kanecvr wrote:

My 3770k @ 4 GHz is on par with my sister's 6600k in most tests, and a little faster in others, so there's really no reason to u […]
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FuzzyLogic wrote:

I took the air compressor to my PC and thought I would take some pics for this thread. The case is a Lian-Li and it still looks great after eight or so years.

Very nice!

I also got a 3770 in my main desktop and see no reason to upgrade.

My 3770k @ 4 GHz is on par with my sister's 6600k in most tests, and a little faster in others, so there's really no reason to upgrade.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

I will wait for Zen to come out, see what happens. Hopefully we get more cores for the same price out of it 😀

Same here. I'm a huge AMD fan - I've used AMD powered PC's up until 2007 and I'd love to have a high end AMD powered daily driver again.

I was once thiking about getting an used i7 2600K to replace my i5 2500K, i saw several on ebay for only about 150-170 €, i have a Z77 mobo, so i can OC the i7 too, currently running my i5 at 4.7 ghz, so i can probably get 4.7 ghz with the i7 2600K and all it's 8 threads too

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

Very nice!

I also got a 3770 in my main desktop and see no reason to upgrade. I will wait for Zen to come out, see what happens. Hopefully we get more cores for the same price out of it 😀

I've never owned an AMD desktop in my life. But my first laptop, a hand-me-down, had a K6-2 333Mhz processor. I think I shied away from them because how unstable or problematic the drivers and chipsets were in the early Athlons days. I also avoided netburst on my desktop and went from P3 to Pentium M (so expensive.) I sold the Pentium M and DFI motherboard on ebay for practically nothing. But I digress.

I have been itching to get a new AMD APU and motherboard for a while now. But Zen is looking more interesting every day, especially to upgrade my main desktop. I too hope the price and performance are good. But when will it come out, next year?

It should come out in December this year or January-February 2017. Knowing AMD probably the latter.

Oh wow. I've forgotten all about this thread.
I was going to post my "new" system here back when it was actually new, but oh well, it doesn't matter. It is still my current PC.

Testing the system for leaks.

How the system looked in the end.

How the setup looks.

System specs.

Strangely enough Speccy doesn't show my overclock. The CPU is running at 4.5GHz (good compromise between speed and temperature under 100% load).
The small speakers are actually just for my DJ console. I'm using Alesis studio monitors on stands above the PC (barely visible in the picture) for actual PC sound.

My main 'current' PC is an older (2011) iMac. It does what I need it to do as a day-to-day computer. It's in my home office, and shares a desk with my work laptop (I work from home.)

Core i5-2400S
20 GB DDR3-1600 RAM (system only runs it at 1333 MHz)
Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB (I don't do any even remotely 'hardcore' gaming on it, so that's more than enough.)
21.5" 1920x1080 display (It's an Apple desktop display, so very good quality.)
1 TB + 120 GB "Fusion" drive (both are upgrades, it came with a 500 GB 5400 RPM drive, I upgraded to a 1 TB 7200 RPM drive and added a 120 GB SSD, and manually turned them in to what Apple calls a "Fusion Drive" - a single volume that uses both drives, and automatically puts data on the SSD as it decides it is appropriate.)
External Dell 22" 1080p display, shared with my work laptop.

My gaming PC (shared with my kid, in the spare bedroom,) is a bit more gaming-oriented.

MSI H81M-E33 V2
Core i5-4570T (I goofed. I thought I was buying the quad-core 4670T not the dual-core model, didn't realize my mistake until after it was installed. Oh well, it performs well enough in every game I have thrown at it.)
Radeon R7 370 4 GB
12 GB RAM (1x 4 GB DDR3-1600, 1x 8 GB DDR3-1333 - hey, the 8 GB DIMM was free! I had 2x 4 GB 1600 modules previously.)
Crucial MX300 SSD, 525 GB
Western Digital "GreenPower" 2 TB hard drive (my daughter does online streaming and "Lets Play" videos, and is horrible about deleting old videos from the hard drive, so I just set the spinning drive as the default for video recordings. I've booted the computer to a "DRIVE FULL!" warning too many times, so I finally got the SSD to house the OS and split off her video recordings.)
LG "combo" BD-RE burner and HD DVD reader (yes, I'm one of 'those people' who bought an HD DVD.)
Mediocre ViewSonic 22" 1080p display, and ancient no-name 1280x1024 19" LCD (running off the Core i5 onboard graphics. Used as a "palette" monitor, almost solely so QuickSync can be used for video transcoding, since it requires the Core i5's onboard GPU be active.)

