Indie developer computers (poll thingy)...

[Reactor]

I'm just wondering what the computer systems are, that indie devlopers are running? So, that would include ram, cpu and graphics card.

Thanks to anyone that cares to list their details :)

(someone please let me know if this thread has been done before, also)

[Mark Fassett]

Main Dev Machine:
AMD 2100+
1GB RAM
GeForce FX5900

Laptop
Intel HT P4 2.8
512MB RAM
Radeion 9700

IMac
1Ghz G4
128mb RAM (shoulda got more)
GF4mx

Test machines
Athlon 1.2ghz
GF4
384

Duron 1100
128mb ram
various video cards (SIS 630, TnT2, TnT, etc...)

Athlon 700
256mb ram
currently GF2mx

Duron 700
256mb ram
currently radeon 7000

[MattInglot]

Athlon 850MHz
512MB Ram
GeForce 2 GTS 32MB
200GB hd space

Old but there's very little motivation to upgrade.

[Valen]

(someone please let me know if this thread has been done before, also)

There was one, but it was at the old Dexterity forums.

I have a 1.4 Athlon, 512 RAM, and a 64 meg Geforce 2 MX400

[Reanimated]

AMD athlon 64bit 3000+
512RAM
200gb HDD
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro (All-in-wonder)

[Gilzu]

Main workstation:
Athlon XP 3000+
Radeon 9700XT
512 RAM

Test Machines:
Athlon XP 2200+
GeForce 4MX
256 RAM

Cyrix 400Mhz (laptop)
64 RAM
Voodoo 3000

[tentons]

2.4 P4
512 RAM
100 gig HD
GeForce TI4200

[Mike Wiering]

P4, 2 GHz
256 Mb RAM
NVidia GeForce 4 MX

Laptop:
P4, 3 GHz
512 Mb RAM
NVidia GeForce FX

[ggambett]

Main dev machine
Athlon XP 1800+
512 MB RAM
40 GB HDD
GeForce4 MX
Red Hat Linux 8.0

iBook
iBook Dual USB
384 MB RAM
G3 500 MHz
12 GB HDD
Mac OS X 10.3

[Mike Boeh]

p4 2.4c overclocked to 3.2 ghz
Asus P4S800D-E motherboard (sis 655tx chipset)
2 samsung 120 GB SATA drives in raid1
Radeon 9800 pro
512 meg dual ddr

This is a really fast machine, at least it seems fast to me... I had some problems achieving 100% stability with the overclock until I got one of those massive zallman 7000 fan/heatsinks.... There does seem to be a really annoying bug in the sis chipset though- my new game runs at 160 fps when HT is enabled, but 370 fps when it's disabled.... I have tried everything to correct it...

I have a bunch of others for testing and stuff, but that's my main one.

[SunAndGames]

Development Machine
AMD 1Ghz
256 Mb
2 40Gig HDD
ATI Radeon 7200
WinXP Pro
Win98 SE
Mandrake Linux v10

Laptop
Dell Inspiron 8200
Intel 1.7 Mobile
512 Mb
1 40 Gig HDD
Nvidia ???
WinXP Home

Test Machine
Pentium 233
64 Mb
4Gb HDD
Voodoo ??
Linux Red Hat (for now)

[Reactor]

Thanks guys, much appreciated. I'll add mine to the list as well. There's some fairly good rigs being used for such low-end games being developed ;)

Athlon 1800+
Geforce FX5600
768 MB RAM
Win 2k

[Phil Newton]

Laptop
900Mhz Celeron
512Mb Ram
SiS 630 built in graphics card.
WinXP

[Cartman]

Laptop
Intel 2.8 Pentium 4(hyperthread) (my new toy :) )
Athlon 9000
512 MB Ram
XP Pro

Desktop
Intel 2.4 Pentium 4
Geforce FX5200
1gig MB RAM
XP Pro

[Night Elf]

Pentium III at 800 MHz
256 MB RAM
GeForce FX 5200
Windows XP Pro

[HairyTroll]

Main Machine:

CPU: Athlon 1900
RAM: 1+ GB
GFX: nVidia TNT
O/S: XP Home

Test Machines (Dualies are the coolest)

CPU: Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz
RAM: 2 GB
GFX: ATI 9700 Pro
O/S: XP Pro

CPU: Dual PPro 200Mhz
RAM: 128 MB
GFX: Matrox Millenium
O/S: NT 4

CPU: Athlon 2200 (Shuttle Cube)
RAM: 512 MB
GFX: nVidia nForce / ATI 9500
O/S: XP Home / Knoppix (Linux)

