. I will then destroy the cursed Adaptec card once and for all. :devil

The digital TV card has gone into an XP MCE machine that I've got, but that's for another post...
 
So I got another computer all my own (most of my computers I have to share, so I only have 2 personal comps now)

This is the first time I am using a linux... wooo, first linux post, ok Im gay.

Vector Linux on

SOYO SY-6IZA socket 370 mobo

Celeron 600mhz - OC'd to 900mhz

192 MB of 100Mhz SDRAM

64MB Geforce Ti-4200

Some crappy Soundblaster sound card I found in my closet

30 GB HDD

CD-burner at 40X

It runs rather nice, a lot faster then I expected. But I haven't done anything intensive yet, only Firefox, GAIM, web surfing crap.
 
New computer on the block. 🙂

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium

Athlon64 3000+ (Venice core)

Radeon X800XL

1Gb RAM

1x80Gb SATA

1x160Gb SATA

Antec Phantom 350W fanless power supply

At a guess I'd say it was about twice as fast as my "old" rig (Barton 2500+, 9800Pro, 512MB ram, etc, etc).
 
I have a tablet pc

OS Windows Tablet PC Edition

Pro: Intel Pentium M 750 (1.86Ghz 2mb L2 cache 533mhz FSP) with Intel Centrino™ mobile technology

Screen: 12.1-inch color TFT XGA / 1024x768 wide viewing angle display with digitizer and protective sparkle-free glass

Ram: DDR2 512MB 533Mhz

Wireless 802.11 a/b/g, bluetooth, ir

HD: 60gig 5400 rpm

Sound: Integrated 16-bit sound blaster pro compatible

USB2 DVD+-R+-RW with DL support.

GFX Card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900, with up to 128 MB of shared system memory

Full specs

It could use a better vid card but for what I use it for its fine for me.
 
I just bought my new processor. 😀

I've got the motherboard and am buying a new case this afternoon. I'm just waiting for the RAM to arrive now. :/
 
I'm still having a bit of trouble with using my SATA drives, but I'm mostly up and running now...

Antec Titan 550

Abit UL8

Athlon 64 X2 4400+

Stock HSF (for now)

4096mb DDR PC3200PRO Corsair ram

Pioneer 109 DVD-RW

Radeon x800 pro VIVO AGP with a Zalman ZM80D-HP

3 x Seagate 200GB IDE

2 x Seagate 400GB SATA

There's quite a bit of recycling from my old computer, but that's how it was meant to work out.
 
Whoa, what do you plan to do with this beast? ExCyber thinks you'll most likely to do video editing. Is he correct? 😛

BTW, how much in total did you spend on putting this system together?
 
Yeah, mainly video - that and being able to do something else while doing video.

How much did it cost? Let me see...

CPU - $789

Mobo - $115.50

RAM - $840

Case - $285

Total - AUD$2029.50 (US$1530) 😱mg:

I bought the bits in stages and hadn't thought about the total until now. :blush:
 
- Liteon 16x DVD-Rom Drive

- Pioneer DVR-104

- 7 in 1 3.5 floppy drive (reads all kids of memory sticks)

- 2.8GHz P4

- 768 MB RAM

- 128 MB GeForce 6800 (OC'ed at core 400MHz and ram at 730MHz)

- 250 GB WD IDE HDD

- 40 GB WD IDE HDD

- 5 fans for when I decide to OC the processor a bit no need yet.

- ECS 848P-A (Deluxe) Motherboard

- Big Silver Case

Had this for a year... already had a 256MB stick of ram laying around, and had the HDD's laying around too...

Bought in Pieces when I could find stuff on sale (and on ebay), total cost was $768.
 
I just rebuilt my system:

Astock 939 Dual-Sata2

Althon 64 4300+

512 mb ddr

Ati All-in-Wonder 9200

Sound Blaster pci 128 (I don't have a good sound system, so what' the point in upgrading this?)

generic dvd burner

LG cd burner

130 gb WD ide

120 gb WD ide

80 gb WD ide (connecte through an external usb drive kit)
 
Just got a new PC.

Intel Pentium D 2.8Ghz

1GB DDR2 533mhz Memory

Nvidia Geforce 7800GTX

WD 160GB Harddrive

16X DL DVD Drive

All I can think of for now...
 
I scaled down recently, my new PC:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+

DFI Lan Party UT NF4 Ultra D (I use the onboard sound too because I like cutting corners)

1GB (2x512 Dual Channel) OCZ DDR400 Ram

BFG Nvidia GeForce 6600GT OC

80GB SATA 3.0GB/s Hard Drive, Seagate I think

then I've got a WD 80GB SATA150 I might put in there

the case is an Antec and it came with a 450watt PSU or thereabout

other PCs I made for family members out of my spare parts:

AMD Athlon XP 2600+

ASUS A7N8X Deluxe

1GB (2x512 Dual Channel) Mushkin DDR400 Ram

my brother put a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro in it

40GB IDE Hard Drive (bleh, this is my bros computer I might give him my extra WD drive)

one of those X-Alien cases with a 550watt Antec PSU

Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 1.8Ghz

some random ASUS intel board, nothing special

I think this has a gig of Mushkin ram too

ATI Radeon 9600 Pro

80GB IDE Hard Drive, WD I think

all in the cheapest ass case I've ever seen (it was 10 dollars) with a decent Enermax PSU
 
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