Official Rate Your PC Topic

[Cursed]

They should remove the Hard Drive rating really, since it holds so many systems back. Unless you buy a 15k Raptor you probably wont get higher than 5.8. Anyway, here's mine:

 

 

 

Motherboard: Dell Inspiron 531 AM2

RAM: 4GB PNY PC6400 (DDR2)

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (2.6GHz)

GPU: Zotac Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512MB GDDR3

PSU: 650W Value (I know...)

HDD: Hitachi 160GB 7200RPM (I'm waiting for my Hitachi 1TB to arrive)

Monitor: 20" Samsung Syncmaster 2032BW

Optical Drive: Pioneer DVD/RW+-

Case: iCute something or other from 2006.

Extras: Labtec 2.1 speakers, Advent Wireless Aluminium Keyboard, Dell mouse, Card Reader

 

[Pico]

I'm pretty sure they use the highest rating to match the highest speed available at the time (or at the time W7 should be released). Which would be SSD's since they've got the fastest read speeds, and pretty much the fastest write speeds.

It's the right way to range a rating, the highest possible speed, to the lowest. That's why 7,200 rpm drives are sitting right around 5. They're the average.

[richh999]

 

@Poop, if you get a second graphics card and run it in SLI, you  can NOT have a second monitor on it. That's one of the strange thing about SLI is that you can only run one monitor at a time with it enabled. However, you can run two monitors off of a single 260GTX no problem.

 

You can run dual screen off an SLI setup using the lastest 18*.** drivers, you cannot however use the second graphics card to run screens so you can only run 2 screens, I however use a third graphics card to run my 2nd and 3rd screen as I use 3 screens.

 

I haven't been around here for a while but heres my couple of penny's

 

@poopskin: I wouldn't overclock on you stock heatsink if you do make your own pc. I have made many pcs and its not that hard, its just a puzzle really if its your first time. It gets easier each time and I now have made some pretty extreme PC's for people with far too much money. The last was an i7 with 2 gtx295 on the evga classified and 6GB, such a nice board however they choose to use a SSD instead of a velociraptor which I was against, slower write times, ssd are not what most people think they are for everyday use.

But yeah, my own machine is in my sig and the one suggested is a really nice build, pity that your in the US as I would build you that for about £550 which is more but never seems it over here.

 

Anyways could you put a couple of quid from your own pocket towards it so you can get a better cooler or bigger hard drive?

 

Well check sig for mine, its changed a little since I was last here. changed case and added watercooling.

[Deji]

10/10

 

It's slow as hell. It's got a dozen common computer "dieseses"... Yet after months of having these it works fine. It may be pretty crap but the lil thing has been hanging in there for ages. Plus it can run loads of programs that are said to be impossible to run on this computer... (I maintain it well).

 

For that, I give it 10

 

Oh what? You expected me to let vista tell me the rating? I spit on vista. lol.

[Abel.]

Check my signature for my specs. The Domino ALC works well.

[WhatsPoppin]

A poor 2.8 on the performance thing this rig is crap i was surprised it could run VC and and SA but anything made past 2006 is fail

 

 

Windows Vista

GeForce 6150SE(I've made crap better than this card)

 

Dell

Inspiron 531S

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ 2.10 GHz

RAM: 1.00 GB

32-Bit Operating System

[Cursed]

 

Dell Inspiron 531S

 

I used to have the Inspiron 531 (Not the slim model), given it to my Dad though and he's pleased with the silence. My PC at the moment:

 

 

AMD Phenom II 720BE @ 3.01GHz

ASRock A770DE Motherboard

4GB of PNY PC6400

Zotac GeForce 8800GT 512MB

1TB Hitatchi Deskstar 7200RPM 16MB cache

Pioneer DVD-RW

Antec Three Hundred with Nexos blue LED strip

ColorsIt 650W LED Power Supply

20" Samsung Syncmaster 2032BW 1680x1050

15" Packard Bell 1024x768 (Secondary monitor)

Labtec 2.1 speakers

Advent aluminium keyboard

 

 

My rating in Windows Vista SP1 is 5.9.

[Flitskikker]

I know, it sucks. Except the harddisk.

 

 

However it doesn't meet the requirements, it runs GTA4 with an avarage of 15 FPS.

 

 

Windows 7 Rating: 3,9 (because of processor)

Used program: My InfoTool

Edited August 7, 2009 by flitskikker

[Cursed]

I've just tried it out, and that's a very nice tool.

