Rig specs Jan 2010

[Foo]

Bloody hell, I seem to have the biggest e-peen here - or is that, iPeen?

Most people are just posting specs... so however you're framing it must be some personal thing you have going on.

[DRuM]

Phenom II x2 550BE @ 3.1GHz
HIS 4870 1GB
WD 1TB RE3 sata II
WD 320GB
IBM 120GB
Sony Optiarc AD 7243S
Coolermaster Dominator CM690
OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w
Patriot Viper 4GB DDR2 6400 @ epp 4-4-4-12
Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 rev 2.0
TRUE Rev.C CPU cooler
Thermalright HR-03-GT VGA cooler
Arctic Cooling MX-2
Win7 x64 home premium
LG 23"W2361V 1920x1080 DCR 50000:1, 2ms
7 x 120mm fans
Realtek HD audio onboard

[menkent]

athlonXP 2800+ on an Asus A7N8X, 1GB corsair, gf2 mx400, audigy 2.

[Geebs]

Bloody hell, I seem to have the biggest e-peen here - or is that, iPeen?

Most people are just posting specs... so however you're framing it must be some personal thing you have going on.

Nah, I was just shocked to find that I am a bigger nerd than the lot of you - apart from the fact that I can't remember how much RAM I have in my 2 xeon, GTX285, ssd - triple - booting, 3 terabyte box

[DRuM]

athlonXP 2800+ on an Asus A7N8X, 1GB corsair, gf2 mx400, audigy 2.

Crysis maxed out I'd imagine.

[menkent]

it can handle quake live, and that's all that matters. (1v1, at least. ctf chokes a bit if there's a lot of plasma flying around.)

[LawL]

The specs in this thread are ok, if that's all you can afford.

[Deji]

Going by memory here, I bought this almost 2 years ago and haven't had to check them since:

Intel E6500
GeForce 8600GTS
2GB DDR
Mackie Onyx Satellite for sound
1x 500GB HD
1x 250GB HD
19" ViewSonic CRT (Yeah, I cba to buy the 2233rz right now)

If it plays Mass Effect 2, I'm cool.

[Foo]

19" ViewSonic CRT (Yeah, I cba to buy the 2233rz right now)

I know I'm pimping it to death but it is the balls.

[bitWISE]

Nah, I was just shocked to find that I am a bigger nerd than the lot of you - apart from the fact that I can't remember how much RAM I have in my 2 xeon, GTX285, ssd - triple - booting, 3 terabyte box

Aren't you a doctor? I'd love to have a wicked machine but unfortunately I've got a mortgage and a ridiculous car payment instead.

[Plan B]

Running a 2007 system which still handles everything quite nicely.

Q6600
8800 GTS 640 slightly overclocked
monitor @ 1920x1200
some other blah

It's strange;
I'm both relieved and a bit disappointed that the demand on hardware seems to have stagnated over the last couple of years.
Unless you want to play Crysis on ridiculous resolutions and settings.
Does Moore's Law still apply?

[bitWISE]

I think several things have happened:

1) Hardware (and the industry) has become so advanced that it takes a significantly talented team, a much longer time, and much more money to abuse it
2) While PC gaming isn't dead, the target audience for publishers is now consoles. It doesn't really do you any good to spend a ton of money developing a game with graphics that destroys PC hardware when you have pay extra to dumb the content down to work on consoles. (this is what id5 will hopefully get us away from)
3) Graphics have gotten to a point where it takes a lot to get people really worked up? When you're budgeting millions for voice acting and motion capture do you really need another layer of anti-aliasing?
4) Because of the above, everyone has just been using Unreal Engine and going with easy/safe money

But I agree with you. I was just saying not too long ago that I miss the days of 3d engine wars ravaging computer hardware. This generation of hardware has been pretty long.

[brisk]

Mobo: Asus P6T
CPU: Intel i7 920 @ 2.66ghz
Cooler: Prolimatech Megahalems Rev B w/ Akasa Apache Fan
RAM: OCZ 6GB DDR3 2000 mhz
Video: Radeon HD 5870 1GB
Soundcard 1: Asus Xonar Essence STX
Soundcard 2: NuForce uDAC
Amp: Woo Audio WA2
Headphones: Sennheiser HD 800
Monitor: HP LP2475w 24" Monitor @ 1920 x 1200
Hard Drive 1: Intel® X25-M Solid State Drive (Primary Partition)
Hard Drive 2: 1TB SATA2 (Secondary)
Case: Lian-Li Armorsuit PC-P50 Mid Tower Case
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

I built it all earlier this month and I won't lie, it's pretty fast and built like a tank. Nothing overclocked yet, but idle temps are 30C and load are 38C, so that will happen very soon.

