Poll: Your PC, and why you picked it.

[Captain Pancake]

Store bought, unfortunately. I wouldn't know how to build my own.

I have a video with pics of my computer! As I enjoy shameless gloating I will post it:
(I hate my own voice)

Thermal paste? Are you a Ghostbuster?

Yes, how did you know?

It was when you started talking about crossing the streams that kind of gave it away.

 

[Epifols]

I built my own, with a lot of frutration, bloodshed (literally) and swearing.

I just found out all the components I needed, DVD drive, gfx card, motherboard blah blah, and picked random ones and threw them together, the gods were on my side that week as it all worked together fine.

Sounds exactly like my first couple PCs, as well.

But I've not yet figured out how to do the same for laptops, so that one came straight from Dell.

 

[rosemystica]

My mom and stepfather gave me my laptop a couple of years ago. It was a birthday present. It does everything I need it to do.

It's an HP Pavilion. The only problem I've had with it is the fact that a power cord got frayed, but I just bought a new one.

 

[Hashime]

I built my own, with a lot of frutration, bloodshed (literally) and swearing.

I just found out all the components I needed, DVD drive, gfx card, motherboard blah blah, and picked random ones and threw them together, the gods were on my side that week as it all worked together fine.

How did you cut yourself? I did it when pushing out a blanking plate on my case.

 

[Enigmers]

I built mine myself, here are the parts I can remember:
AMD Athlon X2 5000+ Black Edition - easy overclock, decent speed to begin with, came in a bundle with the mothreboard.
nVidia GeForce 8600 GT - relatively cheap at the time (90$) with 512 megabytes of VRAM, very nice.
The ram and case etc. are nothing special. I built it myself and it was really easy to build owing to the fact that the thermal paste was directly on the CPU cooler when I bought it.

I built my own, with a lot of frutration, bloodshed (literally) and swearing.

I just found out all the components I needed, DVD drive, gfx card, motherboard blah blah, and picked random ones and threw them together, the gods were on my side that week as it all worked together fine.

How did you cut yourself? I did it when pushing out a blanking plate on my case.

Oooh, me! I tried to pull out an old CD drive to replace with a dvd drive and hit the back of my hand, near my pinky-knuckle, right on the corner of my graphics card. It hurt.

 

[Iznat]

I had Dell make it for me

It's an Inspiron 15, with a 150GB hard drive (small, I know >_>), 2GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series, with the 9 cell battery that needs, Intel Celeron CPU, and lots and lots of love

No, really, I love this thing to death. It'll run just about everything (bar Crysis) as long as I keep the anti aliasing off, and it's super fast and quiet. I got it in January though, so that might be why
The only thing I;d really cahnge about this laptop would be the hard drive (but I could get an external) and maybe 1-2GB more RAM. But only if I had the cash and was being all finikity about it.

If I ever wanted/needed a desktop, I'd build my own though, and I'd have a WALL-E case mod.

Spoiler

 

[Aesir23]

I was given my PC for Christmas of 2008. It was definitely an improvement since my old PC was NINE YEARS OLD!

 

[Lordmarkus]

I was given a MacBook Pro for my birthday/graduation.

(I understand that flaws of both PC and Mac and I have both a PC and Mac, I just like Mac laptops, please don't flame me *hides*)

I'll embrace you brother!

I might be an elitist dick, but portable windows computers just looks and feels horrible and goes extremely slow.

Have an 13' MacBook Pro which I love and a custom built desktop.

Spoiler: Specs

AMD Phenom II X4 3,2 GHz. Was the strongest one without buying an i7 or i5.

Powercolour Radeon 5750 1 GB. Not the strongest but it works, might consider overclocking when it starts to cough up hardware blood.

Crucial DDR3 1333 MHz 4 GB. Crucial good. 4 GB good. 'nuf said.

Asus M4A785TD-V EVO. Too much of a tard too know what an expensive motherboard do so I took the cheapest.

Corsair 550 W. Corsair = Great and over 500 W.

