So do I have the crappiest rig here?

[jrodson69]

LOL. It's a jake-rigged HP a1330n (Athlon 3800+).

I'm literally drooling at upgrading but just can't afford it right now.

Any one using something more pathetic as their main machine?

 

[jrocks84]

Well my friend's main machine is an Athlon 3000+, 1GB ram, and it has a Radeon x850 xt pe card which is majorly bottlenecked by everything else.

 

[jrodson69]

Well he's got me beat. I only got 1 gig RAM too and graphics..wish I had X850XT just the crappy integrated ATI 200 or whatever.

 

[faxon]

my girlfriend was using a dell b140 laptop (worst laptop ever, literally) up until just this summer when i let her start using my laptop cause i was never using it LOL. got 3 going on 4 high end desktops, and i spend most of my time at home in my man cave surrounded by my tech farm. i still have a 2600+ system with 2gb of ram and a radeon x1650 PRO AGP 512mb as well though, been thinking about pulling it out and seeing if it still runs haha

 

[flexcore]

men u all have me blown away! my opty 165 rig is down for good so my old pent 4 at 2.4 is up. i'm about to freek out. def time for me to upgrade!!! oh ya i'm using the int grafix!!!!

 

[Markfw]

I have a Pentium 200 mmx system (but its not my primary)

 

[twinrider1]

Pentium II w/MMX
128.0MB Ram
Win98

Actually does basic forum/internet stuff ok. Just no big flash and forget YouTube!
Yes, currently shopping for a new box. I'd at least like to get up to 2005.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Pentium II w/MMX
128.0MB Ram
Win98

Actually does basic forum/internet stuff ok. Just no big flash and forget YouTube!
Yes, currently shopping for a new box. I'd at least like to get up to 2005.

Jesus, that's your main box?

 

[Idontcare]

Pentium II w/MMX
128.0MB Ram
Win98

Actually does basic forum/internet stuff ok. Just no big flash and forget YouTube!
Yes, currently shopping for a new box. I'd at least like to get up to 2005.

You have my sincerest condolences if that is a rig you use daily.

My 1.8GHz Core2 laptop stutters with youtube vids if I try and do 720HD...I can't imagine what flash ads do to your rig D:

I have zero sympathy for Mark...200Mhz Pentium? Compared to your "god box farm" that occupies the rest of your house I am guessing you use the Pentium rig to turn your coffee pot on and off

 

[CurseTheSky]

My fiancée's desktop is an X2 4200+ (socket 939), A8N-SLI Premium, 1GB DDR, an X1650 Pro PCI-E. It's getting very long in the tooth, but she primarily uses a laptop so we're really not concerned.

My fiancée's son's machine is an Athlon XP 1500+ (IIRC), some generic Socket A motherboard, 512 MB DDR, and a 9800 XT. He's 6, and he also has a laptop with a P8400, 4GB DDR2, and 9650m GT to use, so upgrading it isn't any huge priority.

 

[Quiksilver]

Meh.
My main...

AMD 4000+ (the single core one)
7900GT
2GB ram.

Hoping to be able to upgrade sometime in Q2 of 2011

 

[Kivada]

Current main, Sempron Thoroughbred 2400+(1.6Ghz / 333Mhz FSB) @2Ghz/400Mhz FSB 1Gb DDR400 Geforce 6200(NV44A) LE AGP @421Mhz core 582Mhz VRam and an ECS 741GX-M. It only has the one overclocking option...

It can't game much but basic browsing is good with FF 3.6.10 in Ubuntu 10.4.1. I can watch higher quality youtube vids fine if I pull them form /tmp and play them in Totem, VLC or MPlayer.

 

[IntelUser2000]

My 1.8GHz Core2 laptop stutters with youtube vids if I try and do 720HD...I can't imagine what flash ads do to your rig D:

Reallly? How does a 1.8GHz Core 2 stutter on Youtube HD? The CPU should be powerful enough just to handle it by itself. On my 2.4GHz Core 2 it was using 20% CPU running 1080p Youtube.

*bow* to the person running the Pentium MMX as the main rig.

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

You have my sincerest condolences if that is a rig you use daily.

My 1.8GHz Core2 laptop stutters with youtube vids if I try and do 720HD...I can't imagine what flash ads do to your rig D:

I have zero sympathy for Mark...200Mhz Pentium? Compared to your "god box farm" that occupies the rest of your house I am guessing you use the Pentium rig to turn your coffee pot on and off

Wow. What kind of graphics solution?