[DRuM]

Mobo: Asus P6T
CPU: Intel i7 920 @ 2.66ghz
Cooler: Prolimatech Megahalems Rev B w/ Akasa Apache Fan
RAM: OCZ 6GB DDR3 2000 mhz
Video: Radeon HD 5870 1GB
Soundcard 1: Asus Xonar Essence STX
Soundcard 2: NuForce uDAC
Amp: Woo Audio WA2
Headphones: Sennheiser HD 800
Monitor: HP LP2475w 24" Monitor @ 1920 x 1200
Hard Drive 1: Intel® X25-M Solid State Drive (Primary Partition)
Hard Drive 2: 1TB SATA2 (Secondary)
Case: Lian-Li Armorsuit PC-P50 Mid Tower Case
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

I built it all earlier this month and I won't lie, it's pretty fast and built like a tank. Nothing overclocked yet, but idle temps are 30C and load are 38C, so that will happen very soon.

Very nice brisk, that's a truly excellent spec. I built my pc last august, mostly bought from overclockers.co.uk and scan. Is that where you get most of yours from? Your megahalems and my thermalright ultra 120 extreme are about as good as they get of all the coolers out there, the megahalems being slightly better apparently. Like you, I'm getting very low temps at idle and stock, and putting a thermalright vga cooler on as well brought the gpu temp right down.

[Geebs]

Nah, I was just shocked to find that I am a bigger nerd than the lot of you - apart from the fact that I can't remember how much RAM I have in my 2 xeon, GTX285, ssd - triple - booting, 3 terabyte box

Aren't you a doctor? I'd love to have a wicked machine but unfortunately I've got a mortgage and a ridiculous car payment instead.

Doctors in the UK make considerably less money than those in the US, even if you don't consider our freedom-hating tax system. It's more to do with having (proportionally) far more money than I have time to spend it

TBH I utterly fulfilled most of the standard mac-bashing propaganda by getting a mac pro for the PCI slots (for audio gear) but at the time, my particular model was competitively priced for a dual-xeon system - and I hope this one lasts as long as the previous G5 which is still going strong 4 years down the line

[brisk]

Mobo: Asus P6T
CPU: Intel i7 920 @ 2.66ghz
Cooler: Prolimatech Megahalems Rev B w/ Akasa Apache Fan
RAM: OCZ 6GB DDR3 2000 mhz
Video: Radeon HD 5870 1GB
Soundcard 1: Asus Xonar Essence STX
Soundcard 2: NuForce uDAC
Amp: Woo Audio WA2
Headphones: Sennheiser HD 800
Monitor: HP LP2475w 24" Monitor @ 1920 x 1200
Hard Drive 1: Intel® X25-M Solid State Drive (Primary Partition)
Hard Drive 2: 1TB SATA2 (Secondary)
Case: Lian-Li Armorsuit PC-P50 Mid Tower Case
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

I built it all earlier this month and I won't lie, it's pretty fast and built like a tank. Nothing overclocked yet, but idle temps are 30C and load are 38C, so that will happen very soon.

Very nice brisk, that's a truly excellent spec. I built my pc last august, mostly bought from overclockers.co.uk and scan. Is that where you get most of yours from? Your megahalems and my thermalright ultra 120 extreme are about as good as they get of all the coolers out there, the megahalems being slightly better apparently. Like you, I'm getting very low temps at idle and stock, and putting a thermalright vga cooler on as well brought the gpu temp right down.

I bought parts from about 6 different places in total.... froogle was really handy for comparing prices and getting the best deal. I was really lucky everything worked first time, which is pretty much the exact opposite of what happened with the last pc i built

i'm just using one monitor for now.

[Silicone_Milk]

Been a while since I've checked and the machine is packed away in a box somewhere since I just moved to a new place this weekend but....

AMD x2 4200+ 64-bit (I think something like 2.2GHz?)
2 gigs ram. Forget the timings
2 NVIDIA 7300 GT cards runnin in SLi
250 gig SATA drive
Badass CRT monitor (I think 14'') running at 1280 x 960.

The price was right for what I paid for the parts back a few years on my trip to Beijing