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NYRSkate May 6, 2006 08:38 AM

How powerful is the computer you use to go on GFF with?
 
Just wondering, since apparently my P4 2.66 is at the lower end of the spectrum these days. If I'm missing any large segments of the modern processor market, let me know and I'll add them to the poll.

Roph May 6, 2006 08:43 AM

Duron 1.2Ghz. A few months ago, a P3 700Mhz ~

ramoth May 6, 2006 08:46 AM

1GHz G4.

aka better than any of those on the poll :tpg:

NYRSkate May 6, 2006 08:46 AM

Oops, I forgot Apple. Sorry about that.

Bigblah May 6, 2006 08:47 AM

Using a P4 2.4C here, with 1GB of memory (which is not enough for Firefox, lawl)

russ May 6, 2006 08:48 AM

2.0 GHz Pentium M laptop. It's pretty quick.

Infernal Monkey May 6, 2006 08:51 AM

Athlon 64 with something or other amount of processor speed. 512MB of RAM. The computer basically runs worse than my old Celeron 900 with 128MB of RAM, though. :rock:

ramoth May 6, 2006 08:51 AM

I like how Apple doesn't make processors.

NYRSkate May 6, 2006 08:53 AM

Shit, I don't know everything.

Everyone who responded to this so far is still present, right? Hang tight while I retool the poll, then you can all vote again.

Double Post:
There, you can all vote again. Hopefully I got it right this time.

Gechmir May 6, 2006 09:02 AM

Athlon 64 right here =d And it's quite a nifty little hummer, I might add! About a gig of RAM, as well :3

Wojo May 6, 2006 09:05 AM

P4 3.0 GHz here. Yeah I'd say its pretty damn fast.

Benjamin please May 6, 2006 09:09 AM

AMD Athlon XP 3200
1.5GB RAM
ATI RADEON X850XT (onoes one less pci slot for my dialup modem!)
<3

Thanatos May 6, 2006 09:20 AM

pentium 4 2.8ghz
512ram
ge4 5500

Pretty slow by today's standards. Most Wanted lags on it, so does BFME 2. So, it's slow. Can't wait to get an upgrade.

Decoy Goat May 6, 2006 09:20 AM

P4 3.6ghz, 2gb of RAM.

THREAD WINNAR 8-)

NYRSkate May 6, 2006 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thanatos
p4 2.8
512
ge4 5500

Don't post like this in this thread. If that's all you're willing to contribute, just vote in the poll and be on your way. These will get deleted from here on out.

DeadHorse++ May 6, 2006 09:36 AM

AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Dual-core)

May sound nice, but the stock graphic and sound cards suck ass.

Eleo May 6, 2006 09:54 AM

Pentium 4, 2.4GHz, 512MB RAM.

But I find it's not really the processor that sucks ass when I want to do stuff, but the RAM. 'specially when I'm working on a website and have Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Opera, Internet Explorer, and Firefox all open at once.

Roph May 6, 2006 09:55 AM

I could mention that when I joined GFF, I was on a Pentium 133. It had 64Mb of ram, which didn't help for speed either.

Jay May 6, 2006 09:55 AM

Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz with 512MB RAM. Still works fine for me.

ArrowHead May 6, 2006 10:00 AM

  • P4 Prescott 3.0GHz processorheats up the room nicely when doing long encoding jobs.
  • 1536MB RAMenough to run Battlefield 2 smoothly.
  • ATI Radeon 9600XT video carda little anemic by today's standards but it gets the job done.
  • M-Audio Revolution 5.1 sound carda little fussy with games but well worth it for recording.
  • Plextor 40×/12×/40× CD-RW drivein its second computer. Getting a little long in the tooth but still works great.
  • Plextor/BenQ 16× DVD±RW DL drivehave yet to actually burn a DL disc with it.

Gonna have to get a new power supply if I add anything else!

Arainach May 6, 2006 10:23 AM

My good old Athlon XP @ 2.2Ghz (3200+ speeds). I fully intend to get another 8 months to a year out of this thing before I grudgingly upgrade. There's also my 800Mhz P3 Laptop, my 2.4Ghz Intel at work, and the other machines around my house.

Dopefish May 6, 2006 10:25 AM

My (dead) desktop is a 3.4GHz P4, and my notebook is a 1.83GHz Core Duo.

Lipid May 6, 2006 10:32 AM

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ Clawhammer @ 2.4ghz
ASUS A8n-SLi Deluxe
GeForce 7800GT/OC 256mb PCI-e
2gb OCZ Dual-Channel RAM
600W BFGtech PSU


Whenever I get around to it, im gonna reformat and do a bunch of overclocking and try and get it to at least 2.8ghz.

Built it for only $1600, mainly to play Oblivion (which is a huge letdown of a game), but am waiting for a few games to come out that will suit it better. HL2, Doom3, Quake4 all run full max everything @ 1600x1200 with no slowdown. Can run F.E.A.R at 1024x768 with no slowdown with all turned on too, havent tried at a higher resolution though.

