ZA Furries

I think I'll kick start this hardware area by letting everyone post their PC specs. We use them nearly everyday and deserve some lovin. Thanks again to Keita for sorting out the IT area. I'll still be making an adjustment here or there. ^..^

Here I go!

CPU: AMD Athlon X2 5600+ @ 3.490Ghz
Motherboard: DFI 590 SLI
Memory: 2x 1024MB Corsair DHX Memory @ 801Mhz 4-4-4-12
Video Card: Chaintech nVidia GeForce 8800GT 512MB (710Mhz GPU / 1580Mhz Shader / 2000Mhz Memory)
Sound Card: Onboard Kajan 7.1 Audio
PSU: Enermax Liberty 500W Modular PSU
Screen: Philips 26TA1600 26" HD LCD TV
HDD Total: 1.29TB - 6 Seagate Drives
OS: WinXP Professional + SP2
Speakers: Dual Mission Monitors (damn old, but plays well) + 12" Sony Xplode
Peripherals: Logitech Media Elite Keyboard + Logitech MX518
Controllers: USB Xplorer Guitar, Wireless Xbox 360 Controller, Logitech Momo Steering Wheel Set.

yes... I -LOVE- games. Period. Currently hitting Guitar Hero 3 on expert!! XD XD

Okay, here goes nothing...

System 1:

CPU: E4300 @ 3.2Ghz (Coolermaster Geminii)
Motherboard: Asus Commando P965
Memory: 4x 1024MB SuperTalent 4-4-3-8 @ 2.1v
Video Card: XFX nVidia Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB (OC 610/920/1500)
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy (The old gold edition)
PSU: AeroCool ZERO DBA 630w PSU
Screen: LG L204WT 20.1" LCD
HDD Total: Various drives
Case: Generic Chassis (Intel approved)

System 2:

CPU: Q6600 @ 3.8Ghz (Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme)
Motherboard: Asus Maximus Forumla
Memory: 4x 1024MB Kingston 4-4-4-12 @ 2.1v
Video Card: XFX nVidia Geforce 8800 GT 512MB
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy (The old gold edition)
PSU: AeroCool ZERO DBA 630w PSU
Screen: LG L204WT 20.1" LCD
HDD Total: Various drives
Chassis: Coolermaster CM 690

System 3:

CPU: E8400 @ 4.7Ghz (Water cooled)
Motherboard: Asus Maximus Forumla (Thinking about watercooling the north bridge, because I can)
Memory: 4x 1024MB Kingston 4-4-4-12 @ 2.1v (Might put in some SuperTalent)
Video Card: XFX nVidia Geforce 9600 GT 512MB (Not OC yet...)
Sound Card: Asus Xonar (Screw Creative)
PSU: AeroCool ZERO DBA 630w PSU (Awsm PSU, not sold anymore)
Screen: LG L204WT 20.1" LCD
HDD Total: Various drives
Case: Erm, NO CASE YET! LOL! (It's on a bench. I do have a spare AeroCool Mastige case lying around.)


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OS: WinXP 64/WinXP 32/Vista/*nix (For testing stuff and whatever I feel like)
Speakers: I don't use desktop speakers. I hook up my sound to HIFI equipment
Peripherals: Razor 3G Diamond back + Fang Gamepad
Controllers: Xbox 360 Controller

Did this help?

Operating system wise, seriously, I install operating systems on a weekly basis. :/
I have to have installed Windows over 200 times by now. I'm not a PC technician!

I hate the commercial nature of all these products and I hate the way consumers are treated after purchasing said products. I hate the IT industry. I like putting a well thought out plan into action and I love pushing things to their limit, and that includes myself.

I play a few games, namely Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, Quake 3 Arena.... and... umm... Well, anything you run around with a gun and shoot anything that moves. Twitch shooters, I'm good at that. I tend not to spend too many hours on the computers (When I'm not at work, which usually involves lots of computer time).

Lol. You have 3 gaming machines? and here I sold all of my extra crap thinking its a total waste...

I do a lot more with computers than just game.

My new E8400 is actually my gaming machine. It's not 100% up and running, sitting on a bench and all. The other computer, my Q6600 is for number crunching. Rendering, etc... and my E4300 is for general usage.

Supreme Commander: FA needs more CPU power than is available. Let's not go into this, I'm tired of having to explain this to everyone.

Ahhhh, awesome.

No need to explain, I already know. I bought the game, but didnt really enjoy it, even though I had/have huge interest for Total Annihilation.

I am definitely a TA fanboy!

Thats good to hear. *sighs, thinking back to the good old days of those 10 hour games... Using Big Berthas as AA guns.*

I loved the add-ons and the unit mods. I remember a huge ship that I once had, was as long as a screen width @ 1024 x 768.

