I would require a thread titled something like: "Sheepishly Admit How Pathetic Your Hardware Setup Is Here..." But I was once told it's how you use what you've got that matters.
CPU Intel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E Extreme Edition 3.0GHz 20MB Retail Box - NO FAN Motherboard Asus Rampage V Extreme LGA2011-3 ATX Motherboard RAM Corsair 16GB Kit (4x4GB) DDR4 Dominator Platinum C16 2800MHz OS Drive Samsung 850 Pro Series 2.5" 512GB SSD Graphics Card Asus GeForce GTX980 STRIX 4GB GDDR5 DVI HDMI 3x DisplayPort Case Corsair Graphite 760T Black Full Tower w/Full Window Side Panel Operating System Microsoft Windows 8.1 Professional OEM 64Bit
A bit of an update on my rig. I upgraded to a Gigabyte GTX G1 970 about a month and a half ago. I made a custom bios to disable boost and bake in my overclock of 1544MHz core, 3856MHz memory. I still have one of my 650 Ti Boosts installed and dedicated to physx processing. Once I beat Mirror's Edge and Metro Last Light, I'll be selling both of my boosts. The money might go towards a second 970 Additionally, I've acquired some free hardware from some friends and with the stuff I had laying around, I was able to piece together a pc that will be dedicated to a server. I needed some ram for it however so I'm moving the ram from my desktop to the server and using it as an excuse to upgrade to a set of 16Gb G.Skill Trident X 2400MHz ram. Can't wait for it to arrive!
Intel® Core™ i7-4790 processor 16GB DDR3 memory 2TB Serial ATA hard drive (7200 rpm) Intel on Motherboard somekinda weak GPU with direct HDMI port Dead on Arrival Nvidia GTX 760 Assembled and tested with Quality Control by ASUSASS Distributed By ASUS USA Mothership ASUS The best $500 PC that over $1,000 can buy. Selected and purchased by hawki DUMBASS Is a new Replacement PC provided by Best Buy under their 30-day ASUS Replacement Policy (Bless their hearts) Replaces: Intel® Core™ i7-4790 processor 16GB DDR3 memory 2TB Serial ATA hard drive (7200 rpm) Intel on Motherboard somekinda weak GPU with direct HDMI port Dead on Arrival Nvidia GTX 760 Assembled and tested with Quality Control by ASUSASS Distributed By ASUS USA Mothership ASUS The best $500 PC that over $1,000 can buy. Selected and purchased by hawki DUMBASS
Upgraded: Gigabyte P35 DS3L Intel Q8200 8GB DDR2 PC6400 5-5-5-18 AMD R9 280X WD Velociraptor 250GB & WD 250GB
Finally got a new case and CPU cooler for my server. Went with a Lian-Li V354 and Phanteks PH-TC12LS. I'm very impressed with the quality of the case. Lian Li will be my go to for cases in the future. So far, the cooler seems to do a decent job. Nothing amazing but you can't expect great temps from a low profile cooler. It has quite a bit of headroom for some overclocking though
Apple iMac MA590LL [17" 1440x900]: 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2.25 GB 667MHz DDR2 160GB HDD ATI Radeon X1600 @ 128 MB
Typing this on... Raspberry Pi B+ 512 MB RAM 700 Mz single core ARM6 CPU Running Raspbian (Wheezy) on an 8 GB micro SD card I love this thing! Individual applications are (predictably) rather slow, but multitasking is quite reasonably snappy. Meanwhile the Pi uses < 10 watts and doesn't even get warm. It reminds me of my first experiences with Classic Mac (OS 8.6), just without the crashes and nuisance value. Have I mentioned it cost me less than $60 all told? Would definitely buy again. Heck, I'd buy half a dozen.
Removed my internal Blu-Ray drive from my gaming laptop and put it into an USB enclosure. Now need to find an OptiBay caddy and laptop HDD to put in that space. Too bad it's extremely difficult to find locally in Vancouver. Also got a JBL Spark Wireless Bluetooth Speaker and using it with my laptop internal speakers thanks to Voicemeeter.
