smokin hardware

[rampant]

so what really fast hardware do people use?

ive just bought an athlon 3500 with a 200gb sATA3 drive - and it is SmOkEn!!!!!

 

[evzy]

ZX81 mobo, 2 flashy lights for gfx and a couple of wires from the back of an old alarm clock.... runs most things pretty well, though I think may chuck some 2 more lights in for sli type effect gfx tbh.

 

[Naffets]

A64 3700 @ 2800mhz, 1gb ddr and a 300gb hdd with 16mb l2 cache, X1800XL

 

[ceixava]

3800+ x2, 2GB mem, 7800gtx
server has all the hd space naturally

 

[Himse]

2x2400ghz 2 gig ram 2x512gfx cards, (geforce iirc) :|

 

[Naffets]

Man im tired, how the fuck can you have l2 cache on a hdd

off to bed. nn

 

[MadsKaizer]

An rather old Intel Pentium 4 C northwood 2,8 Ghz
Asus motherboard with pci-e and socket 478
Geforce 7800GT 256mb pci-e
1 Gb pc3200 ddr ram
36,7 Gb western digital raptor hdd, 10k rpm. for booting and games
some 160 gb for storage
19" samsung SyncMaster913B

and a Dell Inspiron 8600 for trolling FH while playing

 

[Konah]

my wallet is bigger than joooooors! (or was)

 

[Joor]

Athlon64™ X2 3800+(Manchester) 270x10 @2700 mhz
Asus A8N+
2x1024 Gskill Extreme HZ@3-4-4-10 1T
Geforce 6800 GS @510core/ 1200 mem --Club 3D GeForce 7900GT ordered so I can play Oblivion with full details
74 Raptor Harddisk+160 gb maxtor as backup
OCZ Powerstream 420 PSU

 

[Naffets]

JOORMODE xDDDD

finally got the hang of oc'ing my SD, 2800 @ 1.4v now

 

[WiZe^]

my gear smoke's cus it sucks so much

 

[Phantomby]

I used to run an abbacus (sp?) got some strings and beads but still wasnt cutting it on todays games...so i bought an alienware n5700 laptop cus i wanted to be able to lug my machine around easy and have decent graphics power.

Now i dont even use my base unit, grown used to rvring on a lappy (though i use a propper mouse for selection...im not totally crazy)

 

[Kaun_IA]

amd 64 3200+ venice
ASROCK dual sata2 mobo
sapphire radeon x800pro
1gb ddr
100gb hdd
and 80 gb hdd as my recording drive

and bot runs on a laptop

amd turion 64 mobile (1,8ghz)
1gb drr
some junk gfx tho (((((
80 gb hdd

 

[Achilles]

Processor:Intel (R) Pentium (R) 4 CPU 3.00 ghz (Northwood)
Mainboard: MS-7012 (old agp peice of junk)
Memory: 2.5GB PC3200 DDR-SDRAM (2x256 of samsung and 2x 1GB of crucial)
Gfix: Medion Radeon 9800 XL 128mb

Runs 1xDR client, 1x ToA client, TS/Vent ok, bit laggy at bridges xD.

 

[Cemeterygates]

I used to run an abbacus (sp?) got some strings and beads but still wasnt cutting it on todays games...so i bought an alienware n5700 laptop cus i wanted to be able to lug my machine around easy and have decent graphics power.

Now i dont even use my base unit, grown used to rvring on a lappy (though i use a propper mouse for selection...im not totally crazy)

hey phantomby! alienware is expensive but damn tasty i got a aurora 5500 myself

 

[Darzil]

It's not mine, but at the weekend built a PC for someone. It had Athlon 64 X2 processor, 2 GB matched Ram, SLi 7900 GTX Graphics, 200 Gb Hard Drive (system/data), 70 Gb RAID 0 Hard Drives (game files).

Tried it out in Camelot and other programs, no lag in the laggiest spots on top detail settings.

Then we noticed that you had to re-enable SLi each time you replace the graphics drivers (which we'd done), and that we'd seen those results with only one card enabled !

Darzil

 

[Phantomby]

Its a shame you have to run nearly a grands worth of kit (~£500) to get decent frame rate out of a game though. Whatever happened to lodding, Pov systems and all the other shibang that helps the engine run quick? I blame lazy coders that think "ah i have oodles of space and resources to play with so i can write sloppy code"...tsk, bring back the old school coders, now they really know optimisation and are worth their weight in gold !

hey Cem! Yeah i went for alienware as they offered customisation of a basic system so i could mix and match exactly what i wanted in my lappy which hardly anyone else did.

 

[old.windforce]

amd 64 3200+ venice
ASROCK 939 slot mobo
Raptor 10K 73 Gb disk for games / boot + 120Gb Maxtor disk for my pr0n
2 Gb RAM dunno what brand
Gforce 6800 GS (the factory oc'ed version)
2 x 19'' TFT screens

performs decent

other pc's

Dell M70 workstation laptop with 1 Gb RAM

Dell 8200 1.8Gb P4 with 9800pro and 512 Mb RAMbus memory (try to find that memory cheap )

can run 6 accounts

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

Its a shame you have to run nearly a grands worth of kit (~£500) to get decent frame rate out of a game though. Whatever happened to lodding, Pov systems and all the other shibang that helps the engine run quick? I blame lazy coders that think "ah i have oodles of space and resources to play with so i can write sloppy code"...tsk, bring back the old school coders, now they really know optimisation and are worth their weight in gold !

They moved to germany and started working for .the .product.
Check it out. it's some real skills what those guys can do

 

[ceixava]

Its a shame you have to run nearly a grands worth of kit (~£500) to get decent frame rate out of a game though. Whatever happened to lodding, Pov systems and all the other shibang that helps the engine run quick? I blame lazy coders that think "ah i have oodles of space and resources to play with so i can write sloppy code"...tsk, bring back the old school coders, now they really know optimisation and are worth their weight in gold !

most still do that, problem with daoc is that they dont have a self made engine

most of daocs problems come from the bought engine that has proven itself shit on many occasions like zergs, big raids etc

there just isnt a system that can do daoc engine at its worst

 

[Phantomby]

They moved to germany and started working for .the .product.
Check it out. it's some real skills what those guys can do

Ah yes, ive seen that. very impressive.

Anyway back on topic...more techno cock slapping please

Just as an aside (on topic didnt last long lol) does anyone else feel like they miss something if they have no electrical appliances on next to them? or is it just me? I think 10 yrs in the industry has changed my biology ;/

 

[Shad]

AMD 64x2 4400, 2gb ram, 2x250 gb sata 2 HD, 1x300gb x-ternal usb2 HD.
gforce 7800gtx

 

[Neffneff]

AMD 64x2 4400, 2gb ram, 2x250 gb sata 2 HD, 1x300gb x-ternal usb2 HD.
gforce 7800gtx

you need a nother hdd, just so you can say you have 1 Terrabyte+.