What's everyones rig and operatng system?

[sparkplug]

Well I'll start off with my gaming rig.

Windows 7 64-bit

BIOSTAR TA870U3+ AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition CPU
Two sticks of G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333
Single ASUS Radeon CUCore 5770
Western Digital 1TB HD
hec X-Power Pro 600 600W power supply

All housed in a AeroCool case. I forgot what model but it's discontinued.

My laptop is a lenovo 14"

Dual boot Windows 7 32-bit and Ubuntu 32-bit ( I used Ubuntu more, battery lasts longer)

I don't know much specs about it but it has 4GB of ram and is running on a AMD triple core CPU.


I love my gaming rig but it can't run FSX maxed out. I mean it's not a slouch of a machine, it runs Skyrim maxed and gets 70fps.

[3400-95-Modified]

Upgraded it not too long ago...

HAF 912 ATX Mid tower case
Corsair H80 CPU water cooling system
Intel i5 2500k 3.3ghz SandyBridge CPU
ASRock Z68 Extreme 7 Gen3 board (will support Ivy Bridge when it's released)
OCZ SSD system 120gb drive
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB 2133mhz
Antec 900w High Current Gaming Power Supply
Going together








Pics of it up and running...


A few more pics after cleaning up some wires...




Currently OC'd at 4.4Ghz and hitting it in prime 95 and temps haven't gone over 61* and the cooling system is not on full blast either, I have it on mid level to keep the noise down.

[SappySE107]

HP/Compaq 2.8 ghz with hyperpthreading, and 2 gig of PC3200. Gaming? Yeah, I have dynomation on here.

[sparkplug]

Damn 3400, that's an awesome rig.

[3400-95-Modified]

Yeah I built that and don't have time to game... lol

I use it more for Media Center than anything, I have a 50ft HDMI cable running to my 65" TV as well as an optical audio cable going to the surround sound system.

All I can say is I'm MUCH happier with buying everything brand new with a warranty.... All my other setups have been used parts, OR EVGA stuff from ebay which wont carry a warranty since they are non transferable, so you need to buy direct or a dealer. The cards in this rig I got from Ebay and want to upgrade to dual 560's but I just can't justify spending the money if I don't game with it much. They do everything I want as it is, and the system itself is way faster than what I used to have.

[geldartb]

I5 2550k 4500 at 1.29v got it with the microcenter coupon for $160
ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3
16gb mushkin 997005
120gb mushkin chronos deluxe SSD
once i swap the drives over i will be swapping my gtx460 over too. in the very bottom slot is (not in picture) a 7950GT to power the 3rd monitor. it's a low power card and doesn't make more heat than it's worth.

watercooling stuff
Danger Den Monsoon "Premium"/ MCP655 Dual Bay Reservoir
Black Ice Xtreme II Dual 120mm Radiator
Black Ice GTX Xtreme 120 Radiator
Monsoon Free Center Compression Fitting - 1/2"ID x 3/4"OD
PrimoChill PrimoFlex PRO LRT Tubing 1/2"ID 3/4"OD
EK Supreme HF full copper
mix of mostly distilled with some anitfreeze. never had a problem with this mixture and have been using it since i started watercooling. the last loop i pulled apart was together untouched for over 2yrs and had no buildup anywhere.


haven't swapped over my drives and 460gtx from my main rig so for the time being i threw the 8800gts 640mb in there.



the 74gb raptor was just being used for a temp download dumping ground till the other drives get swapped over. if anyone has ever used one of these knows how loud they are, with the rubber grommet mounting system for the drives it quiets it down like a normal drive.

also still have the rig that this replaced
qx9650
8gb ram
now has the 8800gts

EDIT
got a couple of dell desktops nothing special....one has a c2d e6600 and the other has a penitum d 940.
couple of dell servers got the poweredge 1800 for free from the teacher of the class i took and the 2800 i got cheap.
couple of old socket 939 boards with cpu's and ram. all they would need is a video card and a psu.

[pocket-rocket]

Mines about 5-6 years old, lol.

