Computers

[Jake Monroe]

Let us Talk about the crazy hardware we use to play our games on!

[Witchiebunny]

Oh you mean that wonderful little POS that was upgraded *just* to the point of being able to play TF2 and that craps out on me in the middle of games/just when I'm about to cap the intel or prevent someone from capping a point?

THAT crazy bit of hardware??


....I love it so.

[Doom]

You mean my overpriced crap-box that was the hottest thing a year or two ago? Poor thing has to chug to keep up on full settings for modern games. (Not talking source, talking STALKER with graphics mods, Crysis or Oblivion). It'll keep lasting, but I'd love to start from scratch this time, and not buy a media computer and go "LOLOL GRAPHICS CARD".

[Wulfie]

Mine's a noisy little thing. Was sorta good years ago, but I think I may need to upgrade to a better computer sometime this year. I get lag when I put decent settings on half the games, but at least the graphics are decent enough for good entertainment.

..Just wish they were better.. y'know..

Hm, what difference is there between 1 Gig - 2 Gig RAM, and 2 Gig - 4 Gig? Worth finding out.

[Purplecat]

If Valve finally stabilized the multi-thread support, I would probably never need to upgrade this computer... at least for TF2.

The processor seems to be the limiting factor for me. :/ Stops being too as soon I use multi-threading...

[Bio]

For a computer made by Dell AND with the OS being Vista Home Premium, it's actually not that bad despite what people say about both. I can play all the games I own on it without little trouble. Certainly better than what I used to have too.

[Arcalane]

[DrJones]

My system is REALLY old by most standards, yet it runs TF2 well due to some later add-ons.

Here's the specs: Singlecore P4 2.6Ghz, 3GB RAM, Nvidia 7600 GTS 256mb, dying SB Live 5.1

I've had that computer since 2003 and all it got upgrades on was the video card, RAM and hard disks. It even runs the same installation of XP since that time. How did XP survice without the need for reinstall? Simple, everything I do is on User level. Rarely anything is ran as Admin. So nothing can mess with Windows itself.

I need to shut down the DNS service in XP though, otherwise it tends to eat 100% CPU time every few minutes, which chokes TF2's performance.

That being said, somewhere at the end of the year or maybe beginning of 2009 I will get a new system.

[Fernin]

-This is my current Machine-

Compaq Presario F730US

AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TK-55 (1.8GHz) processor
2GB installed memory
120GB Hard drive
LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVDñR/RW with Double Layer Support
15.4" WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen (1280 x 800) Display
802.11b/g WLAN
Weight 6.6lbs
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium


Yah, it's a POS and it BARELY runs TF2, but it works for me.

-My future machine-

This is the laptop I'm picking up around the end of month. Quite swanky for the price in my opinion.

http://explore.toshiba.com/laptops/qosm ... /X305-Q701

OS: WIndows Vista Premium 64bit
Processor: Intel® Core 2 Duo Processor T7350
Processor Number: P7350
Processor Speed: 2.0GHz
Front Side Bus: 1066MHz
Memory Size: 4096MB
Memory Speed: PC3-8500 DDR3 1066MHz SDRAM
Display Size: 17.0" widescreen
Display Resolution: 1440x900
Graphics Engine: NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS
Graphics Memory: 2303MB total (64-bit): 512MB GDDR3 discrete memory + up to 1791MB shared memory w/NVIDIA TurboCache
Hard Drive Size: 200GB
Hard Drive Speed: 7200rpm
Weight: 8.99 Lbs before future hardware additions

[Fenriswulfdemon]

Manufacturer: GATEWA
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.9GHz
Memory: 3324MB RAM
Hard Drive: 239 GB (+500GB External)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
Monitor: 1440x900
Sound Card: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
Headphones: Broken
Keyboard: USB Root Hub
Mouse: Logitech G5
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080425-1930)

I'll be building a Linux laptop when I have enough money. I've been meaning to fix up this computer for awhile, but I'm lazy, and I already have my computer at work built to my needs, so no real reason to upgrade my home pc. Runs Visual Studio and TF just fine, don't need anything else.