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***Zardon*** · Aug 9, 2007, 03:48 PM

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Spyre · Aug 9, 2007, 03:58 PM

OK I will get the ball rolling and christen this thread

Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
Sure do, Vista X64

Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
Air Cooling, 3 x 120mm fans and a top mounted 240mm fan for the CPU its a Asus Silent Square Pro CPU Cooler

Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
Too much, maybe £1000 a year give or take

Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
DX10 via a HD 2900

Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
A new monitor with HDMI

Zelig · Aug 9, 2007, 04:08 PM

Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
Yes, Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
Air cooling, lots of big, low rpm fans.

Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
$1000 average, I'm going to say.

Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
No, and probably not.

Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
USB TV tuner.

glaurung · Aug 9, 2007, 04:24 PM

Hi there...

Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
Nop, Win XP SP2

Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
Nop, Volcano 10 over my Athlon XP

Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
Nothing, unless some component crashes

Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
Nop, no money in my pockets.

Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
A whole new system.

Bart1987 · Aug 9, 2007, 04:25 PM

Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
No, I will when games force me to use it
Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
aircooling
Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
€200
Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
no.
Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
Monitor or a whole new pc.

Dark Lord · Aug 9, 2007, 04:26 PM

Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
no

Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
air cooling

Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
less then 100.00

Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
no and no

Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
full computer.

RoyBatty · Aug 9, 2007, 04:26 PM

1) No.
2) Air cooling.
3) Not much, <150 EUR.
4) No and No.
5) Whatever breaks down first.

BlueMak · Aug 9, 2007, 04:39 PM

1) No

2) Air Cooling

3) $200 to $1000 depends on the year.

4)Was but not anymore. I also do not plan on using DX10 for the next 6 months.

5) Headset or Joystick or PS2.

**Iria** · Aug 9, 2007, 04:50 PM

Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista? Yes

Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)? Air

Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year? varies from 3 - 5K ... if I get a new system that year :-)

Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months? If 5) comes out

Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be? DirectX10 Capable Gaming Laptop ... but not until they get a DX10 laptop card that matches the Go 7950GTX in performance

dsdsdk · Aug 9, 2007, 04:59 PM

1) No
2) Watercooling
3) $2500
4) Yes, plan to.
5) 2gb SO-DIMM ram

>GSXR<mrbusa · Aug 9, 2007, 05:26 PM

Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
No. I will upgrade to Linux before I install Vista.

Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
Air.

Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
If I average all upgrades across several years it would equal about 500.00 maybe?

Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
No. Unless M$ allows D$10 to be implemented within XP then I doubt I will ever run D$10.

Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
More drive capacity to occomidate 100gigs plus a month of constant downloading of free games.

Ferret_Style · Aug 9, 2007, 05:44 PM

Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
Yes on laptop and desktop

Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
Air Cooling on both

Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
Depends on year just bought new laptop so not much on desktop.

Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?

No and No until buget allows.

[COLOR=#ffffff]Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#ffffff]Either replace desktop with another new laptop in a year or laptop for wife.[/COLOR]

nitrousoxide52 · Aug 9, 2007, 05:45 PM

Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
No

Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
Air Cooling

Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
$800

Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
I plan to move up to DX10 within 6 months

Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
A new DX10 graphics card

Erroneus · Aug 9, 2007, 06:18 PM

YANCFD (Yet Another Nice Contest from Driverheaven)

1) Yep, Business and Ultimate
2) Air
3) Around 650€
4) All ready running DX10
5) It could easily be Phenom, if it kicks ass

**MIG-31** · Aug 9, 2007, 06:28 PM

Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?

Yes.. Windows Vista Home Premium

Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?

Air Cooling by the intel stock heatsink.But do plan on swapping to to a much better heatsink in the next few months.

Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?

Seeing as this is a new pc built within the last week.This contributes a good £400 this year...

Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?

Currently not running a DX 10 GFX card (But Obviously Installed Due to Vista) but if the rest of this year goes well it may be considered.Being Self Employed Bills come first.

Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?

A DX10 GFX Card if i can afford to.

**dj_stick** · Aug 9, 2007, 06:36 PM

Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
No, not yet, though considering it

Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
Rather loud air-cooling

Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
<$150 usually, unless i do a major upgrade, thne it'll blowout above $1K

Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
No, but considering it

Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
Possibly a new pair of monitors, or even a new computer

bug77 · Aug 9, 2007, 06:49 PM

1. No
2. Air
3. 2-500$
4. No/no
5. Nothing in the foreseeable future, unless the Phenom will rock or a decent video card pops up (and yes, it has to come with proper Linux support, too).

EcPercy · Aug 9, 2007, 07:02 PM

Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
Vista Ultimate 64-bit

Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
Air Cooling

Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
This year I will have spent about $2500 (once I get the new monitor and UPS), but I haven't built a computer in over 4 years. Normally, I would spend ~$300

Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
DX10 via Nvidia 8800 GTS 640MB

Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
A new Vista Premium LCD monitor and a UPS.

Ney · Aug 9, 2007, 07:02 PM

Question 1) No.
Question 2) Air cooling.
Question 3) Less than $200.
Question 4) No. No.
Question 5) Gamepad.

**ChaosMinionX** · Aug 9, 2007, 07:11 PM

Question 1) Windows Vista Ultimate x64

Question 2) Air Cooling

Question 3) $1000-$10,000 USD, I tend to upgrade alot, multiple mobos at a time, new cpus , gfx etc... almost totally new system builds with case. Just really depends.

Question 4) Yes currently running DX10

Question 5) Intel X38 board, and Auzen XFi Prelude 7.1

Geminiwave · Aug 9, 2007, 07:54 PM

Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
No but I will be in a matter of weeks.

Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
Air cooling

Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
I'd say about $600

Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
Not currently running it, but I suspect I will be in 6 months

Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
a graphics card probably.

Tril · Aug 9, 2007, 08:12 PM

1) No. XP Pro.
2) Air cooling.
3) About 600$.
4) No. My GeForce 7900 GT runs all game fines as long as they are not DX10.
5) TDVisor. I got to try it. If I don't like it, I can still return it for a refund.

ronnn · Aug 9, 2007, 10:01 PM

Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
No, but next rig will.

Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
Air Cooling

Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
Normally about $500-$1000 Canadian. This year will be more.
Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
Not now, but will likely upgrade before christmas.

Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
Probably a whole new rig, to use current as a multimedia, second computer.

Lowfat · Aug 9, 2007, 10:20 PM

Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista? Yes Ultimate 64-bit.

Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)? Watercooling.

Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year? ~ $3-4K

Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months? Yes, currently running it.

Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be? Hopefully a next gen videocard.