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Dex
06-05-2008, 02:06 PM
What is your portal to Spurtalk? :wakeup

I'm currently running a 2.4 GHz aluminum iMac Intel Core 2 Duo with a 500GB 5400RPM HD, 2GB DDR2 667 RAM, 24x/8x DL CD/DVD SuperDrive, and ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT graphics w/ 128 MB VRAM.

I also tote around an HP Portable - Livestrong Series AMD Turion 64, 100GB 5400 HD, 1GB DDR2 333 RAM, 12x/8x Lightscribe Burner, and something ATI Radeon, wanna say it might also be the 2400.

I've also got oldschool Gateway that is currently trying to run Vista, but I'm pretty sure trying is they keyword on that. Need to put it back to XP, which ran fine (naturally). I also tried to mod this thing to run OS X 10.3, but it didn't take to the install.

sabar
06-05-2008, 04:53 PM
Usually post here on and old laptop. Dell Inspiron Pentium III, 700 mhz CD-ROM, nvidia geforce 2 go 512 mb ram

My desktop is a Athlon XP 3200, 2gb ram, random hdds, ati radeon x1600 with 22" widescreen lcd monitor

Have a server too. Dell PowerEdge, Pentium III, two 700 mhz processors, 3 gb ram, 2 150 gb 15,000 rpm hdds and 2 70 gb 15,000 rpm hdds.

Nothing is even close to top of the line other than the server's hard disks but they run anything not named Crysis.

PM5K
06-05-2008, 05:14 PM
What's the server serve?

baseline bum
06-05-2008, 06:47 PM
Since I don't game on PC (except for NES, SNES, and MAME emulation), I built a pretty tame system last year:

Athlon64x2 @ 2 GHz CPU
ASUS M2NPV-VM Motherboard (one of the few cheap ones I could find with 2 IDE channels)
2 500GB SATA, a 250 GB IDE, and a 150 GB IDE hard drive
1GB Corsair RAM (can't remember the timings)
Video/sound is integrated

Use XP Pro and 64-bit Gentoo as my operating systems

Sense
06-05-2008, 07:41 PM
specs for mine..

i love it.

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/hp-pavilion-dv9830us-entertainment/4507-3121_7-32934392.html

Pistons < Spurs
06-05-2008, 08:47 PM
Home built 5 or 6 yrs ago...and hopefully soon to be replaced later this year...

P4 2.4 OC'd @ 3.12GHz
ASUS P4P800 Deluxe
2GB Geil Platinum series Dual Channel PC3500
80G Hitachi
Nvidia 6800 512MB AGP
SoundBlaster Audigy 2
Vista Ultimate

It was a sweet gaming rig when I built it, but it should have been replaced a couple of years ago.

Kyle Smith
06-05-2008, 08:56 PM
White Mac Book

2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB memory
160GB hard drive
Double-layer SuperDrive

Heath Ledger
06-05-2008, 10:57 PM
Ive got a new 2.4ghz duo core macbook
New 2.4ghz duo core 20" Imac

3 laptops one hp, one acer, one compaq all of them 2 years or newer
gateway athlon 6000+xp desktop 600 gig hard drive 22" Lcd Monitor
and another hp media center pc that is about 2 years old.

so ive got 7 altogether however i think im a Mac guy now as is my gf.

Fernando TD21
06-05-2008, 11:31 PM
Core 2 Quad Q6600
Asus P5K-E
2GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer
Main HD 300GB seagate 7200
Backup HD 250 WD 7200
8800GT
A gaming/work/multimedia/etc PC.
I just hate the fact that PC hardware is so expensive in Brazil.

leemajors
06-05-2008, 11:54 PM
i have a powerpc iMac G5 i got free at work in the living room, my pc i game on has 2 250GB HDDs, 3.0 GHZ core 2 duo, 8800GT, 4GB RAM, barracuda sound card.

Kyle Smith
06-05-2008, 11:58 PM
my pc i game on has 2 250GB HDDs, 3.0 GHZ core 2 duo, 8800GT, 4GB RAM, barracuda sound card.

That is a manly computer.

