Are you happy with your system?

[HannibalX]

I ran an AthlonXP 3200+ for a little over three years and was perfectly happy with it. I started to run into some minor limitations in early 2006. Nothing I couldn't live with but things "could be better". Prior to my XP 3200+ system I was running a 1GHz PIII box for years and years - that thing just wouldn't die.

I decided to upgrade to S939 in 2006 and purchased an Athlon64 4000+ (San D). Turns out this wasn't as huge of an upgrade as I thought for what I use my PC for, so I upgraded again to my current rig.

I am pretty pleased with how it runs, I can see keeping it for three-four years.

What about you?

 

[gib4501]

I have a 2 and half year old rig. I have a athon 64 3400 processor. It is the old socket 754. I have a 250gb hard drive and for graphics card i have a x850xtpe edition. I also have 2 gb of ddr memory. It can still play the current games. With the new games coming out i don't think it will be enough. I plan on uprading to a quad core machine sometime the beginning of next year.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Very happy with my system. Plays games just fine. Doesn't OC much, but I don't mind. She crunches & games just fine. I'm also very proud of my storage setup, so I have little to complain about. I wish my damn PDA gave me so little trouble.

 

[bamacre]

I am pretty cheap when it comes to my personal system. I'm running a Pent D 930, 2GB, 7900GT. It's been fine, and I game at 16x12 on my 20in Dell. I'm mainly a FPS gamer, and I have not had too many limitations. My previous system was actually a Dell 9100 (Pent 630, 2GB, 7800 GTX) which I sold for enough money to pay for my new system, even though it is not much of an upgrade by any means (unique situation).

I'm trying to piece together a C2D system, trying some oc'ing, but I have not even thought about upgrading my 7900 GT. Not until some better games come out. I'll probably wait until I see some solid Crysis benchmarks.

 

[Confusednewbie1552]

I have a 2 and a half year old system. socket 754 2800+ and a 6800 GT with 1 GB of ram. Im happy with my system and I actually don't plan on upgrading it till 2010 where I'll buy a laptop or something. It fulfills all my current needs and I don't really have time to game anymore so I don't need the latest and greatest computer.

 

[n7]

I just added an 8800 GTX to this system 45 minutes ago.

I can now say i'm pretty happy

 

[adairusmc]

Very happy

 

[bX510]

I want to build so many rigs and just use it, but from what I do and play... AMD Athlon 3000+ venice and X800XL will handle it. BUT if I had the money, i would waste it on the most expensive possible rig.

 

[bobsmith1492]

Hm, my laptop from 3 years ago now (sheesh, getting old...) is still excellent though the screen is getting dimmer, slowly enough that it rarely bugs me.

My desktop has served me well for 2/3 year now. I made it for gaming and working at home but gaming has stopped, so now it's a 6300@2.8+2GB+x1950XT web browser with Vista x64. ....

 

[Trevante]

Yes and No. My computer's almost two years old, and it's kind of made up of funky parts.

Pentium D 945 - up from a P4 530j. Temps are a lot better and the dual core performance is nice. Gonna get a Q6600 when the price drops though....

ECS RC410L - My asus mobo died on me and there was a combo at frys for this mobo and the Pentium D. I figured since I didn't really use all the fanciness of my old Asus, I'd get the combo for the dual core CPU. The CPU is great, but the mobo is crap. It's rock solid and reliable (wasn't at first, bios update fixed that), but limited in functionality. I can't even overclock my processor! I have this nice Zalman 7700 cooling stock speeds :-

1GB OCZ DDR2 533 RAM - I need another gig badly...finally got a job so hopefully this will get fixed soon. I'll just get 2GB of faster RAM and give the RAM to my brother or sell it.

Nvidia 7600GS - up from an X300. I wasn't into PC gaming when I first built my comp, so I just needed something to get a display up and running. Now after seeing how much better some games are on PC, I want a new gfx card. I bought the 7600gs used from someone for $35. Pretty good deal, I can actually run certain games now.

Ultra X-connect PSU - ah this thing looked so cool when I first got it, and the 34A looked really convincing. The modular cables on it suck though, they're not flexible enough. Still running fine though.

Athenatech A547BB - got this case for $20 at First Saturday sale in Dallas. Was a pretty good deal for a cheap n00b like myself at the time.

Dell M991 19" CRT - up from a 15" Compaq CRT. Bought it for $30 at that First Saturday sale in dallas. Still working great, but it's fricking huge and my system isn't strong enough to play my games at 1600x1200

Overall my system does what I need it to do (most of the time) but sometimes I wish it had a little more in the gaming department. Running FEAR at 800x600 isn't cool :-\

 

[postmortemIA]

Yes and no, my CPU is right now $36 at newegg ( A64 764 3200+), two raptors in RAID and nice 24" dislay ae nice, but dual core is kind of very useful nowadays.

