Whats your current rig?

[mick.wheelz]

Since casper bitched about us posting our current rigs in his thread :P, here is a place to do it

I'll start
Mobo: Albatron KX18DS Pro II (Nforce2 'set)
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2800+ @ 2.21Ghz
RAM: 512(2x256Mb) Spectec Dual Channel DDR333
HDD1: Samsung SpinPoint 120gb UltraATA
HDD2: Seagate 40gb UltraATA
DVDRW: Samsung 16x DVD-RW
DVD: Samsung 16x DVD-ROM
VGA: Albatron GeForce FX5200 128Mb
CASE: ThermalTake Tsunami Dream Black
MISC:
Gilat SkyStar 360E Sat Router
56k Lucent Win modem
Logitech x-230 2.1 speakers
BenQ optical mouse
some kinda keyboard

[Paris Hilton]

Mobo: Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe (nVidia nForce 2 chipset)
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2100+ @ 1733mhz
RAM: 1024mb (256+256+512) Generic DDR233
HDD1: Maxtor Diamondmax 9 Calypso (ATA, 80GB, 8mb Cache)
HDD2: Seagate Barracuda (ATA, 80GB, 2mb Cache)
DVD: Hitachi GD5000 8x DVD-ROM
CD-RW: 4KUS 52x24x52
Video: Leadtek Winfast A360 (nVidia GeForce FX5700 GPU w/dual head (vga+dvi)
Monitor 1: AcerView 76c (17", CRT)
Monitor 2: ADI Microscan (15", CRT)
CASE: Generic Beige/Silver
Misc: ACTSystems InfraRed, Kinyo 5.1 Surround, 3 1/2" Floppy
OS: Windows XP Professional/Linux Kubuntu 5.01 (Ubuntu w/ KDE)
Seperate: Apple iPod 20GB U2 Edition, Sony MZ-N710s MD, Dlink 724P+ Wireless Router, Canon Pixma ip1500 Bubble Jet Printer
Cooling: 3x 80mm fan, 1x 120mm fan, PSU/GPU/CPU Fans.

[The MaDDeSTMaN]

My turn

Mobo: Asus A7N8X-X (nVidia nForce 2 chipset)
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (Barton) @ 2205mhz
RAM: 512mb (2 x 256Mb Kingston PC3200)
HDD1: Seagate Barracuda (ATA, 40GB, 2mb Cache)
HDD2: Western Digital WD1600JB (ATA, 160GB, 8mb Cache)
DVD-R: LG GSA-4120B (16X DVD-ROM, 12X DVD+R, 8X DVD-R, 4X DVD±RW)
Video: AGP Gigabyte Radeon 9550 (Flashed to a 9600 BIOS, and overclocked to 400MHz core, 400MHz RAM)
Monitor: LG Flatron ez T710BH (17", CRT)
CASE: Generic Silver/blue
Misc: InfraRed, Altec speakers, 3.5" Floppy, Leadtek WinFast DV2000 TV card, Labtec Multimedia Windows Keyboard, Shaw optical mouse.
OS: Windows XP Professional (with all the latest patches and service packs), Linux being installed in a dual-boot config once I decide on a distro to use to suit my needs.

[MrSparkle]

Mobo: Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI (NForce-4)
CPU: AMD Athlon64 939 3500+ @ stock
RAM: For the next fortnight, only 512mb of POS DDR400 :S after that, 2G of DDR533!
HDD1: WD Raptor 74G 10,000rpm
HDD2: WD 250G SATA 8mb cache
HDD3: will be WD 250G as well, will set up RAID with HDD2
DVD: Samsung 8x DVD-ROM
DVDRW: LG 8x single layer
Video: XFX 6800GT PCIe 256mb, a real weapon
Monitor 1: BenQ 19" 12ms LCD
CASE: Thermaltake "Skull"
Power: Antec 530W
Misc:
OS: Windows XP Professional
Cooling: 6x 80mm case fans

Hmm... about time I upgraded...

[smciner1]

This is getting waaaaaaaaaaay tooo complicated for me.......

:lookedat:

[b2tf]

Originally Posted by smciner1

This is getting waaaaaaaaaaay tooo complicated for me.......

:lookedat:

Same. Only numbers i know:

P4 2.4Ghz processor
512MB RAM, 80GB HDD
DVD Drive (soon to be joined by DVD Burner)
CD Burner 40x12x48 speed
Big screen
Lotsa buttons the keyboard

[XplosiveR6]

Originally Posted by MrSparkle

RAM: For the next fortnight, only 512mb of POS DDR400 :S after that, 2G of of DDR533!

just to save you from waisting your money, there is no point in going faster then DDR400 in a current AMD system, the memory will not go any faster then that.

