Are you satisfied with your system? [Archive]

scrible88

02-23-2005, 02:10 AM

I just put my system (specs in sig) together yesterday and am extremely satisfied with it. I'm not a performance freak or anything but this system will do everything I need it to. I was also on a very tight budget and am happy with the results.

I love the Newcastle 754 I have. I was expecting 2200mhz MAYBE because saaya said my chip was probably going to be crap. I'm glad he was wrong! 2650mhz 24/7 is good enough for me! I already had the PSU and need to replace it badly.

So are you guys overall satisfied with your systems?

saaya

02-23-2005, 02:15 AM

cool! glad your chip turned out to that nice! :)

and yet another proof that cpu steppings dont mean that much after all , i had 2 chips with a very similar stepping and they only did 2.4ghz...

system looks very nice, except for the memory... hmmm maybe try that twinmos winbond memory? here you can get 2 512mb sticks for 180$ or less and they seem to do 250mhz 2-2-2 or higher :)

L0$t Pr0PhEt

02-23-2005, 03:52 AM

I'm satisfied with my system exept for the ram and videocard :p

reject

02-23-2005, 06:40 AM

im not satisfied with my cpu or ram. other than that its great
soon to get 1 or 2 phase systems

antipop

02-23-2005, 10:37 AM

i'm very happy with my system ..... when it's working without a problem which seems to not be the case lately

Rabidmoose171

02-23-2005, 11:40 AM

Im not satisfied with my system, its my mobo, the gigabyte k8nsultra, gives me alomst 100mhz lower than my asus did...

Dissolved

02-23-2005, 11:55 AM

well honestly, No one is.

When you get into this Scene, you get addicted and then you want the latest and fastest products out untill you get to a Piont where money issues are to consern then you gotta back out..

This happeneds To the Best of us, and im sure Many Folks here can say its happened to them..

But yea, Im honestly Happy with my system, i do want some changes, like the ATI AIW x800xtpe, and maybe better ram, 250fsb isnt enough to please me..

bh2k

02-23-2005, 01:26 PM

If I was, I wouldn't overclock.

blinky

02-23-2005, 01:48 PM

im not satisfied, cuz i cant afford good stuff :(

lalPOOO

02-23-2005, 02:10 PM

Satisfied, but that voice in the back of your head never goes away...

Aphex_Tom_9

02-23-2005, 02:21 PM

just wish i had a newer stepping cpu so i could maybe do 3ghz, my current one is a week 47 of 03...i got it for cheap though, and 2.8 is nice, so i cant really complain.

Holst

02-23-2005, 02:37 PM

1.5gig A64 1mb and Bh5 1:1 are the best things in my system.
My mouse monitor and stuff are like old friends, and I woudlnt change them.

The only thing im not all that happy with is my 9800pro, not that its a bad card the overclock is very good and stable. But I think Ill want to move up to something faster in the near future. No matter what I do CS:S still drops down below 40fps sometimes, which is bad for aiming. Ive put off buying a new graphics card for ages, but Ill try and pick up an AGP X800 second hand some time... if I can find the money.

Im happyer with this A64mobile3200, DFI-UT and winbond Bh5 than I have been with any other system so far.

eddy

02-23-2005, 04:01 PM

No....
3400 Clawhammer
MSI K8N Neo Plat.
x800pro
512x2 BH5
SB Audigy 2 ZS Plat.
80 gig maxtor sata
14" Gateway 2000 monitor

I don't like the ram because it's not stable over 205mhz. I'll be replacing it soon.
I don't like the sound card. It stops working every once in a while. New one here soon. Most likely an m-audio card.
Hard drive is acceptable, but I will get 2 raptors to replace it.
Monitor is garbage. Replacing it with a 32" Samsung lcd hdtv or a projector.

scrible88

02-23-2005, 05:29 PM

Satisfied, but that voice in the back of your head never goes away...

Exactly. :toast:

perkam

02-23-2005, 05:49 PM

Satisfied with a dell...... :rotf:

Thats a no ( :twisted: )

Perkam

Der_KHAN

02-23-2005, 05:53 PM

im not satisfied! - esp with my ram that wont run 1T.

and the whole rig is just way to slow!
even wow has performance issues at full details/1280x960/2xAA :(

and if this wouldnt be enough, since i took the waterblock off my nb i cant get any fsb over 200 stable :brick:

i cant wait till my new stuff finally arrives! *humming jeopardy jingle* :D

jayjaya29

02-23-2005, 08:19 PM

I am satisfied with my system excluding the nagging thought of being better in the back of my head. 32-bit AMD's were nothing but trouble for me, I owned 3 chips (1400+, 1700+, 2600+ mobile), and it was always an unstable machine. I couldn't get a stable overclock, I had constant problems. Now that I have my 64 machine, most of these problems have gone away and my system performance is top-notch, to me at least. Of course, I would like to upgrade, I have the money, but I am saving it for other stuff. But when you upgrade, you clearly see that upgrading one part creates a bottle-neck in another area. I bought my PSU, Mobo, and CPU, and I saw that this created a bottle-neck in my RAM area, I upgraded the RAM and now I have a bottleneck in the video card area. Ahh well, I'll just live with this 9700Pro for now.

