What type of system are you running?

WinXP
AMD FX-51 @ 2.8
MSI Neo2 Platnium
1024MB Muskin lvl 2 pc3200
Leadtek 6800GT @ 440/1300
74GB 10K raptor
SoundBlaster Live Audigy ZS Gamers Edition.
^^ Promie cooled

Gentoo
amd 2400+
asus mobo, forget.
1024MB Muskin lvl 2 pc3200
ati 9800pro

This is a hard question to answer, because my system is far from normal:

System part 1)
XP2000+ overclocked to 1850MHz
1 GB RAM
Ti4200 video card
1 60-GB hard drive
1 80-GB hard drive

System part 2)
K6-II overclocked to 450MHz
128MB RAM
Rage II graphics
1 12GB hard drive
2 80GB hard drives in a RAID-1 array

Hard drive space is spread between the two, as are the programs I use for normal work, and I've got it set up with some cluster computing capabilities.

P4 2.4GHz HT
MSI 875P motherboard
1.5GB dual-channel PC3200 w/ECC
2 x 120GB Serial ATA RAID1
ASUS GeForce FX5700 256MB *
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card
PlexWriter 12/4/32 SCSI CD-RW **
Toshiba SD-R5002 DVD-RW
ViewSonic VP171B 17" 16ms LCD

* this is the only part I really need to upgrade
** I keep this around because it does a better job burning CD-Rs than the Toshiba

I got a few .....

The first and second are connected through a KVM switch, to my 19" monitor

1st Machine.
AMD XP 1600
512Mb DDR ram.
combined harddrive space 160 Gb.
Geforce 3 64mb.
Soundblaster Live 5:1

2nd Machine.
AMD 64 3000.
512 Mb Ram.
120Gb Harddrive.
Geforce FX 5900 128mb.
Soundblaster Live 5:1

The Laptop
Apple G4 1.33Ghz.
12" Display
768 Mb Ram.
60 Gb Hdd.
Geforce Fx GO5200 64Mb

They all rock in there own quiet way... and yes I still use all of them,

Has anyone noticed that most of our desktop machines are apparently homemade machines? No one has owned up to owning major brand machines such as Dell, Gateway or (shudders) Compaq.

Teeny, I think that most users who buy a name-brand PC wouldn't be interested in learning or posting the system specs. Not including Apple fans, that is.

Here's my desktop:

Intel P4 2.4 GHz
512 MB RAM (need more, will accept donations )
16 GB HDD
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128

Here's my laptop:

Dell Inspiron 1100
Intel P4 2.2 GHz
512 MB RAM
40 GB HDD
60 GB external HDD
Intel Extreme crap graphics card
WiFi PC card

Ok I will fess up

I have an HP computer customized. Built especially for Second Life. (Althought the Circuit City people did not know that was what they were doing when they customized my machine)

2.4GHz processor equal to Pentinum 4

1GB Ram, standard, nothing shared

128MB Video Ram, with Nvidia Geo-Force 5400 card (Circuit City tried to sell me an ATI card, I said no thanks) Card is in a slot, not welded to the mother board (Yaa first computer not to have an intragrated Video Card)

160 GB hard drive

Comcast cable modem. Typical speed is 2,900K Down load, and 250-500K Upload (As opposed to 56K max speed for dial up)

FPS in Second Life ranges for 0 FPS (Seen in a few sims) to 1500 FPS (Seen in Koss sim about a month ago) Not sure if this is the right FPS but generally FPS is in what I have heard the techs say acceptiable range.

19 inch Samsung monitor (Box is 21 inches)

Minor edit

AMD Thunderbird - 1333 MHz / FSB 266MHz
256 MB DDR-266 RAM
nVidia FX 5200 - 64MB RAM
120GB Seagate HD
SB Live! / 5.1 speakers
Uh, crappy ancient 15" monitor my gf lent me when mine broke... compaq 151FS. It's amazing how they already had flatscreen technology back in the day. This monitor used to be on a 486!!!

