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Posted by Mike Boeh at 04-19-2003 01:02 AM
Hi all:
Most developers are also PC enthusiasts, so I thought it might be fun for us to share the specs of our development systems.
I am not too big into always upgrading my system, but here are the specs:
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1700+
Motherboard: IWill XP333-R
Memory: 512 meg DDR
Video: Regular Geforce 3, 64 Meg
Hard Disk: 80 Gig IBM Deskstar 7200 RPM
CD-ROM: 32x12x48 CDRW (I have no idea what brand)
Sound: C-Media sound that comes on the motherboard
Monitor: Mag 810FD CRT
Operating System: Windows XP Professional
Connection: 1.5/256 ADSL from SBC
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Posted by Guardian_Light at 04-19-2003 01:14 AM
I don't like to upgrade (instead preferring to just build a new PC all at once) but here's what I have now:
AMD 1.33Ghz (MSI mother board)
512 MB DDR RAM
Geforce3 (Regular)
SB Live w 3pc setup
40 Gig hard drive
Viewsonic 19-inch CRT
Win98SE
I've been to the point of having the WinXP CD in my drive (to upgrade my OS) but I just can't bring myself to leave Win98SE. It's so reliable!
Michael Sikora
Guardian Light Studios
Posted by Mike Boeh at 04-19-2003 02:24 AM
98se stable? I have to disagree there. I have crashed my box from bad DirectX code a million times on 98se. But 2k/XP chug right through that!
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Posted by Guardian_Light at 04-19-2003 02:39 AM
It's all in the video card drivers (although I admit 98SE is NOT stable like Win2000, I was thinking "reliable" in terms of compatibility/performance ). Nvidia's newest win9X drivers have some stability issues, which the older ones did not.
On the other hand I have an old P3 500 with a Voodoo3. I have never been able to make the whole OS crash with my DirectX code. (Even with some major no-no's like changing screen resolutions while locking the primary surface...) I don't know why, it's actually kind of like "voodoo magic" or something
Michael Sikora
Guardian Light Studios
Posted by MirekCz at 04-19-2003 03:48 AM
My box is being upgraded atm with some upgrades still coming.. atm it looks like
xp 1700+, kt266 mb. (upgraded last week from d600+kt133, very happy, much shorter compilation times)
256mb sdram 133 (upgrade to 256 ddr333 soon)
nvidia tnt (upgrade to ati 9100/9200 soon)
belinea lcd panel - 101715 (great for programming, i LOVE it), upgraded from old 15" CRT which started flickering, ugh...
80gb wd 800jb hd (or sth, the se version 7200rpm/8mb cache, neat...:-)
+old 13.5gb ibm drive , 7200rpm, also nice
w2k - rock stable
sb128 with creative inspire 4.1 4400 oem speakers
Like I said, I will upgrade shortly to ddr ram and better graphic card... and that will be everything for a year or so.
As for dev. machine it's working great, it's not much use for most new games because of TNT card.
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Posted by Peter Sokolov at 04-19-2003 03:54 AM
Hi,
My new PC configuration:
CPU: AMD AthlonXP 1700+ Thoroughbred step-B (Overclocked to 2400+ as 200x10)
Motherboard: EPoX 8RDA+
Memory: 512Mb (2x256Mb)
Video: Albatron Ti4680 TURBO (GeForce4200Ti) 128Mb
HDD: Baracuda ATA V 80Gb
CDRW: Teak 540E
DVD: Toshiba
Sound: Build-in nForce2 5.1 sound
Monitor: SyncMaster 755df
OS: Win2000
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Posted by svero at 04-19-2003 04:13 AM
Well I'm not into all this new fangled 3d hardware this and directx that. No sir...
I'm still on my gool ol' dependable Vic20. But I have all the expansion cartridges and a sweet sweet tape drive so it's really still pretty good.
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Posted by Fenix Down at 04-19-2003 04:59 AM
Here's my PC:
Athlon 1.4 ghz (Via chipset MSI moh board)
512 mb DDR RAM
Geforce 2 MX 400, 64 mb
40 GB 7200 RPM IBM hard drive
8x Pioneer DVD
48x12x48 Cendyne CD-RW
Sound Blaster Live Value
View Sonic 17" monitor
Windows 2000
5000/1000 kbps cable internet
Posted by jhocking at 04-19-2003 08:47 AM
At the moment I am using a 450MHz PIII with 128MB RAM and an ATI Rage Pro. I plan to upgrade soon but even when I do I'm going to hang on to this old thing because it is great for keeping min specs low while developing and testing. I see no reason to stop using this to develop 2D games on; I mostly need to upgrade because my current system is obsolete for the 3D I do.
