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Hopefully someday will upgrade my machine, but still it does all i need really good

Case: Sentey Abbaddon II
CPU: AMD FX6100 @ 4.0 GHz (stock cooler) ((Turbo at 4.5))
RAM: 8GB Adata Premium 1600 Dual Channel DDR3
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 (Bought broken, fixed by me)
GPU: XFX AMD Radeon RX560 4GB
PSU: Thermaltake 600W 80 Plus Bronze (idk the model)
HDD:
Main WD Caviar Blue 1TB
Secondary Samsung Spinpoint 2TB
Windows 10 Pro 1709
Monitor: Samsung S20C300L LED 20" 1600x900 connected via DVI
Sound: Generic modded 2.1 speaker system ("onboard" bass disabled and using real pioneer champion series woofer)
Keyboard: Generic "Noga" LED keyboard
Mouse: standard Genius USB mouse

someday, i will get a ryzen, ddr4 ram, more hdd and a better gpu (the last is not an issue or a necessity)

me ofende como argentino (??) ver q no tiene un ssd tu pc, media pila...

Current PC is from January 2011 with upgrades (new video card and more storage) over the years:
CPU: Intel 2600k
M/B: Asus P67EVO
RAM: DDR 16gb - 1600mhz
GPU: Asus 660 ti
PSU: RM 650w by Corsair
ODD: some Asus unit
HDD: WD - 1 TB black; 1 TB blue; 2 TB black
Case: Cooler master hafxb evo
Cooler: cooler master 212 evo
It gets the job done when working with databases however in new games the performance is quite slow!

needs moar SSD

Core 2 Quad Q6600
Intel stock cooler
Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L
Radeon HD7850
SB Audigy
4 GB RAM
HDD 120GB + 1TB + 2TB
Case & PSU - random unimportant
LG DVD writer
some faulty FDD
keyboard Chicony KB-9810
mouse Genius NetScroll 220 Laser
2x Dell 2001FP (2x 1600x1200 IPS)

That's my main home PC for retro gaming and web browsing. I use an i7-7700 at work but it doesn't count I guess.

Ryzen 1700x @ 4ghz
evga 1070
^^ Both AIO Kraken AIO X62's (g12 GPU)
32gb ram OC with cpu
M5015 sas
8x 10TB HE10 HGST Enterprise drives
Raid 0 = 3.5 Gb/s peak
512gb 960 pro nvme
900d case
+ more (still WIP after 1 year....)

But I'm actually working on my p150 classic machine building it up right now, did a mock up install today.... Can't wait to finish that!

I bought this case somewhere in the mid or late 2000s for an AthlonXP.
The main internal parts are from 2009 or 2010, when I built the first new PC since a K6-3 a decade earlier. This is still my main and most powerful PC.

Rosewill R5604-TBK - this is a rebrand. I once found the brand/model of a more well-adorned version of this case, but I lost that info.
Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4 (AMD 790X chipset)
Phenom2 X2-555 (default 2 cores at 3.2GHz) running 3 cores @ 3.6GHz
CM Hyper-212 heatsink
6GB DDR3 RAM (2x 1GB Crucial bought new, and 2x 2GB unbranded mystery RAM that came from eBay)
eVGA GTX285 (eBay upgrade - the card I bought new was a PNY GTX260-216)
Intel Pro/1000 PT GbE card
Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS w/ working 15-pin joystick bracket - recent eBay addition
Delta 800W "DPS-800LB A" - eBay upgrade, was OEM from an HP system. Apparently even HP goes for color-less cables now. Oh well.

As you can tell I'm lazy about "cable management", and I keep the cover open all the time anyways.

The Delta PSU is thicker (vertically in the case) than standard, so at the time of that picture I couldn't get it to fit. I went through every case I own trying to find one that could fit this PSU, and none of them could. Then it turns out this Rosewill actually *can* fit it if I just removed a piece of plastic that was glued at the top. I did that and the PSU is properly installed now.

