I always like to know what other gamers have strapped into those nice neon lit cases. So I know how far behind I am :D

Personally I have a half way decent comp now. Graduation present for finishing tops at Lincoln Tech (Electronics). Runs F.E.A.R., Doom 3, Quake 4, HL2, and others REALLY GREAT. Some of these parts are left over from old computers. This thing has been in building for a few years:

MOBO: ABIT KN8

CPU: Athlon64 3200+ (2 GHZ)

RAM: 1Gig mixed. One 512 Ultra DDR400, One 512 Kingston DDR333

VIDEO: Zogis GeForce 7300GT. 256MD PCI X16

HD: 160 Gig Western Digital (In my 6 years I feel these are the easiest to work with)

SOUND: Onboard

INTERNET: 56K Dial-up. :mad: (Can't play CS no mo :salute: )

CASE: DiabloTEK Silver. Blue neon. 3 Custom mounted fans

CD/DVD etc: 54X CD-ROM, K-Hypermedia 52x24x50 CD-R/RW, 16X DVD, LS-120 Super-Disk drive, 1.44mb floppy, 256mb Flash drive, and 1Gig Flash drive.

MONITOR: Old Pacard Bell 17 incher

INPUT: Logitech wireless Duo Optical. Wireless keyboard and mouse. Mouse is optical

I had to upgrade my gaming PC to play R6V. The Athlon 64 3200 wouldnt cut it. I upgraded it to a dual core Opteron 165, 1.75 gigs of ram, and SLi Nvidia 7900's. I play it on my 37" LCD tv at 1366x768. This computer is used for gaming and HTPC.

I always like to know what other gamers have strapped into those nice neon lit cases. So I know how far behind I am :D

Personally I have a half way decent comp now. Graduation present for finishing tops at Lincoln Tech (Electronics). Runs F.E.A.R., Doom 3, Quake 4, HL2, and others REALLY GREAT. Some of these parts are left over from old computers. This thing has been in building for a few years:

MOBO: ABIT KN8

CPU: Athlon64 3200+ (2 GHZ)

RAM: 1Gig mixed. One 512 Ultra DDR400, One 512 Kingston DDR333

VIDEO: Zogis GeForce 7300GT. 256MD PCI X16

HD: 160 Gig Western Digital (In my 6 years I feel these are the easiest to work with)

SOUND: Onboard

INTERNET: 56K Dial-up. :mad: (Can't play CS no mo :salute: )

CASE: DiabloTEK Silver. Blue neon. 3 Custom mounted fans

CD/DVD etc: 54X CD-ROM, K-Hypermedia 52x24x50 CD-R/RW, 16X DVD, LS-120 Super-Disk drive, 1.44mb floppy, 256mb Flash drive, and 1Gig Flash drive.

MONITOR: Old Pacard Bell 17 incher

INPUT: Logitech wireless Duo Optical. Wireless keyboard and mouse. Mouse is optical

Dont you know you cant mix your ram!?!you are just running off whichever one is in the #1 slot and whatever type it is..

Hey there guys, I didn't know there was a gamer section on these forums!

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 (Socket AM2)
1GB Matched Wintec RAM (DDR2800)
ATI Radeon X1600PRO 256MB (256-bit memory interface)
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 SE 7.1 w/ 7.1 surround sound headphones ;)
SATA3 250GB Primary HDD
IDE 80GB Secondary HDD
Lite-On DVD Burner


I primarily play Half-life 2 Deathmatch and Half-Life 2: CTF, but also play TFC, CS:S, GMod, GRAW, and all the Splinter Cell games. I also use it for my work computer, as I'm a technician for Comp-u-Tek (www.comp-u-tek.com) (my primary ERS workstation) and I'm also a multimedia director for Jarvis Green Design and Marketing (mostly web design, photography, 3D graphics, and audio design). I primarily use Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, InDesign, Audition, Corel Draw X3, and Alias Maya.

If anyone wants to play me at any point, PM me ;)

Dont you know you cant mix your ram!?!you are just running off whichever one is in the #1 slot and whatever type it is..

Some motherboards will use mixed memory, the total memory speed is dropped to the slowest memory, In a dual channel system you won't get the advantages of having dual channel memory though. It also can cause issues with the voltage requirements of various ram being slightly different. but I have mixed memory many times with no ill effects and all ram checks fine with utilities like memtest386.