Dex
06-06-2008, 12:10 AM
Yeah, so far leemajors has the computer most likely to launch some War Games.

http://interactive.usc.edu/archives/WarGames.jpg

Those Duo Core Macbooks are sweet, too. I think my next computer splurge might have to be for a MBP.

leemajors
06-06-2008, 06:59 AM
i think cry havoc has a quad core gaming rig

N.Y. Johnny
06-06-2008, 11:05 AM
I usually post on a Macbook Air, I use all the Mac Notebooks and occasionally I use my HP Desktop or a HP notebook. Whatever is close by I use. If I'm at work like I am now i use an iMac

TxJudsonRocketTx
06-06-2008, 02:53 PM
Intel dual Core 2.66ghz processor (Upgrading to quad core when Starcraft 2 comes out)
2 GB Corsair RAM
150 GB 10,000 RPM Raptor Hard drive
Nvidia 8800GTX
Soundblaster Audigy


and a pretty sweet case
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a317/ThatTexasBoy/ArmorJr_Black_01.jpg

leemajors
06-06-2008, 03:19 PM
you should ditch the crappy soundblaster.

TxJudsonRocketTx
06-06-2008, 03:28 PM
you should ditch the crappy soundblaster.

I honestly can't tell the difference between soundcard quality and most people can't either. A friend of mine had pretty much the same rig with a lesser video card and badass soundcard and yeah I didn't hear the $200 difference :lol

leemajors
06-06-2008, 03:49 PM
I honestly can't tell the difference between soundcard quality and most people can't either. A friend of mine had pretty much the same rig with a lesser video card and badass soundcard and yeah I didn't hear the $200 difference :lol

their driver fiasco with Vista was what I was referring to - they never worked as well as they should, and they tried to sue some dude who wrote his own to help people out when he developed a fix for what they couldn't figure out. they later dropped it, but it was still bizarre.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/03/creative-fixing.html


Creative Labs, makers of sound cards that still don't work properly with Windows Vista, doesn't want fixed versions of its broken drivers on the net.

In a message to "Daniel_K," who repaired their broken software, Creative Labs' Phil O'Shaughnessy claims that by restoring functionality to Vista drivers that are offered in Windows XP versions, he is a thief.

"By enabling our technology and IP to run on sound cards for which it was not originally offered or intended, you are in effect, stealing our goods," writes O'Shaughnessy at Creative's forums.

Granted, Daniel_K is soliciting donations. Furthermore, the gear's end-user license agreement specifies, as is usual, that you can't tamper with its software. But why would a company set out to prevent people from helping one another fix problems in hardware it's already sold them?

The answer is the sad one you've probably learned to expect: O'Shaughnessy admits that Creative Labs intentionally crippled its Vista drivers as a business strategy.

"If we choose to develop and provide host-based processing features with certain sound cards and not others, that is a business decision that only we have the right to make."

N.Y. Johnny
06-06-2008, 07:38 PM
Anybody ever use those little ASUS eePc's?

I was thinking about getting one of these things.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/graphics/2007/10/27/dlclaud27.jpg

ShoogarBear
06-06-2008, 08:56 PM
This thread pegs the geekometer.

ShoogarBear
06-06-2008, 09:06 PM
I take that back. I read some of the other ones. :lol

Dex
06-06-2008, 11:03 PM
I take that back. I read some of the other ones. :lol

I haven't even started the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Thread yet. :stirpot:

Don't make me make you roll your THAC0.

Brutalis
06-06-2008, 11:58 PM
Standard Toshiba Satellite A215 I got for XMas. I wanna game it up but I'm noob to it and dunno if it's even worth it.

PM5K
06-07-2008, 12:35 AM
I believe that has a Radeon X1200, which isn't much.

You can game on it but nothing hard core, you'll be using low resoutions and such...

ducks
06-07-2008, 12:42 AM
this computer I am on now is a emac g4
have several
most do not have windows on them

PM5K
06-07-2008, 12:49 AM
Here are mine:

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/2395/1003401on1.jpg

Actually the one on the left is mine, the one on the right is a shared computer, and the Eee is my sons.

Which technically makes them all mine :rollin

Eee, speak of the devil!

sabar
06-07-2008, 01:30 AM
What's the server serve?

Its for learning. I could server http or a game server or file server but AT&T probably would put an end to that when they see my bandwidth usage.

oligarchy
06-07-2008, 10:12 AM
They don't cap traffic. I'm not sure if you are using ADSL or the VDSL service, but in either case you're limited to 1.5 MB up, and that's only best effort traffic. Not exactly great speeds to serve up anything high bandwidth.

Brutalis
06-07-2008, 06:11 PM
I believe that has a Radeon X1200, which isn't much.

You can game on it but nothing hard core, you'll be using low resoutions and such...

Right.

That's why I said I don't know if the LT is worth investing hardware in.