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Submitted by tbag on
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Just thought i would start one of those what is your current system threads [:p].

So what is your current system?

My current systems:

A cheap 700mhz Celeron,
17" Acer Monitor,
256 SDRAM and a cheap TNT2 (I really hate this thing)

Pentium III 1ghz,
21" Sun Monitor,
392 SDRAM and a Geforce 2 MMX420 (Suprisingly this thing out does my friends Pentium 4's (2.6ghz's!), we think its the awesome award winning Gigabyte motherboard).

I cant remember the motherboards... all i know is that by the end of the year i will be on a nice system, as follows [:D]:

Pentium 4 3ghz,
21 inch Sun monitor,
Radeon 9800 SE 256m,
1024 DDR,
5 or 8 Piece surround sound kit

And the usual cool case etc... [;)] A machine perfect for almost every task, Doom III, Half-Life 2 and UT2004 etc... [;)]

Submitted by Makk on Sun, 28/03/04 - 10:31 PM Permalink

Im on a Celeren 366 right now, with 128Mb SD ram and no video card, feel the power baby!!

My PC is Athlon 1.5 RAdeon 9500 PRO, 256DDR and very little HD space!!

Submitted by tbag on Sun, 28/03/04 - 10:52 PM Permalink

Well atleast you have a collectors item, the Radeon 9500. They seem to be kind of rare now-a-days due to them being expensive to manufacture...

Submitted by inglis on Sun, 28/03/04 - 10:55 PM Permalink

two sticks, some string and piece of bubblegum.

Submitted by tbag on Sun, 28/03/04 - 11:04 PM Permalink

quote:Originally posted by inglis

two sticks, some string and piece of bubblegum.

Judging by that it sounded like someone was in hurry, thus the result of the post [;)]. That and the fact you signed off MSN [:o)].

As for the bubblegum, what type? HubbaBubba, PK or Sugarfree (Despite the fact Wrigley's owns most gums)?

Submitted by Major Clod on Sun, 28/03/04 - 11:56 PM Permalink

My current system:

AMD Athlon XP1900+
512 DDR Ram
Asus A7V266-E Mainboad
Maxtor 80GB HDD 8mb Cache
ATI Radeon 9500 128mb non-pro - Softmodded to 9700 specs
Creative Soundblaster Audigy ES
Coolermaster Praetorian Case
LG F700P 17" CRT Monitor
Logitech Z-5300 THX Certified 5.1 Channel speakers
Logitech MX Duo Wireless Keyboard & Mouse

The Radeon 9500 was a really good find. I work at the Disc Shop and I found this lying around in our returns department. Hooked it up to our test rig and it seemed to work fine, so I managed to talk my boss into letting me have it for $80.

Took it home and found out that it was the original 9500 design. Exactly the same PCB as a 9700, just 4 of the 8 pixel pipelines were disabled. Usually not all the pipelines will work as ATI uses 9700 chips that fail their QA test. Anyway, I installed the software to open up all the pipelines and it works fine. My UT framerate scores have almost doubled, with no graphical glitches at all!

It was an excellent upgrade from a GF2MX!

In the later half of the year I intend to upgrade my board, cpu and add some more ram.

I just bought Farcry from work today, hopefully it runs alright on my box.

Submitted by tbag on Mon, 29/03/04 - 12:23 AM Permalink

Kinky system, nice find on the graphics card... wonder why it was in the returns department?

Anyhow, keep those systems coming [;)].

Submitted by Sorceror Bob on Mon, 29/03/04 - 2:22 AM Permalink

I upgraded yesterday *unzips pants*

Okey dokey
P4P800 Mobo (800fsb)
Intel P4 2.8e Cpu
Radeon 9800pro
Audigy 2 Sound Card
Creative inspire 5.1 Speakers(soo loud)
512 ram (the next upgrade)
21 inch sony monitor
40g HD

It's really fast now.. Went from a celeron to a full intel chip yesterday.
*zips up*

Submitted by tbag on Mon, 29/03/04 - 2:32 AM Permalink

quote:Originally posted by Sorceror Bob

I upgraded yesterday *unzips pants*

Okey dokey
P4P800 Mobo (800fsb)
Intel P4 2.8e Cpu
Radeon 9800pro
Audigy 2 Sound Card
Creative inspire 5.1 Speakers(soo loud)
512 ram (the next upgrade)
21 inch sony monitor
40g HD

It's really fast now.. Went from a celeron to a full intel chip yesterday.
*zips up*

My future system beats that (Sort of) so ha! Nah, nice system how do games run? Getting a good FPS rate i would assume?

