PC Freaks

Discuss the newest $600 video cards, DDR3 RAM, and quadrillion-core CPUs. Post your specs, your dream specs, discuss builds for different uses. You can even talk about pre-fab HPs, Dells, Sonys, etc.

My current system:
HP desktop
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.83GHz
2GB DDR2 400MHz(might be 600)
250GB HDD, 500GB HDD
Geforce 7500LE

Hopefully by the end of this year:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz
4GB DDR2 800MHz
1TB HDD
Geforce 8800GT, maybe Radeon HD4870

Not getting GTX280 or HD4870X2 'cause I'm not hardcore gamer with money to burn.

If I ever get another laptop, it's going to be a subnote. I stopped toting my 14.1" laptop to school this semester. lol

I used to care a lot about processors and video cards, but now my focus is hard drives. I can never have enough memory! Once you go 720P, it's hard to go back...

LOL... i used to be quite the PC freak, but even for me it's impossible to keep up with new tech... I could get back itno it quite easily...

But to talk hard drives, i'm running over 4.5TB all in all, that's with a mix of 200-1TB drives in IDE/SATA/USB enclosures

My HP is so crappy that I can't add another hard drive. I'd get a NAS, but they're expensive. I'm definitely going to get a big case for my next build. I'm not a big fan of externals anymore. They're big and heavy and if I needed to move stuff, there are flash drives that can easily move an entire series or a bunch of movies.

Soltek 75FRN2-L w/ Athlon XP-M 2600+
1GB OCZ Dual Channel kit
1x 250GB HDD
3x 40GB HDD
ATI Radeon 9800pro (XT core)
Soundblaster Live! 5.1

woo! another athlon xp user haha

i have two systems (and a 3rd thats's half assembled)

1st (currently not running):

Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
2gb Corsair CMX1024-3200C2
Zalman 7000BCu-LED HSF
80gb IDE
160gb Sata
XFX 7600GT 256mb AGP
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 7.1 channel
[capable of 3200+ speeds on air]

2nd (currently used everyday cuz i'm too lazy to figure out whats going on with the better machine):

Asus A7N8X-X
Amd Athlon XP 2000+
2gb Corsair TwinX2048-3200C2PT
Zalman 7000BAlCu HSF
40gb IDE
128mb AGP
SoundBlaster Live! 5.1
[capable of 2600+ speeds on air]

My main build is

Athlon XP 2600+ (333 barton core)
ASUS A7n8X-E Deluxe
2GB OCZ LOW LOW LOW LOW timing dual channel kit
thermal take volcano 9
2x200GB WD drives
2x200GB Seagate Barracudas
Soundblaster Audigy PCI 5.1 GOLD edition (rare)
ATi Radeon 9700Pro (rare) clocked faster than an x1600

I have two exact systems like this that are both kinda wonky, one has a PSU issues, the other one doesn't wanna turn on LOL... so i kinda didn't bother for almost 2 years now, and just use my HP laptop Dv5040US

Turion 64 (NONX2) 2.2GHz
2GB DDR333 (yes, i know it's slow)
ATI IGP200M graphics
Lightscribe DVD-Burner
15.4 brightview screen
Buffalo Highpowered PCMCIA wireless G card
100GB Drive
EXTERNAL: 2TB (2x1TB) Nextar MX enclosure in JBOD

want me to take your old systems off your hands?

Acer 5680
Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz
2GB Ram
Geforce 7600


yar is luptup

i don't know what it is about laptops, but i dislike them. always find them slow and inferior to desktops.

Macbook Pro

2.5ghz intel chip
4gb ddr2 ram
512mb Nvdia 8800
250gb hdd
15in LED screen

i win foo'

spoon.ek9 wrote:

i don't know what it is about laptops, but i dislike them. always find them slow and inferior to desktops.

They are usually 1 step behind in technology, cuz after making it, they have to cram it into a smaller package with respects to battery life as well.

None the less.... laptops these days are rivalling desktops as well...

I guess i'll be the resident PC freak here...

my next system is gonna be s939 dual core, probably X2 4200+ or higher. already got the asus mobo A8V Deluxe for $30 haha. gonna stack it with 4gb of ddr400.

spoon.ek9 wrote:

my next system is gonna be s939 dual core, probably X2 4200+ or higher. already got the asus mobo A8V Deluxe for $30 haha. gonna stack it with 4gb of ddr400.

DDR400!? are you kidding me... these days DDR2 is almost dead, and DDR3 is almost on it's way out.

ASUS mobo are good, but usually newer ones got tons of great features, I'd look $100-150 pricerange for mobo, as they do a lot, onboard sound, nic, firewire, usb etc.

Quad core is the way to go

i don't need a computer that fast. all i play is dota and the rest of the time its msn and internet explorer.

spoon.ek9 wrote:

i don't need a computer that fast. all i play is dota and the rest of the time its msn and internet explorer.

Then you don't even need to upgrade, judging by your setup