Computer nerds, this is the obligatory "describe your rig" thread

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  1. 4thBattalion

    4thBattalion New Member

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    Main workstation

    Dell XPS 8500
    I7 ivy
    16gig ram
    AMD 7870
    SSD 256gig + 2tb HDD hybrid drive
    2x BluRay burners
    Hauppauge Colossus HD video capture card
    Artisan 50 Epson printer
    3x ProBox usb3 4 drives external enclosure with 4x 2tb HDD each for a total of 24 terrabytes
    This is my day to day machine for gaming, software development and video capture & ripping.
    It run Win7 ultimate as a necessity because of the capture card and gaming.

    Web design & media creation computer

    iMac 2010
    i3
    16 gig of ram
    500 gb HDD
    AMD 6370
    Used mainly for GarageBand and Dreamweaver
    Soon to be replaced by a 27" i7 iMac + 27" thunderbolt display
    It will then be used for mathematical simulation projects.

    Laptop

    Toshiba 17"
    i7 sandy bridge
    2x 128gb SSD
    16gig ram
    This laptop is used for software development on the road.
    Soon to be replace by a Macbook Air for portability and because the Toshiba is overkill as a portable software programming computer. And the toshiba weight a ton...

    iPad 3 for online video, web browsing...

    Samsung Galaxy S3.

    So, here you have it, my present setup.
     
  2. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

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    My present rig is an interesting setup..

    Power Mac G5 2.5 GHz quad core (2 x dual core G5 cpus)
    16 GB DDR2 PC4200 ECC
    GeForce 7800 GT PCIe
    Here is where it gets fun:
    Debian Linux, testing version (Wheezy)
    SYBA 2-port USB 3.0 PCI-Express Card, Asmedia ASM1042 Controller Model
    2 Port PCI Express (PCIe) SATA III 6.0 Gbps Host Adapter
    Pioneer BDR-206 12X Blu-ray Writer (Single/Dual Layer), DVD-RAM, -/+R, -/+RW, CD-R Internal Black SATA Optical Drive.
    and three SATA hard drives, two hooked up to the on-board SATA controller and one to the PCIe SATA III card along with the Blu-ray drive.

    Fun thing is, with this configuration and VLC, I can actually play Blu-ray movies on this thing :D I only have one Blu-ray movie at present (Eraser), but it works.
     
  3. AndrogynousMale

    AndrogynousMale Active Member

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    CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 620 Processor running at 2.40 GHZ

    Ram: 8 GB

    GPU: GeForce 9100 running at 500 Mhz with 256 video memory

    OS: Windows 7 Home Premium with Service Pack 1
     
  4. Lord Joar

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    CPU: AMD FX 8120
    RAM: 8 GB 1600 mhz
    Video card: Radeon HD 6870
    Hard drives: A 60 GB SSD and a 1 TB regular HDD
    OS: Ubuntu with Gnome Shell, probably getting dual boot with windows.
    Chassi: Zalman Z11 plus.
    PSU: 500W.
     
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    Test for Lilac110
     
  6. Mushroom

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    [​IMG]

    Franklin PC8000
    8088, 4.77 MHz
    2 360k floppies
    40 MB SCSI Hard Drive
    CGA Graphics
    2400 baud external modem


    Ooops, sorry, thought you were asking for my original, not obligatory.

    Even this I pushed. The HD I added myself, and swapped the 4.77 MHz 8088 with an NEC V20 chip. And upped to EGA graphics.
     
  7. hiimjered

    hiimjered Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Very nice. Does it still work?

    My first computer was an old Commodore 64 that I hooked up to a TV. I eventually got a floppy drive, but originally had to write a program every time I wanted to use it. I'd leave it on for days while I worked on more elaborate games.
     
  8. Mushroom

    Mushroom Well-Known Member

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    Actually, that is just a photo I found on the net, I got rid of that thing back in 1991 when I upgraded to an 80386.

    And that was just my first PC. Prior to that I owned a PET, VIC-20 and a C-64.
     
  9. Daggdag

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    My grandfather bought me my computer. We had it custom made.

    The OS is Windows 8 Enterprise

    I do not know much about computers, but I know my grandpa paid a lot of money for it.

    It has a 3.5 tb hard drive. I do not know the specifics.

    It has an Intel E7 processor. Not sure about the specific model number and all of that, but it is the one that just came out in May.

    It has 100 something gb of ram. Not sure exactly, but I know we maxed out the motherboard's capacity.

    It has a 10 core processor. I think it's one of the Intel Xeon E7 line.

    It has duel Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics cards.

    The guy who put it together put a custom cooling system in it, to keep the video cards, cpu, and everything from overheating, even if you run it for hours at a time.

    That's all I really know about it.
     
