What Hardware/Machines you got and what do you use them for

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Dunno if this is the correct place for this

Basically its to get idea of how many machines you lot have and what you use them for

I like these threads as its great to really see the range of what people use and how much Hardware they actually have...lol
 
Main machine =
4Ghz 920 D0
12gb 1600 Ripjaw
2x Vertex 2E 120GB Raid 0
2x WD 500gb Raid 1
2x Seagate 1.5tb Raid 1
2x Wd Green 1tb Raid 1
Radeon 5970
Asus Xonar , Corsair 1000W psu, All systems use Win 7 pro 64
P6T SE
Use is mainly for gaming and encoding

Former main, on KVM still - Q9650 @ 3.8Ghz, 8gb Black Dragon, Radeon 4870
Vertex LE 100gb, 1.5tb Seagate, P5K-E i think. Audigy 2 ZS, Corsair TX650
Still game on it, but use it for internet, encoding and email

Q9550 @ 3.64Ghz - P5K-E - 6gb HyperX 8500 , DMX6fire with bay kit, 2x Vertex 2E 96gb Raid 0 , 4x Samsung 7200rpm 2tb singles. Radeon 4850. Got my phono, tape, VCR, Betamax *lol* hooked up to it and do VHS to DVD, tape/lp to mp3 etc..

HTPC downstairs - 42" Panasonic Plasma, Antec Fusion, Pegatron/Asus Socket P mobo with T9300 and 4gb DDR2, Radeon HD something, Vertex 2E 96gb. All movies on my main PC so thats where the storage is over network

HTPC in my room - Lian Li case, 64gb Samsung PM800 SSD with TRIM firmware, T7200 2Ghz 4mb l2, 3gb DDR2, Socket M Aopen 945gmm HL Radeon HD4550 passive, BD-RW UJ220 i got from a laptop. 37" LG LCD TV. Machine is as silent as silent can be. You would not know its on, got a SLK800U on the cpu and fan at 5v, temps never hit 70C loaded with IBT. 400w enermax liberty never sees a load to ramp its fans up.
 
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My PC is
Q6600 @ Stock
Gigabyte 965p DS3
Geil Black Dragon 2x2gb PC6400
Gigabyte 460GTX 1gb
OCZ 120gb Vertex 2E
750gb Samsung cant remember
BenQ G2420HDBL
Corsair 520w modular PSU
Win 7 64

Originally built when Supreme Commander was released as it liked more cores and a good GPU. The GPU has of course been upgraded since then but the Q6600 is still going well. OC is limited I think due to the motherboard though so I don't bother.

At the time I was also toying with some fluid dynamics software which also liked having 4 cores to play with. Now it only get used for usual home PC stuff and a bit of gaming.
 
Bought about a year ago now:

AMD Phenom X4 955 (stock)
Asus M4A79XTD Evo
2x2gb OCZ PC12800 DDR3
ATi 5770 1gb
Seagate 500gb
Samsung 500gb
Enermax 480W PSU
Dual boot OpenSuSe 11.3 / Windows 7 64

Use my computer mainly for computational studies (fluid dynamics), programming and other engineering software like MATLAB, CAD packages and in-house specific software. Windows 7 is purely there for the games and Pro Tools for recording/music production.
 
Spec in sig plus a few additional bits :

Razer Mantis Control cloth mat,
OCZ Equalizer mouse - not bad for a budget gaming spare (Death Adder recently died),
Creative Intrigue 3400 speakers,
Netgear router,
CD/DVD drive (can't remember speeds),
Antec Skeleton case,
Epson C48 printer,
Auzentech F-fi Forte sound card.

I think that's about it. Oh yeah, forgot, an old (forget the model) laptop.

My rig is used for personal work projects and gaming, emails, and media.
 
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i7 @ 4ghz
Gigabyte UD5 board
6gb Patriot Ram
Nvidia 580 GTX
PC Power & Cooling PSU 750W
Corsair 800d case
Watercooled
OCZ Vertex 60gb SSD.

2ND

AMD 630
Asus 880g motherboard
Corsair RAM 4GB
Lian Li case A17B.
 
Athlon II X4 630 Unlocked to Phenom II X4 @ 3.2Ghz
OCZ Gladiator CPU Cooler with Gelid Silent 9 CPU fan
4GB Kingston DDR3 1333Mhz ram
Asrock M3A770DE
6200 Turbocache backup card (waiting for my GTX460 via courier) :(
Hitachi 320GB Deskstar
700w Coolermaster Silent Pro modular PSU
Coolermaster Storm Scout case
19" 16:10 Advent shiney LCD (looks nice but a bit small)
Hitachi Micro System for sound (waiting for Logitech X-210 via courier)
Cheap gaming mouse, Logitech flat keyboard, and some cheap gaming mat.

Use it for gaming, streaming media to my PS3 on the LCD in my living room, browsing the net... Not much more to be honest.

Cheapy PC that I've gradually upgraded, but it's not too bad. :)
 
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i5 750 @ 4GHz
4 GB Corsair XMS 3 1600
MSI P55-GD80
Palit GTX460 @ 820/1900
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W
Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7
BenQ G2220HD
2x 500GB Maxtor HDD's
Asus Xonar DS
Nice logitech speakers

Used for boring office stuff, music arranging, photo editing, music, and gaming.

Acer Aspire One D250

Used for paperwork and backing tracks at work.
 
