Post your configuration / OS /Specs (for fun)

[N2k12]

Its a bit of a longish post. here goes.

My specs:

intel core i3 1015f @4.2ghz
16gb ram @ 3200mhz 19-19-19-40
Asrock RX 6600 8gb GPU @2600mhz
27inch LED Viewsonic Freesync monitor @ 2560x1440 resolution @120hz
Custom windows 11 22h2 build, debloated
Primocache 4gb level 1 caching
Gaming keyboard, Razer Cynosa Chroma, with OpenRGB software to control lighting
Thermaltake Neros Gaming Mouse @1000hz
Ps4 Controller, using DS4Windows
Logitech basic desktop speakers and subwoofer
2x Usb 3 SSD Samsung T5 500gb
1x SSD samsung, 256gb windows drive
1x Nvme drive @ 2.2Gbps
Custom cpu cooler (air)
120mm intake and exhaust fans
2x 200mm top exhaust fans
Process Lasso software for controlling priorities and cpu usage

I think thats all lol

 

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12th Gen Intel© Core™ i3-12100F
32GB (2x16GB) F4-3200CL16D-32GVK Ripjaws V 3200MHz DDR4 RAM
MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT Mech 2x 12GB Video Card
Samsung 970 Evo Plus M.2 500GB (2280) NVMe Solid State Drive
2 x Western Digital Blue 2 Tb hard disk drives

Back up machine:

Core i5-9400F 6 [email protected]
16 Gb Ram @ 2666 Mhz
nVidia 1650 8 Gb graphics card
2 x Western Digital Blue 2 Tb hard disk drives

Both machines run Linux only, haven't wasted my time with Windows in well over a decade.

I still use hard disk drives for security reasons. A drive might die but the actual disk does not and can be easily transferred to a new drive.

 

[Princess Viola]

- Intel Core i5-10300H
- 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) 2933 MHz DDR4 RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti 4GB
- 256 GB M.2 NVME SSD
- 1 TB HDD

I got a budget gaming laptop that cost me sub-$700 a few years back. Should be pretty obvious from the specs where they decided to somewhat cheap out in order to hit that sub-$700 price point (hint: it's the SSD. Also the RAM considering it originally only came with a single 8 GB stick, at least that meant upgrading was easy. Also the HDD is from my previous laptop and didn't come with it).

I really need to upgrade to a 1 TB SSD considering I only got like 55 GB free on it.

 

[Misery]

12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900K 3.19 GHz
32 GB of some sort of ram (I'm too lazy to look that part up)
NVidia GeForce RTX 3090
Some sort of 1 TB SSD drive, again I'm too lazy to look that up

uhhhhh

Here, have a look at the whole thing:

If you're wondering why it's facing that direction, it's because I swap USB cables and such very, very frequently, and that's where the connectors are, so I keep that facing towards me. I aint reaching all the way around the thing just to do that, and there's only a couple of ports on the front (which never get used).

Theoretically the fans can light up in there, but the RGB software was making the fans STOP RUNNING, which I still cannot freaking understand. The system came with SignalRGB installed, and even when it was sorta working at first, it wasnt QUITE working, as it was incapable of actually spotting the fan units within the program. And when I tried to fix that, the whole thing went nuts. I've got little patience for failure when it comes to tech, so I deleted the RGB program. The fans are now always unlit, and I have no idea why the other things ARE lit. Even in sleep mode, those remain lit.

Honestly I have trouble understanding the purpose of RGB lighting anyway. I grew up with old DOS computers, they were perfectly functional without glowing.

As for other parts, I've got a Razer Chroma keyboard (and again, dont really understand the need to light up, it's just always full red for... some reason), and my mouse is actually a vertical mouse. I cant really hold a normal mouse for very long without my arm flaring up. So, when gaming, I always always always use a Switch Pro controller... even when the game in question doesnt support controllers.

My monitor is just a basic thing, so max res is just the old 1920x1080. I couldnt see any purpose in going beyond that. I wouldnt be able to spot any difference between that and higher resolutions.

Sorta the same with the video card. I thought of going for one of the new 4000-whatever Nvidia cards instead, but I couldnt think of an actual reason to do that. Everything already runs at like 5 billion FPS anyway.

This machine is primarily used for gaming and VR, as well as making fractals (and the fractals are the primary reason I wanted a card capable of raytracing, it makes the final render process go a million times faster than what the previous PC could do)

And that's the extent of my knowledge of what this thing is made of. I'm not good with hardware, so most things related to specs go over my head.

 

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If you're wondering why it's facing that direction, it's because I swap USB cables and such very, very frequently, and that's where the connectors are, so I keep that facing towards me. I aint reaching all the way around the thing just to do that, and there's only a couple of ports on the front (which never get used).

I do the same.

 

[N2k12]

some nice builds / setups there !

 

[AO1501]

68LC040 CPU at 33MHz
32mb RAM
8Gb SSD (two 4Gb partitions)
1Mb VRAM/Integrated graphics
17-inch NEC Myutisync LCD monitor
832 x 624 resolution
TKL brown-switch keyboard (via Wombat)

It's 19 pounds dead weight, and runs Mac OS 8.1

 

[Misery]

Never tried? The difference between an old 1080p monitor and a 1440p 165hz monitor is like night and day.

I'm kinda nearsighted. I cant see changes of that size.

Besides, even when I'm using my glasses, at this res the pixels are so absurdly tiny that it just feels unnecessary.