Yeah, it's a gaming rig ;)

Atomic Duck May 6, 2006 10:33 AM

I have two compuers. The main one is a Dell Desktop, 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 with 512 MB of ram and a 128mb graphics card, and the one I use on the go is a Compaq laptop with an Athlon 2 GHz, 512 MB of ram, and shit for graphics. Both are running on Windows XP, with the Compaq on home edition and the Dell on Media Center edition.

el jacko May 6, 2006 10:37 AM

I'm on a G4 700 MHz. The problem is that I've had it for maybe four years now, and the computer is definitely older than that. How it manages to keep running is completely beyond me.

Schadenfreude May 6, 2006 11:13 AM

I am winner.

P3 900 MHz with 384 mb ram.

Fast enough most of the time, although I do wish that I had a faster CPU during my sudden urges to add on shitloads of fx/channels in FL Studio. And, of course, to keep up with the Football Manager series. Arg.

Miles May 6, 2006 11:24 AM

Mine is a Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz with 2 gigs of ram. I also have 600GB of HD space to use. I really should finish setting up my VGM music FTP with all the music I have from SD.

El Ray Fernando May 6, 2006 11:56 AM

Running an Athlon XP 2500+ clocked up to 3200+, I was planning on upgrading this summer but I've decided to wait till next summer (Winter earliest), seeing as my money will be going on a PS3 and Xbox 360, I won't have enough left for a worthy upgrade.

SuperNova May 6, 2006 12:19 PM

Let's see... I'm sporting a nice P4 2.84 ghz processor with 1 GB of RAM. Since I don't do any serious gaming on it, works beautifully for my needs.

Put it this way, at least I can run Doom 3 on it.

Ryuu May 6, 2006 12:23 PM

I'm on my laptop which is running an fun AMD Athlon 64 2.0 ghz processor with the average 512 Megs of RAM.


No complaints as it does enough for me - except run Call of Duty 2 at medium settings...

KnowsNothing May 6, 2006 12:48 PM

Intel Whatever at 700 MHZ
256 MB RAM
A nice big 28 GB harddrive (fortunatley I have a 150 GB external..)
Radeon 7500 graphics card with a whopping 64 MB onboard memory

It's pretty terrible, yeah, but I'm in the middle of upgrading. I'm looking to jump to a 3.2 GHZ Pentium D with one or two gigs of RAM. It'll be like LIGHTNING to me.

Rockgamer May 6, 2006 12:53 PM

AMD Turion 64 Mobile Processor, which is 1.8 GHz. I guess that's kinda fast, as I'm not too savvy about these things.

Unforgiven May 6, 2006 01:38 PM

Currently using AMD Athlon 64 3800+ X2.

neus May 6, 2006 03:32 PM

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ here too. Throw in a gig of RAM and a 6800GS, and you have a komjutah poweful enough to browse even the toughest of the websites! Why, I can scroll through GFF at SIXTY fps.
I am sure you are amazed.

Franky Mikey May 6, 2006 04:10 PM

P4 3GHZ here. Just recently upped it to 1 GB RAM, so it's cool and all. I'm surprised how decent it has remained to this day, considering it's three years old.

The main lacking area is the video card, it's "only" a Radeon 9200. Good enough for Painkiller and HL2, but I have my doubts about the current and upcoming generations of games. Good thing I'm not much of a gamer anymore.

spikeh May 6, 2006 04:41 PM

I'm running an Athlon 64 3700 at 2.4Ghz with 1GB of RAM. The CPU is very fast, and does everything I want to do; although some more RAM would help out Battlefield 2. Need this computer to last me for another two years until uni, as the previous two blew up on me due to insufficient cooling. Used to have a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz, and being honest the speed increase from that to this new PC is barely noticeable.

Fjordor May 6, 2006 04:51 PM

I've got an Athlon XP 3200+. I've had this since winter of 2003, and have had no problems whatsoever with the entire system, not even hard drive issues or virii.
Over this time however, I have upgraded my memory from 512MB of PC2700 RAM to 1GB of 3200 RAM.
Right now, I have a Nvidia 6600 Graphics card in my system, which I thought would be an excellent card. Little did I know that I totally got ripped off with a crappy card. I've notice the GeForce4 card that I originally had in it works much better than this piece of shit. I really should think about getting a new one.

Paco May 6, 2006 04:57 PM

I have 3 computers I surf with. Most of the time I'm on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop (2 ghz P4, 1 GB RAM) but all my downloading and music collecting happens on my Macs, most notably a Dual 2 ghz PowerMac G5 with 1 GB RAM (it needs more) and a PowerMac G4 733mhz also with 1 GB RAM. This last one will soon become a server. :D

spikeh May 6, 2006 05:03 PM

What is wrong with a nVidia 6600 graphics card? It should easily outperform any Geforce4 series card, even the Titaniums. If its instability, it could be heat issues or driver issues.

