Post Your PC System Specs

[Cry Havoc]

New to the forums!

I am the proud owner of a Dell Inspiron XPS2.

Pentium M Processor - 2.0 Ghz (roughly = to a P4 3.6)
17" UltraSharp WUXGA (1920x1200) display with TrueLife.
2 GB 667 DDR Ram
Hitachi 60 GB 7200rpm Hard Drive
8x +/- DVDRW with Dual layer DVD + R
256mb Nvidia Geforce Go Ultra 6800

Controllers: Logitech 3d Extreme Pro Joystick, Xbox 360 controller for Windows

[Pawelec]

Processor: Intel Pentium D 805 Dual Core overclocked at 3.33 ghz (normally at 2.66ghz) / Zalman 7700 cooler

Memory: 1024mb (2x 512mb) Twinmos DDR2 667mhz memory

Motherboard: Asus P5WD2 Premium

Graphics card: Club3D Radeon X800XT PCI-E

Hard drive: Western Digital 250GB SATA2 16mb cache

DVD: LG DVD +/-RW Dual Layer

ADSL-modem: TeleWell EA-500

Monitor: ViewSonic VA902 19" TFT

Power: Seasonic 430W

Keyboard: Logitech flat UltraX Media

Mouse: Logitech Wheel Mouse Optical

[Sweey]

Just upgraded and I'm not liking the high temperatures :huh:

Athlon 64 4800+ x2 (Dual Core Processor)
Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe
XFX GeForce 7950 GX2 (Dual Core Graphics Card)
2GB Corsair RAM (as before)
Sound Blaster Audigy 4 (as before)
2 Hard Drives (200GB SATA2, 80GB) (as before)
2 DVD Writers (as before)
Benq FP783 (as before)
Seasonic 600W PSU
Arctic Cooler 64 Freezer Pro
Akasa Amber 120mm Case Fan

[old man]

AMD Athlon 64 3700+
1024mb
120Gb SATA
NVidia Gefore FX5500
Sony SDMS75AS 17"
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme
Windows XP sp2
K8T NEO motherboard

My mainboard temp gets up to 45c - is this normal?

[Sweey]

AMD Athlon 64 3700+
1024mb
120Gb SATA
NVidia Gefore FX5500
Sony SDMS75AS 17"
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme
Windows XP sp2
K8T NEO motherboard

My mainboard temp gets up to 45c - is this normal?

Bit high but not dangerous. My motherboard is constantly 48-51 and my CPU 43 idle and 53 at load which I'm annoyed with as I'm not even overclocking. You could always get a case fan if you're worried, it'll help a little bit but your temperature isn't too bad.

[old man]

Well i've got space for another fan - it can't hurt adding one when I can get around to it.

Thanks

[ostevex]

AMD Sempron 64 1.8Ghz
NVidia GeForce 6200 256mb
1GB Ram
500GB SATA
LG DVD +/- DL
and some cheap sound card

[Cry Havoc]

AMD Athlon 64 3700+
1024mb
120Gb SATA
NVidia Gefore FX5500
Sony SDMS75AS 17"
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme
Windows XP sp2
K8T NEO motherboard

My mainboard temp gets up to 45c - is this normal?

My processor (and GPU, for that matter) temps regularly get into the 80 degree range while playing Oblivion. Insanity. I wouldn't worry too much, you're at about half the temperature.

[tessaro]

My specs:
AMD thunderbird 750
KT133A Motherboard
512M PC133 Sdram
Geforce Ti4200 128M
Fujitsu Ultra160 SCSI 18.4GB HDD
Adaptec 19160 SCSI card
Creative Audigy deluxe sound card
PS2 Joystick

Run PES5 (1024*768 high quality) at good speed
by the way ,the best driver version for Ti4200 is 43.52!

[villa9779]

AMD Athlon XP 1.6Ghz
ASRock K7S41GX (I know...I was on a budget :)
768MB RAM
nVidia GeForce FX5200
Seagate 80GB hard drive
Maxtor 80GB hard drive
Maxtor 20GB hard drive
Built in sound
PS2 Controller.

