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Qwerty
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My primary PC is now almost 9 years old, did some upgrades, but until now not much need to replace it. Still more than sufficient for Minecraft and Skyrim @2560*1600. 
QX6800 2.93 Mhz Quadcore
8 GB DDR2 RAM
nVidia GTX580, but with 6 GB VRAM
2x 300 GB Intel SSD
2x 1 TB WD Black HDD
1x 6 TB HGST helium-filled HDD
NEC 30" 2560*1600 hardware-calibrated monitor
... and a 3.5" 1.44 MB FDD |
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edwardauskis
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Qwerty wrote: | Skyrim @2560*1600.
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Skyrim...love this game The witcher..Now playing Diablo Reaper of Souls I see some members find time for game
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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I used to play Diablo Reaper of souls, it's been so long I'm afraid to even see the sad state of my characters.  I'll make time to play again soon. |
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monoxrom
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Location: Ukraine. Ivano-Frankivsk
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My computer is
CPU: Core2Quad 6600 2.4
RAM: 6 gb DDR2
VIDEO: NVIDIA GTX 260
HDD: 2*500 gb Hitachi RAID 0 (system (windows XP+ windows 7), games, other temp) + 1 TB Seagate (for data)
Motherboard: Asus P5K-PRO
GTA V working good ))))
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alvaro84
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Location: Fehérvárcsurgó, Hungary
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 3:55 am Post subject: |
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| Qwerty wrote: | | My primary PC is now almost 9 years old, did some upgrades, but until now not much need to replace it. |
The same here, my rig is past 9 years, at least the mobo is.
- Gigabyte P965-DS3P, all solid capacitors. I don't know if it matters though. I wanted it to last for a while. It has.
- Core 2 duo E8500 @ 3.8GHz - I used to have an E6420 for 7.5 years, this one was a free scrap.
- 8GB DDR2-800, scrap. Started as 2GB GeIL 800/cl4.
- Sapphire Radeon 5670. Its predecessor was an MSI GF8600GT w/ passive cooling. The 5670 has a fan but it's practically inaudible.
- SB X-Fi Titanium. Started as a Fatal1ty which is in my GF's PC now because the Titanium (PCIe) couldn't fit, thanks to a stupid design choice on Gigabyte's behalf 
- 60GB Mushkin SSD, 500+1000GB Samsung HDD. When the HDDs turn off the thing's quite silent. The 500GB one was inherited from the previous computer so it's even older than the rest.
- I even forgot the name of the heat pipe cooler, even though we have 2 of them... It was a long time since I bought them...
- Delta 310W PSU, from scrap. I used up a few in these 9 years. On the other hand, I still have my 22-yo Hipro AT PSU which I use for retro setups...
- Logitech MX1000 mouse, like 5-6 years old, with one replaced button switch. It was a PITA to repair.
- An old Chicony keyboard.
- Acer AL2423W, over 9 years old. Blacks are terrible, likes to flicker when cold.
The last 'new' games I played were Tomb Raider (2013) and Spec ops: the line. FullHD movies are fine, even 1600p is OK, but they have to be resized anyway... 1080p/60 is OK too, it just has to be decoded by the CPU. I can even play a lot of black MIDI |
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Marcin
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@alvaro84
Your PC should get award in category Mother Nature 2016 electronic friendly because of many parts saved from scrap
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Lynne Boone
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| I just bought a laptop last week because my HP gave up on me. I'm currently using Dell Inspiron 14 5000 Series. |
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alvaro84
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Location: Fehérvárcsurgó, Hungary
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| Marcin wrote: | @alvaro84
Your PC should get award in category Mother Nature 2016 electronic friendly because of many parts saved from scrap |
And I'm building a "kitchen computer" entirely from scrap, with lower TDP 
I know a laptop would draw less power but I couldn't yet find a perfectly working one... |
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tughlak
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Location: Miyaon
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My home PC is built with Dell I5 With 6 GB ram 1 TB WD Black HDD 2 GB Nvidia Graphics card
http://softlay.net
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Nobody
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The sun gives warmth.
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xsecret
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Location: France
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alvaro84
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Now that I found both a CPU and a m/b I'm really tempted to move from my Wolfdale C2D to a Sandy Bridge i3 (from scrap of course ).
The drawbacks would be the loss of PCI and especially PATA which is the closest connection to the retro rigs I build for fun. And the lower clock rate because I surely won't overclock the Sandy. I'll do a DosBox test with it to see if it limits the single threaded performance.
The upside should be less wasted power. My current PC is around 80 watts when idle. The minimalist (no external VGA, no HDD just a USB stick) LGA1155 setup I put together drew 45 watts in DOS prompt which is definitely a load on the CPU. What power it will draw when I add 2 HDDs, a BR drive, my Radeon 5670 and the X-Fi Titanium I wonder...
And it's definitely better at multithreaded performance. |
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alexzu
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Alvaro, my main system has Ivy Bridge which is next gen after Sandy Bridge and I still have PATA ! You just need to find a right mobo )
Here are the specs to be on topic:
Core i7-3770 (not K version, since K doesn't support virtual extensions),
ASRock Fatal1ty Z77 Professional,
16GB GSkill DDR3-2400,
1TB SSD Samsung 850 (for system),
4TBx2 WD NAS HDDs (for data),
MSI GEFORCE GTX 970 GAMING 4G OC (very quiet),
Creative SB X-Fi Fatal1ty,
PSU Ultra 1000W,
monitor - Samsung S34E790C - 34-Inch Curved WQHD Cinema Wide (3440 x 1440) Professional LED Monitor.
For traveling: upgraded IBM ThinkPad X120E - smallest I could find with PointStick ) |
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alvaro84
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| alexzu wrote: | Alvaro, my main system has Ivy Bridge which is next gen after Sandy Bridge and I still have PATA ! You just need to find a right mobo )
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Sure thing! But the one I found in the scrap doesn't have it and anything newer than socket 775 is still extremely rare in there. |
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alexzu
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So, what mobo you have that supports i3 ?
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Sure thing! But the one I found in the scrap doesn't have it and anything newer than socket 775 is still extremely rare in there. |
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