Why Am I Allowed to Have Gray Paint May 6, 2006 05:17 PM

I'm "other". I use the same computer for browsing as I do for work (at home), which is a basic dual-processer system with a couple of Opteron 252s (2.6GHz) sitting on the board. There's also 2GB of RAM which is becoming pretty standard now I guess, and a 6800 Ultra graphics card with a stupidly large heatsink on it. It's good enough to run FEAR smoothly and most other games at a reasonable resolution, but I am not much of a game-player. I bought that card because it can be soft-modded into a Quadro.

Dizzy May 6, 2006 05:27 PM

Laptop Centrino Pentium M 1.8ghz with 512 of ram. It's pretty fast for almost everything i need (video editing and stuff). The only problem is that the damn video card (Intel 915gm) is not supported for a lot of games. So, i can play The Two Thrones, but not the Sands of Time for example. Or I can't turn on the flashlight in Silent Hill 2. I think the pixel shader or something like that is missing.

Anyways, I'm so happy with it.

David Deluxe May 6, 2006 05:41 PM

I'm currently using a PC with a whooping AMD Athlon 1,2 GHz, 256 MB Ram and an incredible breathtaking NVidia Geforce 2 MX. Actually the PC is still good enough for the daily Internet life, but I'll get a new one this summer. If you ask me, the PC's CPU isn't even that important for games and so on, everything above 2,5 GHz should be sufficient. I'm going to spend $800 and I'll probably buy a AMD Athlon 64 3700+, 1 GB Ram and a ATI Radeon 1800XT. I've waited for a new PC since ages, so I guess I can take the liberty of such an expensive purchase once in a time.

Westfield May 6, 2006 05:44 PM

AMD 3000+ 939 64

(u didnt do two seperate ones for 939 and 754 =o)

Mucknuggle May 6, 2006 06:22 PM

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ here. It runs pretty well. I think the 1 gig of RAM helps a lot since I always have Firefox open with a bunch of other stuff.

Sol May 6, 2006 08:46 PM

My internet computer sports an AMD Athlon XP 3000+, rated about 2.1 Ghz, with 512 megs of RAM. Since all it has for video is a measley Nvidia GeForce4 GPU, it's only really useful for word processing, storage, and internet browsing.

I used to have a sickly HP with a 500 Mhz Pentium III and 128 megs of RAM on dialup when I first started lurking. Brings back memories of the Audio days and hours of time spent downloading at 3kbs.

kupomog May 6, 2006 08:59 PM

AMD Athlon XP, 3200+, ~2.2GHz. No clue what it means! But it's so much better than our first computer, that's all I need to be happy. This one is about 2½ years old now, and I'm making sure to take good care of it now. Our last comp had little to no maintenance but managed to last 7 years before dying. I felt sorry for it (yeah, I have a problem where I feel sorry for inanimate objects), so I kept the tower in my room and cleaned out a pound of dust...

Yggdrasil May 6, 2006 09:53 PM

1.7 GHz P4. and looking at the poll results I feel obsolete :( .

JasonTerminator May 6, 2006 11:03 PM

Currently using my Pentium M 1.6Ghz lappy.

My main is a AMD Athlon X2 4200+ with 2GB of RAM and a 7800GT. I just built this last November, hoping to time it with the Oblivion release, but it was not meant to be.

And my previous computer was a Pentium 4 1.4Ghz. (There WERE P4s that were 1.4Ghz, so Other must be changed.)

Why Am I Allowed to Have Gray Paint May 6, 2006 11:07 PM

Didn't the Intel Pentium III Tualatin only go up to 1.13GHz? But it was botched or something.

Kairyu May 6, 2006 11:33 PM

There are two computers I tend to browse around gff with. One is the Pentium 4 3.0GHz using 2GB of DDR400 ram and a GeForce FX 5950 card (I use this the most for now.)
The other is a Athlon64 +3700 (socket 939) using 1GB of DDR400 ram and a Sapphire Radeon X800GT card. I really only use the latter for gaming but once I'm done there's a good chance I will scope out gff before shutting down.

Synthesis May 6, 2006 11:46 PM

I use one with AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with 512 DDR SDRAM, coupled with a GeForce 4 MX. I've been meaning to upgrade both the RAM as well as the video card once I have enough money set aside.

Fjordor May 7, 2006 01:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spikeh
What is wrong with a nVidia 6600 graphics card? It should easily outperform any Geforce4 series card, even the Titaniums. If its instability, it could be heat issues or driver issues.

