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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Samwise on May 25, 2007, 07:09:33 AM

Title: Show your PC
Post by: Samwise on May 25, 2007, 07:09:33 AM: It\'s been a while since we\'ve had one of these threads.

So what PC are you running?

I\'m still using that old POS that I wrote about 3-4 years ago. :D

For those who can\'t remember (that would be all of you):

Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz @ 2.7 GHz
Asus P4PE motherboard
1 gigs of RAM
Nvidia 6800 GT
Chieftec Dragon case

I got more HD space over the years though, I have 700+ gb right now. And a 20" ViewSonic monitor.

I\'m looking to upgrade very soon, but I don\'t want to spend a lot, since all the good stuff comes out in 1-2 years. So in the meantime I think I\'ll get a E4400 and overclock it, 2 gigs of DDR2 and a 7900GT.

Then next year or 2009 I\'ll upgrade to Nehalem, DDR3, Nvidia 9800 GTX or whatever.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: politiepet on May 25, 2007, 07:22:17 AM: asus p5b
c2d e6420
2Gb ddr2 667Mhz
x1950xt 512mb ddr3
320Gb HDD
haupauge tv card
windows vista home premium
logitech z5400 5.1
mirai 19" widescreen

it does the job....
Title: Show your PC
Post by: GmanJoe on May 25, 2007, 07:45:21 AM: I thought this thread was about pussies.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: JBean on May 25, 2007, 10:24:47 AM: I\'ve had this current machine for over 2 years now, I upgraded the processor, but that\'s about it. Probably gonna upgrade sometime in 2008, does everything I need to do and then some.

Dual Core AMD Opteron 165 @ 2.4ghz
2 Gigs of DDR500 Memory
(1) 250GB Hitachi (sata) & (2) 80GB Seagates (IDE)
eVGA 7900gt (voltmodded)
19" CRT (gonna get a 24" LCD soon... or maybe dual 20.1"s)

Next upgrade will be the latest and greatest.. whatever is better between AMD & Intel. Especially at video editing/encoding. That\'s mainly all I do anymore on it anyway... if I had the money I would really like a C2D system... but i\'m getting by just fine.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Samwise on May 25, 2007, 10:41:17 AM: Intel is going to slash prices July 22nd. Quad core Kentsfield for $266. :)
Title: Show your PC
Post by: THX on May 25, 2007, 02:19:50 PM: Here\'s my tried & true system, slowly upgraded over the years:

P4 2.8ghz Northwood Core @ 3.4 w/Zalman cooler
ATi x1950Pro w/Arctic Cooler
1GB Kingston DDR400 ValuRam
Asus P4P800-SE
Fortron 400w PSU w/120mm fan
Antec Sonata II Case
Zalman Fan Speed Controller
2 Seagate 400gb HDs
Viewsonic 19" 2ms LCD

I thought I\'d be upgrading to a C2D sooner but I moved to the city and have little time for gaming these days.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on May 25, 2007, 07:32:37 PM: eh, i haven\'t updated much since i\'ve started school. No point since i don\'t play games much. Will update next year. Currently

Thermaltake Xaser 5 case (modded)
Philips 19inch Flatscreen LCD
Antec Trublue 480W psu
A7n8x Deluxe mobo
3200+ Athlon XP
Kingston 3 GIG PC3200 DDR ram
6800GT 256meg DDR3 MSI card
2 320Gig seagate sataII 16meg Hds
X-Mystique 7.1 Gold soundcard
Wireless NIC
TV tuner / Capture card
External Nexstar 3 HD enclosure with a 150gig SATA drive.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: nO-One on May 26, 2007, 09:11:58 AM: Core Duo2 E6600
2Gb Ram
2x 320gb 1x200gb 1x120gb
ASUS P5N32-E SLI (IIRC)
Soundblaster Audigy Platinum
eVGA GF7950GT
Apple 23" ACD

