What Kind Of Rig Do You Have?

[35Pete]

Merc's got a monster homebuilt rig. Impressive indeed.

Any other home built PC's here? What about your stock (store bought) rig? What are you operating on?

Me....

My Rig
AMD 64FX 4200+ 2x2.23 GHz 64-Bit Dual Core uP
2 GB PNY DDR2 667 MHz with Heatsink
2 x NVidia GeForce 6800 Video Cards in SLI Mode
2 x Viewsonic 19" Widescreen HDTV Monitors
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum Audio
Altec Lansing 7.1 Surround Sound
Win-TV PVR-150 Cable/Satellite TV Tuner
ASUS M2N32-SLI Wireless Motherboard
4 x 250 MB WD SATA HD Storage in Split RAID-0 RAID-1 (2 + 2)
Netgear FVS114 VPN Firewall and Router
BFG 1000 Watt Power Supply
Logitech MX5000 Laser Bluetooth Wireless Mouse and Keyboard
Dual Operating System: Linux and Windows Vista Ultimate.

Key Performance Software:

ActiveSpeed (Internet Optimization)
Kaspersky Internet Security 2007 (Security)
Norton Confidential 2007 (Security)
Norton Ghost 2007 (Data backup)
Windows Vista Ultimate (Buggy, but getting better)
Ubuntu Linux 6.10 (alternate OS)
PC SpeedScan (PC performance)
Registry Booster (PC performance)
Auslogics Disk Defrag (PC performance)
System Tweaker (PC performance)

[Gibby]

I have a compaq computer that I bought at wal mart this past summer. I only use it for web surfing and bitching at some of you. So it does its duty. (yes D3 I said duty)

[Woody]

I put this together a couple weeks ago. Get yourself a bib. :niterider

CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 2.66Ghz
MOBO: EVGA 680i SLI
RAM: 2GB Corsair Dominator
HD: Western Digital Raptor 150GB
Video: GeForce 8800 GTX
Sound: Soundblaster X-FI (plugged into Sony Dream theater 5.1 surround)
NIC: USR Wireless Turbo
Case: Cooler Master Stacker 830
PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 750W
Monitor: Samsung Synchmaster 206BW (20in)
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium

"Key Performance Software"

None



My store bought is my Alienware 7700 laptop:

CPU: Pentium 4/HT 3.6Ghz
RAM: 2GB Crucial Ballistix
HD: 2x Hitachi Travelstar 100GB
Video: GeForce 6800go
Sound: USB Soundblaster
NIC: PCMCIA USR Wireless Turbo
Monitor: 17in built in
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium/XP Pro

"Key Performance Software"

None

Best laptop I ever had.

:niterider

[TRIPLE P]

10in shaft
250ml Balls x2

haha....

I honestly just bought the most expensive computer I could get on the Dell website. 21 in widescreen monitor and altec aurround.....its worked great except for a little blue screen of death issue I've since gotten fixed....

But I got it like 2 years ago.... so I'm probably gonna go with a sweet laptop in a year.

[Bsmith26]

AMD 64 AM2 3500+ 2.2ghz
ZALMAN CNPS 9500 AM2 Heatsink (nice)
Gigabyte GA-M55plus-S3G(rev 2.0)
BFG 7600GT
Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 2x512mb
Western Digitial SATA 250GB
Cooler Master 430w Power Supply
Logitech Z-640 5.1 Surround Sound
Logitech MX518 Mouse - Logitech Media Keyboard
ProView 5ms 19in Widescreen Monitor
Dual booting Windows Vista Home Premium and XP Pro

I had a VERY limited budget to build this rig with. I already had all the peripherals from previous PC's I've built. The one thing i need asap is more ram. nice deal on Newegg for 2x1GB for 195.00 with 40.00 rebate.

I wish the DirectX 10 cards (8800gtx in particular) would come down in price quick but i doubt that it will happen anytime soon.

[Buffalo1]

dork alert

[K-Gun]

http://www2.gpmd.com/image/t/tamc0644.jpg

[35Pete]

I put this together a couple weeks ago. Get yourself a bib. :niterider

CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 2.66Ghz
MOBO: EVGA 680i SLI
RAM: 2GB Corsair Dominator
HD: Western Digital Raptor 150GB
Video: GeForce 8800 GTX
Sound: Soundblaster X-FI (plugged into Sony Dream theater 5.1 surround)
NIC: USR Wireless Turbo
Case: Cooler Master Stacker 830
PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 750W
Monitor: Samsung Synchmaster 206BW (20in)
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium

"Key Performance Software"

None
:niterider

Jesus!