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Posted by Nick Bischoff at 04-19-2003 09:53 AM
Im using a Thunderbird (Athlon 1ghz) with 512 megs of ram, 2x100 gig h/d's. Geforce 2MX400. 21' monitor. ms optical mouse that I got yesterday
Ive had this for over a year and a half and its still nice and quick.
Im running XP pro, but I am a die hard 2k pro fan. XP is stable but not as stable as 2k. I ran 2k Adv.svr as my desktop os for a year and it was slower than pro, but very stable.
Im buying a p4 notebook soon, just waiting for a decent price.
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Posted by Ratboy at 04-19-2003 10:28 AM
Mine's a homebrew, and designed around doing a lot of 3D Lightwave stuff for my regular clients.
P4 2.4ghz, 1 gig RAM, 40gigs of hard drive space, GF4ti 4600 w/128mb VRAM, big ol' giant Wacom tablet, Samsung 19" SyncMaster 955df monitor. Behind me, there's a fairly lonely VIAO laptop that I use when I'm doing day-long renders on the main machine. Both run XP Pro.
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Posted by Siebharinn at 04-19-2003 11:20 AM
I actually have two. I do a lot of development on my laptop, because I end up carrying that around to various locations. I use sourcesafe to keep everything synchronizied.
Home machine
1.4 Ghz Athlon
1 Gig memory
nvidia Ti4400
40 gig drive
19" viewsonic
15" dell secondary display
Laptop
Dell mobile precision
2 Gig P4
1 Gig memory
nvidia quado4 500
40 gig drive
15" XGA
15" secondary display (at the office)
I'm a big believer in the dual monitor setups. I'd rather have two smaller monitors than one big one.
Both run Windows XP pro.
My fileserver is getting old, time for a shiny new PowerEdge!
Posted by Jake Stine at 04-19-2003 01:01 PM
My machine is built from pieces and parts other people were throwing out after upgrading over the years.
Celeron 1.2gig
384 megs ram
Geforce 4 - 128meg <-- birthday gift woh!
70 gigs HDD
CTX 19" monitor (5 yrs old)
Windows 2000
My roomate has 320 gigs of hard drive space in his machine, so the hard drives I'm using are the ones he upgraded from when he picked up his 80's and 120's. As of just two months ago I was running on 12 gigs HDD (with about 6 free) and a Voodoo 3 3000.
This machine has been as reliable as a rock in a desert. I've never had a major hardware failure (or even a minor one that I can recall). I managed to run Win98 for 14 months straight without having to reinstall or delete my registry or anything like that, before switching to 2K (thanks to VS.NET).
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Posted by hanford_lemoore at 04-19-2003 01:25 PM
The PC I built Rocknor with:
HP Pavilion 6465 - Celeron 433MHz, 96 mb RAM
Windows 98 osr 2
9gb hard drive
CD-R
Pretty much stock except for a TNT Ultra 2 video card.
The PC I'm currenting using to develop:
Dell Dimension 8200
P4 2.0GHZ
64MB DDR NVIDIA GEFORCE3 TI 200,DVI
Win 2000
200gb worth o' hard drive
CD-ROM, CD-RW 16X/10X/40X
21 Inch montior running at 1600 x 1200
Quite a jump between the old and the new.
~Hanford
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Posted by Gmicek at 04-19-2003 01:46 PM
I don't develop, but I do play a lot of games. Here are my three main systems that I use daily, the rest are machines I rarely touch, if ever.
Primary machine:
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1800+
Motherboard: Epox 8KHA
Memory: 512 meg DDR
Video: GeForce 4 Ti4600 128meg
Secondary Video: Quantum Obsidian (2 Voodoo 2 12meg cards running in SLI on a single card)
Hard Disk: 100gig, 30 gig, and another 30 gig
CD-ROM: Some anchient no name 44x
Sound: SBLive!