I\'ll snap some pics later since the thread is called "show" your pc
Thermaltake Tsunami case
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Samwise on May 26, 2007, 11:02:44 AM: Woohoo, I knew nO-One wouldn\'t disappoint. :D

How do you like the Asus board? I\'ve been thinking about getting it, but then I heard some problems with Vdroop or something. (EDIT: My bad, I was thinking about the non-32 version)

And good catch about the title. ;) Although I didn\'t bother to take any photos of my PC because it\'s rather bland looking. Just imagine a greyish Dragon case and you\'re there. :)
Title: Show your PC
Post by: GmanJoe on May 26, 2007, 11:54:00 AM: I have a Mac Pro
2 dual core 2.66gHz
3 gigs of RAM
ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512 mb ram
Not sure what kind of sound card it has.
2 wide screen 19 inch LCD screens.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: nO-One on May 26, 2007, 12:05:40 PM: Well if we add the Macs
The big one here is a maxed out quad Mac Pro, 30" ACD
Quad G5 maxed out 23" ACD
Dual G4 (last Quicksilver edition) LaCie 22" CRT
15" Macbook Pro C2D

and at work a 20" iMac G5 1,8Ghz that\'s still chugging along
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Samwise on May 26, 2007, 12:09:28 PM: Well, then I\'ll add:

MacBook 2 Ghz, 1 gb RAM, 80 gig HD.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Knotter8 on May 29, 2007, 12:53:23 PM: At the moment i only have my Dell precision M65 notebook workstation.

pic : http://members.home.nl/hkonings/M65_Knot3D%20010.jpg (http://members.home.nl/hkonings/M65_Knot3D%20010.jpg)

15.4 inch non-glare wide screen with magnesium chassis.
Core2Duo T7400 @ 2,16Ghz
2 Gb ram
80Gb 7200rpm Hitachi HD
Nvidia Quadro FX350M

I really love this laptop. The chassis is ultra sturdy. Way more solid than alot of those plastic flashy designer styled laptops. Macbook Pro, you say ? Nice indeed, but those don\'t have a Maya certified Quadro card.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: MPTheory on August 14, 2007, 04:17:27 PM: I just upgraded a little while ago:

AMD 6000 Dual Core
4 X 1gig XMS Corsair DDR 2-PC 6400
ASUS 7N2N SLI Premium NVidia 570 IL Chipset
Raptor X HDD 150 Gig, 10,000 RPM SATA 3.0 GBT (See-thru Pallet Special Edition)
320 Seagate Barracude 7200 RPM SATA 3.0 GBT
Dual Layer DVD RAM Drive SATA
Zion 600 Watt Modular Power Supply
EVGA HDCP-DX10 DDR3 256 MB 8600 GTS Vivo SLI Capable PCIE

And the Pic attached:
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Raz The Friggin Grea on August 14, 2007, 06:12:30 PM: Which one? :D

One I should finish building tommorw........
AMD X2 6000
MSI Plantium Neo Board
X1950XT 256
2 gigs DDR
900 gigs storage > all SATA
Floppy Drive
OCZ PSU
Xlico Case
Liteon 16X DVD Burner with LS Tech

Then there is my laptop, iMac and other system I am building for file storage.

The first one should arrive tommorw, at which point I\'ll put it together and let everyone know how it runs. May take some pictures also.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Titan on August 14, 2007, 06:15:00 PM: Lets see....

Dell Inspiron 9300
Pentium M 1.86GHz
GeForce Go 6800 256MB
80 GB hard drive
1 GB RAM
standard laptop sound card
laptop came with a USB tv tuner, remote
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
TrueLife display

Hey, this computer rocks for a laptop. Its pretty fast for what I do (internet, videos, porn, imaging). I need to free up some RAM and defrag the hard drive and get an external hard drive, but I love it.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: clowd on August 14, 2007, 08:29:08 PM: Water cooled AMD DUAL CORE 6000+
250GB HD SATA
2GB Ram
Windows Vista Home Premium
DVD -R +R -+R lightscribe
Geforce 7900 512MB
20" Widescreen LCD 1650x1050

