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[Nix]

Following up a mini-discussion in the Fight Thread Pollution thread, what are you computer stats? I get the feeling that a lot of indies are running on pretty old hardware.

I built my computer several months ago on a medium budget (~$500 for everything from power supply to monitor):

• AMD Athlon II X3 450 3.2 GHz
• 4GB DDR3
• ATI Radeon HD 4650
• 500 GB hard drive + 250 GB hard drive (for a Fedora installation)
• Windows Vista Business Edition (I get it for free through MSDN AA)

[Sakar]

My new computer

• nVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
• AMD Phenom II 1100T Black Edition
• 8GB DDR3
• 96 SSD, 2x 1TB HDD, 500GB HDD
• Arvina GS-6400B
• Windows 7 Home Premium

[phubans]

My computer is almost 2 years old now. It originally had a 750 GB HD but I had to swap it out.

• Intel Core2 Quad @ 2.4 GHz
• 4GB RAM
• NVIDEA GeForce 9500
• 500 GB HD + 1 TB EHD
• Windows 7 Ultimate

Peripheral:

• Logitech Mouse & Keyboard
• 19" Acer Monitor
• 32" LG LCD TV
• Logitech 2.1 Speakers
• Dynex Microphone
• XBox 360 style controller for Windows
• Wacom Bamboo Tablet

[tesselode]

I have...

• 400 GB hard drive
• NVIDIA 9800 GT I think
• dual core 2.6 ghz cpu
• 3 gigs of ram

So yeah. It runs most things pretty well.

[Riley Adams]

Built mine nearly 2 yrs ago now, still way more power than I've needed.

• Core2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
• 4gb RAM
• Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+
• 1TB and 500GB drives
• Arch Linux, Ubuntu, OSX Snow Leopard and Windows 7

Peripherals:

• 24" Dell Monitor
• Old 17" Samsung secondary monitor
• Crappy logitech speakers
• Dell A101W Keyboard (>15yrs old, not quite a Model M, but close enough)
• Logitech G5 Mouse (I'm not much of a gamer, so the sensitivity adjustments and weights are sort of a waste, but damn this thing is smooth...)

[zacaj]

2 Year old custom:
3.4 GHz AMD Phenom II Quad Core
6GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
3x 1TB HD + 2TB external
Windows 7
Takes 10 min to boot

7 year old dell:
2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5450 1GB
320GB HD + 1TB External
Windows 7,Windows XP, Mac OS X Leopard, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Ubuntu 10.10, Arch linux
boots in 30 seconds, and can run stabily for months 

Crappy Dell:
733MHz Pentium 3
128MB RAM
Intel Integrated 810E
20GB HD
Windows 98,Ubuntu 10.10
boots in 3 seconds

Also: Tandy

[Player Ʒ]

Time to make yourselves feel superior to me...again!
It is in my signature, but for the chance I change it:

CPU: 2.8GHz Pentium 4
RAM: 512MB
GPU: Some sort of Intel on-board thingamajigger
HDD: 20GB + 1TB External
OS: Ubuntu 10.10. Windows is being a problem so I wiped the drive.
Monitor: 15" Dell. 1024x768 (4:3)

This thing's ten years old, I am in need of a much-needed upgrade.

[Sakar]

Monitor: 15" Dell. 1024x768 (4:3)

How can you work at such a small resolution? I'm at 1920 x 1080 and will probably be hooking up my other 1680 x 1050 for a second monitor.

[Player Ʒ]

Monitor: 15" Dell. 1024x768 (4:3)

How can you work at such a small resolution? I'm at 1920 x 1080 and will probably be hooking up my other 1680 x 1050 for a second monitor.

I believe if I recall correctly, this is a ten-year-old machine with the very rare upgrade on something. I don't see how 1024x768 is tiny; it's the largest I can do!

[Riley Adams]

Time to make yourselves feel superior to me...again!
It is in my signature, but for the chance I change it:

CPU: 2.8GHz Pentium 4
RAM: 512MB
GPU: Some sort of Intel on-board thingamajigger
HDD: 20GB + 1TB External
OS: Ubuntu 10.10. Windows is being a problem so I wiped the drive.
Monitor: 15" Dell. 1024x768 (4:3)

This thing's ten years old, I am in need of a much-needed upgrade.

I feel your pain, I had one just like that ('cept with a 1.8GHz P4), before I built my current machine. Is it one of those awful clamshell case Dells?

[agersant]

I built my computer 2 years ago and I'm still very happy with it :

CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
GPU ATI Radeon HD 4800 (512 Mo)
RAM 5GB (2 + 2 + .5 + .5)
HDD 1TB (internal) + 1.81TB (internal) + 300GB (external) + 931GB (external)
OS Windows 7 Pro

- Two 24'' monitors (2*1920 * 1080)
- Shitty Gigabyte mouse and keyboard
- AKG K142 HD Headphones
- 2.1 speaker set by Edifier
- Good ol' A6 Wacom

I also have a laptop but who cares about laptops ?

