What's your computer spec ?

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CASE: Antec P180 SPCR Advanced Super Midi Tower Case
CPU : AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+ (Socket 939)
Cooling: Swiftech H20-220 Apex "Ultra" Watercooling Kit - CPU only for now GPU coming soon
PSU : Enermax Noisetaker 600W EG701AX-VE(W) SFMA ATX2.0 SLI Compliant PSU
MBoard : Asus A8N32-SLi Deluxe nForce4 SLi X16 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
Memory : Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3500LL Pro TwinX (2x1GB) CAS2
GFX : 2 x EVGA 7950GX2 (quad sli)
TV : Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 PCI Adapter
Audio : Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS Edition
HDisk C : 2 x 74gig 10k Raptors in RAID-0,
HDisk D : 1 x 300 Gig WD 7,200rpm S-ATA
2 x Pioneer DVR-110DBK 16 x 16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter
Floppy : Mitsumi 7-in-1 Media Drive, Internal Memory Card Reader/ Writer + Floppy Disk Drive
Other : Silverstone FP54 Black Aluminium VFD Display
Mouse : Logitech Cordless G7 Gaming-Grade Laser Mouse
Keyboard : Raptor K1 Professional Gaming-Grade Keyboard
Monitor : 22" IIyama Pro 514
Speakers : Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers
Headphones : Sennheiser PC150 Binaural Headset
Scanner : Canon Canoscan LiDE 25 USB 2.0 Scanner
Printer : Epson Stylus Photo 950
Telewest Cable : 10meg
Network : Linksys WRT54GS Wireless-G SpeedBooster Broadband Router/4-Port Switch


do you think theres any room for improvment ?
 
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This is my PC:

CASE: Shuttle SN25P
CPU : AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Socket 939)
Cooling: Standard
PSU : Standard
MBoard : Standard
Memory : Corsair 1gb 3200 cas 2.5
GFX : 1 x XFX GeForce 6800GT 256MB Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
TV : Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T-USB2
Audio : Standard
HDisk C : 1 x 80GB SATA drive,
HDisk D : None
Optical drive :1 x Aopen DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter
Floppy : None
Other : None
Mouse : Logitech MX510
Keyboard : SpeedLink Ultra SL-6465 Flat Metal Keyboard
Monitor : Belina 20.1" widescreen TFT
Speakers : Yamaha 2.1 (old pc speakers)
Headphones : None
Scanner : None
Printer : Canon S330 Photo
Broadband: NTL 4MB
Network : Belkin wireless router
 
Its not really a question worth asking, any PC can be improved upon, it depends what you need from it and how much you're willing to spend, and of course everyone has different ideas about what can be improved on and wether its worth it and so on....... and so on.......

Perhaps asking a slightly different question would get a better response?....:)

Something like....

This is my spec, whats yours and what would you upgrade next?
 
My Current Specs: -
Logisys Phantom (Black w/ Blue LED) ATX Tower Case
Akasa Paxpower2 460w ATX2.0 PSU w/ 120mm Blue LED Fan
3x Akasa Silent 80mm Case Fans w/ Blue LEDs
Gigabyte GA-K8NE Socket 754 & PCI-E (nForce4)
AMD Athlon64 3400+ (2400Mhz) @ 2700Mhz
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro Copper Heatpipe Cooler
2x 1024MB Corsair Value DDR400 @ 2.5-3-3-7 1T
Sapphire ATi Radeon X1800XT 256MB @ 720/900Mhz
Zalman VF900-CU Quiet Copper Heatpipe Cooler
Crappy Onboard 24 Channel Realtek AC'97 Audio
Ancient (1996) LiteOn 19" CRT
1600x1200 @ 75hz, 1280x960 And Under @ 85hz
Logitech Z-530 5.1 Surround (140 Peak Watts)
Logitech Media Keyboard (Elite)
Logitech MX-518 Gaming Mouse
4Mbit Cable Courtesy Of Telewest Blueyonder

Upgrades I Am Making Soon: -
Some sub-£200 19" WGXA (1440x900 widescreen) LCD
Intel Core Duo 2 E6400/E6600 or AMD Athlon X2 3800+/4600+
Smaller bloody case so it fits on my desk, pref. aluminium.

Then nothing else until 12 months from now (yeah, right.)

fenderbass86 said:
Cause it's not really an important matter so a Don will likely come along and delete this, and i'll likely lose my post count again!
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People talk about important things here? :o :p
 
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Nothing wrong with posting your spec.

