Your Current Computer

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Well, you had to figure this was coming after Gothmog4230's topic for Your first computer .

I have a computer that's about 3 years old: an AMD Athlon, 900Mhz, 394MB PC133 RAM (recently upgraded from 128MB - cheap and easy ), 32MB DDR Radeon video, on-board sound, 20GB hard drive, Win98. I don't play that many games, and the ones I do play usually come out at least 1 or 2 years before I get them, so this computer should last me for awhile yet.

What do you have?

 

2.8 GHz with 512 mb PC2700 ram and a 533 FSB, GF 3 Ti-500, soundblaster live, 16x DVD, 48x CD-RW, 2 40gig drives in RAID 0, win2k sp3

fairly happy with it

 

well

http://www.sorcerers.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7&t=005503#000020

 

I have 1 GHz, WinXP, 384 RAM, 20 GB Hard drive, two cd-drives (both 24x, another is RW) and ATI Radeon 9000. Not too expensive, and runs games and internet relatively well. It is enough for me (and will be, since I don't have much money to put on computer parts)

 

I bought my computer 1 month ago, when my previous one (P2 400 Mhz) decided to meet its creator. So currenlty I have a P4 in 2,66 GHz, Asus P4PE GBL 1394 SATA motherboard, western digital 120GB 7200rpm hard disk, DDR 400 512MB PC3200, ATI Radeon 9500 128MB, Creative Live Audigy Player Bulk, Asus DVD E616 IDE Retail, Sony CDRW 52x24x52 CRX-220E Retail and Windows XP Pro.

 

My Old Man has a Celeron 800, 384 meg RAM, 60 gig HDD, some crappy Riva TNT2M(sucking)64, SB Live 5.1, a very light and soft keyboard and a superb mouse that's no longer produced: A4Tech with two wheels. Of those wheels only one is vertical, thanks be to heaven.

The fun thing is that there's a cable modem plugged via USB and a big JVC audio set serves as speakers. Oh well... some microphone is under the desk...

I fear the Old Man is rotting alive. He stinks like fried snickers and even stopped working today for some time...

 

I have a ComTrash (Compaq) with a AMD K6 processor running at 500MHz, 198Mb of RAM, 10Gb HD, with integrated video and sound cards. Basically it's an expensive word processor that can support a few games like BG2. If I try to use it for anything else it'll die on me.

 

AMD Athlon XP 1466@2000 Mhz - 2400+
Epox 8RDA+ (nforce2 chipset)
Winfast Geforce 4 4200@4400 128 MB
512 MB DDR 333 cas 2.5
Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 - 19 inch

 

I have a P4 1.9 with 512 MB RAM, an ATI Radeon 8500, Creative SB Live! soundcard, a Cambridge Soundworks DTT2500 speaker system, one 100 GB and one 60 GB hard drive, a 19" NEC Multisync 90 monitor, an 8x Creative DVD drive, and a 16/10/40 Plexwriter CD burner. I am running it on Windows XP pro.

As for the age, well I have had the "same" computer since the late 80s when I got my original 286, I have just been upgrading it a piece at a time ever since. There is not a single component left from when I first got the computer but there is really no point at which I can I really say that I switched from one computer to another.

 

I just updated my own computer for obviously no reason (not as if I had any games that really needed it anyway, and my previous comp was quite enough for the few heavier softwares that I use). P4 +3000Mhz (as in, a 2400 overclocked to 3000), 512ram, G-Force 3 Ti 200, 2mbit/512k ADSL. No need to say that at least I don't have to think about the requirements for whatever I decide to get for the next year or so. The G-Force 3 is almost outdated already though, so should I feel a need to play the newest 3D games, I'll undoubtedly have to upgrade that as well.

I don't really use money on anything so the childish habit of always keeping the state-of-the-art equipment has remained from my juvenile years. Oh well.

 

A Pentium 2 piece of crap. At least part of it is crap anyway, and thats enough to stop it from running everything except for ancient games.

 

Pentium 4 2.53 ghz with 533 fbs, 60 gig hard drive, 512 MB DDR RAM, ATI Radeon 9700. And yeah, it's a Dell, if that matters. By the time I need an upgrade I won't be able to afford it on crappy military salary, unless I want to spend a few months of pay.

Anyway, we have a really old Mac in our study that we use exclusively for word processing, and it does it's job well, despite the fact it's probably half my age.

