List your specs!!!

[DigitalDew]

Just figured we needed a thread where the community can list what kind of hardware you run now. Are you satisfied with it. Would you recommend it for CS 1.6, Source, ect........

[DigitalDew]

I currently run:

WinXP Pro SP2
AMD 2600xp +333 @ 2.08ghz
MSI mainboard K7N2 Delta2-LSR <---I think
512 MB pc2700 cheap ass ram
ATI Radeon 9600XT 128 MB DDR
60gig WD HD 7200rpm
300 watt power supply cheapy model

Only good thing there is the video card, and its not great.

3dMark03 benchmark score 4123
I obtained 3dMark03 through [link=http://www.downloads.com]www.downloads.com[/link]
3dMark06 was to discouraging I couldn't bear to let the test finish. Looking at all those 2-6 FPS.

I will be upgrading this soon enough. Will keep ya posted.

[Sinister]

WinXP Home SP2
Pentium 4 @ 3.0 GHz
ASUS Deluxe nVidia SLI (not sure of exact model)
2GB Ram
2xGeForce 6600 GT 256 MB in SLI
160 GB WD HD
500 Watt Power Supply

When I get back to Italy I will run 3DMark06 and post my results.

[Savage]

Son of a b***h
600 meg?
ok downloading now i'll run it.
these things usually aren't shit too many variables.
but lets see.
ill update tomorrow along with the results page addy.

[Mr-Me-II]

Intel Pentium 4 531 3.0GHZ, 800FSB, 1024k L2 Cache
Stock CPU Cooler
ASRock 775v88+ Motherboard
Sapphire ATi Radeon X1600PRO 256Mb AGP8x
2x512 Corsair PC-3200 in DDR CAS2.5 4000MB/S Stock
500GB Maxtor hard drive (300GB+200GB)
A~Power 450 Watt supply
Generic 52x32x52 CD-RW Drive
Generic 16x DVD-ROM
Creative Soundblaster Live 5.1 Sound
Creative Inspire 6600 6.1 Surround Speakers
Microsoft Optical 5 button mouse
Generic Multi-Media Keyboard
3x80mm Fans

Counter-Strike Source: High detail, 2xAA 8xAF, 1024x768120fps Peak 65fps Avg. Stress Test 112fps
Counter-Strike 1.6: 32Bit OpenGL 1024x768500fps Peak 180fps Avg



By the way...
[link=http://www.spawnpoint.com/asp/tm.asp?m=363]http://www.spawnpoint.com/asp/tm.asp?m=363[/link]
Mine died, maybe this one won't


- Mr_Me_II

[scoot]

MR.ME II on your specs (500GB Maxtor hard drive (300GB+200GB) that means you did a raid? right? is yours SATA. thats what i have but, i dont understand the raid process. i have read upon it and still have no clue what there talking about. my setup is a little differ from what they say. right not i have a 100 gig maxtor and a 80 seagate. i was just wondering how you do that.

[fallen1]

my main rig is
P4 3.2
Asus P4P800-E Delux mobo
1 Gig (2x512) PC3200 RAM
120 Gig Seagate HD
Soundblaster Audigy Gamer edition
Asus Nvidia 6800XT
Win XP Pro
16X DL DVD burner
48X CD burner
OCZ Modstream 520W power supply

[fallen1]