[MrSparkle]

Originally Posted by EF_Dave

just to save you from waisting your money, there is no point in going faster then DDR400 in a current AMD system, the memory will not go any faster then that.

Overclocking plans are afoot, and I've been keeping a keen eye on what other 3500+'ers have been doing. Strong memory is a must for this and what I have now simply doesn't cut it. It will be donated to my other box, relegated to Emule duties and TV viewing :hihi:

The WD Raptor is great, I really should grab another and RAID up my XP install.. now that would be nice and quick!

[brenx]

Mines due for an update. Maybe when I win tatts. First I'll have to enter though

Intel Pentium IV 1800Mhz
Gigabyte PE667 Motherboard
768Mb PC2100 Kingston DDR RAM
MSI DR8-A DVD writer
60GB Maxtor Hard drive
80GB Seagate Hard Drive
64Mb Geforce 4 MX 440
19" Sony Professional (Sun Microsystems) 365-1405 Monitor
1.44Mb Floppy Drive
Microsoft Wheel mouse
Creative Rock Speakers & Sub Woofer
Alcatel Speedtouch ADSL Modem
Epson Photo 810 Printer
Kyocera FS1000+ Laser Printer
BenQ Win95 Keyboard
Thrustmaster Force Feedback Steering Wheel
Microphone

All housed or connected into an ATX Full tower case.

Pretty much online 24 hours, 7 days a week.

[parawolf]

Originally Posted by MrSparkle

Overclocking plans are afoot, and I've been keeping a keen eye on what other 3500+'ers have been doing. Strong memory is a must for this and what I have now simply doesn't cut it. It will be donated to my other box, relegated to Emule duties and TV viewing :hihi:

The WD Raptor is great, I really should grab another and RAID up my XP install.. now that would be nice and quick!

Hate to be pedantic, but to quash a regular theory here that RAID = Faster.
When dealing with software raid, or a raid PCI card without memory cache on it (just a bios that virtualises the drives) performance increases are often not there.

Mirroring drives under software or virtualisation is measurably slower on random writes versus a single drive, and has lower throughput on sequential writes (due to two write requests versus one). On a PC system these performance issues cannot be reduced on more server based architectures (Sun, HP, high end IBM, etc) because all PCI devices share the same communications bus.

Other RAID systems such as Striping with distributed parity is CPU intensive and relies heavily XOR calculations. These can be partially offloaded by an external PCI card, however these usually end up on the CPU which means the entire system gets a performance hit. Transaction sizes need to be tuned to get optimal results and depending on the filesystem work you get benefits or penalties from write cache.

Mirroring can deliver higher seek performance, if the mirror software/virtualisation can take advantage of hard disk geometric positioning. This only effects random reads. However filesystem throughput is the same as single disk.

Striping with distributed parity means that your performance is often better than a single disk, however with a single PCI bus, and often two controllers sharing the same controller on that PCI bus, the performance gain is not tangible.

now back to it... :baby bott

[MrSparkle]

Originally Posted by ianmcginley

Hate to be pedantic, but to quash a regular theory here that RAID = Faster.
When dealing with software raid, or a raid PCI card without memory cache on it (just a bios that virtualises the drives) performance increases are often not there.

You are right. What I have planned will definitely be quicker. :1syellow1

[Grunter]

Originally Posted by MrSparkle

Mobo: Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI (NForce-4)
CPU: AMD Athlon64 939 3500+ @ stock
RAM: For the next fortnight, only 512mb of POS DDR400 :S after that, 2G of DDR533!
HDD1: WD Raptor 74G 10,000rpm
HDD2: WD 250G SATA 8mb cache
HDD3: will be WD 250G as well, will set up RAID with HDD2
DVD: Samsung 8x DVD-ROM
DVDRW: LG 8x single layer
Video: XFX 6800GT PCIe 256mb, a real weapon
Monitor 1: BenQ 19" 12ms LCD
CASE: Thermaltake "Skull"
Power: Antec 530W
Misc:
OS: Windows XP Professional
Cooling: 6x 80mm case fans

Hmm... about time I upgraded...