I know this thread aint much but generally these threads attract heaps of people [:)].

Submitted by Aven on Mon, 29/03/04 - 2:34 AM Permalink

My current system was purchased nearly 18 months ago, but here it is.

P4 2.53Ghz
2x512 PC-2700 DDR RAM
128Mb Radeon 9700 Pro
2x60Gb IBM Deskstar HDDs (7200rpm, ATA 100 from an earlier system)
SB Live 5.1 (again from an earlier system)
Pioneer 106-D 4x DVD-RW drive
ASUS 40x CD-RW drive (makes a lot of noise and vibrates a lot so I am thinking of changing it)
All stored in a Lian-Li Alluminium case w/ 450W power supply.

17" Hercules Prophetview 920DVI LCD Monitor
Microsoft Internet Explorer Mouse (five button)
Wacom Intuos2 6x8 tablet
Canon 650U Scanner
Canon i850 Printer
Pioneer Stereo system for my speakers.

I am upgrading my MB and HDDs this week. With any luck, by Friday, I should have dual 250Gb SATA HDDs (non RAID setup). I will also buy a new chair this week (yay, adjustable back rest).
And for the hell of it, a little pic :)
[img]http://home.netspeed.com.au/mlanham/about%20me/comp_01.jpg[/img]

Submitted by tbag on Mon, 29/03/04 - 2:38 AM Permalink

Very nice Aven! And as for you J.I. Styles shame on you for posting that absurd looking computer [:p]. That looks like a damn graphing machine more then anything.

So far we have seen some pretty computers but only one picture... hmmm... crank out the cameras people! [;)].

NOTE: Yes im bored, im commenting on everyones systems.

Submitted by bullet21 on Mon, 29/03/04 - 3:03 AM Permalink

P4 1.5 Ghz
No idea about the mobo
16 mb Nvidia Vanta :(
1024 mb ram
20 Gb hdd

it's an ibm and they dont leave you to much options for upgrading. If you want to upgrade you can pretty much only get the shit from them otherwise you have to change everything, Mobo, CPU, Ram etc. It ain't state of the art but i can do low poly stuff with it. after about 10000 poly it lags. never done ten thousand polys yet, but i just made a sphere and kept meshsmoothing till i got lag, it happened after about 3.

Submitted by tbag on Mon, 29/03/04 - 3:43 AM Permalink

Custom built seems to be the way to go! That and it saves you a ton of ca$h [;)].

Submitted by Maitrek on Mon, 29/03/04 - 5:06 AM Permalink

Well I'm currently waiting on a few parts to ship in but here's the basic run-down (over-clocking details yet to be finalised)

Asus P4P800S motherboard
Pentium 4 2.8GHz (overclock to mebbe 3.2 or 3.4)
Thermaltake Pentium4 Xaser Copper CPU cooler
Sunon 80mm case fan
AOpen H500W case (soon to be replaced with something better)
ThermalTake Black Silent Purepower 480W PSU
Some Mitsu 17inch CRT black monitor (to suit other black parts)
40Gb Western Digital HDD
512Mb of pc2700 ddr ram (I should get ddr400 but I can't afford to replace my old stuff atm)
ATI-Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro (to be overclocked upon arrival of...)
Thermaltake GiantII heatpipe videocard cooler
and
CoolerMaster Aerogate 2 Black Thermal controller

Not the most beastly of beasts, but hopefully post-overclocking it may be able to play doom 3 (when it comes out)

Submitted by tbag on Mon, 29/03/04 - 5:13 AM Permalink

As far as i knew the requirements to run Doom III smoothly are a 2.5ghz, 512 DDR and a Radeon 9800 128m. But overclocking wont harm anything just improve things unless of course you kill the parts [:p].

