What kind of computer system are you running?

My g/f has been asking me lately to get her a new computer system that, in her words, "Will eat Second Life for breakfast!", the system she wants is:

Intel i7 975 (the fastest microchip on the planet!)
12 G DDR3 Memory
2 G Video Card
3 TB HD


I use a Toshiba Satellite Lappy with 4 G of memory and crappy onboard video card but I think the system she wants is waaay too powerful for SL and will only be as good as her bandwidth is. This also got me to wondering what kind of computer systems everyone else is using in SL, please post your computer specs with comments, ty

AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core Black Edition
Asus M3A Deluxe Motherboard
4x4Gig OCZ Platinum DDR2 1066Mhz
Sapphire Radeon x1900xtx
2x1TB Maxtor 7200 RPM
NZXT Nemesis Case
Windows Vista Ultimate x64

Viewsionic VX2235wm x2


Could go on and list my server, laptops, linux box, etc, but will stick with my main.


Havent had a single problem with this computer, hardware-wise. It has absolutely no problems running SL, or any other game, at pretty much the highest graphics setting. The next thing i would upgrade, tho, is my video card. While the x1900xtx is getting very old, it is still one of the best performing cards out there.

my system is a few months old, I went with nothing stupid high end.

Intel Duo Core2 e7400@2.80ghz
2gigs of kingston ram
80 gig hard drive
Nvidia 8800 GTS 640mb Video card
450Watt power supply with 34 amps combined on the 12 volt rails (important for video cards to have higher amperage)

Running winXP 32bit sp3

SL I have set on ultra and experience no lag.

What you have listed above is like for major video editing.

T9600 CPU (stock speed 2.8 GHz)...GTX 260m GPU...64 GB SSD...4 GB DDR2 800 RAM...1920x1080 LED display

This laptop will eat SL for breakfast.

Your GF's system is a bit overkill. The base i7 would do (you can easily overclock way above stock with just air cooling). 12 GB memory is also more than even SL will need...6 GB is fine (and you can always start w/3 x 2 GB and add more later). Don't know which video card you mean, but memory amount isn't the most important stat. SL texture cache on card is limited to 512 MB. Any Nvidia 200 series with a single GPU (not one of the two-on-one-card models..the GTX 260 or 275, not the 285 or 295) will shred SL for the foreseeable future. An overclocked 260 with 896 MB and 216 stream processors is probably the best bang for the buck right now.

Quads are not really necessary at the moment (SL can only use 2 cores) but the i7 has several other advantages and is a good investment for future computing. SLI or dual GPU cards are not well supported in SL, so a good single-GPU card will be easier to configure.

a Burroughs B-205. but i get a little lag now and then...

I like to run Second Life on an Apple II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAZHJa91JHk

You got me beat, I was going to talk about my PDP-11 but I can see I wasn't ambitious enough.

No, no, no. In every possible way.
Please, stay away from Sapphire cards. They have had a history of needing propriatary fixes over the chipset manufacture's drivers. Also, for SL, the Nvidia cards are better at supporting OpenGL.

Liam, if you already have this, that is all well and good, but I would not recommend this card to anyone looking for a system specifically to run SL.

Athlon 64X2 4200+
2 GB RAM
NVIDIA 9800 GT

It doesn't eat SL for breakfast, but it can hang around and nick it's lunch money. That's fast enough for now, although some more RAM wouldn't hurt.

A 6 year old Dell Dimension 8400 with A P4, 2.5 GB RAM, *8GB HD and an ATI Radeon x300 video card.

You could still tell us about your Wang.

I hear what you're saying, Rhonda. I know of several people who have had nothing but nightmares with Sapphire cards. However, i have owned a few of them now and have never had any issues with them.

friends, I want to tell you about the ninth floor of building NE43
where this happened. They got three KL10s, 24 LISPMs, and about 32
VAXen running 4.2 unix. But when we got to the square bracket asciz
slash scene of the crime slash close square bracket there was five
twenex hackers past and present, this being the biggest lossage yet by
an RMS clone and everybody wanted to get in their suggestion for a new
system daemon that would have kept it from ever having happened in the
first place. And they was using up all kinds of debugging equipment
that they had lying around on V3A SWSKIT tapes. They were doing DSs,
MONRDs, and RSTRSHs, and they made 27000 pages of core dumps and photo
files on an RP06 with comments and -READ-.-THIS- files to be used as
evidence against us.

After the ordeal, Ann took us back downstairs and left us with the CLU
hackers. She said "Kid, I'm gonna leave you with the CLU hackers. I
want your jsys manual and your ROLM DTI". I said "Ann, I can
understand your wanting my jsys manual so I won't remind the CLU
hackers of grody things like operating systems, but what do you want
my DTI for?" and she said "Kid, we don't want any VTS errors". I said
"Ann, did you think I was going to try to crash the system for
littering?" Ann said that she was making sure, and friends, Ann was,
'cause she cleared all my left-hand privs bits so I couldn't logout.
And she disabled the TREPLACE command so I couldn't crock in an
XCT [0] instruction, cause an illegal instruction interrupt to MEXEC,
and sneak into MDDT. Yeah, Ann was making sure, and it was about four
or five hours later that Chiappa (remember Chiappa? This song's never
even mentioned Chiappa) Chiappa came by and with a few gratuitous
insults to the CLU hackers bailed us out of there, and we went out and
had another Chinese dinner that couldn't be beat, and didn't get up
until the next morning when we all had to go to LCS Computational
Resources staff meeting.

We walked in, sat down. Ann came in with the RP06 disk pack with the
27000 pages with the comments and the -READ-.-THIS- files and a two
liter coffee mug, sat down. Esther Felix comes in says "All rise", we
stood up, Ann stood up with the 27000 page RP06 pack, and Dave Clark
comes in with an IBM PC. He sits down, we sit down, Ann looks at the
IBM PC. Then at the 27000 page RP06 pack, then at the IBM PC, then at
the 27000 page RP06 pack, and began to cry, because Ann had come to
the realization that it was a typical case of 36 % 8 == 4 and that
there was no way to display those last four bits, and that Dave wasn't
gonna look at the 27000 pages of core dumps and photo files on the
RP06 pack with the comments and -READ-.-THIS- files explaining what
each one was to be used as evidence against us.

And we were permanently assigned to the batch dregs queue and had to
rebuild the bittable (in the batch dregs queue). But that's not what
I came here to talk about. I came here to talk about DEC.

(i cheated, having gotten caught up in a Lost In Space, not the movie, marathon last night so it was still fresh in my mind...)

(damned HULU, anyway...)

Intel mobo
80486 DX2-66Mhz CPU
40MB hd
32MB Memory
video card (2MB)
Soundblaster 16

Lol, kidding..

My current station is:

Asus MB (exact type i don't remember)
intel E5200 cpu (core 2 duo or dual core, whatever.. anyway it has 2 cores )
2GB OCZ memory
1x 250 GB SATA drive (OS and installation drive)
1x 1TB SATA drive (data drive)
Nvidia 9600GT/512MB GPU
1x M-audio 24/96 Delta audio card (pro card)
1x onboard audio (Via HD chipset) (for normal operations, like SL audio etc)
1x DVD-RW drive
1XCD-RW drive
1x diskdrive (yes, at times it truely is handy to have)
Lownoise fans/chassis

The following by definition is not the computer itself, but ok here we go (connected to the computer):

Flatscreen (asus 22", yes 22 not 21) scale of 16:10 instead of the nowadays standard scale of 16:9
Genius Mouse + Key (wired, i hate wireless)
Logitech Webcam

audio system:
Samson MDR1064 mixing console
Tascam VL-A5 studio monitors