Well I decided to upgrade my PC recently, so my interests have swung back to the PC gaming world for the moment.
I’m interested to see what other peoples set ups are like! Obviously a few of you must have some decent set ups!
Specs on my new build…
CPU: Intel i7 6700K 4GHz @ 4.6GHz CPU Cooling: Corsair H90 with a Noctua Industrial PPC fan Mainboard: Gigabyte G170X-Gaming 3 RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666MHz GPU: Gigabyte GTX970 G1 Gaming Edition SSD 1: Intel 750 Series PCIe NVMe 400GB SSD SSD 2: Intel 520 Series 120GB SSD Storage 1: WD Black 1TB Storage 2: WD Green 3TB Storage 3: WD Green 2TB Case: Corsair Obsidian 550D Power Supply: Corsair HX750 Keyboard: Logitech G710+ Mechanical Mouse: Logitech G700s Headset: Logitech G930 Screen: 2x Samsung U28D590D - 28” UHD Audio: On Board Realtek ALC1150 with Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3 and TI Burr Brown OPA2134 Operational Amplifier , Logitech Z-2300 Speakers Case Cooling: Front - 2x Noctua Industrial PPC 120mm, Top - 2x Noctua PWM 140mm, Rear - Noctua Industrial PPC 140mm (Radiator) OS: W10 Pro 64-Bit
I’m pretty happy with it. The only thing I will be changing is the graphics card. The GTX970 G1 can’t cut it at 4K and I was going to change it out for a 980Ti but I have decided I’m going to see what the next generation cards bring to the table, hopefully earlier next year.
Excuse the poor colour coordinating. It’s a windowless case so it didn’t really bother me…
Yeah I am stoked with the case. Very clean look, plus all the panels have sound deadening on them, dust filters on the fans, great air flow. It’s heaps better than my old thermaltake.
I’ve always been intrigued by the PC’s totally flooded in mineral oil. However impractical it may be, it just looks cool. I’ve just never had enough money to spec my own rig (or really any reason to.)
The oil baths work really well. A friend of mine works for a company who owns the world’s most powerful privately owned supercomputer and the whole thing is submerged in oil baths. The reduction in cooling energy required compared to traditional air cooled units is massive. They just have a big chilling tower that cools and cycles the oil.
I have an older AMD 4 core in an old Compaq computer case. Only 4G of ram.
But I dare anyone to beat my storage capacity - 30 Externals
Most are between 1 and 2 Gig TB each. My 2 biggest are 5G 5TB.
(I record shows with my TiVo’s and pull them off and store them on the externals. Most of the space is filled up with Music Concerts that I record of Palladia, PBS, Music DVD’s and BlueRays.
I then can search the drives from the TiVo and stream them with a 3rd party app. Most people don’t know how advanced a TiVo is, especially with the third party apps.
Uh, you do realize that this is 2015, right? Why do you have 30 externals that are mostly “between 1 and 2 Gig each. My 2 biggest are 5G.”? What is that, 60 GB? Unless what you really meant was TB, you’re way behind the times on storage capacity!
The Concerts that are recorded in HD and Doby 5.1 surround clock in at up to 16GB per hour.
Most are 8GB per hour though and that shows how far Cable TV has to go in providing high bit programming.
Wait, 4.44 GB per second? Like, a whole DVD in one second? Really? Wow! I want one! :party:
Edit: While I’m here, I may as well talk a little about my home computer. It’s a AMD Quad Core 3.54GHz with 8 Gigs of RAM, and a 500GB HDD. The graphics are onboard ATI/AMD Radeon. Sound is onboard. Nothing special at all, really, about my computer. I just updated it to Ubuntu 15.10 a couple days ago. Really, for what I use a computer for, my Dual Core Pentium IV 2.6 GHz laptop with 4 Gigs RAM and a 120GB SSD is more than capable. It was updated to 15.10 a couple weeks ago.
I feel quite outclassed by you guys. I am currently typing this post on my attic room den desktop which is a second hand school computer purchased for £50. It is running on Linux mate. It’s an i3 with 4gb and a 160gb hd. It chugs along nicely enough. I also have another similar specced PC under a 55” tv screen which I use mostly for media. For the bedroom I have an old Laptop again running Linux and downstairs I have my ‘modern Toshiba i5’ laptop plus a couple of other old laptops.
Unless you are a gamer you really don’t need that much power. I tend to use the Toshiba for photos and video though.
My main PC is a 6-year old 14” HP laptop with an i5-430m, upgraded to 8GB DDR3, 500GB internal and 1TB external. Usually it is running a 27” Asus MX279H which I nabbed for $50 at a thrift store a year ago (best deal I’ve ever found there).
In the living room I have an even older HP desktop. It has an Intel Core2 Quad 6600 and 4GB RAM. I got it for only $20 because it was “broken”. Turns out it was just a corrupt boot drive. I installed Win7 (was Vista :Sp ) and a cheap vid card to get HDMI out. It already had a TV tuner and it now lives in the TV stand. I underclocked the CPU so that I could turn the fans down for noise and power consumption reasons (that CPU is very power hungry). Don’t use it much anymore though.
I have spent a lot of time on Newegg spec-ing out builds, but have never actually done one. I don’t need a serious rig because I don’t game, but I might do a nicer (smaller, less power hungry, more storage) PC for the tv stand eventually.
Wow! I want one! :party: