Whats your current rig?

[M14A-Mclaren]

2.8Ghz P4
Asus P4P800 Board
Corsair DDR400 Ram 2x256
LG DVD-CDRW combo
LG CDRW
80 Gig Seagate Sata HDD
Compro VideoMate TV Tuner
AOC 9KLR 19" Monitor

and my speakers has a sub, 'nuff said.

[LOWAU]

1800 AMD XP
Gforce 4 64MB
60 GB HDD
512 Ram (Slow stuff)
TV tuner
24X burner
19" CRT
Special edition Keyboard with additional button - Any Key

[parawolf]

Originally Posted by MrSparkle

Overclocking plans are afoot, and I've been keeping a keen eye on what other 3500+'ers have been doing. Strong memory is a must for this and what I have now simply doesn't cut it. It will be donated to my other box, relegated to Emule duties and TV viewing :hihi:

The WD Raptor is great, I really should grab another and RAID up my XP install.. now that would be nice and quick!

Hate to be pedantic, but to quash a regular theory here that RAID = Faster.
When dealing with software raid, or a raid PCI card without memory cache on it (just a bios that virtualises the drives) performance increases are often not there.

Mirroring drives under software or virtualisation is measurably slower on random writes versus a single drive, and has lower throughput on sequential writes (due to two write requests versus one). On a PC system these performance issues cannot be reduced on more server based architectures (Sun, HP, high end IBM, etc) because all PCI devices share the same communications bus.

Other RAID systems such as Striping with distributed parity is CPU intensive and relies heavily XOR calculations. These can be partially offloaded by an external PCI card, however these usually end up on the CPU which means the entire system gets a performance hit. Transaction sizes need to be tuned to get optimal results and depending on the filesystem work you get benefits or penalties from write cache.

Mirroring can deliver higher seek performance, if the mirror software/virtualisation can take advantage of hard disk geometric positioning. This only effects random reads. However filesystem throughput is the same as single disk.

Striping with distributed parity means that your performance is often better than a single disk, however with a single PCI bus, and often two controllers sharing the same controller on that PCI bus, the performance gain is not tangible.

now back to it... :baby bott

[MrSparkle]

Originally Posted by ianmcginley

Hate to be pedantic, but to quash a regular theory here that RAID = Faster.
When dealing with software raid, or a raid PCI card without memory cache on it (just a bios that virtualises the drives) performance increases are often not there.

You are right. What I have planned will definitely be quicker. :1syellow1

[Fairlane]

Got Ye Old Skool AMD System. I used to keep up with Technology but now I am decdedly uncool

AMD XP1700- Palamino Core (Overclocked to 1530Mhz)
512 MB 266 DDR
400W PSU
Volcano 7+ Fan
Asus A7V 266 Mobo
Gigabyte Radeon 9250 Video Card
ESS Solo Sound Card
80GB Seagate Barra V
20 Seageate 5400rpm HDD
Creative 2.1 Sub Woofer System
'El Cheapo' brand 17" Fishbowl Monitor
32*12*8 Samsung CR/RW
52*16 Liteon CD/DVD ROM
Siemens Broadband Modem

Brother Laser Printer (probably my best component)
HP 4100c Scanner

Now finally running XP Pro after 5 years of ME

[megsy]

Considering im on a Uni budget this is what i got

Acer Extensia 2900E
1300 Celron processor
28 GB hd
all the basics, printer, optical mouse ect

Twin 19" Samsung SyncMaster monitors
Pentium 4 3.8
Bose speakers
Radeon X850 Pro PCI Express
Wireless Microsoft keyboard/mouse
2x 200GB Western Digital HDD's
LG Dual Layer Burner / LG DVD Rom
Riced up computer case with neons and LED fans and crap
2GB DDR Ram
That's the guts of it.

