Adam=- Posted January 4, 2008 Report Posted January 4, 2008 Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX6850, Socket 775, 3.00 GHz overclocked to 3.75ghz4GB (4x1GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 XMS2 Dominator, PC10000768MB XFX 8800 Ultra150 Gb Western Digital 10000 rpm, 16MB Cache, 4.6 ms,2nd HD : 1000GB HSATA II, 7200rpm, 32MB Cache, 8.2ms,LG Blu-ray Rewriter & HD DVD-ROM ComboCreative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional
»LtNirvana Posted January 4, 2008 Report Posted January 4, 2008 Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX6850, Socket 775, 3.00 GHz overclocked to 3.75ghz4GB (4x1GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 XMS2 Dominator, PC10000768MB XFX 8800 Ultra150 Gb Western Digital 10000 rpm, 16MB Cache, 4.6 ms,2nd HD : 1000GB HSATA II, 7200rpm, 32MB Cache, 8.2ms,LG Blu-ray Rewriter & HD DVD-ROM ComboCreative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional Jesus I was wondering where all the system builders were, people were listing nothing but retail garbage til you posted lol. And wtf is up with you people and AMD processors, get off that !@#$%^&*, intel has em spanked right now. Im building a rig, 1/2 way done with parts ordering, Ill just give the basic specifications. Case:ATX Full Tower with 8 120 MM Fans Power:800W Modular Monitor:22" LCD DVI MoBo:Going for something with the new Intel X38 chipset that has PCIe2.0 in order to fully utilize 2 graphics cards as opposed to just 1.3 Processor:Whatever the model # is on the Core2Duo 2.66 mhz with the 1333mhz FSB... E6650 or something. Ram:Going with 4GB of 1333MHZ DDR3 GFX:Going with either an 8800GTS or one of the new ATI HD27xx series cards depending on my budget and If I want to run 2. HDD:Boot Disk will be a 32gb solid state disk on sata 1.53 Storage drives in raid 5 500GB each SATA II ( i love how cheap these are now) Gonna get a bunch of bay temperature reader LCD displays and !@#$%^&* too, as well as ya know burners and all that jazz.
Samapico Posted January 4, 2008 Report Posted January 4, 2008 Next comp I build will probably look like: 300 MHz Pentium II128MB RAM17" CRT monitorOld white keyboard with brownish stainsOld !@#$%^&* mouse for my mom.. she never had a computer, so anything I could put together will be fine for her I estimate the cost of this.. "rig" to 0$ Adam and Lt... these are clearly crazy machines built for world domination.
rootbear75 Posted January 5, 2008 Report Posted January 5, 2008 One of vista's new trick, called DreamScene, allows for moving wallpapers that don't hog enormous amounts of resources, it barely uses any resources at all haha. The cars on the bridge move in a sped up motion, along with the water and the city lights.link? or how to?
Caddy Posted January 5, 2008 Report Posted January 5, 2008 (edited) google it, you have to download it from microsoft's manual updates and use a program called deskscapes to get em fired up it's an ultimate-only thingy though, but I'm sure some people have cracked it already Edited January 5, 2008 by Caddy
»LtNirvana Posted January 5, 2008 Report Posted January 5, 2008 You're RAM seems like a bottleneck there Caddy, you spent a re!@#$%^&*ed amount of money on the rig and ddr3, why not clock em up to 10000 mhz+? Forgot to mention my OS now that i think about it. I'm going to dual boot XP Pro 64 bit and Vista Ultimate 64 bit, since Vista is kind of just for show and I'm no expert in it yet, but from my experience with it it was very pretty and pretty non-functional :?
Caddy Posted January 5, 2008 Report Posted January 5, 2008 the non-functionality only starts to show up when I pull my rig to the extremes (ea. when I fire up Crysis). The OS's real 'newbieness' shines there, and the unrefined parts really cut in on the experience. Bioshock however, seems to run completely fine, even with settings on max and in the opening scenes with all the fire and water in their full glory lol. And bottleneck, not really. It's true that I can add some extra ram, but the DDR3 had a ridiculous price and I didn't intend on really driving me broke lol. Also, clocking up to 10k mhz? We're not in the year 2400 yet dude Also, I might dualboot stuff later but I've gotten so used to vista (they really did smoothen out a lot of parts which make it a nice experience sometimes) that I couldn't really care a lot.
Adam=- Posted January 5, 2008 Report Posted January 5, 2008 http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/5669/desktop2qk3.jpg my xp lal.
Samapico Posted January 5, 2008 Report Posted January 5, 2008 I don't understand why someone would want his desktop to look like a mac...
»LtNirvana Posted January 5, 2008 Report Posted January 5, 2008 i meant 1000 mhz, excuse me for hitting 0 too many times . Do you have ultimate 64bit or 32 bit? Also, Macs suck, why the funk would you get XP and make it look like a mac desktop, Please die.
rootbear75 Posted January 6, 2008 Report Posted January 6, 2008 I don't understand why someone would want his desktop to look like a mac...thats what i was going to say
Caddy Posted January 6, 2008 Report Posted January 6, 2008 i meant 1000 mhz, excuse me for hitting 0 too many times . Do you have ultimate 64bit or 32 bit? Also, Macs suck, why the funk would you get XP and make it look like a mac desktop, Please die. 32 bit, 64 bit was just too incompatible for my likings lol. and currently everything is stock, I'm just getting 2 more gb ram and more hd space so I can ensure that when I start oc'ing it all I don't run into stupid !@#$%^&* like errors and weaknesses
Adam=- Posted January 6, 2008 Report Posted January 6, 2008 (edited) You're all saying windows is a nicer enviroment to work in? No way Edited January 6, 2008 by Adam=-
rootbear75 Posted January 6, 2008 Report Posted January 6, 2008 You're all saying windows is a nicer enviroment to work in? No waywe didnt say that.. we said, if your going to make your windows machine LOOK like a mac... you might as well go buy a friggin mac
all_shall_perish Posted January 6, 2008 Report Posted January 6, 2008 the machine i work on the majority of the time is a an old dell xps from 2001 that i've added some after-market crap too: Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz w/HT 512 KB L2 cache (Mobo supports 800 MHz front side bus) 2 GB (512 x 4) RAM DDR-400 1x 120 GB Western Digital; 7200 RPM 2 MB cache (SATA 150)1x 74 GB Western Digital; 10000 RPM 8 MB cache (SATA 150) ATI 9600 256 MB through AGP 8x 2x 19in LCD; '01 and '07 Dell Logitech 3000 Media KeyboardLogitech MX Revolution laser mouse Jesus I was wondering where all the system builders were, people were listing nothing but retail garbage til you posted lol. And wtf is up with you people and AMD processors, get off that !@#$%^&*, intel has em spanked right now. CISC sucks, powerpc is where it was at until intel came in and gobbled up the market.
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