Overall it seems that everyones planning to buy parts etc... for the new generation of games, Doom III, Half-Life 2 and FarCry etc...

Keep them systems a comin'!

Submitted by Jason on Mon, 29/03/04 - 7:13 AM Permalink

My system has been ordered, should be ready in a week!

P4 3.0ghz 800fsb
asus p4p800 deluxe i865PE motherboard
1.5 gig pc3200 kingston ddr ram
120 gig sata HD
Liteon Cd writer/dvd player
GeXcube radeon 9600xt 256mb
Benq 19 inch LCD
Creative inspire 2.1 T2900 speakers
Cooler master alloy keyboard
logitech mx500 mouse

It's a big step up from a P3 600 with an 8 gig hd and a TNT 2 graphics card..

The family comp is an athlon 1700xp with 256 megs of ram and a geforce 3. It can't really handle larger file formats in photoshop at 300dpi. A3 sized or higher and it starts to kill the ram. :/

Submitted by souri on Mon, 29/03/04 - 7:32 AM Permalink

2 gig Athlon
512mb of ram
160 gig HD
Radeon 9600XT (Saphire)
A cheapo optical mouse (which is so much better than a normal mouse with mouseball)
Wacom Graphire 2

Over a year ago I had a Celeron 300mhz cpu, 20gig HD, Geforce 2mx, 512mb ram.. [:D]

Submitted by Pantmonger on Mon, 29/03/04 - 7:55 AM Permalink

P4, 3.2 gig, 800 fsb
2 gig ram
some generic 128meg graphics card
19 inch flat screen monitor
Dvd multi burner
2 x 80 gig hard drives

+ stuff.
My pants are down by my ankles and I?m blowing in the breeze

Pantmonger

Submitted by Barry Dahlberg on Mon, 29/03/04 - 9:43 AM Permalink

HP Laptop with a Cely 2ghz in it. One of them useless little touchpad thingies and an undersized keyboard.

Will be sorting out a real PC when I have a job and house and stuff.

:)

Submitted by tbag on Tue, 30/03/04 - 1:29 AM Permalink

quote:Originally posted by Pantmonger

P4, 3.2 gig, 800 fsb
2 gig ram
some generic 128meg graphics card
19 inch flat screen monitor
Dvd multi burner
2 x 80 gig hard drives

+ stuff.
My pants are down by my ankles and I?m blowing in the breeze

Pantmonger

Very nice Pantmonger! The only thing i see wrong is the no-name graphics card, give it a name... how about Sumea 128m AGP X8 video card [;)].

Submitted by Kane on Tue, 30/03/04 - 4:23 AM Permalink

Athlon 2600+ @ ~2090 gigamahertz
512 MB RAM
19" Monitor of some description...
GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB vivo
dunno about motherboard...
40GB Seagate HDD

looking to get another HDD soon

Submitted by Daemin on Tue, 30/03/04 - 7:41 AM Permalink

Aven: You have the same monitor as a friend of mine...

Currently my system stands at:
Pentium 4 2.4GHz
512MB 333DDR RAM
MSI 845PE-Max2 Motherboard
ASUS Radeon 9800 XT Video Card
Creative Soundblaster Live! DE 5.1
Seagate 80GB 7200rpm HDD + Western Digital 160GB 7200rpm HDD
LG 52x/52x/24x CD Burner
Pioneer 40x/16x DVD Drive

Currently all using standard coolers, but I might change that in future since it would be better to have a cooler running box.

And Maitrek, I see that you're getting a very beefy system for games, maybe you'll be able to play some at some future lans eh? :-)

Submitted by Aven on Tue, 30/03/04 - 8:33 AM Permalink

Daemin - It is a damn cool monitor. Pity you can't buy them any more. I got a dead pixel in the first week and it disapeared after another week (no it wasn;t dust or anything). I also had my Start Bar burned into the screen as I always leave it on. I left it off for three days (Sydney trip), and it is fine again. It is just such a cool monitor :D Also, what is you LG burner like? I have always been pretty sceptical of LG products, but people tend to rave about their burners. Is it good?

