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Community weekly poll: How old is your current main computer?
- 4/20/07 9:06 AM
How old is your computer/When to replace your computer?
by Reaper351 - 4/20/07 10:16 PM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My computer is 2 years old. I purchased it for gaming. Unless you are a serious gamer, there is nor real reason to keep up with cutting edge technology. The rig is home built. I am running a P4 Prescott 3.0 GHZ, 2 gigs of RAM, NVIDIA BFG 6800 GT OC video card, SATA 200 gig hard drive and a Thermaltake water cooling unit for the hot running P4.
You know it's time to purchase a new computer when they give you a free demo game and your rig won't play it...lol
John
What I use...Toshiba Satellite A105-S2061
by Unycorn - 4/20/07 10:18 PM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My Main computer, right now, is a Toshiba A105 laptop I purchase about 11 months ago when I "took my talent on the road" as a truck driver. Consists of Celeron-M 390 CPU (1.7 GHz) 60 GB SATA HDD, 256MB DDR2 PC4200 ram (I upgraded it to 512MB PC4200) ATi Radeon Xpress 200M on-board graphics (I have been VERY happy with this on-board chipset) decent RealTek High-Def Audio. For a bag-o-bones computer, I have high praise for this beastly machine. It has done pretty much everything I have asked of it (including very graphic intensive gaming) and all with nary a yawn. 
Overall, even with all the horror stories being told out there, I am giving Toshiba very high marks for a great, easy to use and economical laptop.
Less than One Year
by fairplayca - 4/20/07 10:26 PM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It is not any brand. I built it a year ago. It is a Pentium D 3ghz, ASUS P5WD2-E motherboard, 2gig ram, 256 mg Saphire 1600X Pro PCI express video card, 12X dvd burner, floppy drive all in a Thermaltake case.
Building it was great fun. If I could afford it I would build another one and give this one to my hubby.
Re: How old is your current main computer?
by feemery - 4/20/07 10:33 PM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Roughly 2 year old Dell Dimension 8400 with 1Gbyte DRAM, DVD Read, DVD R/W, and a floppy A-Drive. (The A-drive is to read old data disks).
I am using an 80386 modified computer using win 3.11.
by johnttlin - 4/20/07 10:33 PM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Some one please advice me on where to get free computer.
2 Yrs and Going Strong
by Jason83 - 4/20/07 10:35 PM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My rig is about 2 - 2½ yrs old now. Built it myself from high end gear available at the time:
Intel 875PBZLK Mobo
P4 3.0 GHz
512Mb DDR 400
GeForce 3 Ti 200
80Gb and 40Gb HDDs...
...and some bits from my old 1.1GHz Celeron:
GeForce 3 Ti 200,
Floppy and CD ROM/ DVD drives.
It has evolved somewhat over time. It now boast 1.5Gb of RAM in dual channel mode, the 40Gb Fujitsu hard drive died (never was a class action lawsuit for the UK when they had that faulty batch of controller chips). The 80Gb became my secondary and I added a 160Gb SATA as the main. Sticking with Seagate now; they seem a lot more reliable, and carry a far longer warranty. Admittedly something killed my 160 Gb HDD and caused a mass of bad sectors, but it has been fine since I repaired it with the Seatools suite. Then the ultimate upgrade (at the time) Geforce 6800 Ultra (overclocked).
This rig still has plenty of poke for up to date games, just a little disappointing that I am starting to have to go for some settings on medium instead of high, but it's still up there with the big boys. I am able to run 2 Folding at Home cores without much impact on performance, even when gaming.
I am contemplating a new rig in readiness for Crysis, and will be building a Core 2 Duo/ Quad rig in due time, packing full DX10, Vista, and HD support. Maybe even throw in RAID for data security. Until then, I'm happy with what I got!
How old is your current main computer
by rozkay - 4/20/07 10:45 PM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have a home built AMD Athlon 1.1 GHz computer that was originally built in 2001. In 2004 I upgraded the power supply to 450W, and the AGP video card to have TV out. Last year I changed the original DVD drive to DVD R. This past January, instead of replacing the computer, I installed XP Pro SP2, added USB 2.0 ports, increased RAM to the maximum (1 GB), added an Ethernet card and replaced my scanner and printer with an all-in-one as I could not get XP drivers for the old (and terrific) scanner. The scanner was the reason I continued to run Windows 98SE.