 

[poopskin]

@Fozzy: my GTX 260 has 2 DVI ports on it.

 

Edit:

 

Core 2 quad Q6600 @2.40GHz (probably gonna replace it and the mobo with a 8-core I7 later this year, not that i really need to, but heck. there's no kill like overkill.)

RAM: 4.0gb DDR2? might gonna be DDR3? (gonna be upgraded to 6-12gb DDR3 this year because of the fact that there's no kill like Overkill, i won't have to upgrade later and and the I7 has the lame obligatory DDR3 Requirement if my existing RAM is DDR2)

750gb Hard Drive

nVidia GTX 260 896MB DDR3

Edited August 7, 2009 by poopskin

[anus]

If I were you, I'd just buy an aftermarket cooler for the Q6600 and overclock it. The best upgrade for you would be a graphics card upgrade (not right now, but when the DX11 cards come out).

 

Or you could get a DX11 video card with all that stuff .

[Kanja]

Hey Guyz Here Is my Pc And laptop details hope you will give your

so i will upgrade it

 

My PC Details Are :

 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H 780G AM2+

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 940 3GHz Quad Core - been an Intel guy all my life but this is a great processor

RAM: 4 GB (4x1GB) Corsair XMS2 DDR2 PC6400

Graphics: Sapphire ATi Radeon HD4850 1GB GDDR3 PCI-E

Sound Card: Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Music

Hard Drives: Total of 3TB of space, from three internals and one external:

HDD 1: Western Digital 500GB SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache Caviar Black

HDD 2: Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache Caviar Black

HDD 3: Seagate ST3100340AS 1TB SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache

External HDD: Seagate 500GB FreeAgent

DVD drive: LG DVDRW 16x GSAH10N

Power Supply: Hiper 580W Type-R Modular PSU

Speakers: Logitech X-540 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers

KB + Mouse: Logitech Wireless MX 3200 Laser Desktop Wireless Keyboard and Mouse - not a huge fan of this but it's okay I guess.

Case: Antec Nine Hundred Two 902 Ultimate Gaming Case

Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 2443BW 24'' LCD @ 1920x1200

 

I run Windows Vista SP2 as my main OS, 64 bit of course.

 

My laptop is a MacBook Pro, the specs:

 

15.4" 1440x900

2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

2GB (2x1GB) 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM

250GB SATA 5400 rpm

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 256MB GDDR3

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory

8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)

[leik oh em jeez!]

My PC: (Currently not working)

 

Motherboard: OEM HP Pavilion a1647c

CPU: AMD Athlon x2, 2.2Ghz

Graphics: 1Gb PNY 9800GT XLR8

RAM: 3Gb DDR2

ODD: Lightscribe Super-Multi Drive (CD/DVD-RW)

CD-ROM Drive

HDD:

1Tb Samsung SATA 7200rpm

160Gb Seagate EIDE 7200rpm

160Gb Western Digital EIDE 7200rpm

80GB Western Digital EIDE 7200rpm

3.2Gb Western Digital EIDE 5400rpm

PSU: 600w OEM HP

 

 

My spare PC:

 

Motherboard: Some M-ATX ECS Elite Group with an AGP slot.

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 HT, 3.00Ghz

RAM: 2.5Gb DDR2 (Only 1.5Gb picked up)

Graphics :

64Mb AGP NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420

128Mb PCI NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000

2Mb PCI S3 ViRGE GX

ODD: CD-ROM Drive

HDD: 20Gb Seagate EIDE 5400RPM

PSU: 250w Bestec

 

 

My Server:

 

Motherboard: Dual Slot 1 Super Micro Server Board

CPU: 2x Slot 1 Intel Pentium III, 500Mhz

RAM: 64Mb SDRAM

Graphics: 2Mb PCI S3 ViRGE GX

ODD: CD-RW Drive

CD-ROM Drive

HDD: 3.2Gb Samsung EIDE 5400rpm

PSU: 500w Green Power

 

 

My Brothers Computer:

 

Motherboard: OEM Compaq Presario SR1620NX

CPU: AMD Sempron, 1.99Ghz

RAM: 1.5Gb DDR

Graphics: 512Mb BFG 9800GT OC

ODD: Super-Multi Drive (CD/DVD-RW)

HDD: 250Gb SATA 7200rpm

PSU: 350w

 

 

Spare crap laying around:

Another 1Gb PNY 9800GT

ATI Radeon X1600 Pro

Some dual VGA ATI AGP graphics card

1Gb (4x256Mb) FB-SDRAM

 

 

 

 

Will Upgrade my main system to a dual Socket 771 system, two XFX 8800GT's, however much RAM I can get, and probably two of the newer Wolfdale-based XEONs, at least 3.3Ghz.