Dispite my shockingly out of date system it runs PES5 very well. On the medium settings mind you :)

[schwayne]

Just curious if my system will work on the new pes6

AMD ATHLON 64BIT PROCESSOR
1GB RAM
256 NVIDIA GFORCE 6600

AND FOR THE INTERNET I AM RUNNING ON A WIRELESS SYSTEM WHICH I AM ONLY RUNNING 54.0 MBPS IS THIS ANY GOOD

[batta]

Pentium 4 3.4 Ghz 2MB
x1300 ati radeon 256 MB
512 Ram Spectech
Mother board MSI 945 :D

[yannh]

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.1GHz
Memory: 512MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)
Card name: RADEON 9550
Chip type: RADEON 9550 AGP (0x4153)
Display Memory: 256.0 MB
Description: C-Media Wave Device
Description: C-Media Wave Device

Sorry asked a question before posting this.

[ione]

Processor: Intel P4 @3 GHZ, 64bit
Memory: 1GB @667 mhz
Video Card: Galaxy 6800 XT (256DDR 3, 256 bit)
MB: Intel

It is clear that in single player the game will work just fine. To be honest I never played online because I didn't had an Internet connection at home. I would like to ask you guys if Konami cares about this part of the game. Do they have enough servers? Do the servers have lag? How does the game "move" online? :) If you can not answer here please send me a private message.

[Lovejoy!]

Intel Core 2 Duo "Conroe" @ 3.6ghz
2GB (2x1GB matched pair) 800Mhz ultra low latency RAM
Gigabyte DS3 mobo
nVidia Geforce 7800gt


yeah, that'll do. been a while again innit?

[jonnyheaney16]

Will my sytem be able to cope with PES6 online?

- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
- AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+
- 1GB DDR-SDRAM
- 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200rpm)
- DVD Drive 16x Max
- DVD Writer Double Layer +-R/ +-RW/
- NVIDIA GeForce 6200 Turbocache
- 256MB Video Memory
- IEEE 1394 FireWire

[S1mon]

yes, but that a vid card upgrade would make that a very good overall system.the 6200 is overall a lower end card

[jJeromeXL]

AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 4200+
A8N-SLI Del, Nforce4 U,939
2x Geforce 6800 256mb (512MB)
Twinx 2GB DDR400 Memory
Maxtor 300GB 7200rpm 16mb SATA
ASUS DVD 16x48 E616P dvd drive
NEC ND2500A dvd writer

[mrbungle83]

Acorn Electron 1kb ram 1mb hdd 25" Floppy disk drive 1 bit GPu This baby runs Bumble Bee at 2x1 res.

[BurnaReds]

I recently got Pro evolution soccer 6 on the PC, installed it but when i double clicked the shortcut, i got this...

pes6.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.
We are sorry for the inconvenience

I thought my PC met all the requirements to run the game as i played PES5 no problem.

Windows XP
Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz
2.99GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM
ATI RADEON X600 256MB


I tried changing the display settings for my graphics card but it still won't boot.

Can anyone help at all please?

[BurnaReds]

Never mind, i got it working now.

[jasper_b]

Never mind, i got it working now.

how dyu get it working?

[monkisss]

Processor: AMD Athlon 5000+, Dual processor :cool:
Memory: 2GB RAM
Card name: geforce 7900 gtx
Display Memory: 500.0 MB

[S1mon]

you got a nice processor there mate

[Sweey]

Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (overclocked @ 3.6Ghz)
Motherboard Asus P5K Deluxe
RAM 4GB (4x1GB) Crucial Ballistix PC5300C3
Graphics Card 640MB BFG GeForce 8800 GTS
Monitor Samsung SM226BW
Sound Card Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality
Hard Drives 750GB Western Digital Caviar, 300GB Hitachi Deskstar
Optical Drives Pioneer 111BK (DVD+DL RW), Sony DVD-ROM/CD-RW
PSU Seasonic 600W
Case Silverstone TJ09
Heatsink Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme with Scythe S-Flex 1600rpm
Fans 2xScythe S-Flex 1600rpm, 1xSharkoon Golfball, 2xSilverstone case fans

[CaptainCabinet]

Kenneth, I'd like to place a bid for that computer.

May I take it off your hands for, 20p?