David

By the way I have been a comuter/printer/electronics/network designer/repairman for 20 years. I do have many many certifications. And what do I do in my free time....Play computer games and work on my explorer.

I have multiple machines,

1) Alienware M7700 DTR 3gig P4 HT, 2.5gigs (mixed) ram, 80Gig hard drive, Nvidia go6800 video card, DVD+/-R, 17" wide XGA screen.

2) Asus P5nd2-sli Deluxe with 2 Gigs Dual Channel DDR2, P4 3.6Gig HT, 4 hard drives 2 in a stripe for gaming and OS speedup, 2 drives in a mirror for data protection, Soundblaster Audigy2, Adaptec Sata Raid Controller driving the 4 Drives, Plextor sa16 somethingorother Sata DVD+/- RW, Lite-on DVD-Rom, TEAC Floppy, 2 Nvidia 6800GT's running in SLI mode, Aspire 650Watt power supply, all crammed inside an old mid-tower case that I got out of a garbage pile at work. the only problem is the face was broken so I use an old door bell switch for the power.

3) an Intel d850 motherboard with a 2.4Gig p4, 768Meg of Rambus memory, 40Gig hard drive, sound blaster audigy sound card, Samsung DVD+/-r, a camera card reader, an Nvidia 5600 AGP video card. This is my old game computer used for everyday use now, it's about 7 years old and still spanks pre built boxes.

Sager 9750NP Desktop Replacement Laptop (same as the Alienware M7700) made by Clevo.

Full keyboard with numpad
17" Widescreen 1680x1050
AMD 64 X2 4200+ (dual core 2.2GHZ)
1GB RAM
80GB 7200RPM and 120GB 5400RPM SATA hard drives
DVD/CD-RW
Card reader
PC slot
USB 2.0
Firewire
built-in surround sound
Hauppage WinTV PVR USB-2 TV card
Sound Blaster Extigy 5.1 sound card
NVIDIA 7800GTX mobile Graphics card
(toughest game I've thrown at it so far is UT 2004. It runs it full settings everything at about 60FPS average no problem.)
Logitech Z-560 4.1 THX surround sound speaker system
Logitech wireless keyboard and wireless optical mouse

hey all.. new to the board.. been reading for a while, and looking to do some mild upgrades to the explorer.. anyways..

my gaming comp setup, for now:

EVGA MoBo uATX SLi
Nvidia 6600GTs
AMD Athlon 64 4000+
2Gig Kingston HyperX
2 250Gig Seagate
Antec LanBoy II
Antec TruePower Trio 430
Plextor DVD Burner
Logitech G15 Keyboard
Logitech MX510 Mouse
Acer 22" Wide Screen LCD

HTPC:
Asus MoBo uATX
ATI X850Gto2
AMD Athlon 64 3700+
2Gig Kingston VR
2 250Gig Seagate
Aspire QPack
Antec True Power 2.0 430
Samsung DVD Burner
Haupage PVR
46" Panasonic Widescreen Rear Projection

Server:
Shuttle SFF(can't remember model #)
AMD Athlon 64 3700+
250Gig Seagate
Samsung DVD Burner
19" Samsung Wide Screen LCD TV/Monitor

I'm always building new computers, and selling my current/old ones to friends or family that need a new one. Just waiting for some prices to drop on Proc's and Vid Cards (8800) to build a new gaming rig..

Ryan

Lots of 'em:

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GAMING RIG

It's a little over a year old, but still gets the job done:

Thermaltake Armor Black full-tower case
Raidmax SLI-Ready PSU (don't remember the wattage... I think 620W)
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo (S939)
Athlon X2 3800+ proc (1.8GHz)
1.5 GB DDR 400 memory
eVGA 7800GTX graphics card
320GB WD IDE HDD (I know... lol @ IDE)
Lite-On DVD+/-RW burner
HP mx70 CRT, ca. 2001 (>.>)
Dual-boot WinXP Pro and Gentoo Linux.

Plus an insane amount of crap connected to it via USB... 2x external HDDs (20gb, 60gb), Epson CX5000 printer, Saitek X52 FCS, old-assed Kodak Easyshare, brand-new Blackberry 8703e)

EDIT: this is also my home development machine when I'm not gaming on it.

