Pc specs! what have you got under the hood?

[Olgaline]

A few Q's to people on here

1- I see alot of Huge Hd's, But why use a big Hd for Os ?
To me a small 36gb or 74gb 10k raptor makes much more sence for fast laoding times.
and then have 2 large storage HD's often devided into media HD and Game HD

2- I see alot of specs where people run a ddr3 mb, ddr3 gfx, and yet only ddr2 ram ?
why ? sure it's abit cheeper but it's not that much anymore tbh, and i for one like the idea of keeping my comp on the same "type" and as best posible same manufacture where possible F.eks Asus mb/Asus Gfx, WD&WD Hd's ect and so forth.

 

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i have like 800gig worth of movies/tv shows on my Hd's

 

[soze]

Same here i have 3 100gb OS drives and the rest as storage.

 

[Hidden]

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU
2.40GHz 2.39GHz
3071 MB (RAM)

 

[Chronictank]

A few Q's to people on here

1- I see alot of Huge Hd's, But why use a big Hd for Os ?
To me a small 36gb or 74gb 10k raptor makes much more sence for fast laoding times.
and then have 2 large storage HD's often devided into media HD and Game HD

i have the OS and apps on a single drive with the temp drive (page file in this drive) at the start of the disc
My applications take up 120 Gb on their own ><, 12 gig for vista, 50 gig temp
a couple of raptors simply arent enough

2- I see alot of specs where people run a ddr3 mb, ddr3 gfx, and yet only ddr2 ram ?
why ? sure it's abit cheeper but it's not that much anymore tbh, and i for one like the idea of keeping my comp on the same "type" and as best posible same manufacture where possible F.eks Asus mb/Asus Gfx, WD&WD Hd's ect and so forth.

performance gain doesnt really justify the price

 

[BloodOmen]

Standard XP does yes but if you upgrade to XP64 it has no problem with it, though tbh i wouldn't bother with 4 gig at the moment, its not as if you need it. I originally had 2 gig but saw my memory was on special offer one week so snapped up another pair of 1gig sticks.

Heh true I only play Team Fortress 2 atm really... and the odd mess around on my paladin on WoW.

 

[Olgaline]

Droool btw :
EAH3870X2/G/3DHTI/1G
ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

 

[ileks]

E8400 @ 4Ghz, 2GB of ram, a 3870X2 and an Asus P5E motherboard. Put it together about 2 weeks ago

 

[angrymoon]

E8400 @ 4Ghz, 2GB of ram, a 3870X2 and an Asus P5E motherboard. Put it together about 2 weeks ago

What volts did you need for 4ghz?

 

[soze]

I have a question for the overclockers i can run crysis without any problems with zero overclocking. Just wondering why you would run your machine so hard 24 / 7 when theres no real need?

 

[Olgaline]

I think for some it's a sport/hobby?

 

[cHodAX]

I have a question for the overclockers i can run crysis without any problems with zero overclocking. Just wondering why you would run your machine so hard 24 / 7 when theres no real need?

Framerates at higher resolutions mainly.

 

[ileks]

What volts did you need for 4ghz?

About 1.41 in the BIOS iirc, but CPU-Z shows 1.376 if that helps. Had to play around with it until prime95 was stable tho.

 

[Ballard]

E6600 at 3.6ghz, 4gb ram, ATI 3870 and two 500gb 7200.11 's.

I have a question for the overclockers i can run crysis without any problems with zero overclocking.

Not at very high settings with high resolution you cant. No PC for sale at the moment can (and that includes tri SLI wolfdale setups).

The question should be why shouldnt you overclock? A sensible overclock does not reduce stability or the life of the chip. Its getting extra performance for free. Why wouldnt you take something for nothing? My games load faster and run smoother than they do at stock speeds.

 

[soze]

I suppose im just stuck thinking overclocking is still a black art i will look into a new CPU fan and give overclocking a go. But im fairly sure my machine is set on very high my screen is only a 20inch though.

 

[Tinu]

q6600 @ 3.2
antec p182
gigabyte ds4
leadtek 8800gt
2gb 800mzh ram
74gb raptor
500gb wd
thermal right ultra extreme with silverstone 800-2400rpm fan
520w corsair

 

[Cemeterygates]

- Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - OEM
- Intel Q6600 2.40GHz Overclocked to 3.40GHz
- Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
- Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
- OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Reaper HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2RPR800C44GK)
- Asus GeForce EN8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST3500320AS)
- Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD753LJ)
- Samsung SH-S203D 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
- Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case
- Sony Floppy Drive - Black
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer 7.1 Sound Card - OEM (30SB073000002)
- OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply

Ordering that beauty on thursday

 

[Ezteq]

a gerbil in a wheel.

 

[Lethul]

a gerbil in a wheel.

wow!

i have a wheel in a gerbil.

 

[kirennia]

a gerbil in a wheel.

GOA sold the dyvet machine already?

 

[Olgaline]

yeah it's new times indeed with the new dual & quad wheel processors

 

[Howley]

well the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 HDs are fast as hell, as fast as raptor but not near as noisey plus i got mine for like half the price with double the space than if i went for a raptor setup.

mine isnt OC'd atm but i might do it ina month or so but ill need to back up stuff on an external drive and then wipe my machine clean then OC and put my movies n stuff back on. . . . . .EFFORT!

 

[Tinu]

well the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 HDs are fast as hell, as fast as raptor but not near as noisey

no they aint as fast, where did you find this (mis)information?

 

[Bahumat]

I have a little fat kid under the hood

 

[Guest]

I have a little fat kid under the hood

fs where did you get a picture of Clown.

 

[Urgluf]

I'm a total pc noob. But I got my hands on one of my dads office pcs..

intel Quad core
4 gig of DDR2 ram
2x 250 gig 7200 hard disks

and a shocking geforce 6600 GT

 

[echome]

A Macbook.