PC Specs, what you running now?

Post by **jamie** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:36 pm

Thinking about it, whats a good middle range spec pc to be running. I dont think we have many early adopters here, so what are you all running? My latest pc is:

AMD sempron 64bit 754 1.8@2.6
1 gig 3200 memory
Geforce 6600gt
2x80 gig raid sata hd striped (for her pleasure)

Plays Tomb Raider Legend reasonably ok, no fancy lighting though. What would be a good game to bench against? CS:S?
FRAPS is a cool utility for giving fps in corner of screen.

AG40k · Post by **AG40k** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 12:51 am

i think i get the fps on screen via my omega drivers.

Id bench on CSS for multiplayer games and HL2 for single's, but thats as i play them most often.

Post by **KillJoy** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 1:11 am

AMD 64 FX53
GeForce 6800 Ultra
2 Gig Ram
1x200gig & 1x120gig Sata Drives

Post by **jamie** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:13 am

KJ, what sort of frame rates you get with that?

Post by **Thaedius** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:58 am

P4 3.0 HT Northwood
1 Gig 3200 (single channel

)
Geforce Fx5900 AGP
2x120gig HD + 30gig HD (all IDE)

Not upgraded my pc at all in 18 months due to lack of funds

Tried to install GR:AW and it's below min spec for the graphics card

Post by **Wintermute** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:58 am

PC 1
AMD 64bit 3200
1GB RAM
Leadtek NVidia 6800 128Mb Gfx (AGP)

Plays HL2 with most setting at med-high, for CS:S needs be reined in a bit for newer maps. Frame-rate often 100+, sometimes dips to around 50fps but generally handles most things thrown at it.

PC2
AMD 64bit 3800 dual-core
2 GB RAM
Gainward Nvidia 7800GT 512Mb "Goes like hell" (PCI-E)

Does everything

(but sadly was Mrs W's birthday present so she kicks me if I get within 10 feet of it

)

John Dee · Post by **John Dee** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:19 am

PC1
Intel P4 dual 3.0
Nvidia 7800GTX
2GB DDR2

PC 2
Intel P4 2.8
ATI 9700pro
1GB

Laptop
Intal centreno 1.7
ATI 9700 mobile
512MB

Post by **jamie** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:56 am

Are all the 7xxx series graphics cards here on pci-e? Seems a shame that AGP appears to have been dropped like a hot potato. Seen a review of the fastest AGP gfx card in a mag over the weekend, it was well expensive compared to its pic-e equivalent.

subdude2k · Post by **subdude2k** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 1:27 pm

You can still get the 6800GS (basically the same as a GT) in AGP along
with, I believe, 2 of the 7x00 cards.

Strange that they dropped AGP so quickly though considering 90%+ of
people will still be using AGP motherboards.

As for specs:

AMD Athlon64 3200+ (Winchester)
2GB Corsair PC3200 RAM (4 x 512MB)
2 x 80GB Seagate HDD
MSI 6800GT 256MB (AGP)
Creative Audigy 2 ZS

Holding off before making my next upgrade. Partly because I'm saving to
buy a house and partly because I want to see how the new AM2 CPUs pan
out compared to Intel's Conroe CPUs.

Post by **BournE** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:19 pm

2 x AMD 270 dual core Opteron's
4 GB RAM
2 x 7800GTX in SLI mode

'ave it

Post by **Worm** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:50 pm

making up for his small penis

Post by **BournE** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:58 pm

Post by **PaGaN** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:32 pm

Intel P4 2.8 HT OCed to 3.36MHz.
2GB of RAM in dual mode.
Gainward Geforce 6800GT Golden Sample running at Ultra settings.
2x hard drives 300GB total space.

Escapologist · Post by **Escapologist** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:54 pm

AMD Athlon64 3200+ (Venice)
1GB PC3200 RAM (2 X 512MB)
1 X 40GB and 1 X 160GB HDDs
nVidia 6600GT 256MB PCI-E
Not sure about the sound card, just some cheap 5.1 compatible one.

My FPS ranges from 50 to 130ish.

Post by **KillJoy** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:16 pm

tbh Jamie i dont know!
i run HL2, well every game actually with everything set at max.
on CS:S (The only game that i have the fps showing) i get a minimum of 50, going up to 200 at times.

Post by **Thaedius** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 7:00 pm

BournE wrote:2 x AMD 270 dual core Opteron's
4 GB RAM
2 x 7800GTX in SLI mode

'ave it

Bloody hell

Right, I know which house I'm robbing next

John Dee · Post by **John Dee** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:54 pm

The top APG cards are

Nvidia 7800 GS 512mb £250
ATI X1600 pro 512mb £100

Post by **Woz** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:16 pm

Is it really bad of me to say that I've not the first fricking idea?
Hi, my name's Woz and I work in IT.

Post by **Thaedius** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:06 am

John Dee wrote:ATI X1600 pro 512mb £100

So how good is one of these then? (I have no idea with the ATI cards at the moment

)

Otherwise would love one of these. Mmmmmm.

Just noticed that everyone so far has Nvidia for the "current" spec machine. Coincidence non?

John Dee · Post by **John Dee** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 10:15 am

The ATi X1600 is on just a bit better than a 6800 ultra