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Here we go:

Asus P4B266 Mobo
Pentium 4 1.6 GHz
PNY GeForce 4 Ti 4400 128MB of DDR RAM
512 DDR RAM (worth more than its weight in gold)
80GB 7200 RPM 2MB Buffer HD
56X CD-ROM

Needed it to run Neverwinter

BTW what are your computer specs?

 

That's one big naughty machine you got there . My specs are:

Abit KG7-Lite Mainboard
256 MB DDR ram
1400 MHz Amd Athlon T-bird
45 GB ATA-100 7200rpm harddrive
Asus GeForce 2 V7700 Pro 64 MB DDR ram display card
16/40 DVD rom
16/10/40 CD burner
Creative Inspire 5300 Surround 5.1 Speakers (and soon a sweet SB Audigy to run them ).

[This message has been edited by Mollusken (edited June 07, 2002).]

 

"Needed it to run Neverwinter "

Lol!

Gawd, that's the truth. It takes a "Tiny-God" to run that expansion...

 

Given I had the appropiate funds I'd almost take the mashine I was asked to build for a friend, with some minor improvements:

-1,6 GHz AMD Athlon-XP
-512 MB DDR RAM
-ASUS Motherboard
-IBM 40GB 7.200rpm hdd - maybe a 10.000 rpm
-Geforce-4 (the orinal mashine has a puny GF-2 )
-Creative Gold something
-dolby surround sound system
-48 DVD/ ROM drive, primary slave
-24x cd writer (I have an 8x only), secondary master to allow on-the-fly copying ...

-21" LCD screen !!!

Up to that day I have to live with my little cutie: 650 MHz Athlon on ASUS A7V-133 board, 320 MB 133MHz RAM, 20GB 7.200 rpm hdd, Elsa Gladiac 721 w 64 MB DDR RAM, 48x DVD-ROM, Mitsumi 8x/ 6x/ 24x CD-RW-Writer. Belinea 17" screen. Sound is on board
The only thing my comp lacks is processing power, so if I go mad one day I probaly go and replace my motherboard, RAM and CPU (in half a year or a year or so)

[This message has been edited by Ragusa (edited April 29, 2002).]

 

*sigh*

192 Mb RAM and a Riva TNT 2 Ultra here.

 

Well, I have a Compaq Presario with 128 Mb, a 12x 8x 32x CD-burner and...here we go...a 4 Gb harddrive


[This message has been edited by Faerus Stoneslammer (edited April 30, 2002).]

 

Compaq comps ... ... I just say I suffer using them at work ...

I'm a keen fan of self-composed PCs. When you know what you need and want, no off-the-shelf PC of the same price will beat them in terms of reliability and overall performance. The Compaqs I know for example tend to have horrid compaq service, slow hdds, little RAM and exotic yokohama (synonym for hardware no one has ever heared of ... especially when you suddenly need the drivers ) motherboards ...
I found that off-the-shelf PCs usually have two major weaknesses: slow hdds (offering size instead) and poor, cheap motherboards.

My personal morning rant ...

[This message has been edited by Ragusa (edited April 30, 2002).]

 

Damn Frog that is one sweet machine. That processor must have cost you..

Here's my specs:
Abit KG7 mainboard
AMD athlon XP 1800
Asus GeForce 3 64 DDR
512 DDR RAM (Too goddamn expensive)
40 GB HD

And a pretty cool case mod with a see through cabinet and some lights in there...

[This message has been edited by Turambar (edited April 30, 2002).]

 

I finally got a decent PC.
Old:
500 Mhz
32 Mb RAM, switched to 160 Mb for BG2 way back.
Cruddy vid card/cruddy sound card.
Cruddy monitor (tiny).

New:
1.4 (G)hz (you knew what I meant!)
256 Mb RAM
128 Mb vid card (ATI Rage)
17" monitor.
A good enough sound card that I don't have to worry about it.

Not the best in the world, but enough for me.
We'll see what comes next I guess. I can't believe I went so long with such a cruddy PC!

[This message has been edited by Orkrist the Cleaver (edited April 30, 2002).]

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[This message has been edited by Orkrist the Cleaver (edited May 02, 2002).]

 

Wow!

I want one of those 1.4Mhz processors!! It can't be much slower than my current POS.

 

Hey as a added bonus my motherboard talks every time I start it up. (The traditional female AI voice)

It says something like this:

"Boot test complete, starting OS interface."

It's hi-tech stuff

 

My specs:
1.0 MHz ATHLON t-bird
ASUS motherbd
2 30 mb hard drives
512 MB pc-133 SDRAM
GE force2 MX 32MB vram AGP
Soundblaster live value
52x cd rom
TDK cd-rw
Viewsonic a75f on top
Wasn't top of the line when I put it together, but is very stable, runs win 98SE
If I can scrape together some cash, I'll probably upgrade Vid card & main chip.

 

Not everybody knows what to do with their fast machines, it must be said...take Vicki, for instance..
http://www.theonion.com/onion3636/counterpoint_technology.html

 

Pentium 4 1.3 GHz
256 megs of RDRAM
40 gig hard drive
lowly Geforce2
Cable Internet (rocks!)
Altec Lansing surroundsound
19' monitor

I'd say it's over a year old. It'll run Icewind Dale 2 just fine, so who cares about NWN? Heh.

 

Ok i have two computers that i use. My computer and my dads.

My Computer
750 Mhz Amd K7 (i think it's 7)
256 Ram (can't remember type)
30 Gb hard-drive
56x cd drive (no writer yet)
32 mb S3 pro savage 3d card
240 watt speakers (i like my music loud!)
Sound card (don't know what it is but it handles game effects, with 2 music tracks mixing in the background with no problems)
12" monitor (i've had it for 3 years, since my first computer. I've upgrared everything else but i haven't got the funds at the moment to get a bigger monitor )

My dad's computer (coincidentally the one i'm typing this on)
15" monitor (so much clearer than mine )
64 mb of ram (however his is sooo much slower than mine , the monitors not everything hehe)

13.6 Gb hard drive.
Amd K6 500 MHz (aprox)
52x cd-rom drive.
ArtX display card
Average sound card/speakers (can't handle more than one simultaneous chanel without cracking up)

[This message has been edited by Lazy Bonzo (edited June 08, 2002).]

 

lol...Ragusa! You perfectly described my Compaq POS!!!
I currently have two computers:
Home:(Compaq)
AMD k6 @ 500MHz
192K RAM
9GB hard Drive
no vidieo (bulit in to the motherboard)
no sound (bulit in to the motherboard)
4X4X24X unknown brand CD-RW
48X CD-Rom
100MB Zip Drive

Laptop:(new)
Pentium 4 @2 GHz
640K RAM
80GB Hard Drive
G Force 4 vidieo Card
Sound Blaster Live Sound Card
48X variable DVD-ROM Drive
100MB Zip Drive

Compaqs suck!

[This message has been edited by Kitrax (edited June 08, 2002).]

 

AMD 1600, 60 gig 7200rpm.
Geforce 3 ti 200 with all newest drives.
512mb ddr RAM, DVD player, and much other stuff, like win XP, office, programs for everything from gammaking to wieving...
One extremly good "scale" etc.
Got ot for 900 dollars recently.