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LunarG wrote:

Oh wow. I've forgotten all about this thread. I was going to post my "new" system here back when it was actually new, but oh wel […]
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Oh wow. I've forgotten all about this thread.
I was going to post my "new" system here back when it was actually new, but oh well, it doesn't matter. It is still my current PC.

Leak testing.jpg

Testing the system for leaks.

Nice PC! Based on the K version processor and the water cooling, I'm guessing you overclock. I really like the white PCB MSI boards. The bubble-gum pink is nice, but it for some reason it reminds me of Pepto Bismol. 😀

pretty nice systems posted in this thread, my current machine was built just in time for the release of GTA V, i was really sad about the performance of my machine back in the day when GTA IV came out, the game ran like crap, it took a few upgrades to get the game to play well, so this time i wanted to be ready for the best experience i could get

SYSTEM SPECS:
CASE: Corsair 780t black edition
CPU: intel i7 4790k @ 4.5ghz
MOTHERBOARD: asus ROG maximus vii formula
RAM: 16gb g.skill ripjaws 1600mhz 4x4gb
GPU: 2x asus ROG matrix platinum gtx 980's SLi
SSD/HDD: Corsair neutron series 240gb xt, 3tb seagate
PSU: Corsair rm1000

http://imgur.com/a/Drnhm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFVYMbVb-kA&t=141s

I have several, but here are the two I use nearly every day:

Gigabyte MA785G-UDH3
Phenom II x4 975 @ 3.8 ghz
Deepcool Gammaxx 300 cooler
4x 2GB Crucial DDR2 800
480gb SSD (forget the brand/model)
MSI R9 270
Built in November 2009 and upgraded incrementally since 😀

and

MSI 970 Gaming
FX8370
Wraith Cooler
4x 4GB Ballistix Sport DDR3
480gb SSD (again, forget the brand/model)
MSI RX480
Built in March this year, added the video card two months ago

Casting resurrect dead on this thread:

Main (Desktop):

Dell Optiplex 330 (Slimline model, I run it open case)
Intel Core2Quad Q8300 @ 2.5GHZ
4GB PNY Optima DDR2 (PC2-6400)
MSI Gaming NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750Ti 2GB
4 Hard Drives (320GB OS, 160GB "fast", 2 externals for general storage)
Logitech Driving Force GT
Logitech Extreme3D Pro

I've gamed this machine hard and the motherboard is basically a grey sheet from dust but I barely play hard games anymore and my other machines usually end up with the task. This thing runs fallout 4 maxed when asked to.

HTPC/Bedside PC (Desktop):

Dell Optiplex 760 (Full BTX tower)
Intel Core2Duo E7400 @ 2.5GHZ
4GB Crucial DDR2 (PC2-8500)
Galaxy NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 1GB
80GB OS Drive, 500GB WD Blue for media.

Laptop (still in mail, final specs are as planned).

HP EliteBook 8530p
Intel Core2Duo @ 2.53GHZ
2GB DDR2 (I plan to upgrade it to 4)
ATI Mobility Radeon 3650 256MB
320GB Hard drive

My bedside PC and laptops are usually used for light gaming like 2D and simple 3D RPGS like Baldurs Gate and Neverwinter Nights. RPGs have always been my bread and butter anyways.

Upgraded my rig:
MSI MPower Max AC Z97 Mobo

Intel i7 4790k @ 4.6 GHz

Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1866 MHz @ 2133 MHz

MSI GTX 1080 Sea Hawk X +150 on the core, +300 on the memory

250GB Intel 730 SSD

3TB Seagate Barracuda HDD

1000W EVGA Supernova P2

Thermaltake Core P5 Case

Started the build 3~ years ago, upgraded everything pretty much during that time.