Monitor: 21 inch KDS
Operating System: '98se
Connection: 1.5/256 cable from comcast
Laptop:
Model: Compaq Presario 2105us
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1800+
Memory: 512 meg DDR
Video: 64 meg Radeon mobility
Hard Disk: 40 gig
CD-ROM: cd burner/dvd player
Sound: Sound blaster pro (ACK!)
Operating System: Windows XP
Old School Gaming Machine:
486 dx2 100mhz
48 megs ram
800 meg hard drive
sole oldschool CD rom drive
I have no idea what kind of video card is in there, still shopping for a good one
Sound Blaster 16
DOS 5.0
Use the same KDS monitor that I use on the main system. Have a switch box set up.
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Posted by elund at 04-19-2003 01:48 PM
I'm running three machines, all networked.
"GEAR2K" Desktop, built from parts, used for development:
Abit KT7A-RAID AMD 1.8ghz
512Mb RAM SDR
GEForce 3 Ti 500 64mb video
Cheapo SB Value sound card
Viewsonic 19" < 1 year old already broke once
Lite-On 50X CD-ROM
Two 7200 RPM drives, 40 + 80 gig
Primary partition: Win2k
Win98se and Linux on other partitions
Cable modem for broadband
"VAIO" Laptop, used for newsgroups, forums, IM, testing, and travelling:
Sony Vaio PCG-F560, PII-600MHz, 196Mb, 10Gb hard drive, CD/DCD, Win98 SE.
"BENDER" Test machine, a Frankenputer, built from older parts:
PII-300 Asus P2L97, 128Mb SDRAM, 10Gb hard drive, currently Win98, but will downgrade to Win95. I have a 486 mobo and case I keep around in case I feel 300mhz is not slow enough. ;-)
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Posted by cliffski at 04-19-2003 04:17 PM
My home machine is rubbish which is fine coz my work one rocks. My home one is a 800MHZ athlon. The only rel cool bit is the brand new black 17 inch iiyama flat screen monitor runs at 1280 1024 and looks very cool, even has a blue power-on LED
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Posted by John Cutter at 04-19-2003 05:29 PM
This thread made me realize that I haven't upgraded my computer in a LOOOOONG time. In fact, I don't think I've ever been this far behind the technology curve. I'm ony developing 2D games at the moment, so I don't need a "killer" machine, but a better system would make my life easier.
How does this machine sound for a development platform? If I order this from Dell before Tuesday, I can get the entire system plus shipping for $1038.00. There's no monitor included, but I have a nice 19" monitor already. (I removed the mouse, modem, keyboard, warranties from the info below.)
Am I deficient anywhere? Should I get XP Professional? A bigger hard drive? I've included a ZIP drive -- do I need a floppy? (There are other floppy systems on our home network.)
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Dell Dimension 8250 Series: Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.40GHz w/533MHz front side bus/ 512K L2 Cache
Memory: FREE UPGRADE! 512MB PC1066 RDRAM 2X256 modules
Video Cards: 64MB DDR NVIDIA_ GeForce4 MX™ Graphics Card
Hard Drives: 60GB Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive
Floppy Drive and Additional Storage Devices: No Floppy Drive
Zip Drives: 250MB Iomega Zip Built-In Drive
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
Network Interface: Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet
Main Drive: CD or DVD Drive: 16 Max DVD-ROM Drive
Secondary Drive: FREE UPGRADE! New 4x DVD+RW/+R Drive w/CD-RW
Sound Card: SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Digital Sound Card
Speakers: Harman Kardon® HK-395 Speakers with Subwoofer
Posted by MirekCz at 04-19-2003 06:37 PM
About this system...
1.p4+rdram - fast, but really expensive... I prefer fast and cheap athlon machines with ddrams :-)
2.hd? which brand? currently best ultraata drives come from wd (special edition series like 800jb or sth) and seagate-barracuda IV/V.. I have got WD SE and it works great
3.geforce mx graphic card? guy, that's CHEAP. If you're into any 3d or will want to do any 3d anytime soon better get something decent... at least radeon 9200 (old radeon 8500) or geforce 4200ti... radeon9500pro seems to be the best performace/price thing money can buy atm (really great performace with vs/ps 2.0)... you won't get far with geforce 4mx.
4.win2000 preffered here
rest seems quite ok.