[Μarkham]

MoBo: Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5
CPU:  AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
RAM: 8gb DDR3 1600 (4x2gb)
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460
HDD: 2x 300gb Samsungs in a mirrored RAID array.

Though only a few months ago it was only a ASUS Fatality SLI with a 2000mhz dual-core Athalon x64 with 3 gigs of ram and a GeForce 7600, but the 6-year-old motherboard died, and then the video card did, so I had to upgrade. I should be good for another 6 years now, at least.

Monitors:
19" Samsung SyncMaster 970p
Some old 15" Apple Display LCD I got for $20 at a thrift store.  It has video inputs so I can hook game systems up to it. :D
Keyboard is a deteriorating Logitech G15
Mouse is a Logitech M-5??
Case: Antec P160
There's also a pair of Noctua fans in there.  I hate having computers that sound like vacuum cleaners.

[pajamashirt]

MoBo: Gigabyte P67
CPU:  i5 2500K
RAM:  4GB
GPU:  GTX 460

Like Markham, I had to upgrade a few months ago because my 8 year old Athlon x64 died.

[ஒழுக்கின்மை]

core 2 duo, 3.0 ghz
3gb ram
nvidia 9800gt
180gb hd
one 23" monitor and one 23.6" monitor as dual screens

[Jrsquee]

Time to make yourselves feel superior to me...again!
It is in my signature, but for the chance I change it:

CPU: 2.8GHz Pentium 4
RAM: 512MB
GPU: Some sort of Intel on-board thingamajigger
HDD: 20GB + 1TB External
OS: Ubuntu 10.10. Windows is being a problem so I wiped the drive.
Monitor: 15" Dell. 1024x768 (4:3)

This thing's ten years old, I am in need of a much-needed upgrade.

I've got almost the same thing:

Dell Optiplex GX260
CPU: 2.8GHz Pentium 4
RAM: 2GB
GPU: GeForce 6200
HDD: 40GB
OS: Ubuntu 10.10. Windows is being a problem so I wiped the drive.
Monitor: 19" LaCie Electron Blue IV. Usually 1600x1200, but max 2048x1536 (4:3)

That monitor absolutely rocks, btdubz. It's 100x better than anything else that I've used, color- and resolution-wise.

[ஒழுக்கின்மை]

anyone think it's weird that it's been 10 years and the average cpu clock cycle has remained between 2 and 3 ghz? i remember when every year it'd be a jump -- 33 mhz to 66 to 133 to 266 etc. etc.

[Sean A.]

That is a little strange but now the clock cycle war is on mobile CPUs. Anyway this is my setup:
CPU: Intel Quad Core Q6600
RAM: 2gb
GPU: 8800 GTS 512
HDD: 500gb internal + 1.5tb external
Moniter: 23" samsung at 2048x1152
Keyboard: logitech g15
Mouse: logitech g9

[iffi]

anyone think it's weird that it's been 10 years and the average cpu clock cycle has remained between 2 and 3 ghz? i remember when every year it'd be a jump -- 33 mhz to 66 to 133 to 266 etc. etc.

Well, if the clock speed gets too fast the heat and power consumption become problematic enough so that it's more practical to stay within the 2-3 GHz range and work on getting more out of those available clock cycles (and adding more cores). And like Sean said, people are now trying to cram as many clock cycles into mobile devices without overheating or tanking the battery life.

I got my PC and netbook a couple months before Windows 7 was released, which means between 1 1/2 and 2 years ago.

PC (Dell Studio XPS 435MT)
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 (2.67 GHz)
RAM: 3GB DDR3
GPU: Nvidia GTX275
HDD: 500GB
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Monitor: I think 23"? 1920x1080

Netbook (Dell Mini 10v)
CPU: Intel Atom processor, 1.6 GHz
RAM: 1GB DDR2
GPU: "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950" (integrated graphics)
HDD: 120GB
OS: Windows XP SP3
Monitor: 10.1", 1024x600

[Μarkham]

anyone think it's weird that it's been 10 years and the average cpu clock cycle has remained between 2 and 3 ghz? i remember when every year it'd be a jump -- 33 mhz to 66 to 133 to 266 etc. etc.

Processors are still improving at an insane rate, though.  They haven't physically changed size in ten years, but would you have imagined ten years ago that the little chip could hold eight individual processor cores?

I remember getting my first dual core.  Just one additional core alone improved my computer's performance levels more than a previous change in core speed.  Man, I also remember when the idea of the graphics card having it's own dedicated processor was revolutionary.  That only happened no more than eight years ago, didn't it?

[BlueSweatshirt]

256kb RAM (188 user-available)
2.7mb Flash ROM drive
100x160 monochrome display
12 MHz overclocked CPU


Hell yes, boyeeeeee~