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Hello all! Currently my rig goes as such:
1 x Thermaltake Armor A90 Gaming Mid-Tower Chassis With Cable Management Water Cooling SSD Support And Tool-Less Installation VL90001W2Z  Max fans allowed in it, I think 10 if I’m counting correctly :p
1 x Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Desktop Memory Model CT2KIT51264BA1339
1 x ASUS Black Blu-ray Drive SATA Model BC-12B1ST/BLK/B/AS – OEM
1 x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
1 x Kingston HyperX SH100S3B/120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
3 x HANNspree By Hanns-G HF225DPB Black 21.5" Full HD WideScreen LCD Monitor w/Speakers
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit – OEM
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz LGA 1155 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 2000 BX80623I32120  Getting Ivy i7 when it comes out, will OC
1 x Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound – OEM
1 x ZALMAN CNPS9500A-LED 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler
1 x AZiO BTD-V201 Micro Bluetooth Adapter USB 2.0
2 x XFX Double D HD-687A-ZDFC Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity  Currently in CrossFireX
1 x ASRock P67 EXTREME4 GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
1 x TP-LINK TL-PA211KIT Up to 200Mbps AV200 Mini Powerline Starter Kit
1 x CORSAIR Professional Series HX750 (CMPSU-750HX) 750W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
1 x V-MODA Crossfade LP Over-Ear Metal Headphones in White Pearl
1 x Logitech K750 Black USB RF Wireless Slim solar-powered Keyboard

I love the way this thing runs, with the bottleneck currently being the i3, but I am upgrading that to an i7 [something] when the ivy bridge comes out for LGA 1155

Quad core Intel i7 with hyperthreading (8 logical cores) at 3.4 GHz.

Two WD Raptors in Raid1.

8 GB RAM

Two dual-head NVidia Quadro video cards

Four 1080 monitors (two on each video card)

Not sure. This is a machine for work. All four monitors are covered with dev tools and code output and web browsers and such.

My last fun build was an Athlon X2 64 in a Koolance water cooling case. NVidia Geforce and again two WD Raptors (love these guys...). I haven't gamed much lately so the machine is old and mostly unused. The CPU, the northbridge, and the video card, all have waterblocks. The chain goes like this: reservoir > pumps > heat exchanger > CPU > northbridge > video card > back to reservoir.

I have always wanted to attempt watercooling but I never had the hootzvah (man parts) to try it out for fear of ruining my rig should a leak happen. Been thinking about phase change cooling though if I want to OC to 7ghz or something crazy.

If you must know..

AMD X6 1090T @ 4.1
Asus Crosshair V Formula
16 GB Mushkin Redline RAM
2 GB AMD Radeon 6950 (Unlocked @ 6970 clocks)
120 GB Corsair Force 3 SSD + 8x 750 GB RAID 5 LAN Storage
12x Lite-On BluRay Burner
Corsair H100 Cooler
27" Asus 1080p Monitor
Seasonic x750 PSU
Corsair 600T Case

Case: UV Master
Motherboard: ASRock A770DE+
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 960T 3.0Ghz, 3.4Ghz Turbo Core 8.0MB Cache
Network: Realtek 10/100/1000Mbps
Sound1: VIA Vinyl HD Audio w/Fiber Audio
Sound2: DIY encloser for Circuit from Logitech USB Headset.
GPU: EVGA Geforce GTX 560 Ti 1GB GDDR5
RAM:6GB
PSU: SilverStone Modular 850Watt
Hard Drives:
HD1:Western Digital 250GB "Windows 7
HD2:Western Digital 500GB "Storage"
HD3:Western Digital 120GB "Storage"
HD4:Western Digital 40GB "Ubuntu"
Display1: Asus 20" Widescreen "DVI"
Display2: LiquidVideo 17" "VGA"
OS: Windows 7 Pro
Mouse: Logitech G5 Gaming Mouse

Yeah, that confirms it.... I need a new system this year. Or last year actually!

Made this on a budget, no parts over €100 (most of it less), re-used some memory, hard drives, case & PSU from my old system. Yeah, even older then what I have now

Logitech G5 v1 + grey Dell keyboard from the '90s
LG Flatron W2230s (1920x1080, D-Sub)
Antec Three Hundred with 4x 120mm 1x 140mm fan.
450w 2x 21A 12v B brand PSU with good reviews
NEC S-ATA DL-DVD burner
Just over 2TB of storage (4 disks)
OCZ Onyx 64GB SSD
Nvidia GeForce 275GTX 896MB GDDR3 (latest "upgrade")
Intel Core 2 Duo "Wolfdale" E7500 @ 360x10 (OCZ something aircooler)
6GB Dual Channel DDR2 @ 360MHz 5-5-5-15
Gigabyte EP35-DS3R
Windows 7 x64

100% stable and able to play anything recent at full HD resolution. Now that I think of it, I don't "need" a new system....

