Your computer

[Kyriin]

It makes me a little sad that this board has cobwebs all over it, so I thought I'd make a thread. This is somewhat similar to one Timmy had started, but this isn't limiting to just computer specs. Tell us anything you want about your computer! It may have a history, have gone through a lot in the time you've used it, be a total beast of a computer that you want to brag about or maybe a terrible computer (like my desky!) and wanna say just how much you hate it.

I'll start. You don't have to write as much as me, you can even write more.

I have two computers, a desktop that's been around for at least 5 years and a MacBook I got August last year from school. My desktop used to belong to my grandpa. I currently run Windows 7 and on it (dual booted) and it has been formatted probably about 489674 times. Some basic specs: It has ~1gb of ram (I ran 64 bit Windows 7 on it too last year, pshfft) with an Intel Pentium processor with 2x 2.8GHz cores. I have an nVidia GeForce 7100 GS and that's about it. I also named it 'Desky' x3 - it is also in need of upgradez. And has also ran Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04. Before this computer I had one which you had to hit the top for it to turn on; the power button didn't work - you literally had to give it a good hit and it would start up xD

My MacBook has been through a LOT compared to everybody else's at school. It's also ran Ubuntu 10.10, runs OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.7 dual booted with Windows 7. Dual booting and using is against school rules, but the joke's on IT support if they haven't figured out everything I've actually done on that thing that breaks their rules yet (they tend to threaten/bluff a heap). I've also hit the keyboard a few times in rage which has caused hard drive shock (I assume), locking the computer up but thankfully was easily fixed by a restart. One of those rage times was caused by The Sims 3 .. It has ~2gb of ram with a dual core processor with both cores being 2.2GHz. It has an nVidia 9100? I think. I'm not sure, but it's 100x better than my desktop's. I'm currently waiting on a DVI -> VGA cable for it so I can plug it into my monitor, then plug in my mouse+keyboard and use it like a desktop.

And I guess I expected to write less but yeah- go for it. Tell everyone about your computer, or computers if you have more than one.

[Pea]

I find visuals to help tell my story better!

Here are some pics to precede the tale of my laptop.






It's currently doing a virus scan so the CPU usage is high =\

So there's some stats. My laptop comes features with a Touchpad mouse pad, a full sized keyboard with numberpad, web cam and microphone, DVD Drivey thingy, can burn CD's and DVD's, and I gots a light up external mouse for it!  

I got this thing a year ago and have had absolutely no problems with it, if you don't count the one time the battery wouldn't charge. That was fixed by taking it out and blowing on stuff a bit, then putting it back in. Never got a virus before surprisingly. Not that I know of anyways  

Some of the finer times this thing had was when me and dad would take it out to the lake and watch movies at night   It would smell like campfire for days afterwards! And the screen got all bug juicey  

I play some older games on it like Starcraft, Quake 3 Arena, OpenTransport Tycoon Deluxe, LegoRockRaiders, and such and such.

I've booted it up in Ubuntu from a Live CD a few times, but I'm afraid to actually install it .

So..... I guess that's it? Oh.... the warranty expires this month...

[Kyriin]

I love the colour of your windows, Lizard

I took some screenshots and a photo too.

Desktop without a wallpaper cause I'm too lazy to find one: http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/yy154/jaspertf/desky.png
My whole desk, with a new computer chair that isn't in the picture: http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/yy154/jaspertf/DSCF1464.jpg
Laptop, a bit squishy with all the windows because of the screen res: http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/yy154/jaspertf/lappy.png

I'm a little ashamed of my desky..
I also have to take my laptop to IT support at my school to get the vinyl on the bottom replaced, it's coming off.

[Timmy Fox]

Well...
My first own computer was a desktop I got 6 or 7 years ago. It had only 512mb of DDR1 RAM, a 3GHz CPU with only 1 core and a 256mb GPU...
About 4 years ago I switched it for something more modern with a 2.2GHz Triple core AMD Phenom CPU and 4GB of DDR2 RAM which I loved quite much. The same year I got my laptop (mentioned at the bottom of the post)
Then last year I felt it was time for an upgrade, so I saved up my money and made a list of the components I needed and when I had enough money, I bought the components and built myself my first own homemade rig (Desktop #1). However, I got it to have at my mothers place, and since I do switch between mom and dad every other week since their divorced, I felt I needed something better than my rather shitty performing laptop as main PC at dads place. So for my birthday last year, dad paid the components for a desktop at his place (Desktop #2).
And that is about where I am now. I am happy with what I have currently and I hope it'll last several years before it needs any major upgrade!