That\'s standing right next to

AMD Athlon 3200+
512mb Ram
Geforce 6600 256mb
Windows XP
100GB HDD
15" 1024x768

Next to that is
AMD 3600+
DVD everything
Windows XP Media Center
150GBs
512mb ram
17" 1280x1024
Title: Show your PC
Post by: NVIDIA256 on August 15, 2007, 12:22:39 AM: Lian-Li PC 75 Case Moded

AMD +3800 939
MSI NEO 2 Platinum
PC POWER & COOLING Turbo 550 Deluxe
OCZ Platinum(Samsung TCCD) DDR 400 2 2 2 5
BFG 6800 Ultra
E-MU 1820m Professional Sound Card
26 inch NEC-2690WUXI(H-IPS) 12bit Professional(color critical) LCD
Plextor 760A
BenQ DW1655
Lite-on 160ps
Plextor premium 2
2 150 Raptors-Raid
2 74 Raptors-Raid
2 Seagate 750GB (encrypted with PGP using whole HDD encryption technique)

I run both XP and UNBUNTU

Would like to get a mac but only when apple decides to stop charging obsured prices for fixed hardware and would like them to rid of the kiddy GUI and use a more mature darker theme.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Blade on August 15, 2007, 05:31:46 AM: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe - nVidia nForce4-SLI chipset
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2GHz 90nm - retail box
ViewSonic A75f flat-screen monitor - 16" (viewable)
e-VGA nVidia GeForce 8800GTX - 768MB DDR3
Realtek AC97 5.1/on-board sound system
Maxtor DiamondMax P9 7200RPM SATA150 120GB HDD
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 7200RPM SATA150 300GB HDD
Maxtor DiamondMax 21 7200RPM SATA2 500GB HDD
1GB CAS2.5 PC3200 DDR-SDRAM - Mushkin
Plextor PX-708A (8X-DVD+R) Drive
LinkSys 10/100MBPS network card
Logitech MouseMan Optical Wheel mouse
Microsoft Xbox digital gamepad
Packard Bell keyboard (12 years old, my legacy)
Radio Shack standard headset microphone
Thermaltake Purepower 680-watt PSU
Standard floppy drive
Windows XP Professional Edition (dual-boot)
Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (dual-boot)
Title: Show your PC
Post by: JBean on August 15, 2007, 12:57:18 PM: shame you got such a nice videocard and such a tiny screen :confused:
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Raz The Friggin Grea on August 15, 2007, 05:45:27 PM: Posting on my new baby right now.
Still working out the kinks.
:thumb:
Title: Show your PC
Post by: NVIDIA256 on August 16, 2007, 02:52:26 AM: That\'s just the thing the kinks, being a pc enthusiast for a great majority of my life, I have reached the point where I know prefer hardware or a PC that has finises, that is built strong stable and solid, a computer that is made to be 100% productive with ease of use.

There is only one pc that can do this and sadly it the over-hyped of a cult culture, APPLE Computers.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Blade on August 16, 2007, 06:03:56 PM: It\'s a tiny screen but I look forward to playing Crysis at 1024x768 without a lot of aliasing... :)
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Titan on August 16, 2007, 07:47:42 PM: Quote from: Blade
It\'s a tiny screen but I look forward to playing Crysis at 1024x768 without a lot of aliasing... :)

I feel the same way about my porn
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Raz The Friggin Grea on August 16, 2007, 08:05:45 PM: My newest case.
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages10.newegg.com%2FNeweggImage%2Fproductimage%2F11-103-010-16.jpg&hash=d4a13c44b03fae07db33155932249d9649da1505)
I know someone will say its ugly - that\'s fine. I personally love it. Plenty of air, roomy and looks nifty to boot.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
;)
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Evi on August 16, 2007, 10:17:21 PM: That is the biggest freaking fan ever. Sweet. :p
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Viper_Fujax on August 16, 2007, 10:33:32 PM: careful it doesnt fly through the wall when you turn it on the first time
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Luke on August 17, 2007, 05:05:42 AM: That shit\'s gotta be loud...
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Samwise on August 17, 2007, 05:11:41 AM: Quote from: Luke
That shit\'s gotta be loud...

