How BUFF is YOUR rig?

How fast is your computer, what upgrades have you added, what's planned for the future, etc?

Mine:

3.0 ghz intel HT tech
1.0 gb ram
512 mb ATI 1600xPro (upgraded from a 600x Pro)
Audigy 2 Sound
80 gig SATA
70 gig ATA
DVD/CDRW drive
External DVD+/-R/RW/DL drive
585 watt 5.1 surround sound system
17" 4:3 monitor

At this point I don't have plans to upgrade the comp is one year old and I just upgraded the video...also I NEED money to upgrade further!! yeesh

V so, what do you have?

[KiraRin]

[Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2 (5.1 - 2600)] CPU: [1-AMD , 1800MHz (0% Load)]. Uptime: [5hrs 11mins 29secs]. Record Uptime: [9hrs 46mins 47secs]. Video Card: [ NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 ]. ScreenInfo: [ 1280x800 32bit 60Hz ]. RAM [Usage: 372/511MB (72.80%) ]

Sorry for the horrible format, but I don't know the spec of my laptop, so I have to use the mirc script to check.

Yup, pretty crap

The only thing I use this laptop for is interweb, irc and email though. Don't need anything flash. Plus, all my spare cash goes on my car ^^

H.

yeah I would rather put money in my car too honestly!!!

I haven't bought a new computer in years. Mine just kinda evolves over time. It started as some low end off the shelf tan thing. Later, I added a Soundblaster 16, then a new HDD. Later still, I upgraded to a Pentium 200 and new motherboard to accomidate the new CPU, and a few weeks later got a CD Drive, then an Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 video card a few months after that.
In 2002 I upgraded to a Celeron 900 (agian, new motherboard to accomidate the CPU) and higher end RAM, then a few months later, replaced the HDD with a 120 gig drive and replaced the CD drive with a CD RW drive.
Year before last, I got a new tower for it, and early last year upgraded to Pentium 4 2.66 gHz (again, new motherboard with it) and 512 RAM (ddr400 I think) and just a few months ago, finally made the upgrade to WinXP.

So, my machine is a very motley device, with these current stats:
P4 2.66 gHz (think the motherboard is PC Chips)
512 DDR400 RAM
120 Gb HDD (is that eide or ata? I forget)
CD RW
Sound Blaster 16 PCI
nVidia GeForce FX 5200 PCI
Windows XP (though I made it look like Win98 still)

and that's about it for me

[aceman67]

Custom Built
Asus A8N-VM MoBo
AMD Athlon 64 2.01 GHZ
1024mb Ram
256mb Radeon x1300
250gig, 40gig, 80gig (Firewire external) hard drives
LG 48x24x48 CD-RW/16x DvD-Rom
Sony 16x DvD-RW Dual Layer
Philips 107b 19" CRT Monitor (1600x1200 Primary Display), LG Flatron 795FT Plus 19" CRT Monitor (1600x1200 Secondary Display)

[Dynasty Warrior]

Custom Built (with recycled parts):

- Gigabyte Technologies mobo supporting up to 16GB of RAM (no joke)
- 2.4 GHZ AMD Athlon 3800+
- 1024 MB of RAM (PNY Technologies)
- 64 MB NVidia GeForce 6150 LE (onboard video, can't reuse ATI Radeon 9200SE due to my board having a PCI-E slot rather than AGP)
- 40GB HD (Western Digital, carryover from dad's old machine)
- Pioneer CD/DVD combo burner and reader (I don't remember the speeds at this moment)
- 3.5" Floppy Drive (rarely used)
- 15" Barbie monitor (cousin's old machine)
- Barbie keyboard (again, cousin's old machine)
- Logitech optical mouse (got it for free from dad's former co-worker)
- Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade



*EXTRAS*

1 SATA cable (hopefully will find good deal on SATA drive)
4 USB ports in the back, 2 up front
2 older brand speakers from dad's old machine at workplace
8-channel HD-compatable audio.

P.S. Don't buy any new ECS motherboards. They have memory issues up the bum.

[KiraRin]

Is it just me or does this thread need to be renamed "mine is bigger than yours"...

Typical men

H.

[prh99]

ASUS A8V-Deluxe Motherboard
Althon 64 3000+ 1.8GHZ (debating whether or not I should get an X2 since I found out it supports it).
1GB PC3200 DDR400 SDRAM
Nvidia GeForce 6600 256MB
RealTek AC'97 onboard sound
250 GB Western Digital SATA harddrive
80 GB Western Digital SATA harddrive
LiteOn SHW-160P6S combo DVD/RW CD/RW
LiteOn 16X DVD drive (don't have the model number).
17" Dell Ultra-Sharp LCD (1280x1024)
Windows XP Pro SP2

[vincent_10_27]

If KiraRin was lazy, damn hell I am much lazier.



That's just a laptop but at least it's powerful enough among others. It's Compaq cause it's on sale when I bought it at Bestbuy.
I plan to get a new dell laptop soon after I saved up to $2500. I'll make sure to max the specs out.

[cyberbeing]

AMD X2 4800+
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
4GB DDR400
74GB Raptor 10,000rpm x2 in RAID0
300GB Maxtor MaxlineIII x2
500GB Hitachi 7K500 x2 in RAID0
500GB WD RE2 x2 in RAID0
500GB + 300GB + 160GB external
Total Storage = ~3.38TB
16x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW
52x CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive
nVidia 7800GTX 512MB
Soundblaster Audigy Plat.
Klipsch 5.1 Surround
Dell 2007FP
WinXP

I built this in Summer of 2005 minus the two WD RE2 and 500GB external drive which I added later.
I am hoping that this rig will last me a few more years before it is completely outdated and I feel the need to build a new rig that will last me another 3-5 years. I usually go all out and build a high-end machine when there is a huge leap in performance (over what I currently have) and next-gen specifications come out to try to future-proof my machine for as long as possible.

My previous 2001 built computer was the following (built around WinXP released):
Dual Processor AMD MP 1800+
1GB DDR266 ECC
Tyan K7 Thunder
80GB x2 in RAID0
60GB x2 in RAID0
160GB External
Kenwood 72x CD-ROM
4x DVD+/-RW
ATI Radeon 8500
Soundblaster Audigy Plat.
Klipsch 5.1 Surround
Sony GDM-F520
WinXP