 

Still running on my year or two old comp

17" TFT (Hitachi, 174SXL-B, the only one of their product series that works well)
1800+ Athlon XP (It's just wonder how quickly they double the speed...)
512 DDR (Just doubled it )
30 GB Seagate Barraquda (More than enough for a game or 20)
Ultra ARU motherboard from MSI ("A" integrated audio, "R" for RAID and "U" for USB 2 -nice, althought the board scored only average in Tom's Hardware tests)
SoundBlaster 5.1 player (Cheap and good )
GeForce TI-4400 (MSI -again another average scorer in Tom's hw tests... Against other similar cards that is)

Blue Vivanco keyboard
Silver Explorer mouse and headphones
SDSL (One day it works well, at the next...)

 

Celeron 1.2MHz (used to be PII-400), 320MB RAM (originally 64MB), 12.9GB hard drive, DVD-ROM, Turtle Beach Montego sound card, and a GF3 TI200 video card (was an STB TNT 16MB). My OS is Win98 and it runs just about everything that I want it to run, which is why I'm planning to replace it in a year or so.

 

Amd k6-III 500MHZ with 320MB PC100 ram & Voodoo 3 AGP.

I *****-slapped this dinosaur into running Neverwinter Nights at 5 FPS. It’s connected by LAN to an AMD P200 with 192MB of 66Mhz Simm ram, which can run the NWN Server (but not the Client) allowing my main machine, while acting solely as a client, to run NWN at 9 FPS (Wo-hoo).

I’ve also got a P200 laptop that is fast enough to do all those little tasks that laptops excel at.

My main Machine has a 19” CRT monitor, a 14” CRT monitor and a 15” LCD monitor all on at the same time. 19” best for games, LCD best for reading (some people are highly sensitive to screen refresh frequencies, which can even bring on a epileptic fit in extreme cases. LCDs do not have a strobe-like refresh and therefore have less chance of causing a headache due to prolonged use). The 14” CRT is still used because it was a great (and free) way to extend the desktop when I upgraded it.

I always wait until the processor I want has dropped to £30 ($60) or less before I change my motherboard and CPU. The only reason I would upgrade right now is to play NWN properly, but since even an old 3D game like Thief leaves it for dust in terms of gameplay, why bother? I had expected more from the people who produced MDK (I know, Aurora Toolset, but wouldn’t Thief-like gameplay in an Aurora created world have been sooo much better?).

I will be interested to see how this thread turns out because of the following question;

If game programmers produce games which are only playable on the machines sold during the proceeding year, doesn’t that drastically limit the number of customers for their product?

I like change, I just hate having to pay for small incremental change again and again and again.

P.S. on the web it is easy to see that all computer equipment in the US is half the price it is in Ireland, which is a bit hard to understand when some of it is made in Ireland.

Sorry, now what was it you asked again? Oh yes. My favourite food is ice cream.

 

I think other than for games and maybe people who work with advanced computer graphics, PC's are WAY faster than they really need to be. The average person just running business/accounting software, word processing, occasionally looking things up on a 56k modem, doesn't need half the power of computers out right now. Which is actually a good thing, since you can buy some "outdated" parts and make a decent system to fit your needs. The sad thing is, they usually go to the local computer store, spend $2000 on some piece of junk with a 3 ghz processor, 128mb SDRAM and an integrated video card, and end up getting ripped off in general.

 

this is my first computer....
its sucks all the way around....

 

Athlon XP2000+
KuDoZ mainboard 333
512MB 333DDR RAM
HD c:30GB
d:60GB
Geforce 3 ti200
WinXP professional&rarely used Win98
Teac- 40-24-48 writer
SyncMaster 959NF 19' monitor


I upgrade my machine reguraly so i intend to buy myself a new graphic card (Radeon 9700 when the prices fall - most probably), a new cooler (this one is too loud), perhaps i'll sell the 30GB HD and buy a 80GB (got a really nice offer ).
And i have to get another mainboard so i can test this one. Its a bi strange i think... but stable enough.

 

I've got one of those computers with a screen thingy and one of those things the paper comes out of. Oh and how could I forget the thing with all the letters and numbers on it, which you press and thingys appear on the screen

Na, I've got a Dulex 10444 Intel Pentium 4 CPU, 1700 MHz. 512 Mb Ram, 40 gigs ROM. 16x10x40 CDRW, Epson stylus C2OUX printer, and the absolutly horrible Windows XP. Or something along those lines.

 

I have a Pakard Bell computer.
Windows 98 with a Pentium 3 processor. 7.85GB capacity and 64MB RAM.
3dfx Voodoo3.
And brilliant Sound.

Yet it is ancient. In computer years.