Post your build/setup here!

[ItsMeeYourDaddy]

Condolences for your loss.

I'd disagree with your assessment though. I'd prefer a bigger SSD myself, and you could plan on upgrading to 16 GB of RAM eventually. But I don't see anything there that I'd characterize as "bad parts." It's just a typical midrange AMD build with a big ol' GPU like people tend to enjoy having.

Thank you for the condolences. As far as "bad" goes, I meant to say, some parts you wouldn't usually with the others. Im bad with words sometimes.

 

[ItsMeeYourDaddy]

bump

 

[Ruptga]

bump

If you're looking for actual advice you need to read this then post here.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Nice, what are you running in there, and what for?

All home related stuff, file storage, email, VMs, home automation (need to expand that some more, only doing hvac and some basic temp monitoring now). My network is kinda overkill but it's highly configurable. Got vlans for various purposes etc. Running pfsense for the firewall.

Got a UO and Minecraft server too, but not really much traffic.

Essentially it's kinda my own "cloud" so to speak. If my ISP provided static IPs and allowed web servers I'd probably host all my web stuff there too. Save a lot of money per month while gaining more control.

First rack is where most of the stuff is, second rack is practically empty, it just has the UPS (eventually rectifiers/inverters will go there), and 3rd rack is for the batteries.

 

[Staples]

http://imgur.com/a/IR3TN

Not my main computer but the one I find easy to take a picture of.

 

[Mayne]

http://imgur.com/a/IR3TN

Not my main computer but the one I find easy to take a picture of.

can you run gpu intense games on that setup?

 

[Nhirlathothep]

can you run gpu intense games on that setup?

wow, great question

 

[madoka]

I spent a summer renovating a house..made 10 grand..so of course I had to get a computer

So just for giggles, if Mayne invested his $10K in Apple stock back in summer 1998 instead of a gaming computer and beer, how much money would he have now?

 

[Mayne]

So just for giggles, if Mayne invested his $10K in Apple stock back in summer 1998 instead of a gaming computer and beer, how much money would he have now?

this is going to haunt me for the rest of the day.

 

[madoka]

So just for giggles, if Mayne invested his $10K in Apple stock back in summer 1998 instead of a gaming computer and beer, how much money would he have now?

The closest I found was this article from a couple of years ago:

http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/10/investing/apple-stock-investors-1-million/

These guys bought 100 for $3400, so Mayne would have been able to buy 294 shares with his $10K. So back in 2014, he would have had over $1 million in Apple stock for his initial investment.

Trade confirmations shared with CNNMoney show that the couple purchased 100 shares of Apple (then called Apple Computer Inc.) at $34 a piece in 1998.

Taking into account Apple's stock splits (there was a 2-for-1 split in 2000 and again in 2005, as well as the 7-for-1 split this past June), that sole order of 100 shares translates to 2,800 shares today.

Given the current Apple price of around $131, those shares are now worth about $367,000. Subtracting their initial $3,400 investment leaves a massive profit of $363,400 -- from that trade alone.

 

[madoka]

this is going to haunt me for the rest of the day.

Sure you could be sitting on a million dollars today. But think of all the gaming and drinking you were able to do that summer. Good times.

 

[Mayne]

Sure you could be sitting on a million dollars today. But think of all the gaming and drinking you were able to do that summer. Good times.

hey carmaggedon was worth it

 

[Staples]

can you run gpu intense games on that setup?

These are Intel integrated graphics so they are very weak. I can run some very "optimized" games but that is about it. Think of these small boxes like laptops. The only thing you can upgrade is their RAM and SSD.

 

[Nhirlathothep]

These are Intel integrated graphics so they are very weak. I can run some very "optimized" games but that is about it. Think of these small boxes like laptops. The only thing you can upgrade is their RAM and SSD.

Intel NUC is one of the most famous pc in the world

 

[Chaotic42]

IIRC, my first build was an Abit AX5 with a Cyrix 166, 16MB of memory, and a Riva 128 PCI card on a 15" CRT

Currently,

Gaming:
CPU - Core i7 4790k
Memory - 32GB DDR3
GPU - GTX 980Ti + Quadro K1200
Storage - 480GB NVMe + 120GB SSD + 800GB Hard Disk
Monitors - 2x3440x1440 + 2x1600x2560

School / Development / Research:
CPU - Core i5 6600
Memory - 32GB DDR3
GPU - Quadro K1200
Storage - 256GB SSD + 2TB Hard Disk
Monitors - 1x3440x1440 + 1x1920x1200

I'm going to put the 2560x1600s over on the dev machine at some point.

 

[jpal251]

I think my first build was a Cyrix 166 to replace my Packard Bell 486, with 16 MB of ram iirc. I sold it later to build a Pentium 400. How many here remember the Cyrix CPUs?

I remember but I went with a k6 instead

 

[Mai72]

PCs are so 2005. It's all about the smartphone now.

 

[ItsMeeYourDaddy]

WOW! All these great builds. Lets keep it coming.

 

[Sonikku]

Windows 7-64
Fractal R4 Case
ACER H77m Socket 1155 motherboard
8gb GSKILL DDR 3 ram
i5 2500 Sandy Bridge
EVGA 600 watt Silver PSU
EVO 212 cooler
Crucial 256GB SSD
Seagate 500gb HDD
Radeon 7770

 

[fralexandr]

Windows 10 pro
Antec 300 Illusion
EVGA H55
i7 860
Zalman CNPS7000C-AlCu
2x4GB DDR3 1333 Ripjaws 9-9-9-24 1.5V
Corsair Force 3 90GB
Seagate 7200.12 1TB ST31000528S 7200RPM 32MB
HIS 7870 GHz
Corsair VX 450
LG Bluray Reader
802.11N dualband WIFI

Kone Pure Mouse
Logitech Wave Keyboard
HP L2201x Monitor
Swan M10 Speakers

 

[zerocool84]

I haven't built a system since the ATI 5870 I bought was new so it's been a while.

 

[TwiceOver]

Dual Octocore 1.8ghz Xeons, 64gb memory, some sort of nvidia card, big power supply. Intel SSD of some kind and 3x 2tb drives in raid5.

 

[Crono]

CPU: Intel i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB
RAM: Avexir DDR4-3000 8GB (about to swap out for blue LED 16GB Geil Super Luce or Avexir Core this week)
GPU: XFX R9 390
PSU: FSP Hydro G 850W
Case: InWin 303 (black)
Cooling: BeQuiet! PURE ROCK cpu cooler, 3x Thermaltake Riing 120mm RGB, 4x Xigmatek XOF-F1253 120mm
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit/Xubuntu 16.04 (dual boot)
Monitor: 24" Dell UltraSharp U2412M (1920 x 1200)

 

[Xstatic1]

Dunno the specifics, but hubby built my gaming computer a couple years ago (around the time I started wanting to shoot zombies :biggrin.

This is what I do know:
Intel processor
Corsair power supply
Sapphire graphics/video card
ASUS motherboard
Crucial Memory SSD hard drive
HyperX RAM
Samsung portable DVD writer

The items not shown are my NEC monitor, Logitech speakers, Logitech mouse (Logitech is my go-to brand for mice :thumbsup: ), and Razer chiclet keyboard.

 

[AdamK47]

PCs are so 2005. It's all about the smartphone now.

I know what you mean. Who needs a computer? I spend my day at work on my cell phone using Visual Studio or Eclipse for software development. Then when I get home I simply launch Overwatch or Doom (2016) on my smartphone. It all works so well.