What's your next computer upgrade?

[Kai]

If you're a geek like me, and you upgrade at least every 4 months (i've been slipping recently ), what's the next thing on your rig to be upgraded? Are you even building a new rig?

My current setup is:

• Core2Duo E4300 @ 3.2Ghz (355 x 9 - 1.4250v)
• Zalman CNPS9700 Heatsink
• 2gb OCZ Gold DDR667 (4-4-4-12 - 2.0v)
• Asus P5B-E (1601 BIOS)
• Asus Radeon x1950 Pro (635Mhz Core / 1550Mhz Mem)
• 3 x Hitachi Deskstar T7K250's (250gb)
• 1 x Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 (200gb)
• Samsung SH-183A SATA DVD±RW drive
• 19" 1440x900 Widescreen FP
• Logitech UltraX Wireless Keyboard & Optical Mouse
• Creative Labs P380 Speakers (2.0)

The next thing i'm upgrading on mine, is the graphics card - the 1950Pro has been a good little card, but Crysis is going to obliterate it - so i'm waiting for the 8800GT to come out. I had considered the RV670 as well, but the 8800GT looks to be amazingly priced and outpacing the current 8800GTS - i think its pretty much bought

The next thing, is the hard drives....750gb of main storage isnt enough - so i'm investing in a pair of 500gb Hitachi Deskstar T7K500's - downloading HD content is a bitch sometimes

 

[Caplax40]

^^^^ Why not Quad Core? The Q6600 is CHEAP.

 

[BlackMKIII]

The next thing, is the hard drives....750gb of main storage isnt enough - so i'm investing in a pair of 500gb Hitachi Deskstar T7K500's - downloading HD content is a bitch sometimes

My GOD man! How much porn do you need? :sarcasm:

Answer: You can NEVER have enough.

I'll be happy with my current setup until they work all the kinks out of Vista. I didn't get an XP machine until 2005. LOL.

 

[Kai]

Quad Core is cheap - but right now - hardly any apps i use actually USE the second core - even half life 2 episode 2, whilst supposedly multithreaded and even with r_threaded_renderables set to 1, it still doesnt actually use the second core all that much....

Plus - Graphics card is more of a priority!

Hard disks...well, try having 3 Seasons of Battlestar Galactica, 2 Seasons of EUReKA, Jericho, Heroes, Stargate Atlantis in HD, as well as in SD, every episode to date of Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Enterprise and a few scattered eps of ST:VOY, Life on Mars, Numb3rs, House and Overhaulin...and 120 xvid movies, 14gb of Apps and OS's, 35gb of Games....

It all mounts up

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

What's this 250gb busniess?
Get a few 400-500gb drives.

 

[Kai]

That's the plan....the reason i have more than 1 250gb at the moment is cause i used to use Striped RAID - but shifted them to storage duties instead....

 

[BlackMKIII]

There's about 2 TB hiding in my PC. :biglaugh:

 

[steven89]

I wish I still had the interest to keep up. Now everytime I think to buy a computer part.. id rather spend the money for it on the supra hah.

Current setup
Athlon X2 4400+ (Dual core, 2.2ghz, 1mb cache) Socket 939
2GB Corsair XMS-3500LL [DDR-433]
250GB Western Digital [16mb cache, 7200rpms, 3.0gb/s SATAII]
All on a Asus A8N32-SLI
And heres for my HUGE bottleneck! BFG 6800GTOC PCIe 256mb.

 

[Kai]

Just get a pair of 8600GTS's and be WAY faster than that ancient relic

 

[GeneStarWindGSW]

My System is decent, made it about the beginning of this year
* AMD Dual Core X2 4600+ (Socket AM2)
* ASUS Crosshair Mobo (Socket AM2)
* 2gb Kingston DDR2 PC4000
* Nvidia PCIe 7600 GT
* Infinity 600 Watt PSU
* 500GB Maxtor SATA2 HDD
* External 300GB Backup HDD
* SoundMAX HD Audio Card /w SoundMAX Directional Array Microphone
* Plextor SATA DVD±RW Drive
* 27" Sceptre LCD Monitor
* Logitech G15 Keyboard /w MX Revolution Mouse
* Thermaltake Soprano Case
* Using XFX Headphones (Sometimes i will use my Labtec Satellite speakers)

 

[Element256]

Pwning all noobs all day. ay bay bay ay bay bay ay bay bay

 

[Poodles]

not worth buying all of the SOTA hardware...

in six months it will be half the price, why bother when the second level down that WAS the SOTA 6 montsh ago is only marginally slower...

I'm running on a bit of an old setup, but like a car, it's got good tuning

AMD Duron 1.4gig OCed to 2.1
Swiftech CPU cooler (took the fucking Delta fan off, holy shit that thing is loud)
512MB dual channel RAM
2x80gig HDD's (both split into two partitions)
Gigabyte Geforce 6800 (passive cooler)
Custom mounted 120MM fan on the bottom that blows directly on the GFX card.
Logitech MX300 mouse (corded, cordless has lag fookas!!!)
Crappy ass monitor

Keep in mind I run Windows Server 2003 and I run about SEVEN processes in my gaming mode. XP runs over THIRTY...

 

[willfish]

a new desk top period, something that got at least 500 GB



Will

 

[Poodles]

a Tb HDD was under $500 a couple months ago when I looked...

only issue with having one drive is it's not very redundant...

 

[GeneStarWindGSW]

Hitachi makes a 1TB HDD

I'd rather buy 2 500GB or 750GB Maxtor HDDs.

Forgot to say that

 

[AaronsSupraMKIII]

I would be more than happy with your old system when you upgrade, just send it to me. :naughty:

My System is decent, made it about the beginning of this year
* AMD Dual Core X2 4600+ (Socket AM2)
* ASUS Crosshair Mobo (Socket AM2)
* 2gb Kingston DDR2 PC4000
* Nvidia PCIe 7600 GT
* Infinity 600 Watt PSU
* 500GB Maxtor SATA2 HDD
* External 300GB Backup HDD
* SoundMAX HD Audio Card /w SoundMAX Directional Array Microphone
* Plextor SATA DVD±RW Drive
* 27" Sceptre LCD Monitor
* Logitech G15 Keyboard /w MX Revolution Mouse
* Thermaltake Soprano Case
* Using XFX Headphones (Sometimes i will use my Labtec Satellite speakers)

 

[GeneStarWindGSW]

For anyone interested, you can buy my computer system off me =)
I'd want to sell it and buy more supra parts lol.

I built this computer from scratch before i had my supra :biglaugh:

I currently run Windows XP Pro x64 On it.
Vista FTL!

P.S - I do have Vista Ultimate on as a seperate partition, but i don't use it =)

 

[Poodles]

Maxtor is NOT as good as they used to be, they where bought out and now their MTBF has gone down...

Vista is the single WORST downgrade you can install on your computer...

 

[GeneStarWindGSW]

Maxtor is NOT as good as they used to be, they where bought out and now their MTBF has gone down...

Yea Maxtor isn't the same anymore then before, but i still prefer it over Seagate & Hitachi. Plus its never let me down ever in all my years of using it. Even my new one.

Western Digital is just crap.
Hitachi is good and so is Seagate.

Vista is the single WORST downgrade you can install on your computer...

I got Vista on as a 50gig partition for just trying it out.
I used it and i was slightly impressed. It has its UPS and DOWNS.
Once Vista comes out with a SP1/SP2, then i'll reconsider.

 

[supraman7mgte]

Hooking up my comp to my 52" Aquios lcd tv,daym!!