System Specs anyone?

[Mr.Afrox]

I guess I'm just wondering what kind of specs your PC has; what everyone is working with.

I would imagine, that many, possibly even most of us have more than one PC (Mac?) at home.

To keep it simple, I'm just asking about the PC that you use the most often. The one that you sit in front of the great majority of the time.

Of course, since I started this thread, I should go first.

Specs:

Processor: LGA1366 Intel Core i7 965 Extreme edition. Tho intel will be releasing 6 core i9's in the near future. For extream insaneness you could run a xenon server board which has room for 2 xenon processors. I don't know the market that well for those tho.

Motherboard: ASUS Rampage II Extreme Intel X58. ROG Boeards tend to be more expensive than normal boards since they overclock so well. Not always the best value but sometimes its about extreme performance lol.

Case: Antec twelve hundred is the best air cooling case out there atm IMO but for the ultimate setup you will want water cooling. Silverstone (cant fully remember the case name)or Lian Li PC-V1000Z are designed for water cooling.

RAM: 2 sets of corsier Dominator DDR3 PC3-16000C8 RAM. should give you 12GB total.

HDD: Go fro a solid state drive for your boot disk. This will give you the fastest hard disk for loading games and applications. You can then get a 1TB or some of the new 2TB hard disks released for file storage.

Cooling: Water cooling all the way. Unfortunately your gonna have to mix and match parts and arrange them so they fit, So I can't really recommend. swiftech full watercooling kit tho is a good start tho.

PSU: 1KW PSU minimum. Corsier, OCZ and BeQuiet are all good makes.

Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium - Fatal1ty Professional Series 7.1 Sound Card. One of the best out there.

CD Drive: Blu ray rewriter is the way to go.

OS: Windows 8 Pro

GFX: 2X (or maybe 3 if you want/can fit) MSI GTX285 HydroGen OC. Fastest single gpu Graphics card out there. Run In SLI for top performance. Tho in two weeks ATI will release there 5 series which is said to be 60% performance boost over the HD4 series. Until benchmarks and real world testing happens who knows. But in 2 weeks that spec list will be out of date.

[Facade]

intel celeron @ 2.2ghz

3gb ram

250gb hdd

im in the middle of saving up for a new one

[CaptainFluffatun]

Intel Core i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.0 GHz
16GB RAM
500GB HDD
2TB External Hard Drive

[simonli2575]

Intel i5-2400 @ 3.1GHz
32GB RAM (Originally 16GB only but then I thought I had too much money unspent)
2TB + 1TB HDD
Nvidia GTX 660 Ti (I'm a gamer as well)
Windows 8 Pro

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

um...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CRpG7ft8g4w#t=210s

[Wisp]

I use a MacBook Air that has 4 gb of ram and 256 gb hard drive space. I don't really remember the ghz, but I think it was 1.9 ghz.

[itroitnyah]

amd fx-8350 (@4.0GHz)
8gb ddr3-1600 ram
1tb hdd
radeon hd 7850 2gb gpu
cooler master hyper 212 evo
nzxt source 210 case
3xarctic cooling f12 fans
asus m5a97 le r2.0 mobo
topower 650w power supply
windows 7

I'm curious afrock, is that build actually your own, or your dream build? Because by the way you talk about it, it sounds like you're recommending parts for a build.

[Mr.Afrox]

actually yes i am recommending for those who would like to have a awesome gaming computer

sharing is magic aint it /)

[itroitnyah]

Umm... But then why would you ask everybody else to post their system specs when you're just posting suggestions and not yours... Also, this should really be under the community subforum as well.

[Mr.Afrox]

it is mine im just suggesting if you want to have a awesome gaming time you could by this in a way im sharing some information about my parts to people so that if they want them they can get them ,eery wanna play tf2 tommorow?

[Mr.Afrox]

Canada

[Lying Pink]

i5-2500K processor, Gigabyte Z68A-D3H-B3, 8gb RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6700 graphics, a 2TB hard drive and Win8 (I didn't have money for an OS and was having compatibility issues when I tried Linux, so I downloaded the consumer preview and then upgraded). My PC is the most expensive thing I own, and probably the most expensive thing I am likely to own for one or two decades. If I had infinity money I'd probably have something similar to the PC in the OP, but I really really can't complain, this one's pretty awesome. (She's called Rosie)

[itroitnyah]

Hey Afrock, what's up with your graphics cards?

GFX: 2X (or maybe 3 if you want/can fit) MSI GTX285 HydroGen OC. Fastest single gpu Graphics card out there. Run In SLI for top performance. Tho in two weeks ATI will release there 5 series which is said to be 60% performance boost over the HD4 series. Until benchmarks and real world testing happens who knows. But in 2 weeks that spec list will be out of date.

I'm pretty certain that your card isn't very fast, unless you're being sarcrastic. But on the offchance that you aren't...

the gtx 285 has 240 cuda cores. The gtx 770 has 1536... I don't really need to list off any more specs to show that the gtx 285 isn't much fast anymore.

