Post Your System Specs Thread

Cells only describe the inner workings of a battery. There are much more factors to determine battery life.

battery life is a calculation of power consumption and amps. right?there is software in laptops and even on my old craptop it has a press button on the battery itself because it slides in the side, the button is like the old duracell battery gauge they used to build onto them in the 90's.so i have two gauges. in pc and on battery. the only way to tell is with a new battery just check the manufacturer of the laptop and get the estimated life which is almost always in the specs, or simply use it till its almost out of charge and see how long it took.old batteries are unreliable and itll vary a lot.

Some types of batteries' maximum charge declines over time, so reading the specs for an older laptop may be unreliable.

exactly. but reading the specs for any laptop, stock using a stock battery which is new or relativly new. will give you the info you want. and as i said, old batteries will always hold a charge for less time and i think, when they get bad they will hold a charge longer one time and shorter the next.

Born2killxI'm going to build a new computer. There were some... ehem, complications regarding a $2600 Newegg purchase and the freeze and subsequent irreversible shutdown of one of my dad's credit cards, the use of a second credit card, the freezing of that one, the unfreezing of that one, and the current confusion as to the state of the transaction.Parts I got:Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (Will overclock to 3.2 GHz or something)
EVGA nForce 790i
2 EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX 768 MB SLI'd together
2 500 GB Samsung SpinPoint T Series SATA hard drives, RAID 0'd together
Silverstone Black TJ07 (The version with the window)
DVD burner (SATA)
Blu-Ray burner (SATA)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Series
Patriot Viper 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Logitech G15 Keyboard :P
Ultra X3 1000w PSU
A nice little big heatsink
No floppy$2800 in total; I was able to convince my dad to pay for about half. ;D Not a bad setup. ;D

Woot!! nice rig dude!!

this is due to expensive purchase and not newegg issues?? they are supposed to be really good. i buy by price which is normally amazon.

Macbook Aluminum:2 ghz intel core 2 duo
13.3 in widescreen
160 gb hard disk 320 GB Hitachi HD
2 gb DDR3 Ram
Mac OS X 10.5.6 Leopard Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Airport Extreme 802.11abgn
Bluetooth

badbudz · #125Woot!! nice rig dude!!

As of now, three of the aforementioned components have failed. They are...The sound card.
The system drive.
One of the RAM sticks.With advice from my peers (Loonylion), I decided not to link the hard drives in a RAID configuration. I am very happy with my purchase.

I warned you about the sound card... Get the Xonar instead, and for disk drives I get Samsung for drives larger than 500GB and IBM/Hitachi GST for smaller (Larger Hitachi drives lack cache, so they don't perform as well) My current system drives are 320GB Seagates, but Seagate have gone to hell lately (don't know if that applies to drives under 500GB, but their 500, 650, 750, 1TB and 1.5TB all have shocking failure rates)

i noticed that some seagates have a rubber surround that is removable. i have not seen one that didnt burn out in a few years.

Replying to #130

only the older ones (i.e more than 5 years ago). I'm talking about months, not years. Their newer drives have something like 98% failure rate in the first three months

damn. they suck now.i buy hitachi but have only gone as high as 80gig. do you recommend anyones 10,000rpm drives?

Only WD make 10k rpm drives available to the public, unless you're talking about SCSI, which is usually more trouble than its worth. I have had no problems with my raptor 10k so far, but several of my friends have had issues with WD drives.

ah. is there really a difference that justifies the increased price?i'll end the the derailment of the topic after this question has gotten a response.

for certain purposes, yes.

Lets see how well I can do this from memory. I just bought a new laptop and built a new desktop within the last month and a half. I reseached everything to death, so I should be able to. :PLaptop is an HP dv7t 1200
17" screen @ 1680x1050 resolution
2.4GHz P8600 Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB RAM
9600M GT 512MB Nividia graphics card
Seagate 500GB 7,200rpm hard drive - getting a second shortly for a 2 x 500GB internal =)
Wireless N/Bluetooth (card gets hotter than hell...)
Bluray drive
Can't think of anything else particularly worth mentioning there.Desktop I custom built about a month ago22" Samsung SyncMaster also 1680 x 1050. Came with my 3-D equipment. Its matte and picture quality kicks the butt of any glossy screen I have ever seen. Seriously, look up the specs on it.
EVGA 790i FTW mobo - REALLY nice mobo. I recommend it.
3.0GHz Q9650 Intel Core 2 Quad - Zalman cooler on there.
8GB OCZ RAM
2 BFG 9800GX2 graphics cards in SLI. More or less a quad sli as each graphics card is already in SLI with itself. =)
3 1TB 7,200rpm Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drives with Kubuntu, XP, and Vista triboot
Bluray and DVD drives
X3 1600 powersupplyThats pretty much it. Not too shabby for a $2,500 build. Its in an xBlade case if anyone knows what that is. I'm also working on watercooling it. SLI gets a bit too hot for my taste.

Replying to #136

Maybe we could if you gave us the model number :P

@shbek1
whoah on your desktop... what the heck do you use that for? and for 2.5K american? nice, envy.....
do you own it already or just plans to build?

Replying to #138

it would be the younger brother of my desktop if it was AMD. I don't like intel.

why is it when you buy a processor, Intel always is the best one the clerks tells you to buy? what the heck is the difference between a dual core and core 2 duo?