Had mine built for me in an online shop so I didn't have to buy a box OS and of lazyness.

 

[Hashime]

I built mine myself, here are the parts I can remember:
AMD Athlon X2 5000+ Black Edition - easy overclock, decent speed to begin with, came in a bundle with the mothreboard.
nVidia GeForce 8600 GT - relatively cheap at the time (90$) with 512 megabytes of VRAM, very nice.
The ram and case etc. are nothing special. I built it myself and it was really easy to build owing to the fact that the thermal paste was directly on the CPU cooler when I bought it.

I built my own, with a lot of frutration, bloodshed (literally) and swearing.

I just found out all the components I needed, DVD drive, gfx card, motherboard blah blah, and picked random ones and threw them together, the gods were on my side that week as it all worked together fine.

How did you cut yourself? I did it when pushing out a blanking plate on my case.

Oooh, me! I tried to pull out an old CD drive to replace with a dvd drive and hit the back of my hand, near my pinky-knuckle, right on the corner of my graphics card. It hurt.

That is an epic nerd story! (in a good way if I was unclear)

 

[reg42]

Um well I payed a company for all the parts and they put it together for me. Since then I've upgraded a bit, and I'm hoping to upgrade my motherboard soon because it's getting pretty dated.

Spoiler: As of now my PC is like this

CPU - Core 2 Duo 2.53GHz
RAM - 4GB DDR2-667
Motherboard - Foxconn 45CMX/45GMX/45CMX-K
Moniter - Samsung SyncMaster 920nw
Graphics card - 9500GT (1 GB)
HDD - A 160GB as my main HDD and a 1,5TB as storage

I think that about covers it.

 

[wooty]

I built mine myself, here are the parts I can remember:
AMD Athlon X2 5000+ Black Edition - easy overclock, decent speed to begin with, came in a bundle with the mothreboard.
nVidia GeForce 8600 GT - relatively cheap at the time (90$) with 512 megabytes of VRAM, very nice.
The ram and case etc. are nothing special. I built it myself and it was really easy to build owing to the fact that the thermal paste was directly on the CPU cooler when I bought it.

I built my own, with a lot of frutration, bloodshed (literally) and swearing.

I just found out all the components I needed, DVD drive, gfx card, motherboard blah blah, and picked random ones and threw them together, the gods were on my side that week as it all worked together fine.

How did you cut yourself? I did it when pushing out a blanking plate on my case.

Oooh, me! I tried to pull out an old CD drive to replace with a dvd drive and hit the back of my hand, near my pinky-knuckle, right on the corner of my graphics card. It hurt.

If you meant me, I slipped with the screwdriver when trying to get a particularly tough screw in the motherboard, my own fault really

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

AMD Phenom II X4 940 - chosen because of superb performance and ease of overclocking.

Asus M4A79 DELUXE 790FX - chosen on the strength of review and overall board layout. Quality on-board audio was a plus as well.

Radeon 4870 (1 GB video gram) - Based on a price/performance comparison. It was a sub 200 USD card at the time and no other card in that price range offered comperable performance.

Antec 900 - Excellent design, ease of access and above average looks were all I really needed.

Win 7 RC - It was free at the time for testing purposes. It was later upgraded to Win7 Pro, which was also free thanks to my company's partnership with Microsoft.

 

[Kei Kaemon]

CPU: i7-930
Motherboard: ASUS P6X58D
Ram: 6GB DDR3
GPU: ATi HD 5770
HDD1: 750GB Western Digital Caviar Black 7200RPM
HDD2: 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green
Screen: 22" 1080p Asus
Drives: DVD and Blu-ray

I like my computer, its not top of the line, but it plays all games now at good settings. Probably will throw in another GPU sooner or later.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I put my own together a few years ago. I can't be bothered to go into great detail about it(I couldn't name the mobo or RAM without looking into it).

But...basically this:

Q6600
BFG Geforce 8800 gtx
4GB Ram

Still decent.