So you guys, what kind of computers do you have, and what kind of power does it have under the hood (Processor, RAM, OS, GFX, Physical Specs, etc.)?
I'll go first.
Laptop
Toshiba Satellite A505 (Don't judge it by the brand its awesome)
Windows 7
4 GB RAM
500 GB HDD
Intel Core i7 Quad-Core processor with 8-way process threading
16" HD Display with 16:9 Aspect Ratio
NVIDIA GeForce HD GPU with 512 MB of dedicated GFX memory
Harman/Kardon Premium Speakers with Dolby Sound Room Technology
Toshiba Facial Recognition software
Desktop:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE
Asus Crosshair III Formula
4 GB OCZ Platinum
1 TB WD Caviar Black
CoolerMaster Cosmos case
EVGA GTX260 video card
Win 7 HP 64-bit
Logitech G13 gamepad
BenQ 19" monitor (this is probably my next upgrade).
Laptop is an HP DV6-1375dx
Core2 Duo (don't recall the speed right now)
6 GB memory
500 GB 7200 RPM HDD
15.6" display
Win 7 HP 64-bit
Its getting kinda dated, at least for me, but here it goes:
PC
EVGA Nvidia 680i Mobo
Intel Q6600 OC to 3GHz
8GB DDR2 1066
Nvidia 8800GT in SLI
500GB Western Digital HD
800W Power Supply
Old sound card...
Aftermarket heatsink
24" monitor
Running Ubuntu 10.04, Arch Linux, Windows 7
Laptop is the last generation of 15" MacBook Pro, with the Core 2 Duo chips.
Local server is running on various parts from older computers with a 2TB hard drive.
Runs Ubuntu server edition.
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So you guys, what kind of computers do you have, and what kind of power does it have under the hood (Processor, RAM, OS, GFX, Physical Specs, etc.)?
I'll go first.
Laptop
Toshiba Satellite A505 (Don't judge it by the brand its awesome)
Windows 7
4 GB RAM
500 GB HDD
Intel Core i7 Quad-Core processor with 8-way process threading
16" HD Display with 16:9 Aspect Ratio
NVIDIA GeForce HD GPU with 512 MB of dedicated GFX memory
Harman/Kardon Premium Speakers with Dolby Sound Room Technology
Toshiba Facial Recognition software
Nothing wrong with Toshiba. I have a:
Toshiba L505
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
AMD Turion II Dual-Core Mobile M500 2.20 GHz
4.0 GB Ram
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200
15.6" HD TruBrite display with a 16:9 aspect ratio
300 GB HDD
Built in web cam.
Only have a couple complaints about mine really. Not enough USB ports, had to buy a hub and the touch pad is a little to sensitive. Can be typing and it jumps around on me.
My current desktop is an iMac with a 27" monitor and Intel I7 processor:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac11,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s
Display:
ATI Radeon HD 4850:
Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 4850
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Resolution: 2560 x 1440
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color
This model includes a one gig hard drive.
What's missing is resolution independence on the screen. Also, the built-in DVD drive on these macs is a bit pokey, but it works fine.
My other computer is a macbook pro, about two years old.
I run VMware Fusion on the macs on those rare occasions when I need to run a Windoze program. There are only a couple of Windoze programs I still use from time to time. The macs run them fine.
Last edited by hakr100; June 12th, 2010 at 10:44 AM.
Q6600 @ 3.0GHz w/ TRUE 120
4GB Patriot DDR2 @ 835 MHz
Gigabyte P35-DS3L (I'd love to OC the 2 higher, but thanks to this board's glorious VDroop problem, such will never happen!)
ATI Radeon 5870
250GB WD HDD
Windows 7 Pro x64
Asus 25.5" 1200p monitor
And my Asus 1000HE Netbook in dormancy since school is out.
How are you liking the SSD? I've been considering one for a while now.
It's working out well.
It certainly helps having the OS on there for general responsiveness, but I do a lot of photo work in Adobe Lightroom and having the catalogue db file also located on the SSD makes a huge difference when working with multiple 8MP RAW images.