[The Messiah]

Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (overclocked @ 3.6Ghz)
Motherboard Asus P5K Deluxe
RAM 4GB (4x1GB) Crucial Ballistix PC5300C3
Graphics Card 640MB BFG GeForce 8800 GTS
Monitor Samsung SM226BW
Sound Card Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality
Hard Drives 750GB Western Digital Caviar, 300GB Hitachi Deskstar
Optical Drives Pioneer 111BK (DVD+DL RW), Sony DVD-ROM/CD-RW
PSU Seasonic 600W
Case Silverstone TJ09
Heatsink Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme with Scythe S-Flex 1600rpm
Fans 2xScythe S-Flex 1600rpm, 1xSharkoon Golfball, 2xSilverstone case fans

A little bit of sex wee came out then. :blush:

[MattsterMH]

19'' va1912wb widescreen flatpanel
P5N32-SLI Deluxe
PD 940 @ 3.37 ghz
eVGA 8800GTS 320 MB
2GB Corsair XMS2 Pro High Performance Memory w/ Heat Spreader & LED Lights
Enermax EG565P 535W PSU
CoolerMaster Liquid Cooling
160GB WD
250GB Seagate
16x DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER

[Jesus]

I'm using a Compaq Presario V2000 laptop.
Processor AMD Sempron Mobile 3000+
RAM 736MB
Graphics Card ATI Radeon Xpress 200M 128MB
Monitor It's a widescreen one
Sound Altec Lansing

It's not a great one, but I like it.:) As long as I can play PES, I'm happy;) :happy:

[Cry Havoc]

Dell E1705 Lappy toppy:

Intel Pentium Dual Core 2 Processor @ 1.83 Ghz.
1 GB 667 DDR2 Ram
100 GB 7200rpm Western Digital HDD
256 mb Nvidia 7900 Go GS
17" WUXGA widescreen ultrabright LG display with Trulife - 1920x1200 resolution
Xbox 360 controller for Windoze
Hooked up to a Panasonic HT-15 5.1 Surround speaker system (though I can only get 2.1 sound from the laptop).
*coming soon* Klipsch Promedia Ultra 2.0 speakers for portability

[Wan]

Intel Core 2 Quad. :huh:

Must be really fast.
How much they cost you Pique?

[Jesus]

Processor Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @2.4 Ghz
Motherboard MSI P35 Neo
RAM 2GB DDR2 (2x1GB) Kingston
Graphics Card 512MB ASUS GeForce [EN]8800 GT
Monitor VG1921WM 19" Wide LCD Screen
Sound Card On-Board :coffee:
Hard Drives 320GB Seagate, 250GB Western Digital(external)
Optical Drives LG Super-Multi whatever(DVD+DL RW)
PSU A shitty Malaysian/Chinese one
Case This (http://www.canadacomputers.com/ProductImages/013570/956.jpg) I don't know it's make. :|
Heatsink Stock
Fans Stock

Next on my birthday list are stuff to cool the rig. By the end of the year I'll hopefully find out how to overclock my processor. If I'm lucky someone with the same processor and motherboard might be overclocking. :ninja:

I'll use the money I've saved up from before and the money generated for my birthday!

Intel Core 2 Quad.

Must be really fast.
How much they cost you Pique?
Yes Wan. Though barely a few applications take full advantages of the four cores and it's at quite a low clock speed which is why I'll be overclocking it, at latest, at the end of the year. As now, it runs every I throw at it very well.

[Wan]

Processor Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @2.4 Ghz
Motherboard MSI P35 Neo
RAM 2GB DDR2 (2x1GB) Kingston
Graphics Card 512MB ASUS GeForce [EN]8800 GT
Monitor VG1921WM 19" Wide LCD Screen
Sound Card On-Board :coffee:
Hard Drives 320GB Seagate, 250GB Western Digital(external)
Optical Drives LG Super-Multi whatever(DVD+DL RW)
PSU A shitty Malaysian/Chinese one
Case This (http://www.canadacomputers.com/ProductImages/013570/956.jpg) I don't know it's make. :|
Heatsink Stock
Fans Stock

Next on my birthday list are stuff to cool the rig. By the end of the year I'll hopefully find out how to overclock my processor. If I'm lucky someone with the same processor and motherboard might be overclocking. :ninja:

I'll use the money I've saved up from before and the money generated for my birthday!


Yes Wan. Though barely a few applications take full advantages of the four cores and it's at quite a low clock speed which is why I'll be overclocking it, at latest, at the end of the year. As now, it runs every I throw at it very well.

I'm sure it's not the Malaysian.
Must be the Chinese.