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Posted by Fenix Down at 04-19-2003 07:50 PM
quote:
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Originally posted by MirekCz
3.geforce mx graphic card? guy, that's CHEAP. If you're into any 3d or will want to do any 3d anytime soon better get something decent... at least radeon 9200 (old radeon 8500) or geforce 4200ti... radeon9500pro seems to be the best performace/price thing money can buy atm (really great performace with vs/ps 2.0)... you won't get far with geforce 4mx.
4.win2000 preffered here
rest seems quite ok.
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MX cards aren't that bad, I have one. In fact it's a Geforce 2 MX. You do want something better if you plan on playing newest games though, yes. Especially now that the graphics cards are much cheaper than when I bought my GF2 MX. It was like $70, and my friend got a GF2 TI for like $250 at the time, and according to pricewatch.com you can now get a GeForce4 TI 4200 64MB for just over $100.
I have to second the Windows 2000 though, better OS than XP IMHO, but of course MS banned distributors from bundling it and only let them bundle XP...
Posted by Davaris at 04-19-2003 07:53 PM
Heh you guys are going to laugh...
For programming I use a P200 with 64 meg of RAM, Tseng Labs 1 meg card, a Sound Blaster sound card, Win 95 and Vis C++ 5.0.
Posted by bernie at 04-19-2003 07:53 PM
Wow, iz dis a regular who's dick is bigger compo?
Ok here is my entry, a dev computer I have built in may 2001:
Intel celeron2 pcpga 700
asus cusl2-ca
512 samsung sdram133
asus v7100 32m
19" fujitsu-siemens crt
quantum 80G and a quantum 6.4G hdd
asus 52x cdrom
nec zip100 ide
microsoft trackball optical and a microsoft intelli optical
a funky hungarian mitsumi keyboard
creative sb128 pci
hp sj 3300c
canon s400
win2kpro, debianv2.2, win98se, winxppro for testing
And I have my old pentium166 with wierdo OSs like basic win95, winnt sp3 and redhat7 to test princec and others' buggy games.
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Posted by bernie at 04-19-2003 08:02 PM
And I have an always running English-Hungarian dictionary and corrector but as it seems it's totally useless.
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Posted by Si Design at 04-19-2003 09:16 PM
I consider it important to develop projects on a variety of systems, so I have three PCs at home - a low spec one, a medium spec and high-spec.
Low-spec: PIII 1Ghz, 512Mb, GeForce2 MX
Med-spec: P4 1.7Ghz, 512Mb, Radeon 9500 Pro
High-spec: P4 3Ghz, 1GB, Radeon 9700
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Posted by Fenix Down at 04-19-2003 09:39 PM
quote:
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Originally posted by Si Design
I consider it important to develop projects on a variety of systems, so I have three PCs at home - a low spec one, a medium spec and high-spec.
Low-spec: PIII 1Ghz, 512Mb, GeForce2 MX
Med-spec: P4 1.7Ghz, 512Mb, Radeon 9500 Pro
High-spec: P4 3Ghz, 1GB, Radeon 9700
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By your definition I have a low spec PC. I don't think the typical PC user has 512 MB of RAM or a 1 GHZ processor (though that could be "medium spec"). Low spec would be like 300-400 mhz.
Posted by Akura at 04-19-2003 10:30 PM
P4 2.0
256 sdram 133 (crap i know)
80gb hdd 5200rpm
gf3
audigy card
19 inch monitor
and in a few days, the new desktop multimedia wireless black keyboard and mouse from MS
In response tt Si Design, why the heck do you think you think it is important to
develop projects in low end pcs? Testing, yes, but develop ? I can't see the gain you get from taking 4 times more time to compile a program. Development platforms are rarely the target machines for the games, either different OSs, GFX cards, processor speed, etc, as for development you usually need more power (the user may require Pixel shaders for the 20 hours he plays the game, but you need a fast processor for the 2000 hours you spend on it).
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Posted by gilzu at 04-20-2003 02:51 AM
Well...
1700+ AMD Athlon
256MB RAM
20GB Hard Drive (dont need much, just burn all backups & Music)
GeForce 2 DDR
and a nice 750K Cable connection
also, my museum piece:
XT Turbo 5Mhz (!)
640KB Ram
CGA screen (4 Color)
2 - 5 1/4 floppy
hye, i need to play digger sometimes!