*more info to come *

Current specs:
Desktop #1: "Speedfox"
Case      : Fractal Design Define R2
PSU        : Fractal Design Tesla 650W
OS         : Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Memory  : Corsair 4x2 XMS3 8GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz
CPU        : AMD Phenom II X6 1090T BE @ 3.21GHz
Mobo      : Asus Crosshair IV Formula
HDD        : 1 x Western Digital Caviar Black (WD1001FALS) 1TB 7200rpm
GPU        : 1x XFX ATI Radeon HD 5750
Display    : 2x LG Flatron W2253TQ 21.5" 1920x1080 2ms 50,000:1 Contrast
Headset  : Steelseries Siberia V2 7.1 USB Virtual Surround
Speakers : Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Speakers
Cooling:

• CPU: Noctua NH-D14 Air Cooler + Artic Silver 5 Thermal Paste
  
• Other: 4x 120mm fans added to the case

Desktop #2: "Ultrafox"
Case      : Fractal Design Define R3
PSU        : Corsair HX750W
OS         : Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Memory  : Corsair 2x4 XMS3 8GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz
CPU        : AMD Phenom II X6 1090T BE @ 3.21GHz
Mobo      : Asus Crosshair IV Formula
HDD        : 1x Crucial RealSSD Sata 6GB/s 128GB + 1x Western Digital Caviar Black (WD1002FAEX) Sata 6GB/s 1TB 7200rpm
GPU        : 1x XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 + 1x XFX ATI Radeon HD 4770 (for 3rd monitor)
Display    : 2x LG Flatron LG W2453V 24" 1920x1080 2ms 50,000:1 Contrast + 1x BenQ G2420HDBL 24" 1920x1080 5ms 5,000,000:1 Dynamic Contrast
Headset  : Steelseries Siberia V2 7.1 USB Virtual Surround
Speakers : Logitech X-540 5.1 Speakers
Keyboard : Logitech G19
Cooling:

• CPU: Noctua NH-D14 Air Cooler + Artic Silver 5 Thermal Paste
  
• Other: 2x 120mm fans + 1x 140mm fan

Laptop: "Lapfox"
Model    : Sony Vaio VGN-FW11S
PSU       : Sony Custom
OS        : Ubuntu 11,4 (main) + Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (secondary)
Memory : 4GB DDR2 @ 800MHz
CPU       : Intel Core2Duo P8400 @ 2,27Ghz
MOBO    : Sony Custom
HDD       : 320GB 4200rpm
GPU       : ATI Mobility Radeon 3470
Display   : 1x 16.4" 1600x900 Laptop monitor

[TechRoo]

Nice timing, i was just going through the old topic a few days ago. Still have the same pc's as back then (Server, Desktop, Macbook pro) but i just ordered some new stuff for desky. Cant wait to assemble everything, going to be a real powerhouse. What do you guys think?

CASE: CoolerMaster HAF932, AMD limited Edition
PSU: Antec 1200W
OS: Windows 7, slackware, UNIX, triple boot
MEM: 24GB Corsair Dominator GT 2200MHZ
CPU : I7 980x Extreme, 6 core 4,5GHZ OC
MOBO: Asus Rampage III Extreme Black Edition
          Thunderbolt audio & lan card

HDD: 1x OCZ 240GB SSD
       2x WD 1,5TB in raid 0
GPU: 2x XFX Radeon HD5970 Black Edition
DISPLAY: 3x HP 24" LCD
AUDIO: Thunderbold pci card + Altec Lansing Expressionist ultra

And my mouse / keyboard combo
KEYBOARD: Logitech G19
MOUSE: MadCatz R.A.T 7


And then some watercooling stufz. Needs to cool two overclocked Radeon HD5970 cards and a overclocked 980 hexacore extreme processor.