Well, I have noticed that performance takes a severe hit when I have the card take on the sole task of graphics acceleration. However, if I reduce that to the next highest level of acceleration, my computer jumps up in speed. This is not a problem when I have the GF4 card though. I can have full confidence in full graphics acceleration with that baby.
It is not instability though. I am obsessive about heat, and I make sure that sort of stuff is taken care of.

Jan May 7, 2006 01:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bigblah
Using a P4 2.4C here, with 1GB of memory (which is not enough for Firefox, lawl)

Yah how do you think I feel, I'm running that shit on 256 ram. http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51...atars/gonk.gif

Fjordor May 7, 2006 02:01 AM

How can 1GB not be enough RAM for Firefox?!? The most I have ever seen FF use on my computer was about 100 MB, and this was with insane browsing/cross-referencing/writing going on.
Do you have 60 or so processes running in the background or something? If so, then stop using Norton. :p

spikeh May 7, 2006 02:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fjordor
Well, I have noticed that performance takes a severe hit when I have the card take on the sole task of graphics acceleration. However, if I reduce that to the next highest level of acceleration, my computer jumps up in speed.

Well, on paper the 6600's GPU should have a higher core clock than the Geforce4 cards as well as more pipelines. If it's slowing down then there must be a problem of some kind; perhaps you could consult the Help Desk to resolve the issue, as a 6600 is a very nice midrange card.

Lipid May 7, 2006 09:54 AM

The 6600 is a very capable card and should be able to play most modern games with some degree of decency. My old comp had one and I was able to run Age of Empires 3 with almost all the details turned way up :|

Fjordor May 7, 2006 02:21 PM

I've already consulted help desk about this with two different topics.
It always ended up with people basically saying "Huh, that is weird. Go buy yourself a 6800GT" (that last sentence almost always Arainach)

TheReverend May 7, 2006 04:01 PM

P4 3.0 Ghz Prescott
2GB DDR400
ATI X800XT - 256MB

Pretty much a gaming rig, but truly it is a multimedia center for me. Have it hooked up in the main room of my house to a 32" LCD. I don't have much problem doing anything (except running Oblivion :) ). So yeah.

BIGWORM May 7, 2006 05:18 PM

Seems the majority are using P4's or 64-bit AMD. I would do X2 but I only have a Socket 754 board. =/

ASUS K8V-X VIA K8T
AMD Sempron 64 3000+ @240/9
BFG GeForce 6800GT OC
(3x512) Corsair PC3200
SB Audigy

Pretty much a gaming rig too. Next thing I'll upgrade is the board to a 939

Lipid May 7, 2006 05:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BIGWORM
Seems the majority are using P4's or 64-bit AMD. I would do X2 but I only have a Socket 754 board. =/

ASUS K8V-X VIA K8T
AMD Sempron 64 3000+ @240/9
BFG GeForce 6800GT OC
(3x512) Corsair PC3200
SB Audigy

Pretty much a gaming rig too. Next thing I'll upgrade is the board to a 939

Should upgrade to a 2-stick dual-channel ram setup too. More stable and lots faster than odd-numbered setups. Just a suggestion :D

BIGWORM May 7, 2006 06:21 PM

Well aware, just too broke right now.

CelticWhisper May 7, 2006 06:24 PM

The one I use most is my Mac.

PowerPC G4 867MHz, 1.5 gig memory, 3Mbps DSL over a 10/100 LAN. Gig-e network adapter on the Mac, looking to upgrade whole network to Gig-e.

lazuli May 7, 2006 06:29 PM

My 2.6 ghz desktop is down, so I'm using a Pentium M ULV 1 Ghz notebook w/ 512 RAM and crappy integrated graphics. But it emulates any PS1 game I've tried so far, so I'm happy.

Phil May 7, 2006 07:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DeadHorse++
AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Dual-core)

May sound nice, but the stock graphic and sound cards suck ass.

How would "stock" video and sound cards have anything to do with a X2 processor? I've used the 3800+ and 4400+ X2 and both were as nice as they sounded. :)

Quote:

If you ask me, the PC's CPU isn't even that important for games and so on, everything above 2,5 GHz should be sufficient.
If anyone lays out the money for a good video card then the CPU is the most important counter part. A 2.5ghz cpu will defiantly limit a high end video card. (Keep in mind CPUs don't really go by that rating system anymore since a AMD 3800+ is only clocked at like 2Ghz, but hopefully you get where I'm coming from when I say a 2.5ghz cpu will limit the video card.)

As for my own PC I still have my good ol' Athlon XP 2600 with a GeForce 4 Ti4200. Certainly not the fastest thing around anymore but aside from games it still gets the job done just fine.

DJ Gear May 7, 2006 08:54 PM

I'm running a total fossil. Pentium III 733 mHz. I REALLY want to get my school laptop early.