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Hi all:
Most developers are also PC enthusiasts, so I thought it might be fun for us to share the specs of our development systems.
I am not too big into always upgrading my system, but here are the specs:
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1700+
Motherboard: IWill XP333-R
Memory: 512 meg DDR
Video: Regular Geforce 3, 64 Meg
Hard Disk: 80 Gig IBM Deskstar 7200 RPM
CD-ROM: 32x12x48 CDRW (I have no idea what brand)
Sound: C-Media sound that comes on the motherboard
Monitor: Mag 810FD CRT
Operating System: Windows XP Professional
Connection: 1.5/256 ADSL from SBC
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Retro64, Inc.
Downloadable Games
Posted by Guardian_Light at 04-19-2003 01:14 AM
I don't like to upgrade (instead preferring to just build a new PC all at once) but here's what I have now:
AMD 1.33Ghz (MSI mother board)
512 MB DDR RAM
Geforce3 (Regular)
SB Live w 3pc setup
40 Gig hard drive
Viewsonic 19-inch CRT
Win98SE
I've been to the point of having the WinXP CD in my drive (to upgrade my OS) but I just can't bring myself to leave Win98SE. It's so reliable!
Michael Sikora
Guardian Light Studios
Posted by Mike Boeh at 04-19-2003 02:24 AM
98se stable? I have to disagree there. I have crashed my box from bad DirectX code a million times on 98se. But 2k/XP chug right through that!
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Posted by Guardian_Light at 04-19-2003 02:39 AM
It's all in the video card drivers (although I admit 98SE is NOT stable like Win2000, I was thinking "reliable" in terms of compatibility/performance ). Nvidia's newest win9X drivers have some stability issues, which the older ones did not.
On the other hand I have an old P3 500 with a Voodoo3. I have never been able to make the whole OS crash with my DirectX code. (Even with some major no-no's like changing screen resolutions while locking the primary surface...) I don't know why, it's actually kind of like "voodoo magic" or something
Michael Sikora
Guardian Light Studios
Posted by MirekCz at 04-19-2003 03:48 AM
My box is being upgraded atm with some upgrades still coming.. atm it looks like
xp 1700+, kt266 mb. (upgraded last week from d600+kt133, very happy, much shorter compilation times)
256mb sdram 133 (upgrade to 256 ddr333 soon)
nvidia tnt (upgrade to ati 9100/9200 soon)
belinea lcd panel - 101715 (great for programming, i LOVE it), upgraded from old 15" CRT which started flickering, ugh...
80gb wd 800jb hd (or sth, the se version 7200rpm/8mb cache, neat...:-)
+old 13.5gb ibm drive , 7200rpm, also nice
w2k - rock stable
sb128 with creative inspire 4.1 4400 oem speakers
Like I said, I will upgrade shortly to ddr ram and better graphic card... and that will be everything for a year or so.
As for dev. machine it's working great, it's not much use for most new games because of TNT card.
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Posted by Peter Sokolov at 04-19-2003 03:54 AM
Hi,
My new PC configuration:
CPU: AMD AthlonXP 1700+ Thoroughbred step-B (Overclocked to 2400+ as 200x10)
Motherboard: EPoX 8RDA+
Memory: 512Mb (2x256Mb)
Video: Albatron Ti4680 TURBO (GeForce4200Ti) 128Mb
HDD: Baracuda ATA V 80Gb
CDRW: Teak 540E
DVD: Toshiba
Sound: Build-in nForce2 5.1 sound
Monitor: SyncMaster 755df
OS: Win2000
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http://www.warlockstudio.com
"Fun is just a click away"
Posted by svero at 04-19-2003 04:13 AM
Well I'm not into all this new fangled 3d hardware this and directx that. No sir...
I'm still on my gool ol' dependable Vic20. But I have all the expansion cartridges and a sweet sweet tape drive so it's really still pretty good.
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Twilight Games
http://www.twilightgames.com
http://www.sharewaregaming.com
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Posted by Fenix Down at 04-19-2003 04:59 AM
Here's my PC:
Athlon 1.4 ghz (Via chipset MSI moh board)
512 mb DDR RAM
Geforce 2 MX 400, 64 mb
40 GB 7200 RPM IBM hard drive
8x Pioneer DVD
48x12x48 Cendyne CD-RW
Sound Blaster Live Value
View Sonic 17" monitor
Windows 2000
5000/1000 kbps cable internet
Posted by jhocking at 04-19-2003 08:47 AM
At the moment I am using a 450MHz PIII with 128MB RAM and an ATI Rage Pro. I plan to upgrade soon but even when I do I'm going to hang on to this old thing because it is great for keeping min specs low while developing and testing. I see no reason to stop using this to develop 2D games on; I mostly need to upgrade because my current system is obsolete for the 3D I do.