Edited August 15, 2009 by leik oh em jeez!

[Cursed]

Is the other 9800GT not working or something? Or is it just because your main PC only has one PCI-E slot.

[leik oh em jeez!]

Only one PCI-E slot.

[Cursed]

I don't know what I'll do with my 8800GT next time I do an upgrade (probably to a GTX 260/275), I have two PCI-E slots but they are Crossfire X and not nVidia SLi . My Dad's PSU wouldn't be enough, plus there's no point him having an 8800GT for browsing, and my brother already has a 9600GT 1GB wwhich does him just fine.

[Prophet11]

^You can send it over to me I know what to do with it

 

 

C2Q 8200 2.33ghz

GMA onboard 3100 -.-

4GB DDR2 800MHZ

Gigabyte G31/33

400W Generic

crappy monitor and keyboard

 

Microsoft Sidewinder Mouse (google it up)

MS Lifechat 3000X

[leik oh em jeez!]

I don't know what I'll do with my 8800GT next time I do an upgrade (probably to a GTX 260/275), I have two PCI-E slots but they are Crossfire X and not nVidia SLi . My Dad's PSU wouldn't be enough, plus there's no point him having an 8800GT for browsing, and my brother already has a 9600GT 1GB wwhich does him just fine.

Is it a 512Mb XFX?

[Cursed]

Nah, it's a 512MB Zotac, it's pretty much the same as an XFX one just different artwork, and I think it is overclocked a bit in the factory.

[leik oh em jeez!]

Ah, I see. The 512Mb G92 XFX 8800GT's are getting really hard to find.

[cold fusion 33]

I would rate this with Win 7, but I got rid of it .

 

So, how would you rate this?

 

AMD Athlon X2 5000+ 2.61Ghz

Seagate 160GB 7,200RPM

Maxtor Diamond-8 40GB 5,400RPM

1GB+2GB Crucial 667Mhz RAM

XFX nVidia 8800GTS 640MB

 

[leik oh em jeez!]

Woo-Hoo! Just bought an HP XW9400 Motherboard. 169.99 + 29.99 Shipping.

 

Dual Socket F (1207)

4x PCI-e x16 (2x x16 signal, 2x x8 signal)

 

Waiting on it to ship.

 

Going to get two Opteron 2222's when I save up some money.

[cold fusion 33]

Excuse me? 2 Opterons? PC's can have 2 physical CPU's? When did this happen, or have I read your post wrong?

[Starion]

Wait, server motherboards support SLI now?

 

I know that's what your planning on doing, are you sure it's gonna work?

[anus]

Excuse me? 2 Opterons? PC's can have 2 physical CPU's? When did this happen, or have I read your post wrong?

Yep, PCs can have two CPUs. It's been there since the Pentium III days, maybe even before that .

 

And yep, that board supports SLI.

[cold fusion 33]

Wow, I thought they were only for like super-computers . I never really looked into it before... Does this work like having a mulitple core processor, only you actually have multiple multiple cores? If that makes sense? Do the CPU's share the workload or something?

[anus]

Yeah the CPUs share the workload. As long as the application you're using is multithreaded .

 

 

[cold fusion 33]

Whoa, that's cool. So, you could get like two I7's and put them together to make 16 threads? (4 processors, 2 threads to each, times two = 16 threads?) Or have I got that wrong, with two I7s making only 8 threads? But that's still awesome stuff... Can you have more than two CPU's in the computer?

[anus]

If you put two i7s together, you'll have 16 cores in all, but 8 of them are just virtual cores from HyperThreading, so you'd have 8 physical cores.

 

You can have more than two CPUs, but there aren't any i7 boards that can accomodate more than two CPUs. There are 1207 boards (the socket of leik oh em jeez!'s board) which can take four CPUs .

[cold fusion 33]

Wow dude, that's some cool stuff... Never thought that could be done with a desktop PC... Hell, you learn something new every day!