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I recently stopped with the whole desktop thing and went for a different chipset architecture for reasons work related:

I now run on a sony A297xp vaio:
1.8 centrino
512 ram pc2700? > soon to be 2gig
nice 1920x1200 17" widescreen
sound is through an edirol ua5 (the music stuff is separate)
80gig hard drive (plus a couple ext's)
64 meg ati mobility 9700

all in all shite for games great for other stuff.

now in posession of 21" monitor. Hooray!

Makes playing FPS games a lot better

n00bt00b wrote:now in posession of 21" monitor. Hooray!

Makes playing FPS games a lot better

What resolution do you run the games at though?

I always prefered 1600x1200 to look at on my old 21" monitor, but for some reason my gaming's improved now I'm running at 1280x1024 on a 19" flatscreen.

I think most games are developed to fit in with 1280x1024 as it's the most commonly used resolution nowadays.

n00bt00b wrote:now in posession of 21" monitor. Hooray!

I'm getting rid of my 21" monitor and replacing it with a 20" Dell TFT (should arrive in a week or so) - but it's mostly for the mac, so it may not get used on games.

1280*1024 @ fov105. For long range shooting with fov 120, you can shoot at people who can hardly see you. Its awesome. It is quite large though, and I do have quite a small desk, so its sort of hanging off the edge and Im getting a really bad neck due to looking sideways for long periods of time

field of view is definitely something i can take advantage of..... however there is that balance of FPS

I'm running a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz
1 Gig of DDR Ram
Geforce FX5600 (128MB) but looking to upgrade(any suggestions?)
3 Hard drives of varying capacity
19" box like monitor
one (1) 5" stuffed iguana paperweight atop monitor
one (1) 2" plastic Christmas cracker toy (from 2003) of a robot closely resembling a Karma/Havok ragdoll, also atop monitor.

I'm looking to upgrade to a 64bit stuffed Iguana to allow for quicker opening though.

I'm pleased with her, she's a self-build and she does a good job. CS:S looks beautiful on her as well. I do want to get a new graphics card though. Also my case is a bit compuchav, it's got a fan in the side with 4 lights in it. 2 red 2 blue. Looks purdy though.

tandino

I would suggest either a GeForce 6600GT or a 6800GT, depending on your budget. If you want ATI, the X700 is supposed to be pretty good, but their cards really aren't that good in the midrange section. their high and low end cards are pretty good, but the midrange ones are too expensive.

stuff wot makes it work:

AMD Athlon 3200+ (2.2ghz)
1gig Corsair pc3200 ram
Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo (v2)
Asus ATI Radeon 9600XT
160gig SATA HDD

runs doom 3 at ultra, i just have to wait for it to cache every time i went through a door (that was on 512mb of ram)

extras:
17" CRT, TFT arrives in a few days
£18 2.1 speakers, annoy my neighbors at uni pretty well :D
logotech Mx510 mouse, pretty nice, nearly went for the Mx1000, but wanted a wire
really solid keyboard from back in the day, taken all kinds abuse
saitek cyborg joystick, really comfy and adjustable, mainly used for BF:V, i manged to snap teh throttle lever off a while ago too :/ but it still works
liteOn CDRW/DVD drive, nowt special
coolermaster preatorian case.... mmm.... aluminium + a fan controller, to keep the noise down

i think that's about it...

That cache thing with the doors in Doom3 is probably down to your processor. Had the same thing with a 2.4Ghz P4 with a 5950 ultra and 1 GB ram, replaced with a 3.06Ghz P4 HT and works sweet now.

I use a mix of 4 machines from a 1.4G M, 512Mb, 40Gb ati mobility radeon 7500 (laptop) to a 3.4G P4, 1G ram, 200Gb, 6800GT (desktop). Just depends on where I am.

One of my mates has got the ultra-slim bluetooth logitech keyboard and mouse set. Its cool, but I'm not sure I' want to spend nearly £200 on a keyboard and mouse (even if it does come with the nice little keypad/messenger receiver/mp3 control).