[The MaDDeSTMaN]

My turn

Mobo: Asus A7N8X-X (nVidia nForce 2 chipset)
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (Barton) @ 2205mhz
RAM: 512mb (2 x 256Mb Kingston PC3200)
HDD1: Seagate Barracuda (ATA, 40GB, 2mb Cache)
HDD2: Western Digital WD1600JB (ATA, 160GB, 8mb Cache)
DVD-R: LG GSA-4120B (16X DVD-ROM, 12X DVD+R, 8X DVD-R, 4X DVD±RW)
Video: AGP Gigabyte Radeon 9550 (Flashed to a 9600 BIOS, and overclocked to 400MHz core, 400MHz RAM)
Monitor: LG Flatron ez T710BH (17", CRT)
CASE: Generic Silver/blue
Misc: InfraRed, Altec speakers, 3.5" Floppy, Leadtek WinFast DV2000 TV card, Labtec Multimedia Windows Keyboard, Shaw optical mouse.
OS: Windows XP Professional (with all the latest patches and service packs), Linux being installed in a dual-boot config once I decide on a distro to use to suit my needs.

[M14A-Mclaren]

Why was this 'How big is your E-Penis' thread dug up again?

Originally Posted by M14A-Mclaren

Why was this 'How big is your E-Penis' thread dug up again?

Yeah we all know i've won

Ok, I'll join in

Motherboard: Asus P4P800s
CPU: Intel Pentium 4c 2.8Ghz @ 3.43 Ghz (1.575v)
RAM: Corsair XMS3200C2-512MB * 2 @ 245mhz (2.85v)
Video: Leadtek Nvidia FX5900XT @ 450/900Mhz
HDD: WD 160GB ATA & Seagate 200GB SATA
Optical: Pioneer 110, Samsung sucky 16x DVD-ROM
Cooling: Gigabyte 3D Rocket Pro & 4x80mm fans.
Monitor: LG F700b (17" Flatscreen CRT)

Would love to upgrade to a nice athlon 64 box with a 6800GT but the cars gotta come first. :

[XplosiveR6]

i just upgraded

motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
Processor: AMD Athllon 64 3200+
Ram: 2GB Corsair Value Select
Graphics: NVIDIA geforce 6800GT (only 1 at the moment, but ill get another soon)
Sound: Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
DVD-RW: Pioneer 108
TV card: DVICO Fusion HDTV
HDD: 1-seagate 80gig, 2-maxtor 160gig
Monitor: AOC 19" CRT
Keyboard/mouse: microsoft wireless
speakers: Logitech 5.1
O/S: Windows XP

[M14A-Mclaren]

Originally Posted by MattyJ

Yeah we all know i've won

There is plenty of room for improvment though.

[MITCHAY]

Hmm

CPU-P4 3.06ghz
RAM-512mb DDR
HDD-80gb
DVD drive
BenQ burner 52x42x52
ATX case
17" LG Flatron
Nvidia FX5200 128mb 8X
Same old HP keyboard and mouse
Crappy speakers
WIndows XP SP2

[Steffo]

Ok.. here's mine..

AMD Sempron 2200+ 1.5GHz
Abit NF7 nForce 2 Ultra 400 m/b
768MB PC2700 DDR DRAM (256 + 512)
80GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 ATA133 7200rpm HDD
Acer 32x12x8x CD-RW
CyberDrive 48x48x24x16x CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo
NEC 1.44MB Floppy drive
XpertVision 256MB ATi Radeon 9600LE
Built in sound (wouldn't accept my Soundblaster Live! 5.1 for some reason)
Creative FPS1000 4.1 Speakers+Sub
LG Flatron 775FT 17" CRT flat-screen (Need/want to get an LCD)
Custom case, clear size panel, 7x multi-colour LED case fan + blue cold-cathode light
Runs the stock AMD CPU fan, and it runs ok with it, its at stock speed though
Some sort of 300W PSU I payed $19 for. The brand is TT (not Thermaltake unfortunately). Thankfully, its a decent one, 300W peak power, 280W nominal.
Alcatel SpeedTouch 530 USB ADSL Modem (Standed issue Telstra Bigpond stuff)
Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer (I payed $100 for it way back when in 2001.. awesome mouse)
Microsoft Windows 98 Internet Keyboard (Also worth the $48 it cost me back in 2001)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Corporate Edition with Service Pack 2

I want to upgrade it to an Athlon64 X2 with two GeForce 6800GT's in SLI one day. Mmm.. dual core CPU with two videocards...

[Thornie]

Asus P4P-800E
Pentium4 3.0g
1024mb corsair ddr400
160gig ty samsung hdd
Nec dvd-r
Powercolor radeon 9600xt
550w psu (cant remember the brand)
thermaltake xaser V case
soundblaster live 5.1 surround
logitech x 350 surround speakers
19" viewmaster crt flat screen + 17" diamond view crt