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Ichinin
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21 Jan 2019, 5:00 pm
I didn't build my current gaming rig, i'm too old to mess about and just bought one outright. It's built by the games store so in a sense - it's a build...
Anyway, the specs are:
* Core i5-8500
* 16 gig ram
* GTX-1070
* 1 TB harddrive.
...and a sticker on the outside that says: "VR Ready" 
In this i also include 2 camera mounts that i got the Vive Beacons on so they get up higher.
Also got an external 2 TB HD where i keep my movies, shows and backed up steam games (8 TB would be nice, but i can manage on 2).
My laptop is a bit slower, but i can still run Fallout 4 on it. Use that mostly to watch movies and browse the web. Had a core i7 laptop with dual graphics cards in it once - that was da bomb, it died maybe 2-3 years ago though, but oh man, what a portable gamesmachine it was!
21 Jan 2019, 6:00 pm
My main PC, which I built at the end of 2017.
i7 8700K @ 4.9Ghz
ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero motherboard
16GB DDR4 3200Mhz G.Skill Trident Z memory
MSI NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
bequiet! Dark Power Pro 10 850W PSU
Samsung 960 EVO 1TB M.2 2280 SSD
Samsung 850 EVO 1TB 2.5" SSD x 2
Seagate 4TB 3.5" HDD x 2
Fractal Design Define S case
-Peripherals-
Monitors are both Acer, the XB270HU and the X34
Audioengine D1 DAC
Audioengine A5+S8
Sennheiser HD 598SE headphones
Samson Meteor microphone
HTC Vive Pro
Corsair K70 keyboard and Scimitar mouse
Mad Catz Saitek x55 Rhino HOTAS
Custom cooling parts from EKWB, with Thermaltake sensors
I also have my portable PC, a GPD Win 2, which I use to play games on the go or at home on the couch. It uses an Intel Core M3 @ 2.6Ghz with 8GB LPDDR3 @ 1866Mhz, 128Gb SSD. 
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18 Mar 2019, 8:06 pm
Last PC I built was an AMD K8 with an Asus motherboard using a nVidia chipset. That machine finally convinced me to give up building my own machines and go back to Apple (which I started with while I was in grad school, back in the mid 1980’s, with an Apple ][plus.).
My current machine is a 4th generation “cheesegrater” (AKA a 2009 Mac Pro, running an Intel Xeon quad core “Nehalem” CPU) that I upgraded with a 2 TB HDD, 2 1TB HDDs, 32gb memory, and able to quadruple boot, using rEFInd, MacOS Mojave, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, and Linux Mint 19.1 64-bit. I have snow leopard installed only because it’s the last version of Mac OS X that supports Rosetta, and I have all the old Freeverse Burning Monkey Game series that I had in a file cabinet in the garage.
Further, hardware and firmware: I flashed the firmware to make this machine act like a 5th generation Mac Pro (done automatically when MacOS Mojave was installed), a Frisco Logic USB 3.0 PCIe card (from Sonnet Tech) and a TP-Link Archer USB 3.0 WiFi stick (since the Airport card that came standard was missing on this box when I bought it off eBay). Next upgrade will be an ATI 7550 video card(which Apple says might be supported by their Metal graphics engine) to replace the 2 512mb nVidia GT120 graphics cards that came with this machine (I DESPISE nVidia, ever since they bought up 3DFX and replaced that chipset with their own inferior product. 
), and a PCIe adapter card from Other World Computing to add a 2.5 in. SSD (when I’ll probably purchase a 1TB SSD when I get my next SSDI check.) My final upgrade will likely be a processor tray upgrade to a dual CPU setup and 2 hex-core Westmere Xeons and another 32gb of memory, (if I ever get the nearly $700.00 to afford that tray and another $500.00 for the hex core CPUs/heat sinks and another 32 gb memory.)
Before anyone accuses me of being a Mac p!ssy, I have yet to have Windows 7 crash on my since going to an intel-based Mac (which happened all the time with all previous versions of Windows that installed on all the machines I built. In addition, I worked as a contractor-employee doing front line support for Apple out of Bawlmer (Baltimore) county from 2002-2004. That call center was the only call center where the contractor hired everyone with Windows experience. Given half the chance (and the fact that HP hasn’t been exactly forthcoming in releasing the source code for it since they made it open source), I’d be also running VMS on this box. (Yeah, I’m an OS-slut. So sue me! 
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18 Mar 2019, 8:13 pm
An ASUS ROG Dominus extreme build to the max would be nice but right now my only serious machine is the little one: Dell XPS 9350 with whatever i7, a WD 1tb NVMe running Fedora 29.
Work machines are pretty cheap in my department, the fastest workstations we have are laptops. I won't bore you with those lest someone actually take my post as advice.
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