Krelian May 8, 2006 08:18 AM

Well, until I pick up my Athlon XP laptop in a week (currently being fixed because of scorch damage to the mobo - don't ask), I'm having to use the shitty campus computers (Pentium 4 with 256 mb of ram, but the amount of background processes running cripples it.)

nazpyro May 8, 2006 10:35 AM

There's two main machines I browse GFF with, a Windows desktop and my laptop (also Windows). My desktop is 4 years old, a P4 Northwood @ 2.26 GHz with a GB of RAM. I'm due for a new desktop this year. My laptop is just a few months old, a Pentium M @ 1.73 GHz with 1.25 GB of RAM. It's so much faster, I love it.

Syndrome May 8, 2006 10:35 AM

P4 3.0Ghz here, with 512Mb Ram. It does the job, although Firefox can be a pain sometimes.

projectg May 8, 2006 01:40 PM

I have a AMD Athlon 64 3200+ when I usually surf GFF.

PUG1911 May 8, 2006 02:59 PM

I've got a G4 1.42Ghz and an X2 3800+ which I use for GFF. Since I guess 3/4 of the time I'm on the G4, that's the one I picked on the poll.

I'm amused at all the people listing their video though. I mean, it sure makes a difference when browsing the forums eh? ;)

Fjordor May 8, 2006 03:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PUG1911
I'm amused at all the people listing their video though. I mean, it sure makes a difference when browsing the forums eh? ;)

We're not just comparing a man's length here, but also the girth.
:doggy:

Misogynyst Gynecologist May 8, 2006 03:21 PM

Pentium 3.2 GHz, 2 Gigs RAM

At work its a PIII 800MHz with 256 RAM

Omnislash124 May 8, 2006 06:39 PM

Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz
896MB PC3200 RAM
Leadtek Winfast A6600GT Video Card
Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit

Not bad, but its either this or my AMD Turion-64 ML-40 (2.2GHz) Notebook sporting 1GB of RAM and a Radeon Xpress 200M....

Rydia May 8, 2006 08:34 PM

Pentium 3.1 GHz, 512 RAM

I don't have any problems with speed on this computer for the most part. I browsed the forums with a Pentium III 800MHz, 128 RAM computer for a few years, so this one is certainly better.

David4516 May 9, 2006 01:26 AM

I have 2 and a half computers...

My main computer is a PIV 2.8Ghz, 800Mhz FSB, 1MB cache CPU with 512MB for DDR3200 RAM, with 2 120GB hard drives and an ATI 9700 Pro video card.

My secondary system is my former main system, a PIII 933MHz, 133MHz FSB CPU, 512MB of SD133 RAM, 2 60GB hard drives, and an SiS Xabre video card.

Both of the above are running Windows 2000 SP4. Honestly, I don't notice much of a preformance differeance between the two computers when preforming most tasks. Actually, somtimes the PIII seems faster, however it takes forever to boot up...

My "half" of a computer is soon to be a whole computer. It's acutally left over parts from my really old system. It's a PII 400MHz, 100MHz FSB, 512k Cache CPU, 512MB of SD100 RAM, and a 3DFX Voodoo 5 video card. I need to find a hard drive and a few other things, and I'll have another complete system. I'll probably install Ubuntu Linux on the thing. I've been meaning to try Linux, and this might be just the system for it. I'll probably use it for browsing this site (as well as others) fairly often once it get it going, I want to see if I like Linux, and if I do, I might install it on all my computers.

This poll makes me feel old though. I've been using computers since the beginning. My first system was a 286, I think it was 12MHz with the "trubo" switch on (am I the only one who remembers those?), and it had 640K of RAM and a 10MB (not GB) hard disk. My OS was DOS 5.0... Oh, I almost forgot, it had a CGA montior (thats 4 color graphics for you youngins')...

Trench May 9, 2006 02:20 AM

I have 7 computers. The slowest runs at 3.6 GHz. I'm using the one that runs at 6.8 GHz though.

BIGWORM May 9, 2006 06:32 AM

Trench: I would like to see specs.

joey561 May 9, 2006 07:04 AM

AMD Athlon 64 Bit 3200+ (Venice Core) @2.2Ghz
2 GB DDR 400Mhz RAM (Dual Channel)
XFX GeForce 6600 GT 128MB AGP 8X

Not much, I know...

OnlyJedi May 9, 2006 11:28 AM

I've got two I use regularly.

The first is a 32-bit desktop Athlon XP 2800+, the other is a 64-bit laptop Turion ML-37. Both are around 2GHz clock speed, with 1GB DDR333. I've thought of upgrading the desktop at some point to an Athlon 64 X2 or better, but I'll probably find better uses for the money. I just don't find myself playing games as much any more, and why else would I need that much power?

xuemin May 9, 2006 11:45 AM

using 2 machines:

laptop while at university which is P4 1.8GHz, 256mb. it's fine for all the basic things really (MS Office, web browsing, watching/listening to stuff) just that the loading time can be a pain. plus, i find that my connection at university is the problem rather than the laptop itself when it comes to viewing GFF; 128k T_T

desktop at home, which is a P4 3.6GHz HT with 1gb RAM acts as the heater in my room during the winter and cold days when i leave it on for a day or two >.> my room always ends up being a few degrees warmer than the rest of the house ^^;

Fjordor May 9, 2006 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trench
I have 7 computers. The slowest runs at 3.6 GHz. I'm using the one that runs at 6.8 GHz though.