Windows machine:
AMD Athlon64 X2 5600+ CPU
GA-M55SLI-S4 Motherboard
2 x 1GB DDR2 RAM
Gigabyte 7300 GT
Seagate 120GB PATA
Seagate 200GB PATA
Seagate 250GB PATA
WD 500GB SATA
WinXP SP2

Linux server:
AMD Athlon64 3200+
GA-M68SM-S2
2 x 1GB DDR2 RAM
Seagate 200GB PATA
CentOS 5.1 x86_64

Firewall
Been a while since i opened this machine ... not sure of the exact specs.
AMD 1GHz
Gigabyte MB
384MB SDRAM
20GB HDD
IPCop 1.4.18

Dracius already knows my system since he sold it to me.

HP 530 series
intel celeron-m 520 1.6GHz
2048mb DDR2-667 , Intel® 940GML chipset
Graphics Media Accelerator 950 ( 224mb UMA )
15.4" Lcd ( 1280x800 WXGA )
120gb SATA HDD
Windows Vista Basic/Kubuntu

I have total annihilation. I never really got into it and haven't played in ages but maybe I'll try again sometime. I got a copy of half life from a friend last Friday and I played that all weekend. Now I'm addicted. Need more half life stuff.

*nodnods* Yep. ^..^ Raki, you should come and raid my hoard, i'm pretty sure you'd find some decent stuff. I'd make short work of your 120GB

Sweet machine, Valerion ^..^ How does that VGA card run for its price?

I havent put all on my PCs on this thread, only the one that i've put my heart and soul into. ^..^ I'm about 70% complete with a wicked case mod with some awesome draconic artwork, custom made! (still need to process the art..)

Yeah, sounds like you could. I've used most of it anyway. Got 30 or 40 gigs left. Most of it was because I just stuffed pretty much any music I could find on it. But there are always cds and dvds. I can store plenty on those.

Sweet. Then start racking up those DVDs. ^..^

The GPU is quite decent. Not nearly as fast as a 7600 or better would be, of course, but for its price I am not at all unhappy. Don't intend to change it any time soon (this year) at least.

Dracius wrote:Sweet. Then start racking up those DVDs. ^..^

Lol. I already have. Started collecting anime on cds so must have around 60-80 cds and then I moved onto dvds and have 10-20 dvds of stuff. Not all's anime. Some is music and other backups. Still got a couple of blank disks lying around.

BTW I forgot another system I have that I fixed up. It's in a cupboard now but I can remember some of it. hehe.
CPU: 386
HDD: 2X 800mb (Yay for a 386 with over a gig of memory!)
OS: DOS and Windows 3.11
That's about all I know for sure. Both hard drives have almost exactly the same stuff on. Takes over 5 minutes to start up though Partly because the batteries dead and I have to start twice to set up the disk drives and hard drives.

Yea Valerion, thought so ^..^ Its not really a bad card. Its all about the price point.

Sweet Raki! I'm sooo gonna raid your stuffs! XD And thats such an old PC!! BUT, I have a number of old popular Win3.11/DOS games, which you may take interest in ^..^ I also got 11GB of mame games too XD

Holy crap, some of you have awesome machines! Mine is not too bad, but going to last me for a good deal of time!

CPU: Q6600 Quad Core 2.4GHz for each CPU
Motherboard: Giga Byte EP35-DS3P
Graphic Card:Asus Nvidea 8800GTS 512MB GPU
Harddrive: 2X 500GB WD HDD SATA + 160GB Generic HDD (total 1.16TB)
Memory: 5GB of RAM 800Hz
PSU: Topower 500W
Controllers: Logitech Force3D Pro
Webcam: Lenovo Webcam
OS: Win XP SP2
Disk Drives: 2X Generic DVD burner
Screen: 2X 19" LCD Acer AL1917 (planning to replace both of them due to them aging and getting burnouts on the screen)
Internet: 12GB 8mB/s (planning to upgrade to 40gb cap)

Planning to get a TV tuner card though for digital HD TV so I can record them onto my harddrive.

Here's mine old-guy...

CPU: Celeron D310 2.13GHz
Motherboard: ASrock P4i65PE
RAM: 768MB DDR333
HDD: 80GB ATA
Graphics: Radeon 9600XT 256MB
OS: Windows XP Professional (SP2)
Screen: 15" LCD
DVD: LiteON DVD burner

EDIT: 1Mbit internet connection. (1024 download/512 upload) NO monthly cap.

Yip. Bought last year... cheapest piece of crap i could afford, but works :3
This looks so pathetic compared to others

Well mine won't switch to dial-up after 12GB

Heeey, it is not really dial up speed, it actually get shaped to twice the speed of dial up at 100kb/S, so it is not *too* bad....hehe.

