Thread: Post Your Computer

costco.

2004.

toshiba.

$1400.

widescreen.

mouse pad thing in the middle near my thumbs.

speaker things on the outside.

it's kind of the coolest computer ever... and if you say otherwise you obviously don't know shit about costco toshibas... ya i said it.

Ok here we go, I built this recently:

Computer: Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz overclocked to 3.2Ghz (400x8)
Motherboard: Gigabyte 965P-Ds3
RAM: 2048Mb DDR2 667Mhz overclocked to 800Mhz 4-4-4-x
Graphics Card: x1900xt overclocked to 675/765
Sound Card: Creative Audigy 2 ZS
Hard Drive: 250Gb SATA II 16Mb
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2

Using this on a 19'' LCD, optical mouse/keyboard, along with 5.1 speakers

Everything in total (not including the monitor, keyboard, and mouse) ended up costing me $1500, that includes the case, cooling, powersupply, extra cables, speakers, and etc. So I think I did pretty good.

Here is mine!

Name = Crash

Microsoft Vista 32 bit (sytem rating of 4.8 )
19" monitor
AMD Athlon™ 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
2.41 GHz
2046 mb RAM
233 GB Serial Drive
512 MB Nvidia Card
Microsoft Intelli Wireless Mouse+Keyboard Explorer 2.0

Originally Posted by arby

He needs somewhere to store the RAM. Duh....
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Uh, no. RAM is not stored on the hard drive. That's the entire thought behind it. It's like a small little hard drive used for caching and stuff.

Desktop: Got it 2 and a half years ago. (CDN$1200 new)

Dell Dimension 2400
15'' LCD Flat Panel
Intel Celeron 1.6 GHz
512 MB Ram
160 GB Hard Drive
CD-RW
DVD-ROM
5.1 Channel Surround
Windows XP Home
Standard Sound and Video cards....

Laptop: Got it 6 months ago. (CDN$900 new)

Dell Inspiron 1300
15.1'' display
Intel Celeron M 1.8 GHz
512 MB Ram
60 GB Hard drive
CD/DVD-RW
Windows XP Home
Standard Sound and Video cards...

Originally Posted by TweaK

Uh, no. RAM is not stored on the hard drive. That's the entire thought behind it. It's like a small little hard drive used for caching and stuff.
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RAM is stored on the HD when you hibernate and when you use virtual memory.
My stats

• Intel centrino duo
• 100 GB HD
• 1 GB RAM
• Windows XP

I installed:

• Firefox
• Dev-cpp
• C#
• Visual Basic
• The sims 2
• XNA
• Game maker
• Apache
• PHP 5.2.0
• Mysql 5
• Winzip
• Itunes

I think that's pretty good for a laptop.

You know, if you had 1008GB, and were at all sensible, you'd choose something that wasn't Windows. Windows will always have a pagefile whether you like it or not, and that's slow and a waste of space. (Actually I think you can disable the pagefile to an extent, so maybe it would be fine). Even so, I don't think Windows - at least not your normal versions - were built to handle that kind of memory at all sensibly. So it wouldn't work, or would work very bad. 1.08TB of memory? I mean, Moore's Law isn't quite that fast.

As for hibernation, who uses that (hint: fools). And as for virtual memory, uhhh, guys, like you'd be needing that with so much memory. Dur. Seriously. You could store your entire internet cache right in RAM.

C#[/b]

C# what? One of Microsoft's various IDEs or just a compiler?

C# (Sea Sharp) is an MS proprietary language based on C++
it's used for .NET apps

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

As for hibernation, who uses that (hint: fools). And as for virtual memory, uhhh, guys, like you'd be needing that with so much memory. Dur. Seriously. You could store your entire internet cache right in RAM.
C# what? One of Microsoft's various IDEs or just a compiler?
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I'm actually in hibernation mode right now. I mean right at this very moment while I'm typing this post.

C# (Sea Sharp) is an MS proprietary language based on C++
it's used for .NET apps[/b]

Well yeah, but I mean he said he "downloaded C#". Which is kind of like saying "I downloaded Python" or "I downloaded the Nihilist Ideology". What related to C# did he download?

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

Well yeah, but I mean he said he "downloaded C#". Which is kind of like saying "I downloaded Python" or "I downloaded the Nihilist Ideology". What related to C# did he download?
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ah, case of not reading posts properly
my apologies

ah, case of not reading posts properly
my apologies[/b]

No worries, no love has been lost. (But you are now secretly on my hit list for people I&#39;d like to hit <strike>on</strike>).

Name: teh_suck

I&#39;m trying to learn how to program...know very little of python....but idk, I think I wanna learn something else.

OS:Windows XP SP1 (Or, at least until Windows stops bugging me after installing the next batch of updates. I hate that about windows. Why can&#39;t I get all the updates at once?)
GPU:eVGA Geforce 6600GT 128MB VRAM
RAM:1.5GB
HD:80GB
Processor:Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHts /w HT
Keyboard:Standard 104Key Logitech keyboard. Works good.
Mouse:Logitech MX518. This mouse is god. I couldn&#39;t go on with out this.
Monitor: Hanns-G 19&#39; Wide screen monitor /w 1440x900 resolution. Best monitor I&#39;ve ever owned.


That&#39;s pretty much it. I&#39;ll probably wait till the next batch of Macs come out and grab one of them. I bought that video card about a year and a half ago, and its worthless now. Hate it.