black rose

02-23-2005, 08:29 PM

Overall yes, it does everything I need it to as smooth as possible. My games don't lag, my programs compile without error, and it's quiet compared to my other systems. My only gripe is the crappy overclock on my cpu (maxes at 2200). But since I cant afford anything new for a while and I don't need extra power, I'm happy. Even though I have the upgrade bug again with NF4 and r520 rumors :(

mcnbns

02-23-2005, 08:43 PM

Yeah, I like my system and it's all stable and pretty fast (except vid card... I kinda chipped the core with some custom h2o mounting problems... I'm stuck with a 9600 Pro that won't overclock now).

Having said that, it's definitely time for my yearly upgrade. :) I'm thinking E stepping 3000+, DFI nForce4 Ultra-D, ATi Radeon X800. :cool: Now that I have a job it might be possible. :banana:

tinker77

02-23-2005, 10:03 PM

Never satisfied, always upgrading and stuff. I need help! =(

hehehe

masterofpuppets

02-24-2005, 11:09 AM

I'm satisfied with my systems since they are both uber high end and kick much ass.

jjcom

02-24-2005, 11:16 AM

I guess...just need a some new stuff lol :D need more money, than I'd be happy...for a month lol

jjcom

conrad.maranan

02-24-2005, 11:51 AM

Satisfied, but that voice in the back of your head never goes away...
Those damn voices give me a headache. My wife often argues with those voices when I'm sleeping. She claims that I mumble computer terminology in my sleep every so often (she's serious). It gets to the point where she'll even respond to what I'm saying just to hear what I might say next. :mad:

saaya

02-24-2005, 05:26 PM

I mumble computer terminology in my sleep every so often :eek: :stick:

relax and have a beer dude :D :toast:

Der_KHAN

02-24-2005, 06:18 PM

Those damn voices give me a headache. My wife often argues with those voices when I'm sleeping. She claims that I mumble computer terminology in my sleep every so often (she's serious). It gets to the point where she'll even respond to what I'm saying just to hear what I might say next. :mad:lol, thats awesome :lol:

Stewie007

02-24-2005, 06:29 PM

When I get my chiller built, and buy the rest of my computer parts and overclock my Winnie 3500? I'll let ya know :p

Stang_Man

02-24-2005, 08:16 PM

conrad.maranan

02-24-2005, 09:13 PM

:eek: :stick:

relax and have a beer dude :D :toast:
I drink too much as it is. Maybe that's why the voices refuse to go away. :D

lol, thats awesome :lol:
My wife would beg to differ. ;)

Der_KHAN

02-24-2005, 09:31 PM

saaya

02-25-2005, 02:20 AM

talking about "When you get into this Scene, ..."

last holidays i went to a lan and realized that my rig was by far the fastest.
i had the feeling that my sys maybe wasnt that slow after all.

but back to the xs-madness i feel that an x850xt-pe really is absolutely necessary :D

yeah i know that :D
you really get thinking when you think you cant take it anymore and need to upgrade your machine and then go to a lan and find out your "old" and "slow" machine is still the fastest rig even though there are some guys with all new rigs.... :D

there was one guy once who just got a really nice new sys sponsored from his clan and couldnt believe that my old system was faster than his brand new top of the line gaming machine :D
i had a 6 months old barton at 11x240 with 2 years old bh5 at 2-2-2 and a 12 months old or older !!! 9500np@9700pro :lol:
he had a P4 3.2ghz (fastest cpu out back then) some corsair "low latency" memory at 2-3-3 and an fx5800U :D

DudeMiester

02-25-2005, 05:52 PM

I hate my computer. It's a damn 1.533Ghz Palermino core Athlon XP (1800) with 768MB generic RAM. I can't get more then 1.7Ghz at 1.8v and it's not totally stable, but I can do 1.667Ghz 24/7 np, still it sucks. Almost as much as my one stick of generic RAM that can only go from 266Mhz to 295Mhz, although the other one goes all the way to 356Mhz, but I think I'm running into the limits of my POS mobo then. It's just an ASUS KT266 chipset, POS.

Then I look at my BFG Geforce 6800GT and I feel a bit better, and then I realise how horribly CPU limited I am and it sucks again.

