Post your CPU thread

[Pezman]

I couldnt find the old one, so I thought I'd start fresh. I just finished building my latest dream rig after selling my trusty Athlon FX-51 chip and Gigabyte slot 940 mobo.

Here's my new rig. Bow to the new fragging godmachine!

Athlon FX-57 939 chip 2.8gHz (sweeeeet!)

2 sticks of 1 gig DDR 4000 Mushkin mem (oh yeah baby)
and 2 sticks of 512 DDR 4000 Mushkin mem for slot 2/4 = 3 gigs of mem insanity

Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Mobo slot 939 (mmm PCI-express, tasty!)

(prepare to bow)
2... not one, but TWO ATI Radeon X1800XT 512 meg PCI Express SLI Ready Crossfire Video Cards ($1200 total) I know, overkill baby!

Creative Soundblaster X-FI X-Ram 64 mb Fatality Deluxe Soundcard (wayyyy overkill as well)

4 new 400 GB, 7200 RPM, 16 MB Cache harddrives (1.6 terrabytes!!), RAID 0 and 1 setup

Antec P180 Ultra-quiet Limited edition Black Chrome case

Enermax 550 watt powersupply

and last, but certainly not least, a new Logitech G7 Laser Mouse for accuracy

Total spent - $3200 and change at Fry's
Total manhours installing - over 30 (the damned Antec case was very difficult to learn since its got a new layout)
Total happiness - Priceless! :militia:

[-Slap-]

First computer I ever bought cost me $3200. It was a piece of ****.

[Bronco_Beerslug]

I couldnt find the old one, so I thought I'd start fresh. I just finished building my latest dream rig after selling my trusty Athlon FX-51 chip and Gigabyte slot 940 mobo.

Here's my new rig. Bow to the new fragging godmachine!

Athlon FX-57 939 chip 2.8gHz (sweeeeet!)

2 sticks of 1 gig DDR 4000 Mushkin mem (oh yeah baby)
and 2 sticks of 512 DDR 4000 Mushkin mem for slot 2/4 = 3 gigs of mem insanity

Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Mobo slot 939 (mmm PCI-express, tasty!)

(prepare to bow)
2... not one, but TWO ATI Radeon X1800XT 512 meg PCI Express SLI Ready Crossfire Video Cards ($1200 total) I know, overkill baby!

Creative Soundblaster X-FI X-Ram 64 mb Fatality Deluxe Soundcard (wayyyy overkill as well)

4 new 400 GB, 7200 RPM, 16 MB Cache harddrives (1.6 terrabytes!!), RAID 0 and 1 setup

Antec P180 Ultra-quiet Limited edition Black Chrome case

Enermax 550 watt powersupply

and last, but certainly not least, a new Logitech G7 Laser Mouse for accuracy

Total spent - $3200 and change at Fry's
Total manhours installing - over 30 (the damned Antec case was very difficult to learn since its got a new layout)
Total happiness - Priceless! :militia:


NICE!!!

Here's mine I just built 3 weeks ago.

AN8 Ultra(Award BIOS 17- AwardBIOS v6.00PG) XP Pro SP2, AMD Athlon 64, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) Venice 3200+, , GeIL Value DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel(4 x 512MB), NVIDIA STRIPE 465.77G (2-Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s), Maxtor 6 L250R0 USB Device (250 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133), PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-106 (16x/40x DVD-ROM), NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A, SAPPHIRE 100129FB Radeon X800GTO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 FireBlade Edition

Had my monitor, keyboard and mouse and bought a new tower to put everything in.

Whole shebang from Newegg for just under $1000.

[scorpio]

Here's mine:

3.2 Ghz Hyperthreaded Pentium 4
1024MB DDR400 RAM
Maxtor 250GB IDE hard drive
MSI Neo Platinum motherboard
128MB Nvidia Geforce FX5200 AGP video (needs upgraded)
NEC Dual Layer 16x DVD -+ burner
Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit sound card
Dell 1703FP flat panel monitor


Going to upgrade to PCI-Express and get a SATA hard drive pretty soon, but this system purrs pretty good as it is.

