Author Topic: My Computer Specs (Horrible no?) (Read 7611 times)

Nagato · « **on:** April 09, 2007, 11:54:41 pm »

Apparently my parents need some convincing that the computer they bought for me sucks ass, so I want you to comment on the computer with the SPECs I give.

Pentium 4 Prescott 2.93 Ghz, 133 MHz front bus.
512 Kingston DDR RAM
Intel 775 Prescott Motherboard + Integrated Intel Graphics and Sound
150 GB Western Digital HDD
Noname brand DVD Writer
Noname brand 19 inch Monitor
Noname brand CPU Cooler Fan
Floppy Drive
300 Watt Power Supply

Can someone recommend some computer parts for me to get when I change my computer?
Edit: Im using my own money to buy the new one so don't be bitching about being grateful anymore. BTW the computer they bought cost as much as a GTX 8800 graphics card.
Thax

Add:
The thing is they did bring it to a "computer shop" and they said that its upgradeable. It seems that the "prebuilt" computer maker decided that he was going to mess with the motherboard. There was a PCI-E slot but somehow the connect had gone missing. Rams slots and the Ram...this is really nice...are practically and nearly stuck on, you can't get them out the tech guys tried and was afraid to break the board. Note to also mention that the Front Bus for the CPU is 133Mhz...which im serious questioning. FPS falls down to 5 - 20 which is lower then the average television FPS, 25 i think. My ping is usually 90 if anyone is wondering. And every single time i open a file my desktops goes blank cause my GPU has to redraw the entire screen. 300 watts isnt going to support a graphics card that are on sale at those Best Buy or w/e, minimum 350 watts. Using Photoshop is no pleasure either...it takes 10 minutes just to load up. And apparently in the end if we upgrade we are spending the amount of a new computer.

Consumer warning to all, never buy a computer from MDG. They are a rip off.

Now it keep restarting by itself - any reasons why? And yes my plugs are secure.

sleekslacker · « **Reply #1 on:** April 10, 2007, 12:32:30 am »

Wow be grateful dude. Kids these days have their own computer bought by their parents. All my computers were bought by myself with my hard earned cash since I was 16.

And your computer doesn't suck at all. There is only a few things you need to upgrade and you will be well fit for gaming. Get a real graphic card, ATI / NVIDIA with 128mb ram (for ATI at least 9700). Upgrade your RAM to at least 1 GB. That's it.

Nagato · « **Reply #2 on:** April 10, 2007, 02:50:00 am »

--------moved up

sleekslacker · « **Reply #3 on:** April 10, 2007, 03:04:17 am »

should have convinced your parents BEFORE the purchase, not after. Tough luck ^^.

Nagato · « **Reply #4 on:** April 10, 2007, 03:14:29 am »

Yea tough luck, yet I was not included in the decision. MDG...well i can't put the blame on them for that, who knew they were crap.

[NubS] Rabbitt · « **Reply #5 on:** April 10, 2007, 04:02:19 am »

Listen man the best advice i can give you is to do a search on your pc if it was purchased from a store and new.
Reason for saying new and purchased at a store is the factory site will give you the paramaeters on the motherboard in your tower.
If it was bought from a private builder then your gonna have to crack it open and find out what board you have.
Theres programs out there that will tell you this info if you feel like d/l one.

If your going to replace the board all together go ahead and see what you currently have thats removable from your old board and get another board thats compatible with them.

http://www.newegg.com Is the best site for buying parts to upgrade your pc.

Any questions you have from here feel free to ask as i build pc's on a daily basis.

SithLord · « **Reply #6 on:** April 10, 2007, 10:29:04 am »

Shut ur whinny mouth, dog. You are lucky that u have that good of a computer. I play tremulous and such on a win98, 400 mhz processor... 10 years old

Survivor · « **Reply #7 on:** April 10, 2007, 12:42:11 pm »

Put in a fucking geforce fx 5200 or something. The only thing which is seriously hindering you from playing trem at a reasonable level is that onboard gpu. You should even be able to pay for that one yourself these days.

ShadowNinjaDudeMan · « **Reply #8 on:** April 10, 2007, 12:47:25 pm »

Me and my bro have w8ed like our whole lives and somehow have strung together £1000, and bought parts and assembled a computer that costs, pre-built, £4000.

Self-Built 1
Pre-Built 0

You should feel grateful, your parents bought you a computer, sure its not great, but its a start.

The only bad thing about our comp is CPU, at oc 3.6 or something.

That is the first thing were gonna upgrade, but not yet.

Baxter · « **Reply #9 on:** April 10, 2007, 12:58:46 pm »

Quote from: "Nagato"

Apparently my parents need some convincing that the computer they bought for me sucks ass, so I want you to comment on the computer with the SPECs I give.

Pentium 4 Prescott 2.93 Ghz, 133 MHz front bus.
512 Kingston DDR RAM
Intel 775 Prescott Motherboard + Integrated Intel Graphics and Sound
150 GB Western Digital HDD
Noname brand DVD Writer
Noname brand 19 inch Monitor
Noname brand CPU Cooler Fan
Floppy Drive
300 Watt Power Supply

Salivates, get a new graphix card, the sound should be fine....
Mine is:
Pentium III 1ghz
512 mb ram
Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 64 mb
40 gb hard drive
Ipex 17 inch lcd monitor
Samsung dvd/dvdr/dvdrw/cd/cdr/cdrw Writemaster drive
Sucks eh? cant even run doom 3 I never will be able to, I will never be getting a good pc, and have no cash flow whatsoever.

floodbud · « **Reply #10 on:** April 10, 2007, 06:43:53 pm »

I play on a Windows XP that I got through a contest for free. It has an AMD XP 2500+ processor, and it gets slower every day, I swear.