- 2x EK 5970 Waterblock for Radeon HD5970.
- 1x Heatkiller 3 Waterblock for I7 S1366
- 1x Koolance NB/SB Waterblock for asus rampage.
- 1x Watercool MO-RA3 Radiator (9x180mm fan)
- 1x Black Ice GT 140 (1x140mm fan)
- 1x Black Ice GT 360 (3x120mm fan)
- 2x Swiftec MCP35x waterpump
- 1x EK Dual Loop reservoir

To bad im stuck in Åarhus (= denmark) until next week, so desky needs to wait to recieve his new parts... Stupid job

[Pea]

Tis a video I made of me using my computer  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGlzUT65NaQ

[TechRoo]

Woohoo, Desky has new parts...  

Side panel of the HAF932 AMD edition case, Features the AMD dragon decal.
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/9119/img0843l.jpg


New Asus rampage extreme III black edition motherboard with Intel I7 990X extreme processor + 2x XFX HD5970 Black Editions.
Also has 24Gb of Dominator GT 2000Mhz memory and a OCZ 180Gb SSD drive / 2x WD 1,5TB + BluRay Burner.
http://img807.imageshack.us/img807/1149/img0846i.jpg


I now have watercooling on the CPU and both of the graphics cards.
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/251/img0848zl.jpg


And my "old" HP 1920X1200 screens, this time with the Logitech G19 keyboard and MadCatz R.A.T 7 Mouse.
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1508/img0851nw.jpg


And last but not least, a very messy server cabinet with my 13TB storage and web server.
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/6778/img0853hd.jpg



Please leave large images as links. They make the thread lag otherwise.
WingedZephyr

[Pea]

  Oh my.........

[Kyriin]

Awesome! I like your server setup.

[TechRoo]

Awesome! I like your server setup.

Main server its a custom built rig with an amd phenom quad core @ 2,6Ghz and 12gb memory.
It has one 80gb scsi 14krpm disk for the OS, and 13TB of sata disks for storage.

Second server is an old hp3 that i dont really use anymore. At the top a Zyxel zywall 1050 security gateway and fibre optic switch.
Also have an old xserve 1U server that i use for backing up important data from the main server (sql database, photographs etc).

[Kyriin]

Nice, I hope to get a cheap computer to just use as a server soon x3

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Comp Tower #1:
Black Kat
Intel Quad Core (3.2 Ghz)
8GB DDR3 RAM
500 GB HDD
Windows Professional (Actually, that was before I upgraded it to these stats. To be more accurate, it runs Linux, now. Will buy another copy of Windows 7 another time for it)
Nvidea 9800 GTX  (Got 2 of them)
850W power supply
Antec 900 Gaming Tower
32x DVD re-writer/64x CD re-writer

Comp Tower #2 (Still under construction):
Black Kat Death Machine
Intel i7-990 Extreme Edition 6-core (3.46 - 3.79 Ghz) (it comes in the mail in December, after I'm done with retail training. it's the only thing left)
24GB DDR3 RAM
2 TB HDD (Got 2 of them. Partitioned)
Windows 7 Ultimate
Nvidea GTX 480
1,000W power supply
Antec 910 Gaming Tower
Blu-ray ROM
8x Blu-ray Re-writer

Laptop:
Black Kat Workstation
Intel i5 480M w/Turbobooster (3.74 - 4.0 Ghz)
6GB DDR3 RAM
640 GB HDD
Windows 7 Home Premium
Sony Vaio
16x DVD re-writer/ 8x CD burner

[Timmy Fox]

Here's some pics as well:
(clicky for full size)

Desktops: (both are very similar, so I'll just include one of em)






Laptop:
Will be added as soon as I can get the screenshots...

[Pea]

Do you all even plan on using all that memory? 

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

yea, i do, too.

Extreme multi-tasking is what I do alot of, which is why I usually end up using it all. Plus, having 1.2 TB of games kinda needs room. On my busiest days, I have 3 messengers running, Skype, Livestream, Photoshop, Steam, C++, CS: Source and running 3 CS:S servers off my comp.