What's in your rig?

[Hawkeye]

I believe we had this in the old forums before. So I thought we should start one here, sort of a thread to boast your rig aka PC or Mac, as well as a place where you can ask the IT-savvy members of TotS for some help.

Ok post your questions or your rig's setup specs here, and how much it'd cost you. I'll post mine when I get home.

[NightHunter]

No, we didn't have something like this in the old forum. Good idea you got though.

Ok here my first question to IT-savvy member Hawkeye:

Is the upcoming Intel processor Nehalem will be enough for my upcoming 4 x ATI Radeon HD 4870x2? ;D

[eviltb]

Jul 15, 2008 5:24:09 GMT -5 NightHunter said:

Is the upcoming Intel processor Nehalem will be enough for my upcoming 4 x ATI Radeon HD 4870x2? ;D

Thats just sick! Your sick! Are you working for NASA or something? Imagine the frame-rate on that sucker!

[NightHunter]

Hahaha!! I'm not expecting to buy that. Imagine, around 2000$ being put just in the GPU and think of the power supply needed for that. I think of a PSU of 1000 Watts and I'm pretty sure it will not be enough. According to ATI, they have already create a PC with that. It's running somewhere in their labs. Ouch!!!!

Yeah, the frame-rate must be incredible. Enough to play on high resolution on a 50" LCD screen.

[Hawkeye]

Lets just say I have to pick up my jaw from the floor after that. LOL Don't forget the frigging heat you have to deal with as a result of that kinda power output. But from what I see, the design for the 4870 is using black PCB with dual processor. And the space it'll take up. Nasty sucker!

I blowed 2k for my 3D card, another 2K for my memory, and so on....all in all, my rig's about 10K. It's just about a year old. Good enough to last me the next few years. Oops, my specs.

[NightHunter]

Ok, I'll go with mine now.

* mean I have bought these parts 1 1/2 year ago when I have update my old rigs.

*Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1,86 Ghz = 240$
*Motherboard: Intel D975XBX2(Bad Axe 2) = 350$
*Memory: 3 x 1Gig Kingston KVR 667Mhz 5-5-5-15 = 200$
*GC: Ati Radeon X1950 Pro = 250$
TV tuner: Ati Theater Pro 650 = 150$
*PSU: Antec Neo HE 550 Watts= 110$
HDD: Old Maxtor 200GB IDE(haven't change for SATA yet) = 200$
LG DVD writer 18x multi = 100$
Old 19" CRT screen(it have come with my old specs)
*Enclosure: Antec SLK3800B Black Super Mid Tower 80$
Speaker and Audio: Logitech X-540 5.1 surround 120$
Microsoft Windows XP Pro 32bit, genuine, illimited and free

That's all I can think for now. More or less than 1800$ in total. Well, of what I can remember right now.

Some benchmark now:

3DMark06 = 4715
3DMark05 = 9454
3DMark03 = 15629
3DMark 2001 / SE = 26331
PCMark05 = 5137
PCMark04 = 6421

[Ghost Bear]

Time for me to show off... Well, not really intended, but you did ask:

Intel Core 2 Duo Q6600 2.4Ghz
Motherboard - NVIDIA nForce 590
Memory - 3Gb 667Mb I think.
Graphics: NVIDIA G-Force 8800 GTX 768Mb
PSU: No idea. Don't much care.
HDD: 2 x NVIDIA Stripe in Raid 0 config
1 x CD-RW/DVD drive
1 x DVD-R drive
19 in 1 Memory Card drive
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic soundcard
Logitech X-540 5.1 speaker system.
Samsung SM2232BW 22" widescreen LCD screen
Logitech MX5100 Keyboard & Mouse
Windows XP Media Centre

-GB

[NightHunter]

Oh yeah, I have forgot to mention that.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Erm, it says here (on my old notes) ....

AM AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939)
Asus A8N-SLi SE nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
CR Crucial 1GB DDR PC3200 CAS3
GeForce 7600 GT (x2 SLI'd)
Samsung SpinPoint P HD160JJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM
Antec Titan 550-EC MiniTower Case - 550w TruePower PSU

and my old screen, speakers, keyboard and mouse.

All the new parts (so basicaly the whole new computer) dates back to April or May two years ago (2006). SLI is a right pain in the bum. It's great for Oblivion and Morrowind but everything else runs slower with it so most of the time I've got it turned off (I still run old Infinity Engine games on this baby among other things).