Web design / dev rigs

[hargi]

Just wondered what kind of computers and specs you guys are running to do your work? I know there's nothing to taxing really if using filezilla a text editor and that.
Im still using my computer I built 5 years ago and its doing the job,

Gainward BLISS GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) -
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) -
Pioneer DVR-212DBK 18x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black)
Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Antec NSK 6580 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W Earth Watts PSU
OCZ 2GB (4x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series
Western Digital Caviar SE16 400GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
Windows Vista

Im tempted for a bit of a upgrade but dunno really.
I have a macbook for when im out and about or for using fireworks.

Whats your rig?

 

[Pho]

Work PC:

Operating System
	Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit SP1
CPU
	Intel Core i5 2400 @ 3.10GHz	34 °C
	Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
RAM
	8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
	Dell Inc. 06D7TR (CPU 1)
Graphics
	Standard Monitor (1440x900@60Hz)
	ATI Radeon HD 5450 (Dell)
Hard Drives
	60GB ADATA S596 Turbo (SSD)	40 °C
	233GB Western Digital WDC WD2500AAKX-001CA0 (SATA)	35 °C

+ triple screens (tends to be Visual Studio/source control stuff on one, Management Studio on another and a browser on the other).

My SSD has about 300mb free despite mklink'ing several things to my other disk. Need to get a bigger one .

It's fairly similar to yours and perfectly powerful. Might want to up your memory a bit though?

 

[Dj_Jestar]

RAM++; CPU++; SSD++;

The rest is fluff. My work machine (laptop) is i7 3520m with 8GB and a 280GB SSD. The workstations we have are similar, but with at least 16GB Ram. Multiple monitors, too.

 

[Solaris]

3 monitors.
8-Core AMD.
16GB Ram.
3x Striped SSDs.
Over 9 TB of storage drives...

But I develop across a bunch of VMs...

 

[hargi]

How do you get 3 monitors? My video card only has 2 outputs.

Any mechanical keyboards? I'm taking it a ssd with the os will make it load faster. Then put other program's and files on a normall hdd

 

[Pho]

I had to move my PCI-e graphics card into a 4x PCI-E slot and enable it in the BIOS (without doing this I could only use two displays at once regardless of whether it be from motherboard or graphics card) and then use dual DVI on the graphics card for two monitors and the standard VGA on the motherboard for the other.

Someone else in the office just has a USB video card to do it.

 

[reflux]

I'm a web designer so spend most of my days in Photoshop/Illustrator.

Work:

• Core i5 3330, 16GB RAM, 1TB hard disk, 2x 22'' LG IPS (calibrated) LCDs

Home:

• Core i7 2600k, 16GB RAM, Samsung SSD, 1x HP 24'', 1x Dell 22'' LCDs

 

[swinnie]

My Spec is as follows:

i7 2600k 3.40GHz
16GB DDR3 RAM
2 x 120GB Intel 520 SSD's (RAID for OS)
2TB Storage
ATI 6850 Graphics
2 x 21.5" Samsung LCD Screens
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

Development Server
HP Micro Server
5GB DDR3 RAM
250GB OS drive
4TB Storage
Windows Server 2008 R2

 

[djkav]

Home / Gaming / Media Server / Development Rig

i5 2500k @ 4.2ghz
16gb 1600 Ram
1x 256gb SSD (System, Apps)
2x 128gb SSD (Games, Scrap Temp)
1x 3tb HDD (Games, Media, Dev Stuff and trash)
1x BR-rewriter
GTX 580 SoC
Xonar DG
24" 3D vision LCD (soon to be 27" 3D vision LCD)
Windows 8 x64

 

[GravyMonster]

For web development what you need is a half decent processor, lots of memory and MASSES of monitor space. Triple 22s at a minimum IMO. 1 for DB, 1 for code/design, 1 for preview.

 

[hawkhench]

For web development what you need is a half decent processor, lots of memory and MASSES of monitor space. Triple 22s at a minimum IMO. 1 for DB, 1 for code/design, 1 for preview.

I'd go with this, and also make sure you have an SSD for your OS and Photoshop. Massive difference maker.

 

[fez]

Web developer mainly and I use a macbook air 13 with 1.8 i5, 4gb ram 128gb ssd.

Don't need anything more powerful as I tend to shy away from too much design work. Vms for testing don't cause any issue and I hook it up to a 27" high res screen at home. That gives me the macbook screen for the browser and the large screen for code, sql etc. With a high res 27" I can just move stuff around as I need to while still keeping it visible.

 

[hargi]

Cheers for the replys guys, Think i am going to get a new one when the new mobo comes out in june/july and maybe get one with 3 monitors as I can only run 2 at the moment.
Are they any monitors that I should be looking out for or is it just size really for development work?
Should they all be the same size or can I have a larger one in the middle? as I say im running 2 22"Llyama E2208WSV that I picked up cheep the names and models mean nothing to me.

 

[GravyMonster]

You want a monitor which has good colour reproduction - especially if you're using it for design work, and is very clear. Ghosting etc isn't such a massive issue. A thinner bezel can also be helpful if they annoy you.

If you want one large monitor and two smaller, you can go with a 30" or 27" in the center and then a 22" or 20" in portrait on either side.

If you're also doing dev work only, consider three of the same monitor in portrait. This gives much more vertical space which is very handy when coding.

 

[Wayn0r]

Macbook Air 13" 2013
iMac 27" 2.9 ghz Core i5

Use both for doing development and design.

I have no need for masses of ram or space as work is mainly for web.

 

[inogen]

Triple 24 monitor (one colour calibrated)
i5 750
12GB RAM
256GB SSD OS disk
64GB SSD scratch disk
10TB of spinny disks (various backups and also my media)
7850 GPU for Eyefinity fun.

 

[uniQ]

Mac OS X
2 * Dell U2711
16GB RAM
256GB SSD

 

[Cuchulain]

Windows 8
i3 @ stock
16gb ram
2 x 1tb hdd
7850

Does the job but with the 7850 in it's ruining my productivity as I end up sneakily playing Tomb Raider.

 

[hargi]

Holy tread resurrection !

Just wondered if any of you have upgraded now haswell is out?

Think its time for a new one

 

[djkav]

I work from home. So my gaming rig also doubles up as my dev rig.

Windows 8.1 Pro x64,
i5 2500k @ 4.4ghz, 16gb RAM, gtx 580 OC
SSDs: 1x 256gb, 2x 128gb,
HDDs: 1x 4tb, 1x 2tb (usb3 backup),
ODDs: 1x BR rewriter,
A 27" Monitor.

g510s keyboard and g600 mouse. Macros help in applications