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What's in your main gaming computer / laptop?

Of course you can game on the PC as well... what are you pointing and clicking at this week?

What's in your main gaming computer / laptop?

Postby vandalous » Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:32 pm

Post what you're currently gaming with.

Me:
Antec Nine Hundred Case
eVGA NF68 mobo
Intel Kentsfield Core2Quad Q6600 w/Thermalright Ultra120 (OC to 2934)
2 GB Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 (OC to 1066)
BFG 8800GTX
SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty
74GB Raptor (boot) | 1.2TB SATA (misc)
Pioneer DVD-ROM (slot-load) | NEC dual-layer DVD+-RW
BFG 1000W PSU
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Postby joe_zakoor » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:02 pm

LOL I built mine, and am into major case modification

Generic Black Case
Gigabyte Mobo w/ Onboard RAID, SATA, IDE, PCIEX, 2 PCI slots, 2 front panel USB Headers, 10/100/1000 NIC, 6 USB2.0 connectors + 2 front.

Intel Retail 3.0GHz 800MHz FSB, 512MB L2Cache, 64-bit memory addressing

ATI Radon X1300 2x DVI out, 1x S-VIDEO out, 256MB onboard video memory, PCI-Extreme interface.

PCI Soundblaster Awe-64 Gold with 2x input/output/Realtec surround sound onboard SB Card (not used)
Speakers hooked up: 2x 600WATT outdoor PA quality speakers, JBL concert series speaker system w/ 4 channel mixing board, JBL Amplifier, Bose portable computer speakers.

40GB Seagate (boot) | 250GB Western Digital (music) | 250GB Western Digital (games) | 250GB Western Digital (video)
NEC 52x/16x/16x/8x/8x CD-RW/DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RW/DVD-DL drive.

550Watt PSU

Keystart+USB Flash Drive Encryption start (You need both Key and USB flash drive to start the computer), sound reacting strobe light, blacklight neon lights embedded into case, blacklight reactive paint inside case.

Booting:
Slackware Linux kernel 2.4.22
MacOS X Intel 64-bit version
Windows 2000 Server
Windows Vista 64-bit edition
Windows XP Coporate 64-bit edition

Yes I have all that hardware running on a 550W PSU.. Lets say I am daring.

Not a bad system yourself, just its not modded, or it doesnt seem like it. basically the USB keystart is an encryption key (the bios is encrypted) without the key, the computer will *NOT* boot as it cant read the BIOS to POST. Also the other difference is when my system isnt gaming, it is bolted down to my desk. :)

Takes me about 30-45 minutes to tear down the thing (including unbolting it from my desk), I have the bolts so tight on there, no human on earth can unscrew them (without a powered driver). My friend was going to give me an SLI board, but that fell through as his brother wanted it.
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Postby tweak_ » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:24 pm

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System Information
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Time of this report: 12/6/2006, 17:21:25
Machine name: YOUR-4DACD0EA75
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Compaq Presario 061
System Model: ER922AA-ABA SR1834NX NA660
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2GHz
Memory: 958MB RAM
Page File: 612MB used, 1700MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode

Yeah. Im lame. Im too poor for parts.
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Postby PkerUNO » Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:33 pm

Machine Name: PowerBook G4 15"
Machine Model: PowerBook5,6
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.2)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.5 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.9.1f3
Serial Number: ************
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
Version: 1.0

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Postby joe_zakoor » Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:09 pm

Wow, someone has a powerbook... I am jelaous. The system I am posting from btw.

[Operating System]:-[WinXP Pro, SP 1 (5.2 - 3790)] [CPU]:-[2-Intel Pentium 4, 3014MHz, 1024KB] [RAM]:-[Usage: 382/512MB (74.61%)] [Uptime]:-[Now: 3days 3hrs 57mins 37secs]-[Record: 450days 5hrs 10secs] [Resolution]:-[1024x768 32bit 60Hz]
[Free Space]:-[C 19.85/37.26GB]-[D(office xp) 0/687.21MB]-[F(music) 0.18/74.51GB]-[G(downloads) 4.77/37.27GB]-[H(sea_disk) 55.28/149.01GB]-[Total 80.08/298.72GB]

Other systems:

Laptop: Sony vaio AMD Thunderbird running at 850MHz, 512MB RAM, 20GB HDD.

