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[Tree]

Possibly if it's just idling. But like I said, there's tons of background processes running on the computers at work. So that may cause the life to dwindle a bit. Also, the laptops are almost always plugged in. Having the battery always be fully charged shrinks its life as well.

Edited by Tree, 23 April 2006 - 12:25 AM.

[Athena]

He works on it, like in Excel or Word or whatever. Doesn't drain a lot of cpu power..

[Ash]

Yeah I know this thread's been made before but I'm too lazy to search for and bump it so if someone could kindly merge?


Just got my new rig up and working today and currently making it homely.

Mobo: Foxconn N570SM2AA-8EKRS2H NF570
Processor: AMD Athlon X2 4600+ 2.24Ghz
RAM: 2GB Kingston ValueRam 667MHz/PC2-5300
Graphics Card: GeForce 8600GT
And as well as my current/old HD I also got a Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM SATAII, which is now my primary (naturally).

Funnily enough, as I write this I discovered 60GB on my old drive I didn't know I had. BONUS! I have just found my My Music dump

Oh, I got a new case and I ended up with a dual-fan 550W PSU, too.


What've you fellas got these days?

[Beowulf]

Case: ASUS P5V900
Motherboard: ASUS P5VD2-VM Intel Socket T (LGA 775)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Conroe 1.8 GHz
RAM: 2 GB of Kingston DDR2 667 (PC2 5300)
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 7900GS 256MB PCI-Ex16
Hard Drives: 1 x 200GB Western Digital (primary), 1 x Western Digital 160 GB (secondary/slave)
Media Drives: ASUS DVD/CD Reader/Burner with LightScribe
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional (OEM)

[ihateharriers]

are you ready for this?

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Socket AM2
Asus SLI Mobo
GeForce 7950GT graphics card
Sound Balster X-Fi
Sunbeam 20 in 1 control panel
DVD/CD writer/reader combo drive
Maxtor 160GB, other 40GB HDD
WATER COOLED!!!
Thermaltake Tsunami case

here's a pic -

[Ash]

6000+?? damn man... Didn't even know that existed, lol.

[Athena]

Congrats on your new rig Ash .

ihateharriers, what's that purple thing in that photo?

My specs:
CPU: AMD 64 FX2 6000+
Motherboard: Asus Crosshair NF590SLI
Memory: 2 GB DDR2-800 RAM
Graphics: 2 Nvidia 8800GTX, in SLI
Hard drives: Among them a SATA-300 10000 RPM 150 GB (Western Digital Raptor X).

I'll see if I can find your thread now.

EDIT Threads merged.

[Carnivean]

You people have too much money, you need to give it to me instead of buying new PCs.

Meh, mine below.

Internals:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ overclocked to some rating I can't be arsed to find
Abit SLI Mobo
ATI X800GTO
DVD/CD writer/reader drive
4HDs equaling 1.6Tb (technically, actually have around 1.5Tb)
2GB DDR PC3200

Externals:
A black antec case
Some form of wireless logitech Keyboard
Razer Copperhead Tempest Blue Mouse
Creative surround sound system of some type

Edited by Carnivean, 25 July 2007 - 07:22 PM.

[Athena]

It could be called, saving ?

For me personally, my old system broke down. It sort of blew itself up :/. Power suddenly messed everything up beyond repair.

[Paladin58]

I'll also gladly take some of that extra cash, as I need some money to put into a computer besides this one, that runs XP and is a reliable gaming machine. Because, right now, I'm running:

Compaq Presario SR2168HM (2007 build)

Mobo: Unknown
Processor: AMD Sempron 3400+
Memory: Slightly >512 MB DDR2RAM, unknown manufacturer
Storage: 120 GB memory, unknown manufacturer
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 6100

Not the best, but a lot better than my last garbage can.

[Ash]

@Carnivean: My riggy only cost me 300 quid for the lot off ebuyer. Not a bad deal if I do say so myself.

Sadly I had to spend a whole 3.99 for a new sound card because this one's particularly gash. Can't even listen music while I install something big...

[Jeeves]

Still have 128mb RAM

[Carnivean]

Still have 128mb RAM

You are the solace for everyone here who believes they have a shit machine.

It could be called, saving ?

Your graphics cards alone are about £500 more than I can afford. I'd be saving until this time next year if I wanted a rig close to what you have.

Edited by Carnivean, 26 July 2007 - 08:12 AM.

[Ash]

Only thing really letting your rig down is your graphics card. The X800 is okish but I'd go nvidia. You have PCI-E, right?

[ihateharriers]

btw, the purple thing in the pic is a UV cold cathode, which is very nice cuz stuff glows, like the UV reactive anti-fungal dye in the water. that makes it look really cool

[Carnivean]

Only thing really letting your rig down is your graphics card. The X800 is okish but I'd go nvidia. You have PCI-E, right?

I do indeed have PCI-E. And there is one very simple reason I have that X800, it was free. I plan on upgrading, but I'll only do that when I can't run on medium settings in new games (that I actually want to play) smoothly.

[Daeda]

Intel Core 2 Duo 6400E
Nvidea Geforce 7600GS
1G Ram
20" Samsung flatscreen
250Gig Hard disk + another 100G External
Windows Vista Business Edition

Oh and did i mention my 100Mbit internet connection

[Ash]

Only thing really letting your rig down is your graphics card. The X800 is okish but I'd go nvidia. You have PCI-E, right?

I do indeed have PCI-E. And there is one very simple reason I have that X800, it was free. I plan on upgrading, but I'll only do that when I can't run on medium settings in new games (that I actually want to play) smoothly.

The Witcher is out soon. You'll wanna be ready.

[Carnivean]

Only thing really letting your rig down is your graphics card. The X800 is okish but I'd go nvidia. You have PCI-E, right?

I do indeed have PCI-E. And there is one very simple reason I have that X800, it was free. I plan on upgrading, but I'll only do that when I can't run on medium settings in new games (that I actually want to play) smoothly.

The Witcher is out soon. You'll wanna be ready.

I imagine that I'll need something way more powerful than I'll be able to afford to do The Witcher justice.

[Ash]

Well the dev team profess its requirements to not be too bad. How reliable that is is anyone's guess tho.

Currently I think my entire existence depends on me getting BioShock, MTW2 Kingdoms, Crysis and The Witcher. Considering the latter 2 are coming out on THE SAME DAY I'm gonna be screwed for doing anything for like a whole week or more... lol.

Edited by Paradox, 27 July 2007 - 09:44 PM.