What spec is your fastest PC?

[Phil]

We have 4 PCs at home on a network, but only one of them is faster than 250MHz :( Our fastest one is:

1400MHz
20GB HD
256MB RAM
Geforce 2

[jim]

why do you need 4 pcs?

i've got one bad one at home and i rarely turn it on, i sit in front of PCs for a living...

[Phil]

1 for me, 1 each for my parents and 1 laptop.

My one is 166MHz :( and I only really use it for recieving and sending email.
My dad's one is 233MHz
My mum's one is 1400MHz :D , but I can't play games on it because she uses it for work (works at home, runs PBSS (http://www.pbss-uk.com))
The laptop is 133MHz and my dad 'acquired' it from work

All networked up with broadband

[Jay]

I've gotta...
Athlon 1600xp
512mb sdram (+another 512 in the next week)
60gb HD
GeForce 2Ti
Sound Blaster Live 5.1

BUT a ****ty f'n 56k modem!!!

I hate BT and NTL :evil:

[HENDRYBERG]

mine is an amd xp 2000
256 ram
2 x dvd rw
17 inch tft monitor
2 x 80 gb hard drives
internal zip drive

had it since june

damn i gotta pay for it this may! better start saving lol

[Kupo Nuts]

My computer which I spent all my savings on is:
AMD Duron 1300Mhz
256 DDR RAM
30Gb HDD
Radeon 8500LE 128Mb DDR
but with lame AOL dialup
When I got this it was better than most of my friends, now it is half the speed of theirs. I'm pretty sure they got new ones just cause i did.

[Reefer]

Upgraded my PC on friday.

AMD 2200XP (1800mhz)
Gigabyte GA-7VAX mainboard
512 MB DDR PC2700
Geforce 4 Ti 4200(128 MB DDR)
Hercules muse 5.1 DVD
BTopenworld 512 ADSL

Now I just need to pay for it :D

[Phil]

We've just ordered two of these, one of which I will have: :D

Pentium 4 2GHz
256 RAM
40GB HD
XP Pro

That's what Thunderbolt will be managed on soon...

[Phil]

OK, the ones in my previous post were discontinued, so we didn't get them. But, we've ordered some more and they're better anyway:

P4 2.53GHz
256 MB RAM
60GB HD
CD RW
XP Pro

:afro: 8) :afro:

[Bhuna]

I now use a

P4 2.66gig.
512mb ram
TFT screen
80gig hard drive
geforce 4 ti4400 128mb grfx
DVD
CD-RW
1mb Blueyonder broadband connection

Basically I bought this just before Christmas because I was fed up with the kids arguing over the one PC they had between them so I upgraded mine to this, the older boy (7) got my 1 gig machine and then the younger one (3) got the Cyrix 333 machine.

All quiet in the computer room now - all I can hear is the whirr of fans and the blasting of Reefer and Jaz on Battlefield 1942. :-).

[Jaz]

I spent far too much money on my upgrade end of last year, but at least i wont have to do it again for 3 or 4 weeks :shock:

Mines now a
P4 2.53ghz
1024mb pc800 rambus
2 x 80gb HDD striped using raid to give me 1 x 160mb
TI4200 GeForce4 128mb
SB Live Value!

and it does kick arse, the good thing about upgrading is everytime i do my games server gets upgraded at the same time :D

thats now a
P3 1ghz
512mb ram but i forget how much hard drive space i have, but it serves Battlefield 1942 well enough for 5 of us to play on.

I'm thinking of upgrading my SB Live Value to an Audigy 2, but not too sure about that yet

[Mega_Hurtz]

i have 4 pc's which are networked and phat piped up but i am selling one they are:

dell cpi laptop (mine hehehe)
366mhz
all good stuff.

350mhz (****ti ****e ****)
crap graphics card,
it is rarly used.

p3 500 mhz (selling)
decent graphics card,
alroud decent pc.

AMD atlon 1ghz
good ****e.
gaming pc.

that's it they are all phat piped including my xbox which is on the network.

[SpidersBane]

I built mine myself so I've got a really weird setup.

AMD ATHLON 1500+ (about 1.3GHZ)
120GB Hard disks ( 1x80GB & 1x40GB)
1024MB DDR Ram 333mhz
Nvidia Gforce 4 Titanium 128MB DDR Graphics card
19" CRT Monitor
5.1 Audigy Sound card
and a partridge in a pear tree!


