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I thought this is a computer forum why not get people to post their computer specs

CPU: AMD 4200 x2 Windsor core [email protected] (217x12)
Cooler: Thermalright XP-90C with 90mm Vantec Tornado 7v modded
Memory: 2x 1GB OCZ PC4000 mem timings 3,8,3,3
Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Premium
Gfx: XFX 7800 GT Extreme (gpu 450@501 mem 1050@1201) with an Artic cooler
Hard disk: 2x 7200.10 250GB Seagate Barracudas 16mb cache in RAID 0
PSU: 550w Enermax PSU (4 years old)
Case: Lian Li v1000
Sound: Audigy 5.1 (5 years old)
Media: 16x Pioneer DVDRW
Monitor: IIyama 19" Vision Master Pro CRT 1600x1200 (4 years old)

Built: April 2006

Pic here

Grim

 

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cpu Intel core 2 duo E6400 2.1GHZ
HDD Seagate Barracuda 250GB hard disk
MOBO Asus P5NE-SLI
Media 18x DVD-REWRITER
Case A crap one
PSU 700W Winpower (I hear a chorus of whooooo, what, never heard of it) thats crap too
RAM 1GB samsung ram PC6400 DDR 2 800MHz (am getting 2GB crucial Ballistix at the end of the month)
Monitor Mirai 17"
Graphics 256MB MSI passive cooled NX8600GT
Fans exhaust fan and 80mm fan at the back, 1 at the front.
Sound onboard 7.1 surround sound

 

Case: Antec Performance One P180B Advanced Super Mid Tower Case (Black)
Case Fans: Four; 1 front, 1 lower chamber, 1 rear, 1 top
Motherboard: Asus P5B (Audio, LAN, RAID)
PSU: 500w Enermax Liberty
CPU: Intel E6300 C2D Conroe 1.86 GHz
Cooler: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Memory: 2x 1GB TWIN2X2048-6400 2GB Kit DDR2-800 XMS2-6400 Xtreme Performance Memory
Hard disk: 7200.10 400GB Seagate Barracuda SATA II 16mb cache (spare 320GB SATA II Barracuda drive for backups/images)
External Drive Enclosure: Vantec NexStar 3 NST-360SU-BK External 3.5in Hard Drive Enclosure
Optical Drive: Plextor PX-712 12x DVD±RW
Operating System: Windows XP SP2
Video: Sapphire X850XT 256MB PCI-E x16
Sound: SoundBlaster X-Fi Fata1ity 64MB
Network: Onboard Gigabit Ethernet
Monitor: Dell UltraSharp 1905FP 19" LCD

Built: August 2006
Cost when Built: approximately $1250 (price does not include OS, monitor, and optical drive).

 

the case and mobo don't go too well, if you look in the pic you'll see blue ramsinks glued to the northbridge. the reason for that is the case rotates the mobo upside down, which makes the chipset heat pipe have to work in reverse and it kept overheating when i started overclocking

got mine at distribution price (about 20% off) due to where i worked

grim

 

My case is crap so I wont show it, also my PSU is a very cheap one that came with the case and it took me ages to find it on google, only Xcase.com seems to stock them.

The mobo is good though although the Northbridge seems a little exposed, the cpu is also good and it has decent hard drive.

Total cost of mine was 634 including vat

 

i have a huge 2" northbridge cooler but it wouldnt fit due to the gfx card over hanging the chipset so had to squeeze in the ram sinks instead. had to cut some of those ram sinks to fit accross the mosfets too due to them not like the v-core voltage being upped

grim

 

my 2nd machine

Shuttle SN45G
2x 256mb
XP3000 barton core
80GB WD
onboard 64mb shared gfx
onboard audio
belkin wireless NIC

grim

 

Case : Standard Case but with a 2500mm Side Fan
Case Fans: 2; 1 front, 1 rear,
Motherboard: Abit Aw8D Intel 975X (socket 775)
PSU: 600W Seasonic S12
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 960 Dual Core 3.6Ghz
Memory: 3 x 1Gb Corsair DDR2 PC5300
Hard disk: 2 x 7200.10 250GB Seagate Barracuda SATA II 16mb cache
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-S162L Dual Layer DVD Writer
Operating System: Windows XP SP2
Video: HIS IceQ3 Radeon X1900 Crossfire Edition
Monitor: LG 19" L1960TR 2ms response
Built: April 2007