Somebody please send Eggy and Cubey some RAM!

I just upgraded my mobo and cpu this weekend. Here's what I have now:

MSI K8T Neo2
Athlon 64 3200
1 Gig DDR400 Dual Channel Memory
MSI FX 5600 128Mb
**Coming Soon: 36 gig 10,000 RPM SATA for System and Programs

My laptop has an ATI Mobility 9000 64Mb graphics card, so it's no good for SL. All I ever see is black patches where textures shoud be. Maybe I need to download the lastest driver, but I am not sure if LL has fixed their ATI problem.

I'm sorry Eggy, but your system needs some help! The only thing I could offer right now would be my current video card, but I'm using it! lol

If you set up a paypal account I'll send you some US$! You too Cubey

Desktop:

'Customized' HP
3.2 Mhz P4
1 GB PC3200 RAM
ATI Radeon XT 256 MB
SoundBlaster Audigy 2
19" NEC MultiSync

Laptop:

Alienware Sentia
1.8 Mhz Pentium M
1 GB DDR PC-2700 RAM
Intel Extreme Graphics 2
Soundblaster Audigy 2
12.1 Wide-XGA LCD

- T -

Champie,

Which laptop do you have? I have a Dell Inspiron 600M with 1.6 Pentium M, 1 gb of ram, a 5400 rpm 30gb drive and an ATI Mobility 9000 64mb card. It runs SL flawlessly. Never any graphics glitches at all. Granted, my draw distance is set to 96 and most of the chrome type options are off, but it is still a great SL machine.

I will provide more driver details tomorrow from work when I am at that laptop.

I would also be interested to hear if that drive you are going to get will improve SL performance.

Intel P4E 3.0 overclocked to 3.3GHz
ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe, i875 chipset, ICH5, dual channel memory controller, "easy" overclocking set at 10% (hence 3.3GHz), Turbo mode on
180GB Maxtor SATA drive. If you do video capture from SL, buy a SATA drive. It is worth it.
1GB PC3200 SDRAM, I forget what brand but it was on the certified memory list for this board
nVidia 5800 non-ultra, not overclocked
Sound Blaster Value PnP

Built this system in November 2003, it's slated for a refresh in November 2005. Should be interesting to see what near-top-of-the-line video cards will be doing by then.

still using an hp pavilion zd7005qv with a 2.66 p4, a geforce go and 512 ram and happy as a clam with it

Celeron 1.8
GeForce 440MX
256 meg Ram

Geez.. some nice rigs here. If anyone can help shoot the video for my sitcom series, "Hangin On," IM me or email me already! Just click the links in my sig to find out more.

As for my system running SL:

Athlon Barton 2600
512MB PC 3200 RAM
Geforce4 MX440
WD 200G 7200 RPM HDD
LG DVD Super-Multi Drive
Creative Audigy 2 ZS

My pro studio has pretty much the same configuration as my personal PC, except it's got 1Gig of PC 3200, an extra external HDD, and a far superior audio card (Layla 3G).

Ooh. Techpr0n thread.

My machine's somewhat CPU-limited, IIRC:

Athlon XP 3200+.
DFI LanParty Ultra IIA Motherboard.
Matched pair of 512Mb Corsair XMS DDR400, for a Gig of dual-channel at CL2.
Gainward Geforce 6800 Ultra.
480W Enermax Coolergiant PSU.
2 x 120G Western Digital HDD's, 7200rpm, 8M cache, RAID 1.5.
80G Western Digital HDD, 7200rpm, 8M cache, swap file and video collection
Chum-ya DVD drive.
x4 DVD- rewriter. Asus, but reflashed with the OEM's firmware (forget who) for region-free and a couple of other tweaks.
Hauppage stereo TV/radio card. (somewhat aged, but does the job)
Audio's onboard AC97, connected to a Logitech 5.1 setup.
Monitors are 19" Iiyama and 17" Chum-ya.
Cheapass keyboard and Logitech MX500 (?) wireless optical mouse.