Windows 7 Pro
Cheapo ebay case
Asus A8N32-SLi deluxe mobo
Amd X64 X2 3800+ CPU (2.0Ghz stock but running 24-7 @2.7Ghz on air)
Freezer Pro 64 heatsink/fan
2Gb DDR Corsair XMS Pro PC4400?LL maitched pair of ram with activity LEDs
320Gb SATA2 Seagate barricuda hdd
Evga 8600GT 512Mb GDDR3
Antec True Power Trio 650w triple rail PSU
Arctic cooling 120mm case fan in the rear
2x Arctic cooling 80mm fans in the top and side
2x cheapy LED fans that came in the cheapo ebay case in the front
Logitech cordless wave keyboard and mouse combo



It's an old system, but it still does what I need it to when the video card isn't popping capacitors. Also i'm one of the unfortunate souls to get stuck between MS and Evga on the crashing drivers problem, so the next pc is going to use an ATI card since I need windows. I would have built one this spring, but I miss driving my car and we didn't get back as much as I expected on our taxes.

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[robertisaar]

well, here is my pile of awesome that i built for the wife to do "online college" with.... that lasted a whopping 3 months.

Biostar TA780G M2+ MB
AMD Phenom 9500 CPU
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB HD
Apex PC-319 ATX Black Case
OCZ Gold 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 800MHz
hec HP585D 585W PS
ASUS VW192T+ 19" 1680X1050 DVI Monitor (BTW: junk, don't even buy an ASUS monitor)
SoundBlaster Audigy SE soundcard (for the LULZ)
Win Vista Ultimate x64 (7 had issues on this system, no idea why)

no video card, since i was on a rather tight budget when it was thrown together, however, the only two upgrades i'm going to be doing to it before leaving it alone until something breaks is a Phenom II X4 945(highest the board supports) and a ~$100 video card(IIRC, the , when i feel the need to acquire one. i've been eyeing the 6770s, seem to be excellent deals.

does some awesome number crunching/video encoding as-is, but..... moar.




EDIT: as for laptop: Acer 5720Z.... busted to hell, but it still works. paid ~$530 for it back in early 2008.

[bob442]

square thing under my desk call a tower... Windows something or rather... has a tounge that holds cd's and a blue button that lights up...and has a screen that collects dog hair nicely.

[95SleeperAcheiva]

Asus M4A78 Mobo
Phenom X4 Black edition
GTX950? Been a while since I cracked the case, I forgot, lol.
12 gigs Mushkin ddr2 1666
1TB Drive x4
3 DVD-r opticals, 1 is a lightscribe
32" asus monitor, 21" Viewsonic
a multi-card reader
15 freaking fans, 4 case, 2 ram, 2 on a cooler to the cpu
corsair 650 PS
Microsoft gaming KB, lights blue thru the keys
microsoft 7-button gamers mouse.
I built my system 1 month before the phenom II came out and was so pissed about that.
I idle at 121 deg F and push 150+ when I game on eve-online. I'm going to kill this thing.

[geldartb]

my pc in the garage.
e6700 which will get swapped out for a e7500
2gb ram
7900gtx
250gb hard drive
asus p5b deluxe
watercooled with a swiftech mcp 35x and swiftech rad made for use with the pump
swiftech apogee gtz water block.
coolant is peak longlife antifreeze. only thing i had available at the time. usually use a mixture of green antifreeze with distilled water.
some no name full tower case. haven't had time to do more cable management. just transferred from a smaller case that sucked

[sparkplug]

Do you see and improvement with water cooling? I think I'd like to try that..

[pocket-rocket]

Do you see and improvement with water cooling? I think I'd like to try that..

Air cooling < Water cooling < triple cascade cooling (refrigerant based). Triple cascade can get the CPU down to -100*. Yes, NEGATIVE one hundred degrees.

[sparkplug]

DAMN! You could OC that mother really well.

[pocket-rocket]

Especially since i just looked it up, and now they are down to over -150, and that's C. I couldn't remember if it was F or C so I didn't mention it, since to humans that kind of cold is way too cold either way, lol.