CPU: P75 (Laptop)
RAM: 32 MB
GFX: Integrated chipset rubbish
O/S: Win 95

CPU: P133 (Laptop)
RAM: 32 MB
GFX: Integrated chipset, (640x480 max)
O/S: Win 98

[SteveB]

Development Machine
Intel P4 2.8 with HT
512 MB
80 GB HD
Radeon 9600
Win2K

Test Machines
Intel Celeron 450 Mhz
384 MB
2 x 8 GB HD
TNT2
Win2K

Intel Pentium 166
128 MB
4 GB HD
FreeBSD

[Mark Currie]

Main:

P4 2.8
1 GB RAM
10,000 RPM HD (WD Raptor)
GeForce 4 TI

Purchased from www.NewEgg.com

Test Machines:

1) 1.8 Athlon, GeForce 2
2) 900 Mhz Athlon, GeForce 3
3) 450 Mhz Celeron, GeForce 2
4) 450 Mhz Celeron, GeForce 2

[mathgenius]

Dual Athlon MP 2200
512 Ram
nVidia FX 5200
Mandrake Linux

This is so i can run my python prototypes at acceptable framereate :p (tho i don't often use both CPUs it seems...)

Simon.

[Air]

Desktop (Gatway refurb):

P3 / 650
512 MB ram
46 gig HDD
Win2k

Laptop (IBM Thinkpad):

P2 / 266
256 MB ram
4.6 gig HDD
Win2k

... amusingly the laptop actually has almost exactly 1/10th as much total hard drive space as the desktop. I use both for development (about 75% / 25%) due to computer sharing in this household. I have little desire to upgrade at this point (although a slightly faster laptop would be nice). I've had faster machines in the past but frankly they didn't help me get any work done any faster. Now I just spend the extra 15 seconds of recompile time going over notes and making lists-- and I think it actually improves my ability to complete tasks. :)

- Air

[Nemesis]

Intel Pentium 3 1.6GHz
512MB RAM
2 x 40Gig hardrives
Geforce 4 MMX 440

I also had a functional Pentium 2 800Mhz that housed my source control until it went bust. Haven't bothered fixing it yet but I also back the code remotely by sending snapshots to another team mate. I feel in dire need of getting a new machine!

[PoV]

Whee.. :)

Dev Laptop
Pentium 4 3.4GHz with Hyperthreading
1GB RAM
Radeon 9700 Mobile
40 Gigs HD
WinXP

Dev PC
Athlon 2800+
1GB RAM
GeForce 4 TI 4600
40+60 Gigs HD
WinXP

Backup Server and Test Machine
Athlon 1333Ghz
768MB RAM
GeForce 2
250+120+40+20+10(Raid) HD
Win2000 and Win2003 Dual Booted

Linux/BeOS Test Box
Celeron 700
512 MB RAM
Matrox 440? Dual Head Video
20GB HD
Redhat 9 and BeOS 5 Dual Booted

"Arcade Box (http://junk.sykhronics.com/photos/Arcade1/)" Test Box
Athlon 700
256 MB RAM
Voodoo 3 3000?
30 GB HD
WinXP

Test Box
Pentium 3 800mhz
512 MB RAM
TNT2
30GB HD
WinXP

Slow Test Machine (Laptop)
Celeron 333mhz
64 MB RAM
Unknown Video
8GB HD
Win98

Test Mac (Laptop)
G3 300mhz
64 MB RAM
Unknown Video
6GB HD
MacOS X (Jaguar) and MacOS 9 Dual Booted

And there's a couple shelves of spare parts... but my list is long enough.

[BantamCityGames]

Nothing special, but it runs like a champ so I'm not so quick to upgrade:

Win XP Pro
First Gen - Athlon 850
256 ram
ATI Rage 128 32MB (video card could use an upgrade, but I got it for free)

[stan]

Main dev machine:
Amiga 1200
68040 @ 25 MHz + PPC 603 @ 210 MHz
96 MB EDO RAM
BVisionPPC (8 MB Permedia2-based graphics board)
AmigaOS 3.9

Porting/testing machine:
Athlon 850 MHz
512 MB SDRAM
Radeon 9200 SE (128 MB)
Win 98 se

[cliffski]

my machine has 1.5gig of ram (I upgraded for star wars galaxies). but heres the interesting bit...

CPU : No idea
Video card : Geforce something


Yup thats right, off the top of my head I have no idea. and I LOVE games (just about to play some Thief2/sims2 or COD).
Yes folks, we have reached a level of hardware now where even some gamers and game developers ahve stopped caring what their specs are ;)
Maybe thats just me...