Oh, and I had to use my Thinkpad 360cse last month, for floppy drive access. Intel 486, baby!!!

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I am guessing you use the Pentium rig to turn your coffee pot on and off

lol

 

[TurtleCrusher]

IDK, you'd be surprised how many people just surf the net on their phones as their promary internet.

On that note, I guess my specs are an ARM9 @ 266mhz, 128mb ram and no name video ;-)

 

[Idontcare]

Reallly? How does a 1.8GHz Core 2 stutter on Youtube HD? The CPU should be powerful enough just to handle it by itself. On my 2.4GHz Core 2 it was using 20% CPU running 1080p Youtube.

*bow* to the person running the Pentium MMX as the main rig.

Wow. What kind of graphics solution?

Oh, and I had to use my Thinkpad 360cse last month, for floppy drive access. Intel 486, baby!!!

It is specifically this laptop:

Inspiron 1525, Intel Pentium Dual Core T2390 (1.86GHz 533Mhz, 1M L2 Cache)

Addies: 3GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm
15.4 inch Wide Screen WXGA+ LCD
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 Home Basic
IE8

Latest "DELL" drivers installed, etc.

I can watch youtube videos up to 480 just fine. 720HD and it will stutter/skip frames a couple times per second. (it is not a streaming issue either, plenty of buffer and it does it even when replaying an already downloaded stream)

I "upgraded" to this lappy from a DELL X200 that was a 12" w/800MHz P3. TBH if it weren't for the fact I got a much larger screen and the price was $550 for the Insp1525 versus $2k for the X200 I would have felt like I had just made a side-grade.

My laptop computing experience was not dramatically improved. I only use it for web browsing and some light mathematica stuff.

But it does help me feel like my Q6600 @ 2.4GHz (stock!) main rig is plenty fast :biggrin:

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

It is specifically this laptop:

Inspiron 1525, Intel Pentium Dual Core T2390 (1.86GHz 533Mhz, 1M L2 Cache)

Addies: 3GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm
15.4 inch Wide Screen WXGA+ LCD
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 Home Basic
IE8

Latest "DELL" drivers installed, etc.

I can watch youtube videos up to 480 just fine. 720HD and it will stutter/skip frames a couple times per second. (it is not a streaming issue either, plenty of buffer and it does it even when replaying an already downloaded stream)

...

Ah, the Intel video decelerator.

Have you tried disabling "hardware acceleration" in the video driver?

It seems to me that you should be able to play 720p pretty smoothly.

 

[bryanW1995]

I have a Pentium 200 mmx system (but its not my primary)

how does that rig do in f@h?

 

[VirtualLarry]

IDK, you'd be surprised how many people just surf the net on their phones as their promary internet.

On that note, I guess my specs are an ARM9 @ 266mhz, 128mb ram and no name video ;-)

You mean what I'm using right now? WM8505 @ 300Mhz, 128MB RAM. Unsure about the video, I think it's Via-something.

CVS $100 netbook

 

[TurtleCrusher]

You mean what I'm using right now? WM8505 @ 300Mhz, 128MB RAM. Unsure about the video, I think it's Via-something.

CVS $100 netbook

Its pretty darn close. I'm using a Blackjack 2 with those specs, running WM6.1.

I bought this little thing for $50 from a coworker a year and a half back. Especially back then it was a killer deal.

 

[Idontcare]

Ah, the Intel video decelerator.

Have you tried disabling "hardware acceleration" in the video driver?

It seems to me that you should be able to play 720p pretty smoothly.

I had not tried that...I thought hardware acceleration was a good thing?

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

I had not tried that...I thought hardware acceleration was a good thing?

Well, I remember a couple of years back, ATI's hardware acceleration could really bork some video formats, resulting in poor IQ and choppy playback. This was subsequently fixed in a driver release.

Also, maybe the CPU is the stronger part, even for video playback?

 

[Idontcare]

Yeah I am going to give it a try, no harm in that.

 

[CurseTheSky]

I had not tried that...I thought hardware acceleration was a good thing?

It is when you have a strong GPU and / or a weak CPU (such as Atom paired with a Nvidia 9400 IGP).

When you have a fairly good CPU (like yours) and a weak GPU, it's best to turn off hardware acceleration.