Actually, the bigger fans are often less noisy because they move more air at lower rpm\'s. So a good quality 120mm fan is preferred over 80mm or 92mm fans. :)
Title: Show your PC
Post by: JBean on August 17, 2007, 05:52:58 AM: Actually, the bigger fans are often less noisy because they move more air at lower rpm\'s. So a good quality 120mm fan is preferred over 80mm or 92mm fans. :)
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Raz The Friggin Grea on August 17, 2007, 06:00:19 AM: It has two 250MM fans, two 80MM fans and one 120MM fan. It is actually the most quiet PC I\'ve ever built.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: JBean on August 17, 2007, 06:02:20 AM: It\'s different... I think it looks good

and silent PCs are the bomb... my next build I might try to make as stealth as possible... as many passively cooled parts as I can manage, cause my computer now is loud as fvck
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Raz The Friggin Grea on August 17, 2007, 06:25:14 AM: I almost went water cooled, but didn\'t want to mess with the added cost. Going to add some parts to this one next week. Most likely a raptor HD for Windows.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Phil on August 17, 2007, 09:20:38 AM: Quote from: Raz The Friggin Grea
My newest case.
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages10.newegg.com%2FNeweggImage%2Fproductimage%2F11-103-010-16.jpg&hash=d4a13c44b03fae07db33155932249d9649da1505)
I know someone will say its ugly - that\'s fine. I personally love it. Plenty of air, roomy and looks nifty to boot.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
;)

Now you\'re just tempting me to say something, you bastard.

Anyone else think it looks like some sort of glowing blue boat?
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Raz The Friggin Grea on August 17, 2007, 09:26:28 AM: heh. Can\'t even see it where I\'ve put. Tis a shame.

I am switching out the default blue LEDs for red ones. Will leave the blue fans, I guess... Then again, I can\'t see it - so why even bother?

-shrugs-

Best thing about the case is it\'s quiet and has a TON of room.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Phil on August 17, 2007, 01:58:15 PM: If you can\'t see it why even bother with the LED\'s?

LED\'s are by far my biggest pet peeve with cases, for whatever reason they bug the hell out of me.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Raz The Friggin Grea on August 17, 2007, 03:00:05 PM: I like \'em. I will eventually be able to see it, just not at this moment. Plus it came with LED\'s and if I am gonna have LED\'s, I want some red ones.

Already dorked the case, when I added the old 60\'s Batman Logo to the window.

:D

This is my previous case / aka the soon to be file server.

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages10.newegg.com%2FNeweggImage%2Fproductimage%2F11-133-158-01.jpg&hash=420c250a43996dbf2ff99d86bf7c8e9d6a09e2a9)

I love that damn little heat trap.

And I have this case in storage. Not sure what I\'ll do with it.
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages10.newegg.com%2FNeweggImage%2Fproductimage%2F11-129-158-15.jpg&hash=db773c5bc2ea9c00f4fbb7c69784a1af417db618)
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Phil on August 17, 2007, 05:21:38 PM: 60\'s Batman logo? I approve
Title: Show your PC
Post by: MPTheory on August 20, 2007, 10:21:10 AM: I have some updates that ill post middle to the end of this week. I added another 8600 and I should be getting my 32" and 20" displays. So I\'ll be running 2 19" 1 20" and 1 32"
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Samwise on August 20, 2007, 11:29:35 AM: That\'s not enough screen real estate MPTheory. ;)
Title: Show your PC
Post by: MPTheory on August 20, 2007, 12:06:29 PM: MORE! Must have MORE!!!
Title: Show your PC
Post by: videoholic on August 31, 2007, 08:45:45 AM: Here\'s a shitty shot of my setup.

MacPro Quad with 5 gigs of ram. Right now 1.2 terrabytes of storage soon to double.