[OrangeShadow]

not a computer guy i got a dell dimension 4300

it gets the job done

[Billy Clyde Puckett]

Apple II with 11" floppy drive. 28k RAM.

[FADERPROOF]

not sure about anything when it comes to computers, but I know that this is my wallpaper:

http://img420.imageshack.us/img420/9279/tresselstadium0aj.jpg

[Pezman]

NICE!!!

Here's mine I just built 3 weeks ago.

AN8 Ultra(Award BIOS 17- AwardBIOS v6.00PG) XP Pro SP2, AMD Athlon 64, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) Venice 3200+, , GeIL Value DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel(4 x 512MB), NVIDIA STRIPE 465.77G (2-Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s), Maxtor 6 L250R0 USB Device (250 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133), PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-106 (16x/40x DVD-ROM), NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A, SAPPHIRE 100129FB Radeon X800GTO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 FireBlade Edition

Had my monitor, keyboard and mouse and bought a new tower to put everything in.

Whole shebang from Newegg for just under $1000.


Sweet specs Beerslug! That Sapphire X800 card with the GDDR3 is one of the best 3rd party makers out there. I'm sure that puppy runs insanely hot though, just like my rig.

One thing I am always bummed out about when shopping for my hardware online, is that some e-tailers, especially Googlegear and Newegg have brick and morter stores here in Cali, so I am forced to pay taxes as well as shipping costs. ugh!~

[Northman]

Dell 4700c
Pent 4 3.00 Ghz
504 mb ram
120 GB harddrive

[Nuggets4]

First computer I ever bought cost me $3200. It was a piece of ****.

Yeah, but back then it also took up an entire room. ;)

[Rigs11]

My budget gaming machine:

AMD 64 3000+ Venice at 2.4ghz
1.5 GB PC3200 Ram
Asrock Dual Sata2 Mobo
Maxtor Sata 200gb 7200rpm
Leadtek 128mb 6800 Le/Unlocked and OC 400/850
X-Infinity custom case
Dell 21" Trinitron

Total spent $640:approve:

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Sweet specs Beerslug! That Sapphire X800 card with the GDDR3 is one of the best 3rd party makers out there. I'm sure that puppy runs insanely hot though, just like my rig.

One thing I am always bummed out about when shopping for my hardware online, is that some e-tailers, especially Googlegear and Newegg have brick and morter stores here in Cali, so I am forced to pay taxes as well as shipping costs. ugh!~

You have top of the line stuff in your box :) I'll be getting 2 more SATA drives in a few months to house my DVDs and music. Interestingly, my CPU is running a beautiful 20-25 at idle and 30-38 under load with stock heatsink and fan.

O/C my X800 GTO to the settings in the pic below Using the Trixx utlitly. Fan speed still at only a little over 50% so I still have some left if I want to get hotter and faster :)

I'll be O/C this system in the next few days to obtain the optimum cpu settings and memory timings since I have a pretty good burn in now.


Bummer on the extra costs to you for living in CA. Newegg rocks for me! No taxes and 3 day or less delivery!



http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/3709/cpu2id.png



http://img428.imageshack.us/img428/6238/trixx4ff.png



.
He threw one down from the top of the stairs
Beautiful women were standing everywhere
They all got wet when he smashed that thing
But off in the dark you could hear somebody sing
Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars
Smashing a perfectly good guitar
I don't know who they think they are
Smashing a perfectly good guitar (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/wma-pop-up/-/B000009D10001002/103-5300309-1566254)

[Rascal]

I couldnt find the old one, so I thought I'd start fresh. I just finished building my latest dream rig after selling my trusty Athlon FX-51 chip and Gigabyte slot 940 mobo.

Here's my new rig. Bow to the new fragging godmachine!

Athlon FX-57 939 chip 2.8gHz (sweeeeet!)

2 sticks of 1 gig DDR 4000 Mushkin mem (oh yeah baby)
and 2 sticks of 512 DDR 4000 Mushkin mem for slot 2/4 = 3 gigs of mem insanity

Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Mobo slot 939 (mmm PCI-express, tasty!)

