Post your system specs.

P4 2.6GHz with two gigs of RAM and GeForce 6800 XT. My e-penis is small :(

AMD Athlon 3000+ 1.8 GHz 2GB DDR RAM with j_smith4's video card

And it heaves an exasperated sigh when I turn it on :)

Now this is small.

Desktop:
P4 2.66 GHz
768 GB DDR RAM
Geforce Ti 4200
200 GB Seagate
Windows XP (Soon to have Ubuntu as well)

Laptop (Even smaller):
PIII 850 MHz
320 MB RAM
Rage 128
60 GB Seagate
Xubuntu / XP dual boot

I need to get something new. :(

Work: CPU=E6600@2.4GHz, RAM=2GB, HDD=130GB, Gfx=X1650, LCD=2*24" :D

Work #2: CPU=Celeron@1.86GHz, RAM=1GB, HDD=45GB, Gfx=HD2600Pro, LCD=2*19"

Laptop: CPU=Core2???@2GHz, RAM=1GB, HDD=80GB, Gfx=X1400, LCD=15"

Home: CPU=Q6600@2.4GHz, RAM=2GB@800Mhz, HDD=2x250GB RAID 0, Gfx=7800GT, LCD=2*19"

g/f: same as Home but with 8800GTX

[Edit] WinXP32 all the way ;)

Number of pixels on my work desk: 7,229,440
Number of pixels on my home desk: 6,266,880

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Dual Core Processor
MoBo: ASUS P5Q Pro ATX LGA775 P45 DDR2 2PCI-E16 Crossfire 3PCI-E1 2PCI SATA2
RAM: Mushkin Ascent PC2-8500 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-1066
VIDEO: HIS Radeon HD 4870 750MHZ 512MB GDDR5
MONITOR: Samsung T220 22IN Widescreen LCD Monitor 1680X1050 2MS 20000:1
HDD: Western Digital Caviar SE16 640GB SATA2
CASE: Coolermaster CM 690 Mid Tower Black
PSU: Modular Corsair HX520 CMPSU-520HX 520W

Or at least, it will be. Turns out that despite using my credit card for everything overseas, NCIX doesn't allow people to use international Visa credit cards. HUH?! Now I gotta run around and get this bank account open so I can pay for the darn thing before the free shipping offer ends, otherwise I'm looking at paying at least $80.

Q9300 2.5 GHz
ABIT IP35 Pro
4GB DDR2
8800GT
Vista x64
24" Dell LCD

Intel E8400
2GB Crucial Ballistix 800mhz dual channel
ASUS P5K-VM
WD 500GB SATA2
ASUS ATI Radeon 3850 512MB
In an Antec 4480B with a 380W PSU and using Glacialtech silent fans, consumes very little power, only makes noise when there's a disk in it.

Taterpeel: Just out of interest, do you have memory hole remapping turned on in your bios? Because with a 1GB video card and no memory mapping, you will only be running on about 2GB. edit - If you are running one, it might still be at 3GB, although once you take all the other devices into account it's probably around 2.5.

isn't it solved by running a 64 bit OS?

*Windows Xp Pro 32 bit (soon moving to 64 bit)
*8800 gts oc'ed
*1x150 gig 7200 rpm sata drive with 8mb of cache/buffer- get around 50 MB/s average
*4x150 gig 10,000 rpm raptor x's with 16 mb cache/buffer each in raid 10 using mid-end adaptec raid controller - get around 140 MB/s average, 172 MB/s max
*Q6600 quad core default 2.4 ghz oc'ed to 3 ghz
*4 gigs ddr2 800 ram oc'ed to near ddr2 1000
*HT omega striker 7.1 surround sound card (nice features and sound for price).
Misc:
*720p projector at 100"
*20" crt monitor
*700 watt surround sound 6.1 receiver
*500 watt reciever for two dedicated subs
*total surround sound system goes to 9 hz to 20,000 hz with no holes in range

I use the single 150 gig drive as my os drive. My raid 10 is separated into 2 volumes, one is a fat32 volume with my pagefile on it, and the other is an ntfs volume with all my programs on it.
I hope you don't mind, but i also listed some misc items. To me they the same as my pc specs since my pc doubles as a home theater pc with the rest of the system. I'm soon going to upgrade to 8 gigs of ddr2 1000 ram and go for 64 bit windows.
Though, if anyone here is a performance nut, you may be interested that before i setup my raid 10 recently i decided to setup a 4 drive raid 0 with 4 raptor x's.
My access times were 8.1 ms and achieved 326 MB/s throughput, a relatively nice combination of the two stats. However, my intention was never to raid 0 them of course, that's data loss just waiting to happen. Still I'm willing to accept 140 MB/s average with a max throughput of 172 MB/s with the same access times in raid 10, redundancy and a speed increase :-).