Intel Core i3-3250 / 3.5GHz
MB DH77KC
8GB DDR3
nVidia GTX750 Ti

Not the fastest machine around, but it does everything I need (web development + few modern games + DOSBox) and was relatively cheap 😀

Second machine I use is old 2008 Thinkpad X200 with Core 2 Duo P8400, 4GB RAM and SSD drive. This thing will outlive me 😀

Gaming rig:

Fractal Design R5
SuperNova 750W G2
GA-Z97X-Gaming 5
Core i5 4690K @ 4.6 GHz
Coolermaster Nepton 240M
2x8GB HyperX PC3-12800
XFX RX 480 GTR XXX 8GB
240GB HyperX SSD and 240GB PNY CS1211 SSD in RAID 0
Seagate 1TB HDD
LG Blu-Ray/HD-DVD/DVD/RW

File Server:

Antec 300
Thermaltake ToughPower 700W (FSP)
GA-Z77X-UD3H
Xeon E3-1240 @ 3.3 GHz
4 x 2GB PC3-10600
GeForce 210
Intel 40GB SSD for O/S
WDC Blue 3TB and Seagate 3TB in RAID 0
Seagate 2TB

Laptop:

HP Elitebook 8470p
Core i5-3210M @ 2.5 GHz
HD 4000
2 x 4GB PC3-12800
Axiom 240GB SSD

Desktop

Thermaltake G42 ATX
Gigabyte GA-Z170HD3P ATX motherboard
Intel i7 6700K
be quiet! pure rock cooler
32GB DDR4 2400
Intel HD530 graphics
Creative Audigy 2 ZS PCI sound card
256GB Samsung 950 PRO M.2 SSD
1TB Seagate 7200RPM HD
Windows 10

Laptop

HP EliteBook 8470p
Intel i5 3320M
8GB RAM
AMD RADEON 7570M 1GB
14" 1600x900 matte display
256GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
2nd bay HD caddy w/ 320GB HD
Windows 7

CPU= Socket 775 Xeon, I don't remember specifics but it has 4 cores and 12MB of cache. It was an upgrade from a core2quad.

RAM= 8 GB of DDR2 (pretty sure it's the maximum that this board supports)

Board= New old stock intel or something like that

Drives= Windows 7 Ultimate on a 250GB SSD and another drive being an HGST 2TB, mostly games and other stuff on that one.

Sound Card= Soundblaster X-Fi (I'm not much of an audiophile, but I just like having a Soundblaster in my PCs)

GPU= Nvidia GT 730 (i think)

USB 3.0 Card, the board doesn't have USB 3.0, but the case does, so I figured I may as well take advantage of it. The only USB 3 device I have is my phone and I honestly can't tell if it makes any difference...

PSU, Rosewill, modular. I think this is great, hardly and clutter at all, I don't have to do the old 'stuff the rat's nest of wires in an unused drive bay routine.

Two optical drives, mostly just because. I remember seeing lots of expensive computers when I was a young teen in the early 2000s with two optical drives and I figured I may as well since I have several loose ones. There's something about multiple drives hat makes a computer look more 'serious', that I like.

The Floppy/Memory card combo works only with memory cards. The board has no floppy support, when used in a board that did have floppy support it didn't work... So the floppy drive is only for decoration I'm afraid. I'm a fan of anachronistic hardware so I would have liked it to have a functional floppy drive...

The case originally had a door on it, but I didn't see the point so I snapped it off. It's the first computer that I built from loose parts rather than upgrading OEM stuff like I usually did.

Every now and then I contemplate getting a new board because of new technology like uefi, gpt, nvme/M.2 SSDs, newer cpu instruction sets, but this thing does everything I need it to do so I never do upgrade. Maybe I'll get a new monitor 120hz refresh rate or IPS? That's the question... 😜, maybe when those PCIe SSD drives get cheaper I'll get one of those to boot off of for faster read write speeds that I probably won't notice.