I have (2) 22 inch monitors for my desktop and my new baby on the left, a 20 inch HD monitor that is fucking sweet. LMD-2050. Very very happy with it. Stunning 10 bit 1080p display.

Then I have a macbook pro that I take on the road, a dual core AMD 64 in another room. My kid has a dell, forget what speed it is, but it\'s prety darn nice. and another laptop that is just gaining dust. I have another computer that I may put in a closet for just music, but they have those network drives now that I may just get instead.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Joker on September 03, 2007, 07:56:38 AM: [1] Area-51® 7500

Alienware P2 Chassis: Alienware® P2 Chassis with AlienIce™ 3.0 Video Cooling - Cyborg Green
System Lighting: Alienware® Standard System Lighting - Astral Blue
High-Performance Liquid Cooling: Alienware® Standard System Cooling
Power Supply: Alienware® 700 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply
Graphics Processor: Single Graphics Processors - 768MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8800 GTX
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6850 3.0GHz 4MB Cache 1333MHz FSB
Memory: High-Performance 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 3GB - 4 x 1024MB
Motherboard: Alienware® Approved NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard
Operating System (Office software not included): Genuine Windows Vista™ Ultimate
Desktop Tuners and Remotes: Without Media Center Remote Control or TV Tuner
System Drive: Single Drive Configuration - 250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ 8MB Cache
Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 20X Dual Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Burner
Enthusiast Essentials: Dual High Performance Gigabit Ethernet Ports
Sound Card: High-Definition 7.1 Performance Audio
Monitor: No Monitor
Keyboard: Alienware® USB Full-Size Keyboard
Mouse : Alienware® Optical 3-Button Mouse with Scroll Wheel
Warranty: 1-Year AlienCare Toll-Free 24/7 Phone Support w/ Onsite Service
Headphones: Alienware® Ozma 7™ Headphones with S-Logic™ Technology

Yes, I know I paid extra for the name.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Evi on September 06, 2007, 07:34:41 PM: Holy shite, dude. o_O
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Raz The Friggin Grea on September 06, 2007, 08:04:48 PM: Picking up a 22INCH LCD W/S tomorrow for my setup.
Nifty
Title: Show your PC
Post by: clips on September 06, 2007, 08:08:09 PM: Quote from: Raz The Friggin Grea
My newest case.
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages10.newegg.com%2FNeweggImage%2Fproductimage%2F11-103-010-16.jpg&hash=d4a13c44b03fae07db33155932249d9649da1505)
I know someone will say its ugly - that\'s fine. I personally love it. Plenty of air, roomy and looks nifty to boot.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
;)

i\'m not into cases and things of that nature...*hence why i hardly ever come in here*...but that is one sweet lookin\' case...:thumb:...and leave it to Vid to shut everyone down with his fort knox/pentagon set-up...:p
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Raz The Friggin Grea on September 07, 2007, 03:24:18 PM: Thank you, kind Sir.

I should note that within a week, the 250MM side fan shorted out, it sparked and my system refused to boot as long as that fan was plugged in. I contacted Xclio, which is located in Taiwan, within two days they responded and offered to airmail me a replacement fan, free of charge. I haven\'t received it yet, but if they do indeed come through on this replacement, I will give them five stars in the customer service department.

I just picked up an Acerl2002W LCD. Lovin\' the W/S format and finally got rid of the old CRT. Next paycheck, I am looking to add either a 500 gig HD or another videocard. Not sure.. After that, I\'ll start work on my DVR runnin\' MythTV.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: Raz The Friggin Grea on September 14, 2007, 05:32:55 PM: Changed mind.
Picking up the newest ATI card next check. Not sure what to do with my current card, may sell it.
Title: Show your PC
Post by: videoholic on September 15, 2007, 03:48:03 AM: Quote from: clips
.and leave it to Vid to shut everyone down with his fort knox/pentagon set-up...:p

Mine is for work though so it doesn\'t really count. You aren\'t going to spend 10 grand on a personal computer.