I <3 my computer

[Drew2]

Ok so I&#039;m a big geek and I&#039;ve been into computers since my family first got one back in Windows 3.0 days. Here&#039;s my current desktop computer specs:

Pentium III 833 mhz (That&#039;s like the only thing that hasn&#039;t been updated in the past 3 years)
nVidia GeForce4 128 mb Graphics Card
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card
Sound Blaster Inspire 6.1 speaker system. (w00t!)
52x24x52x CD-RW (Just got it today! :D)
And a craptastic KDS 17&quot; monitor that I want to get replaced with a LCD or something.

Edit: Oh yeah, and 320 mb DDR RAM.

Tell me yours so I can be jealous! (Or laugh)

And Bob, don&#039;t post. We know you&#039;re going to make something up to look cool.

[Edited on 8-29-2003 by Tayre]

[Bobmuhthol]

833 MHz? HAHAHA!!!!

2.4 GHz. Eat it.

[Gizmo]

Intel P4 2.66, 512mb DDR Ram, Geforce FX 5200, 17&quot; Flat Panel Monitor, 5 piece Altec Lansig Speaker set with 45watt sub, front flash card readers and crap out the wazoo.

[imported_Kranar]

PIV 2.0 GHz
512 MB DDR RAM (All PIVs use DDR)
GeForce 3 128 MB
32x10x40 CD-RW
17&quot; regular monitor

[Gokkem]

My main computer is a 1.67 gig AMD Athlon, 1 gig ram, 64 mb Radeon 7500, 20&quot; Sony Trinitron (the monitor makes the system) cheap speakers........

Doesn&#039;t sounds impressive, but the tower used to house my 950 mhz amd athlon, but when I blew up that motherboard I replaced it and the processor. Why I didn&#039;t start with a new case, I&#039;ll never know. I got a year old system in a 3 year old case. So I went out, bought a brand new fancy case, and stuffed my 950 mhz in there with 512 mb ram and a 32 meg Nvidia TNT card that I had laying around. Got a 15&quot; monitor (ack I&#039;m blind!!!!) and viola kids and my girlfriend has a computer too. But, uh, girlfriend hates it so I&#039;m on the crap computer usually. Oh well. Women.

[Edited on 08-29-03 by Gokkem]

[StrayRogue]

I use an Amstrad 464 primarily. Heavily modified of course. R-type rocks. Still takes an hour to load off the tape though...

[Ben]

NEC(They don&#039;t make computers anymore) Pentium 166 and a 2.0 GB Harddrive.

[Gokkem]

Originally posted by Ben
NEC(They don&#039;t make computers anymore) Pentium 166 and a 2.0 GB Harddrive.

Oh god Ben. You have my sympathies.

[Ben]

Oh and I have 64MB RAM, At least I have an excuse to play Gemstone.

[Ben]

Honestly, my computer isn&#039;t that bad. Nothing has ever broken on it, I still have the same keyboard and mouse as I did when I got it, I&#039;ve never replaced anything on it (My brother put in a little more RAM I think it was originally 32MB)

[Halfsilver]

1.8ghz P4
256 RAM
some stock graphics card...it works pretty well, though.
17inch LCD screen. woo!
CDR/RW and DVDROM player(i dunno why i got it. i think it was free)
HK speakers.

Runs morrowind perfectly on high resolution, so i&#039;m happy with it.

-grays

[imported_Kranar]

Morrowind is the definitive benchmark for determining how well a computer works.

[Bobmuhthol]

&lt;&lt;17inch LCD screen. woo!&gt;&gt;

Don&#039;t expect to be playing Counter-Strike/Life and/or any other video game worth playing. LCD sux0rz.

[Ben]

The only game worth playing is socom

[Lord Whirlin]

Heh
3 Gigahertz Pentium
120 Gig Hard Drive
Nvidia ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 DDR
1 gig of ram
DvD Player
48x burner
4.1 Surround sound speakers + Subwoofer
24 inch CRT monitor (I would have goten plasma, but the frames per second isn&#039;t as good as with a conventional CRT)

[Ben]

Originally posted by Lord Whirlin
Heh
3 Gigahertz Pentium
120 Gig Hard Drive
Nvidia ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 DDR
1 gig of ram
DvD Player
48x burner
4.1 Surround sound speakers + Subwoofer
24 inch CRT monitor (I would have goten plasma, but the frames per second isn&#039;t as good as with a conventional CRT)


And you play a text based RPG. Money well spent.

[Lord Whirlin]

Because of course, that&#039;s the only thing I do... My entire life is purely gemstone, I&#039;ve never played any game with visual graphics, never used it for anything other than basic internet. I have a good system because I use it. Gemstone is just one use of it

[Halfsilver]

Originally posted by Bobmuhthol
&lt;&lt;17inch LCD screen. woo!&gt;&gt;

Don&#039;t expect to be playing Counter-Strike/Life and/or any other video game worth playing. LCD sux0rz.

Oh, not as many FPS on a plasma as on a CRT :?: I bet it&#039;d still be fine. Mines a good one.

I think you have a little bit of screen envy, bob. :smilegrin:

and Morrowind eats up memory like crazy.
don&#039;t even bother trying it without at least 256 RAM and 1 gig cpu

-grays

[Edited on 8-30-2003 by Halfsilver]

[Betheny]

Who cares what kind of computer you have, someone always has a bigger and a better one than you do. All I know is my computer has Windows ME so no matter what kind of hardware I have, a frigging Commodore would kick my computer&#039;s ass.

