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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #60 on: August 05, 2007, 05:08:42 pm »
Who has upgraded?
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #61 on: August 05, 2007, 06:23:59 pm »
1600 megahertz Intel Pentium 4
132.21 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
73.89 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

LG CD-RW CED-8042B [CD-ROM drive]
TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1612 [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Promise 2+0 Stripe/RAID01.10 (81.96 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 2
QUANTUM FIREBALL CX10.2A (10.26 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 1
WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 (40.02 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 0

VIA Technologies, Inc. P4X266-8233

 768 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 256 MB
Slot 'A1' has 512 MB
Slot 'A2' is Empty

RADEON 7200/RADEON VE [Display adapter]
RADEON 9000 Family [Display adapter]

This one has a new mother board (Shuttle AV40 > AV49PN) and some new drives (80 gig, 60 gig, 80 gig raid 0) but is running the same CPU and RAM.  Soon it will get a modest upgrade to the RAM and CPU. the PC2100 will be upgraded to PC3200 and a 2.26 CPU (from taldren board member Cpt Chaos) running at 533. The board is currently running at 400.   RAC=280

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Asus P4P800 E running @ 800fsb with a 2.6 P4, 1 gig Ram, 200 gig ATA boot drive, Promise Raid 0 200 gig x2 = 400 gig, 120 gig SATA Seagate.
RAC=800+
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #62 on: August 06, 2007, 06:10:01 am »
Athlon 64 X2 3800+
2 gig PC3200
2 EvGA Nvidia 7600 GTs in SLI
200 gig primary HD, 7200 RPM
80 gig secondary HD, 7200 RPM (wife's business drive)
18X DVD+-R writer
500W PSU
3 12cm case fans.
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #63 on: August 06, 2007, 07:31:57 am »
Used this years tax refund to sorta upgrade my old mixed mutt machine by combining the old 19" LCD, 16XDVD-RW, LeadTek Capture Card, floppy with the new:
(Socket AM2) AMD Athlon™64 X2 3600+ Dual-Core
1GB (2x512MB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory
GigaByte GA-M55SLI-S4 nForce4 SLI Chipset DDR2/800 SATA 16x PCI-Express MBoard w/GbLAN,IEEE1394,USB2.0,&7.1Audio
CoolerMaster Stacker 830 Tower with Apevia 680W BEAST POWER ATX Power Supply
AMD ATHLON64 CPU fan & heatsink + 3 extra case fans
1 NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS 512MB PCI Express x16 SLI
250GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD
16X DVD ROM
Internal 12in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer
XP Home Edition w/ Service Pack 2

(plan to further upgrade the memory when Vista solidifies in 2-3 years, graphics to a 2nd card when it drops below $100, then CPU to the max the board will take in 3-4 years when the price has dropped about $500)

Got an Averatech 7115-EH1 laptop for the wife back in November:
AMD Sempron 3000+ Mobile Processor
512MB PC2700 DDR Memory
80GB ATA Hard Drive
Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Burner
17" WXGA+ (1440x900) Wide LCD
ATI Radeon Xpress 200M Integrated Graphics with 128MB Shared Memory
v.90 56Kbps Modem, 10/100 Ethernet and 802.11b/g Wireless
Three USB 2.0, One FireWire, One Type II PC Card Slot and 5-in-1 Reader
15.5" x 10.9" x 1.4" @ 7.2 lbs.
Windows XP Home

Just enough to do her school work or pay the bills whilst in front of the Tivo or watching the kids outside.
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #64 on: August 06, 2007, 11:28:05 am »
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PC 1
Dual Athlon 2400XP (modded to MP)
ASUS motherboard
512meg RAM PC 2100
2x 120 GB Maxtor as a RAID array
CD/RW
Radeon 9000 128MB
NEC MultiSync FP1370 22" monitor (shared with PC 3)
Mitsumi keyboard (shared with PC 3)
400 Watt Antec PSU

Added DVD/RW

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PC 2
Dual Athlon 2100XP (modded to MP may update to 2600MP or 2800MP)
ASUS motherboard
512meg RAM PC 2100
40 GB Maxtor 80GB Maxtor  (has access to 2x120 gb on PC 1)
CD/RW
ASUS gForce Model ?? (very low video demand on system)
Sony Mutliscan 210GS 17"
Mitsumi keyboard
500 (?) Watt Antec PSU

Down for the count.  May be rebuilt at some point.