Submitted by Maitrek on Tue, 30/03/04 - 9:26 AM Permalink

Daemin - yeah I'm getting prepped for this thursday right :P
Just need to get the cooling stuff so my crusty Radeon 9600 Pro will be able to keep up (wish I had a bloody 9800XT)

Submitted by Daemin on Tue, 30/03/04 - 9:28 PM Permalink

Aven: Well a lot of people snigger when I tell them I have an LG burner, but really I have experienced nothing wrong with it at all. They seem to think that its a doidgy brand or something, but it's all good.

Submitted by Wizenedoldman on Tue, 30/03/04 - 9:44 PM Permalink

Picture time again! This would have to be one of the geekiest things I've done...

[img]http://members.optusnet.com.au/~cmcmurr/mypic18.jpg[/img]

specs:

Athlon XP 2100+ (1.7Ghz)
Asus A7V333 mobo
Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB
1Gig Ram
dual 17 inch monitors
80GB seagate HDD

Nothing else that's worth mentioning.

I can't recommend the use of dual montiors enough, the space is amazing, you'll never want to go back.

Submitted by Wizenedoldman on Tue, 30/03/04 - 9:45 PM Permalink

Oh yeah, that's my tablet underneath the piece of paper on the right.

Submitted by Kane on Tue, 30/03/04 - 10:56 PM Permalink

hey Wizenedoldman, you have the same PC case and graphics card as me!

w00t!

Submitted by Aven on Thu, 01/04/04 - 6:44 PM Permalink

I just recieved my new parts yesterday. I now have an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe Motherboard, dual 250GB (Western-Digital 7200rpm S-ATA). Gives me a grand total of half a terabyte of hard drivey goodness :D I also converted one of my old HDDs into an external HDD.

Posted by tbag on
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Just thought i would start one of those what is your current system threads [:p].

So what is your current system?

My current systems:

A cheap 700mhz Celeron,
17" Acer Monitor,
256 SDRAM and a cheap TNT2 (I really hate this thing)

Pentium III 1ghz,
21" Sun Monitor,
392 SDRAM and a Geforce 2 MMX420 (Suprisingly this thing out does my friends Pentium 4's (2.6ghz's!), we think its the awesome award winning Gigabyte motherboard).

I cant remember the motherboards... all i know is that by the end of the year i will be on a nice system, as follows [:D]:

Pentium 4 3ghz,
21 inch Sun monitor,
Radeon 9800 SE 256m,
1024 DDR,
5 or 8 Piece surround sound kit

And the usual cool case etc... [;)] A machine perfect for almost every task, Doom III, Half-Life 2 and UT2004 etc... [;)]


Submitted by Makk on Sun, 28/03/04 - 10:31 PM Permalink

Im on a Celeren 366 right now, with 128Mb SD ram and no video card, feel the power baby!!

My PC is Athlon 1.5 RAdeon 9500 PRO, 256DDR and very little HD space!!

Submitted by tbag on Sun, 28/03/04 - 10:52 PM Permalink

Well atleast you have a collectors item, the Radeon 9500. They seem to be kind of rare now-a-days due to them being expensive to manufacture...

Submitted by inglis on Sun, 28/03/04 - 10:55 PM Permalink

two sticks, some string and piece of bubblegum.

Submitted by tbag on Sun, 28/03/04 - 11:04 PM Permalink

quote:Originally posted by inglis

two sticks, some string and piece of bubblegum.

Judging by that it sounded like someone was in hurry, thus the result of the post [;)]. That and the fact you signed off MSN [:o)].

As for the bubblegum, what type? HubbaBubba, PK or Sugarfree (Despite the fact Wrigley's owns most gums)?

