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I have two desktop PCs, one Macbook and a file server, but I'll just post the gaming rig:

CPU: i7 950, currently at stock speed. Time for overclocking soon.
GPU: 2x Gainward GTX 580 in SLI. Also at stock speed. 1536 MB memory, I think.
RAM: 12 GB RAM (Corsair Dominator DHX+) at 1600MHz
Mobo: Asus Rampage III Extreme
SSD: 120GB, think it's from OCZ, but can't really remember. CBA to shut down just to check...
HDD: Also 2x WD Caviar Black 750GB in RAID 0.
PSU: Corsair HX1000
Case: Obsidian 800D
DWDRW: Used twice a year...
Internal USB hub from NZXT, the mobo only has one internal header.

Cooling:
Fan controller: Lamptron FC5
Res: Some single bay acrylic thing from XSPC.
Tubing: 7/16" Primochill something. UV-reactive, blue.
Nipples: Primarily Bitspower 1/2" - a pain to fit the tubing, but you get a very tight seal.
CPU block: XSPC Raystorm
GPU blocks: EK EK GeForce 5X0 GTX GW VGA Liquid Cooling Block - Acetal + Electroless Nickel Plated, with backplate and a fancy bridge thing between the blocks.
MB block: EK ASUS Rampage III Extreme Full Board Cooling Block Kit - Electroless Nickel Plated (they didn't have Acetal+EN)
Rads: XSPC RX120, 240 and 360. The 240 and 360 are mounted inside (modded the case to fit the 240 where the non-hotswap drive bays are), the 120 outside as exhaust, just for the heck of it.
Pumps: 2x Swiftech MCP350, I got two for redundancy, and the loop is pretty long with four blocks and three rads. I chose putting everything together in one loop since this was my first liquid cooling build.
Lighting: Cold cathode, UV/blacklight mounted on the inside of the side cover, along the window edges.

That's pretty much it, I think. Probably forgot something.

Edit: The SSD is an OCZ Vertex II, 120GB.

My computer has 2.4 GHz. processor with 2GB. ram, and 256 MB. Graphics card. Pretty minimal compared to what some of you others have. It's a dell and it has a 20 inch flat screen.

I have a cheap acer laptop I use for school but this is my gaming rig I just purchased:

Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G45 ATX DX11 USB3.0 Motherboard
CPU/Heatsink: Intel Core i5 3570K Unlocked Quad Core Processor LGA1155 3.4GHZ Ivy Bridge 6MB + Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus
Video card/GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 480 700MHZ 1536MB GDDR5 (came out a couple years ago but still really good card)
RAM: Kingston HyperX 2X4GB DDR3-1600
Drive: ASUS 24X SATA black OEM
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 500GB SATA3
SSD: OCZ Vertex 4 128GB 2.5IN SATA3 Indilinx
PSU: Antec Power Supply Truepower 650W 80+ bronze
Case: Cooler Master Haf 932 (Full case I won from a gaming LAN =) )

Mouse: Saitek Cyborg R.A.T. 7 6400 DPI Laser Gaming Mouse
Mousepad: Steelseries Qck Mini
Keyboard: Microsoft Wired 600
Monitor: Acer S230HL 23in LED LCD 1920x1080 max res
I'm using a Linksys PLEK400 Powerline Internet Adapter Kit hooked up on one end to my router for internet as it's faster/more reliable than wireless.

I'll probably make upgrades in the future. Anyone have ideas where I can make quick improvements? I'm thinking of upgrading the stock heatsink on my video card first.

For gaming the best upgrade would be a GeForce 600 card.

Just don't buy any 600 card, but I guess that's obvious. A 480 would still be heaps better than the low-end 600 cards, that's an assumption though as I haven't read all the tests.

i7-2600k
16GB 1600Mhz CL8 RAM
z68 mb
radeon 6850 1gb
intel x25m ssd 160gb
2x hitachi HDDs 7200RPM sata3 2TB
cm 690 II tower
650w spu 85+
2x 22'5 IPS monitors at 1920x1080 + 1080x1920
gygabyte M6900 mouse
das keyboard ultimate silent

I don't even know the specs of my computer anymore Doesn't really matter to me as long as it performs. Pretty much anything recent performs.

