Whats in your Rig?

A little bored. Thought I'd post a thread to see how you guys have built your PCs. Post links/pics/etc.



Case
Video Card
Processor
DVD Drive
Hard Drive
RAM
Motherboard
Power Supply

I bought this computer around January 10th this year, and I've been loving it. I got a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate from my brother's friend. Vista definitely is a performance hog, but not by very much. I don't play many graphically demanding games, but I've had such huge improvements in games such as Counterstrike (1.6 and Source) WoW, and I also bought Crysis a few weeks later. Crysis would probably not even be able to install on my old computer, yet this computer can run it all on high settings. It was about time I upgraded, and I've enjoyed it ever since.

My setup is an absolute mess. I have modem/router/speakers behind my computer, printer next to my computer, and a mousepad so big it doesn't fit on my desk (18 inches by 15 inches, approx) My headset is a Icemat Siberia (Black) and mouse is an MX518. Keyboard is Saitek Eclipse 2. I have just about the perfect setup for a gamer, if only I could keep it cleaner.

My rig is fairly standard, originally got it about a year ago now, however I have gradually stuck bits in it:

CPU:
Intel Core 2 Duo 6420 (2.13 Ghz, 4mb cache).

Low/mid end Core2, but it gives me a procesor score of 5.1 on vista so it's not too bad. In all honesty I doubt I strain it much, about the hardest thing I do with it is C&C 3.

Ram:

4x 1gb sticks, 667 mhz. This is a bit of a bad mix at the moment, I really need to replace the stock ram cards (2x 1gb) as they aren't nearly as good as the corsair Xms2 I put in later. Ah well.

HDD:

Some sort of 7,200 RPM 500 GB drive, I've never really been worried about it's spec's because I havent needed high preformance storage yet.

I plan to get another HDD soon, and begin running vista and my programs off that. I will probably go for either a 10,000 or 15,000 RPM drive. Most of my 500 GB is taken up by music and vid's so they hardly need a high speed drive.

Graphics:

XFX 8600 GT w/Zalman fan, 256 Gddr3 (lol.... whatever Gddr3 is.)

This thing runs slightly faster than the average 8600 GT, from what I understand it is a similar speed to an 8600 GTS. Seems to run my screen fine so I can't complain.

Sound:

Crap, Intergrated. Currently having a 2x 200 watt RMS amp built for me, however that will be a few months away. Once that's done I have a pair of Bower's and Wilkins DM 110's to use, theyvre awesome speakers (100 watts RMS, yeah the amp's overpowered).

Screen:

22" widescreen LCD. Always nice when playing RS as you can always do something and still have your RS window open. (5% of the time I have RS and a movie open

The rest is all stock dell, so the motherboard, dvd drive, case are all pretty booring/****.

The Robbie Hackputer:

Manufacturer: Selfbuilt
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.20GHz HT
---Cooler: Zalman heatpipe
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 419 GB Total
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Monitor: SyncMaster 731B(Digital)
Sound Card: SB Audigy 2 ZS
Speakers/Headphones: JVC $20 headphones
Keyboard: Compaq KB-0133
Mouse: Logitech G5(Battlefield 2142 edition!)
Mouse Surface: Soft blue mousepad(branded)
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) SP1

Inside:
http://robbiethe1st.ktserv.com/images/inside_after-1.png
http://robbiethe1st.ktserv.com/images/inside_after-2.png
Front:
http://robbiethe1st.ktserv.com/images/IMG_2946.JPG

Back of monitor:
http://robbiethe1st.ktserv.com/images/IMG_2989.JPG
Yup, I did a bit of hacking on this monitor - For one thing, it no longer has any brightness control what-so-ever. For another, the power to the backlight is provided by a 13.5V RadioShack power supply located approximately 6 feet from me, with the cable being old LED Christmas light wire. For another, instead of an internal power supply to turn the low voltage into 600+V, now that functionality is provided by the blueish boxes hot-glued to the back.

My computer may be old and held together with electrical tape, but it is stable, reasonably fast, and reasonably quiet. It also never gets above 45C.

My Dell laptop:

Vostro 1500, Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, 2.0GHz, 800Mhz FSB, 4M L2 Cache
Windows Vista Business 32-bit
2GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 DIMM
85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery, for Vostro 1500
Integrated High Definition Audio 2.0
8X DVD+/-RW with double-layer DVD+R write capability, w/o Roxio Creator 15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA+ LCDTrueLife for Vostro 1500
Integrated 2.0 mega pixel webcam 1500
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
120G 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
Dell Exclusive MediaDirect Instant Play Software Application (I deleted this waste of space)
Integrated 10/100 Network Cardand Modem, for Inspiron
Intel 3945 WLAN (802.11a/g) Mini Card

So ya, it runs bioshock, Call of Duty 4, CS Source....THat's all I've tried with it so far.

I actually installed Windows XP so right now I'm dual booting with XP and Vista. I had Ubuntu 7.1 (Linux) but I really didn't use it at all so I replaced it with XP.

Going to replace the stock hard drive with something more spacious and faster and add another 2GB of ram and see where that takes me.

Intel core 2 Quad @ 2.4 per core
8 gig ram
geforce8800 gpu
some random asus gaming motherboard
350G harddrive
Windows vista 64bit premium

Made it myself love it. Not finished though >_> Will be downgrading to 32 bit -incompatible piece of ****. Will probs get another HD and graphics card if it will fit. 8 gig ram lol the jokes on me when i found out all windows pcs only use 3.5 then use the rest on useless system tasks.

out of monies now though :\

Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4ghz
8800 GTX 768mb Graphics Card
2gb 800mhz RAM
Sound X-Fi
500GB 7,200 RPM Harddrive

Can't remember any other spec..

~Abs

Intel Core 2 duo E6600
Nvidia 122-CFK-NF68 motherboard
2GB 800 Mhz Ram
400 GB 7200 RPM hard drive
8800 GTX OC2 from BFG tech