Scoot, RAID is a way of setting up multiple hard drives for increased data safety and/or access speed. There are several differrent RAID types, but the most common amoung home users are RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 0+1. I'll do sort of a general rundown on them for you.
RAID 0 is also called a striped array, and usually uses 2 or 3 hard drives. What it does is treat all the hard drives as if they were one drive and splits everything up between them for faster read/write times. So if you had 2 150Gig drives in RAID 0 your computer would see them as a single 300Gig drive and would split everything up so half of each file would get written on each drive. The upside of this is that stuff can be written and read faster since each drive only has to read half of a file. The downside is that if one of those drives goes bad you loose everything because half of every file went with it.
RAID 1 is called a mirror array, and uses 2 drives. It treats both drives as if they were one drive, but only sows the capacity of one of the drives because both have copies of everything. So if we used the same 2 drives from the RAID 0 example, it would show the 2 drives having 150Gigs of space. Everything on the computer gets copied to both drives, so if one dies there is a complete working copy of everything on the other drive.
Both RAID 0 and RAID 1 require that you use drives that are the same size. You can use different size drives, but they will both be seen by the computer as being the same size as the smalle of the 2. So if you have a pair of 150 Gig drives, you could have a RAID 0 with 300 Gig or a RAID 1 with 150 Gig. If you have a 200 Gig drive and a 150 Gig drive, both drives would be treated as 150 Gig for the same 300Gig RAID 0 or 150 Gig RAID 1 totals because the RAID controller needs matching drive sizes to work. You wouldn't be able to use the extra 50 Gigs on the 200 Gig drive because the RAID array wouldn't have a matching 50 Gig somewhere else to use for either the striping or mirroring.
A RAID 0+1 array uses 4 drives to do both mirroring and striping. so if you used 4 150Gig drives, your computer would see them as 1 300Gig drive. What it does is create 2 RAID 0 arrays that are clones of each other. 2 of the drives make one 300Gig RAID 0 and the other 2 make a 300Gig RAID 0 copy of them. This gives you the speed boost of RAID 0 with the protection of RAID 1.

I hope that all made sense and helps you out with figuring out how the different RAID set ups work. If you want some more info, there's a pretty good article about RAID on wikipedia.
[link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks[/link]

[Savage]

Bah just ghost back up the entire raid array weekly incase 1 dies or run raid 5

[Mr-Me-II]

Heh...both of my big drives are good'ol ATA-133. Doesn't bother me much my OS still loads in about 30 seconds

[ProdigalSon]

ok, just ordered two systems,

Dude gets:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor at 2.0GHz, 2000MHz FSB, 512KB Cache
Standard AMD/Intel Certified 350 Watt Power Supply
MSI K8N Neo4-F nForce 4 w/2000MHz FSB and 16X PCI Express
512MB Patriot PC-3200 DDR 400MHz Memory (2 X 256 MB Modules)
80GB S-ATA 7200 RPM Hard Drive
nVidia GeForce 6600 128MB DDR w/PCI Express, DVI and TV Out
Internal DVD+CD Rewritable Combo Drive 16X52X32X52
Digital High Definition 3D 7.1 8-Channel Sound

Prodigal gets:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Processor at 2.2GHz, 2000MHz FSB, 512KB Cache
Standard AMD/Intel Certified 500 Watt Power Supply
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe nVidia nForce 4 SLI w/2000MHz FSB, 16X PCI Express and Dual RAID
1024MB (1GB) Patriot PC-3200 DDR 400MHz Memory (2 X 512 MB Modules)
160GB S-ATA 7200 RPM Hard Drive
nVidia GeForce 6800 GS 256MB DDR3 w/PCI Express, DVI and TV Out
Internal DVD+CD Rewritable Combo Drive 16X52X32X52
Digital High Definition 3D 7.1 8-Channel Sound

Home PC

Dell Dimension 9150
2GB Ram
Dual Core 3GHZ cpu
Nvidia GE Force 6800
2 120GB drives (SATA)
Dual DVD/RW

19" Flatscreen digital

Prodigal, you need an extra gig of ram and a 250 gig HD

[ProdigalSon]

may sound stupid here, but why?
I mean I understand the function of ram and the purpose of the hard drive, and more ram is always better,
but why 2 GB of ram and what is the purpose of larger hard drive, steam doesn't take up that much space, yet!

[scoot]

i see that admin has dual core. does any body else? im just wondering how they are working out for them. i will buy a new pc next year, by then they will be main stream. i think dual core is pretty neat. by the way labec that picture kills me. lol

[Shinogana]

Here's my pathetic specs. I'll upgrade it before long though (GPU and CPU). Probably only moderately for now.

Windows XP Professional
250 W PSU
ASRock GE Pro-HT Motherboard
1.8 Ghz P4 processor
2 x 512 Mb Ram
ATI AIW Radeon 9000 64 Mb GPU
internal 80 Gb Western Digital HD
internal 40 Gb Maxtor HD
external 120 Gb and 250 Gb Western Digital HDs
DVD+-RW
DVD+-RW Dual Layer Lightscribe
ZBoard keyboard
IBM optical mouse
Logitech USB headset