[Mr.Afrox]

sarcastic :3

[vladnuke]

Desktop:

i7 965 Extreme
2 SLI'ed GTX 560's
corsair psu don't care which honestly
small watercooling system on cpu
16 gb RAM
Windows 7
250 gb ssd
1tb hdd

This is very good and all (especailly for vidja gaemz), but I can't carry it around.

Laptop:

i7-2670QM
Nvidia geforce gt 550m
blu-ray drive
8gb ram
500 gb hdd

this is the computer i produce on, because it's convenient to have all the music stuff on one computer.

[Conchetupony]

AMD E-350 (?), dual core 1.7 Ghz
2 GB RAM
200-ish GB HDD

yaaaay I feel poor

[Tasorrog]

Computer

Processor;
I7 2700K 4GHz cooled by a Antec Kuler 920

Motherboard;
Asus Z68-V LX

RAM;
Corsair vengeance 16GB 1922Mhz

PSU;
Antec high current gamer 900W (yah i know 900W is overkill, but if i wanna experiment i need it )

GPU;
AMD Sapphire 7970Ghz version

Case;
Antec eleven hundred

SSD;
Samsung SSD 840 120GB

HDD;
Caviar black 2TB
Green 2TB
some old 160GB x2

Soundcard;
Asus Xonar Essence STX

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Other things

Headphones;
ATH-M50s

Keyboard;
Some shitty dell keyboard (2poor to get a new one)

Mice;
Mionix naos 5000

Microphone;
Snowball

Screen;
FSM-270YG (2560x1440 IPS monitor)

[S.P.P]

I was looking to buy a new laptop (don't judge my choice of laptop over desktop), and this looks like a good place for ask about specs:

i3 3110M 2.4GHz processor
6GB RAM
1TB HDD ( <3 )

Basically, is the processor good enough? People have old me i3 just isn't powerful enough and that I should get i5 - but I can't really afford an i5 laptop.

[Fimbulin]

i7 2670 2.2GHz Dual quad cores (performes like an 8 core system)
GT555M 2GB (same performance as the GT630 but without the 3D capabilities)
8GB RAM
USB3.0
750GB HD
1920x1080 (invaluable big screen- plenty of space)
Win7
Full size fast responsive keyboard

Got this setup brand new about 2 years ago for $1k. It blew my socks off. Still a good deal if you can pick one up. I recommend nothing less if you want to use Kontakt and like video games. Buy an ASUS.

[ExoBassTix]

Intel i5-2400 @ 3.1GHz
32GB RAM (Originally 16GB only but then I thought I had too much money unspent)
2TB + 1TB HDD
Nvidia GTX 660 Ti (I'm a gamer as well)
Windows 8 Pro

Except for Win8, jealous as fuck.
My hard drives are crammed (175GB + 400GB), only 5GB RAM, and some terribly bad processor (I only know that it's solo core...).
My laptop sucks.

[simonli2575]

Except for Win8

Great, now that you've reminded me, I don't know how I feel about using Windows 8 anymore.

(I only know that it's solo core...)

Wow, a single-core CPU? Your work must have been hard.

[ExoBassTix]

(I only know that it's solo core...)

Wow, a single-core CPU? Your work must have been hard.

I've had to work with a single-core CPU my whole life. Running a minecraft server for 10 man, making music, occasionally playing games like League Of Legends, Quake, Halo, and just using this laptop for everything, and everything at once, just sucks.
My fucking internet browsers (no matter which) are jammed (old age I presume) too! Frustration!

[Wisp]

Lol, I'm looking through here and seeing 16gb and 32gb ram computers with really cool graphics cards and I'm just sitting here with my 4gb normal laptop. Highest ram I've ever had on a computer was 8gb and that's my old desktop which I don't really use anymore.

[Mr.Afrox]

damn o_o

[itroitnyah]

When I move out and go to college (I'm moving to germany for college), I'm thinking I'll have around $15000 saved up, so I'm going to build myself a really nice computer (top end processor, insane RAM and 3xtop end videocards, full watercooling for CPU, GPUs and I believe you can also WC ram now, 2 x 200mm fans since WCing will keep the important things cool easily, with 3 x 27" 1440p monitors. God, it's going to be way overpowered, but god it's going to be fun to play with that thing). And since I'll have money left over, I'll be rebuilding my studio (can't take it with me!) with a set of nice expensive studio monitors + studio sub, a big spacey desk, a mixing board set into the desk in such a way that it sorta slopes up to the monitors and it isn't a thick piece of equipment on my desk in the way, a nice 61-key midi keyboard, hardware synthesizers and hardware plugins, fully acoustically treated room... Man, I can really dream big. Only problem, is that everything costs way more in Germany than it does in the USA. In some cases. I just did a recheck, and my dream computer would cost $6001 in merica, or 3305 € in deutschland ($4304). Not sure how that transfers over with specialty stuff like studio equipment, but hopefully it transfers over in such a way that I'd have left over money >_>