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PC 3
Athlon 3200XP
1024meg RAM PC 3200
80 GB Maxtor (has access to 2x120 gb on PC 1)
DVD Rom (Considering a DVD RW)
Radeon 9000 128MB
NEC MultiSync FP1370 22" monitor (shared with PC 1)
Mitsumi keyboard (shared with PC 1)
Sandisk flashcard reader.
550 Watt Enermax PSU

Changed HD to 250GB Maxtor.  Changed Video to ATI AIW 9800.  Replace DVD Rom with DVD/RW

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All 3 machines have 10/100 network cards and are connected to a USR Router with a serial modem on the router.  The router has a hardware firewall.  There is also a Lexmark inkjet (X75) shared by all machines.

Router has had power supply changed twice.

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My video demands are not high.  SETI output ~ 37.5 WUs /day if not playing games. 

SETI offline due to probability of being permanently laid off in the next few months.  I will return once things stabilize and I either have a new job or know I don't need to worry about it afterall.

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I have a 4th machine to overhaul that will go to a friend once he has a place for it (only a 350mhz PII).  Used to be my mothers till I swapped it for my #4 machine (Athlon 2400XP).  Its HD is failing and I will put in 1 (or 2) spare 40 GB drives.

Passed on to friend.

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A 5th machine (Athlon 1400) should show up, I gave it to a friend but he has no current need for it and it has some heating problems he wants me to solve (likely just a disconnected fan power from moving it too much), I'll upgrade it to Athlon 2100XP using a spare chip when and if it shows and put it to SETI until he needs it again.

Returned to friend.  Upgraded the processor to XP 2100+, ATI Radeon 7000 replaced with 9000 (9000 was replaced in machine #3 and added here), DVD Rom replaced with DVD/RW.  It took him months to find out that the DVD/RW was there even though the burning software was loaded.  It turned out that it was not overheating but that he had never run a defragmentation on the HD (it took 4 hours to defragment the 2GB C partition).

I neglected to add the Acer laptop.  1.8ghz Turion processor, 15.4 inch screen.
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #65 on: August 06, 2007, 12:18:12 pm »
My old system was an Athlon XP 2600+ processor.  Forgot the socket.  ECS motherboard.  Don't remember the model.
She had 1.5 gigs of Kingston DDR ram, PC2700.
nVidia GeForce FX5200 AGP with 128 megs of ram on board.
Creative Labs Audigy 4
Sony DRU800A dual layer DVD burner
Mobile racks for nearly limitless hard drive space, but main drive was a Western Digital 160 gig IDE hard drive
Windows XP Home w/SP2
350 watt Antec power supply

Current rig:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ AM2 socket
Gigabyte GA-M55Plus-S3G rev 1.2 motherboard
1 gig, Single Channel, Kingston KVR800D2N5 memory, DDR2 PC-6400  (I know, I need at least another gig.  Haven't had the cash to get one)
Zalman heatsink.  Forgot the model number.
Antec Trueblue 2.0 430 watt PSU
EVGA nVidia Geforce 7300 GT PCI-E graphics with 512 megs of ram on board
Same sound card as before
New mobile racks, but main hard drive is 250 gig Western Digital IDE hard drive
In this new rig I installed my old, unused ZIP250 interal drive
Adaptec media card reader
Pioneer DVR-111C dual layer DVD burner with Lightscribe capabilities
Currently running Windows XP Home SP2 on main hard drive, and running XP Pro SP2 on my mother's hard drive, and on my SATA hard drive which I tinker around with.

Haven't made the transition to SATA drives yet because I haven't had the money to buy a bunch of SATA drives, even though they're dirt cheap these days.  But I will in the future.  The board has 4 SATA ports, and 2 IDE channels. 




