What is your set-up?

[Walkiry]

1,5 Gb Ram! That surely kicks ass.

Aber wofür brauchst du die Conner Festplatte noch?

@all: why do many of you lurkers have such high-end systems? Is it necessary?

The 1.5 Gb was just because the shop was out of 120JB hard drives (the ones with 8 Mb cache). I had 512 Mb and decided to get another Gb when they were clearing stock (100$ for 1 Gb of Kingston memory seemed like a good deal to me!). Now I have 1.5 Gb of RAM and Windows doesn't use the swap file, ever. I like that ^_^

The 120 Mb hard drive has been with me since my 386sx. It keeps my DOS games. I payed 350$ (at a time when money was not easy to come by for me ;) ), and as long as it lives it'll come with me on each upgrade. It has 4 bad sectors already though.

In my case, this high end system comes from upgrading my K6-2 @ 350 with 16 Mb Voodoo Banshee and 64 Mb RAM; it's one year old already! So, it might look like a pretty nicely performing system right now, but in another 2-3 years (at least!) it won't ;)

EDIT: Talk about bad memory. I have for soundcard an Hercules Fortissimo III 7.1, given to me as a present from my brother. It sucks. No, really, the card sounds pretty good and the sound comes sharp and nice, but Hercules' drivers... I've upgraded them 3 times and each time they gave me problems (and, on each update, it was a DIFFERENT problem).