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Reply 40 of 97, by Jo22

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AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (Socket AM2), 7GiB RAM, USB 3.0, ~240GB SSD, Win 7 x64 Pro (+XP SP2).
Oh, and it has an NVIDIA 6100 gfx card (since it has an nforce 405 mainboard)..

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Reply 41 of 97, by appiah4

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It's a Frankenstein of old and new pieces, as I can't actually afford a full platform update anytime soon (hammered currency and economic crisis 😢 ) Regardless, it is more than enough to get me by for the occasional gaming time I have to spare.

Case: Zalman Z3 Plus
PSU: FSP Hydo 600W 80+ Bronze
Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0
CPU: AMD FX-8300@3.9GHz (Mine is a dog, won't hit 4GHz)
RAM: 8GB DDR3-1333MHz
Graphics: Sapphire Radeon RX480 4GB@8GB (Yes, there was, for a limited time, the opportunity to buy a 4GB card and flash it to full 8GB. I took a gamble, and won.)
Sound: ASUS Xonar DG (Amazing headphones soundcard but I wish it had a MIDI port)
Storage: Ancient Sandisk Ultra 128GB SATA SSD + WD 1TB SATA HDD
Optical: LG 16x DVD-RW

I was hoping to upgrade to Ryzen 5 1600 in early 2019 but more realistically that will be an upgrade to Ryzen 5 2600 in late 2019 as Ryzen Gen 3 hits the market. The venerable FX 8300 will have to serve some more time in service, I'm afraid.

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Reply 42 of 97, by Agent of the BSoD

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I built my desktop back in April of 2017.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 (kept at stock clocks and stock cooler, both of which works fine for me)
Mobo: Asus Prime B350-Plus
RAM: 16GB DDR4-2400 in dual channel
SSD: Samsung 960 EVO 500GB M.2
HDD: WD Black 2TB
GPU: GTX 1080
PSU: Corsair RMx 650W
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Tempered Glass Black Mid Tower
Asus Optical drive
Windows 10 (despite my distaste towards it)

I built it with the plan to not have to do upgrades for a while. Also with the plan to be able to render videos more smoothly and quickly because of the Ryzen 7 CPU. This thing takes anything I throw at it at 1440p, and can multitask like a champ, even while rendering. Huge step up from my last rig which included a Pentium D 840 and a Radeon x600 (later a GT 430). Yeah, a Pentium D as a main driver from 2010 to 2017 was a bit painful to say the least.

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Reply 43 of 97, by mcobit

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My current home PC is a q9650 at stock speeds paired with a GTX 750TI and 8GB of DDR2 667 RAM.

This is pretty much a PC built from cheap or found parts but still runs everything I need. Even gaming in mid to high details is still possible.

Reply 44 of 97, by 386SX

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Agent of the BSoD wrote:
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I built my desktop back in April of 2017.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 (kept at stock clocks and stock cooler, both of which works fine for me)
Mobo: Asus Prime B350-Plus
RAM: 16GB DDR4-2400 in dual channel
SSD: Samsung 960 EVO 500GB M.2
HDD: WD Black 2TB
GPU: GTX 1080
PSU: Corsair RMx 650W
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Tempered Glass Black Mid Tower
Asus Optical drive
Windows 10 (despite my distaste towards it)

I built it with the plan to not have to do upgrades for a while. Also with the plan to be able to render videos more smoothly and quickly because of the Ryzen 7 CPU. This thing takes anything I throw at it at 1440p, and can multitask like a champ, even while rendering. Huge step up from my last rig which included a Pentium D 840 and a Radeon x600 (later a GT 430). Yeah, a Pentium D as a main driver from 2010 to 2017 was a bit painful to say the least.

Was the Pentium D that slow?

Reply 45 of 97, by chinny22

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Technically its a Dell Precision T5500, Duel Xeon 5504 2.00GHZ, 12GB Ram, Quadro FX580, Win7
Its an ex customers PC, I had to pay for the 2nd CPU raiser, but CPU and RAM are all out of other machines I have lying around.

I say technically as its mostly used to share media files with my TV, In the end I a use a beat up old HP 630 laptop that wasn't event that high spec when it got assigned to me new in 2012. It's pretty beat up 1/2 the USB ports don't work but I'm used to it.

