What do you do mostly on your PC

Tommy69801 · #16 2nd Jul 2007, 01:25 PM

I mainly use my computer for studying/typing up college work, surfing the web, chatting to friends, listening to music, watching movies and shopping

Oh and I love playing with settings :)

**alex** · #17 2nd Jul 2007, 05:46 PM

Well I'm back overclocking now, got my new rig pretty much all buttoned up, new mobo, new cpu, new gpu and new monitor.

3.6ghz here I come :D.

Am noseying around at water-cooling bits though, gonna price that up and do some plumbing.

**SocialWarfare** · #18 2nd Jul 2007, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by alex

Well I'm back overclocking now, got my new rig pretty much all buttoned up, new mobo, new cpu, new gpu and new monitor.

3.6ghz here I come :D.

Am noseying around at water-cooling bits though, gonna price that up and do some plumbing.

What kind of rig did you get? Aiming for 3.6 I would say you bought a E6600 or something like that!

**alex** · #19 3rd Jul 2007, 02:57 AM

Got myself an Asus Commando mobo Social, very oc friendly. Also laid my mitts on a X6800 second hand. Too good a deal to pass up and no way was I going to pay retail for that cpu.

Was going to upgrade my monitor anyway (got a Samsung 244T) but due to the native resolution I needed a much more powerful card than the 7900, so I got a 640mb 8800GTS.

**SocialWarfare** · #20 3rd Jul 2007, 04:10 AM

Originally Posted by alex

Got myself an Asus Commando mobo Social, very oc friendly. Also laid my mitts on a X6800 second hand. Too good a deal to pass up and no way was I going to pay retail for that cpu.

Was going to upgrade my monitor anyway (got a Samsung 244T) but due to the native resolution I needed a much more powerful card than the 7900, so I got a 640mb 8800GTS.

Nice, Wow with a native resolution of 1920x1200(I think) I nearly would have gone with the 768 just to be sure, if you game that is?
I was thinking about setting up water cooling myself, but I could never bring myself to spending that much money for a degree or to less over a good HSF, especially living in this part of the world were ambient temps aren't that high anyway, apart from this time of year!
But it does look pretty sweet though

**alex** · #21 3rd Jul 2007, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by SocialWarfare

Nice, Wow with a native resolution of 1920x1200(I think) I nearly would have gone with the 768 just to be sure, if you game that is?
I was thinking about setting up water cooling myself, but I could never bring myself to spending that much money for a degree or to less over a good HSF, especially living in this part of the world were ambient temps aren't that high anyway, apart from this time of year!
But it does look pretty sweet though

I do game, but not the newer titles. I'm into C&C, Empire at war and LOCK-ON, that type of stuff.

Yeah, i was tempted by the GTX but i'm going to oc the GTS anyway, and except for the stream shaders i'm betting i can get it close to GTX speed, or near enough. Just couldn't advocate paying that much for a graphics card, especially when i can save a packet by buying the card i have and just overclock it. I reckon that if I get a decent oc i'll lose about 10%-15% in games over the GTX, just an estimation as its oc-dependent, but considering the cost of a GTX over a GTS i'd be happy with near that.

The 244 does have a res of 1920x1200, can't tell you how unbelievably happy I am with it. Been saving pennies for the past few months to get it.

ruth_d · #22 5th Jul 2007, 01:43 AM

Hi there - i do the usual stuff, forums, blogging, gaming, emailing, shopping, photoshop, make movies...

Thinking of getting into second life but i'm not sure about it all - looks confusing! I saw a thing here where two people who are married in SL are getting married IRL-and they have NEVER met?! Bizarre huh? http://preview.itv.com/Soaps/WebLive...s/default.html

**remoterepairs** · #23 5th Jul 2007, 06:03 PM

This thread gone soooo long so simply scrolling mouse :)

**Blackmirror** · #24 11th Jul 2007, 11:39 PM

I use mine mostly for surfing and making friends
Help out on PC forums as well

**tastyguru** · #25 19th Jul 2007, 03:42 PM

gaming, porn and myspace. being honest..

**Dave Hybrid** · #26 19th Jul 2007, 11:08 PM

Originally Posted by tastyguru

gaming, porn and myspace. being honest..

Probably too honest... :p

**dbuske** · #27 20th Jul 2007, 03:20 AM

My wife and I are big contest enterers. We have won 3 trips, Orlando, New York and Washington D.C. A 40 inch HD LCD Tv, LCD computer Monitor, Xbox, all kinds of DVD's. And on and on. We use the On-line Sweepstakes (OLS) contest site.

Play PC games, talk on Forums, I am big into Retro Gaming ie. Doom, Quake, Heretic, Duke Nukem and so on.

**xactly** · #28 10th Aug 2007, 01:44 PM

gaming internet music vids thats it