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition - Overclocked to 3.75GHz
ASUS M4A77D Mobo
ATI Radeon 5850 - (Still playing with the clocks on this one)
6GB RAM
1TB HDD (Going to get an SSD for the OS)
650W Modular PSU
Antec 900 Case
Running Windows 7 Ultimate x64
24" Asus 1080p Monitor
Also have a decent netbook I use for school and light gaming:
Asus 1201n
1.6GHz Dual Core Atom
Nvidia ION (Geforce 9400m)
4GB RAM
Windows 7 x64
It plays Eve Online and Battlefield 2 just fine while I'm on the go.
Mine: Intel Quad Core i7-960 3.2 GHz OC to 3.4GHz
ASUS P7P55D Motherboard
SLi (two) 8900GTX
6GB of Ram
2 TB HD Raid 0
Antec TPQ (True Power Quattro) 1200 Watt Power Supply
Dynex case (best buy brand)
Windows Vista x32 / Windows XP Pro
23" HD Samsung LCD
Found a great deal and upgraded my rig on the cheap:
Case: Cooler Master HAF 932
Motherboard: Asus P7P55D Pro
Processor: Intel i-5 750 2.66 Ghz
Memory: G.Skill RipJaw Series 4gb DDR3
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200 500gb x2 plus 2TB in file server
Power Supply: OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus
Video Card: Radeon 5870
Both computers are Dell Inspirons. One is a desktop and it runs vista premium, has a 250 gig hard drive with 2 gig ddr ram and the rest I can't tell you. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1564 with I5 processor, 430 M, 4 gb of ddr3 ram and the rest I can't tell you. It's middle of the road I guess. Works great for what I do. Oh and its running windows 7 premium (both are 64 bit)
Very nice rig man! Are you running a OC on your cpu? If not you should, especially with the water cooling!
Thank you! Nah, I'm too chicken. I haven't had good luck with that in the past. I've tried before on cheaper rigs I built. I think it should do just fine as it is or until I have enough practice on cheaper rigs to feel comfortable touching this one. If I break it my wife would kill me, we had a 3 day conversation about buying it. Eventually I will overclock it, I got the processor just because I have seen several claims and a few instructions on how to boost it to 4.2 GHz.
Last edited by LiamSHepard; July 20th, 2010 at 09:17 AM.
Reason: Added more explaination
desktop:
EVGA SR-2
2x intel e5620 OC'd slightly to 2.6ghz
12gb corsair XMS3 ram
powercolor 5870 LCS
intel PCIe NIC
creative x-fi titanium
Areca 1680ix-8
8x OCZ 30gb vertex
WD 1.5TB black(storage)
LG blu-ray burner
liteon DVD burner
MM extended ascension case
CPU's and GPU are watercooled using various mixture of parts.
Laptop:
Asus g1sn-a1
T8100 2.1ghz CPU
4gb ram
500gb HDD
9500m GPU
Antec Three Hundred case
Dual 120mm Intake Fans; Dual Exhause 120mm fans(One right above cpu cooler pulling hot air off)
AMD Phenom II x4 955BE OC'd to 3.6ghz
Rockfish Dynamic CPU cooler
Radeon HD 4550
4GB DDR2 Ram
WD 160gb HD (Bootable)
WD Cavair Black 1TB HD (Media)
802.11N wireless(Currently wired for home network with full duplex, gigabyte ethernet)
Lighton 16x DVD/CD Burner
HP W2338h
Runs Cool at 32 degrees celcius and at full load never makes it above 50 degrees celcius
Mine
Asus G72
Geforce gtx260m
core duo 2
wind 7 ultimate
1tb hdd
17" screen
Desktop
Thermal take armor case
i7 960
corsair 1200 ps Seagate 1tb ext hdd
G skill trident 24gb
evga e758-A1 3 way sli Evga geforce gtx 480
Macbook Pro 17" unibody 3.06 750gb hard drive
Still brand new had for 34 days and still dont want to open it, Got as a gift but rather put it in a wood chipper! LoL
Last edited by Robdabest3000; July 23rd, 2010 at 03:21 PM.