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SOON-TO-BE MEDIA CENTER

Mostly something to tinker with... it'll get the job done, though.

Upgraded HP Pavilion 7955 (ca. end 2001):
Standard HP7955 mobo
P4 1.5GHz Willamette
768MB SDRAM133
Chaintech GeForce 5200 AGP
160GB WD IDE HDD
HP stock DVD drive
(on order) Hauppage 150 TV tuner
(on order) MS MCE Remote/keyboard combo
WinXP MCE 2005

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LAPTOP

Mostly for classes, travel, whatever.

Toshiba Satellite R10
1.8GHz Pentium M (Dothan)
1GB DDR 400 memory (gonna order 2x 1GB modules soon)
80GB 5400RPM HDD
CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

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BACKUP SERVER

I'm always a little concerned about one of my computers going south and taking my data with it, so I keep this little thing in the basement, just in case... backs up my data every other day.

HP mini-tower (ca. 1998), upgraded to 192MB memory, 40GB HDD.
Running Debian Linux with SAMBA.

We just built a new machine:

Antec P150 case
Antec Smart Power 2.0 500w power supply
Core 2 duo E6600
Leadtek PX8800 GTS TDH 640mb video card
Asus P5B/WiFi-AP
Vista Ultimate
2 Seagate 320gb in raid 0
Samsung SATA DVD/RW
2gb GSkill DDR2-800 4-4-3-5
Samsung SyncMaster 204B 20" Flat Panel

Well, as luck would have it. I will be building a new game machine for myself to replace the ASUS p5nd2-sli Deluxe that is slightly unstable.

new specs:
1) Intel Core 2 Extreme qx6700 (quad core)
1) Intel D975xbx2 motherboard
1) EVGA 8800GTX superclocked HDCP Video Card
4) 1 Gig dual channel sticks of 800Mhz DDR2
1) Tagan 1100Watt Power supply
1) I-Starusa Black case s-10000
1) Plextore s716sa SATA dvd+/- RW
1) Lite-on Sata DVD+/- RW
2) 250Gig Sata2 hard drive in a stripe for speed (I prefer seagate drives)
1) Creative Labs Fatal1ty sound card (X-FI processor)
1) Zalman CNPS 9500 CPU cooler

The beauty of this is it costs me NOTHING to build it, the parts were ordered with a Large job I am doing for someone else. In other words will work for computer parts.

David

Got the beast in the last post built, fired up first shot. No smoke and no nuclear reactors shut down (of course we get our power via hydro electric here).

Anyway, vista gives me a machine rating of 5.4 that is the slowest part which is the ram (only 800mhz) everything else works great after installing drivers.

and BTW it is fast, we pages don't load...they appear.

David

Desktop:
Asus A8N-E
Radeon X1900XT 512MB @ XTX Clocks
Athlon64 X2 3800+ @ 265x10 1.45V
2GB G.Skill PC3200 @ 220MHz 2.5-3-3-7 2.9V
Zalman CNPS7000B-CU CPU Cooler
Zalman VF900-CU GPU Cooler
Antec NeoHE 550 Modular PSU
2x250GB WD2500KS SATA2 16MB Cache
Lite-On SHW-160P6S DVDRW
Lite-On SOHC-5236V CDRW/DVD Combo
SB Audigy SB0090
Acer AL2016W 20" Widescreen LCD
Windows XP MCE 2005


Laptop:
HP ZX5078CL
P4-M 3.06 GHz
768MB PC2700
60GB 4200RPM Hitachi Travelstar
2.4x Toshiba DVD+RW Drive
Mobility Radeon 9200 64MB
12 Cell Li-Ion Battery
Windows XP Pro SP2

Game/File Server:
Gigabyte GA-K8NS S754 Mobo
Athlon64 3000+ Venice E6 @ 250x10
Stock Opteron heatpipe cooler
2x512MB OCZ PC4000 DDR 2.5-3-3-7 250MHz
256MB Radeon 9600 AGP
Aspire Chameleon 550w PSU
Hitachi 160GB SATA150 8MB Cache
WD 80GB SATA 150 8MB Cache
NEC ND-3520 IDE DVD+-RW
Lite-On LTR16101B CD-RW
Samsung 710N 17" LCD
Windows Server 2003 Standard R2