Me like

Sweet, I see some of ya have an uncapped account

I'd love an uncapped account, but since nearly everything is available locally, I dont see much of a use for it. (Yes, -my- usage) XD I enjoy raping the 30GB "free" local BW on the 3GB TelkomSA accounts ^..^

Dracius wrote:Sweet Raki! I'm sooo gonna raid your stuffs! XD And thats such an old PC!! BUT, I have a number of old popular Win3.11/DOS games, which you may take interest in ^..^

Cool. Feel free to take some stuff. I got a dos emulator to play the games. Some are really fun. What sucks is the best ones are still licensed. I saw not that long ago (like a year or two) Sierra was selling all the Space Quest games for around R300! That's a huge rip off. Especially since they probably won't play without Dos or an emulator. BTW do you have a working copy of syndicate? Mines not playing for some reason. I tried it a while ago. Think I lost some of the files.

Yea, I remember those classic collections. R300 was a crap load of money for those games, though combined I'm sure they could represent quite of game time.

Syndicate? Sorry, I dont have that anymore.. I only had the original and the original of Sydicate Wars. It was such a long time ago though.. I'm sure they are laying here somewhere >..>

Dracius wrote:Yea, I remember those classic collections. R300 was a crap load of money for those games, though combined I'm sure they could represent quite of game time.

The games are over 10 years old. They've made all the profit on the games already. They should be made free now.

Desktop:
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Acer AL2216 22 inch Wide Screen LCD Monitor
Microsoft Habu Gaming Mouse
Creative SBS 2.1 350 Speaker System
Intel Quad Core Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz
ATi Radeon 3850Pro 512MB
Gigabyte G31MX-S2 Motherboard
Corsair 2GB DDR2 800Mhz
500W PSU attached to a 600VA UPS (thankyou Eskom)

Laptop:
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14.1" LCD (laptop's) and 17" (external LCD)
Intel Celeron M 1.6Ghz
1GB DDR2 667Mhz
40GB HDD
ATi Xpress 200M Graphics

Acey wrote:Desktop:
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Acer AL2216 22 inch Wide Screen LCD Monitor
Microsoft Habu Gaming Mouse
Creative SBS 2.1 350 Speaker System
Intel Quad Core Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz
ATi Radeon 3850Pro 512MB
Gigabyte G31MX-S2 Motherboard
Corsair 2GB DDR2 800Mhz
500W PSU attached to a 600VA UPS (thankyou Eskom)

Awesome, cool to see another Q6600 user here!

Whoa... the machines above are just insane! Insanely desirable, haha!

Well, at a risk of being laughed at, these are my humble machines:

Machine 1 (Main):
CPU: Intel Core 2 Due E6300 1.83GHz
MB: Intel Guardfish 965
Mem: 1GB DDR2 667MHz (i will invest here next)
Graphics: Inno3D Nvidia GeForce 9600 GS 512MB DDR3
HDD's: 1x160GB SATA, 1X250GB SATA
Screen: 19" Dell CRT
OS: Windows XP Media Centre Edition

Machine 2 (Linux box, SAS terminal):
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz 478PIN
MB: DFI NB72SR 945i
Mem: 320MB SDRAM
Graphics: Winfast NVidia GeForce 5200 64MB DDR2
HDD's: 1x40GB IDE, 1X20GB IDE
Screen: 15" LG Studioworks CRT
OS: Dualboot Windows XP Pro / Linux Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

Machine 3 (Laptop):
CPU: Intel Core Duo T2250 1.73GHz
MB: Errr... Actually, no idea.
Mem: 2GB DDR2 667MHz
Graphics: ATI Radeon Express 200M
HDD's: 1x120GB SATA
Screen: 15.4" CrystalView
OS: Windows Vista Business (Yes, i actually like it)

Well, err, nothing to brag about, really! *laughs*

Wolfers wrote:Whoa... the machines above are just insane! Insanely desirable, haha!

Well, at a risk of being laughed at, these are my humble machines:

Machine 1 (Main):
CPU: Intel Core 2 Due E6300 1.83GHz
MB: Intel Guardfish 965
Mem: 1GB DDR2 667MHz (i will invest here next)
Graphics: Inno3D Nvidia GeForce 9600 GS 512MB DDR3
HDD's: 1x160GB SATA, 1X250GB SATA
Screen: 19" Dell CRT
OS: Windows XP Media Centre Edition

Well, err, nothing to brag about, really! *laughs*

That is not bad system, just the RAM could do with an extra gig or so and you should be able to run most games, you would be pushing it for Crysis though..!!



Hrm, I think I need to get Vista, I have 5gb of RAM and XP only recognises 3.5GB...hah. There goes my RAM to waste for the time being!!

Cheers, Red.