what is under your dashboard

[welsh]

One of the reasons I have heard for favoring Console to PC games is that with consoles everyone knows what the hardware is, so they can make games that fit.

With PCs there is too much variation.

So what's under the hood of your computer? What does your PC use to run its games.

 

[KurganFr]

Current PC: Athlon 900Mhz, 256Mb RAM, GeForce 2 MX/MX400, 30Gb hard-disk, WinMe & WinXP, ADSL connection (1.2Mbits/s).

Previous PC (still used for older games): Pentium II 233MHz, 128Mb RAM, S3 Virge, 12Gb hard-disk, Win95 (old hard-disk with DOS & Win 3.11).

It has often been written that the main difference between PC and console is the type of games - Fallout anyone? -.

 

[Brother None]

Uhm, lemme see, here's what I got:

Athlon

Purpose Daily usage
Processor AMD Athlon XP1500+
Memory 256 MB SDRAM
Hard drive Maxtor 19.1 GB
Video card NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400
Network card 3com Etherlink
Sound card SB Audigy B400
CD writer Justlink 20x10x40
Floppy drive JustLink 1.44 MB 3,5"
Modem network connection to hub with ADSL connection (2048/300-something)
Monitor 15" MV500 Compaq
Speakers 2x US Blaster, 2x JBL Pro
Keyboard Logitech Internet Navigator Keyboard
Mouse Microsoft X05-92654 Wheelmouse
Scanner HP ScanJet 2100C
Printer HP DeskJet 690C
OS Windows XP Pro

Atari, hell yeah

Purpose None
Processor Motorolla 68000 16 Mhz
Memory 1 MB RAM
Floppy drive Cumana 1.0 MB 3.5"
Modem Tornado III 14400 baud
Monitor 12" Atari SM124
Keyboard Atari 520ST
Mouse Atari A1/Genius GM-6000
Joystick Quickshot SVI-102 PluS/The Arcade/QuickJoy SV-122
OS TOS (GEM)/DOS 3.2

Compaq 1

Purpose Back-up
Processor Intel Pentium 300 MHZ
Memory 64 MB SDRAM
Hard drive 4 GB
Video Card Compaq 2MB
Sound Card Aureal A3D
CD drive Compaq 32x
Floppy drive Compaq 1.44 MB 3,5"
Modem Compaq 56k
network connection to hub with ADSL connection (2048/300-something)
Monitor 15" Compaq V55
Keyboard Compaq SK-2700 keyboard
Mouse Microsoft wheelmouse
Printer HP DeskJet 510
OS Windows 98

Compaq 2

Purpose Work
Processor Intel Pentium 300 MHZ
Memory 96 MB SDRAM
Hard drive 1.96 GB
CD drive Hitachi CDR
Floppy drive Compaq 1.44 MB 3,5"
Modem Compaq 28800 bps
network connection to hub with ADSL connection (2048/300-something)
Monitor 15" Ultra VGA 1280
Keyboard Compaq KB-9963
Mouse Compaq M-S48a wheelmouse
Printer HP DeskJet 670C
OS Windows 95

 

[Gruug]

3.2 ghz microprocesser
560something mb of ram
120 gig harddrive
NVidia Gee Force 4
basically, I got mostly the top stuff for it. Oh then there is our other p4, 2.6 ghz, and our p2, p3 and mine and my dads laptop, but for the sake of it, I'll just stick with saying my best one. And I no I don't need know my computer's stuff like the inside of a ducks bum.

 

[kumquatq3]

3.2 ghz microprocesser
560something mb of ram
120 gig harddrive
NVidia Gee Force 4

I hate you.......

 

[King of Creation]

P4 2.8 ghz
1GB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 400MHz
80 GB and 250 GB hard drive
Logitech Z-680 speakers: 5.1 surround, 1000 watt peak power (all I need in life )
17" dell Flatscreen monitor
Logitech Wireless MX Duo
Windows XP Pro
Soundblaster Audigy 2
256MB DDR ATI Radeon 9800 XT
16x DVD-Rom
8X DVD+/- R +/- RW
3.5" floppy drive

I put way to much of my income into my computer...

 

[Role-Player]

AMD Athlon Thoroughbred XP+ 2200 (~1350 Mhz) (266Mhz FSB/384 Cache)
2x256mb RAM
Asus A7V8X motherboard
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128mb
Seagate 40gb UDMA100 (7200RPM)
Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1. Series
Cambridge Soundworks 4 point surround system
Sony 19''
USB Microsoft Intellimouse Optical
Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard
LG CD-ROM 52x
SONY CD-RW 52x/24x/52x


Weak, but handles pretty much everything i've thrown at it.

 

[Mohrg]

I got you all beat!

Win 98
Intel Celeron 556mhz
191Megs of Ram
Geforce 2 MX400


I don't know the rest.
My father is telling me that he will buy me a new computer to use in the barracks, prolly a nicelaptop, w00t!

Mohrg

 

[Montez]

1.8GHz P4
512M DDR Ram
Geforce 5600 Ultra

DVD, CD R/W, etc. All the rest is pretty unremarkable, except for the fact that it's all jammed in a gigantic tower case from 1995 that's been mangled with a boxcutter in order to accomodate everything.

 

[Dove]

Stock Toshiba A15 S129 Laptop

Intel Celeron 2.4 gig processor
48x multi dvd drive
16" TFT display
40 gig HD
Don't know the rest, but it's new and plays any game so far.

 

[Ugly John]

This one is PII 300
128Mb Ram
6gig HD
MOnster 3D II with ?? Mb ram
3D Prophet II mx with ??Mb ram
two 10/100 ethernet card
40x cd-rom


Kid's computer
Ambra P90
128mb ram
4 gig HD
pd-rom


loose parts on my desk

GeForce4 ti4200 128mb ram
ATI all-in-wonder ??mb ram
many HDs
many ethernet cards
way too many different types of cables

 

[Pipboy2000]

John, I have no clue how you survive on a 6 gig harddrive...

256 ram
300 gig hardrive
Radeon 9800 pro (MUAHAHAHAH SCOTTY I GOT ONE!)
Some shitty thing called a Soundblaster
27" monitor
46x CDRom
Windows XP/Linux ( I switch ever 7 monthsish)

That's what I use to run my games

 

[Ugly John]

PIp it's because i have a life and i don't spend it in front of my computer.

 

[Gruug]

That's odd, looking at your post count.

 

[Odin]

Because we're more efficient due to age 8)

Computers:

General use/Gaming:

• Athlon XP 1900+
• 3x120GB HDD
• Plextor DVD+RW (4x)
• 21" Dell LCD monitor
• 512MB Ram
• Radeon 9800Pro
• WinXP Pro

Old crap:

• Athlon T-Bird 1.2Ghz
• 256MB Ram
• 2x80GB, 1x45GB HDD
• WinXP Pro
• Actually no monitor (because my nephew needed one)
• Geforce 3Ti500
• Plexwriter..something...

Actually I wanted to upgrade my newest computer and put the other pieces in the old one, so now I'm looking at a new motherboard, CPU, RAM... Suggestions ?

 

[Ugly John]

Gruug, that spamming is done at work,

Pip I just cjecked and i still have 1 Gb free on my HD