Coolermaster Centurion case
i5 750 (760 just came out )
Coolermaster 750w power supply
A-Data 4gb 1333
Samsung 1TB HD
Gigabyte GA-P55
MSI Hawk Radeon HD 5770
Not as nice as yours but still good, I get a 7.3/7.4 Windows Experience Index (5.9 for my HD )
**My Custom Built Rig**
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
Security Software: Eset Smart Security 4
Case: Antec Nine Hundred Two
Power Supply: Corsair TX750W
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 D0 OC @ 3.2GHz
Motherboard: EVGA X58 SLI LE
RAM: CORSAIR XMS3 DDR3 6GB
Storage: 2x WD 640GB in Raid 0 + OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD Boot Drive
Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 4890 1GB
Soundcard: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
Monitor: Samsung T190
Keyboard: Logitech G15
Mouse: RAZER Death Adder
Mousepad: XTRAC Ripper
Laptop
• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• Intel Core i7-720QM Quad Core processor (1.6GHz, 6MB L3 Cache) with Turbo Boost up to 2.8 GHz
• 6GB DDR3 System Memory
• 500GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
• 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
• 17.3" diagonal HD+ High-Definition HP LED BrightView Widescreen Display (1600 x 900)
• Blu-Ray ROM with SuperMulti DVD+/-R/RW Double Layer
Device(s): HTC Hero Fresh 2.3.3, LG Optimus S Thuderom & OC to 786Mhz
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NZXT Case, Window & Dual Fans
Kingwin 750W PSU
Gigabyte ga-770ta-ud3 Mobo (has some nice features for being one of the cheapest AM3 MoBos out there) Pros: loads of usb 2.0 AND 3.0 ports, 2 Sata 6gb/s internal connectors, cons: only 1 pci-e x16 for video card, amd 770 nb is lowest you can get.
AMD 955 BE2 1tb samsung spinpoint HDD
asus DVD-R +DL burner
LG Blu-Ray Burner
HIS ATI Radeon HD 5830 Turbo V cooler Video Card
8gb 4x2gb Patriot Ram @1333
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I'm a gamer, so I've put some money into this baby.
Athlon x3 435 @ 3.6 ghz per core, sadly cannot unlock the 4th core. Is not stable on my mobo.
MSI NF750 SLI, decent overclocking board. Handles NB over volts pretty decent. I've heard Nforce boards were terrible with that.
4gb OCZ DDR3 1600 spec ops. Low voltage stock, and has decent timings. Great for overclocking.
PNY Geforce 9800GTX+ SLI oced 855/2200/1275. These have been probably what I loved the most about my system. First I started off on a single GTX+ on a crossfire board, then got another one and got the 750 mobo. Going to upgrade to 2 460 models here soon.
2 Seagate Barracude 750 gb, Bought one, and got the second one half off. Great deal, I didn't have the money or the need for a high capacity SSD, so I settled with the best I could.
Samsung DVD dual layer burner,Does what it needs to do.
Corsair 750watt modular PSU, I will tell anyone that this is an amazing psu.
Rosewell Challenger Mid tower, decent case. Looks decent. Had no issues with it.
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Ubuntu 10
Mac os X 10.6 Snow Leopard
For overclocking, I always go for the coolers with 5+ heat pipes that are 120mm in size. As well as Arctic silver 5 thermal paste. I put it on my cpu, and I applied it on both the GTX cards. Plans I have for my rig!
I'm planning on getting the Phenom II X6 1055T. It's about the same price as the Phenom II X4 965 BE, and also has 2 more cores and more l3 cache. Not a BE, but an easy overclocker. Like I said before, I want to get 2 GTX 460's in my rig. And I want a bigger case. I need one for better temperature management.
Last edited by vbetts; August 9th, 2010 at 01:02 AM.
Surprised this thread didn't get more attention, I'm gonna bring it back from the dead though, at least for a little while.
I've built every PC I own since the late 90's.
Here's my current system specs:
Actually this needs updating as I have since disassembled my External Drive and hooked it up internally. Moves data a lot faster that way. :P
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Last edited by andyo70; January 30th, 2011 at 08:46 PM.
Amd 955 BE overclocked to 4 ghz.