How old is your current computer and what do you have?
by Reelrob - 4/20/07 10:46 PM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have a Dell Dimension 8250 2.8 thats about 4-5 years old. Originally it had 512mb of memory, but I doubled it, and I replaced the power supply from 250w to 600w for the ATI X800XT Video Card.
Finding memory for it wasn't easy, but I found the last two sticks they had at Fry's.
6 years old.
by Species8472 - 4/20/07 10:47 PM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I built a top of the line gaming rig for $2000 6 years ago, and I'm proud to say it can still outperform most new cheap PCs.
Specs.
ASUS K8VSE Deluxe. Yes, its a socket 754
AMD64 4000+ 2.2 Ghz
2gb 3200 ram
3 120gb RAIDed = 333gb total space
NVIDIA 6600 AGP graphics
How Old is THIS conputer
by MikeHolli - 4/21/07 2:53 AM In reply to: 6 years old. by Species8472I have a 6 year old Medion PC. This is the first computer I've bought since my old, old, old Compaq Presario 9546 - *Made by Compaq, NOT HP!* It's been a fine system, ran into a couple of problems over the years with it, but none insurmountable as needing a new PC to replace it....Till NOW, WinXP was a good lil O/S But this is NOT only a new Age in computing needs, but a WHOLE fresh new Operating System with MS Windows Vista! The most basic of computing these days require your PC to have dual processors, a min of at LEAST 1 gig of RAM, a video card with atleast 256 megs of RAM on it. and this old baby can't handle those new needs. Actually it barely made the min requirements for WinXP when I first purchased it.
Aged computer....
by ART SCOTT - 4/20/07 10:52 PM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I currently run a HP Vectra VL400 MT, 512mb ram, 1 gh processor intel P3....I guess it is time to upgrade as I' needed a new monitor and bought a 22" without ever thinking it would not be compatible with my unit...so then I figured ...ah just get a new video card.....but alas all the cards I have found for my monitors resolution need P4......so I either return and get a much smaller monitor or start living a very tight budget lifestyle to get upgraded.......
How old is main pc
by phollan1 - 4/20/07 11:14 PM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I built my own about 18 months ago using the Cnet online course and its terrific. As suggested I didn't use the absolute top spec components but made it up from near top level and proven performers in all areas. I learnt a lot on the way and I'm definitely happy to upgrade any bits as needed, rather than buying completely new.
Paul
Not the same old PC :-)
by grtgrfx - 4/20/07 11:41 PM In reply to: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Bought a new Mac Pro dual-core twin-Xeon direct from Apple, with 2GB RAM, the 2.66GHz processors, ATI X1900 XT 512MB video card and 250GB HD/16X DVD-DLRW (SuperDrive). I added a 160GB drive just for XP Pro, which I run via Boot Camp, thanks very much, a second 300GB backup drive and a Sony DVD drive to round out it's chops. It's fast as heck, virtually silent, and plays a wicked game of F.E.A.R.! Oh, and OS-X to avoid the various viruses that plague the other guys' PCs.
Bought from hard earned summer job money
by F_demon - 4/20/07 11:54 PM In reply to: Not the same old PC :-) by grtgrfxLast november I bought a HP M7580.
3.4ghz dual core, 1gb ddr2 and 250+300gb are some of the most important specs. I bought it after looking at all kinds of machines, looking at specs, but I didn't want to build one myself.
It has XP media edition and I find it quite useful, however i've had some trouble recently with the software and going to reformat my pc today after it suddenly wouldn't start up windows any more.
No safe mode, no normal mode and no startup after replacing all the most important files.
Luckily I run all my documents from an 'external' hard drive (made a shortcut to it using tweakxp). Otherwise I would have lost all my data, photographs and work.
I am very happy with the pc, because it runs what I want at some of the highest levels. I am always running multiple heavy programs simultaneously so I really needed the specs. However on second thought, I would have liked an extra gb of ram.
Boot probs
by brownbuffalo1 - 4/21/07 3:22 AM In reply to: Bought from hard earned summer job money by F_demonCan you boot from other devices when this happens?. If you can, put in another drive & use that as your current OS B/up. That way if something goes wrong, you can boot up on that drive in your bios.
It works for me on ME, don't know about XP. Did you have any real probs booting off the external drive?.
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