Thought it might be good to see what PC specs everyone is running on here..
Maybe if this catches on it could be a sticky?
SO, post away in the following format
Personally I just finished my new build...
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P
Processor: AMD Phenom 2 Black edition 3.2GHz
RAM: 4GB DDR3
Graphics: ATI sapphire 5770 HD 1gb
Hard drive: Samsung SpinPoint F1 (1 terrabyte)
PSU: Arctic power 700W gaming jobby
Monitor(s): Samsung syncmaster 2333HD and a crappy old 19" as secondary
Operating system: Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit, ubuntu 9.10
Peripherals: NZXT Alpha case, various blue lighting & fans, Microsoft Sidewinder X8 mouse, Logitech G11 keyboard, and finally Logitech X-540 speakers
Last edited by silent_thunder89; 18th January 2010 at 10:22.
Done mine about easter time last year
Processor
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.66GHz 4MB-cache (1333FSB)
Motherboard
Asus P5Q Deluxe Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Graphics
8600 GTS (next upgrade i think!)
Operating system
Tiny XP Rev 09
RAM
Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 XMS2 PC2-8500C5 TwinX + Fan
Hard Drives
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache (soon to be x2 in a RAID config)
Back up 120gb IDE
PSU
750 Watt Gaming PSU (forget the make!)
Peripherals
Case: Antec 300 Black with 4x 120mm fans and one 140mm
Saitek Eclipse keyboard and Logitech G7 mouse
Sony 5.1 Surround Sound
Also got a few pics whilst building it...
The antec case is brilliant lots of room, always cool temperature wise. Just got to get round to sorting the cables out.
Manufacturer: System manufacturer
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 3326MB RAM
Hard Drive: 320 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Monitor: Flat Screen 19"
Sound Card: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Speakers/Headphones: Both
Operating System: Windows 7™
Motherboard: AMD something Grand 5000
Computer Case: XBlade with lots of neons
Hopefully want to be able run Bad Company 2 effeciently but trying not get my hopes up
Originally Posted by Mags
Looks to be a nice build that mags! I saw that case on ebuyer and almost went for it, but i wanted a windows to show off my tarty components
Yeah i was planning on getting some pics of me building it but was in too much of a hurry to get it up and running!
One question though... does that RAM really need all those fans lol?
Oh no, almost definitely not. I just thought it was awesome
Yea that case is really good, its big and kind of in compartments with space between everything to to stop it from getting too hot. I used to have a flashy case with a window etc but i thought i'd get something a bit more grown up this time
I've got two PC's on the go at the moment.
One I haven't upgraded for about 2 years, one I built in September as a Home Theatre PC (HTPC) to sit with my Sky+HD box, Xbox 360 and my Toshiba 42" 1080p LCD TV.
Spec as follows:
500W NorthQ Pacific II Fanless PSU, ATX 2.2 +80%+ Efficiency NQ-4350GP-FL
LG GGC-H20L Blu-ray/HD DVD Drive GGC-H20L
1TB Western Digital Hard Drive WD10EADS
AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition, Callisto, S AM3, 3.1GHz, 7MB Total
Cache HT 4000MHz, 85W, Retail HDZ550WFGIBOX
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 XMS2, PC2-8500 (1066), 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-6-6-18, EPP
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-UD2H, AMD 780G, AM2+, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR2 800/1066/1200, SATA 3Gb/s, Matx, GA-MA78GM-UD2
Logitech diNovo Mini Keyboard (920-000586)
Lian Li Muse Black Desktop / HTPC Case Without PSU PC-37B
Well the first piece has arrived. Expecting the rest tomorrow!
Here is mine. Still a bit WIP on the software side of things and I still need to sort out my HDMI issue.
Pictures don't do the case justice so I will need to take some more at some point.
Basically I've only setup MediaPortal very quickly using a guide on another site. Using KMPlayer and Daemon Tools. Need to get my collection sorted as well.
But other than that I'm very impressed with it. Window 7 RC (7100) x64 is working great, but I plan to rebuild it when the RTM is out.
This is all taken from my thread on AVForums.com. http://www.avforums.com/forums/home-...irst-htpc.html
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Nice - wish I had the time to build things like pc's. I'm out too much tbh, so just buy them. It is bad enough finding time to work on the car.
Been there... Done that... Got bored with the continual upgrade-itis that can result.
I'm more of a retro-freak myself. Until VERY recently, I've only needed to use my trusty IBM ThinkPad 760XD - Pentium MMX 166MHz, 80MB EDO 66MHz RAM (maxed-out!), 5.5GB Hard Drive, Hitachi CDR-S100 CD-ROM Drive, IBM ThinkPad Mwave Digital Signal Processor-based audio, Trident 968x PCI Graphics, XGA-res (1024x768) TFT Display Panel, TrackPoint "mouse", various docking stations, Buffalo WLI-PCM/L11 802.11b Wireless LAN connection to in-house Wi-Fi network connecting to all my other kit (mainframe, AIX boxen, numerous NetFinity servers/workstations and PS/2 servers/workstations, CD-ROM servers, Pioneer DRM-500X CD-ROM Library etc. etc. etc.). And I STILL find some time to post on here! My other laptops are, in increasing spec. - ThinkPad 390X, ThinkPad 600X, ThinkPad T61 (only acquired yesterday).
All but the ThinkPad T61 are happily running Win98SE and loving it, it has a Win XP Pro preload. Microsoft's bloatware is the primary driving force behind the continual pressure to get faster processors, more memory, bigger hard drives and, consequently, greater capacity backup solutions.
So, that's my 10p's worth.
My laptop, not pc...
AMD Turion II X2 M500
2.2 Ghz, 1mb L2 Catch
ATI radeon HD 4200 Graphics
15.6 HD LED LCD
4 gb Memory
500 GB HDD
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