What's under your hood?

[Sullivan (AUS)]

Howdy all, Sullivan (AUS) here. Many will know me as captain of the high pings from the Galt and Lazy Dog servers, many won't.

Someone who wanted to get into Nexuiz was asking what top-of-the-line gear I was running to be able to play as well as I do (not that I play all that well, but I manage to get myself to the top of the list now and then).

They were surprised to know that most of my setup is made from bottom-of-the-line recycled goods.

So I thought I would ask everyone else the question, what's under your hood?

For me:

Processor: 2.4ghz Celeron, 128 L2 Cache.
Ram: 1G DDR400 (@333) Value Select (pulled from recycled computers)
Video Card: GeForce FX5500
Hard Drive: Old IDE 80GB Seagate
Keyboard: Acer Chicony (recycled)
Mouse: Dell (recycled)
Network: Onboard
Sound: Onboard, runs to a set of old Nicole speakers (recycled)
*I actually bought some Sony headphones yesterday, so I can now hear when people (I'm looking at you Lixivial) are sneaking up behind me.
Monitor: 17inch @ 600x800 (for game only)
OS: Windows XP (highly optimized)
Connection: 1.5mb/256kb

The only thing good about my setup is my router which is a WNR834B, which I won in a competition (for being APC Magazines geek of the month this last February).

So anyways, what are you all running?

[impulse9]

Hi there Sullivan .

My configuration:

Processor: 2900+ AMD Sempron
Ram: 512 Mb
Video Card: crappy ATI 9250 series
Keyboard: Logitech Y-SU61
Mouse: a rather unpredictable Dell mouse
Network: 3Com EtherLink something
Sound: Onboard
Monitor: 17" Samsung LCD
Connection: 512 / 256

[John Galt]

Hmm. Maybe I'm a little spoiled

AMD Athlon X2 4200
2GB RAM @ 400mhz (mixed brands)
nVidia 6600 GTX PCI-E
120GB SATA II (WD)
And varying distros from Slackware to Kubuntu and PCLinuxOS.
Keyboard: Happy Hacking Lite 2 (I LOVE this keyboard!)
Mouse: Cheap Logitech optical
19" Viewsonic VP-920b
Sound: Onboard
Net: 15mbit down / 2mbit up (but the connection drops all the time )

[nexbender]

Processor: Dual-core 3.2GHz Pentium 4 (Prescott, aka the PresHOT due to thermal issues ), latest microcode
Ram: 4GB DDR2 (non-EDAC, 667Mhz, 5-5-15)
MOBO: GA-P35-DS3R (rev.2), latest stable BIOS
Video Card: 256MB GeForce 7900 GTO (modded to near-GTX timings)
Hard Drive: Two Western Digital Raptors (WD740GD) in AHCI (slash and home) and two Seagate Cheetahs (15K.3 ST318453LC 18GB) on an Adaptec 29160N (yes, running at 180, since I can't justify the $200+ for a 320 controller) (for /tmp, /var/tmp - rbind on one drive - and audio projects on the other)
Keyboard: PS/2 MS Natural. Everything else *sucks*.
Mouse: PS/2 MS Optical Wheel Mouse. Gaming mice are for wussies.
Network card: D-Link something or other (8139too)
Sound: Audigy 2 ZS
Monitor: 19" ViewSonic CRT (A91f+) - 19" (18" viewable)
OS: back to Archlinux, custom RT kernel (2.6.24-rc2-rt1-dp01)
Connection: 10Mb down / 1Mb up cable modem behind a DD-WRT modded router.

[:)]

For more see this thread: http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.ph ... light=Dave

[Urmel]

yeah and welcome to the forums

[Taiyo.uk]

Core 2 Duo E6300
2GB DDR2
Intel 965 graphics (YOU think Nexuiz is slow...)
1x 320GB SATA for /boot and /backup
4x 200GB SATA, RAID5 for /home /var and /usr
FC6 Linux
M2 ATX 160W 12V power supply
Queenserver RM414B case, biggest pile of crap ever, hence all the aluminium bar and custom fan bracket in there.

[[-z-]]

Nice cabling job Taiyo.uk

Intel Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS 256MB
2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 RAM
EVGA 122-CK-NF67-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i LT SLI Motherboard
2 x Western Digital 36.7 GB Harddrives
2 x Western Digital 250 GB Caviar SE (SATA)
2 x Western Digital 320 GB Caviar SE (IDE)
4 x Samsung Spinpoint T series 500GB in a RAID5 on a HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 PCI Express SATA II Controller Card (Total 1.36TB)

Made sure everything is ready for upgrades:
SLi Ready, Quadcore Ready and the board supports up to 8GB of RAM

[Nospunosaj]

AMD Athlon XP 2100+ 1.7 GHz
1024 MB DDR 400 RAM
Gigabyte ATI Radeon 9000 PRO 128 MB (Love this card despite it's age)
Used to have X1650 PRO but ATI closed source Linux drivers are horrible.
On board AC97 audio for Linux
SB X-Fi ExtremeMusic for Windows
13.0 GB Fujitsu HD w. Ubuntu Linux 7.10 RC (Need bigger HD!!)
100 GB Segate HD w. Windows XP Home Edition SP2
5.0 MB/364 KB on cable modem

All in all, this rig runs Nexuiz surprisingly well. Major overhaul coming up for full Linux compatibility and ditching Windows completely.

[GreEn`mArine]

Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 3.0 Ghz (only when needed, otherwise stock 2.4 Ghz)
on Gigabyte P35-DQ6
with 4 GB DDR2 400Mhz RAM,
a GF 8800GTS 320 MB,
a SB Audigy 4,
and 2x 500 GB WD RE2.

Running Win XP 32 bit and 64 bit (Dual boot).

Connected to Internet by University (which is good and bad at the same time, good because of bandwith, bad because of packetloss and downtimes)

System cooled by water and some additional fans for motherboard heatpipe.

For gaming I use a default keyboard from 1999, a MX518 and a Speedlink Medusa 5.1 Headset. Using two mousepads (Steelpad QcK and QcK+).