Wait, do I smell Vista on the admin? Noes! *Creates cross with fingers* Vista is EVIL, ate 52% of my two gigs of RAM in this laptop with everything disabled, horrible performance in games.
My desktop is custom though, specs are in the Specs bubble, beware, the bubble is LONG because my laptop and desktop are listed in it. I'll upload an HTML report of my desktop tomorrow generated by Everest tomorrow when I can borrow my bro's flash drive.
my desktop:
Case is a beat up ATX Mid tower, specs are listed in the bubble. I made the top vent using just a hammer, drill, pliers, and a screw driver, oh and a dead 80mm fan as a stencil, it drops the temps 2-5 degree's Fahrenheit. The power button is dangling from the optical drive bay because I don't have a face plate for the case.
There are eight fans in there total, two front intake 80mm front fans, I think there both Quiettek, a 92mm rear exhaust fan, top 80mm exhaust fan, 92mm CPU heatsink fan (I paid $5 for that heatsink 'cause it wouldn't fit my brothers motherboard.), a 40mm chipset fan pulled from a coolermaster heatsink, a 120mm PSU fan, and a 40 or 50mm GPU fan. the front fans are to loud, need to find some, er, donor PSU's or something to replace them with.
The CPU idles at about 90F, its overclocked 37% from 2.66GHz to 3.66GHz, the chipset has a combined north/south bridge, and the north/south bridge has the onboard GPU combined into it, its a 7010 series I think. I found the monitor on the curb back in '06 if I remember correctly, the case was given to me with our first custom built family PC in it. My old Celeron system back in 2004 when I knew little about computers. I learned the hard way with that system, CELERONS SUCK! it was a 2.66GHz Celeron D w/ 128K cache, system had 1GB DDR 400, i think the GPU was a Radeon 9600 series, don't quote me on that because I'm unsure.
Currently my desktop is pieced together half from my old rig, half new parts. CPU, RAM, HDD, the DVD RW drive, and I think a couple of the fans are all re-used from my old rig. the PSU, motherboard, GPU, and heatsink are new parts. My old rigs north bridge heatsink popped off taking the clamp for a heatsink with it, north bridge burnt out, GPU seems to be dead from that also. My old GPU was a nVidia 7600GT 256MB 128B GPU. The power supply wasn't much of an upgrade, its a 550W Rosewill, whereas I had a 500W, but I sold it to my bro for $20 for an HP he got with a bad PSU. Current PSU has more amperage though, which is what I needed. The desktop also currently has no internet connection, kinda sucks when I need to upload something that's on it.
The case has been transported and kicked around so much its practically a Three Ring Circus act to get the side panel back on. You all should feel special, I pulled off the annoying side panel just for the pic above.
The reason I bought my laptop was in case something random like the north bridge heatsink deciding it wants no part of the north bridge's 130F running temp while gaming, and "Ejecting" from the board happens again. At the time of buying this, I didn't realize how much the 8600 series GPU's sucked, this one isn't as bad as desktop models though. Oh well, its warranted, through next September, I'm going to renew the warranty on it soon. The other reason of buying this is; Its not my problem if the thing breaks.