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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #66 on: August 06, 2007, 01:02:43 pm »
Current Rig

Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4 GHz) Kentsfield
ZALMAN CNPS9500 AT 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink
EVGA 122-CK-NF68-AR LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UW Black Aluminum Bezel, SECC ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Model TWIN2X2048-6400C4
2 x 74gb WD Raptor HD (raid 0... ya i know... no redundancy... don't care)
200gb external HD
2 x eVGA Nvidia 8800 GTS 320mb (should have went for the 640...o well) (SLI)
Creative 7.1 channel Xi-Fi XtremeGamer
700 Watt OCZ PSU
SAMSUNG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write, LightScribe Technology Black IDE Model SH-S182M/BEBE
LG Black E-IDE/ATAPI DVD-ROM Multi Read Drive Model GDR-8164BK
SAMSUNG Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Windows 98SE/ ME/ 2000/ XP - OEM

Dell 24" widescreen monitor (HD) :)
Logitech Z5500 505Watt 5.1 Speaker system

Currently running Windows xp SP2

when purchased.. 3 grand (now about 2300)
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #67 on: August 06, 2007, 01:41:38 pm »
Current Rig

Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4 GHz) Kentsfield
ZALMAN CNPS9500 AT 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink
EVGA 122-CK-NF68-AR LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UW Black Aluminum Bezel, SECC ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Model TWIN2X2048-6400C4
2 x 74gb WD Raptor HD (raid 0... ya i know... no redundancy... don't care)
200gb external HD
2 x eVGA Nvidia 8800 GTS 320mb (should have went for the 640...o well) (SLI)
Creative 7.1 channel Xi-Fi XtremeGamer
700 Watt OCZ PSU
SAMSUNG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write, LightScribe Technology Black IDE Model SH-S182M/BEBE
LG Black E-IDE/ATAPI DVD-ROM Multi Read Drive Model GDR-8164BK
SAMSUNG Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Windows 98SE/ ME/ 2000/ XP - OEM

Dell 24" widescreen monitor (HD) :)
Logitech Z5500 505Watt 5.1 Speaker system

Currently running Windows xp SP2

when purchased.. 3 grand (now about 2300)

You must have sweet data retrieval times with those hard drives.  *drools*  And I hate you real bad right now for having such a nice monitor.
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #68 on: August 07, 2007, 11:55:13 am »
-Pentium 4 Processor x86 Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 2 GenuineIntel ~1794 Mhz

-Intel Motherboard D854PT with Chipset i845D Rev 4, Southbridge 82801BA(ICH2), and Sensor 5B5B FFFFFFFF

-180GB HD Capacity of 2x 80GB + 1 20GB
--Maxtor 20GB UATA 5400RPM with 2 MB Cache [Backup]
--Maxtor 80GB UATA 7200RPM with 8 MB Cache [Secondary]
--Western Digital 80GB UATA 7200RPM with 8MB Cache [Primary]

-4X AGP 128 bit 512MB DDR2 [800MHz] ATI Radeon X1600 Pro VPU in 12-pipe rendering architecture with OpenGL 2.0 and Shader Model 3.0 and 2x400MHz RAMDAC

-768MB DDR[1x256 PC 2100(133MHz) & 1x512 PC 2700(166MHz)] RAM

-Intel PRO/100 VE Packet Schedular Miniport Ethernet Card with IPv6

-Sound Blaster Live Digital Sound Card

-Logitech Wireless Optical rechargable mouse

-Eclipse Saitek background lit Keyboard on USB Port

-CRT Mitsubishi Diamond Point SB70 Moniter

-CD Drives/Floppy
--Pioneer UATA DVDROM with DVDR and DVDRW Ultra Speed and CDR and CDRW Ultra Speed
--UATA CDRW[_NEC NR-7900A] High Speed
--Standard 3.5in Floppy Drive

-BIOS Version/Date Intel Corp. PT84510A.15A.0004.P02.0112051220, 12/05/2001

-OS Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600

-Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #69 on: June 10, 2008, 03:03:15 pm »

Current rig:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ AM2 socket
Gigabyte GA-M55Plus-S3G rev 1.2 motherboard
1 gig, Single Channel, Kingston KVR800D2N5 memory, DDR2 PC-6400  (I know, I need at least another gig.  Haven't had the cash to get one)
Zalman heatsink.  Forgot the model number.
Antec Trueblue 2.0 430 watt PSU
EVGA nVidia Geforce 7300 GT PCI-E graphics with 512 megs of ram on board
Same sound card as before
New mobile racks, but main hard drive is 250 gig Western Digital IDE hard drive
In this new rig I installed my old, unused ZIP250 interal drive
Adaptec media card reader
Pioneer DVR-111C dual layer DVD burner with Lightscribe capabilities
Currently running Windows XP Home SP2 on main hard drive, and running XP Pro SP2 on my mother's hard drive, and on my SATA hard drive which I tinker around with.