It does web browsing, word processing, Audio/Video entertainment, e-mail and communication just fine. I'm not a heavy gamer, I mostly dabble in emulation, source ports, romhacks, etc. So the older Nvidia card handles everything easily. The board only has PCIe 2.x so it can't take full advantage of it anyway.

This is my older laptop, it's from about 2013 or so. I heavily upgraded it.

It doesn't get much travel time, the lesson is look at dimensions before you buy a laptop. It's much bigger than I thought it would be and much too awkward to lug around. It's more of a desktop replacement. I liked the full size keyboard, but the specs left much to be desired.

I specifically got one that had Windows 7 on it, but little did I know that that meant it was stuck in BIOS/MBR and I couldn't use uefi/gpt. In hindsight, since I put Windows 10 on it anyway I suppose this was kind of silly.

I didn't like the prospect of using a Pentium so I searched around and found a video of some guy with the same model replacing the Pentium with a Core i7. So I got the same CPU and copied what he did in the video and it worked. It's a Core i7.

I replaced the wireless card with a newer one that supports WiFi AC

I doubled the RAM from 4GB to 8GB.

I removed the optical drive which in total gave me three drive bays which I naturally filled with 3 SSDs.

These are my "current" computers in use (not including the PII system I mentioned in the other thread)

Main computer:

Windows 7 Home Premium
i5 6600K (running at stock for the moment)
Cooler Master EVO 212 Cooler
Asus Z170-E Motherboard
16GB DDR4 @2133MHz
Geforce 560 Ti (on deck for an upgrade)
250GB Samsung EVO 850 SSD
3x2TB WD HDDs
Cooler Master Centurion V Case (bought when it first came out)
2x Benq 24" GW2455 Monitors
Logitech MX Revolution Mouse
Fujitsu Keyboard FKB4725 (on deck for replacement when I find a better one)

Basement Media PC / Minecraft Server:
Windows 7 Home Premium
Core2 E6300
Intel DG965WH Motherboard
6GB DDR2 @ 667MHz
64GB Sandisk SSDNow! SSD
Toshiba DVD-ROM
LG DVD-RW
Cooler Master Centurion Case

Living Room Media PC:
Intel NUC DN2820FKYH / Window 10 Home / Celeron N2820 CPU / 4GB DDR3L @ 1333MHz / 200GB HDD

Laptops:
2009 MacbookPro "GORAD THE LUSTY" / OSX 10.7.5 / Core2 2.26GHz / 8GB / 500GB HDD
Dell Vostro 1400 "Fluorad the Trusty" / Windows 7 HP 32bit / Core2 T7250 / 3GB / 160GB HDD

My current PC started out in 2012 as a new desktop, which eventually became a Hackintosh, and then I ended up getting an actual iMac (Retina 5K), and then it served as a gaming tower with Steam In Home Streaming, and now it's my primary desktop once again.

Umaro:

Windows 10 Pro
Core i7 3770 (was 3570K when I built it)
MSI Z77A-GD65
32GB PC3-12800 1600MHz (started out with 16GB of wrong voltage RAM, so it was underclocked)
Asus Strix RX 480 8GB (started out with a GeForce 9800 GTX, bounced through GTX 670, R9 270X, GTX 960, to this.)

256GB Samsung 850 Pro SSD (started out with a 128GB Samsung 830 series)

The following arranged into a two-way mirrored Storage Space, all fairly recent acquisitions:
2x WD Red 4.0TB
2x Toshiba X300 6.0TB

Lite-On iHBS112 2 BD recorder (had this since the start)

Carefully arranged in a Fractal Design Define R3 case, which was purchased with the original volley of parts in 2012.

Laptops:
2014 MacBook Pro Retina / macOS 10.12.2 / Core i7 4770HQ 2.2GHz / 16GB / 256GB SSD
Asus U52F-BBL5 / some linux or possibly no OS installed / Core i3 350M / 4GB / 500GB HDD or whatever's plugged into it right now