What's in your...[computer configuration talk]

oldwrench · Post by **oldwrench** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 6:32 pm

I built mine a few years ago, this is what I had when I made my amvs.

Soyo dragon+ 266 mobo

AMD 1600xp

512 266ddr ram

60gb western digital hd

ATI 7500 all in wonder card

Lite on 40x12x48 cdrw

Benq dvd rom

Altec Lansing 5.1 speakers

17" Mag monitor

Microsoft trackball

Software - Windows xp, Windows movie maker, DVD decrypter, and TMPGEnc. Most of my video was captured from a dvd player through my video card. I made my videos before I knew this site existed and that there was help available.

Since then I have upgraded, Plextor 708a dvdrw, Western Digital 200gb added, 1gb of Kingston ddr ram, AMD 2000xp. This makes editing easier but I doubt it will improve my poor talent.

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 2:14 am

Here's my old box the last time I had it, I've given it away to my cousin and it's gained some drives and such since.
It was my first computer (though the spec you see is what I turned it into, originally only had 64MB shared RAM and onboard graphics). Kinda regret giving it away, feel a bit sentimental.

Name: XXXG-00W0

Processor:
AMD Duron M3 "Spitfire" 750MHz (100 x 7.5) - overclocked to 900 MHz, 120MHz bus (120 x 7.5)
Motherboard
Chaintech 7AIV0 with VIA VT8365A ProSavage KM133 Chipset
OS
Windows ME
Memory
320 MB SDRAM 120 MHz (256 + 64) Buffalo & Corsair
Storage
10.2 GB Samsung SV1021H ATA100, 5400RPM, 468KB Cache - FAT32
Removable Media
8x 4x 32x CD-ReWriter Samsung CD-R/RW SW-208B
2 Floppy Drives Panasonic & Samsung
Graphics
GeForce4 MX420 PCI 64MB 250MHz Clock 333Mhz Memory, overclocked to 380MHz Clock 490MHz Memory
S3 Savage4 Graphics 32MB (on board)
Sound
C-Media Sound Card CMI8738/C3DX PCI (on board)
Monitor
15" Relisys TE555

This piece of turd, is the computer I have been forced to use at the moment, it's so slow it struggles to play some AMVs. Kinda weird really as my older system would have played the same files no problems.

Name: Shitb0x

Processor:
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ "Palomino" 1466MHz (133 x 11) - Processor locked! Un-overclockable!!
Motherboard
MSI K7M Pro with VIA VT8364A Apollo KL133A Chipset
OS
Windows XP Home SP1
Memory
256 MB SDRAM 133 MHz (256) Hynix/Hyundai
Storage
36.0 GB Seagate ST340810A ATA100, 5400RPM, 2MB Cache - NTFS
Removable Media
8x 8x 4x 32x Samsung SM-308B DVDROM/CD-ReWriter Combo
1 Floppy Drive -Unknown-
Graphics
S3 Savage4 Graphics 32MB (on board)
Sound
VIA AC'97 PCI (on board)
Monitor
17" Samsung -Unknown-

And here's my current box, in pieces at the moment, having stability issues. I'm convinced RAM related.

Name: ZGMF-X10A

Processor:
AMD Athlon 64 3400+ "Clawhammer" 2200MHz (200 x 11) - overclocked to 2387 MHz, 217MHz bus (217 x 11) (Not had much oppurtunity for overclocking yet)
Motherboard
Epox 8KDA3+ nForce 3 Chipset
OS
Windows XP 64 ES
Memory
1536 MB DDR RAM 217 MHz (512 + 512 + 512) Kingston PC3500
Storage
2x120 GB Western Digital Caviar SATA150 RAID, 7200 RPM, 8MB Cache (WDC WD1200 JD) - NTFS
1x120 GB Western Digital Caviar ATA100 7200 RPM, 8MB Cache (WDC WD1200 JB) - NTFS
Removable Media
52x 32x 52x Plextor Plexwriter Premium
12x 8x 40 Liteon DVD Writer
16x DVD ROM Drive Liteon LTD 163 (Region Free)
24x 10x 40x CD-ReWriter Mirai CRD-BP1500P
2 Sony Floppy Drives
1 Sony Hi-MD MiniDisc Drive
2 Floppy Drives Panasonic & Samsung
Graphics
Radeon 9800 Pro AGP 325MHz Clock, 580MHz Memory, overclocked to 440MHz Clock 660MHz Memory
Sound
Soundblaster Audigy 2 PCI 7.1Dobly Digital EX
nForce 3 Sound 7.1 PCI (on board)
Monitor
19" Samsung SyncMaster 957p
28" Panasonic Widescreen TX-28DK1