That is physically impossible. At least, for now. At that frequency, the manufacturing process should be at a resolution of 4 nm. Otherwise, the wavelength would exceed the length of the electron transmission medium, and cause all sorts of interferences (not to mention a lack of ability to process anything).

NOTE: 3.4 GHz dual core processor != 6.8 GHz processor

Magi May 9, 2006 12:30 PM

I am usually on a Pentium 4 1.8 gigahertz when I am at home. I had discovered just how much difference the RAM made when I ran firefox. I really wanted to upgrade so I could do a little bit more gaming then this though, I don’t have AGP or PCI-E on this machine.

siyeclover May 9, 2006 12:47 PM

1.33Ghz PPC G4
512M RAM, I think I need add 1G RAM.

Gumby May 9, 2006 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David4516
This poll makes me feel old though. I've been using computers since the beginning. My first system was a 286, I think it was 12MHz with the "trubo" switch on (am I the only one who remembers those?), and it had 640K of RAM and a 10MB (not GB) hard disk. My OS was DOS 5.0... Oh, I almost forgot, it had a CGA montior (thats 4 color graphics for you youngins')...

I used to have an old 386... It had a turbo button too. I believe it went from 16 to 64mhz (I can't remember for sure, it has been about 10 years now).

My current computer is a three old Athlon 64 3200+ over clocked to about 2.2Ghz. I currently have 1gig of pc3200 DDR and a 9600XT 256mb graphics card.

One of these days I will get around to upgrading. Next time around though, I'll be using an Opteron (duel core) rather than an Athlon or what ever happens be to the the high end server equipment at the time.

WooshaQ May 9, 2006 01:43 PM

Athlon 64 3000+, 512MB RAM, Radeon 9200 = so much for playing DMC3 or Resident Evil 4 PC version (when they come out that is!)

Majin yami May 9, 2006 02:20 PM

AMD Sempron 2500, 1.75 GHz, 256 MB RAM. It does its job well.

Shenlon May 9, 2006 03:07 PM

AMD Sempron 1.8g with 384ram, Geforce 6600gt video card with around 120 gigs hdd.
My first computer was a just a big piece of shitty paper wieght.
IBM 2gb hdd, next to nothing of ram. The virtual memory would run out in a few 10 minutes. It was no surprise that I enjoyed killing it ^_^

Kostaki May 9, 2006 08:14 PM

I have an Intel P4 3.4ghz with 1GB RAM myself. Would like to upgrade to 2GB RAM eventually though, but I guarantee you this'll be the last time I buy from Dell. ;_;

Such shitty towers they build...

Zimarooski May 9, 2006 11:13 PM

Mine is capable of displaying massive amounts of giggerhertz and quantum polycules. *pushes up glasses*

Metal Sphere May 10, 2006 12:44 AM

This one's just a few months old, 2 actually, and it was my second build and pretty fun now that I think about it. I've got an AMD X2 4800+ with 2GB of memory. It'll last me a long time, hopefully longer than the old dell from '99 I was on before.

To anyone out there building a custom rig, shell out the bucks for an P180 case. Your ears will thank you.

kiyomitsu May 10, 2006 02:53 PM

At the moment, I'm using a Pentium III Toshiba Laptop. It does the job :3

Chaco May 10, 2006 07:49 PM

I've got various computers throughout my house. The one I run most often though is a five year old piece of shit actually. All your high-end gaming rigs are making me think it's time for a new desktop. Although I don't do much but listen to music, AIM and Internet browsing. It suits me fine for that..

900MHz AMD Duron
200mhz Frontside Bus
512MB RAM
30GB Harddrive
15GB Harddrive
128MB Xtasy 9200 Video Card
Soundblaster 5.1 Soundcard

Yeah, it's a basic piece of shit. Any nicer computer I had went died for some reason. My family has some nice computers in the house but since this one is in my room, it's the one I stay on 98% of the time. But goddamn do you guys have some nice setups.

*AkirA* May 12, 2006 12:01 AM

Apple G5 with 15 30" monitors. Because I like to browse multiple pages at once while sitting in my BMW.

josho May 12, 2006 12:07 AM

Compaq Presario R4000 notebook with an AMD 64 Athlon.
Oh what I do without you :)

Lady Miyomi May 12, 2006 02:36 AM

The one I'm using now (2nd desktop) is a 1GB Pentium 4. My 1st desktop is an AMD Athlon as well as my laptop.

kat May 12, 2006 02:42 AM

Intel Pentium M 1.70gHZ 593MHz 512MB RAM

I have little idea what that means. Sony Vaio VGN-S260 laptop

Tek2000 May 12, 2006 06:07 PM

Mine is a turbocharged Athlon XP 2600+@2.3GHZ (3400+) with 1GB of DDR500 RAM which I'm running at DDR400 speeds due to that pesky hardwired CPU multiplier lock of the latter Bartons.

