Poll: What is inside your PC, and what is its purpose?

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Wolfram23

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I mostly use mine for gaming, but obviously do a little of everything.

SPECS:
Antec 902 case
i5 750 @ 3.7ghz ->4.25ghz turbo (Zalman CNPS10X Extreme heat sink)
ASUS P7P55D PRO mobo
8GB Patriot Viper II Sector 5 RAM
Two 500GB Seagate HDDs in RAID 0
Intel X25 M 80GB SSD (boot drive, apps, plus a few games - New Vegas is on there :D)
Windows 7 64 bit

Two reference model Saphire 5850s OCed to 870/1200, with Scythe Setsugen quiet coolers
An EVGA GT 240 for PhysX

AuzenTech Bravura 7.1 sound card, with Logitech X540 5.1 speakers + Altec Lansing 2.1 speakers. Also, Sennheiser PC350 headset.

Logitech wireless keyboard and laser mouse.
Logitech MOMO Racing force feedback wheel.
I have a hacked driver so I can also use my PS3 controller as a gamepad.

Samsung 2494SW 1920x1080 monitor.
 
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Aphex Demon said:
So yeah, Escapists, what are your PC Rigs? Add in some accesories too, like monitor, joystick, cool mouse (e.g razor) etc etc...

Il have to tell you myne off the top of my head, im at work so Xfire.com is blocked. Regarding its around 2 - 3 Years old;

Asus 'Black Pearl' Motherboard
4GB Ram DDR2 (2x2gb)
Nvidia 9800GT 512Mb
Intel 3.2ghz Quad Core
750GB(ish) HDD Total.

19" 4:3 Monitor (LCD)
5.1 Philips Surround Sound
Saitek X52 Joystick
Momo Logitech Wheel and Pedals
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GO!

For those who want to check out there setups, go on here, its pretty self explanitory what to do, http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/CYRI/
You know a Mac can do all of the things you listed...some people have different computers than other people for different reasons. I don't get why this PC v.s. Mac thing is still going on.

Anyway I have both a Mac and a PC and I use it for all of the above.
 

Wolfram23

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Nautical Honors Society said:
Aphex Demon said:
So yeah, Escapists, what are your PC Rigs? Add in some accesories too, like monitor, joystick, cool mouse (e.g razor) etc etc...

Il have to tell you myne off the top of my head, im at work so Xfire.com is blocked. Regarding its around 2 - 3 Years old;

Asus 'Black Pearl' Motherboard
4GB Ram DDR2 (2x2gb)
Nvidia 9800GT 512Mb
Intel 3.2ghz Quad Core
750GB(ish) HDD Total.

19" 4:3 Monitor (LCD)
5.1 Philips Surround Sound
Saitek X52 Joystick
Momo Logitech Wheel and Pedals
________________________________

GO!

For those who want to check out there setups, go on here, its pretty self explanitory what to do, http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/CYRI/
You know a Mac can do all of the things you listed...some people have different computers than other people for different reasons. I don't get why this PC v.s. Mac thing is still going on.

Anyway I have both a Mac and a PC and I use it for all of the above.
The topic is "what's inside your PC?". Macs aren't PCs, they're Macs. And the customizing on them is horrendously limited. And they rarely come with any kind of gaming capabilities as far as graphic horsepower goes, but on top of that, the game selection that's compatible is quite limited and mostly you can only be a gamer on a Mac with Bootcamp which is kind of a whole nother can of worms.

Regardless, this wasn't even a PC vs Mac thread. You need to get your head out of... the sand.
 

TehCookie

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Inside my PC is a piece of felt. I lost a screw to the fan and it started to vibrate against the case to make a really annoying sound. The felt muffles it. Take that all of you and your fancy computers!
 
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Wolfram01 said:
Nautical Honors Society said:
Aphex Demon said:
So yeah, Escapists, what are your PC Rigs? Add in some accesories too, like monitor, joystick, cool mouse (e.g razor) etc etc...

Il have to tell you myne off the top of my head, im at work so Xfire.com is blocked. Regarding its around 2 - 3 Years old;

Asus 'Black Pearl' Motherboard
4GB Ram DDR2 (2x2gb)
Nvidia 9800GT 512Mb
Intel 3.2ghz Quad Core
750GB(ish) HDD Total.

19" 4:3 Monitor (LCD)
5.1 Philips Surround Sound
Saitek X52 Joystick
Momo Logitech Wheel and Pedals
________________________________

GO!

For those who want to check out there setups, go on here, its pretty self explanitory what to do, http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/CYRI/
You know a Mac can do all of the things you listed...some people have different computers than other people for different reasons. I don't get why this PC v.s. Mac thing is still going on.