 

[imported_ceefka]

Right now I wish I had decided to put everything in an Antec Take3 or Take4 case instead of the P150. That would have saved some space. Other than that I am quite pleased still with the performance of my S939 A64 3800+ X2, Gigabyte NF4 Ultra, 1x 250 WD 2x 300 Maxtor, all 16MB, all SATA. What I really need is a little peace and time to replace the stock cooler by the Scythe Ninja. I am a bit shocked by today's price of a AM2 3800 X2. I paid a little over 300 euro for mine. No OCing for me. I run mainly Cubase, GIMP, and Sony Vegas.

 

[drextremeops007]

Very happy with my system (4 more months to its 4th year) during its heyday. I am still running at the moment a P4 3.0c HT armed with ABit IC7 mobo (has Abit shut down...i dont see their offerings much anymore, but the IC7 was a great performer). The other parts are a 1 GB Corsair RAM kit, Gigabyte ATI Radeon9200, a Enermax 350W PS and 2 120GB HD. Still running an almost 10 years old Sony 17" CRT (which I will probably donate to a nearby school when I get a LCD later half of the year). Saving up right now to build a new C2D system, which will be probably be after the upcoming price cut.

 

[eggrolls]

My S754 Sempron 2800+, 1GB RAM, and 7600GT is more than enough for web browsing. The mobo and CPU was a Fry's combo used to replace my screwed up P4 system in early '06. I added the 7600GT this year to play some games. I guess I'm satisfied 90% of the time, when I'm not gaming. Still, I'm upgrading after the July price cuts

 

[frostedflakes]

Yeah I'm content with my system, but it is only about half a year old so I guess that's to be expected. I just mainly use it for browsing the net and listening to music, with some medium res gaming mixed in there.

The only thing I could see myself doing to it is replacing the video card in a few years. I'd also like to pick up a 32GB SSD for OS/a few games when the prices become reasonable, then use my current 160GB drive for multimedia.

 

[Roguestar]

There's nothing I want my PC to do that it can't. I'm pretty chuffed.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Yes I'm very :heart:

 

[Vogel515]

I think my system needs to go... Dell 8200 p4 2.23ghz(?) ti4200, 512 rdram.

I also need new speakers, they rarely both work at the same time.

My video card is dying... is it sad when doing web development and making interactive CSS or playing with mootools and you start to notice artifacts and sometimes it slows down to a crawl...

This system will be retired to my living room where it will become a jukebox.

It served me well for 5 + years.

 

[Noubourne]

Computers that are more than 12 months old are ripe for sale to a friend who doesn't care about performance.

For myself, I'll keep jumping on the latest overclocking star every year or so.

The mobo I have right now is actually pushing 2 years though. It will get tossed July 22 when I get a new case, PSU, RAM, CPU, and mobo. Quad-core at $266 is too cheap to pass up.

 

[imported_flounder]

I always want to upgrade to the fastest, but then I use my 5 year old Laptop or a friend's computer and realize that mine is plenty.

 

[Firsttime]

I just got a laptop to replace my oced 2 year old Sempron desktop. I am pretty happy with it. Gaming wise they are almost the same which is fine seeing as how the only games I play alot are older RTS games. New games just don't make me happy. All around my laptop smokes my old desktop, the extra core and RAM makes a huge difference. The only thing that might discontent me is when SC2 comes out.

 

[MetaDFF]

You could say I'm satisfied with my 4 year old rig I'm running now, it gets the job done ...
My system is:
AMD Athlon XP 2600+
Asus A7N8X MB
1 GB RAM
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro

I'm still amazed at what my 4 year old rig can do today. Recently I ran C&C3 on my machine at 1280x1024 medium settings. Even though C&C3 isn't the most graphically intense game, for a 4 year old machine, that's still nothing to sneeze at!
The only thing I wish it could do now is play HD video files ...
I'm definitely going to have to get a new system soon (sooner rather than later, LOL). Four years is definitely hitting the limits.

 

[Exodor]

I'm pretty happy with my machine. I started researched parts in early 2006 and built it last March as a cheap upgrade to my aging P4.

It's an AMD S939 3200+, 2 GB of PC3200 and a 7600GT. The RAM and hard drives were gifts/hand-me-downs so I only spent money on the CPU, video card and case. All told the entire upgrade cost me about $350-$400.

Of course it was only a few months after I put this together that Intel announced their Core2Duos.

Performance is fine although I'd like a dual-core upgrade. I'm hoping I can pick up a cheap S939 dual-core chip before they all go out of stock.

 

[Ausm]

I don't keep my parts very long so if it perform it's out the door.


Ausm

 

[w00t]

still happy with mine it doesn't seem like much has changed in the hardware world. the only thing that is really falling behind is my video card and it's doing so pretty slowly( X1900XT ).