Mine:

Core Duo 2.16GHz
2GB DDR2 633
GeForce Go 7900GTX 512MB
17" 1920x1200 display
Rubbish sound
CD-RW/DVD combo drive
100GB 5400rpm 2.5" drive

The missus:

Athlon 64 Vienna 3000+ @ 2.6GHz
Abit KN8 Ultra
2GB Geil PC32000 (4 x 512MB)
Radeon X1800XT 256MB
18" AOC TFT
TurtleBeach SantaCruz
250GB 7200RPM drive
NEC ND3500 DVD-RW

The server:

P4 2.53B
Abit IT7 Max v2
1GB PC3200
Radeon 9200
8 x 250GB Maxtor Maxline 3
 
My PC:

AMD3500+
Gigabyte board
3x 126gig SATA
1x 36gig Raptor
1 gig ram
ATi 9800 pro
ViewSonic 17"
Some DVD RW

Mrs Pc:
Compaq DX 2000.
Celeron 2.6
768mb ram
3x 40 gig drives
 
AMD X2 3800 @ 2.4Ghz
Asrock Dual SATAII motherboard
1x WD 250Gb HDD SATAII & 16Mb Cache
1gig Corsair Twinx XMS 3200 2-2-2-5
ATI X1600XT 256Mb
Asus DVD-RAM drive
Aerocool SE+II 450W PSU
Philips Sonic Edge 5.1 soundcard

Er... yeah thats most of it, wont mention the case lol, hope to get a decent monitor soon i.e a tft 19" and a new graphics card like a X1800 or perhaps a X1900 by at least the end of the year.
 
At the moment:

Pentium 4 'Prescott 530J' @ 3.0GHz
Asus P5P800 motherboard
4x256MB Corsair value DDR
Leadtek 6800le unlocked to 12/6
160GB Maxtor 160GB IDE
Samsung CD/RW + LiteOn DVD
Eye-T case + 400W generic PSU

upgrading to:

Core 2 Duo E6400
965 or nForce5 motherboard
2x1GB G.Skill NR PC-2 6400
Sapphire X1800XT
80GB Western Digital SATA II
250GB Western Digital SATA II
Pioneer DVD/RW
Lian-Li PC7+ (Black)
Tagan Easycon 530W

I think i'm one the people that will see the biggest improvement over my current system.
 
Computer #1

CASE: Lian Li PC7+ (Silver)
CPU : AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.5ghz
Cooling: Arctic freezer 64 pro + point of view Mr. Freeze graphics cooler
PSU : 450w Aerocool turbine modular PSU
MBoard : Epox EP-9NPAJ SLi
Memory : Geil value 2.x512mb @ 2.5,4,4,7 - 208mhz - 2.8v
GFX : Point of View 7800GT @ 480 core/1200 mem
Audio : Onboard sound
HDisk C : 160gb Samsung Spinpoint
HDisk D : 250gb Samsung Spinpoint
HDisk E : 80gb Hitatchi
Optical : Panasonic 16x DVD-RW
Other : Cheap fan controller
Mouse : Logitech MX510 W/steelpad
Keyboard : Saitek Eclipse
Monitor : 26" Samsung R41 HDTV
Speakers : Philips 2.1 MMS430 speakers
Headphones : Speedlink
Printer : Lexmark printer/scanner

Things to be changed
Buying a 450w OCZ Modstream as the my current PSU's 80mm fan is on it's last legs

Computer #2

CASE: Antec Super LanBoy
CPU : Intel Pentium D 805 2.66ghz @ 3.75ghz
Cooling: Arctic freezer 7 pro + zalman vf700
PSU : 430w Seasonic S12
MBoard : Asus P5ND2 SLi Deluxe
Memory Samsung DDR2 533mhz 2.x256mb
GFX : x800gto 128mb @ 440/800
Audio : Onboard sound
HDisk C : 120gb Maxtor
Optical : Pioneer DVD-ROM
Other : Cheap fan controller
Mouse : MS 6000 Laser W/steelpad
Keyboard : MS Media pro
Monitor : Acer 20inch widescreen TFT


Things to be changed
Upgrade the ram, most likely 2x1gb G.Skill DDR2 533
 
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im bored so ill post!