(prepare to bow)
2... not one, but TWO ATI Radeon X1800XT 512 meg PCI Express SLI Ready Crossfire Video Cards ($1200 total) I know, overkill baby!

Creative Soundblaster X-FI X-Ram 64 mb Fatality Deluxe Soundcard (wayyyy overkill as well)

4 new 400 GB, 7200 RPM, 16 MB Cache harddrives (1.6 terrabytes!!), RAID 0 and 1 setup

Antec P180 Ultra-quiet Limited edition Black Chrome case

Enermax 550 watt powersupply

and last, but certainly not least, a new Logitech G7 Laser Mouse for accuracy

Total spent - $3200 and change at Fry's
Total manhours installing - over 30 (the damned Antec case was very difficult to learn since its got a new layout)
Total happiness - Priceless! :militia:

FYI...I had the same exact power supply and mother board and they crashed last week. And I had a surge protector.

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Here's mine:

3.2 Ghz Hyperthreaded Pentium 4
1024MB DDR400 RAM
Maxtor 250GB IDE hard drive
MSI Neo Platinum motherboard
128MB Nvidia Geforce FX5200 AGP video (needs upgraded)
NEC Dual Layer 16x DVD -+ burner
Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit sound card
Dell 1703FP flat panel monitor


Going to upgrade to PCI-Express and get a SATA hard drive pretty soon, but this system purrs pretty good as it is.

Your CPU tests out pretty good on my Sandra comparison tests. NEC has great prices on their DVD burners, just got mine for $40 from Newegg.


FYI...I had the same exact power supply and mother board and they crashed last week. And I had a surge protector.
These guys here http://tinyurl.com/7gg4o can tell you what's wrong to make your system crash like that (if you're sure you have a ABIT 939 board). They are excellent when it comes to diagnosing problems!
Just have to post your specs (cpu, type of memory, etc... you can see exactly what is needed by reading people's sigs on that board).


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He threw one down from the top of the stairs
Beautiful women were standing everywhere
They all got wet when he smashed that thing
But off in the dark you could hear somebody sing
Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars
Smashing a perfectly good guitar
I don't know who they think they are
Smashing a perfectly good guitar (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/wma-pop-up/-/B000009D10001002/103-5300309-1566254)

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Some pics of my new Tower. Cheap digital so not real high quality. Can't really tell from the pics but have some nice lighting inside ( I cut out the side of one panel myself and put in a piece of 1/4" plexiglass).


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http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/9764/tower7gt.jpg


http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6804/tower19fz.jpg

[scorpio]

Can't help but notice the shotgun sitting next to your computer... hmmm...

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Can't help but notice the shotgun sitting next to your computer... hmmm...
Varmints ;D

[Rigs11]

Can't help but notice the shotgun sitting next to your computer... hmmm...
That's his antivirus;D

[W*GS]

Cray XT3.

5294 nodes, each with a 2.4-GHz AMD Opteron processor and 2 Gb of memory. 5212 nodes are available in the compute partition, and the remainder provide I/O and login services.

Each node is connected to a Cray Seastar router through Hypertransport, and the Seastars are all interconnected in a 3D-torus topology. The resulting interconnect has very high bandwidth, low latency, and extreme scalability.

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Cray XT3.

5294 nodes, each with a 2.4-GHz AMD Opteron processor and 2 Gb of memory. 5212 nodes are available in the compute partition, and the remainder provide I/O and login services.

Each node is connected to a Cray Seastar router through Hypertransport, and the Seastars are all interconnected in a 3D-torus topology. The resulting interconnect has very high bandwidth, low latency, and extreme scalability.
I think we're talking about the "home" computer.

[Sideburn]

Nice rig pezzie, you stepped up over me...That is unacceptable!
How's the crossfire working out for you? I know Nvidia's SLI stuff is pretty good, (according to some in the gaming community) but I haven't heard anything really about crossfire. I ofcourse being an ATI fanboi would like to hear what you think of it. And nice choice of cards...muahahahahaa

It looks like you have a superb rig. Outstanding.