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Posted by Nick Bischoff at 04-19-2003 09:53 AM
Im using a Thunderbird (Athlon 1ghz) with 512 megs of ram, 2x100 gig h/d's. Geforce 2MX400. 21' monitor. ms optical mouse that I got yesterday
Ive had this for over a year and a half and its still nice and quick.
Im running XP pro, but I am a die hard 2k pro fan. XP is stable but not as stable as 2k. I ran 2k Adv.svr as my desktop os for a year and it was slower than pro, but very stable.
Im buying a p4 notebook soon, just waiting for a decent price.
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Posted by Ratboy at 04-19-2003 10:28 AM
Mine's a homebrew, and designed around doing a lot of 3D Lightwave stuff for my regular clients.
P4 2.4ghz, 1 gig RAM, 40gigs of hard drive space, GF4ti 4600 w/128mb VRAM, big ol' giant Wacom tablet, Samsung 19" SyncMaster 955df monitor. Behind me, there's a fairly lonely VIAO laptop that I use when I'm doing day-long renders on the main machine. Both run XP Pro.
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Posted by Siebharinn at 04-19-2003 11:20 AM
I actually have two. I do a lot of development on my laptop, because I end up carrying that around to various locations. I use sourcesafe to keep everything synchronizied.
Home machine
1.4 Ghz Athlon
1 Gig memory
nvidia Ti4400
40 gig drive
19" viewsonic
15" dell secondary display
Laptop
Dell mobile precision
2 Gig P4
1 Gig memory
nvidia quado4 500
40 gig drive
15" XGA
15" secondary display (at the office)
I'm a big believer in the dual monitor setups. I'd rather have two smaller monitors than one big one.
Both run Windows XP pro.
My fileserver is getting old, time for a shiny new PowerEdge!
Posted by Jake Stine at 04-19-2003 01:01 PM
My machine is built from pieces and parts other people were throwing out after upgrading over the years.
Celeron 1.2gig
384 megs ram
Geforce 4 - 128meg <-- birthday gift woh!
70 gigs HDD
CTX 19" monitor (5 yrs old)
Windows 2000
My roomate has 320 gigs of hard drive space in his machine, so the hard drives I'm using are the ones he upgraded from when he picked up his 80's and 120's. As of just two months ago I was running on 12 gigs HDD (with about 6 free) and a Voodoo 3 3000.
This machine has been as reliable as a rock in a desert. I've never had a major hardware failure (or even a minor one that I can recall). I managed to run Win98 for 14 months straight without having to reinstall or delete my registry or anything like that, before switching to 2K (thanks to VS.NET).
- Air
Posted by hanford_lemoore at 04-19-2003 01:25 PM
The PC I built Rocknor with:
HP Pavilion 6465 - Celeron 433MHz, 96 mb RAM
Windows 98 osr 2
9gb hard drive
CD-R
Pretty much stock except for a TNT Ultra 2 video card.
The PC I'm currenting using to develop:
Dell Dimension 8200
P4 2.0GHZ
64MB DDR NVIDIA GEFORCE3 TI 200,DVI
Win 2000
200gb worth o' hard drive
CD-ROM, CD-RW 16X/10X/40X
21 Inch montior running at 1600 x 1200
Quite a jump between the old and the new.
~Hanford
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Posted by Gmicek at 04-19-2003 01:46 PM
I don't develop, but I do play a lot of games. Here are my three main systems that I use daily, the rest are machines I rarely touch, if ever.
Primary machine:
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1800+
Motherboard: Epox 8KHA
Memory: 512 meg DDR
Video: GeForce 4 Ti4600 128meg
Secondary Video: Quantum Obsidian (2 Voodoo 2 12meg cards running in SLI on a single card)
Hard Disk: 100gig, 30 gig, and another 30 gig
CD-ROM: Some anchient no name 44x
Sound: SBLive!