I'll now have to read the thread to see if I missed anything.

Edit

Oh yeah - GPU/PSU was my last upgrade, and I'm intending on keeping this rig for 18-24 months more till the new PC standards get sorted out, then it'll be my first entirely new machine for a while, I think.
Envisaging BTX, 64-bit, dual-core/MP, fully SATA, DDR2, and PCI-Express.

17" PowerBook
1.33 GHz PowerPC G4
1.5 GB RAM
ATI9600 64 MB

Think different, baby!

^ I do

Recently upgraded to...

Dual 2.5GHz 64 bit PowerPC G5 (liquid cooled)
1.25GHz frontside bus per processor
2Gb DDR SDRAM
Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card, AGP 8X
160Gb + 250Gb S-ATA 7200 hard drives
DVD-R/CD-RW Superdrive
Airport Extreme Wireless card

hooked up to.....

Netgear DG 834G DSL router
LG 1920P 19" TFT monitor
Logitech MX310 mouse
Iomega ZIP 750 Firewire
HP 3570c USB 2.0 scanner
HP 940c USB printer

Problems with the 6800 and SL rendering, but otherwise it's sweet !

Unlike my bank balance

I know that this is something unbeliveable, but here it is:

Duron 800 (overclocked to 900!) on an asus PCI 133 still-breathing motherboard.
384(?)MB RAM
Geforce2 with 32MB
Creative SB PCI 128
A couple of clunky HD not well identified...
Crappy italian DSL connection

The secret to run SL, in a playable way, on such a ridicule system, stays in the detail level, wich must be maxed. The annoying thing is that SL crashes every 15 minutes, instead of the default 20.

And no, I'm not joking.

A Compy 386
- running at 25 mega-ega-Hertz
- Heracles two-color graphics card with 256K expanded memory
- 1200 baud, acoustic coupled modem
- DR-DOS 1.1 (I'm a rebel, down with MS-DOS!)
- Genunie IBM 5154 EGA Monitor (yes, EGA is teh r0xx0rs)

An Osborne luggable computer with a Seiko Instruments 9-inch built-in black-and-white screen, two 5.25 inch 360K floppy drives, an external 10.5 inch 126K floppy drive, and a Seagate 4 meg hard drive. I-8086 CPU, Hercules SR-1 GPU with 8K memory, 64K onboard RAM, 64K expanded external RAM card, Xerox 300 baud acoustic coupled modem, one parallel port, two RS-232 ports, and the CP/M operating system that Bill Gates stole from Gary Kildall.

It was my father's, it's 22 years old and still runs, I can sometimes display Second Life on it through my other computer and an emulation program. But it usually crashes after a few seconds.

Main Desktop:

AMD 64-bit 3200 Processor
1GB PC3200 DDR RAM
nVidia GeoForce ti4600 256Mb Video card just waiting for the 800's to drop in price)
160GB Ultra 7200 HD
DVR-R/CD-RW
CD-Rom
250MB ZIP
19" Monitor

Laptop:

HP zv5000 Series
AMD 64-bit 3400 Processor
512MB DDR RAM
80GB 5200 (I think) HD
nVidia GeoForceGo 400MX 64MB Video
DVD-R/CD-RW
Widescreen HD Display

(weighs a ton but really does the job)

2 boxes:

Athalon 2800
1 gig 3200/ 400 Ram
112 gb HDD
128mb ATI Radeon (I know...I know ) 2800
Aureal Vortex SC

Athalon 1200
1gb PC133 Ram
100 gb combined (3 HDDs)
Nvidia Geforce3 128mb
SoundBlaster Live!

Cable modem....yadda yadda yadda..

I'm using a computer with a mouse and keyboard. It has sound. I think the videocard is pretty good but everything other than that probably needs an upgrade. I'm clueless! I have no idea where to start.

1954 RAND Corporation home computer complete with mahogany case and chrome bumpers.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/images/rand.jpg

-aimee