Your obviously a man of good taste _2:

MOBO: DFI LanParty UT nF4 SLI-DR
CPU: AMD Athlon™ 64 3500
RAM: Corsair TWINX1024-3200XL 1GB
HDD: 2 x Western Digital RAPTOR 74Gb (Raid 0) and Western Digital 200Gb Serial ATA
DVD Burner: Sony Internal Dual Layer 16x DVD+/-RW Drive
Video: BFG 6800GT OC, PCIe 256MB
Monitor: Dell 2001FP
Case: Thermaltake Shark
Power: 550 Watt Antec ''True Power''

Just started to dabble in cooling and got a hold of a Swiftech Watercooling kit. This to continue my challenge to run the "Flux Capacitor" on my PC to go back in time and start my quest for world domination!!.....

Oh and to run the PC with least amount of fan noise.

[XplosiveR6]

Mobo: Gigabyte K7 Triton
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2800+
CPU cooler: Gigabyte 3D rocket cooler pro
RAM: 1gig DDR400
HDD1: Maxtor 180gb UltraATA133
HDD2: Seagate 80gb UltraATA100
DVDRW: Pioneer 108 16x DVD-RW
CDRW: Creative 8x-4x-32x
VGA: Powercolor ATI Radeon 9800pro
Sound: Creative SOund blaster Audigy LS
TV: DVICO HDTV plus
Monitor: AOC 19inch CRT
CASE: Aopen
Speakers: Logitec
Keyboard/mouse: Microsoft desktop elite
OS: windows XP professional, Windows XP media centre edition, MAndrakeLinux 10.1

what can i say, im a computer geek, he he

[Cheahman]

I dont really know much about computers, my uncle built it for us. All i know about it is that its a 2.4ghz, has 512ram and 60gb hd. I dont really care, as long as i can play music and access the internet im happy :P

[Dodge]

mine is a flat thingy called LG LS50a bog stock out of the factory , came with a free cup holder on the side tho...

[GreenMachine]

Gateway.

[Damo]

i've got a computer, it has internet and stuff.

[Perana]

Mobo: MSI ( dunno what model )
CPU: P4 2.4Ghz @ stock
RAM: 512mb
HDD1: Seagate 80GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache
HDD2: Seagate 20GB 5400RPM
DVD: 8x DVD-ROM
DVD+RW: Pioneer DVD-109 16x DL
Video: nVidia GeForce4 mx440 64MB :(
Monitor: 15" TFT
Case: Generic Black/Silver
OS: Windows XP SP2 Professional

Needs upgrading soon... wanting an AMD Athlon64 FX55 or 939 not sure atm with SLI

[niko]

gigabyte nforce 2board,
runs my 2000xp @ 2600xp perfect
2x512 400mhz ddr
liteon- iomega rebranded dvd burner 8x
3hdd's-
80gig WD 8mb cache
160gig Seagate 8mb cache (both have side fans one blowing in one sucking out (left to right)
200gig Seagate 8mb cache (5 1/2" bay custom fan)
19" AOC flat crt
sony mini hifi 300rms, powering 2x home theater towers each consisting of 12" sub, 3/4" tweeter and 5 1/4" driver
2win fan thermaltake psu, coolermaster "silent", dual 80mm on ***
2x90mm cut on side of case (one mentioned for hdd's)
ti4600, copper cooling

[DOC]

ACER TRAVELMATE 8000

latest model with to many bells are more than enough whistles including security card aceess ( like the banks pc's )

upgraded to 2 X 1024 mb ram

DOC

[Venomous]

Heres Mine, cant remember most of it:

Processer: Intel P4 3.06 GHZ
Motherboard: Albatron 865 PE PRO
Ram: 2x256 DDR 400
HDD: 80 GIg Western Digital
DVD RW: Pioneer 16x DVD +- R/W
DVD Rom: Some pioneer one
CD-RW: MSI 48x/16x/48x
VGA: Powercolour ATI Radeon 9600 PRo
TV Tuner: Compro something somethign lol
Monitor: Albatron 17" TFT LCD
OS: Windows XP Pro

[Franky]

No wonder you all think games are better on the pc, you pay about 5 times as much on the crap to play them :P

btw mines a laptop and they don't have impressive stats unless you play on the go. It runs all the programs well and internet is fine, guess that's all I need really

[pauljh74]

Mine's a vintage PC by today's standards. If I keep it as is for much longer I'll have a Museum wanting to put it on display.

Athlon 1.33 GHz
Abit KT7A-RAID motherboard
384MB PC133 SDRAM
120GB 7200 RPM 8MB cache HDD
GeForce4 Ti4200
Yamaha 24/8/4 CD RW - SCSI one too!
SB Live!