Monitor: 21 inch KDS
Operating System: '98se
Connection: 1.5/256 cable from comcast
Laptop:
Model: Compaq Presario 2105us
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1800+
Memory: 512 meg DDR
Video: 64 meg Radeon mobility
Hard Disk: 40 gig
CD-ROM: cd burner/dvd player
Sound: Sound blaster pro (ACK!)
Operating System: Windows XP
Old School Gaming Machine:
486 dx2 100mhz
48 megs ram
800 meg hard drive
sole oldschool CD rom drive
I have no idea what kind of video card is in there, still shopping for a good one
Sound Blaster 16
DOS 5.0
Use the same KDS monitor that I use on the main system. Have a switch box set up.
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Posted by elund at 04-19-2003 01:48 PM
I'm running three machines, all networked.
"GEAR2K" Desktop, built from parts, used for development:
Abit KT7A-RAID AMD 1.8ghz
512Mb RAM SDR
GEForce 3 Ti 500 64mb video
Cheapo SB Value sound card
Viewsonic 19" < 1 year old already broke once
Lite-On 50X CD-ROM
Two 7200 RPM drives, 40 + 80 gig
Primary partition: Win2k
Win98se and Linux on other partitions
Cable modem for broadband
"VAIO" Laptop, used for newsgroups, forums, IM, testing, and travelling:
Sony Vaio PCG-F560, PII-600MHz, 196Mb, 10Gb hard drive, CD/DCD, Win98 SE.
"BENDER" Test machine, a Frankenputer, built from older parts:
PII-300 Asus P2L97, 128Mb SDRAM, 10Gb hard drive, currently Win98, but will downgrade to Win95. I have a 486 mobo and case I keep around in case I feel 300mhz is not slow enough. ;-)
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Posted by cliffski at 04-19-2003 04:17 PM
My home machine is rubbish which is fine coz my work one rocks. My home one is a 800MHZ athlon. The only rel cool bit is the brand new black 17 inch iiyama flat screen monitor runs at 1280 1024 and looks very cool, even has a blue power-on LED
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Posted by John Cutter at 04-19-2003 05:29 PM
This thread made me realize that I haven't upgraded my computer in a LOOOOONG time. In fact, I don't think I've ever been this far behind the technology curve. I'm ony developing 2D games at the moment, so I don't need a "killer" machine, but a better system would make my life easier.
How does this machine sound for a development platform? If I order this from Dell before Tuesday, I can get the entire system plus shipping for $1038.00. There's no monitor included, but I have a nice 19" monitor already. (I removed the mouse, modem, keyboard, warranties from the info below.)
Am I deficient anywhere? Should I get XP Professional? A bigger hard drive? I've included a ZIP drive -- do I need a floppy? (There are other floppy systems on our home network.)
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Dell Dimension 8250 Series: Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.40GHz w/533MHz front side bus/ 512K L2 Cache
Memory: FREE UPGRADE! 512MB PC1066 RDRAM 2X256 modules
Video Cards: 64MB DDR NVIDIA_ GeForce4 MX™ Graphics Card
Hard Drives: 60GB Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive
Floppy Drive and Additional Storage Devices: No Floppy Drive
Zip Drives: 250MB Iomega Zip Built-In Drive
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
Network Interface: Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet
Main Drive: CD or DVD Drive: 16 Max DVD-ROM Drive
Secondary Drive: FREE UPGRADE! New 4x DVD+RW/+R Drive w/CD-RW
Sound Card: SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Digital Sound Card
Speakers: Harman Kardon® HK-395 Speakers with Subwoofer
Posted by MirekCz at 04-19-2003 06:37 PM
About this system...
1.p4+rdram - fast, but really expensive... I prefer fast and cheap athlon machines with ddrams :-)
2.hd? which brand? currently best ultraata drives come from wd (special edition series like 800jb or sth) and seagate-barracuda IV/V.. I have got WD SE and it works great
3.geforce mx graphic card? guy, that's CHEAP. If you're into any 3d or will want to do any 3d anytime soon better get something decent... at least radeon 9200 (old radeon 8500) or geforce 4200ti... radeon9500pro seems to be the best performace/price thing money can buy atm (really great performace with vs/ps 2.0)... you won't get far with geforce 4mx.
4.win2000 preffered here
rest seems quite ok.