[Sweey]

Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (overclocked @ 3.6Ghz - 400x9)
Motherboard Asus P5K Deluxe
RAM 4GB (4x1GB) Crucial Ballistix PC5300C3
Graphics Card 640MB BFG GeForce 8800 GTS
Monitor Samsung SM226BW
Sound Card Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality
Hard Drives 750GB Western Digital Caviar, 300GB Hitachi Deskstar
Optical Drives Pioneer 111BK (DVD+DL RW), Sony DVD-ROM/CD-RW
PSU Seasonic 600W
Case Silverstone TJ09
Heatsink Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme with Scythe S-Flex 1600rpm
Fans 2xScythe S-Flex 1600rpm, 1xSharkoon Golfball, 2xSilverstone case fans

Now this:

Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (overclocked @ 3.6Ghz - 450x8)
Motherboard Asus P5K Deluxe
RAM 4GB (4x1GB) Crucial Ballistix PC8500C5 @ 1080Mhz
Graphics Card 640MB BFG GeForce 8800 GTS
Monitor Samsung SM226BW
Sound Card Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality
Hard Drives 750GB Western Digital Caviar, 300GB Hitachi Deskstar, 1TB Western Digital MyBook Essential 2
Optical Drives Pioneer 111BK (DVD+DL RW), Sony DVD-ROM/CD-RW
PSU Seasonic 600W
Case Silverstone TJ09
Heatsink Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme with Scythe S-Flex 1600rpm
Fans 2xScythe S-Flex 1600rpm, 1xSharkoon Golfball, 2xSilverstone case fans
Keyboard Logitech G15 Rev 2.0
Mouse Razer DeathAdder

Next updates to be the graphics card, power supply (its three years old so probably only has a capacity of 550W), processor (lower power consumption) and motherboard.

[I.N Extasy]

Apart from the HD 4870, have you made any changes Carlos The Jackal?

[ads]

Any real reason for this thread? :erm:

[Sweey]

Apart from the HD 4870, have you made any changes Carlos The Jackal?

Nope. I've considered watercooling but don't know enough to trust myself yet and am waiting for Nehalem before upgrading again. My next purchase looks to be a PSU after I finally woke up and realised that they consume less electricity when running at 60-70% load.

Any real reason for this thread? :erm:

ePenis.

[Cookie]

Not to sound like a n00b but how do I find my specs. See I'm thinking my PC is a tad bit out of date and I'm thinking of updating it. I was playing a game earlier and noticed all the settings were on low. So, I'm not sure whether to buy a new pc or just buy some more RAM or whatever.

[Sweey]

Not to sound like a n00b but how do I find my specs. See I'm thinking my PC is a tad bit out of date and I'm thinking of updating it. I was playing a game earlier and noticed all the settings were on low. So, I'm not sure whether to buy a new pc or just buy some more RAM or whatever.

XP instructions:

Start Menu -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System

The first screen will show your processor (and stock speed) plus the amount of RAM. If you then click on the Hardware tab and click on Device Manager, under Display Adapters you'll find your graphics card.

The only way to find out the capacity of your PSU is to open up your case and read the wattage from the label.

PM me and I'll advise you further once you know the specs.

[Sweey]

Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (overclocked @ 3.6Ghz - 400x9)
Motherboard Asus P5K Deluxe
RAM 4GB (4x1GB) Crucial Ballistix PC8500C5 @ 1066Mhz
Graphics Card 512MB ATi Radeon HD 4870
Monitor Samsung SM226BW
Sound Card Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality
Hard Drives 2 x 1TB Samsung SpinPoint F1, 750GB Western Digital Caviar, 1TB Western Digital MyBook Essential 2 (external)
Optical Drives Pioneer 111BK (DVD+DL RW), Sony DVD-ROM/CD-RW
PSU Seasonic 600W
Case Silverstone TJ09
Heatsink Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme with Scythe S-Flex 1600rpm
Fans 2xScythe S-Flex 1600rpm, 1xSharkoon Golfball, 2xSilverstone case fans
Keyboard Logitech G15 Rev 2.0
Mouse Razer DeathAdder

[Singey]

I have a new PC, and I also have a few questions...

Basic Specs

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+ @2.61Ghz
2GB RAM
150GB Hard Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

How do I find out other specs?

Is this PC any good for gaming?

Do I need to worry about PSU? Motherboard?

How do I check my monitor's true resolution?

Maybe I would be better off PM'ing Sweey...

[Sweey]

I have a new PC, and I also have a few questions...

Basic Specs

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+ @2.61Ghz
2GB RAM
150GB Hard Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

How do I find out other specs?

Is this PC any good for gaming?