Probably adding a DVD-RW next month and and in need of money for an upgrade. Will also get more RAM soon as I want to bump this one up to 512MB and my other PC which is older to either 256 or 320MB - I have 192MB in it at the moment. The other PC is a Celeron 566 - good for 24/7 file sharing and file storage

[M&Ms]

"They have the internet on computers now"

All i know is I got a P4 2.4GHz processor, 256Meg DDR RAM (soon to be 768Meg), 128 Meg Graphics card, 40 Gig Hardrive, ADSL Modem, CDR drive, floppy drive etc, some $15 speakers, Lexmark printer, Canon Scanner, 17" monitor (old fashion one, not flat) and a mouse and keyboard. Good enough for me. Oh yeh, and I also got a cute little dalmation which is also a screen-wiper.

[Quasi]

Originally Posted by Devil Racer

No wonder you all think games are better on the pc, you pay about 5 times as much on the crap to play them :P

btw mines a laptop and they don't have impressive stats unless you play on the go. It runs all the programs well and internet is fine, guess that's all I need really

The money isn't necessarily spent for rubbish like gameplaying

Some of us have a life.....which involves DVD production, and similair pastimes, but a bonus of that is that game graphic quality craps all over consoles.

[MrSparkle]

Originally Posted by Quasi

The money isn't necessarily spent for rubbish like gameplaying

Some of us have a life.....which involves DVD production, and similair pastimes, but a bonus of that is that game graphic quality craps all over consoles.

Yes indeed. Ever tried to write software on an XBOX? :

Hmm maybe there will be a special edition of Visual Studio for XBOX - a total development solution with a hand controller interface! Yeah baby! :

[Peuty]

Its white with black bits on it. Slow, ugly and weird smelling, but it does the job.

Though I wouldn't mind the new Acer Ferrari laptop.

[Quasi]

Might as well my two cents worth in.

Main (Personal) System:
Intel S478 2.6GHz 800MHz P4 Processor
Gigabyte 8IPE1000 8x AGP Mainboard
1024Mb Kingston Dual DDR Ram
1 x 80Gb Barracuda V SATA 7200 RPM HDD
1 x 80Gb Barracuda V 7200 RPM HDD
1 x 60Gb Barracuda IV ATA 7200 RPM HDD
1 x 120Gb Barracuda V 7200 RPM HDD
1 x 200Gb WD 8Mb 7200 RPM HDD
Panasonic 3.5" FDD (Silver to match case)
Powercolor 'Evil Commando II' 9700 Pro Video
Canopus ADVC1394 Capture Card
Monitor 1 Hansol 920P 19"
Monitor 2 IBM G76 17"
Intel 10/100 PCI Ethernet Card
Sony DRU700A DVD+R/RW/-R/RW
Creative LIVE! 5.1 DE Sound Card
Logitech Z640 5.1 Speakers
Canon A3000 Flatbed Scanner
Canon i3000 ColourJet Printer
Kodak USB Picture Card Reader
MS Multimedia KB and Optical Mouse
400w Atlas Aluminium with 8x80mm Case Fans

Although I am looking at upgrading pretty soon, as she's a bit ordinary now. Probably going with 3.6Ghz CPU, another 200Gb HDD, and video upgrade (but not going PC X-Press).

Apart from this there are two more P4 towers, a PII desktop and a laptop, a HP laserjet and a colour deskjet & 4-in-1 Multifunction, plus ADSL modem/router, and 100Mbit switch.

[paul7v7]

This is my main computer that runs windows, plays games, etc.

Mobo: Asus A8n SLi Deluxe (Nforce 4)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3500+
RAM: 1024mb
HDD1: Seagate 200gb
DVD: Pioneer DVD-RW
Video: 2 X Gigabyte Nvidia 6600GT Sli
Monitor: 17 inch LCD
CASE: Coolermaster - BLACK
Misc: Logitec 6.1 Surround sound speakers + sub woofer
OS: Windows XP Professional
Router: Billion 711ce
Cooling: 3x 80mm fan, 1x 120mm fan, PSU/GPU/CPU Fans.

I also have

2 Athlon Thundebird 1ghz. Both with 512mb ram and Abit KT7A boards. They also both run Geforce 2 MX V/c. One runs Gentoo linux (CLI Only and is a webserver, ftp server, file server) the other runs windows xp.

1 celeron
1 celeron laptop.

[TheSneakiness]

My current PC is a good one. Dunno what's in it, but it should be good. It goes at least.