Hard drives:
1TB WD10EZEX (these have been cheap $50 hard drives for years)
4TB Toshiba MD04ACA400 (fast seek times and makes the old fashioned hard drive noises to match. Similar to a WD Black, but not as well known and a lot cheaper.)
These drives triple-boot WinXP32, XP64, and Linux Mint 17.2.
I almost always use XP64, which due to it's partial support for GPT, relies on both the 1TB and 4TB drives in order to boot and run.

2TB Seagate FireCuda SSHD (doesn't have fast mechanical seeks like the Toshiba, but it has an 8GB SSD cache)
This is the newest drive. I bought it to hold a new WinXP32 install, with the intention of focusing this machine on games. I wanted to simplify the setup, liberate the other 2 hard drives, and use a smaller PC as my main system. I never got to that point though and the 2TB hasn't been getting used. I will need to finish that project and make an image of the drive before end of 2018, when Steam breaks XP support entirely. The 4TB needs to go into my file server.

oeuvre wrote:

needs moar SSD

Done: I purchased an Intel 512gb Sata3 SSD and transferred all my files and Windows installation on it! The problem is I now have only 1 SATA2 port free!

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Current state of affairs: […]
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I did a GPU update for modern games, mostly Witcher 3, GTA V, some Crysis 3. […]
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This isn't really my current PC because I use other computers much more frequently. But it's certainly my fastest PC and when it […]
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This isn't really my current PC because I use other computers much more frequently. But it's certainly my fastest PC and when it comes to getting work done (long coding session), I don't hesitate to sit down at it.

2600k@4.5Ghz
32GB DDR3
Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H
Corsair H90 with Noctua PWM fan
Sapphire Radeon 7970 Ghz Edition (photo is old with GTX 660)
a few SSDs
a seagate 2tb hdd
Asus DRW-24B1ST
NZXT case in white
Seasonic X650 gold
Asus PA246q 24"
Corsair MX-Cherry Brown keyboard
Logitech G5 mouse

I did a GPU update for modern games, mostly Witcher 3, GTA V, some Crysis 3.

Added a reference radeon 290 Hawaii, clocked at 1180/1450 core/mem on HG10/H75 cooling. Stock speed is 947/1250 for reference.
Added an Audigy 2 for Windows XP SP3

Current state of affairs:

Evga Titan SC 6gb classic
Gigabyte Z77x UD5H
Intel 2600k @ 4.3 with Corsair H90 and Noctua NF-A14 iPPC-2000 PWM
32Gb Crucial Ballistix Sport VLP
Seasonic X 650
Fractal Define S case
Noctua fans

This computer is exciting because it's an incredible bridge from the past to present. Largely in part due to its full XP compatibility.

I was recently very fortunate to be able to upgrade to a 1080ti FTW3, so here it is

It looks very modern... can't even tell it houses a nearly 8 year old CPU.

oeuvre wrote:

It looks very modern... can't even tell it houses a nearly 8 year old CPU.

I'm hoping I won't be tempted to upgrade until it becomes a 10 year old CPU. I would say currently I can't think of a reason to upgrade it. I know there will be people running these as their main CPU when it's a 20 year old CPU.

Since I've been on sandy bridge, I've paired it with a gtx 560ti, gtx 660, 7970ghz, r290, gtx titan and now the 1080ti. I really couldn't have anticipated this kind of CPU stability when I bought it.

Pasi123 wrote:

SPECS CPU: Intel Xeon X5670 @ 4.2GHz Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E RAM: 16gb Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600MHz Graphics: Asus GeForce […]
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SPECS
CPU: Intel Xeon X5670 @ 4.2GHz
Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E
RAM: 16gb Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600MHz
Graphics: Asus GeForce GTX 960 Turbo OC
Sound: Asus Xonar DG
SSD: Samsung SSD 750 EVO
Hard Drive: 2x 2tb HDD
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 BlackOut Edition
PSU: Seasonic 620W M12II-620 Evo
OS: Windows 7 Professional

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Small updates:

CPU: Intel Xeon X5670 @ 4.32GHz (6c/12t)
Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E
RAM: 16gb Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600MHz
Graphics: Asus GeForce GTX 960 Turbo OC
Sound: Asus Xonar DG
SSD: Samsung SSD 750 EVO 250gb
Hard Drive: 2x 2tb HDD and 1x 4tb
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 BlackOut Edition
PSU: Seasonic 620W M12II-620 Evo
OS: Windows 7 Professional

i7 2600 @ 3.4Ghz
16GB G-Skill DDR3 @ 1333Mhz
ASUS Strix GTX 970 4GB @ 1600/4000
120GB Kingston SSD
480GB Kingston SSD
1TB Western Digital Green\
BitFenix NEOS Case

Case: SST ML08
RAM: 16GB DDR4
Mobo: B350 ITX
GPU: VEGA56
PSU:SST 650

Upgrade!

NZXT H500 Black ATX case
Seasonic M12II 620W modular power supply
Intel Core i7 9700K 3.6GHz 8 core processor
Scythe Kotetsu cooler (replaced by be quiet! Shadow Rock 2)
MSI Z390-A PRO ATX motherboard
G.SKILL 2x16GB DDR4 3200 RAM
MSI branded NVIDIA GeForce GTX1060 6GB PCIe video card
Western Digital Black 500GB NVMe M.2 SSD
Seagate ST2000DM001 2TB 7200RPM hard drive
Windows 10 Pro 64
And of course a few retro things like 86Box and PCem MS-DOS + 95 configs, 98SE and XP VMs in VMWare

be quiet! Shadow Rock 2 180W TDP heatsink

Clean look from the front

Audio + USB ports + power button

Rear

The motherboard, CPU, and SSD installed

Close-up of the 9700K

GPU + box

Seagate HD

CrystalDiskMark on SSD

be quiet! and Scythe coolers next to each other

The be quiet! one is significantly larger

The Scythe is still a very good cooler but for a 9700K, having a larger one definitely helps.

The guts

Closer look at the GPU + PCIe slots

Other side of the case with sloppy cable management!

Side panel on

Windows 10 desktop. Hopefully you guys recognize where it's from.

Specs

And of course, SkiFree!

Upgrade case!

oeuvre wrote:

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Side panel on

Windows 10 desktop. Hopefully you guys recognize where it's from.

Specs

And of course, SkiFree!

Surely you must be using the updated, 64-bit version of NT3.5's File Manager that somebody from Microsoft is maintaining on Github, right? 😀

Also have the Windows 95 calc.exe, Clock.exe from NT4, FreeCell from XP, 3D Pinball, 32-bit SkiFree, Minesweeper XP, Paint XP, Solitaire XP, Hover!, and Paintbrush.exe from NT 3.51

My main rig is pushing five years old now, but it's still getting the job done:

CoolerMaster CM690 Case
Seasonic X-1250 PSU
ASUS Sabertooth Z97 MK1
Intel i7 4790K @ 4GHZ
Corsair H55 Hydro CPU Cooler
G.Skill Sniper DDR3 @ 32GB
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
Various SSD's (Crucial) totaling ~1.5TB
External HDD's (Seagate) totaling ~2TB

At some point I want to consolidate my storage and probably look into a new GPU. I'm usually a 1-2 years behind on the gaming cycle, but I'm starting to notice the bottleneck.

Welp, my RX 480 decided to show more signs of failure, and I didn’t read the early signs from Linux, no, I reinstalled Windows 10, and was greeted by the same GPU recovery events, and not even while overly stressing the card. Nothing happened the night before, while I was playing Destiny 2.

Oh well, back on my previous card, an Asus Strix GTX 960 4GB, at least until I can get a solution from RMAing my RX 480, which still has more than a year on its warranty. Funny, the first one I got also failed spectacularly, this is the one that took them a full month to find to replace it.

i7-5820k @ 4GHz
4x 8GB DDR4-2667
Gigabyte GA-X99M Gaming 5
AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 8GB
Corsair RM1000i
Samsung 960 Evo 256GB
2x WD Black 1TB HDD
Antec P9 Window