Plus, it can't remember the BIOS settings -- it keeps searching for floppy disks when I boot it up and I have to press F1. Anyone know what I should do, or if I should do anything at all?

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Floodbud

Nagato · « **Reply #11 on:** April 10, 2007, 06:44:35 pm »

Quote from: "Survivor"

Put in a fucking geforce fx 5200 or something. The only thing which is seriously hindering you from playing trem at a reasonable level is that onboard gpu. You should even be able to pay for that one yourself these days.

Note that there is NO PCI, PCI-E, or AGP slots.

Shut my whinny mouth? I bet your Win98 runs better than my WinXP. If you were to acutally use the computer you would serious want to throw it out the window. 400Mhz VS 2.93 processor is nothing if your Front Bus is 133 Mhz...an average its what 500Mhz?

Evlesoa · « **Reply #12 on:** April 10, 2007, 07:16:26 pm »

My shit is worse...

1.68 GhZ
256 Ram
32 MB Nvidia GeForce 2 MX/400

And umm, everything else I dunno... but my HD is 111 Gigas, and its good enuf... its decent, but ram and graphics are shit... so dont cry

gareth · « **Reply #13 on:** April 10, 2007, 07:23:46 pm »

if you want better performance, play on smaller servers.

TRaK · « **Reply #14 on:** April 10, 2007, 07:36:20 pm »

You're not getting any pity from me. My computer isn't that good, and it isn't even mine. You should be thankful that they bought you one at all. I would be.

Nagato · « **Reply #15 on:** April 10, 2007, 08:13:23 pm »

If you computer doesn't take 5 minutes to boot or screen going competly blank for 3 minutes after opening every file please don't bother posting, cause you won't understand. And I never asked for pity. Good computers are useless without performance. If you have even a crappy graphics card by a real graphics card maker I envy you. By the way this computer is "new" computer is being bought by my own money I saved, its just the fact that my parents won't me go out there and spend it.

The Neutral · « **Reply #16 on:** April 11, 2007, 11:25:26 pm »

I am going to copy what everyone else has said, be happy your parents bought you a computer, the one I use is my moms old one that I had to fix(reinstall Windows, fix the hardware, replace the powersupply) my comp is about 4 years old, but I am happy, because I know that the only other way I can get a new computer is some good ol' cut outta my currently non-exsistant paycheck.

Superpie · « **Reply #17 on:** April 12, 2007, 05:35:14 pm »

I have a Win98 down in my room:
552mhz
Upgraded Nvidia 440 (originally came with some TNT card)
20gb high-speed hdd + new 80gb slow poke
128mb ram
new cooler master cpu fan and heatsink
sony dvd burner lacking drivers in the 3rd slot

this thing was awesome back in the day we got it, rofl

^Black · « **Reply #18 on:** April 12, 2007, 05:56:31 pm »

Quote from: "Nagato"

Apparently my parents need some convincing that the computer they bought for me sucks ass, so I want you to comment on the computer with the SPECs I give.

Pentium 4 Prescott 2.93 Ghz, 133 MHz front bus.
512 Kingston DDR RAM
Intel 775 Prescott Motherboard + Integrated Intel Graphics and Sound
150 GB Western Digital HDD
Noname brand DVD Writer
Noname brand 19 inch Monitor
Noname brand CPU Cooler Fan
Floppy Drive
300 Watt Power Supply

Now it keep restarting by itself - any reasons why? And yes my plugs are secure.

Oh. Fucking whine.
By the way- if your comp doesnt have ANY pci slots or AGP slot, there is something wrong with your motherboard.

DjSonik · « **Reply #19 on:** April 13, 2007, 02:21:00 am »

My secondary Tremulous computer has 64 Megs of RAM, a AMD Athlon 900mhz, 8mb Nvidia Vanta LT, and a 40GB HDD, and a CD-R Drive and a DVD-ROM drive. Worst of all, it runs Windows ME. x_x Anyhoo, it runs Trem fine, usually at 30-50fps, actually. (Thanks to r_picmap 16 or whatever).

As for the real point, I recommend an AMD Athlon FX 60 for a proc, and twin sticks of 1GB ram, and some kind of fast RPM HDD that holds more than 200GB. (Go for Vista, and if not that, Ubuntu. :wink: )

TinMan · « **Reply #20 on:** April 13, 2007, 03:24:28 am »

http://neonpulse.net/debaser/sysinfo.txt

Lord Baxter · « **Reply #21 on:** April 13, 2007, 12:18:18 pm »

if we're talkig about getting computers upgraded then ill post mine, it was a replacement computer for one that got flooded and it didn't come with documentation, meaning that i had to take the damn thing apart to find out what motherboard it had.

ATI ipx 400 motherboard (It was printed on the board so i hope this is right)
AMD Sempron 1.8 ghz 3200+ processor
512mb pc 3200 ddr ram
Integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 200 "hyper memory express (whatever that means)" with 256mb of video memory.
52X DVD and Cd read/burn drive.

i want it to be able to run Oblivion and it doesn't let me whenever i try. i know ill probably need to get a new processor, video card and maybe motherboard but im not sure what TO get, im getting the parts from a wholesaler and putting it toghether with a friend.

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Author Topic: My Computer Specs (Horrible no?) (Read 7611 times)

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