Reply 46 of 97, by JidaiGeki

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Main rig is an Alienware 18 laptop - i7 4th gen, 32GB RAM, SSD, GTX780M SLI - basically too big to actually game on the go with, it tends to cook anything underneath it at load, so I keep it off my lap. Bought it 5 years ago, ran through Skyrim and Borderlands on it, and still enjoy using it.

Desktops are incomplete, but until about 2014 I ran a QX9650, but the motherboard has bad caps, and I haven't finished building an i7-950 socket 1366 machine, no rush for that project. Doubt it will be faster than my laptop anyway.

On the bus to/from work I have an old Acer i7 1st gen, has an SSD in it, 15.6", fast enough to do basic internet or Word-based tasks, but a bit unwieldy so might change to a Surface Book or Pro one day.

At work I have a Dell i5 - Precision 990 or something. Slow machine, needs an SSD.

All my modern stuff runs Win 7, as I'm not used to the newer OSes yet. Might use Win 10 on the replacement laptop.

Reply 47 of 97, by Jasin Natael

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Daily home desktop is one I built:

ASUS ROG STRIX AM4
Ryzen 7 1700
16GB DDR4
ASUS ROG STRIX RX580
120GB SSD/2x2TB HDD's

Daily Driver Desktop at Work:
Dell Optiplex 3050
i5-7500
8GB RAM
500GB HDD

Daily Driver laptop home:
Early 2011 MacBook Pro
i7-2720QM
8GB RAM
1TB SSD

Daily Driver work laptop:
Dell Latitude 3590
i5-8250u
8GB
500GB HDD

Lots of other vintagey/modern HTPC stuff

Reply 48 of 97, by Koltoroc

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My main PC:

AMD Ryzen 7 1800x
Noctua NH-D15S
ASUS ROG Strix X370-F Gaming
32GB RAM
GTX 1080ti
512GB M.2 PCIe SSD
4x 8TB Seagate Ironwolf HDD
Fractal Desing Define R6
Corsair RM850i
Acer predator XB1 24" 1440p 144hz Gsync TN display
Benq 24" 1440p 60hz IPS display

My secondary PC:

AMD FX 8350
AMD wraith boxed cooler
Gigabyte 990XA-UD3
8GB RAM
GTX 1050ti
120GB SATA SSD
4TB Western Digital green (I think)
Fractal Design Define R6
XFX 650TS
Iiama B2403WS 1920x1200

Reply 49 of 97, by tayyare

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Tayyare proundly presents: C2Q is not dead yet! Still alive and kicking since 2009:

(note: no overclock, everything are with their stock speeds)

Essentials:
Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit (upgraded from XP SP3 in late 2013) and Windows 7 Pro 64bit (recently added on a SSD in multiboot configuration)
Intel Xeon X5470 3.3 GHz (recently upgraded from E5450, originally it was a Q9550)
Asus P5Q Premium
Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066MHz 2GB x 4 (recently upgraded from 4GB)
Asus Nvidia GTX 770 2GB (upgraded recently from GTX 560Ti, which was upgraded from a GTS 250 years ago)
Onboard ADI AD2000B HD Audio
Onboard Marvell Yukon 88E8056 Gibabit Ethernet (four onboard ethernet adapters... WTF were they thinking?)

Storage:
WD Black 1TB SATA6 HDD x 4 (configured as two RAID1 arrays - upgraded from 4 x WD Black 500GBs)
WD Black 2TB SATA6 HDD x 2 (configured as a RAID1 array - upgraded from 2 x WD Black 1TBs, which were upraded from 2 x 300GB Seagates)
Sandisk Ultra 250GB SSD x 1 (recently added)
Mitsumi 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Drive (upgraded to a multi card reader / FDD combo device, but it has compatibility issues, so downgraded to the simple FDD again)
Pioneer BDR208M BD-RW Drive (upgraded from a TSST PATA in 2015)
Pioneer DVR221L DVD-RW Drive (upgraded from a TSST PATA in 2015)