Squinty

3.4ghz s775 Pentium 4 (with uber-loud jet engine fan)
1gb pc3200 dual channel ram
Nvidia geforce 6610xl (oc'D to a 6600gt)
250gb HDD
Medion 17" 13ms TFT @ 1280x1024
Creative I-Trigue 3200 2.1 speakers, Sony Fontopia headphones while playing games to drown out CPU fan.

newg wrote:AMD Athlon 64bit 3000+
256mb ATI Radeon 9600
512mb DDR RAM (soon to be 1gb when student loan arrives)
120GB Seagate HDD (couldn't tell you rpm though)

And i can tell you now, the 64bit processor outclasses the 3ghz Pentium4s by a long shot.

it's amazing how much difference it makes in 32bit applications (i.e tattyshop opens instantly, ptretty much)

same as my computer except mines is a 160 hdd

15 inch tft monitor
pretty decent stereo speakers with a decent subwoofer (its like i can feel the bullets fly by me!)
hopefully upgrading to pc3200 1gig ram once i get some money
then maybe a sata hdd, my goal is to reach the maximum specs my brand spanking new motherboard can take

Intel Pentium4 3.0ghz
1gb PC3100 DDR Ram
Radeon 9800 (softmodded .. it's supposedly as good as a 9800 pro now)
160gb IDE hd

.. 17" Iiyama Monitor

Upgrade-tastic!

Until something goes wrong, i'm now sporting:

AMD64 3500+
1GB PC3200 DDR RAM
Radeon X800 XL (PCIe)
200Gb Maxtor SATA drive

Huzzah!

Now I'm going to set up the old one again so I can race Photoshop.

I'm not even going to tell you my system specs. I'm far too ashamed.

edit: I relent, I will tell you all my specs. Give me 5 minutes for the directx diag to run... There we go.

I have: 1Ghz P3, 2x 40GB HDDs (ide), 512Mb RAM (probably only SD, but I've no real idea), 256Mb nvidia geforce 5600 fx. A rather nice 17" tft monitor and infinite patience.



Any donations of hardware/pity please offer here!

Heres my specs:

AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (runs at 1818mhz)
512MB DDR PC2100 RAM (whats the PC2100 bit mean - I'm a little new to this aspect of computing...)
Radeon 9550 128MB
20GB HD
15" CRT shite monitor @ 1028x768
nice Creative speakers, cheap and crappy £20 Trust wireless keyboard and mouse. Mouse jumps a lot, but I've been told that this may be the mat. I've "aquired" a new one from the Uni clusters, but its still doing it.

If anyone has any old RAM, HD, graphics cards or monitors that they'd like to sell - or even better, donate - then let me know. I'm hoping to upgrade a little in the summer once exams are over and I can get a job, but I'm not totally sure where to start. Thinking RAM upgrade to 1GB maybe. But like I said, anyone got any now redundant gear, please let me know!

Lateralus wrote:512MB DDR PC2100 RAM (whats the PC2100 bit mean - I'm a little new to this aspect of computing...)

It's how fast the ram runs:

http://www.ddrsdrammemory.com/which_ddr_ram.html

I have PC2700 in 2 lots of 512 each.

If you're looking at upgrading RAM then you want to try and get another lot of ram exactly the same as the one you have so you can run it in dual channel mode for more speediness. Feel free to correct me if i'm wrong

mrbobbins wrote:

Lateralus wrote:512MB DDR PC2100 RAM (whats the PC2100 bit mean - I'm a little new to this aspect of computing...)

It's how fast the ram runs:

http://www.ddrsdrammemory.com/which_ddr_ram.html

I have PC2700 in 2 lots of 512 each.

If you're looking at upgrading RAM then you want to try and get another lot of ram exactly the same as the one you have so you can run it in dual channel mode for more speediness. Feel free to correct me if i'm wrong

in college they don't trust us installing new hardware into new pcs. we're working with pc 100 52kb ram, its laughable

Just a quick update:

Shuttle SN41G2 V3, 1GB PC2700 (2x512MB Dual Channel), Sempr0n 2600+, ASUS Radeon 9600XT 128MB (Due to the fan needing replacing on my 9800 Pro).

Aaaand, my Shuttle doesn't whine like a leprotic dog, Solomon.

mrbobbins wrote: If you're looking at upgrading RAM then you want to try and get another lot of ram exactly the same as the one you have so you can run it in dual channel mode for more speediness. Feel free to correct me if i'm wrong

ive been told that dual channel ram is best bought at the same time, as differences in the date it has been made will slow it down magicaly. i think this is probably bullshit, as he was trying to get me to scrap my entire pc and get some nitrogen cooled beast instead. fool. i currently have: 256+512 ddr crucial ram (pc2600 i think) around 100gig hddage, 2 cd drives for no reason other than there was one lying around, radeon 9800 pro all in wonder(i heart teh card), amd(intel sucks) atholon xp sumin or other and a creative audigy sound card. i also have 4.1 suround which is altec lansing aparently. got it off a mate for 30quid :D microsoft 5 button optical, bought it 3 years ago for a fiver brand new and it is easily the best mouse i own/have ever used