Submitted by Major Clod on Sun, 28/03/04 - 11:56 PM Permalink

My current system:

AMD Athlon XP1900+
512 DDR Ram
Asus A7V266-E Mainboad
Maxtor 80GB HDD 8mb Cache
ATI Radeon 9500 128mb non-pro - Softmodded to 9700 specs
Creative Soundblaster Audigy ES
Coolermaster Praetorian Case
LG F700P 17" CRT Monitor
Logitech Z-5300 THX Certified 5.1 Channel speakers
Logitech MX Duo Wireless Keyboard & Mouse

The Radeon 9500 was a really good find. I work at the Disc Shop and I found this lying around in our returns department. Hooked it up to our test rig and it seemed to work fine, so I managed to talk my boss into letting me have it for $80.

Took it home and found out that it was the original 9500 design. Exactly the same PCB as a 9700, just 4 of the 8 pixel pipelines were disabled. Usually not all the pipelines will work as ATI uses 9700 chips that fail their QA test. Anyway, I installed the software to open up all the pipelines and it works fine. My UT framerate scores have almost doubled, with no graphical glitches at all!

It was an excellent upgrade from a GF2MX!

In the later half of the year I intend to upgrade my board, cpu and add some more ram.

I just bought Farcry from work today, hopefully it runs alright on my box.

Submitted by tbag on Mon, 29/03/04 - 12:23 AM Permalink

Kinky system, nice find on the graphics card... wonder why it was in the returns department?

Anyhow, keep those systems coming [;)].

Submitted by Sorceror Bob on Mon, 29/03/04 - 2:22 AM Permalink

I upgraded yesterday *unzips pants*

Okey dokey
P4P800 Mobo (800fsb)
Intel P4 2.8e Cpu
Radeon 9800pro
Audigy 2 Sound Card
Creative inspire 5.1 Speakers(soo loud)
512 ram (the next upgrade)
21 inch sony monitor
40g HD

It's really fast now.. Went from a celeron to a full intel chip yesterday.
*zips up*

Submitted by tbag on Mon, 29/03/04 - 2:32 AM Permalink

quote:Originally posted by Sorceror Bob

I upgraded yesterday *unzips pants*

Okey dokey
P4P800 Mobo (800fsb)
Intel P4 2.8e Cpu
Radeon 9800pro
Audigy 2 Sound Card
Creative inspire 5.1 Speakers(soo loud)
512 ram (the next upgrade)
21 inch sony monitor
40g HD

It's really fast now.. Went from a celeron to a full intel chip yesterday.
*zips up*

My future system beats that (Sort of) so ha! Nah, nice system how do games run? Getting a good FPS rate i would assume?

I know this thread aint much but generally these threads attract heaps of people [:)].

Submitted by Aven on Mon, 29/03/04 - 2:34 AM Permalink

My current system was purchased nearly 18 months ago, but here it is.

P4 2.53Ghz
2x512 PC-2700 DDR RAM
128Mb Radeon 9700 Pro
2x60Gb IBM Deskstar HDDs (7200rpm, ATA 100 from an earlier system)
SB Live 5.1 (again from an earlier system)
Pioneer 106-D 4x DVD-RW drive
ASUS 40x CD-RW drive (makes a lot of noise and vibrates a lot so I am thinking of changing it)
All stored in a Lian-Li Alluminium case w/ 450W power supply.

17" Hercules Prophetview 920DVI LCD Monitor
Microsoft Internet Explorer Mouse (five button)
Wacom Intuos2 6x8 tablet
Canon 650U Scanner
Canon i850 Printer
Pioneer Stereo system for my speakers.

I am upgrading my MB and HDDs this week. With any luck, by Friday, I should have dual 250Gb SATA HDDs (non RAID setup). I will also buy a new chair this week (yay, adjustable back rest).
And for the hell of it, a little pic :)
[img]http://home.netspeed.com.au/mlanham/about%20me/comp_01.jpg[/img]

Submitted by tbag on Mon, 29/03/04 - 2:38 AM Permalink

Very nice Aven! And as for you J.I. Styles shame on you for posting that absurd looking computer [:p]. That looks like a damn graphing machine more then anything.