CASE: Antec Sonata 2
CPU : Opteron [email protected] (Socket 939)
Cooling: arctic cooler 64 pro
PSU : Hiper TypeR 580watt
MBoard : DFI lanparty something
Memory : G.Skill 2GB DDR HZ PC4000 (2x1GB)
GFX : X1800XT
Audio : Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2
HDisk 1 -250gb western digital
HDisk 2 -120gb western digital
1x pioneer 16x dvd player, plextor cdrw burner
Floppy : some sony £5 on
Other : Silverstone FP54 Black Aluminium VFD Display
Mouse : intelli expolror v3
Keyboard : packard bell 10 year old one
Monitor : 19" acer widescreen
Speakers : big technics ones
Amp: cambridge A1
Headphones : Sennheiser PC1 something (£18)
mousemat -a tatty guiness one
Network : D-link DI-604
 
Opteron 146 @ 2.8Ghz
Asus A8n32
512MB RAM running at 140Mhz :o <--- will be improving on this as soon as I can.
Asus X1900XT 512MB
Lian Li PC7+
NEC DVD+-RW (only a 16x4 single layer I believe)
120Gb Maxtor 7200rpm
Hiper 580W PSU
Dell 2405 24" \o/
Logitech cordless keyboard and mouse
Some fancy hi-fi speakers and amp
8Mb Broadband

I've also got a server with an XP1900 and 640Gb of space as a household overflow of junk. Might need to drop a couple more HDDs in there at some point.
 
tom_nieto said:
512MB RAM running at 140Mhz :o <--- will be improving on this as soon as I can.
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:D haha


Oppy 170 @ 2.75GHz
DFI Expert
2gig G.Skill ZX
XFX 7900GT
raid-0 80gig seagates + another for storage.
Enermax Liberty 620
Hyundai B70A


Next upgrades:

Dell 2407
Decent set of speakers (5.1 rather than quadrophic)
Second 7900gt (probs)
 
Mine: (mainly used for gaming)
Pentium4 Northwood @ 3.0GHz
Antec SmartPower 350W PSU
Abit IS7-E motherboard
1GB TwinMOS CAS2 RAM
XFX GF6800nu AGP @ 16/6 & 385/850
X-FI Xtreme music audio
Barracuda 80GB HD
Samsung SyncMaster 17" CRT
Samsung CD-RW
Samsung DVD-ROM
MS internet Keyboard
Logitec MX510 optical mouse / Func pad
Sennheiser HD250 headphones

Wife's: (mainly used for design & illustration work)
Pentium4 3.0GHz Prescott
Gigabyte Duo-Pro motherboard
Antec SmartPower 400W PSU
1GB g.skill CAS2 RAM
80GB Barracuda SATA HD
Asus ATi X700 PRO PCI-E video
SoundBlaster 512 PCI audio
Sony Trinitron 17" CRT
Sony DVD-RW
MS keyboard & mouse
Creative 2.1 speakers
Canon Pixma ip8500 printer
Canon LiDE20 scanner
HP Laserjet 1100 printer
Wacom Tablet

She also has a HP Tablet PC, which is something like a 2.4GHz Pentium M, 1.5GB RAM, 40GB HD.

Then a little media/file server machine:
Duron 1.2GHz
Abit KT7-A motherboard
Enlight 300W PSU
384MB RAM
Radeon 7000 video
SB Live! Audio
180GB storage
Samsung DVD-ROM
Rosewill wireless keyboard & mouse
Connected to a 20" RCA TV via S-Video

Then all the machines are networked via a Netgear router (the tablet PC using Wireless) and share a 3MB cable connection with a Terayon cable modem.

phew :)

No major upgrades planned any time soon - maybe a bigger HD for wife's PC (would she listen when I said 80GB wouldn't be enough for Photoshop work?). Then next year I'll probably do a major upgrade for Vista/DX10. I also want to build the wife a monster design workstation - once she's graduated and has got a nice job!
 
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Here's my rig:-

Socket 754
AMD A64 3700+
Epox EP-8NPA SLi motherboard
2x BFG 7800GT OC in Sli
2x 1GB sticks of PNY PC3200 @ 2.5-3-2-5 1T (instead of stock 3-4-4-8 1T)
2x Maxtor D/Max 10 160GB Sata hdds in 2x Vantec Vortex HDD coolers
NEC ND 4550A DL DVDRW
MSI CR52 52x32x52 CDRW
Hiper Type R 580W Modular psu
3.5" Floppy Drive
Thermaltake Armour (aluminium) VA8000SWA
HP P1130 (Sony Trinitron) 21" crt.

Soon to have water cooling fitted comprising of:-

Aquaextreme 50z pump
Aquaextreme MP-05 PRO Limited Edition CPU Water Block
Aquaextreme MP-1 GPU block x2
XSPC passive reservoir
Alphacool NexXxoS Xtreme III Triple 120mm Radiator

CPU will be running at 2.75ghz when the watercooling is fitted and the graphics cards will be overclocked from the already clocked speeds of 471/1.10 to 490/1.20 or maybe a bit more. I know they will hit 506/1.24 on air but they get quite warm so hopefully the watercooling will sort that out. As for the cpu that will run at 2.795ghz on air prime and memtest stable.

Also to be fitted is a Creative Audigy 2ZS and a decent set of 5.1 speakers.
 
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