Your computer specs??

[albert5268]

And some more RAM hopefully...

I even think 1 gig is pushing it nowdays, just having windows XP and a couple of tray apps is enough to eat up 512mb and thats before loading any games up.

How do you find it goes?

i run two XP installs on my desktop PC at home... one for work/internet and one for games... the games installation i have tweaked to boot up with an initial commit charge of less than 170MB (just off memory) and only about 12 or 13 processes running... you really notice a difference by disabling a heap of unused services and background apps... and the games work fine.

 

[Ripcell]

3000+ amd barton
1.5gig of ram
radeon 9800xt video
Dual 19inch Benq fp937s LCDs
500gig of worth of hdd
2x dvd burners

 

[50LTRv8]

O.k. I have a couple

My Main PC

6600 Intel Dual Core
MSI 975X Platinum SLI motherboard
1GB Corsair RAM
250 GB HDD
Logitech G15 keyboard
Microsoft wireless 5000 laser mouse
Logitech 5500 5.1 surround speakers
5.1 Live soundcard (weakest part of the setup)
21 inch CRT Dell flatscreen

Last but not least

Boonie and Botham Mascots

Wifes PC
3000 AMD
1Gb RAM
80GB HDD
17 inch LCD
6600GT

HTPC
3000 AMD
500MB Ram
Leadtek Duel Analog/Digital Tuner
6600 TD (output to tv via svideo and audio played through stereo system)
Media Centre software via mouse + remote

Main Server
1.2 Duron
300Gb HDD (software mirror)
1Gb RAM

Sons PC

2400 AMD
1GB RAM
80GBHDD
6600GT

All networked by CAT 5 and a 24 port switch
Server sits in a compaq server cabnet in laundry :thumbsup:

Currently building a media storage server for mp3 + divx to stream to media centre

 

[commod8]

hey everyone. yes my compuer is old, but it does the job, and in fact, it's very fast, especially when compared to mates' computers.

-amd athlon xp 2600+ 333mhz barton
-2 x 256mb ram ddr400
-gigabyte ga-7n400 (basic motherboard, nothing special. has the nForce2 chipset)
-very old (and got it for free) ata66 15gb maxtor hard drive (contains windows xp sp2)
-ata133 80gb maxtor hard drive (for homework, photos, etc)
-powercolor radeon 9600 128mb
-lg dvd burner (dual layer)
-lg 17-inch crt monitor

and im running the crappy realtek ac97 on-board sound

 

[AttaBoy]

Ok guys, I just over clocked my core 2 duo E6600 from 2.4GHz to 3.4GHz!!!!

But I'm getting confused about memory timings!!!!????

 

[shaggerz]

Ok guys, I just over clocked my core 2 duo E6600 from 2.4GHz to 3.4GHz!!!!

But I'm getting confused about memory timings!!!!????

I never touch the memory timings cause I have no clue what they are or how they work. ram clock speed I will fiddle with... reducing it to allow more room for a cpu overclock, etc but timings such as ras to cas delay, precharge etc etc I do not understand hehe.

If, like me, you have cheap generic RAM then its probably not worth fiddling with. Some of the more expensive RAM out there is worth playing but in any case you need to know what you're doing. Theres a few guides out there on how to optimise your ram timings. Google will probably have the answer :thumbsup:

 

[str8up]

I used to be into pc's before cars so mines a kinda oldskool fast one, its overclocked heaps and still going strong. I would like to see how these new dual core things go.

I couldnt even recall the specs so i had a look at my posts on the atomic forum i used years ago, they are as follows:

2500XP-m@ 2700mhz||Abit NF7-s V.2|| 200 gig sata wd hdd with 8mb cache || O/C radeon 9600SE || 1 gig xmspro4000||92mm Tornado||Thermalright SP97||550W antec true power||Antec superlanboy case

The CPU was equivalent to an amd 4200+ or 4.2Ghz intel P4 which was bloody fast back in 2004. I ended up getting a better video card cant remember the model tho, dvd burner and a quieter fan, there's a reason why they call it a tornado.

f*ck i was a nerd, im just looking through my old posts i cant even understand myself now. My username was specialized_skyline

Does anybody else go on this forum or used to use it?

 

[AttaBoy]

I never touch the memory timings cause I have no clue what they are or how they work. ram clock speed I will fiddle with... reducing it to allow more room for a cpu overclock, etc but timings such as ras to cas delay, precharge etc etc I do not understand hehe.

If, like me, you have cheap generic RAM then its probably not worth fiddling with. Some of the more expensive RAM out there is worth playing but in any case you need to know what you're doing. Theres a few guides out there on how to optimise your ram timings. Google will probably have the answer :thumbsup:

I realised my ram is rated at 800mhz! So must be safe to bump up the clock settings on the memory?? Considering majority of ram are rated below that.

 

[shaggerz]

yeah clock speed you can safely go up to 800 and usually a bit over. I actually have to turn my RAM multiplier down because when going from 266MHz fsb to 390MHz, it pushed the RAM up to 1172MHz or something crazy like that lol

cheap brand DDR2-800 running at 1172 effective MHz? HELL NO lol.. no chance of it posting at that speed.

When I drop the multiplier though I can have the RAM running at just under DDR2-800 speed while the cpu is running about 1GHz faster than stock.

 

[deathsvx]

basic listings
amd 939, 4000+
2 gig kingston ram
power color x850xt
300gb sata hdd
dvd rw
dvd rom
thermaltake 480w psu
leadtek video capture card <-- had vcr and austar hooked up to pc....
4 xtra case fans
22" lcd