[Pezman]

Nice rig pezzie, you stepped up over me...That is unacceptable!
How's the crossfire working out for you? I know Nvidia's SLI stuff is pretty good, (according to some in the gaming community) but I haven't heard anything really about crossfire. I ofcourse being an ATI fanboi would like to hear what you think of it. And nice choice of cards...muahahahahaa

It looks like you have a superb rig. Outstanding.

Mmm yes, Crossfire baby! It does not suck, even if it is a serious energyhog. The SLI concept is pretty cool, but with the new 16x PCI-E slots coming out, I am beginning to wonder if maybe the video card makers are just planning straight out overkill for the next generation video processors. Hopefully, they will figure out a way to intergrate a smaller and more yielding transistor set to keep the cards from becoming behemouths.

One thing about this ATI card bro, its the single biggest card I've ever put in my computer. The thing nearly touches my hard drives on the other side of the mid-tower, its so freaking monsterous. The driver support for it has been great, and so far, the intergrated NForce4 board has held up well to my stress tests. The only real gripe is that the pipeline is still only 24/16. They really need to create a next generation 32 pipeline card if they expect to take full advantage of games like F.E.A.R. etc...

By the way, I'm about to run a benchmark on F.E.A.R. this evening... This should be fun Nyah!

[Pezman]

Some pics of my new Tower. Cheap digital so not real high quality. Can't really tell from the pics but have some nice lighting inside ( I cut out the side of one panel myself and put in a piece of 1/4" plexiglass).


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http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/9764/tower7gt.jpg


http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6804/tower19fz.jpg

Sweet rig Slug! I had a tricked out rig a couple of generations ago, but sadly, I had to forgo that for silence. That is why I'm pretty excited with this new Antec P180 Ultra case

http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/cases/antec/p180/P180(ms).jpg

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/55/52/be1fa2c008a0ff4c09a96010.L.jpg

Notice how the power supply is on the bottom of the case btw! I'm telling ya, this rig was very tough to put together since it was complex with wiring and cooling strategy. But its worth it

http://www.xyzcomputing.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=521

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1910431,00.asp

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Sweet rig Slug! I had a tricked out rig a couple of generations ago, but sadly, I had to forgo that for silence. That is why I'm pretty excited with this new Antec P180 Ultra case

http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/cases/antec/p180/P180(ms).jpg

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/55/52/be1fa2c008a0ff4c09a96010.L.jpg

Notice how the power supply is on the bottom of the case btw! I'm telling ya, this rig was very tough to put together since it was complex with wiring and cooling strategy. But its worth it

I really like the idea of the PS on the bottom since it's the heaviest item in there. It looks nice for sure! What are your temps inside there?

BTW the way, I lost the hearing in one ear so my case noise doesn't bother me at all :)

[Woody]

root # uname -a
Linux beast 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp #1 SMP Mon May 30 20:47:11 UTC 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux

root # cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 5
model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1804.113
cache size : 1024 KB
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3547.13
TLB size : 1088 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp

processor : 1
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 5
model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1804.113
cache size : 1024 KB
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3604.48
TLB size : 1088 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp

root # cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 3863436 kB

root # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 9.7G 2.9G 6.3G 32% /
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 1.2T 235G 857G 22% /store

[W*GS]

I think we're talking about the "home" computer.

Oh. I thought we were talking about the most powerful computers we had actually used. The one I mentioned is #10 on the TOP500 list - I've also used the #7 computer, the ESL in Japan.

Anyway:

Machine Model: Apple PowerBook G4 15"
CPU Speed: 1.25 GHz
Memory: 1 GB
TOSHIBA MK8025GAS: Capacity: 74.53 GB
MAT****A DVD-R UJ-816

Plus the usual fun Apple stuff - iSight, AirPort card, &c, &c.

Sure is nice knowing viruses, malware, and spyware aren't an issue.