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

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  1. DoctorWho

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    Dunno, I was running 3 computers full time in the early days of 16.5 kb dialup modems.

    With wireless, it is much simpler, new wireless everything, printers, keyboards, mouse, it gets simpler.
     
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    NZXT Phantom Special Edition Black/Orange
    XFX ProSeries Core Edition 550W PSU
    AMD FX-8350 Black Edition
    ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
    Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz 15GB CL9
    XFX Radeon HD 7950 3GB GDDR5(Upgraded to a Gigabyte AMD Radeon R9 390X 8GB Gaming)
    Intel 335 SSD 240GB(OS and main Disk)
    2x WD Desktop 2TB
    1x WD Desktop 3TB
    Silverstone Tundra TD03(Upgraded to a Corsair Hydro H75 due to the Tundra's internal engine/motor dying)
     
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    I can't believe the changes that have happened over the last 15 years. About 15 years ago, my family of 4 had 1 computer with dial up 28K modem and Netzero. I carried a beeper for work. Today, I have 2 wireless routers connected to a cable modem that also has wireless in it, smart phones, computers, laptops and TVs that stream Netflix and 100 Mb downloads. 20 years ago, I laughed at the idea that we could ever reasonably "download or stream" a show. We had a 32" 4x3 CRT TV. Today, we watch streaming 4K on a 65" Curve. Oh. And an N64 rather than an Xbox 1X. Just crazy. Makes one wonder what is next. (Not really. Next? Within 10 years, the computers and laptops will go away and we will only use a smart phone that will fit into a dock and give us a desktop experience. I have a bud that already does this with a Samsung 9+ but the concept needs some work. That work is going to get done.)
     
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    asus chromebook OS. It sucks.
     
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    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

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    I have a cheap Dell laptop with a Ryzen 2500U, an SSD upgrade (came with a 5400 RPM hard drive originally) and Linux installed. It also has a Windows 7 VM for running MS Word for work purposes.

    Why suffer with a Chromebook?
     
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    People once laughed at dick tracy's wrist radio.
     
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    I have an IBM PC. It came with 16K of ram and no hard drive. It boots from 5.25" floppy disks.
     
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    You couldn't even send an email with that now.
     
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    HereWeGoAgain Banned

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    Email and the web didn't even exist yet. It came with DOS 2.0

    I upgraded to 512K of ram and DOS 6.2, eventually. NOW we're living high on the hog! Woohoo!!! I had contacted IBM about the upgrade and they said I had one of the very first PCs ever made.

    One day I was working on a college paper using Multi Mate - an early word processing program. Suddenly all of the letters on my screen fell to the bottom and landed in a pile. THAT was one of the very first viruses. It was harmless but funny as hell! A friend gave it to me as a joke.

    At first I couldn't imagine what was happening!!! No one had ever seen anything like this before.
     
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    Interesting.
     
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    Colleague had to do a thesis to wrap up her degree late 1980s. It was to be saved on a 5" floppy. Something went wrong and she lost months of work in an instant. Unrecoverable.
    Have you tried to game with it? I've heard that chip (though, not the U version) could give one a pretty decent experience, no discrete card required. I think the day coming soon when a discrete video card is as unusual as a separate sound card.

    ITMT: I just received a Samsung Odyssey + VR Mixed reality set. Haven't plugged it in yet. I thought VR would survive. So much free content and you can get a $50 cheap headset and put your phone in it. Now that cheap headset can be got for under $20 at Walmart and rather than take up a whole room with equipment and spend $600, this thing requires no light towers and cost me $300. I hope my RX 480 8 Gig Ram can do it justice.
     
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    I recently moved to using one of its desktop equivalents, the 2200G, as my main CPU on the desktop. I did this in part to go back to using my white Rexgear case (the video card I have for the other Ryzen is too big to fit in there with an optical drive), and in part to save energy since I have this thing running most of the day every day for work and such. I've tried Skyrim on both this and the laptop, and it's just fine. Of course, that is also an old game. I have also run the Heaven benchmark on this, and the results are:

    Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0
    FPS: 23.6
    Score: 594
    Min FPS: 10.6
    Max FPS: 45.4

    System
    Platform: Linux 5.0.3-200.fc29.x86_64 x86_64
    CPU model: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with Radeon Vega Graphics (3499MHz) x4
    GPU model: Unknown GPU (256MB) x1

    Settings
    Render: OpenGL
    Mode: 1920x1080 fullscreen
    Preset Custom
    Quality High
    Tessellation: Disabled​

    I will have to test more advanced games and see how it does. I just don't play games much anymore, and when I do they tend to be old and/or undemanding anyway. I will be happy as long as it can handle Starcraft II and those Truck Simulator games, and I have little doubt that it can. Doom 2016 running in Vulkan rather than OpenGL should also do well. I saw as much on YouTube. I imagine the laptop would perform quite similarly to the desktop.
     
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    American Truck Simulator runs nicely. I dialed the settings up until the frames started to become noticeable. Cranked a lot of things up to high, such as textures, shadow, grass density, reflections, mirror distance, weather quality and so on, and it was still good. Better than my old AMD Redwood-based card, but obviously inferior to the big one, which is an RX 580. Good enough to play on, definitely, and that's on a chip that retails for $100 or less :)

    I'll have to take Starcraft II for a spin now (through Wine, of course). I expect that to be smooth.
     