Haven't made the transition to SATA drives yet because I haven't had the money to buy a bunch of SATA drives, even though they're dirt cheap these days.  But I will in the future.  The board has 4 SATA ports, and 2 IDE channels. 


I've upgraded a bit since last time.

Here are the additions:

Additional 1 gig, Kingston KVR800D2N5 PC6400 DDR2 ram.  Total system ram, 2 gigs.

Antec Neopower 650 watt modular power supply.

Main hard drive is a Western Digital 500 gig SATAII plugged in via a mobile rack.  Mother's hard drive is a 250 gig Western Digital SATAII hard drive, using mobile rack.

Additional 500 gig SATAII Western Digital installed as slave drive for additional storage.

Thanks to a very generous friend from these boards, I'll soon have a GeForce 7950GT KO graphics card.

If I'm able to, I'll get a new mobo that can handle my processor and memory, and allow me to do SLI, since I have 2 of these bad boy cards.

Now, just need to get a new monitor and I'll be happy.  And a faster processor, while they're still making them.
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #70 on: June 10, 2008, 06:26:30 pm »
Just built a new system

DFI Lanparty DK 790FX MB
AMD Phenom Blackbox edition 2.6 GHZ Quadcore
ATI 3870X2 PCiExpress 2.0 Video Card with 1GB DDR3
4 GB 5-5-5-15 Kingston 1066 DDR2 RAM
WD Caviar 500GB SATA Drive
Seagate 250GB SATA Drive
Seagate 500 GB USB Drive (Backups)
Benq DVD RW+/-
Floppy Drive (I don't know why)
Soprano Mid-tower
750W Anteq Powersupply with Adjustable Fan
80 CFM 120 mm Turbine-style front case system fan
80 CFM 120 mm Turbine-style rear case fan
50 CFM 80 mm Blowhole fan
19" Gateway LCD Monitor 1440x900 @60hz max monitor

Running Vista Ultimate 64 BIT
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #71 on: June 10, 2008, 10:11:10 pm »
Just built a new system

DFI Lanparty DK 790FX MB
AMD Phenom Blackbox edition 2.6 GHZ Quadcore
ATI 3870X2 PCiExpress 2.0 Video Card with 1GB DDR3
4 GB 5-5-5-15 Kingston 1066 DDR2 RAM
WD Caviar 500GB SATA Drive
Seagate 250GB SATA Drive
Seagate 500 GB USB Drive (Backups)
Benq DVD RW+/-
Floppy Drive (I don't know why)
Soprano Mid-tower
750W Anteq Powersupply with Adjustable Fan
80 CFM 120 mm Turbine-style front case system fan
80 CFM 120 mm Turbine-style rear case fan
50 CFM 80 mm Blowhole fan
19" Gateway LCD Monitor 1440x900 @60hz max monitor

Running Vista Ultimate 64 BIT

AAAHHH!!  Another person that likes Kingston ram and Antec power supplies.  :-D  Me happy.
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #72 on: June 10, 2008, 10:17:51 pm »
Just built a new system

DFI Lanparty DK 790FX MB
AMD Phenom Blackbox edition 2.6 GHZ Quadcore
ATI 3870X2 PCiExpress 2.0 Video Card with 1GB DDR3
4 GB 5-5-5-15 Kingston 1066 DDR2 RAM
WD Caviar 500GB SATA Drive
Seagate 250GB SATA Drive
Seagate 500 GB USB Drive (Backups)
Benq DVD RW+/-
Floppy Drive (I don't know why)
Soprano Mid-tower
750W Anteq Powersupply with Adjustable Fan
80 CFM 120 mm Turbine-style front case system fan
80 CFM 120 mm Turbine-style rear case fan
50 CFM 80 mm Blowhole fan
19" Gateway LCD Monitor 1440x900 @60hz max monitor

Running Vista Ultimate 64 BIT

AAAHHH!!  Another person that likes Kingston ram and Antec power supplies.  :-D  Me happy.