Alternate Desktops: Dell Optiplex PIII 500MHz, 30GB HDD, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM Drive, 128MB RAM, Crappy vid. card.
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Postby guju900 » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:47 pm

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from my Xfire profile at http://www.xfire.com/profile/guju900/
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Postby skie » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:22 pm

Ooo, good idea, i'll copy from my xfire too: ( http://www.xfire.com/profile/greenskie/ )

Manufacturer: INTEL_
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 250 GB
Video Card: RADEON 9550
Monitor:
Sound Card: Creative SB Audigy LS
Speakers/Headphones:
Keyboard: USB Root Hub
Mouse: USB Root Hub
Mouse Surface:
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)


For anyone that's curious, this would be the same system that used to produce & broadcast OLR.
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Postby joe_zakoor » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:26 pm

There any of you out there who dont have a pre-manufacturer'd compute? i.e. Dell? Compaq? HP? etc.
and have more of a homemade? lol, I am noticing a trend of mainly pre-manufactured computers that are popping up in this thread.

P.S. The main machine is what the STFU and the AB podcasts are produced on. (the 4GHz P4)
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Postby tweak_ » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:45 pm

I dont have the money to build my own.
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Postby guju900 » Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:45 pm

building your own computer would be cheaper than buying a ready-made one

but i have money and don't really know how to make a computer :P
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Postby mikew0440 » Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:46 pm

I can't figure out how to do a system scan with Linux.
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Postby joe_zakoor » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:14 pm

Go to the /proc and do cat <filename> on files:

/proc/ide/(hda,b,c,d or whatever you have)/model
also do a cat on /proc/cpuinfo
that will give you the CPU information the processor speed, the CPU model, cache size, and bogomips.

also a 'cat meminfo' in /proc will give you memory info i.e. the KB since linux measures in KB, and not in MB.

Heres what I get for my server (which is a small PoS computer.

processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 5
model : 8
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
stepping : 12
cpu MHz : 500.900
cache size : 64 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrr
bogomips : 999.42
That would translate into an AMD K6-2 at 500MHz.

or for meminfo
root@nixbox:/proc# cat meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 187604992 183975936 3629056 0 45441024 8175616
Swap: 0 0 0
MemTotal: 183208 kB
MemFree: 3544 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 44376 kB
Cached: 7984 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 39440 kB
Inactive: 12988 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 183208 kB
LowFree: 3544 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
would translate to 183MB of RAM.

do a df for your Hard Drive info...

i.e.

root@nixbox:/proc# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 9767184 6775472 2991712 70% /
/dev/hdc1 9767184 585508 9181676 6% /public
root@nixbox:/proc#

and mesure the KB used, divide by 10240... i.e. if you have 20480kb divide by 10240 = 2.. You would have 2.0GB of drive space, since 10240k = 1GB. Since Linux measures in KB.. Hope you got that btw :) Once you think about it, its not that hard.

NOTE: YOU *MUST* have root privilages to do these commands. On Mandrake systems or any systems for that matter i would go to a konsole if you use KDE, and I would do an su, and put in your root password.
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Postby joe_zakoor » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:21 pm

Btw, tweak.. I am too poor to build my own computer also.. My computer was built like 3 years ago, and I am too poor to aford a new case.. The parts (literally all of 'em) were given to me.

The DVD Burner = My Ex girlfriend.
Processor, Videocard, Motherboard, RAM = My friend Ben (He even gave me an intel inside sticker to tack to the front of my computer)
The HDDs were provided to me by my friend Justin who had old HDDs lying around, so he just gave 'em to me. The boot drive actually had/has bad sectors on it.
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Postby Arizth » Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:04 pm

[url]xfire.com/profile/sup4m4r10fr33k[/url]
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Postby VxJasonxV » Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:39 pm

Arizth wrote:[url]xfire.com/profile/sup4m4r10fr33k[/url]
You uhh, broke your link there buddy.

(Hint: quote this post, copy my own code out, edit your own).
Supa Mario Freek... took me a minute to be able to read that.

joe_zakoor wrote:root@nixbox:/proc# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 9767184 6775472 2991712 70% /
/dev/hdc1 9767184 585508 9181676 6% /public
root@nixbox:/proc#

and mesure the KB used, divide by 10240... i.e. if you have 20480kb divide by 10240 = 2.. You would have 2.0GB of drive space, since 10240k = 1GB. Since Linux measures in KB.. Hope you got that btw :) Once you think about it, its not that hard.
doing df -h is immensely easier.

joe_zakoor wrote:NOTE: YOU *MUST* have root privilages to do these commands. On Mandrake systems or any systems for that matter i would go to a konsole if you use KDE, and I would do an su, and put in your root password.
/proc should be readable by any, ditto for running df.

Neither of those should require root privileges.
If they do, you're using a pretty stupid distribution.
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