[Anthony Flack]

P4 1.4GHz
256Mb Ram
64Mb Geforce 2

[Linusson]

Athlon 2400+
512 MB RAM
GeForce FX 5200 (128 MB)

[Pete]

Main Win Machine
XP
P4 1.4
1 Gig RAM
80 Gig HDD
Radeon 9600

Main Mac Machine
OS X 10.3.5
iBook G4
800Mhz
640Mb RAM
60 Gig HDD
Radeon 9200

Test Boxs

Dell Laptop
Win 2000
P4 1.6
512Mb RAM
30Gig HDD
GForce 2 GO

Clone
Win 2000
Celeron 2.8
512Mb RAM
40Gig HDD
GForce 3

Clone
Win 98
P3 500
64Mb RAM
?? HDD
?? Video (No 3D)

[indiemaker]

Dev Machine:
Pentium 4 2.8Ghz
80GigHD
512MB
On Board Video card

Pentium3 600Mhz
80Gig
512MB
Radeon 7000

Test Machine:
Pentium 233Mhz
2 GigHd
64MB Ram
On Board Video

[Mirage]

Main machine:
Athlon 1GHz
Radeon 9600Pro
256 MB RAM
Win XP

Test machines:

Celeron 600
TnT2 M64
Win 2K

Celeron 700
I815 on board video
Win 98

Celeron 733
I810 on board video
Win2K

[Mithril Studios]

Main Machine:
Athlon 1 GHz
256 MB RAM
100 gig HD
GeForce 2 32 mb card
Windows XP Pro

Secondary:
Athlon 800 MHz
256 MB RAM
6 gig HD
Voodoo 3 16 MB card (hehe)
Windows XP Home

Tertiary:
Gateway P2 180
64 MB Ram
3 gig HD
Voodoo 2 16 MB card + Matrox Monster 3D accelerator card
Windows 98se

Like many others, I don't see much point in upgrading my primary system at this time. At best I'd add some more ram and a new video card, just to play some of the more recent games (like Thief 3), but the other two are just fine for what I use them for (testing and the kids).

Anthony

[Peter Wayne]

Audio Workstation
P4 2.6c
Asus P4P800
1Gb Corsair 3200LL Ram
3 hdds (40-200gb) 7200rpm, 2 SATA
GF4 MX 440

Games Rig
P4 1.8a
GA-8IRXP
768mb Ram
9600 Pro
120GB hdd 7200RPM ATA

Both systems are running on my Gateway VX1120 22' monitor :).

[cableshaft]

Primary CPU
Athlon 1.1Gig
512 Ram
Radeon 9200
40 gig 5400 rpm hd
80 gig 7200 rpm hd

Test Machine
Athlon 650mhz
256 Ram
Viper 2 graphics card
20 gig 5400 rpm hd

I might upgrade the motherboard/processor on my main cpu once half-life 2 comes out, or definitely when Elder Scrolls: Oblivion comes out in a couple years. Not much motivation otherwise.

I need to get an older iBook sometime also and get acquainted with the Mac world also.

[J&E Electronics]

Mine is an emachine t3085

anthlon 2.17 ghz
960 ddr ram
160 gigs
nvidia geforce mx
48x cd-rom
windows xp home edition

[super_e]

Dev laptop:
Centrino 1.5GHz
512MB RAM
40GB HDD
ATI 32MB
WinXP Home

Secondary dev PC:
P4 2.0GHz
256MB RAM
40GB HDD
GeForce 2 64MB
WinXP Home

Test machine:
Celeron 1.4 GHz
128MB RAM
20GB HDD
Shared memory :)
Win98 SE

[GMarkou]

Dev Laptop:
P4 HT 3.0GHz
512 MB RAM
60 GB hd
Radeon 9700 64mb
WinXP Pro

Test machine:
P3/500
128 MB ram
40 mb hd
GF4 ti 4400

I really need (?) to buy a Mac.

[keethrus]

Win XP Home SP1
Celeron 2.4 GHz
128 MB Ram
40 Gb hd
and a basic graphics card. :D I don't play any games where I need one.

- Jeremiah

[Screwball]

Main Machine:

Athlon 64bit 3600+
2GB RAM
256mb Raedon x800
72GB 10krpm SCSI HD
200 GB 7.2krpm IDE HD.

[stevenmanschot]

Win XP Home SP2
P4 2.4 Ghz
1Gb Ram
nVidia Ti4400

Win 2K
P4 2.4 Ghz
1Gb Ram
Ati 9500 PRO

Win 2K
Toshiba sattelite
P4 1.0 Ghz Celeron
256 Mb Ram
Trident Blade