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[shubonker]

Mine are:
ROSEWILL Stallion 450watt PSU
Intel 2160 @ 3ghz
Gigabyte DS3L
2Gb DDR2 800 Ram
WD 500GB HD
WD 250GB HD x 2
XFX Geforce 9800 GT 512mb
Sound Blaster audigy 2 Value

[CypherNEUK]

DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, 2133 MHz (8 x 267)
Asus P5K-E  (3 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 2 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
4096 MB  (DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM)
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS  (512 MB)
SyncMaster 226BW/MagicSyncMaster CX226BW (Digital)  [22" LCD]  (HSDP846213)
Analog Devices AD1988B @ Intel 82801IB ICH9 - High Definition Audio Controller
SAMSUNG HD103UJ ATA Device  (1000 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II) x3
ST3500641AS ATA Device  (500 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
WDC WD1500HLFS-01G6U0 ATA Device  (139 GB, IDE)
Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller

[Wibblefish]

Didn't these e-penis threads go out of style in 1999 

[Big]

Didn't these e-penis threads go out of style...

Yup, just like my older than dirt Athlon...

[wtfchuck]

I want an i7. Onboard memory controller.

[CypherNEUK]

Yeah i've been looking at the i7's myself, but looks like about a ?800 update

[bob01]

There's a couple of bundles going around:

Intel Core i7 920 Processor
3Gb DDR3 Ram
MSI X58 Pltm Motherboard
?527.58 inc vat

Or

Intel Core i7 940 Processor
3GB DDR3 Ram
MSI Eclispse SLI Motherboard
?797.83 inc vat

A bit too rich for me at the moment.

[wtfchuck]

Yeah i've been looking at the i7's myself, but looks like about a ?800 update

Yep at least, new mobo, and tri-channel ddr3 ram. My wife would divorce me. I'm gonna have to wait until the dust settles and prices come down. I will probably get a QX9770 when those prices come way down to placate me,and get some more mileage out of this rig. :p

[CypherNEUK]

I was looking at:
Intel i7 920 Retail ?238.24
Asus P6T Deluxe ?252.81
3GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 ?123.52
512MB Asus 9600GT ?122.51
Totaling @ ?737.08
So yeah i'm waiting awhile too 

[wtfchuck]

I was looking at:
Intel i7 920 Retail ?238.24
Asus P6T Deluxe ?252.81
3GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 ?123.52
512MB Asus 9600GT ?122.51
Totaling @ ?737.08
So yeah i'm waiting awhile too 

I think it's best to wait until year 2 on new chip and socket releases. The first year they are fixing bugs with microcode, stepping and bios revisions. The second year they have most of the bugs ironed out, prices have settled and there is more competition with more mobo manufacturers. The third year they are figuring out how to make it cheaper and cut manufacturing costs.

[jeffmorse753]

Didn't these e-penis threads go out of style in 1999 

There's a monthly post of this sort on Broadband Reports, in their Computer Hardware
Discussion/Reviews forum. Only it is for those who have bought or built a system in that
month, or have made any changes/upgrades to their existing system.

Anyway, here are mine (for 3 systems, one of which is not built yet)

My current desktop:
AMD Athlon64 San Diego 3700+
DFI LanParty nf4 Ultra-D
2 GB of Corsair XMS DDR400
Apevia Xplorer Case
ThermalTake Purepower W0129RU 600W Power Supply
Pioneer DVR115D DVD-RW
Plextor PX-750A DVD-RW
Maxtor 3160812AS 160GB SATA II
Maxtor 6Y120P0 120GB IDE
Western Digital WD1200JB120GB IDE
Maxtor 7H500F0 500GB SATA II
Seagate ST3300831AS 300GB SATA
Seagate ST31000340AS 1TB (yes this is one of the ones that were failing due to
faulty firmware; no it doesn't have the firmware that is causing the problems)
Seagate FreeAgent Desktop USB (2), 320GB, 750GB
Seagate 1394A ST3400832A 400GB, and a similar model 300GB
(The 4 external drives have everything I've ever downloaded from Usenet,
torrents, p2p and sites like Amazon mp3, eMusic, and my own CD rips on them)
ViewSonic VG2021M LCD Monitor
Windows XP Home SP3

My new Laptop:

Dell Vostro 1710
Intel Core 2 Duo T5870 @ 2.0 GHz
2 GB RAM
NVidia GeForce 8600GT 256MB
8X DVD RW/DL Burner
250GB 7200RPM Fujitsu SATA HDD
17" WUXGA LCD Display
Windows XP Pro SP3

I recently bought the following (I'm going to be using my existing case, most of the hard drives, and the power supply)

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0 GHz CPU
Asus P5Q SE Plus MB
2GB (2x1GB) G.Skill DDR2 1066 RAM (F2-8500CL5D-2GBPK)
XFX PV-T84G-YAJG NVidia GeForce 8600GT 540M 512MB DDR2
Lite-On 22X SATA DVD-RW
SYBA PCI - Firewire 1394A 3+1 ports controller card
I still need to get another 1 TB drive, which will replace both IDE drives, the 300GB SATA and
500GB SATA. I have an old WD Velociraptor 74GB SATA from my previous system I'm thinking of using .as my boot drive for the new one.
I will likely run Windows XP again, reinstalling from my retail CD.

Why Intel? Up until now, I have been a big AMD fanboy. Every system I've ever built or bought has used an AMD CPU. But lately AMD has fallen behind Intel in performance.

[X_FiLeS]

My System is :
ACPIx86-based PC
Bios Award Technology Ver F12.
Gigabyte 965P-DQ6.
Intel Chipset P965/G965.
Intel Core Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz
MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, EM64T.
Memory DDR2 PC2-5300 Duel Channels 2048 Mbytes .
5x HD Maxtor Sata 500gig
Display Winfast PX8800 GTS TDH (nVidia) 312 MB Ram
Network Adapter Marvell Yukon PCI-E Gigabyte Ethernet Controller.
Running 2x Benq 19" Wide Screens
Running Vista Black Edition 2009 SP1.
Thermaltake Q Fan 850 Watts