  10. Nightmare515

    Nightmare515 Ragin' Cajun Staff Member Past Donor

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    Are you joking?...

    Unless you are personally designing the entire Decepticon army at the same time for the new Transformers movie with the latest 3d modeling software thats the most overkill PC I have ever heard of in my life lol...

    When you say "a lot of money" you are talking about roughly $10,000...:omg:

    My rig
    Intel i5 4440 3.1ghz
    MSI Z97 gaming MB
    MSI Geforce GTX 970 4gb
    8gb Kingston ddr3 ram
    Seasonic 80+ gold 550W PSU

    Runs every game you can at the same settings for 1/10th the price...lol
     
  11. Daggdag

    Daggdag Well-Known Member

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    My grandfather is rich. He likes to spend money. He told me he wanted to buy me a new computer, which I needed for gaming, film editing, including CGI work, (I do independent films in my spare time), and several other things. He decided he wanted to splurge and asked a custom computer builder to make one with all the best hardware he could find. I think he spend $9,800.

    The funny thing is, he never used to buy things like that. He had a dream in which god told him to use his money to make people happy, and now he goes around buying stuff for people.
     
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    Solitare will run amazing on that thing.
     
  13. Mushroom

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    No kidding, that is about what I thought as well. I have built video editing and animation systems for major Hollywood studios for a fraction of that cost. I have also built servers for handling 400+ users with petabytes of data for a fraction of that amount of money.

    Somebody saw this guy comming and seriously lined his pockets.

    And come on now, A XEON processor running Windows 8? 100GB RAM? "Custom cooling system"? Somebody saw this guy coming, and seriously charged him up the butt for things he did not need and would never need for quite a while. By the time that this comes even close to being obsolete, he could probably buy the same system for $250 on the bargain shelf in the back of a computer surplus store.

    I am surprised he did not get a Gigabit network card and router to go with it so he can have the fastest Internet. :roflol:

    I always feel sorry for people that are charged up the butt for far more computer then they will ever need. Sure I hear about it all the time, but it always makes me shake my head when I hear stories like that. If somebody came to me with a blank check and wanting me to build the "ultimate computer", I doubt I could ethically spend more then $3,000 on it. Anything beyond that is simply criminal in my opinion. And it is "pocketbook crooks" like that that give the rest of us who build custom systems a bad name and reputation.

    Hell, I still remember the first "Top of the line ultimate computer system" for myself. Everybody said I was crazy to buy an 80486-50 (not DX2, the original that ran at a BUS speed of 50 MHz), 8 MB of RAM, 2 CD-ROMS and over 1 GB total of hard drive capacity. To much computer they said, I would never need all of that they said. And they were right.

    For about 3 years. Within 5 years it was dragging and literally 7 years later I found the exact same hard drive I had paid $1,000 for (700 MB SCSI-II) in the discount area of a local computer surplus store for $25 and laughed. By that time, 3GB drives were available for around $100 and we were using RAM in the 100+MB range instead of the single MB range. We had gone from 9600BPS modems to high speed internet through NIC cards. And video cards had jumped from the 1MB Mach to the 64MB Rage series. And I think that original "ultimate computer" cost me around $800 in 1992.

    I would have to seriously question if every computer I have owned from 1990 to 2015 combined has even cost $10,000. Let alone even thinking of spending anything like that today in a single rig.

    [​IMG]

    And to give an idea, the "edge of bleeding edge" system I built for myself in 2006 is still chugging along just fine. A CPU upgrade, 2 GPU upgrades, more RAM, newer hard drive, new OS. I think I have invested maybe $500 total in the last 9 years, and it can still do anything I want it to do. I am only now starting to think it is time to retire it.

    Not because of requirements, but I know I am running up hard against the lifespan of the actual hardware itself. Sometime within the next 2 years or so I think the Motherboard will hit it's fail pont, and the archetecture (DDR2, AM2) is so far obsolete that it would be worthless to try and find just a motherboard to replace my current one.

    And "custom cooling"? I have used nothing but air cooling for decades (as a computer professional, I have seen far to many "water cooled" systems destroyed by a failing seal, cooling blockage, or running out of fluid to ever consider using it myself. The only time I have willingly built such a rig was when I knew the box was going in a sound studio, where ambient noise was a serious issue. And unless this crook owned a machine shop that could handle milling of high grade aluminum, I can guarantee he just bought some things off the shelf (like a Thermaltake or Koolance system), threw it in, then called it "custom".
     
  14. IndianaCurmudgeon

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    Nice reading up on what people do. I have built my own systems since I switched from a Commodore 64 to an IBM clone.

    My current system is a couple years old and I'm already accumulating some items for my next build. Which will be a much different purposed build than my high end gaming and cad systems of the past.