So far we have seen some pretty computers but only one picture... hmmm... crank out the cameras people! [;)].

NOTE: Yes im bored, im commenting on everyones systems.

Submitted by bullet21 on Mon, 29/03/04 - 3:03 AM Permalink

P4 1.5 Ghz
No idea about the mobo
16 mb Nvidia Vanta :(
1024 mb ram
20 Gb hdd

it's an ibm and they dont leave you to much options for upgrading. If you want to upgrade you can pretty much only get the shit from them otherwise you have to change everything, Mobo, CPU, Ram etc. It ain't state of the art but i can do low poly stuff with it. after about 10000 poly it lags. never done ten thousand polys yet, but i just made a sphere and kept meshsmoothing till i got lag, it happened after about 3.

Submitted by tbag on Mon, 29/03/04 - 3:43 AM Permalink

Custom built seems to be the way to go! That and it saves you a ton of ca$h [;)].

Submitted by Maitrek on Mon, 29/03/04 - 5:06 AM Permalink

Well I'm currently waiting on a few parts to ship in but here's the basic run-down (over-clocking details yet to be finalised)

Asus P4P800S motherboard
Pentium 4 2.8GHz (overclock to mebbe 3.2 or 3.4)
Thermaltake Pentium4 Xaser Copper CPU cooler
Sunon 80mm case fan
AOpen H500W case (soon to be replaced with something better)
ThermalTake Black Silent Purepower 480W PSU
Some Mitsu 17inch CRT black monitor (to suit other black parts)
40Gb Western Digital HDD
512Mb of pc2700 ddr ram (I should get ddr400 but I can't afford to replace my old stuff atm)
ATI-Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro (to be overclocked upon arrival of...)
Thermaltake GiantII heatpipe videocard cooler
and
CoolerMaster Aerogate 2 Black Thermal controller

Not the most beastly of beasts, but hopefully post-overclocking it may be able to play doom 3 (when it comes out)

Submitted by tbag on Mon, 29/03/04 - 5:13 AM Permalink

As far as i knew the requirements to run Doom III smoothly are a 2.5ghz, 512 DDR and a Radeon 9800 128m. But overclocking wont harm anything just improve things unless of course you kill the parts [:p].

Overall it seems that everyones planning to buy parts etc... for the new generation of games, Doom III, Half-Life 2 and FarCry etc...

Keep them systems a comin'!

Submitted by Jason on Mon, 29/03/04 - 7:13 AM Permalink

My system has been ordered, should be ready in a week!

P4 3.0ghz 800fsb
asus p4p800 deluxe i865PE motherboard
1.5 gig pc3200 kingston ddr ram
120 gig sata HD
Liteon Cd writer/dvd player
GeXcube radeon 9600xt 256mb
Benq 19 inch LCD
Creative inspire 2.1 T2900 speakers
Cooler master alloy keyboard
logitech mx500 mouse

It's a big step up from a P3 600 with an 8 gig hd and a TNT 2 graphics card..

The family comp is an athlon 1700xp with 256 megs of ram and a geforce 3. It can't really handle larger file formats in photoshop at 300dpi. A3 sized or higher and it starts to kill the ram. :/

Submitted by souri on Mon, 29/03/04 - 7:32 AM Permalink

2 gig Athlon
512mb of ram
160 gig HD
Radeon 9600XT (Saphire)
A cheapo optical mouse (which is so much better than a normal mouse with mouseball)
Wacom Graphire 2

Over a year ago I had a Celeron 300mhz cpu, 20gig HD, Geforce 2mx, 512mb ram.. [:D]

Submitted by Pantmonger on Mon, 29/03/04 - 7:55 AM Permalink

P4, 3.2 gig, 800 fsb
2 gig ram
some generic 128meg graphics card
19 inch flat screen monitor
Dvd multi burner
2 x 80 gig hard drives

+ stuff.
My pants are down by my ankles and I?m blowing in the breeze

Pantmonger

Submitted by Barry Dahlberg on Mon, 29/03/04 - 9:43 AM Permalink

HP Laptop with a Cely 2ghz in it. One of them useless little touchpad thingies and an undersized keyboard.