Others:
Asus U3S6 USB3 / SATA6 Controller (added in 2011 for USB3 and e-SATA, also drives SSD)
Generic Jmicro 363 SATA3 Controller (for optical drives - added in 2015 after onboard Silicon Image controller started acting up)
Syba SY-PEX30016 Firewire 800 I/O Card (added in 2012)
Generic Serial / Parallel PCI I/O Card (added in 2010)

Enclosure:
Asus U75HA 750W Power Supply
Cooler Master Cosmos 1000 Chassis
Thermaltake ISGC 12 Fan x 5 (upgraded from noisy coolermaster 120mm fans in 2011, all renewed in 2016)
Thermaltake Contac Silent Cooler (upgraded from Intel Stock Q9550 cooler during X5470 upgrade)
AeroCooler Modern V Fan Controller/Display (given free as a promotion - I don't care much about fan controllers)
A 20cm regular pencil as GPU anti sagging device 🤣

Peripherals:
Asus VH242H 24" LCD Display
Microsoft Sidewinder X4 Keyboard
Microsoft Sidewinder X3 Mouse (I really really love this one)
Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro Gameport/USB Joystick
Linksys AE3000 Wireless Adapter
Logitech C270 Webcam
Generic Bluetooth Adapter
Generic HDD Docking Station
Generic USB3 Hub
Hayes External V92 Modem
Epson L130 Inkjet Printer (downgraded from Samsung CP310 laser printer)
Epson V300 Scanner
Nikon Coolscan IV Film Scanner
Tunçmatik 1KVA UPS
Aten CS1734B KVM Switch
Samsung SyncMaster 206BW LCD Display (via KVM)
Logitech Z200 Stereo Speakers (via KVM)
Microsoft Intelli Mouse Optical (via KVM)
Microsoft Wired Keyboard 200 (via KVM)

At work, I use whatever laptop supplied by the company. The current one is a Dell something with I7-7600U CPU, 8GB of RAM with Nvidia 930MX, running Windows 10 64bit. Using that for MS-Office, MS Project, SAP and for checking emails only is a shame actually 🤣

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Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
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Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
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Reply 50 of 97, by AllTinker

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My daily driver for dev work & gaming is an i7-3820 / 16GB / GTX1080 desktop PC, quad-booting Win 7, Win 10, Linux and OS X (all x64 of course). I rarely use Win 10 and OS X - only where necessary basically.

It could do with an upgrade at some point, but it's still fine for most stuff I do/play. It's also reliable, runs cold and (usually completely) silent, which are my top priorities in descending order...

I do enjoy developing for old systems (since I do it for fun), not so much on old systems; although that definitely depends on the context/scope.

Reply 51 of 97, by Katmai500

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Another happy Sandy Bridge user here! 🤣

Main rig that I built in 2011 (with a couple upgrades since then):

Core i7-2600K @ 4.5 GHz on air (CM Hyper 212+)
ASrock Z68 Pro3 motherboard
16 GB DDR3-1600
Radeon RX 580 4GB (Sapphire NITRO+)
500 GB Crucial BX100 SSD + 4TB HDD
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
Antec Three Hundred Case
Corsair CX600 PSU
Dell U2412M 24” IPS 1920x1200 + ASUS 25” TN 1920x1080
Windows 10

I’d like to upgrade, but haven’t really had much reason to with how well the 2600K has fared these past 7 years. The renewed competition from AMD with Ryzen and the move to 8 cores is finally making things interesting again.

Reply 52 of 97, by watson

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CPU: i5 3570K @ 4.0 GHz
MBO: ASRock Z77 Pro3
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16 GB DDR3 1600 MHz CL9
GPU: GeForce GTX 760 2 GB
PSU: Corsair TX650
HDD: Seagate 4 TB + WD Blue 500 GB
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 250 GB
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium SP1

My minimum usability criteria for a PC is being able to watch Youtube and Twitch at 1080p60.
As long my current PC is able to do that, I don't see the need to upgrade to a newer platform.

Reply 53 of 97, by xjas

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Mine has its own thread.