The only real difference it would make to me is enabling the use of DLSS (which doesnt work on monitors of this resolution) but that's not enough to get me to upgrade. I primarily play indie games, I only have one game (Returnal) that could use DLSS. Not that I even know what that does in any case.

Note that my monitor isnt exactly huge. On a much larger monitor, the resolution might be more noticeable, I'm not sure. But a bigger monitor wouldnt fit on this desk.

Honestly this is pretty typical for me. Despite being able to pay for such things easily, I tend not to upgrade anything at all until whatever I already have completely collapses. That's how it was with my previous PC, which finally went down for good a few months ago, prompting me to get this new PC. That old one was absolutely top of the line at the time I got it, but rather weak now, so the difference was staggering, really. Well, sort of. Mostly the *real* difference is RTX capability which is mostly just used in making fractals. Well, no, there is also VR, that runs waaaaaaayyyyy better on this machine. THAT, I will notice things like resolution changes (it's hard not to notice that when it's literally right in your face) and the Index is demanding enough that the previous PC really didnt like it. In normal non-VR games though, the improvement is irrelevant. That's fine though, the fractals and VR are the entire reason I went for the high-end machine here.

The monitor, which I had prior to this new machine, has not yet collapsed... until something starts to go wrong with it, I probably wont consider replacing it.

As it is I usually dont care all that much about graphics anyway, a lot of modern big-budget games look butt-ugly to me. Doesnt exactly inspire a desire to upgrade anything related to visuals.

 

[Misery]

What type of monitor stand do you have? I have an arm for my monitor. It gives you more space as you can slide things under it.

As far as I can tell, the stand or whatever it is, is just part of the monitor itself. It doesnt look like it could come off. So it just sits on the desk.

 

[Judge]

I do the same.

I've always wondered about people who come to that conclusion. Though it's no secret that in any system I build, I want multiple USB-A ports on the front of the computer. And variety is better, with one port dedicated to USB 2.0 and SD drives, and the other two USB 3.0 along with audio output ports.

Then on the back I have two USB 3.0 ports presently unused, two USB 2.0 ports for two printers, and two more USB 2.0 ports on an extension card that also remain vacant. But you never know when you may need ALL of them.

Despite having a rather small, but unique computer case with an inverted motherboard:

https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chassis/TJ08-E/#fgo-down

Having only one such port at the front doesn't cut it. I need two as I frequently archive data to flash drives, and often dedicate them to separate operating systems. Sometimes moving data from one flash drive to another.

 

[Princess Viola]

Ssd is pretty cheap nowadays. I am surprised that people still use hdd+ssd combos for their laptops or pc's. a 1tb nvme is like 70 dollars.

Well like I said, the HDD is from my previous laptop and had all my data on it (well I have the important stuff backed up on a few other drives + in the cloud), so I just started using it cuz why not.

And tbh, if I wanted as much space as possible, I would definitely go for an SSD+HDD combo because, yeah, SSDs are getting cheaper, but like (and this is just an example) I could get a 4 TB HDD for sub-$100 at Best Buy, whereas the cheapest 4 TB SSDs they have are $200. (Of course I'll acknowledge for most people, a terabyte is enough space)

 

[Judge]

And tbh, if I wanted as much space as possible, I would definitely go for an SSD+HDD combo because, yeah, SSDs are getting cheaper, but like (and this is just an example) I could get a 4 TB HDD for sub-$100 at Best Buy, whereas the cheapest 4 TB SSDs they have are $200. (Of course I'll acknowledge for most people, a terabyte is enough space)

Once you go from a HDD to an SSD, you may not want to go back, no matter what the price differential may be.

For me the difference in performance was nothing less than dramatic. Seriously. Not to mention much less heat and virtually no noise. I kind of crack up whenever I use my legacy (Windows XP) computer, built with components indicative of circa 2003. Noisy thing to listen to, with an HDD and non PWM fans.

 

[Princess Viola]

Once you go from a HDD to an SSD, you may not want to go back, no matter what the price differential may be.

For me the difference in performance was nothing less than dramatic. Seriously. Not to mention much less heat and virtually no noise. I kind of crack up whenever I use my legacy (Windows XP) computer, built with components indicative of circa 2003. Noisy thing to listen to, with an HDD and non PWM fans.

My laptop already has an SSD. I quite literally said that my laptop has both a 256 GB SSD and a 1TB HDD.

 

[Judge]

My laptop already has an SSD. I quite literally said that my laptop has both a 256 GB SSD and a 1TB HDD.

You mean a solid state hybrid drive or two separate drive bays for both?

 

[Princess Viola]

You mean a solid state hybrid drive or two separate drive bays for both?

Two separate bays.

There was the M.2 slot that was already populated with the 256 GB NVME drive my laptop came with and an empty 2.5 inch drive bay (well 'empty' it had one of those plastic filler pieces it but there wasn't any actual drive in it) I used for my old hard drive.

 

[Judge]

Two separate bays.

There was the M.2 slot that was already populated with the 256 GB NVME drive my laptop came with and an empty 2.5 inch drive bay (well 'empty' it had one of those plastic filler pieces it but there wasn't any actual drive in it) I used for my old hard drive.

I see. Thanks for clarifying. Yes, that's considerably a different matter! Where the HDD is just for storage but the NVME is to cache frequently used data and does so very fast in such circumstances. Though personally I prefer the exclusive use of an SSD, especially with regards to laptops given less heat and less noise.