[imported_Kranar]

&lt;&lt; Nvidia ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 DDR &gt;&gt;

ROFLMAO

[HarmNone]

Like, I dunno. But, it is really cute, an black, an it plays music an has purdy pitchers on the screen thingee.

HarmNone, resident pagan nun

[Drew2]

Originally posted by Kranar
&lt;&lt; Nvidia ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 DDR &gt;&gt;

ROFLMAO

Hehehehe I just caught that! Bwahaha! That&#039;s funny.

[HarmNone]

Ok, I give up. Why is that funny?

HarmNone the uneducated

[Betheny]

I&#039;m not cool enough to get it either. :(

[Drew2]

nVidida and Radeon are two seperate graphic card makers. There&#039;s no such thing as a nVidia Radeon anything.

[Betheny]

Do you jack off to computer magazines? Who the hell KNOWS that crap?

[HarmNone]

Originally posted by Tayre
nVidida and Radeon are two seperate graphic card makers. There&#039;s no such thing as a nVidia Radeon anything.

Ooooh. A nonexistant graphics card. That is, most assuredly, unique!

HarmNone is impressed

[Drew2]

Originally posted by Maimara
Do you jack off to computer magazines?
Wouldn&#039;t you like to know.

[Lord Whirlin]

meh, a mistake on my part, its ATI Radeon, happy now?

[Drew2]

Originally posted by Lord Whirlin
meh, a mistake on my part, its ATI Radeon, happy now?
Yes, but not because I&#039;m right.

VAIO just left, so I&#039;m happy. (Ask Maimara.)

[Snapp]

I still don&#039;t know what that means..

[Betheny]

it means Tayre has satisfied his deviant urges.

[HarmNone]

Originally posted by Lord Whirlin
meh, a mistake on my part, its ATI Radeon, happy now?

Is that a good one, Lord Whirlin? I know nothing of these things, but I am considering getting a new system in the near future.

HarmNone

[Lord Whirlin]

yeah, computer is new for college this year. I tried to get everything as best as I could.

[HarmNone]

Originally posted by Snapp
I still don&#039;t know what that means..

Various Aardvarks in Overalls, perhaps?

HarmNone being helpful again

[Snapp]

Oh okay! That makes more sense to me! Thanks!

[HarmNone]

Originally posted by Snapp
Oh okay! That makes more sense to me! Thanks!

Anytime, Snapp. I live to serve! :D

HarmNone, resident pagan serving nun

[HarmNone]

Originally posted by Lord Whirlin
yeah, computer is new for college this year. I tried to get everything as best as I could.

Thank you, Lord Whirlin. I shall remember that.

Oh, and good luck at college!

HarmNone

[Lord Whirlin]

not having a great time here... for someone that doesn&#039;t smoke, doesn&#039;t drink, and has a girlfriend that he loves more than anything going to a school 6 hour away, the things to do are limited. I always hear the best part about college are the drugs, sex, and booze, and I don&#039;t want any of them. I&#039;m having a pretty hard time adjusting

[imported_Kranar]

NVidia all the way.

ATI bit the dust awhile ago.

[HarmNone]

Originally posted by Lord Whirlin
not having a great time here... for someone that doesn&#039;t smoke, doesn&#039;t drink, and has a girlfriend that he loves more than anything going to a school 6 hour away, the things to do are limited. I always hear the best part about college are the drugs, sex, and booze, and I don&#039;t want any of them. I&#039;m having a pretty hard time adjusting

Lord Whirlin, those are by no means the best part of college. The best part of college, to me, was the opportunity to stretch my intellect, to learn new things, meet new people, and to begin to grow toward the person I would be. You need not adjust to the ways of others. You have your own way, and it is best for you.

&quot;Unto thine own self be true...&quot; holds much truth. You will not regret the choices you are making. I did not participate in such things, either. That was not my purpose.:)

HarmNone

[HarmNone]

Originally posted by Kranar
NVidia all the way.

ATI bit the dust awhile ago.

Hmmm. I can see I shall have to bring my questions here when I am ready to embark on the purchase of a new system.

Thanks, guys!

HarmNone, the computer challenged

[AnticorRifling]

PIII 833
128 Meg Ram
Stock Video card
Polk speakers
19&quot; NEC MultiSync 95 (hell yeah)
2 30gig HDD
CD burner
CD drive
Lot&#039;s and lots of software :) Everything from AutoCAD 2000 to Visio and two different O/S

[Gokkem]

I haven&#039;t been keepin up on video cards, but you say ATI is goin down? Bankruptcy or what? Going to eventually get a 128 mb card and since I like my Radeon 7500 was just gonna get another ATI. But Nvidia GeForce is the way to go you say?

[Edited on 08-30-03 by Gokkem]

[imported_Kranar]

If you&#039;re into hardcore gaming, I say go with the video card that has Microsoft&#039;s support.

All games nowadays use DirectX, and Microsoft exclusively programs features to take advantage of NVidia video cards.

It&#039;s like the Mac vs. PC debate. Yeah, technically the Mac is better, but the Mac has such little support that no one bothers to take advantage of it and use it to its full potential.

With ATI vs. NVidia, it&#039;s the same thing. ATI is technically better, not THAT much better, but better. However, since Microsoft and many other gaming companies specifically take full advantage of NVidia video cards, games run and look better on NVidia cards.

And no, ATI is not going bankrupt.

[Gokkem]

Doh Microsoft and Nvidia are in bed together. Gotcha, thanks for the info.