Anyway I have both a Mac and a PC and I use it for all of the above.
The topic is "what's inside your PC?". Macs aren't PCs, they're Macs. And the customizing on them is horrendously limited. And they rarely come with any kind of gaming capabilities as far as graphic horsepower goes, but on top of that, the game selection that's compatible is quite limited and mostly you can only be a gamer on a Mac with Bootcamp which is kind of a whole nother can of worms.

Regardless, this wasn't even a PC vs Mac thread. You need to get your head out of... the sand.
Get my head out of ... the sand? Haha

Wow. Ok ignoring your improper use of an ellipses I guess I will respond.

I know the title of the thread, I was just saying there was no need for the "I have a Mac" section of the poll.

Yes I know you will argue "what do you mean? It's for people with mac! Get your head out of... the sand"

But I am simply saying that selection was added with a purpose of starting trouble.
 

tahrey

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Done this all before enough times, so...

Home: Pentium-M 740, 1Gb DDR-533 dual channel (to be maxed to 2Gb if I can be bothered), i915 chipset including graphics, 120Gb 5400rpm ATA133 disk blah blah blah. Internets and media, was bought for work purposes but I happily ditched having to do lots of MS Office grinding for my wage about a year after buying it.

Work: Core2Duo T8100, apparently running in single core (and generally crippled and shitty) mode because of that wonderful thing MS built into their OS that means the ACPI computer type the image is built with, is the one you're permanently saddled with, as it's integrated into the very kernel. Our image was built on a single core and I suspect non-ACPI PC...
Also 3Gb RAM (useful on a resource-sucking domain-based network) and some kind of Intel GMA thing that doesn't seem significantly more beefy than my old i915...
Used for work and internets. And again digital media hacking-around, but for more productive reasons and from different sources.
 

Saulkar

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I have a laptop from Malibal
Windows 7
Intel I7 860 overclocked to 3.0ghz
8 Gigabytes of ram at 1333mhz
2 Gefore 285m 1gb in sli
And everything in between.

I use it for gaming, 3ds Max, Photoshop CS5 and Painter 11.
 

Pielikey

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there's a creeper next to my computer and it's sole purpose is to protect it from being stolen.

Also
I have an ATI 4850 HD Graphics card (Which I hope to replace with an NVidia because this thing has been giving me shit since Day one)
A Phenom II X2 3.1 Ghz Processor-Black Edition
A very pathetic 2 GB of DDR3 RAM
a motherboard. (I don't remember! ASUS r34t45eyrghbtre5tr4f3ewqgf-X-TREMEEEE or something like that)
A 750 Watt Power Supply
Peice-of-Shit Motherboard Network Card
a 23" 16:9 Monitor (HANNS-G or something like that)
Lol-gitech G11 keyboard
Rage-tastic Logitech G35
And a Logitech G9 Mouse.

EDIT: And it's a gaming rig. That's pretty much all it does. But it can run Microsoft Word like nobody's business.
 

Sabiancym

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Case: Corsair 800D
MOBO: ASUS P6T Deluxe V1
CPU: Intel I7 920 @ 4.0ghz
RAM: Corsair Dominator 6gb
GPU: XFX Radeon 5970 Black Edition
Sound Card: X-Fi Titanium 7.1

The whole thing is watercooled. GPU and CPU have their own loops.

3 24" ASUS monitors in Eyefinity
Logitech G19 Keyboard
Logitech MX518 Keyboard
 

redisforever

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Well, i have quite a good laptop, especially for the price. Well, I can run Half-Life 2 on highest graphics at 50 FPS.

AMD V120 Processor, 2.2GHz
3GB DDR3 Ram
320 GB HDD
2TB external HDD
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 Graphics, 1.5GB memory
15.6" HD LED Screen

I'm reading this off the label.

All this, $325.
 

RanD00M

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Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz
3 Gigs of Ram
Video card is ATI Radeon Graphics Processor
 

Yellowbeard

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Gigabyte 8IK1100 Motherboard
Purpose: to amuse with risible engrish translation in the BIOS and documentation

Pentium 4 2.4 GHz Northwood
Purpose: to help the northbridge keep the motherboard warm

1.5 gigs of mixed Infineon and Patriot DDR400
Purpose: to refuse even a 15 MHz overclock

Sapphire Radeon x1650 pro 512 MB
Purpose: to keep my power supply busy and run my 1998-2002 era games flawlessly, but choke on Half Life 2: Lost Coast

Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Digital OEM
Purpose: To refuse any driver newer than 1.0.0.0.0.0.0....0. Just in case I thought I could get away with the OEM bit.

A bunch of cheap or scavenged fans from 40 mm to 100 mm
Purpose: to unsatisfactorily cool the hardware in spite of careful ducting and produce a cacophony of whirring

Vantec Ion 400 Watt (or 500 watt peak) dual-fan power supply
Purpose: To supply the +5 volt rail with a steady 4.2