Discuss the newest $600 video cards, DDR3 RAM, and quadrillion-core CPUs. Post your specs, your dream specs, discuss builds for different uses. You can even talk about pre-fab HPs, Dells, Sonys, etc.

My current system:
HP desktop
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.83GHz
2GB DDR2 400MHz(might be 600)
250GB HDD, 500GB HDD
Geforce 7500LE

Hopefully by the end of this year:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz
4GB DDR2 800MHz
1TB HDD
Geforce 8800GT, maybe Radeon HD4870

Not getting GTX280 or HD4870X2 'cause I'm not hardcore gamer with money to burn.

If I ever get another laptop, it's going to be a subnote. I stopped toting my 14.1" laptop to school this semester. lol

I used to care a lot about processors and video cards, but now my focus is hard drives. I can never have enough memory! Once you go 720P, it's hard to go back...

LOL... i used to be quite the PC freak, but even for me it's impossible to keep up with new tech... I could get back itno it quite easily...

But to talk hard drives, i'm running over 4.5TB all in all, that's with a mix of 200-1TB drives in IDE/SATA/USB enclosures

My HP is so crappy that I can't add another hard drive. I'd get a NAS, but they're expensive. I'm definitely going to get a big case for my next build. I'm not a big fan of externals anymore. They're big and heavy and if I needed to move stuff, there are flash drives that can easily move an entire series or a bunch of movies.

Soltek 75FRN2-L w/ Athlon XP-M 2600+
1GB OCZ Dual Channel kit
1x 250GB HDD
3x 40GB HDD
ATI Radeon 9800pro (XT core)
Soundblaster Live! 5.1

woo! another athlon xp user haha

i have two systems (and a 3rd thats's half assembled)

1st (currently not running):

Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
2gb Corsair CMX1024-3200C2
Zalman 7000BCu-LED HSF
80gb IDE
160gb Sata
XFX 7600GT 256mb AGP
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 7.1 channel
[capable of 3200+ speeds on air]

2nd (currently used everyday cuz i'm too lazy to figure out whats going on with the better machine):

Asus A7N8X-X
Amd Athlon XP 2000+
2gb Corsair TwinX2048-3200C2PT
Zalman 7000BAlCu HSF
40gb IDE
128mb AGP
SoundBlaster Live! 5.1
[capable of 2600+ speeds on air]

My main build is

Athlon XP 2600+ (333 barton core)
ASUS A7n8X-E Deluxe
2GB OCZ LOW LOW LOW LOW timing dual channel kit
thermal take volcano 9
2x200GB WD drives
2x200GB Seagate Barracudas
Soundblaster Audigy PCI 5.1 GOLD edition (rare)
ATi Radeon 9700Pro (rare) clocked faster than an x1600

I have two exact systems like this that are both kinda wonky, one has a PSU issues, the other one doesn't wanna turn on LOL... so i kinda didn't bother for almost 2 years now, and just use my HP laptop Dv5040US

Turion 64 (NONX2) 2.2GHz
2GB DDR333 (yes, i know it's slow)
ATI IGP200M graphics
Lightscribe DVD-Burner
15.4 brightview screen
Buffalo Highpowered PCMCIA wireless G card
100GB Drive
EXTERNAL: 2TB (2x1TB) Nextar MX enclosure in JBOD

want me to take your old systems off your hands?

Acer 5680
Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz
2GB Ram
Geforce 7600


yar is luptup

i don't know what it is about laptops, but i dislike them. always find them slow and inferior to desktops.

Macbook Pro

2.5ghz intel chip
4gb ddr2 ram
512mb Nvdia 8800
250gb hdd
15in LED screen

i win foo'

my next system is gonna be s939 dual core, probably X2 4200+ or higher. already got the asus mobo A8V Deluxe for $30 haha. gonna stack it with 4gb of ddr400.

i don't need a computer that fast. all i play is dota and the rest of the time its msn and internet explorer.