Will be sorting out a real PC when I have a job and house and stuff.

:)

Submitted by tbag on Tue, 30/03/04 - 1:29 AM Permalink

quote:Originally posted by Pantmonger

P4, 3.2 gig, 800 fsb
2 gig ram
some generic 128meg graphics card
19 inch flat screen monitor
Dvd multi burner
2 x 80 gig hard drives

+ stuff.
My pants are down by my ankles and I?m blowing in the breeze

Pantmonger

Very nice Pantmonger! The only thing i see wrong is the no-name graphics card, give it a name... how about Sumea 128m AGP X8 video card [;)].

Submitted by Kane on Tue, 30/03/04 - 4:23 AM Permalink

Athlon 2600+ @ ~2090 gigamahertz
512 MB RAM
19" Monitor of some description...
GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB vivo
dunno about motherboard...
40GB Seagate HDD

looking to get another HDD soon

Submitted by Daemin on Tue, 30/03/04 - 7:41 AM Permalink

Aven: You have the same monitor as a friend of mine...

Currently my system stands at:
Pentium 4 2.4GHz
512MB 333DDR RAM
MSI 845PE-Max2 Motherboard
ASUS Radeon 9800 XT Video Card
Creative Soundblaster Live! DE 5.1
Seagate 80GB 7200rpm HDD + Western Digital 160GB 7200rpm HDD
LG 52x/52x/24x CD Burner
Pioneer 40x/16x DVD Drive

Currently all using standard coolers, but I might change that in future since it would be better to have a cooler running box.

And Maitrek, I see that you're getting a very beefy system for games, maybe you'll be able to play some at some future lans eh? :-)

Submitted by Aven on Tue, 30/03/04 - 8:33 AM Permalink

Daemin - It is a damn cool monitor. Pity you can't buy them any more. I got a dead pixel in the first week and it disapeared after another week (no it wasn;t dust or anything). I also had my Start Bar burned into the screen as I always leave it on. I left it off for three days (Sydney trip), and it is fine again. It is just such a cool monitor :D Also, what is you LG burner like? I have always been pretty sceptical of LG products, but people tend to rave about their burners. Is it good?

Submitted by Maitrek on Tue, 30/03/04 - 9:26 AM Permalink

Daemin - yeah I'm getting prepped for this thursday right :P
Just need to get the cooling stuff so my crusty Radeon 9600 Pro will be able to keep up (wish I had a bloody 9800XT)

Submitted by Daemin on Tue, 30/03/04 - 9:28 PM Permalink

Aven: Well a lot of people snigger when I tell them I have an LG burner, but really I have experienced nothing wrong with it at all. They seem to think that its a doidgy brand or something, but it's all good.

Submitted by Wizenedoldman on Tue, 30/03/04 - 9:44 PM Permalink

Picture time again! This would have to be one of the geekiest things I've done...

[img]http://members.optusnet.com.au/~cmcmurr/mypic18.jpg[/img]

specs:

Athlon XP 2100+ (1.7Ghz)
Asus A7V333 mobo
Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB
1Gig Ram
dual 17 inch monitors
80GB seagate HDD

Nothing else that's worth mentioning.

I can't recommend the use of dual montiors enough, the space is amazing, you'll never want to go back.

Submitted by Wizenedoldman on Tue, 30/03/04 - 9:45 PM Permalink

Oh yeah, that's my tablet underneath the piece of paper on the right.

Submitted by Kane on Tue, 30/03/04 - 10:56 PM Permalink

hey Wizenedoldman, you have the same PC case and graphics card as me!

w00t!

Submitted by Aven on Thu, 01/04/04 - 6:44 PM Permalink

I just recieved my new parts yesterday. I now have an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe Motherboard, dual 250GB (Western-Digital 7200rpm S-ATA). Gives me a grand total of half a terabyte of hard drivey goodness :D I also converted one of my old HDDs into an external HDD.