Summary:
Asus P5Q Standard
Xeon E5440 (2.83GHz Quad), LGA775 sticker-modded
8GB PC2-6400, dual-channel
Sapphire HD4670 1GB (best single-slot card I've gotten my hands on so far)
Audigy 2 ZS 5.1 (running all six channels independently into a mixer rather than an "actual" 5.1 setup)
Onboard 5.1 HDA audio w/SPDIF (both active)
PCI parallel port, onboard serial port
Onboard Firewire AND additional Firewire port on the Audigy 2
Adaptec 29160 UW SCSI (66MHz PCI-X card in a 32-bit slot)
USB wireless-G dongle (who needs AC??)

1TB Western Digital boot drive
2 x 2TB Hitachi drives in RAID1 (my home backup storage for a bunch of machines)
SATA DVD+/-RW DL
IDE LS120
IDE Zip100
Front panel CF+SM+MSP+SD+XD+etc. reader

Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon
4U rackmount case

Reads everything
Does everything
Could use a better GPU

Shoutouts to everyone still running LGA775/771 in 2018. 😉

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Reply 54 of 97, by FFXIhealer

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My main PC is my most modern, but not the newest/modernest PC I've ever built. I helped a friend build a new Ryzen-2 based system a month ago.

PURCHASE YEAR: 2015

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K
Motherboard: MSI Z170A Gaming M7 ATX
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600)
Graphics: MSI GeForce GTX 980TI 6GB GDDR5 V1
HDD1: Samsung 256GB SM951 (2280/2280SS) M.2 PCI Express 3.0 x4 SSD AHCI-Mode (2.1GB/s Read, 1.1GB/s Write)
HDD2: SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 1TB SATA III 3D NAND SSD (557MB/s Read, 534 MB/s Write)
HHD3: Seagate BarraCuda STBD3000100 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" HDD (170MB/s Read, 175MB/s Write)
CASE: Antec 1200 ATX Black Steel (2010 purchase)
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 G2 120-G2-1000-XR 80+ GOLD 1000W Fully Modular
OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (Current Build 1803)

Of course, I remember EVERY COMPONENT of EVERY COMPUTER I've ever built for myself or my parents.

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Reply 55 of 97, by 386SX

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xjas wrote:
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Mine has its own thread.

Summary:
Asus P5Q Standard
Xeon E5440 (2.83GHz Quad), LGA775 sticker-modded
8GB PC2-6400, dual-channel
Sapphire HD4670 1GB (best single-slot card I've gotten my hands on so far)
Audigy 2 ZS 5.1 (running all six channels independently into a mixer rather than an "actual" 5.1 setup)
Onboard 5.1 HDA audio w/SPDIF (both active)
PCI parallel port, onboard serial port
Onboard Firewire AND additional Firewire port on the Audigy 2
Adaptec 29160 UW SCSI (66MHz PCI-X card in a 32-bit slot)
USB wireless-G dongle (who needs AC??)

1TB Western Digital boot drive
2 x 2TB Hitachi drives in RAID1 (my home backup storage for a bunch of machines)
SATA DVD+/-RW DL
IDE LS120
IDE Zip100
Front panel CF+SM+MSP+SD+XD+etc. reader

Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon
4U rackmount case

Reads everything
Does everything
Could use a better GPU

Shoutouts to everyone still running LGA775/771 in 2018. 😉

I'm using a Socket 478 in 2018 with the P4 Prescott 3,4Ghz. 😁

Soon I could build a 775 machine and I'd like to ask how fast was the E8500 I read you had before the Xeon? Cause I will probably start from a Pentium D, then a Core 2 E8600 I should receive soon and after that I wlll test the Quad versions.

Reply 56 of 97, by xjas

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^^ it's difficult to say. When I upgraded my E8500 to the Xeon I noticed a distinct improvement in responsiveness doing stuff on the desktop, especially web browsing/youtube. The extra cores & cache gave it a lot more breathing room and stop it getting bogged down. For gaming & single-plus-a-bit-threaded stuff (e.g. running my Matlab code from work), I can't really tell which is faster.

The E8600 has a pretty good clock speed advantage & will probably be great in games which aren't highly-multithreaded. It should still give you a perfectly decent experience, especially coming from a single-core P4. Just don't open like 50 browser tabs at once. Modern web development sucks.