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

Well yeah, but I mean he said he "downloaded C#". Which is kind of like saying "I downloaded Python" or "I downloaded the Nihilist Ideology". What related to C# did he download?
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I DOWNLOADED TEH INTERNETS

Oh, and my RAM just doubled, you pile of geeks. 2047 divine MBs of RAM&#33;

Oh, and my RAM just doubled, you pile of geeks. 2047 divine MBs of RAM&#33;[/b]

TO THE RAM STORE~

I thought my computer couldn&#39;t be upgraded any more - I&#39;ve opened it up a number of times but last time was the first that I&#39;d seen - a hidden ram slot covered in dust&#33;

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

TO THE RAM STORE~
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AKFJSALKFGJLKDFJGKFDJGK&#33;

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

I thought my computer couldn&#39;t be upgraded any more - I&#39;ve opened it up a number of times but last time was the first that I&#39;d seen - a hidden ram slot covered in dust&#33;
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Woo-yay&#33; Be sure to first look at sites like crucial.com to see how many MB your mobo holds max, becuase you wouldn&#39;t want to buy RAM for nothing, would you? Thought not.

Originally Posted by TweaK

Woo-yay&#33; Be sure to first look at sites like crucial.com to see how many MB your mobo holds max, becuase you wouldn&#39;t want to buy RAM for nothing, would you? Thought not.
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Well you can always eat it.

Oh yeh and I got 500 mbs of RAM. Yes I know its not a lot, cause I ate most of it I miss my RAM&#33;&#33;1

Dell Optiplex GX280

3GHz Pentium 4
512MB RAM
Onboard Intel Graphics with 128MB video RAM; not that bad actually.
150GB HDD
17" TFT
512K/bit ADSL
Epson Stylus C66 Printer
Windows XP Home SP2

I&#39;m also considering setting up a Mandriva 2007 partition but (a) I have a Speedtouch 330 modem and I don&#39;t think Linux cope and (b) Kaniaz thinks I&#39;d be a fool to, and I (suprisingly) respect his opinion. I like KDE a lot though, and Konqueror

My computer has a cryptic default name now but if I were to install Mandriva I&#39;d have to think of a decent name.

Identity X please don&#39;t waste a perfectly good system like that on Linux

Please

AMD Athlon 3.2 ghz
Nvidia GeForce 6600
1024 RAM
186GB Harddrive

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

You know, if you had 1008GB, and were at all sensible, you&#39;d choose something that wasn&#39;t Windows. Windows will always have a pagefile whether you like it or not, and that&#39;s slow and a waste of space. (Actually I think you can disable the pagefile to an extent, so maybe it would be fine). Even so, I don&#39;t think Windows - at least not your normal versions - were built to handle that kind of memory at all sensibly.
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I believe the most RAM WinXP can run is 4 GB. Vista&#39;s supposed to support up to 128 GB.

Anywho, my computer:

Gateway 820 GM
-Intel P4 530 w/ HTT, 3 GHz
-Radeon X300 SE video card 128 MB (actually works really good, I can run all my games at the highest settings)
-250 GB SATA HD
-1 GB RAM
-1x DVD burner, 1x DVD drives
-more crap installed on it than I can count
-&#036;2500 to buy including extra cords, printer, etc. (our printer sucks though, the 9 year old printer we have actually runs faster and prints in higher quality than the new one)
-I&#39;m guessing something close to &#036;500 spent on games
-and I named it Billy

Originally Posted by QwinsepiaSquared

I believe the most RAM WinXP can run is 4 GB. Vista&#39;s supposed to support up to 128 GB.
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Somewhat correct. Vista&#39;s lesser 3 versions can only run up to 4/8, but Ultimate can run up to 128. Yes.

Anyway, my PC right now:

PC
AMD Athlon64 3500+ 2.2Ghz
2048MB DDR400 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT
Internal 1x 150GB HDD
External 2x 500GB HDD
DVD Burner, DVD Reader, etc - the usual
Internal card readers (support for 6 types)
8 USB Ports (2 front, 6 back)
Running Windows Vista Ultimate RC2 & Windows XP Home (Dual-boot, mostly using Vista)
Other hardware
17" HP Pavilion f1703 LCD Monitor
D-Link DGL-4300 Gaming (GameFuel) Router, supporting speeds up until 25 Mbit
HP Photosmart printer
Logitech G15 Keyboard
Logitech MediaPlay Mouse
Dolby 5.1 Surround Set + Huge SubWoofer
1x 4-Port USB2 Hub
1x 4-Port USB1 Hub
Trust Joystick

Code:

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System Information
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Time of this report: 12/24/2006, 13:13:16
****** Machine name: MARKPC2
** Operating System: Windows Vista™ Ultimate (6.0, Build 5744) (5744.vista_rtm_edw.061003-1945)
********** Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: FUJITSU SIEMENS
****** System Model: P5GD1-FM
************** BIOS: BIOS Date: 11/28/05 10:37:03 Ver: 08.00.10
**********Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
************ Memory: 2046MB RAM
**********Page File: 1441MB used, 2876MB available
********Windows Dir: C:\Windows
****DirectX Version: DirectX 10
DX Setup Parameters: Not found

**** DxDiag Version: 6.00.5744.16384 32bit Unicode

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