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    Starcraft II is looking good, as expected, though I only tested it with the campaign (which is usually what I play, anyway).
     
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    MB: ASUS ROG STRIX x470-F Gaming
    CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6-Core (watercooled)
    RAM: 16GB of (I don't remember)
    GPU: Radeon RX 580 (pre-owned, watercooled)
    HD: WD 500GB SSD
    OS: Win10
    Case: random junker from goodwill

    Built by me. Mostly used to play Fallout 76.
     
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    no need to waste money on a pc, i chose to purchase a refurbished hp 8200 elite usff workstation.
    usff = ultra small form factor measures approx 9"x9"x2"

    came with win 7 pro for which i immediately removed the 2.5" spin drive and tossed it in the trash (winblows sucks), i installed a samsung 860 evo ssd & loaded up debian 9.4, sandboxed the sh*t out of it.

    intel i5-2500s 2.70GHz x4 w/ 2nd gen integrated graphics
    16gigs vengeance ddr3 1600 (max for the system)

    system flies, loads in under 9 seconds, shutsdown (a true shutdown, not sleep or hybernate) in under a second...

    apps are all freeware
     
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    I run a business dependant on video editing 4k60 video files. I am also an avid gamer. Both tasks are much easier and better with a discrete graphics card and fast CPU.

    I am also on the frugal side of things. I built this PC i 2008 and have done one motherboard upgrade since. Three graphics cards in total. Not too bad spread over 12 years.

    I have been into Linux in the past. Windows ain't too bad. Compatibility is way better than it used to be. I started out this build on Vista and 7 then 10 were big improvements.

    I'm not too phased. I've even had a Macbook Pro at one point. I can get most things to work. No writing to NTFS external drives for instance isn't as big a deal for me as I can work around it.
     
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    My PC is:
    dual 8-core Xeons
    SuperMicro X10DAI-O server motherboard
    128 GB of ECC Registered DDR4 RAM
    assorted drives totalling about 20 TB of storage
    Windows 10 Pro OS running on nVME SSD
     
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    I build all my own desktops, this latest one I built about 3 years ago.

    Full tower, 1kw PSU
    i7-6700K
    16 GB RAM
    750 GB SSD
    2 TB HD
    GeForce GTX 1060
    Gigabyte Z170X gaming mobo
    water cooled
    BD-RE drive
    just upgraded to Sceptre C27 curved monitor.
     
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    Ryzen 9 3900x
    Msi wifi gaming edge motherboard
    32gb 3600mbs gskill
    Radeon fatboy 590
    850w vega gold
    Adata 1tb ssd m.2 nvme
    Unknown case
     
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    Guys, I'm looking to get a dedicated computer for Photoshop use. I don't do any 3D rendering, so that's something I don't need to worry about. But when I make complex selections using the Quick Select tool my CPU (Intel Core i7 6700k) goes up to nearly 90c and the fan sounds like it's going to launch itself to Mars. Any recommendations on what to get? I hear the more cores a processor has, the better it is for graphics. Other than the heat and the fan, I have 32 gigs of RAM and a GeForce GTX 1060 with 6 gigs of video RAM. Also, no matter how hard I try, I can not find definitive info on how hot my processor can run before it gets damaged. I even read somewhere that the thing should shut down before damage occurs. But who knows? I surely do not.


    This is the kind of stuff I do, colorize old black and white photos. The third picture down was taken in 1913. You guys should recognize the other ones.


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    If that's Celsius it high. They say it'll throttle down on its own. Maybe get a better cpu cooler? Anyway, nice work on those photos. Pretty sure that Abbot and Costello invented rap with the spinning on the floor, crossed arms, and the sideways cap. My theory is that hood rats picked it up from old re runs and made it a thing.
     
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    Yes, it's Celsius, it's high, and it's making me nuts. I have the cover pulled off and two small fans blowing air on it and it still hits 90 degree C on occasion. It only gets that high for very brief periods, but I'm concerned about whatever damage it's causing.

    Regarding the pictures, I took up Photoshop to fill in my Sundays since I no longer watch football. Below is an photo I restored for a friend of a friend. The story goes this is their parents wedding picture when they got married in Cuba in the 50s. The only thing they were allowed to take with them when then left to come here were the clothes on their backs and a bible. This picture was smuggled out in the bible. They were so happy that I was able to somewhat restore it, and that makes me feel good, productive and satisfied. This hobby of mine is pretty good, but the learning curve to Photoshop is frustrating to say the least. I even taught myself new cuss words.


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    Wow, nice. You might ask a local computer repair shop what they charge to re-seat your processor with fresh thermal paste, and install a better processor fan/heatsink. There are tutorials online with video and pictures to walk you thru it if you choose to do it yourself. It isn't difficult. If your processor is getting too hot, it's most likely that the heatsink fins behind the fan are full of dust. The fan is caked with dust and gunk. The thermal paste is dried out and the processor heat isn't being transferred to the heat sink. Or a combination of all the above. If your case is open with fans on it as you say, and the proc is still bumping ninety degrees, then it seems to me that it isn't able to transfer or dissipate its heat. So that'd be thermal paste, heatsink and fan. Then again, I'm no expert....just a hobbyist.
     
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