I will say the PS is a little loud, but it's an older one.  Next time I'm buying one of the ones with modular cableing.
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #73 on: June 10, 2008, 10:45:11 pm »
Just built a new system

DFI Lanparty DK 790FX MB
AMD Phenom Blackbox edition 2.6 GHZ Quadcore
ATI 3870X2 PCiExpress 2.0 Video Card with 1GB DDR3
4 GB 5-5-5-15 Kingston 1066 DDR2 RAM
WD Caviar 500GB SATA Drive
Seagate 250GB SATA Drive
Seagate 500 GB USB Drive (Backups)
Benq DVD RW+/-
Floppy Drive (I don't know why)
Soprano Mid-tower
750W Anteq Powersupply with Adjustable Fan
80 CFM 120 mm Turbine-style front case system fan
80 CFM 120 mm Turbine-style rear case fan
50 CFM 80 mm Blowhole fan
19" Gateway LCD Monitor 1440x900 @60hz max monitor

Running Vista Ultimate 64 BIT

AAAHHH!!  Another person that likes Kingston ram and Antec power supplies.  :-D  Me happy.

I will say the PS is a little loud, but it's an older one.  Next time I'm buying one of the ones with modular cableing.

I remember when I got my last PSU when I first built my current rig.  I had all the fans running at top speed, and one of the panels was off cause I hadn't installed everything I wanted to yet, and the computer was actually so quiet, my mother didn't know it was on.

But, as times goes by, the system gets a little louder cause the fans get broken in more and more.

But, my personal view is, as long as they're kept clean, and still running, and don't get too too loud that I can't even hear the television, then I'm good.
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #74 on: June 10, 2008, 10:53:50 pm »
A "rebuild" that turned out to use very few of the original parts.

The original machine
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Dual Athlon 2100XP (modded to MP may update to 2600MP or 2800MP)
ASUS motherboard
512meg RAM PC 2100
40 GB Maxtor 80GB Maxtor  (has access to 2x120 gb on PC 1)
CD/RW
ASUS gForce Model ?? (very low video demand on system)
Sony Mutliscan 210GS 17"
Mitsumi keyboard
500 (?) Watt Antec PSU

The rebuilt machine:
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CPU Intel Core2Duo E6600 2.4ghz
Motherboard P5B-E
600w PSU (antec I think)
Video Card - Asus EN 7100GS
NEC MultiSync FP1370 22" monitor (shared with my windows machine.)
2x 1GB DDR2 667mhz
500gb SATA HD
LG SATA DVD-RW

Mitsumi keyboard
Microsoft Optical trackball.
Thermaltake Swing ATX case mid tower.
LinuxMint 4.0 KDE community edition

The machine was supposed to use the original HD and DVD/CD drives but it turned out that the ATA HD controller is not "real" it is a chip that translates from the ATA drives to the SATA controller.  My Linux version did not yet support that chip so I had to replace the drives as well.  Except for the drives the parts had all been bought back in last July.  The rebuild was delayed due to not knowing when or if I was going to be laid off.  A couple of months ago I decided to finish the rebuild (the drives cost about $200) rather than waste the money already spent.  I just yesterday transferred my software and data to this machine.  It is doing quite nicely.

I also have a "salvaged" Dell (P4 2.8 ghz) that I am considering making a "frankenputer" out of by cannibalizing my gaming machine to build up the Dell.  That is IF the Dell can take the hardware (in theory it should but its a Dell so I can't really be sure)
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #75 on: June 10, 2008, 11:13:07 pm »
If and when I build a new computer, I am thinking of going Intel dual core.  Then again, it depends on what I'm feeling at the time.
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #76 on: June 11, 2008, 06:47:03 am »
If and when I build a new computer, I am thinking of going Intel dual core.  Then again, it depends on what I'm feeling at the time.

I went AMD  because of price.  After I bought my chip, my doofus brother says, "Oh, man, I work for Intel, I could have gotten you a Quadcore for free".   >:(


If and when true quadcore apps come out, remember Intel is 2 dual cores on one stamp and AMD is truely 4 processors on one stamp.  That's part of why AMD's don't truely benchmark at the moment.
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #77 on: June 11, 2008, 11:19:23 am »
If and when I build a new computer, I am thinking of going Intel dual core.  Then again, it depends on what I'm feeling at the time.