Do I need to worry about PSU? Motherboard?

How do I check my monitor's true resolution?

Maybe I would be better off PM'ing Sweey...

What other specs would you like to know? You can try this (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) to see if that tells you what you want to know.

The processor is fine for gaming, the RAM is adequate as long as you're only using XP but the graphics card isn't for high-end gaming and may even struggle at mid-ranges. Where nVidia cards are concerned, anything ending in 800 or above is a gaming card. The first number simply denotes the generation of card.

The only way to check the capacity of the PSU is to read the label attached to it. There's no need to worry about the motherboard.

What size is your monitor?

[Singey]

Thanks.

Its 19" (Acer x193w) and has a resolution of 1440x900. Is this a strange resolution?

Not really fussed about the graphics card and high end gaming - i've got a PS3 for that (although I do realise its weaker than many high end PC's) but as long as the PC can cope with 'general' games, its fine.

Basically, I dont plan on playing Crysis.

[Sweey]

Thanks.

Its 19" (Acer x193w) and has a resolution of 1440x900. Is this a strange resolution?

Not really fussed about the graphics card and high end gaming - i've got a PS3 for that (although I do realise its weaker than many high end PC's) but as long as the PC can cope with 'general' games, its fine.

Basically, I dont plan on playing Crysis.

1440x900 is a widescreen resolution. 1680x1050 is the native resolution of a 20" or 22" widescreen and a 24" is something like 1900x1200.

The PC should be able to play general games fine as long as you're not whacking the anti-aliasing (smoother edges on textures) up too high.

[Singey]

Yeah, I have a 20" (1680x1050) monitor for my PS3, but unfortunately because its not a common resolution for games (like 720 or 1080p) I get aliasing in all games - i'll probably get a proper TV instead of a monitor next time. That being said, I could use my 20" screen for my PC.

Just one last question, is 1440x900 a HD resolution?

[Sweey]

Yeah, I have a 20" (1680x1050) monitor for my PS3, but unfortunately because its not a common resolution for games (like 720 or 1080p) I get aliasing in all games - i'll probably get a proper TV instead of a monitor next time. That being said, I could use my 20" screen for my PC.

Just one last question, is 1440x900 a HD resolution?

Yes, it can handle 1080i and 720i but not 1080p.

[Singey]

Alright then, thanks for your help.

[CDDRodrigo]

Core 2 Duo E4500
ASUS P5LD2-X
HD 160 GB
2 GB DDR2-667
Geforce 7600 GT
Seventeam 450W

[Sweey]

Processor Intel Core i7 920 (overclocked @ 3.8Ghz, 200x19)
Motherboard Asus P6T Deluxe V2
RAM 6GB (3x2GB) Corsair XMS3 PC3-14400
Graphics Card 512MB ATi Radeon HD 4870
Monitor Samsung SM226BW
Sound Card Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality
Hard Drives 2 x 1TB Samsung SpinPoint F1, 750GB Western Digital Caviar, 1TB Western Digital MyBook Essential 2 (external)
Optical Drives Pioneer DVR-111BK (DVD+DL RW), Pioneer DVR-216BK (DVD+DL RW)
PSU Corsair TX 750
Case Silverstone TJ09
Heatsink Noctua NH-U12P
Fans 2xScythe S-Flex 1600rpm, 1xSharkoon Golfball, 2xSilverstone case fans
Keyboard Logitech G15 Rev 2.0
Mouse Razer DeathAdder

[TheAlchemist]

However I'm thinking about getting a new base unit, specificaly this (http://direct.tesco.com/product/default.aspx?r=205-2218) one.

The PC I currently have (for about 4 years and is currently acting up) is a HP Pavillion:

Basic Info-
Processor: Intel Premium 4 CPU 2.93GHz
RAM: 512 MB
Graphics Card: NVidia GeForce 6200 TurboCacatche
Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio

Just wondering is it worth it getting the new base unit or to just get my current one fixed?

[Singey]

Its best to see what Sweey says, but if I were in your position, I would get an upgrade. However it depends on what you plan to do with your pc.

[TheAlchemist]

I don't do that much on it, nothing too taxing. Just play football manager, listen to choonz and surf da web.

[Sweey]

For Football Manager you really want 2GB RAM, particularly as DDR2 RAM is so cheap.

There is also little excuse not to be getting a dual core processor given how cheap they are too.