Cost when Built: approx £1000

Looking to purchase another X1900 to complete the crossfire

 

Now look ladies, I dont want to make any of you cry with my specs hehe...but hell here I go:

Spec 1: The all-round machine:

ASUS A8R-MVP Mobo
AMD 4400 X2 CPU (2.20GHz)
2GB DDR PC3200 RAM
500GB SATA, 250GB SATA
Samsung 18x DVD-RW SATA, Pioneer 18x DVD-RW IDE
2x ATI Sapphire X1300XT 512MB (Crossfired only on Media Centre)
Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic
Akasa Evo33 CPU Cooler
2x 19" Prolite LCD monitors
Hiper type-M 580W PSU
Antec 900 Gaming case
Creative T6100 5.1 surround speakers
OS: Media Centre 2005 (to play Matrix Online), Vista Ultimate x64

Spec 2: Gaming machine:

ASUS M2R32-MVP Mobo
AMD 6000 X2 CPU (3.00GHz)
4GB DDR2 PC6400 (800) RAM (2GB GeIL and 2GB ELIXIR)
ATI Sapphire 2600XT 256MB GDDR3 PCI-E (soon to get a second one for Crossfire)
500GB SATA Maxtor HDD (bought for under £60 from Ebuyer)
Samsung 18x DVD-RW SATA
Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic
Zalman CNPS9700-LED CPU Cooler
Hiper Type-R 580W Blue PSU
Antec 900 Gaming case
(Soon to get a 22" LCD as its currently using the other 19" from the other machine)
Logitech Chillstream gamepad
Creative T6100 5.1 surround speakers
OS: Vista Ultimate x64

And thats just for starters...I hope to get a laptop very soon with an AMD X2 CPU and 2GB RAM and 120GB HDD...and then I am going to build a smaller machine for testing purposes and I am going to buy a small server...so yes 5 computers for moi as a female friend put it to me last nite: you are very greedy

Both machines have 5 case fans (2 on the front, 1 in the middle, 1 on the side and 1 on the back). I may post pics if u want me too

 

2500mm fan

does it double up as the office extraction fan ?

grim

 

erm I think he meant 250mm? lol... My two cases both have 200mm at the top...so in essence that makes 6 case fans in both cases hehe...

 

i was planning on doing the same (with SLI obviously) but my mobo only does 16x PCI-E with one card or 8x with 2 cards and it would be more beneficial to chuck one 8800 in. i know it wont having the "bragging" rights but i used to build crossfire and SLI rigs for work and know they don't give you as punch as you would like as not all games are coded to support it

grim

 

you think thats bad for my first watercooling setup 4 years ago i went a little OTT and bought a huge rad that took 6x 120mm ys-tech fans that weren't 7v modded....it was like a hair dryer. on the bright side i sat there looking smug with my 1.4ghz chip running at 2.8ghz

grim

 

My mobo is the same but unless its changed SLI only runs at 8x anyhow wether you use to 16x slots or not, but that might have changed since I last read about it.

and yes you are right crossfire and sli dont work right for all games and can cause more BSODS than p****g on your mobo when the comps running.

 

yeah they do 2x 16x SLI now

i was building SLI and crossfire systems for a job i was doing 18 months ago, at the time the crossfire was more awkward because the driver support from ATI was lacking. the resolution was also limited to 1600x1200 because of the silicon image chip they were using couldnt process enough data to allow any higher res.

grim

 

That's a nice gaming box... now, post the cost, so I can start laughing rather than cry about it. heh!

 

his system has nothing over some i've built which were probably priced some where between 2 and 3 grand but he was a gfx designer and had 7 watercooled hard disks in raid 5 lol

i used to chase top performance in my rigs until i realised the money i was spending and i wasn't actually using the full performance. i also passed through the whole modding phase as well about 4 years ago, some of the mods i did were awful. there's simply no need for 7 blow holes in your case

grim

 

well seeing as u built yours last year at a cost of $1250 (which I think would be about £600-£700 UK price) My gaming machine would be in the price bracket...but as I am writing this I have done the calculations and the amount is £630 and thats without the 22" LCD monitor and 2nd graphics card so add those in there and we're roughly at £800 or more...so laugh all u want but its still a gaming machine and a half

 

thats why its called trial and error my friend