I have two 6870's in xfire.
750 gig HDD
4 gigs of ram
Msi 890 GXM Mobo.
Corsair H50 water cooler
Win7
NZXT hades case.
23" Samsung Syncmaster monitor.
Razer deathadder.
And an Xarmor U9BL Mech keyboard.
God I love my rig..
Click click click. Mechanicals are sooo amazing.
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Desktop:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE
Asus Crosshair III Formula
4 GB OCZ Platinum
1 TB WD Caviar Black
CoolerMaster Cosmos case
EVGA GTX260 video card
Win 7 HP 64-bit
Logitech G13 gamepad
BenQ 19" monitor (this is probably my next upgrade).
Laptop is an HP DV6-1375dx
Core2 Duo (don't recall the speed right now)
6 GB memory
500 GB 7200 RPM HDD
15.6" display
Win 7 HP 64-bit
I've upgraded the desktop since this post.
I added another 4 GB of memory. Actually, replaced the original OCZ Platinum with the Black edition as it seems the Platinum didn't work right with the CPU, plus added the 4 GB in BE memory
GTX470 replaced the GTX260
Using a Cyborg R.A.T 7 mouse. Same monitor but maybe with my tax refund I'll upgrade that.
Desktop:
AMD Phenom II X2 550BE (unlocked to quadcore)
4GB DDR3 1333
POV Geforce GTS250 512MB
2x Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
OCZ Vertex 2 60GB (as OS disk with Arch Linux on it)
Antec Three Hundred case
Corsair 400w PSU
M-Audio Audiophile 2496 soundcard
ESI nEar05 active monitor speakers
Benq 24" FullHD monitor
Filco Majestouch Tenkeyless keyboard with brown Cherry switches
Logitech MX518 mouse
OS: Arch Linux x86_64 and Win7 64bit which I use very rarely
Laptop:
HP Probook 5310m
Core 2 Duo SP9300 Processor
2GB DDR3 1066 ram
I don't remember how much HDD
13,3 inch screen
integrated Intel 4500MHD graphics
OS: Arch Linux i686, Win7 32bit which I very rarely use
Antec 900 Case (previously owned, using again since it's awesome and I love it)
Intel Core i7-2600K CPU
GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD3P Mobo
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz RAM
Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 1 TB SATA 6.0GB/s HDD
Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti Superclocked 1 GB VRAM GPU
Corsair Enthusiast TX650 PSU (previously owned as well)
Acer Aspire One AO722
11.6" screen
AMD C-50 (dual 1GHz APU)
256MB video (shared from RAM) ...plays 1080p without issue 8)
2GB DDR3
Intel 320 SSD (gen3) 80GB
GB ethernet
Wireless N
Bluetooth 3.0
HDMI port
6 cell batt.
Win7 HP 64bit
$300 unit plus the SSD which was $170 (CDN $)
boot time = 18secs
5.5hrs of video time on batt.
7.5 - 8 hrs just surfing, chatting, word, etc.
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Last edited by andruoid; October 6th, 2011 at 02:32 PM.
had mine less than a year and fully expect to keep for a long while, other than weird placement of the sata connections i've no complaints
Yeah, the SATA connections are pretty damn weird. I wish it had a bit more interior space for some nice cable management, but I did my best with what space I had which was pretty much just taking electrical tape and pasting everything to the floor next to the PSU lol.
3.1GHz AMD Athlon II 645 Quad Core
GigaByte MA74GMT-S2 MoBo w/ onboard 1Gbps LAN
1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 7200rpm S-ATAII HDD
2TB Seagate Barracuda Green S-ATA HDD
ASUS 1024Mb ATi Radeon HD 5570 VGA card
8Gb (2x4Gb) Kingston Hyper-X 1333MHz RAM (recent upgrade)
LG 22x Dual Layer DVD+/-R Writer/Lightscribe on IDE
500W PSU (silent)
EZCool H-688B ATX case with blue LCD display
Windows 7 (x64)
screen is a very shoddy, decade old TFT monitor, so the HDMI from the VGA card links in to my Sony Bravia 37" KDL37EX403
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