[Singey]

Im trying to work out whats what here, so could anyone enlighten me as to what temperatures are which, and whether these temps are ok? (it's in an idle state when I took the screen)

- Why are there 3 'temps' and what are they for?
- What is ambient?

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2198/speedfan1.png

[Dundon's]

Sweey is a bad miss.

[K.1.N.G.]

Sweey is a bad miss.

Whats the story anyway k1d - I heard rumour he's gones, gones?! :ohmy:

[Dundon's]

Sweey isn't gones, he's just tired.

[Berry]

He deserves a break too, he always seems to be on here all the time, it must fuck up your head. I'm sure he'll be back soon, nice and fresh. :>

[Sweey]

Im trying to work out whats what here, so could anyone enlighten me as to what temperatures are which, and whether these temps are ok? (it's in an idle state when I took the screen)

- Why are there 3 'temps' and what are they for?
- What is ambient?

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2198/speedfan1.png

The ambient temperature in this instance is the in-case temperature (as it can't be the room temperature). You should use CoreTemp for processor temperatures instead of SpeedFan. Temperatures are for the motherboard and the processor - depending on the motherboard and processor you have, each will work fine up to different temperatures.

For example, I'm told tthat the maximum temperature my processor will work at is 100 degrees by Coretemp which is right but honestly I wouldn't want it going over 70 degrees at load whilst at idle my cores are 44-47 which for some is high but is not at all dangerous given I'm on air cooling and its warm today.

Hope that's some help.

[Cookie]

Alright Sweey my good man, I think it's about time I actually upgrade my PC instead of just talking about it. I need a good spec multimedia PC for multiple applications use, creating and rendering large 2d/3d images, running HD movies, and maybe some PC gaming. Here's some specs of a PC I'm looking at. Which areas of this set up are the most important for my needs?


AMD® Phenom™ II X4 940 Black Edition (3.0GHz, 125W)
ATI Radeon HD4870 1GB Graphics cards
6144MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x2048 + 2x1024]
1TB (7200rpm) Serial ATA/100 Hard Drive
16X DVD+/- RW Optical Drive (DVD & CD read and write) and 16xDVD ROM

[Sweey]

Alright Sweey my good man, I think it's about time I actually upgrade my PC instead of just talking about it. I need a good spec multimedia PC for multiple applications use, creating and rendering large 2d/3d images, running HD movies, and maybe some PC gaming. Here's some specs of a PC I'm looking at. Which areas of this set up are the most important for my needs?


AMD® Phenom™ II X4 940 Black Edition (3.0GHz, 125W)
ATI Radeon HD4870 1GB Graphics cards
6144MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x2048 + 2x1024]
1TB (7200rpm) Serial ATA/100 Hard Drive
16X DVD+/- RW Optical Drive (DVD & CD read and write) and 16xDVD ROM

Everything there would actually be fine. If you're buying the components individually, you might want to go for an Intel processor instead as you could overclock it with a third-party heatsink - my 2.6Ghz quad core is overclocked to 3.8, for example. You'd need to make sure you get one that uses DDR2 RAM though, not DDR3. If you aren't overclocking though, there's not much of a difference between AMD or Intel and everything you've listed will place games to an excellent standard - your graphics card is better than mine (same one but mine is 512MB) and I have no issues in anything I play though admittedly I don't bother with Crysis.

[Cookie]

Everything there would actually be fine. If you're buying the components individually, you might want to go for an Intel processor instead as you could overclock it with a third-party heatsink - my 2.6Ghz quad core is overclocked to 3.8, for example. You'd need to make sure you get one that uses DDR2 RAM though, not DDR3. If you aren't overclocking though, there's not much of a difference between AMD or Intel and everything you've listed will place games to an excellent standard - your graphics card is better than mine (same one but mine is 512MB) and I have no issues in anything I play though admittedly I don't bother with Crysis.

I'll be buying the system as a whole with all those parts listed included. Cheers for the advice.

