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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present (Part 9)

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MacFanUK

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After having browsed this thread for the past few weeks, I thought I would finally take part and give you my before and after pics. The before was this morning and the after was about 20 mins ago after I had finished rearranging my office.

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mousouchop

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MacFanUK said:
After having browsed this thread for the past few weeks, I thought I would finally take part and give you my before and after pics. The before was this morning and the after was about 20 mins ago after I had finished rearranging my office.
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I was about to say "I can only assume that you run Hackintosh"-- but your sig makes that pretty clear. How does that fair, what with stability and all?
 
MacFanUK

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mousouchop said:
I was about to say "I can only assume that you run Hackintosh"-- but your sig makes that pretty clear. How does that fair, what with stability and all?
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It's actually pretty good. I've only had it up and running for a few days, but I'm getting a good geekbench score and I've successfully managed to do a video in Adobe Premiere which performed really well. Not really done much else with it yet but I have now started using it as my main computer.

I had my CPU overclocked to 3.2-3.6GHz but started having problems (mainly cuz of RAM) so have put it back to stock speeds and getting a Geekbench score of 5518 which beats the current 3.06GHz iMac and is about equal with a Intel Xeon 5160 3.0 GHz (4 cores) Mac Pro.

My only complaint is that the graphics card will only output to one of the two ports so I can't currently run two displays.
 
mousouchop

mousouchop

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MacFanUK said:
It's actually pretty good. I've only had it up and running for a few days, but I'm getting a good geekbench score and I've successfully managed to do a video in Adobe Premiere which performed really well. Not really done much else with it yet but I have now started using it as my main computer.

I had my CPU overclocked to 3.2-3.6GHz but started having problems (mainly cuz of RAM) so have put it back to stock speeds and getting a Geekbench score of 5518 which beats the current 3.06GHz iMac and is about equal with a Intel Xeon 5160 3.0 GHz (4 cores) Mac Pro.

My only complaint is that the graphics card will only output to one of the two ports so I can't currently run two displays.
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Aw, that stinks. Two monitors on a cheap Mac would be bomb! haha
 
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pudrums

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You can use dual monitors, you just have to modify some strings. Check insanelymac forums for details.
 
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UCLA.ZS.RN

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pudrums said:
How do you like that Antec Skeleton? Do you have any problems with dust on the hardware?
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I have no problems with my Antec Skeleton. I like being different and having things that others do not really know about, so that is why I decided to build the system. When my friend saw my Antec Skeleton, he said "wth is that?" I told him it was a generator. And he actually felt for it, ahaha. In terms with maintenance and cleaning, I use one of those Air Cleaners to clean and to remove the dust on the Skeleton. In addition, I clean my workstation every other day just to stay clean and organized =D
 
jcrazyjj

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i despise that desk. the metal legs were part of another desk but ti was too small. so i want to lowes and got a nice 24x72" piece of aspen and put it on top of it. works wonders and a damn near doubled my desk area. im in the process of designing/building a new set of legs for it.

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the plan is to sell my current imac since it is no longer being used due to the purchase of my mbp and with that money buy a nice 22" monitor to wall mount to free up some desk space.
 
monkey86

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jcrazyjj - whats the screensaver i like the clock design, at them moment im rocking the matrix screensaver but i like the clean look of that one!
 
Decrepit

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Finally cleaned up the desk, and most of the cables...

I have an idea for the cables next to the UPS. That comes next. I haven't come up with a good way to bind the LCD's DVI+Power cables so they look less cluttered.
 

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jcrazyjj

jcrazyjj

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Decrepit said:
Zip ties are the work of the devil. The worst cuts I've ever gotten were from people that cut the excess off at a bad angle.


But seriously, I did think about that, but unless I use 50 of them, the cables bunch and bulge.
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that is why i have these...

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yes. razor blade pliers.
 
designgeek

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Cleaned up a bit, and yes that's a cosmopolitan, don't judge me, ginger vodka has its own merits. The headphones are skull candy Hesh.

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Ronix

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monkey86 said:
thank you, been a looooooong time since i looked at the first post!

:rolleyes:
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No problem, it is just funny because for a while there someone would ask about every other post what it was. By now a mod should just put a BIG sticky on every subforum about this screensaver.
 
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