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Original post by eedok isn't it solved by running a 64 bit OS?

Nope, because just like the giant garbage ball in Futurama and Y2K, the 3GB-4GB range for devices seemed so insanely high that back in the day that when it would finally came time for us to use sticks of ram to take up those memory areas, the guys who came up with it figured it would be the year 60 BILLION and we would be living on Mars in space domes anyway.

32bit Operating systems can use up to 3GB, after which is where all the reserved memory addresses are for your PC devices. The 64 bit operating systems fix this by moving the memory addresses up to 16,384 gigabytes, kinda like shooting the ball of garbage back into space in Futurama. From what I understand the problem is that many of the devices we have today are still designed to look for the 3-4GB range, and so to be backward compatible any RAM between 3 to 4 GB range still can't be used and is not touched by Vista. If you have a 64bit operating system you must have MORE than the 4GB range for it to be seen.

Luckily Motherboards are getting around this by including a feature called "Memory Hole Mapping" which tricks the devices into looking at the 16,384'th gigabyte instead of the 3-4GB range, allowing you to use the true 4GB. That's why it's important to make sure your motherboard supports it and that it is turned on.

Another reason it is important is that if you have 4GB with no memory mapping turned on, you lose 1GB to the reserved memory area of your 1GB video card (down to 3GB) then on top of that have all the memory addresses for every other device in your PC (possibly another 500MB, down to about 2.5GB). Without a MoBo that supports memory mapping or having it turned on, you are seriously gimping your computer.

Rating: 4.2

Core 2 Duo 6420 @ 2.13GHz
2GB RAM
Radeon X1550 Pro (256MB)
2× 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200
Vista Business 32-bit
20" widescreen LCD

work+homepc:
Thinkpad T61p
2,6hgz Core 2 Duo
4gb ram (some vanishes, because of the problems mentioned above - I don't care enough to look into it)
nvidia quadro fx 570M
250gb hd (with hardware encryption)

Running Kubuntu and vista ultimate

+ Dockingstation and whatnot

+ 2x 1280x1024 monitors

Gone are the days when I cared what my specs were, or understood what all the numbers and letters mean. I liked it when you just looked how many MHz (yes MHz) you had.

Oh lord...
3.05GHz
512MB RAM
150GB HDD (about)
19" Monitor

Not really sure about the small details with those items, since the processor is old. Computer was bought in '03 I think. :P

Work: Q6600 4 x 2.4 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, NVIDIA Quadro FX 570 256 MB, 2 x 20" LCD, Vista Business

Home: Q6600 4 x 2.4 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, ~500 GB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB, 24" LCD, Vista Business

Laptop: Core 2 Duo 2 x 1.8 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, 200 GB HDD, Intel integrated GFX, 12" LCD, Vista Home Premium

My e-penis is ginormous!

we do database/computation related stuff at work - i get some bragging rights but only for machines that will eventually get shipped to customers.

the one right now
quad core 3gz
16gb ram
4x750gb drives raid 10 = 1.5 tb

we are just shrinking the customer's win2008 server partition to try out an smp emt64 bit linux. unfortunately no graphics card to speak of since its a server.

Laptop:
Pentium M 2.13GHz
2GB RAM (I dunno the type)
GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
93GB internal HDD
Vista Ultimate SP1, 32-bit

And it also glows red.

Home system (although often used for work as well):

QX9770, currently at stock 3.2GHz. It's supposed to be highly OC'able though.
8GB DDR3
2x GF8800 GTX SLI (these came from my old system, I'll probably upgrade them in the near future)
3x Seagate Barracuda 1TB, RAID5
Highpoint RocketRaid 2320 RAID controller
LG GGW-H20L Bluray burner (very slow, but good for backups)

It glows blue, which looks like crap. It's hidden under the table anyway.

For my work system, well, you don't want to know [wink]