I built mine about 3 and half years ago. The benchmark at the time was Crysis on "ultra-high" settings, so that's what I was going for. I don't think I spent more than $150 on any one part, but the total was about $900.

Core 2 Duo E8500, 4GB RAM, ASUS P5QL Pro mobo
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 260 (896 MB)
WD Velociraptor (10,000 RPM) 150 GB + WD Caviar Blue 640 GB
Sound Blaster X-Fi + Altec Lansing 400W speakers
Hauppage dual HD tuner
Lian Li mid-tower case
Logitech Keyboard (Later replaced with dasKeyboard Ultimate)
Logitech G9 Mouse (Later replaced with Razer Lachesis)
Windows Vista for gaming
Linux for everything else

That was in 2008. Nearly 4 years later, it still runs every game I throw at it smoothly on the highest settings.

(Most games are limited to the capabilities of the PS3 and 360, after all. I don't see much reason to upgrade my system until Sony and MS upgrade theirs.)

here's my main rig, built it about 2 years ago, and have continuously upgraded it.

Case: Coolermaster CM690
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955BE @ 3.6Ghz [multi @ x18, 1.344 vCore]
Mainboard: GA-790XTA-UD4
HSF: CM Hyper212+
GPU: Nvidia GTX 570 [ASUS Direct Cu II]
RAM: Kingston HyperX [8Gb] + Corsair XMS3 [4Gb] = 12Gb total @ 1333Mhz
HDD0: WD Caviar 250Gb [Boot Mirror]
HDD1: WD Caviar Green 2000Gb
HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 250Gb [Boot (Primary)]
HDD3: Seagate Barracuda 2000Gb
HDD4: Seagate Barracuda 1500Gb
ODD0: LG DVD-RW
PSU: Corsair TX-750
Display0: ASUS 24" 1920x1080
Display1: BENQ 19" 1280x1024
FANs: 6x 120mm fans [3x led, 2x generic, 1x high static pressure]
OS0: Win 7 x64.
OS2: Ubuntu x64 [10.04].
and a generic optical mouse and keyboard.

pavelow, why so much memory? O_O
BTW I don't actually use my rig for gaming :p I just like building. I donate them after a certain point to my college's Advanced Computing Labs (Math labs, Comp animation labs, science etc)
Also, looks like I may need to learn some form of linux OS seeing as all the rest of the computer world worships it :p

memory as in ram, or memory as in disk space?

ram- because I use a heap of virtual machines at once as environments for testing server and network setups... and I have a nasty habit of leaving heaps of tabs open in chrome.

disk capacity - because I use this machine as a network file server and as a pxe server for booting other machines, basically it stores OS images, HDD images[for virtual machines], recorded TV, game footage, games, as well as several years worth of backups, am into photography too, and raw images are not small, data redundancy is good also.

Just as a contrast to all of these mega builds, my most recent build was my network server. It is based around a Wyse R00L thin client running Ubuntu. It has a 1.0GHz Sempron with 2GB RAM and the original 2GB disk-on-chip has been replaced with a 32GB OCZ Onyx SSD. The main storage is on two 1.5TB external hard drives. It runs headless so no monitor, keyboard or mouse.

Among other tasks this unit deals with my on-line ordering system so it has to be on 24/7. Reliability, low power consumption and low noise are the most important factors. It is fanless so when the two hard drives are spun down it is completely silent with no moving parts to wear out. Emails and the automated on-line ordering system run off the SSD so most of the time the external drives are spun down.

My previous server pulled about 70W on average. This whole setup complete with broadband modem and network switch pulls 26W most of the time, rising to just under 40W on heavy load with both drives running.

I've built several computers, which have been "circulated" to family members.

My current main rig:
AMD Phenom X6, 1055T, 3.3GHz
3GB RAM
ATI Radeon video card
ASUS M5 A99X EVO motherboard
Realtek RTL8168 network card
SATA disc in IDE emulation mode (150GB or something), partitioned with 2 FAT32 partitions, 32GB each.
Boots Windows XP or RDOS with GRUB

I also have a portable Samsung:
Intel Atom dual core with hyperthreading
2GB RAM
Realtek network card
SATA disc
This computer originally contained Windows 7 starter, which I have erased. It now mainly runs RDOS, but has an Windows XP installed as a backup for fixing disc errors.

Then I've built one AMD Atlon II X4, and one AMD Athlon X2. I also have older motherboards with Pentiums and even one motherboard with a 386SX processor.

I mainly use Windows XP / 7 for surfing and as a development platform for RDOS.

Just a laptop I have as a replacement:

AMD Phenom II N950 Quad-Core

6 GB RAM

750 GB HDD

Some not very good GPU, all I remember is that it has 1 or 2 GB dedicated V-RAM which probably doesn't tell you much.

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