[paddy]

Im running with win7 64bit and the ati 4870 1gb g/gard on the specs below .Im very impressed its runs every game ive tried on it(cod4,cod mw2, gta4,coh,arma2,bf2 etc)

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.66GHz Overclocked to 3.20GHz!
- Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3LR Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
- Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX Dual Channel
- LG GH22NS30 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
- Akasa AK-967 Nero Direct Contact Heatpipe CPU Cooler
- OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Modular Power Supply

[dan101rayzor]

My Rig

Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.66GHz
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB GDDR5
Memory: 4GB DDR3 1600Mhz Corsair
Hard Drive: 1 TB Western Digital Caviar® Green
Motherboard: Asus P7P55D P55 LGA1156
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Computer Case: Coolermaster HAF 922
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 19'inch
Speakers: Surround Sound 2.1

Edit:

Keyboard: Logitech G110
Mouse: Logitech MX-518

[j-we]

Nearly 1 year to the date I built my pc.

Motherboard Name: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P
CPU Type: QuadCore Intel Core i7 920, 2666 MHz
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
Sound Card: ASUS Xonar Essence STX
Memory: Kingston 6144 MB (DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM)
HDD (OS): Seagate (500 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II) (OS Microsoft Windows 7 Professional x64), Seagate (1 TB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
PSU: 650w Coolermaster Extreme Power Pro (A temporary psu)
Optical Drives: LITE-ON DVDRW DL, Pioneer Blu-Ray Writer
Input: Keyboard - Microsoft SideWinder X6
Mouse - NZXT Avatar
Monitor - Dell 2408WFP 24"
Speakers: Coaxial Optical -> Onkyo tx sr-577 avr

ah Tower: Antec 1200

[Haribo]

I'm hopeless with computer specs, but next week I may be getting this model:














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:joel:



In all seriousness, I don't even know how to lay out the specs so I'm just lumping the text down:

-AMD Phenom™ II X4 820 Quad-Core processor (2.80 GHz, 6 MB Total Cache)
-ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 DirectX® 11 graphics with 1024 MB dedicated memory on board and D-Sub VGA, DVI-I and HDMI connection
-4 GB DDR3 SDRAM
-1 TB hard disk

Decent at all? Ideally want it to run highest spec games upto 2006/7 period and hopefully the latest FM. Could be a pipe dream for all I know :/

[Sweey]

-AMD Phenom™ II X4 820 Quad-Core processor (2.80 GHz, 6 MB Total Cache)
-ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 DirectX® 11 graphics with 1024 MB dedicated memory on board and D-Sub VGA, DVI-I and HDMI connection
-4 GB DDR3 SDRAM
-1 TB hard disk

Decent at all? Ideally want it to run highest spec games upto 2006/7 period and hopefully the latest FM. Could be a pipe dream for all I know :/

The "weakest" component will be the graphics card but it should run all 06/07 games except perhaps Crysis or its sequel at full settings though that would also depend on the resolution you play at. The CPU and RAM are perfectly fine and will have no issues.

[Haribo]

That'll do me! Current PC has been buggered one way or another for over 2 years now, so it'll be hugely satisfying to be able to run more than two things at once. Hell, I'll be satisfied to have a computer that runs at all.

[Sweey]

Processor Intel Core i7 920 (overclocked @ 3.8Ghz, 200x19)
Motherboard Asus P6T Deluxe V2
RAM 6GB (3x2GB) Corsair XMS3 PC3-14400
Graphics Card 1GB ATi Radeon HD 5850 (overclocked @ 5870 speeds)
Monitor Samsung SM226BW
Sound Card Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality
Hard Drives 2 x 1TB Samsung SpinPoint F1, 750GB Western Digital Caviar, 1TB Western Digital MyBook Essential 2 (external)
Optical Drives Pioneer DVR-111BK (DVD+DL RW), Pioneer DVR-216BK (DVD+DL RW)
PSU Corsair TX 750
Case Silverstone TJ09
Heatsink Noctua NH-U12P
Fans 2xScythe S-Flex 1600rpm, 1xSharkoon Golfball, 2xSilverstone case fans
Keyboard Logitech G15 Rev 2.0
Mouse Razer DeathAdder

Updated with a larger monitor due in the next month or two and a BluRay drive potentially on the horizon.

[theman]

Processor Intel Core i7 920 (overclocked @ 3.8Ghz, 200x19)
Motherboard Asus P6T Deluxe V2
RAM 6GB (3x2GB) Corsair XMS3 PC3-14400
Graphics Card 1GB ATi Radeon HD 5850 (overclocked @ 5870 speeds)
Monitor Samsung SM226BW
Sound Card Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality
Hard Drives 2 x 1TB Samsung SpinPoint F1, 750GB Western Digital Caviar, 1TB Western Digital MyBook Essential 2 (external)
Optical Drives Pioneer DVR-111BK (DVD+DL RW), Pioneer DVR-216BK (DVD+DL RW)
PSU Corsair TX 750
Case Silverstone TJ09
Heatsink Noctua NH-U12P
Fans 2xScythe S-Flex 1600rpm, 1xSharkoon Golfball, 2xSilverstone case fans
Keyboard Logitech G15 Rev 2.0
Mouse Razer DeathAdder

Updated with a larger monitor due in the next month or two and a BluRay drive potentially on the horizon.[/QUOTE]

what cooling are you using on your current overclocked i7???