Naaaaaiuiiiicccceeeee!!!!!

:clapper: :clapper:

[35Pete]

AMD 64 AM2 3500+ 2.2ghz
ZALMAN CNPS 9500 AM2 Heatsink (nice)
Gigabyte GA-M55plus-S3G(rev 2.0)
BFG 7600GT
Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 2x512mb
Western Digitial SATA 250GB
Cooler Master 430w Power Supply
Logitech Z-640 5.1 Surround Sound
Logitech MX518 Mouse - Logitech Media Keyboard
ProView 5ms 19in Widescreen Monitor
Dual booting Windows Vista Home Premium and XP Pro

I had a VERY limited budget to build this rig with. I already had all the peripherals from previous PC's I've built. The one thing i need asap is more ram. nice deal on Newegg for 2x1GB for 195.00 with 40.00 rebate.

I wish the DirectX 10 cards (8800gtx in particular) would come down in price quick but i doubt that it will happen anytime soon.

Sweet budget rig. Once you RAM up you'll be sitting real sweet.

Bsmith and Woody.

Check out Activespeed and SpeedscanPro. They'll ramp up your surf speed and PC performance in a MEGA way. Both are about $60 total. You can get them online too.

Ohh. Upgrading to an AMD Opteron Quad-core uP this summer.

[Lucidvizion]

I built mine a year and a half ago. I have upgraded Ram and vid card since. I'd say it still competes with new higher end systems.

AMD Athalon 64 X2 3800+
Abit AN8 Mobo
2 GB PC3200 Ram
ATI x1950 Pro 256MB Vid Card
200 GB SATA150 HD
Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit 7.1 Sound Card

[two4trippn]

This week's main rig
Pentium D 915 Presler 2.8ghz
ECS p4m800pro-m w/onboard video & sound
HannsG 19" widescreen hw191D
Kingston 1gb DDR2 667
320gb WD SE16 SATA
Lite-on LH-20a1H-186 20X lightscribe writer

Other box
Celeron 2.6 w/ Intel845pe board
AIW 8500 radeon w/ HannsG 19" widescreen hw191D
160GB WD drive
NEC 7170 dvd writer
512mb ram

4 year olds system
AMD Duron 1800
512MB ram
80gb drive loaded with every kid game I could find
15" SYS LCD screen (loaded with fingerprints)
Samsung DVD writer

Basement backups
P4 1.6 & 1.8 on Intel 845 series boards
512MB each
older 40GB & 60GB drives
anything leftover

A pile of old Intel Seattle boards with lovely pentium II 266's ready for those Win95 DOS based days of BBS type browsing. Oh yeah, a Packard Bell Multimedia 550 with the smoking Cyrix 300 and an old AIW pro 8mb pci card w/ Windows ME. The

There's a Commodore 64 somewhere with a tape drive and the classic 300 baud modem - who remembers typing those friggin Compute Gazette pages of shit for two days and waiting until next month for the friggin typos to be corrected.

And there's an assortment of gaming consoles. Atari 2600, NES, PSX, Dreamcast, Xbox etc -which my wife loves to complain about until she gets to play a classic on one of the emulators. (Dr Mario addict)

[Woody]

Man I love the Commodore.... I'd still have one if it was practical. I still have a copy of 'The Last Ninja'.. complete, mint and on display in my living room. :niterider



There's a Commodore 64 somewhere with a tape drive and the classic 300 baud modem - who remembers typing those friggin Compute Gazette pages of shit for two days and waiting until next month for the friggin typos to be corrected.

[Lucidvizion]

Man I love the Commodore.... I'd still have one if it was practical. I still have a copy of 'The Last Ninja'.. complete, mint and on display in my living room. :niterider

One thing I miss about Commodore 64 is the sheer quantity of games available for it, and the rapidity of new game releases.

Ahh, the good old days...

[two4trippn]

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[35Pete]

Bought a Cooler Master Real Power Pro 850 Watt ATX 2.2 Power Supply. SLI ready. Six 12 Volt rails rated @ 18 amps each. Peak power 1000 watts. It can support quad 8800 GTx'es.

I'm good to go.