I remember back in 1993 when I bought my first Packard Bell 486, every MHz counted. I was jealous that my friend's machine had 4MB and mine only had 2MB and his clearly outgunned mine. My current machine is to that thing what that thing was to ENIAC. And it doesn't even seem like that long ago. To be honest, I was expecting more radical innovations in UIs by now than what we have. Windows 7 is clearly superior to Windows 3.1, but I could have (and largely did) conceived most of what's in the Windows 7 UI twenty years ago.

Last edited by MyFutureSelfnMe on 04 Jul 2012, 3:01 am, edited 1 time in total.

it also depends on what you are doing with it though.

programming, office work, video playback and the likes are nothing to a modern computer.

moving about 544k polygons on a laser mapped model still makes them cry though

544k? A Radeon HD 7970 can move billions of polys per second.

it can, my current pc can as well(hd 6970), when i was at high school and were using a standard mid range turn of the millenium celeron processor with integrated graphics, not so much

they ran xp and office packs quite well in hidnsight

I disagree with this. Increasing the specs can make usage scenarios that were OK to begin with better. In my case, it's the difference of a 20 second build (on a quad core with 8G of RAM) of a project vs it taking 2+ minutes (on an older dual core with less RAM). 20 second still seems obnoxiously long.

A dual core with less than 8GB RAM can't be all that recent.

That said, it's true, last time I was working on a large codebase I ordered a monster tower PC to do the builds. 16 cores, SSD, etc. I had to run Linux because the filesystem was too slow for large numbers of small files in Windows 7. Even though I was cross compiling to Windows. It did make a diff. There are always cases...

95% of people can be happy with any PC these days though.

The new Radeon 7970 sets the new standard.

Disclaimer: I worked on GPUs for AMD. Also, I travel light and the only machine I have left is a laptop.

I have a dual core ATOM netbook with 8GB RAM, Win7 64bit or Backtrack5 persistent install on a thumbdrive, it's about 2 or 3-ish years old.... It's snappy enough for me to want to tote it around in my purse EVERYWHERE I go...(Security thing, some people have stress balls I carry around a computer, linux friendly USB WIFI dongle with 6'USB extension cable, wireless mouse, Sennheiser over ear headphones, 6' HDMI cable, various and sundry wires, cables and adapters, and sometimes a wired USB game controller) It also has two graphics cards which makes it more useful, an Intel GMA thingy for office program use and and battery savings and the NVIDIA ION which is a geforce mobile chip, handy for battlefield 2, Sims 3, my 720p webcam, VMware, encoding, game emulators etc. Also allows me to take advantage of CUDA. Oh, also 720p/1080p output via HDMI. I can also OC it to 2.4Ghz stable, though I worry about heat so I don't do it often.

I'm more than happy with it as a portable machine, it's a sleeper. Anything slower I start pulling my hair out. My boyfriend has a dual core 10.1" Acer Iconia Tab running Android, so much slower than my netbook, only 1Gb RAM. I revive older machines for people for cheap or free. I would never use them personally, far to slow I would rather donate them. My personal rig is peppy enough, by far faster than the little ATOM netbook but still slower than I would like it to be. Upgrades coming sometime around the winter seasonal holidays.

OTOH I do want a whole box of RaspberryPi micro computers. Only 700Mhz and 256Mb RAM but it can do 1080p over HDMI all day long running on 5v from a micro USB cable (PSU of your choosing) So many things I can think of to do with these wee little computers... None of them involving teaching poor kids in third world countries how to code... Sorry..

*EDIT*
I already posted about the netbook in this thread, should have checked before posting. *Hangs head in shame...

You program CUDA? Do you have any general, high level thoughts about it? I'm excited about it but concerned about the proprietary nature of the language. I've been doing some things in GLSL lately that have started to get me addicted to GPUs, which is ironic because it was losing my job working on them that opened the door to me really poking around.

No I do not program CUDA, I wish I was that savvy, no, I just use CUDA enabled software, for ripping and encoding movies etc... so much faster than just using the CPU, trying to get a video ripped and encoded on a dual core ATOM would take hours... But using the GPU it only take 15-20 minutes. Hard to find something that actually does what it says as far as CUDA enabled software...