Although the processor is far from being high-end for nowadays' standards, the machine runs really fast, greatly helped by the fact that the OS' hard drive is one of those pricey but awesome 74GB WD Raptor drives.

Domino May 12, 2006 06:28 PM

AMD Athlon XP 2800+
1GB RAM
150GB Hard drive
GeForce FX 5200

Nothing special, but does the job.

FergyLawl May 12, 2006 11:30 PM

Actually. Not very powerful. XD

It's a Pentium 4. 3.24 GHZ
With 512 MB RAM (Sigh)
128MB VRAM GeForce FX 5200

It lacks in RAM. So very badly.

Flughafen May 12, 2006 11:56 PM

Athlon X2 3800+ (2.0ghz)
2gb ram
typical 7200rpm HDD (250 gig)
geforce 7800gt 256mb :) no sli mobo :(

It's tempting to upgrade to a 10krpm drive, or a sli mobo (ai but the effort), but i dont play any cutting edge games. Maybe I could have dropped some ram for a fast drive. And the thing sounds like a car engine compared to past machines i've used. But i'm very pleased with it.

Little Shithead May 12, 2006 11:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FergyLawl
Actually. Not very powerful. XD

It's a Pentium 4. 3.24 GHZ
With 512 MB RAM (Sigh)
128MB VRAM GeForce FX 5200

It lacks in RAM. So very badly.

No that doesn't.

It lacks in a good video card.

FergyLawl May 13, 2006 12:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GALM-2
No that doesn't.

It lacks in a good video card.

It lacks in both... the sad truth is revealed...
I was trying to tell myself it only lacks RAM. XD
Can't escape the truth though can I?

Little Shithead May 13, 2006 12:31 AM

If you're not doing anything too intensive, 512 MB of RAM isn't bad.

Unless you want to play Oblivion, but nothing is good enough for that.

Taco May 13, 2006 01:54 AM

I just upped to a hand-me-down motherboard with an AMD XP 3000+ on it. A Huge leap foreward from my 2.2 celecrap. I also have 1GB of DDR RAM and an nForce 5200 128mb card. It runs WoW, and runs it nicely (sans Ironforge), so it's all I really care about.

Chiribo May 14, 2006 11:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GALM-2
If you're not doing anything too intensive, 512 MB of RAM isn't bad.

Unless you want to play Oblivion, but nothing is good enough for that.

I would disagree ;\ I play the game @ 1920x1200 with full settings & hdr on and don't often go below 40fps. Which is totaly fine for me ^^

I have amd A64+ 3000 overclocked ( to twice it's value \o/)... 2GB of ram overclocked... ati 1900xt overclocked... It all works fairly smooth ^^

maxmontezuma May 14, 2006 11:33 AM

Well, i only have 1 comp. which i use for everything i do. It's a bad one, but i prefer to play games on my consoles, so that's no problem ;) I got an AMD Athlon XP +2000 or what it's called :D

mackun May 14, 2006 11:00 PM

on a 1GHz G4 .. hopes to browse GFF on a better machine soon :D

gamingfarce Jul 4, 2006 03:39 PM

AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Dual Core) 4200+
2.0 GB Ram
ATI Radeon XPRESS 200

BlueEdge Jul 7, 2006 03:40 PM

Right now I'm at work so...:

Dell OptiPlex GX1
Pentium II
Running Windows 2000

...lol

Shenlon Jul 7, 2006 05:06 PM

I've got a new dell xps with pentium D 2.80gh and 1 gb of memory.
I'm lovin it, it so freakin fast. A major upgrade from my last pc.

Elrasiel Jul 13, 2006 02:48 AM

AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Dual Core) 4200+
2.0 GB Ram
GeForce 7900GTX 512mb
This baby playes every game to date (inkl. Oblivion) smoothly with max. setting and my widescreen resolution 1680x1050 but I'm also using it for video- and soundediting.

janus zeal Jul 13, 2006 03:02 AM

i have two systems, one is dead right now (the good one) so i will post my laptop specs:
up(and down)graded hp compaq nx9010
p4 3.2 ghz
1 gb ram
and whatever built in crappy video card it came with. (ATi Radeon of some kind)

but it does what i need: IM/web browseing/anime watching.
i need to get around to replaceing the mainboard in my 64 bit system. overclocking gone wrong...

ouch Jul 13, 2006 03:58 AM

hummm...just upgrade my computer

Pentium 950 dual core (3.4ghz)
2.0 GB RAM
512MB ATI Radeon 1600XT pci-e
Plus 2005FPW
This computer is mainly for work, I hardly have time playing any game now...