Vett95wLT4

02-25-2005, 05:56 PM

i'm very happy with my system, hell, i'm delirious with it lol

Disposibleteen

02-25-2005, 06:03 PM

must be nice im not happy with mine at all, give it time though

oublie

02-25-2005, 06:19 PM

i used to be happy with my rigs until i discovered xtreme systems. Now the only time im happy is during sex and when i get a new piece of hardware. :D

MaxxxRacer

02-25-2005, 08:44 PM

I am NOT satisfied.. and you know why... ITs because im on a NF2 with a xp1600 running at pathetic 1.7ghz clock speed (oced from 1.4) and what really pisses me off is that i have ocz3200 el plat that clocks like mad, an x800xt that will do 650mhz on teh core and a ocz powerstream 520... so i have the perfect gaming machine except for the fact that im on a nf2... and im so broke i cant afford a new a64 cpu to put into my kn8noe2 sitting in the stack of mobos at the far side of the room...

oh woe is me.

blinky

02-26-2005, 01:29 AM

i used to be happy with my rigs until i discovered xtreme systems. Now the only time im happy is during sex and when i get a new piece of hardware. :Dkicks just keep getting harder to find

yah for me its sex, drugs, and new hardware :rolleyes:

boshi

02-26-2005, 01:33 AM

yah for me its sex

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

( just kidding of course )

MaxxxRacer

02-26-2005, 06:07 AM

thats messed up boshi...

olfen

02-26-2005, 07:28 AM

I will never be satisfied

chrispycrunch

03-01-2005, 04:41 PM

I'm satisfied with my system exept for the ram and videocard :p

I noticed your sig says 9600pro @ XT? How'd you do that?
I've got the sapphire 9600 pro 128mb.

I'm using the "A.I." overclocking feature of my fine mobo. So it's at 220x10. I'd like to push it more, but I don't think i'll much use of it except for games...and it's my video card that's the bottleneck :)

nebuchanezzar

03-01-2005, 05:11 PM

Yes and no...I wanna be in the 64bit systems but like my sig says...I aint got the cash to keep up withe the jonesess :D

HiJon89

03-01-2005, 05:26 PM

I love my computer, although judging by the amount of hardware that comes through my house you wouldn't think I'm satisfied :p:

Crow

03-01-2005, 07:22 PM

im not satified with mine

I have AMD64 and wanna go intel, when I get intel, ill be happy :)

-dr-

03-01-2005, 07:30 PM

i`m very satisfied with mine... it`s true that it would be better if I could change some of them, but I think this`s enough for the time being...

isp

03-01-2005, 07:40 PM

I'm happy with it overall. Plays today's games fine...

I wouldn't mind upgrading to 939 though (have the shuttle an50R back from when nf3 just came out). :o I will consider throwing more cash at it in a few months when I get a summer job.

DudeMiester

03-02-2005, 09:53 PM

I think I'll only be satisified when I can tell random people how powerful my computer is and they all go, "DAMN!" I have a ravenous ego to feed.

perkam

03-02-2005, 09:57 PM

I think I'll only be satisified when I can tell random people how powerful my computer is and they all go, "DAMN!" I have a ravenous ego to feed.

LOL Yeah like noobs to computers...I imagine that'd work. But you should be careful though. As saaya pointed out, even his 9700 with the right cooling could beat your 6800GT in 01 ;) Not to depress u or anything :cool:

Perkam

DudeMiester

03-02-2005, 10:21 PM

Of course it would beat it, my comp is a POS. The CPU is total ass. The vid card is it's only, and I stress only, redeeming quality.

Crankster

03-07-2005, 06:48 AM

I have the geek world domination syndrome, i see myself in dreams of fire and destruction. My PC the fastest, by a fair margin.
All bow down to me, "hail Crankster though arth teh herald of doom!"
J/K :D

Oh, did i mention i listen to warriors of the world united by Man o' war right now?

Disposibleteen

03-07-2005, 06:57 AM

I have the geek world domination syndrome, i see myself in dreams of fire and destruction. My PC the fastest, by a fair margin.
All bow down to me, "hail Crankster though arth teh herald of doom!"

Oh, did i mention i listen to warriors of the world united by Man o' war right now?
whoa i dont think ive ever heard anyone kiss their own ass before

Crankster

03-07-2005, 07:08 AM

It was in a joking manner, of cource :D
I'll add a J/K and a smiley, ust thought it was evident it was a joke :confused:

Der_KHAN

03-07-2005, 12:17 PM

Oh, did i mention i listen to warriors of the world united by Man o' war right now?

be careful! every second u listen to manowar kills 1.38*10^13 brain cells! :wierd:

Crankster

03-07-2005, 12:53 PM

What? I don't understand what this is ^ :confused:
J/K :D

jjcom

03-07-2005, 01:38 PM

whoa i dont think ive ever heard anyone kiss their own ass before

:lol: yeah

^ means "X to the Y power"

jjcom

Der_KHAN

03-07-2005, 04:36 PM

What? I don't understand what this is ^ :confused:
J/K :D

which means it already has begun... :lol:

example: 10^2 = 10² ... geddit? (if not: 1.38*10^13 = 13800000000000) :D

stockhatch

03-11-2005, 06:04 AM

Im more satisfied now than I was with a 1.2 Athlon and 384MB of SDRAM :D

My sig isnt showing for some reason...

3.4E@4GHz
IC7-MAX 3
GSkill LEs 2.5-3-3-7
OCZ Powerstream 520
X800XT 590/590
Water Cooled