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Main rig.
i7 920 @4ghz
6 gb ocz reaper c7 1600mhz
asus p6t dlx v2
sli gtx 470's
fi 320gb, f3 itb
asus xonar dx pcie soundcard
lg blu ray/dvd rw drive
benq fp241w 24" lcd
lian li a70f

Used for gaming, encoding, also my main music playing device and for watching films.

Second rig.
a64 4000 s939
asus a8n 32 sli deluxe
2 gb corsair xms 3500l
8800gt
2x36gb raptors in raid 0
2 x 1tb tb f3
vx2025 20" lcd
akasa eclipse 62

This was one of the first pc's i ever built myself, kept mainly for file storage theese days,
 
Samsung netbook, used for lab reports, research, occasionally in lectures.

AMD2 / 1gb system, mostly a file server though also a backup when the main computer fails. Occasionally used as a firewall. .

i7 920 @ 4ghz / 12gb / 8800gt sli, mostly used for matlab at the moment. Also solid edge, trying to get badly written C code to compile and in the near future lots of Ansys. Eccentrically this one has no access to the internet, as that has proved more reliable than antivirus software at keeping it running reliably.


I'm looking into opening the last one up to the internet for remote desktop (from the netbook) without letting other crap in, but haven't hit upon a sufficient solution yet.
 
Main PC (almost 4 years old):
1.8Ghz Core2 duo
2GB RAM
8800GT
250GB HDD
Dell 2405FPW monitor
Logitech Wave Keyboard
Logitech Revolution MX mouse
Wacom Bamboo
Lian Li PC-7S
Windows 7

I use this purely for web browsing as I don't play PC games any more. I very rarely do anything else on it other than sync music with my phone and similar stuff. I can't see me changing it until it breaks.


HTPC:
2.5Ghz Athlon X2 2850e
2GB RAM
160GB HDD
LG Blu-ray/HD-DVD drive
MS eHome remote
Keysonic RF laptop style keyboard/trackpad
Windows 7
Lian Li PC-C35B case

XBMC runs as the shell instead of explorer.exe. Everything I watch on TV comes from this box.

Server:
1.8Ghz Pentium Dual core
1GB RAM
1x500GB
2x 1TB
1x 1.5TB
Ubuntu Server
Lian Li PC-70 case

This stores all my media, does all my downloading etcetera. Got about 500GB free so will need more storage soon.
 
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LiamJ said:
What? How is that possible?

Is it a cache unlock?
Click to expand...

6MB Cache unlocked yep. Also got it running today @ 3.5Ghz with only 1.37volts so must have been a decent(ish) Deneb that was binned as an Athlon II, due to demand of the cheaper Athlon II X4. :)

Here's a CPU-Z Validation... Noticed it's showing my voltage as 1.4v so must be slightly higher than BIOS settings.
 
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Case: Xigmatek Utgard Midi Tower - Black
Power Supply: Corsair TX 650W
CPU: Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz overclocked to 4.00GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3
120 GIG OZ SSD
H7O Water cooler
RAM: Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5
 
Did have 2 rigs, I gutted the gaming rig & put it a new case to give to my nephew for xmas. Haven't decided on getting new bits yet.

my everyday PC is

E7400 at stock
Silverstone LC17 case
Gigabyte G33M DS2R Mobo
2gig Crucial Ballistix DDR2
Seasonic S12 430 PSU
Intel X25 80gig SSD (for W7 HP)
WD Scorpio blue HD (for storage)
LG blu-ray/HD DVD reader & DVD writer
Pioneer DVD writer
HD5450
New Benq G2420HDBL on a sesame seed bun etc.....:p

This is for general office tasks, web browsing/email & maintaining my site as being my pseudo HTPC when the mood takes me. :D
 
965 @ 4Ghz under a Titan Fenrir Evo @ 1.35v
Ga-890GPA-UD3H
4GB's of OCZ Gold at 1600mhz ( dont know why so many people moaned about this ram its flawless )
a Sapphire 4870 512mb ( which i may upgrade not sure yet )
a Vertex 2e 60gb for w7
F3 1tb x2 in Raid 0
and the modxstream 600 which is awful cant route any cables anywhere :(

All in a Fractal Design R2 Silver Arrow ( which is divine ) (an air coolers case not designed for water cooling :( unfortunately )

Using a new dare i say it dell keyboard which is pretty good, and a razer deathadder respawn on a omega fragged control mat

all that viewed in 1080p on my viewsonic 22inch monitor


sorry for the essay. :P
 
stats are in my pants vvvvvv


iMac for pretty much everything.

Computer was for gaming but I'm no hardcore gamer and the iMac plays my games easily enough so it's been made redundant. I could do with more hardcore power, but I need to use mac osx so this is the best I'm getting for the moment.
 
core i5 750 @ 3.2ghz
4GB of patriot ripjaw 1600mhz
asus p7p55d le
gainward gtx260gs core 216
2x 500GB western digital hard drives
1x 74GB western digital raptor
M-audio audiophile 24/96 soundcard pci
corsair h50 cooling
antec 300 case

Used mainly as a DAW (digital audio workstation) and the occasional bit of gaming.
 
i5 760 @ 4ghz
4GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600mhz
MSI P55-GD65
ATI HD 5850
Sound blaster audigy 2 zs
2x 1TB hard drives
Lancool k-62 case
Akasa Venom cpu cooler w/push n pull viper fans, very soon to be custom water cooling

Use for gaming, sufering the net and watching movies.
 
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