CPU Intel Core i7-5930K Processor (15M Cache, up to 3.70 GHz) CPU Cooler Corsair Hydro Series H100i Liquid CPU Cooler Motherboard Gigabyte GA-X99-UD4 ATX Motherboard, LGA2011-3 / Intel X99 / 8x DDR4 / PCI-E 3.0 / 1 x Gigabit LAN/ 10 x SATA3 / 10 x USB 3.0 / 7.1ch audio / RAID / CrossfireX / SLI Memory Crucial 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 2133 Desktop RAM Solid State Drive Samsung 850 EVO 500GB Internal Solid State Drive(SSD), 3D V-NAND, SATA III 6GB/s, R/W(Max) 540MB/s/520MB/s, 98K/90K IOPS, 2.5". 7mm, 5 Years Warranty Hard Drive Seagate SSHD ST2000DX001 2TB 3.5" Desktop Internal Hybird Hard Drive. 64MB Cache 8GB Nand, SATA 6.0Gb/s Graphics Card 2x Gigabyte GTX980 G1 Gaming Graphics Card / PCIE 3.0 / 4GB GDDR5 / 256 bit / DVI-I / DVI-D / HDMI / 3 x DP / WINFORCE FAN 600W OUT / DX 12 / G-SYNC Optical drive Samsung internal CD/DVD Burner Case Thermaltake Core V71 Full-Tower Chassis Power Supply Thermaltake Tough Power TP-850M Gold 850W Power Supply - 80 Plus Gold, Active PFC, 5 Years WTY ( SP-TTP850W ) Cable Kit Corsair Black Gen2 Sleeved Modular Cable Kit for AXI, AX, HX, TXM, CXM and RM Series
DVD+R, Impressive. What is your favourite thermal paste and how do you apply it to the CPU? Just interested.
never used anything but Arctic Cooling MX-4 and it's never had a problem with maximum cooling, once this stuff has burned in, it's hard to beat, Also I apply a center spot, and spread to the 4 corners with a Guitar plectrum or even an old credit card or similar, this gives an even distribution over the entire CPU. The paste layer thickness extremely thin
Sager NP8235 Laptop Dell S234 24" IPS LED Secondary display 120Gb Samsung Evo Pro SSD main drive 750Gb Western Digital Blue 7200RPM secondary drive Intel i7 4700MQ 2.4Ghz CPU 12Gbs DDR3 1600Mhz NVIDIA GTX770 3Gb GDDR3 GPU Shure SRH750DJ Headphones with Antlion ModMic Razer Blackwidow Chroma Keyboard Logitech G700S wireless laser gaming mouse Thermaltake Massive 14 laptop cooler Schiit Wyrd, Schiit Modi, Schiit Vali (Headphone Amp/DAC combo) Lenovo IX2-DL NAS with 2TB RAID1 Storage
Replaced Blu-ray ROM with 500 GB OptiBay. Placed laptop optical drive in external enclosure. See screenshot:
Linux Cruncher CPU 2x Intel Xeon E5645 (12 cores/24 threads @ 2.40 GHz) CPU Cooler DangerDen Liquid CPU Coolers Motherboard ASUS Z8NA-D6 ATX Motherboard, LGA1366 / Intel 5500 / 6x DDR3 / 2xGigabit LAN Memory Crucial 12GB (6x2GB) DDR3 1333 ECC RAM Solid State Drive Intel 80GB SSD Hard Drive HGST 1TB Graphics Card EVGA GTX470 Optical drive Sony/NEC internal CD/DVD Burner Case CoolerMaster Stacker Full-Tower Chassis Power Supply PC Power & Cooling 750W Cooling Custom Water Cooling Dual Radiator & Pump for 2xCPUs and GPU OS CentOS 7.1 Main Workstation CPU Intel Core i7 990 Extreme (6 cores/12 threads @ 3.60 GHz) CPU Cooler EK Supreme HF Liquid CPU Cooler Motherboard Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R ATX Motherboard, LGA1366 / Intel X58 / 6x DDR3 / 2xGigabit LAN Memory OCZ 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 1866 RAM Solid State Drive Samsung EVO 120GB SSD Graphics Card EVGA GTX580 Optical drive Samsung internal CD/DVD Burner Case CoolerMaster Stacker II Full-Tower Chassis Power Supply PC Power & Cooling 750W Cooling Custom Water Cooling Dual Radiator & Pump for CPU and GPU OS Windows 8.1 x64 UTM CPU Intel Core i3 4150 (2 cores/4 threads @ 3.50 GHz) CPU Cooler Corsair H55 Hydro Motherboard Gigabyte GA-Z97N-WIFI mITX Motherboard, LGA1150 / Intel Z97 / 2x DDR3 / 2xGigabit LAN Memory Team Extreme 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 RAM Solid State Drive Kingston 120GB SSD Case Lian Li PC-Q01 Power Supply Seasonic G-series 380W Gold OS Sophos UTM 9.309 Home
Actually I'm using 2 SSD now with 750GB data HDD. The old one couldn't be cloned to the new one for whatever reason, so I use my new one for games, virtual machines, music, and whatnot. I swear, the virtual machines are like 5x faster now, with no more lag compared to using my old data HDD.
+1. I have one VM set on SSD (Windows 8.1) and it is much faster than other VMs set on HDD. It's almost as fast as my host system.