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Posted by Fenix Down at 04-19-2003 07:50 PM
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Originally posted by MirekCz
3.geforce mx graphic card? guy, that's CHEAP. If you're into any 3d or will want to do any 3d anytime soon better get something decent... at least radeon 9200 (old radeon 8500) or geforce 4200ti... radeon9500pro seems to be the best performace/price thing money can buy atm (really great performace with vs/ps 2.0)... you won't get far with geforce 4mx.
4.win2000 preffered here
rest seems quite ok.
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MX cards aren't that bad, I have one. In fact it's a Geforce 2 MX. You do want something better if you plan on playing newest games though, yes. Especially now that the graphics cards are much cheaper than when I bought my GF2 MX. It was like $70, and my friend got a GF2 TI for like $250 at the time, and according to pricewatch.com you can now get a GeForce4 TI 4200 64MB for just over $100.
I have to second the Windows 2000 though, better OS than XP IMHO, but of course MS banned distributors from bundling it and only let them bundle XP...
Posted by Davaris at 04-19-2003 07:53 PM
Heh you guys are going to laugh...
For programming I use a P200 with 64 meg of RAM, Tseng Labs 1 meg card, a Sound Blaster sound card, Win 95 and Vis C++ 5.0.
Posted by bernie at 04-19-2003 07:53 PM
Wow, iz dis a regular who's dick is bigger compo?
Ok here is my entry, a dev computer I have built in may 2001:
Intel celeron2 pcpga 700
asus cusl2-ca
512 samsung sdram133
asus v7100 32m
19" fujitsu-siemens crt
quantum 80G and a quantum 6.4G hdd
asus 52x cdrom
nec zip100 ide
microsoft trackball optical and a microsoft intelli optical
a funky hungarian mitsumi keyboard
creative sb128 pci
hp sj 3300c
canon s400
win2kpro, debianv2.2, win98se, winxppro for testing
And I have my old pentium166 with wierdo OSs like basic win95, winnt sp3 and redhat7 to test princec and others' buggy games.
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Posted by bernie at 04-19-2003 08:02 PM
And I have an always running English-Hungarian dictionary and corrector but as it seems it's totally useless.
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Posted by Si Design at 04-19-2003 09:16 PM
I consider it important to develop projects on a variety of systems, so I have three PCs at home - a low spec one, a medium spec and high-spec.
Low-spec: PIII 1Ghz, 512Mb, GeForce2 MX
Med-spec: P4 1.7Ghz, 512Mb, Radeon 9500 Pro
High-spec: P4 3Ghz, 1GB, Radeon 9700
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Posted by Fenix Down at 04-19-2003 09:39 PM
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I consider it important to develop projects on a variety of systems, so I have three PCs at home - a low spec one, a medium spec and high-spec.
Low-spec: PIII 1Ghz, 512Mb, GeForce2 MX
Med-spec: P4 1.7Ghz, 512Mb, Radeon 9500 Pro
High-spec: P4 3Ghz, 1GB, Radeon 9700
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By your definition I have a low spec PC. I don't think the typical PC user has 512 MB of RAM or a 1 GHZ processor (though that could be "medium spec"). Low spec would be like 300-400 mhz.
Posted by Akura at 04-19-2003 10:30 PM
P4 2.0
256 sdram 133 (crap i know)
80gb hdd 5200rpm
gf3
audigy card
19 inch monitor
and in a few days, the new desktop multimedia wireless black keyboard and mouse from MS
In response tt Si Design, why the heck do you think you think it is important to
develop projects in low end pcs? Testing, yes, but develop ? I can't see the gain you get from taking 4 times more time to compile a program. Development platforms are rarely the target machines for the games, either different OSs, GFX cards, processor speed, etc, as for development you usually need more power (the user may require Pixel shaders for the 20 hours he plays the game, but you need a fast processor for the 2000 hours you spend on it).
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Posted by gilzu at 04-20-2003 02:51 AM
Well...
1700+ AMD Athlon
256MB RAM
20GB Hard Drive (dont need much, just burn all backups & Music)
GeForce 2 DDR
and a nice 750K Cable connection
also, my museum piece:
XT Turbo 5Mhz (!)
640KB Ram
CGA screen (4 Color)
2 - 5 1/4 floppy
hye, i need to play digger sometimes!
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