Well hopefully I should be able to get it up and running and post some nice overclocks, it's already looking promising. Interesting to see other people's specs as well.

Any parts you lot particularly reccomend? The Audigy ZS has a problem with the Epox 8KDA3+, you have to boot without the card and disable the onboard AC97.

If you are wanting to go Athlon64, do it. Awesome performance even just in 32bit mode (did some benchies and it was a tiny bit out in the lead of a 3.4GHz P4 for the Dhrystone tests, but AMD still lack in the Whetstone department)

The Plexwriter Premium is an awesome CD writer, has a mode where you can change the pit size and fit 1.4x more onto a normal CD, so a 700MB disc can then hold close to 1000MB (1GB) or if you overburn, I've had nearly 1.1GB

Brolly345 · Post by **Brolly345** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 1:07 pm

Here's mine: (Just got it a few months ago...)

Hardware:
Intel Motherboard (The second newest one I think)
3.2 Ghz P4 w/ hyper threading
1 GB DDR400 RAM Dual Channel
Radeon 9800 XT (pwnage)
Sound Blaster Audigy LS
120GB Maxtor HD
80GB Toshiba HD (Storage)
Sony 54x CD/ 32x CDRW Drive
Sony 16x DVD-ROM Drive
3.5 Piece of crap Floppy drive

Software:
Windows XP Pro
Adobe Premeire Pro
MS paint (j/k)
VirtualDub Mod
DGIndex

I just started editing; so I won't say what I was on before, but I am currently working on something. It's half done, and in my opinion, and others I've shown it to, It's looking good.

bum · Post by **bum** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 1:35 pm

Brolly345 wrote:Here's mine: (Just got it a few months ago...)

Hardware:
Intel Motherboard (The second newest one I think)
3.2 Ghz P4 w/ hyper threading
1 GB DDR400 RAM Dual Channel
Radeon 9800 XT (pwnage)
Sound Blaster Audigy LS
120GB Maxtor HD
80GB Toshiba HD (Storage)
Sony 54x CD/ 32x CDRW Drive
Sony 16x DVD-ROM Drive
3.5 Piece of crap Floppy drive

just wondering, what scores are ya geting in 3dmark 01 and 03 on that system ?

Brolly345 · Post by **Brolly345** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 6:40 pm

bum wrote:just wondering, what scores are ya geting in 3dmark 01 and 03 on that system ?

Alright, I'm not sure what you mean. Could you clarify?

Now I feel stupid...

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 7:41 pm

3D Mark is just a system benchmark. Plays through a load of game demos at different settings and notes how many fps you score and such.

At the end it gives you one big score which is combined performance.

People like bum and I use it to make sure everythings nice and tweaked, not to mention a bit of harmless competition and bragging 8)

Farlo · Post by **Farlo** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 8:52 pm

current editing computer("computer")
athlon xp 2800+ barton core
40 gig wd
512mb ddr3200 crucial ram
old 32mb geforce 2 cause i dont game

ulead mediastudio pro 7

server("shitbox")
300mhz p2
256mb of sd
10 gig primary loaded with fedora core
200 gig SE wd 8mb secondary loaded with rips, games, audio, programs

billy_wires · Post by **billy_wires** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:03 pm

I'm on the Pornstation, and running the following:

Intel Motherboard: D685PERL*
3.0 Ghz P4 processor with hyperthreading, 512 L2 cach, 800 meg FSB, blah blah blah.
512M DDR433 ram by Vertigo (I think that's right)
ATI Radeon 9800XT (which I got for $375 US, suck on that)
UBAR1337 integrated sound
160Gig Maxtor HD 7200 RPM
Some generic DVD Rom Drive
Some generic Floppy Drive
Windows XP (thinking about repartitioning and reloading slackware, or perhaps Gentoo)

Hardcore games:
Solitare (If you know who Maddox is, you'll get that).