But I have a feeling AMD 4200+ will do better than this

nanashiusako Jul 13, 2006 12:31 PM

i use a mac mini. not bad for simple stuff, horrible for games. =(

galador Jul 14, 2006 11:42 AM

The computer I mainly use is a 1.5GH Celeron, but I have a laptop with a mobile P4.

Piano Guy Jul 14, 2006 12:23 PM

It's a Dell Dimension E510 with:
Pentium 4 630 3.0 GHz Processor w/ HT Technology
160 GB Hard Drive
1 GB DDR2 SDRAM
256 MB ATI Radeon X600 graphics card (x2)
Windows XP Media Center Edition

Qube Jul 14, 2006 01:43 PM

Mainly I do everything on my laptop these days. A step down from my desktop I suppose, but the convenience of always having everything on hand, no matter where I am, is quite nice. AMD Turion 64, 1.8Ghz

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...0073500&catid=

That's it there, for as long as that link remains working.

Pandaman Jul 16, 2006 04:37 AM

I'm just glad that my computer that I haven't upgraded in a year could run Condemned: Criminal Origins just fine. Especially after all that hooplah Gamespot made about it being a game on the Xbox 360 that was just impossible to do on any other platform. Ah, bull. =D

Eiolon Jul 17, 2006 06:39 AM

Athlon 64 3700+
DFI NF4 Ultra-D
2GB OCZ Platinum
BFG 7800GTX OC 256 MB
250 GB HDD1
80 GB HDD2
80 GB HDD3
Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition

sabbey Jul 20, 2006 12:49 AM

Well, I just got my new PC today but the older "2nd PC" has the following specs, not including any external drives:

Dell Dimension 8200:
Intel Pentium 4 2.3GHz
512MB RAM
80GB HDD w/8MB Cache
GeForce 4 Ti 4600 128MB Video Card
Sound Blaster Live!
2.1 Speakers

While the new PC has the following:

Dell XPS 400:
Pentium D Processor 940 with Dual Core 3.20GHz, 800FSB
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz
320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/ 16MB cache
HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8164B
Philips DVD+-RW DVD8801
ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 512MB Video Card
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic (D), w/Dolby Digital 5.1
Dell 5650 5.1 100 Watt Surround Sound Speaker System with Subwoofer

Hopefully, this will last at least 4-5 years as well! :D

SinStealer Jul 20, 2006 09:39 AM

2.4A GHz Pentium 4. Working fine for more than 3 years already.

Spyer Jul 20, 2006 10:29 PM

A intel p4 2.8 ghz processor, gig of ram, 160 gig SATA hard-drive, and Nvidia Geforce 6600 GT OC video card. Pretty wicked shit I got going here.

Cal Jul 20, 2006 11:07 PM

My main PC's with the police. It has 37 gigs of music on it, but it wasn't seized on any charge of piracy, nor am I even the one involved. It's been eight months since they ran a comb through our place, looking for all electronic storage equipment (you have no idea how violated one feels during and after a premesis search). They haven't got back to us, despite repeated emails, calls and complaints to the ombudsman.

So I'm using a decent-enough laptop which ma scabbed from work as a freebie. P4 1.5GHz; a tad slow, but I haven't yet got around to a defrag.

hardhouse Jul 20, 2006 11:37 PM

Intel P4 2,4 ghz with 512 ram

Retriever II Jul 23, 2006 11:26 PM

Lower end of the mid-range. Pentium 4, 2.0 ghz. And 1gb ram so I could play Uru a little easier.

I feel sorry for the soul on the GX1 - we just discarded stacks of those at work. They couldn't get out the door fast enough.

ComradeTande Jul 27, 2006 04:16 PM

Pentium 4 CPU 2.80GHz
256 MB RAM


STRONG ENOUGH TO BEAT YOU IN AN ARM WRESTLIN!!

not really D:

UltimaIchijouji Jul 27, 2006 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by www.designdraft.net
OS: Windows XP Pro
CPU: Pentium IV 2.60GHz
Memory: 512MB (256+256)
Graphics: nVidia GeForce FX5200
HDD: 160GB + 300GB
Monitor: Dell 2005FPW 20.1″ Widescreen
Media: DVD+/-RW
Tablet: DELETER XP-Pen 5550A White
Internet: ADSL (Down: 2M)

Copied and pasted from my site pretty much, just had to update one or two things. Hopefully I'm getting a MacBookPro soon, which is actually probably better than this.

rahvii Jul 29, 2006 02:31 PM

AMD Athlon X2 (Dual Core)

Sound and video are poor, i just had to buy a new pc few months ago and i couldn't get enough money to buy any of those.

Im planing on buying am ATI X800 at least.


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