I really want to upgrade it, but looking at the latest games I don't think that it matters much cos they don't need that kind of spec anyway.

I might just upgrade the processor and maybe stick in another 2048MB of ram just for the shear fun of it :lol:

[Phil]

you don't need 2GB RAM, lol

get that processor up to speed (no pun intended)

[SpidersBane]

I intend to, when I get the funds together that is. I'd love to have a 3 GHZ Processor but I don't think that AMD produce one. I'll probably just get a Athlon 2200+ for now.

[Mega_Hurtz]

yeh that sounds like a good idea as the old XP's are very cheap and the brand new ones are not that much better, most games would run on the processor u have but it would be nice just to let them run very smoothly on the best graphics setting :D

[SpidersBane]

I've been looking for a new processor and have found this one "AMD Athlon XP 2700+ *333 FSB* (2.17 GHz) with AMD Heat Sink Fan 108.42". Do you think this is a good price or do you think I should keep looking :?:

[Phil]

go up to 150 quid and you'll get one with a better frontside bus (FSB).

[The King]

Holy moses!, what is better than a 333 FSB?!.

Hummmmmmmmmmm i still must be in the dark ages, i thought that was the best affordable one

[Phil]

Power Mac G5 has a 1024 FSB. The top Pentium 4s have got 800.

[NBS lamancha]

Windows XP
Bought in April of 2002
Pentium 4
1.60 GHz
60 GB HD
512 MB RAM
Nividia 3 << I think... I know it's a Nividia, but what type... lol
14x CD/DVD-R/RW Drive
_x CD/DVD-Rom Drive

[SpidersBane]

Never liked mac's and I doubt I ever will.

You tend to pay more for spec and from my own experiance they tend to go wrong way too often. Give me a computer that I can strip down to components anyday.

I'm sure alot of people get on fine with mac's but I feel that they are not worth the hassle.



Just a view :|

[asherdeus]

P4 1.8 GHz
512 MB PC 2100 DDR-SDRAM
64 MB GeForce 4 ti 4200
Sound Blaster Live 5.1
Cable Modem
40X CD-RW Drive
16X DVD-ROM
Logitech Z-560 5.1 Speakers (in 3 days)

[lunchbox]

Athlon 2800 XP-
512 MB DDR 400
80GB
Geforce 2 MX 400 64mb
17 inch crt
dvd rom
cd writer

[Melt24]

Have any of you guys seen that system they are giving away with BF Vietnam. Here take a look it looks awsome and thats just the case and keyboard.
http://uk.ea.com/graphics/12050.jpg

The tech specs of the Area 51 system are as follows:


Alienware Full-Tower Case with 480 Watt PSU – Cyborg Green

Alienware Cable Management System

AlienIce™ Video Cooling System - Fusion Red

AlienEyes™ - Silver Head - Fusion Red

Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 3.2 GHz 800MHz FSB w/Hyper-Threading

Intel® D875PBZ - Intel 875P Pentium 4 Motherboard

512MB DDR SDRAM PC-3200 - 2x256MB

NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5700 Ultra 128MB 8x AGP w/DVI & S-Video

80GB Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA 7200rpm w/ 8MB Cache - Quantity 1

16/48x IDE DVD-ROM Drive - Black - w/Software MPEG-2 Decoder

Lite-On 52x32x52x CD-RW - IDE - Black

Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy 2 ZS - 7.1

Integrated Intel Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition UK

Microsoft® MultiMedia Keyboard International

Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer USB 3.0 - Cyborg Green

[lunchbox]

Alienware machine are the hottest gaming machines around. the case modde cases are to die for just as much as the hardware within them. Granted u would need to sell an organ to afford 1.

[Phil]

The Falcon Northwest customised ones are damn cool as well, even if they are square:

http://www.falcon-nw.com/WebGallery/images/Game_ViceCity.jpg

[lunchbox]

They look pretty kool

[Phil]

I want one with Thunderbolt on it! (the new Version 6 design of course :P)

[Melt24]

well from the vast amount of money you will make :roll: when version 6 is launched and every sponser at your doorstep. :wink: you can get yourself one made.

[James]

I want one with Thunderbolt on it! (the new Version 6 design of course :P)

well i expect to see your PC piccie in a few months as well as the plane getting a v6 paint job...

[Phil]

Yeah, when I find that £3000 under the carpet to pay for it!