I went AMD  because of price.  After I bought my chip, my doofus brother says, "Oh, man, I work for Intel, I could have gotten you a Quadcore for free".   >:(


If and when true quadcore apps come out, remember Intel is 2 dual cores on one stamp and AMD is truely 4 processors on one stamp.  That's part of why AMD's don't truely benchmark at the moment.

Actually, I believe Intel's new Q9300 is a true quad core processor, just as the Phenom processors from AMD. 

You're right about Intel's older quad cores merely being 2 dual core processors sandwiched together.

I normally go AMD because of price, and because up until now, the best AMD had to offer trailed Intel's by very small margins, and I don't split hairs over a few milliseconds, especially when the price difference is about 200 bucks less in some cases.

I'm hoping that sometime later this year, or the beginning of next year, AMD will release CPUs that will again give Intel something to worry about. 
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #78 on: June 18, 2008, 03:32:36 pm »
Modified/Updated System Specs:

Pentium 4 Processor x86 Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 2 GenuineIntel ~1794 Mhz

-Intel Motherboard D854PT with Chipset i845D Rev 4, Southbridge 82801BA(ICH2), and Sensor 5B5B FFFFFFFF

-180GB HD Capacity of 2x 80GB + 1 20GB
--Maxtor 20GB UATA 5400RPM with 2 MB Cache [Backup]
--Maxtor 80GB UATA 7200RPM with 8 MB Cache [Secondary]
--Western Digital 80GB UATA 7200RPM with 8MB Cache [Primary]

-500GB External backup USB 2.0 Harddrive

-4X AGP 128 bit 256MB GDDR3 Nividia Geforce 7800 GS

-1.5GB DDR[1x1GB Patriote PC 2700(166MHz) & 1x512MB Crucial PC 2700(166MHz)] RAM

-Intel PRO/100 VE Packet Schedular Miniport Ethernet Card with IPv6

-Sound Blaster Live Digital Sound Card

-Diamondback Razor 3G Gaming Mouse

-Eclipse Saitek II background lit Keyboard on USB Port

-LCD LG 19" Wide Screen Flat Panel Moniter with 2ms response time, 16:10 aspect ratio, 10,000:1 contrast ratio, Digital (DVI-D) output with 60hertz refresh rate

-CD Drives/Floppy
--Pioneer UATA DVDROM with DVDR and DVDRW Ultra Speed and CDR and CDRW Ultra Speed
--UATA CDRW[_NEC NR-7900A] High Speed
--Standard 3.5in Floppy Drive

-BIOS Version/Date Intel Corp. PT84510A.15A.0004.P02.0112051220, 12/05/2001

-OS Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600

-Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
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Re: Rig Specs
« Reply #79 on: June 18, 2008, 04:00:27 pm »
Laptop Specs for my new laptop I got :D :

Processor
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor2 T5750 (2.00GHz, 667MHz, 2MB L2 cache)

Operating System
Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit) SP1

Memory
2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2-1024MB module)

Hard Drive
160GB 7200rpm Serial ATA hard drive w/ 8MB cache5

Optical Drive
8x Multi-Format Dual Layer Slot Load DVD-RW w/ DVD-RAM

Video
NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800M GTS with 512MB of GDDR3 discrete video memory

Chipset
Chassis Intel® PM965

Display
17.0" WXGA+ Ultrabright TFT Active Matrix (1440 x 900 max. resolution)

Web Camera
Integrated 1.3 Megapixel Web Cam

Audio
High-Definition Audio- 2 Channel, Built-In speakers, embedded microphone, headphone/speaker jack, and microphone jacks

Battery
Primary 9 Cell Lithium Ion battery (7800mAH)

External Ports
USB 2.0, VGA Connector, V1.2 HDMI Connector, IEEE 1394 Firewire Port, e-SATA and Kensington Lock Slot
Expansion Slots One ExpressCard™ Type 54

Keyboard and Mouse
Full-Size Keyboard, Synaptics Touchpad with Vertical Scroll and Dedicated Multimedia Panel

Media Card Reader
5-in-1 media card reader (Memory Stick®, MemoryStick Pro®, MultiMediaCard™, Secure Digital™, xD-Picture Card)
 
Network
Integrated RealTek 10/100/1000 Ethernet Adapter
Modem Integrated V.92 56K modem
Wireless Network Integrated Realtek 802.11b/g Wireless Networking
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