Brewology

Well, I just finished building my computer, and so far I'm quite happy, I couldn't afford a better video card, (I was on a 1k budget) so I got the best stuff I could for that price. Here are the specs:

Hard Drive: 640GB WD SATA
Processor: Q6600 Intel Core 2 Quad @2.4 GHz <- Would overclock, but I don't really find the need.
RAM: 4GB DDR2
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit
Graphics: Nvidia (Integrated) 256MB dedicated, HDMI cable slot, 1080p support <- All I could Afford, came with the Mother Board
Power Supply: 550 WATT
Media slots: 14-in-1 Media Expansion Bay + 9 USB 2.0 slots
Disc Drive: I'm not really sure, it's from my old comp, but it can burn a full two hour DVD in around 15 minutes + lite scribe/blu-ray support
Monitor: 24" LG Flatron


It has great potential in my mind, just need a video card, and I'm all set! lol.
I'll take some pictures later, Once I get my new case.



can you beat it?

Dam that is some stuff. All I got is this lol.

Solid State Drive: 32GB
Processor: Intel® Atom Processor® N270 (1.6GHz/533Mhz FSB/512K cache)
RAM: 1 GB DDR2
OS: Ubuntu 8.04
Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
Media Slots: 3-in-1 Media Card Reader and 3 USB slots.
Disc Drive: Couldn't fit one in there, so I got a external one on the way.
Screen Size: 9"

Its great though, got PS1, NES, and N64 Emulators set up so far.
Nice portable DVD player and all that good stuff.

But your desktop is a dream lol.

I paid around $900.00 CAD, and it's not going to be a full-dream until I get the graphics card, lol, but then, and only then, will it be a dream.

Why would you buy 4gb of ram and only have a 32-bit OS? You can only use about 3gb of the ram you bought. I'm leaving for school right now, I'll add more to this post when I get home though.

Soon to get a 64-bit, lol maybe a better motherboard.

Mine is better

I need to take some pictures of it though. I have some but they're old. Since then, I've added a sound card, new CPU HSF, new RAM, and managed the cables better.

-DarkPacMan77-

Oh, of course DPM has a better Computer than me, lol. Mind sparing you "old" graphics card?

Well I think I may have posted a pic of my "rig" back in the day on this forum somewhere but since there is a topic dedicated to it now I might as well post it here:


^The Side


^The Front

The specs are:

Hard Drive: 500GB SATA Plus a 500GB External
Processor: AMD Phenom Quad Core 2.2GHZ 9500+
RAM: 4GB DDR2 800MHZ
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
Graphics: Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 512MB Dual DVI-I
Power Supply: 620 WATT Enermax Liberty
Disc Drive: A random old Cheep DVD Writer with Light Scribe
Monitor: 22" AOC LCD

I've had it for almost a year now I think and it still runs rather well.

Also Yeah it's rather dusty because I havn't really had much time to Clean it out and whatnot lately.

Yeah I think that sums it up...

EDIT: I have no idea why the Front view image is small I tried deleting it of photobucket then reuploading and changing some setting around and stuff but it doesn't want to be full size =P.

Two WesternDigital HDD 1. 400GB 2. 500GB
AMD Athalon 64X2 Dual core 3800+ 2.01 (upgrade with tax returns soon)
2.0 gigs of ram
Windows Vista 32bit
ATI Radeon HD2400 512MB onboard ram HDMI slot
19inch Flat panel

my new case is not that nice looking, but my old one, I forgot when I moved... sexy beast.


Here's the video I just uploded:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=3MU4FHLmRig