    Currently:

    Case: Cooler Master Cosmos 1000 Case
    MB: MSI P67A-GD80 (B3)
    PWR: 1000w PC Power and Cooling
    Intel I7-2700K/3.5Ghz
    GIGABYTE GV-N670OC-2GD GeForce GTX 670
    RAM: 32Gb Corsair Vengeance (PC1866 RAM - 4x8gb)
    Boot HDD: 250Gb Samsung SSD (boot plus)
    Various multi TB drives w/1 hot swappable drive bay.
    Blue-ray burner/player
    DVD burner/player
    Displays: 1-27" Samsung / 1-24" Samsung
     
  15. Ryan Meandi

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    that's honestly the coolest thing ever, I wish I had my own place so I could set up a system that awesome. I honestly think this is the way of the future, you would have your house set up like this so when your alarm goes off in the morning your blinds open (or your windows become transparent again and stop being opaque... future blinds). Even imagine the benefits on saving on your electricity bill or the environment it could detect when you leave a room and dim the lights to half brightness, or even turn all the house lights on and shut off the gas if it detects a fire from the fire alarm at night, it would be awesome.
     
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    Does all that. If you like you can set it to away mode when you leave, which enables security and shuts down power consuming stuff. you can put it on schedules if you have a regular schedule so that it enables temp control shortly before you get home. I had intended to build bluetooth circuit breakers so you could shut down various zones in your house to cut down on phantom drain etc, but life got in the way. Anyway, the system is freely available online. Linux based, and not exactly turn key... but well worth the learning experience if home automation appeals to you. There is nothing else on its scope in existence.
     
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    17" CRT and a Russet Potato.
     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Just got this last month:

    CUK MSI Nightblade MI2 Virtual Reality Ready Gaming Desktop (Intel i7-7700K Quad Core, 32GB RAM, 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD, NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB, Windows 10) Best Custom Mini VR Gamer Desktop Computer
    Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K Quad Core Processor (8M Cache, 4.2GHz - 4.5GHz) 91W
    • RAM: 32GB DDR4 2133MHz | Hard Drives: 128GB Solid State Drive + 1TB 7200rpm HDD
    • Optical Drive: SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW Dual Layer | Operating System: Windows 10 x64
    • Graphics Card: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 | Wireless: 802.11 AC Wireless Card
    • i7-7700K / 32GB RAM / 128GB SSD / 1TB HDD / NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB Upgrades*
     
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    I don't have the faintest idea what's under the hood of mine - and I don't want to know just so long as it keeps on chugging away!
     
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    Got mine out of a dumpster at an apartment complex. It's a Compaq Presario, but it didn't work. Because it still had the Microsoft Operating System activation code affixed to the side, I decided to try to make it work. It fired up but that's it. So on a hunch I replaced the hard drive with an old one I had laying around. Boom, it worked! So I went online with my old computer, downloaded and burnt an image of Windows 7 Home. Installed it on the dumpster rescue, entered the activation code, and I was up and running. It had a 200Watt power supply, a 2 GHZ Sempron or something like that, a Gigabyte of system memory which was shared with onboard graphics. I swapped out the power supply with an old 420 Watt I had on the shelf. Went online and learned the max processor for the motherboard was an Athlon 2x4core 3.0 GHZ. So I upgraded the processor, added 8 GB of ram, and an AMD HD 7000 series graphics card with 1 GB of dedicated memory. All together I have about $200.00 into it. Oh and Microsoft upgraded the Operating System to Windows 10 for free. So that's it: Quad core, 8 gigs ram, decent graphics card and power supply, and a 300 GB hard drive. It runs quiet, cool and never bogs down.
     
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    I'm a PC nerd when I'm not studying economics....

    i7 7700k@5ghz
    32gb PC3000
    2 500gb M2 SSD
    GTX 1080ti
    Enermax 900w PS
    Water cooled
    Corsair Obsidian Case
     
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    Wow, nice rig! Do you play online games with it?
     
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    Describe my rig....5.5 inches

    my phone you perv!
     
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    You're not a full blown nerd until you have a server rack and patch panels in your closet ;)
     
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    Not as many as I used to. When I was in my 20's I was playing Quake, Team Fortress, Halflife, Diablo2, Total Annihilation then I played a ton of MMO's, the came my FPS obsession (I loved me some BFBC2 and the early Call Of duty games). I did some MOBA's.....These days I still indulge in a few games when I have time. Star CItizen looks pretty amazing. Stellaris is a great strategy game and Rise of the Tomb Raider looks great.

    Now that I have the uber PC I don't have as much time as I used too :p

    Oh yeah, I forgot my monitor, the crown jewel :)
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