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Dell Studio XPS. 12 GB of RAM and an i7 :
I love it, it is sooo fast and handles everything I throw at it. |
acer aspire 5741-5193 laptop
its pretty good (: |
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One thing that I really didn't see coming was the issue with finding the room to have it. One would think, being an all-in-one unit, that it would be easy to give it somewhere to inhabit, but in fact it's so deep that I'm using it on the desk with the keyboard on my lap. :P I'm thinking of upgrading the hell out of it. It can take 2GB RAM and the CPU can be overclocked from 1.25GHz to at least 1.6GHz via playing with resistors. It should cope a lot better with Leopard at 1.4GHz and 2GB. It will take any IDE HDD, but they're expensive and hard to find. The last problem is the constant fan noise, if it were to act as a server. Some people have used variable resistor fan controllers on them with a lot of success. And I know that if the logic board ever dies, it could be a fun project to fully update it. Put an ITX hackintosh board in there and replace the screen with an LCD. :D I could ever shorten the back, lol. |
HP-Pavilion p6228p
Windows 7 Home Premium x64 AMD Athlon II Quad core 8 gigs of RAM 600 gigs of Hard drive Runs Half-Life 2 and episodes well, but cooling system bails under some dust and GPU overheats to 120* C, but easily cools when dust is removed. |
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My computer is a
Compaq AMD Anthlon 64 X2 Dual Core processor 4000+ 2.11 GHz,4GB of RAM ATI Radeon HD 4350(Upgraded Video Card)DDR2 512 MB Was a Windows Vista but i downgraded it to Windows Xp Professional. |
With how bad Vista is that could be considered a upgrade.
What model? |
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HPs are awful at staying cool when the dust accumulates on the heat sink for the CPU. You get marked performance improvements with them just by simply cleaning the dust out of your HP system, even moreso than other brands or even custom rigs.
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The computer is posted above was my grandmother and i put windows 7 on hers and it runs smoothly and i also put it on my which is a little older but has a better graphics card and less ram and runs good but is low on ram because it only had 512mb.
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And the next person to say "XP is better for gaming" needs to be shot. Just no. Unless you're playing DOS games, in which case Win95 is better. |
I would argue that point since i have a few games made for XP that refuse to run in vista/7 no matter what compatability options i use.
Anyway, 7>XPsp3>Vista>XPsp2 |
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7 64-bit > Vista 64-bit > 7 32-bit > XP > Vista 32-bit in terms of gaming (since XP uses fewer resources than Vista 32-bit), but Vista 32-bit is still better than XP for general usage. |
Toshiba Satellite L305-S5919
Windows Vista Home Basic (later upgraded to Windows 7 Home Premium) 2GB RAM/140 GB hard drive ...and I have it for almost two years. |
I am using my main design machine for a primary computer for now.
It is just one I put together. |
I bought a Toshiba Protege r705 from Best Buy last week. I'm in love with it. <3 It's 3.2 lbs, only about a 1/2 lb heavier than the Macbook Air, but it has an optical drive, so I can still burn CDs and watch movies. -w-
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PC Specs:
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel Core i7-920 @ 2.67GHz (with coolermaster fan ready for stable 3.8 overclock) 6144MB RAM DDR3 1600mhz (Tripple Channel DDR3) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1GB Win7 Ultimate 64-bit 500GB HDD, 2TB HDD Build it myself, its getting almost year old so i think soon will be time to upgrade graphic card, i was thinking about ram memory as well, but even after using computer to edit videos and pictures i dint find need for more memory Laptop Specs: Acer Aspire 5551-2384 15.6" HD LED LCD AMD Athlon II X2 P320 @ 2.1ghz 4GB RAM ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 Win-7 Home Premium (64-bit) 250GB HDD |
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Anyway, the memory is fine. I have 8GB and it's definitely overkill. 6GB is plenty unless you're running several VMs, and even then, most people just say they use VMs to justify having the extra, when they don't actually have a legitimate reason to run them. *glares at a few people here* :cer_laugh: I'd be updating the GPU, yes. Depending on what you're looking at spending, the GTX 560 Ti is looking very promising. It would be just over twice as fast as the 250. You'll notice that much more than a RAM upgrade. Very nice, by the way. Quote:
Loving my new AMD 6950, by the way, but I'm thinking I'll need a new case, as it's really pushed for space with the new card at 27cm/11.5". Thinking that my next upgrade will be a white Corsair 600T case and H70 cooler. I still don't trust SSDs enough yet. :P |
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As for overclocking the CPU, I'd be looking at one of three options. The Noctua NH-D14 and the Thermalright Silver Arrow are the best air coolers on the market. I've seen both of them support an i7 to 4200MHz. Sadly, neither which are very attractive or compact coolers, the Corsair H70 is an alternative here. |
I have quite a few desktop computers, all are very old (2002 and earlier), here's the one I currently use:
Compaq Presario 5430US with Pentium 4 1.8GHz 512MB DDR SDRAM (2× 256MB modules) NVIDIA GeForce2 MX AGP 64MB 160GB EIDE/PATA Western Digital (system originally had a 80GB HDD, but I replaced it with the aforementioned 160GB WD drive) LiteON iHAP322 DVD±RW drive (bought and installed myself replacing a DVD-ROM drive that couldn't read DVDs) HL-DT-ST CD-RW drive (that doesn't work all that great) 3½" floppy drive Windows XP Home Edition For the most part, this system has worked well for me. The monitor I'm currently using with this is a Dell LCD/flat-panel with 1280×1024 resolution. Before that I was using an eMachines eView 17f CRT with the video resolution at 1024×768. My most recent machine is my laptop (from 2008) which is Gateway M2626u with AMD Turion X2 Mobile dual-core 4.00GB DDR2 -256MB shared video 160GB SATA HDD 15.4-inch Ultrabright™ WXGA TFT 1280×800 ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 video DVD±RW drive 5-in-1 media card reader Built-in 802.11b/g Wireless 1.3 megapixels webcam Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit I own two other machines as well but I don't think this is the place to post about them. |
Custom As-rock pc, It's stupid fast. Atleast I don't have any slowdowns on it and I'm a heavy multitasker. Specs on siggy :3
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i am using:
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 LGA775 Gigabyte G41MT-D3 4Gb DDR3 Fsb 1333Mhz Windows Vista Hame Basic 64Bit SP2 1Gb Nvidia Geforce 7600Gs 160Gb Main 1Tb Secondary LG Multi Drive DVD I am about to upgrade the processor to E7500 2.93Ghz but don't know if it is worth it. And my dumb pc witch is: Intel Pentium 4 HT 2.8Ghz PPGA478 2.5Gb DDR Fsb 400Mhz 160Gb IDE Nvidia 7600 GT 512Mb I want to turn this machine into a server for storage. |
Right now I'm using a 13" Aluminum Mac Book. Er I think it has a 2.4 Ghz processor and 2GB Ram and a 250 GB hard drive. I got it about 2 years ago, and it runs pretty well. I dual booth Mac OS X and Windows 7. :)
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