[Sweey]

A Noctua NH-U12P.

[theman]

my specs are:
Cpu: core 2 quad q6600 at 3.6ghz
Motherboard:Asrock P45X3 Deluxe
Ram: OCZ Reaperx 1333 4x2gb ddr3 latency:8-7-7-20
PSU: Thermaltake ToughPower W0117
Graphics Card: 2x nvidia 9800gt oc (sli mode)
hdd: western digital caviar 1tb
case: Thermaltake Eureka

[Sweey]

Just adjusting my e-penis

Processor Intel Core i7 920 (overclocked @ 3.8Ghz, 200x19)
Motherboard Asus P6T Deluxe V2
RAM 6GB (3x2GB) Corsair XMS3 PC3-14400
Graphics Card 1GB ATi Radeon HD 5850 (overclocked @ 5870 speeds)
Monitor Iiyama Prolite E2710
Sound Card Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality
Hard Drives 1x80GB Intel X-25M Gen 2 SSD, 1x1TB Samsung SpinPoint F1, 2x500GB Samsung SpinPoint F3, 1x1TB Western Digital MyBook Essential 2 (external)
Optical Drives Pioneer DVR-111BK (DVD+DL RW), Pioneer DVR-216BK (DVD+DL RW)
PSU Corsair TX 750
Case Silverstone TJ09
Heatsink Noctua NH-U12P
Fans 2xScythe S-Flex 1600rpm, 1xSharkoon Golfball, 2xSilverstone case fans
Keyboard Logitech G15 Rev 2.0
Mouse Razer DeathAdder
Speakers Acoustic Energy Aego M 2.1

[Makavelian]

heres mine

Processor Phenom 965 b3 @3.8ghz
Motherboard ASUS M3A79-T DELUXE
RAM Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2
Graphics 2 PowerClour 5770 in Crossfire
Monitor 32" HDTV
Hard Drives Htachi 1 TB
PSU be quiet Straight power 650watt
Case NZXT BETA EVO Black Mid Tower Case
Heatsink CoolIT ECO ALC closed loop Watercooling

[Dundon's]

Processor i5 3570k
Motherboard ASrock Z77 Extreme 6
RAM Corsair 16GB LP Vengeance.
Graphics MSI Twin Frozr 3 7950 3GB
Hard Drives Crucial m4 128GB SSD/ Western Digital 1TB
PSU OCZ Fatil1ty 750w
Case Corsair Carbide 500R
Heatsink Arctic Freezer Xtreme Rev. 2
Monitor Logik 26" HDTV (tempory)
Keyboard Steelseries SHIFT
Mouse Steelseries MMO gaming mouse


Finally finished :blush:

[Sweey]

Christ mine needed a bit of an update given the Acoustic Energy speakers and HD 5850 were on there! Asterisks signify changes.

Processor Intel Core i7 920 (overclocked @ 3.8Ghz, 200x19)
Motherboard Asus P6T Deluxe V2
RAM 6GB (3x2GB) Corsair XMS3 PC3-14400
*Graphics Card 2GB MSI Radeon HD 6970 Lightning Twin Frozr III
*Monitor Samsung S27B970D
Sound Card Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality
*Hard Drives 1x80GB Intel X-25M Gen 2 SSD, 1x1TB Samsung SpinPoint F1, 2x500GB Samsung SpinPoint F3, 1x1TB Western Digital MyBook Essential 2 (external), 1x1.5TB Verbatim (external)
*Optical Drives Pioneer DVR-216BK (DVD+DL RW), Samsung SH-222AB
PSU Corsair TX 750
*Case Antec 1100
Heatsink Noctua NH-U12P
*Fans 2xAntec case fans, 1xGentle Typhoon
*Keyboard Logitech K750 wireless
Mouse Razer DeathAdder
*Speakers Q Acoustics 1030i connected via Onkyo CR715