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Reply 57 of 97, by meljor

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I don't even know how long i have this config but i never ever before had a config this long! And still do not feel the need to upgrade:

Asrock p67 board
Intel 2500K @ 4,2ghz
16gb ddr3
AMD Radeon R290 4gb
Samsung ssd 128gb + 2tb worth of harddisks

It will probably get new parts when something breaks, not any time sooner 🤣

EDIT: Just checked: Releasedate for the 2500k was 2011 and i think i got it a year later. Amazing how this thing holds up!

The previous one was a q9550 and i just read that one was from 2008 so 10 years already..... wow..... time flies gentlemen, time flies.

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Reply 58 of 97, by dionb

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Despite most of my stuff being online and my having no problem at all with doing my thing on any system with a suitably decent screen and keyboard (NO chicklets - they were crap on a PET and haven't gotten any better now), I still have two main systems I spend most of my time on.

The 'big' desktop is where I am now:
- Intel Core i7 2600 (non-K)
- Gigabyte mini-ITX So1155 board (I forget exactly which)
- 8GB DDR3
- GeForce GTX960
- 256GB Samsung 830 SSD
- 1TB Hitachi Travelstar 2.5" HDD
- Fractal Design Nano mITX case.
- Dell P2416D QHD monitor
- IBM/Zylux Infinity 6W active speakers (yep, the last surviving parts from my late mother's 1996 Aptiva)
- Leopold FC500R/GBN keyboard with Cherry MX Brown switches and blank black keycaps. Might replace this with one of my Model Ms soon...
- Microsoft Trackball Explorer
I actually play more-or-less modern games on this (the only really contemporary one is World of Tanks), but have so far not seen any reason at all to upgrade from the i7-2600. In fact I only upgraded to that from an i7-860 because I got it for free and needed a system for my daughter.

But this is in the study, all my retro stuff is downstairs in the spare room. All my searching for specs, drivers etc (and a lot of posting here) is done on my favorite laptop:

Lenovo X220
- Core i5 2520M
- 8GB DDR3
- 256MB Samsung SSD (iirc a 840, but not completely sure)
- Intel AC7260 WiFi (which required flashing a different non-whitelist BIOS)
- 12" 1366x768 IPS screen (replacing the awful TN panel originally installed)
- a *real* keyboard, the last laptop I've seen with one. Even Lenovo went with chicklets for the x230 🙁
- usually I actually use the tiny, non-haptic touchpad on the thing. I prefer it to the clit. But if I'm going to be working on it seriously for any period of time, I dig out one of my spare Intellimouse Explorers.
- the biggest 9-cell battery I could buy for it. At first it lasted over 10h, now I'm down to 3 or 4 depending on usage. Soon I'll source a new one.
I've used and abused this laptop for the past four years. It's really starting to show its age (and the fact that Lenovo's build quality isn' quite up to old IBM standards), with cracked plastic casing in various places and worse, something fundamentally wrong with both the charging circuitry and backlight control. For now it's bearable, but I'm contemplating hunting for a backup - they're cheap enough these days and I'd be perfectly happy with one missing various bits or even with damaged screen. Or I'll just splurge maybe EUR 200 and go for a virtually pristine one. Or two.

Reply 59 of 97, by mastergamma12

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My Main Rig has the following
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Intel Core i9 9900K (H115i)
Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master
Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1080 Ti Aorus
G-Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB DDR4 3000
Samsung 960 Pro 512GB NVMe SSD
4TB WD Black
Creative Sound Blaster Z
Corsair AX860
Corsair Vengeance C70

And this is what I've got in my HTPC
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Intel Core i7 8700K @ 4.7GHZ (1.228v) (H100i V2)
EVGA Z370 Micro
Asus Geforce GTX Titan (Will be replacing when I get the chance)
G-Skill Ripjaws V 32GB DDR4 3200
Samsung 960 Evo 250GB NVMe SSD
3TB HGST Ultrastar
Creative Sound Blaster Recon3d Fatal1ty Pro
Cooler Master V850
Corsair Carbide 88R (Dual Front USB 3.0 and Front Mesh Mod)

My laptop's a Lenovo Thinkpad W530.

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The Final Lan Party (My Windows Xp/7 rig) (Core i7 980x, GTX 480,DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8,)
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