Programming Language:
Porn++
(Thinking about loading linux to have multiple compilers. The only language I know anything about is C++ anyway.

)

*This is the same board brolly345 has. He just sucks and can't remember it.

ArobeD · Post by **ArobeD** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:59 pm

I have 3 AMVs that I am working on right now... the whole 3 at a time thing is probobly why you don't see them yet haha so they will all be done on my newer machines

Right now I am using a laptop:
Pentium M Centrino 2 Ghz
1024 RAM
60 GB 7200 RMP HD
Radeon 9700
4x DVD+R/RW

with headphones 8)

I'm also redoing my main computer with water cooling.
Anthlon XP 3200+
1024 Corsair PC 3200 DDR Ram (512x2 2 channel)
Radeon 9700 Pro
About 500 GB HD space all 7200 RPM in a SATA RAID array
nForce 2 chipset

I am still deciding on a sound card... I am thinking of the M-Audio Revolution 5.1 card (or an Audigy ZS Gamer)

I use Logitech 4.1 400 watt THX speakers

For software I user Premiere 6.5 with after effects and vegas 4 as well as sound forge 6 and cubase for audio if needed

(V-Dub Mod, V-Dub etc with plugins and all the codec stuff, too)

(Hope my post makes sense I'm too tired for my own good right now.)

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 11:09 pm

Right now:

AMD Athlon XP 1700+
Abit KG7-RAID
Thermaltake Volcano 7
Thermaltake Active Memory Cooler
512MB PC2100 (Kingston, I think) CAS3
Pioneer DVR-A06 DVD±RW (4x DVD±R, 2.4x DVD±RW)
HP CD Writer Plus 9500i 12x8x32 CD-RW
120GB Western Digital 8MB 7200rpm
160GB Western Digital 8MB 7200rpm
40GB Western Digital 2MB 5400rpm
40GB Western Digital 2MB 7200rpm
Zip250 IDE Drive
Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy 2 (Altec Lansing AVS300 Speakers)
ATI Radeon 9000Pro 128MB AGP4x
NEC LCD1712 17" LCD (1280x1024x32bpp @ 75hz)

Windows XP Professional SP1
ATI Catalyst 4.5 Final
Adobe Premiere 6.5
AVISynth 2.5.5 (Last Alpha)
VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1
DGIndex

New:

AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Mobile (Going to be Overclocked to 2.2Ghz @ 400Mhz FSB)
EpoX 8RDA3+ Rev3
Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu HSF
GeiL Ultra Series 512MB PC3200 2-6-3-3 1T (CAS2)
Pioneer DVR-A06 DVD±RW (4x DVD±R, 2.4x DVD±RW)
HP CD Writer Plus 9500i 12x8x32 CD-RW
120GB Western Digital 8MB 7200rpm
160GB Western Digital 8MB 7200rpm
40GB Western Digital 2MB 5400rpm
40GB Western Digital 2MB 7200rpm
Zip250 IDE Drive
(Some kind of controller card for all the IDE Drives)
Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy 2 (Altec Lansing AVS300 Speakers)
ATI Radeon 9000Pro 128MB AGP4x
NEC LCD1712 17" LCD (1280x1024x32bpp @ 75hz)

Windows XP Professional SP1
ATI Catalyst 4.5 Final
Adobe Premiere 6.5
AVISynth 2.5.5 (Last Alpha)
VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1
DGIndex