Post Your Windows Setup: Past & Present!

[Orange Furball]

Kinda belongs in both Mac and Windows setup threads, but I think Windows dominated here...

Nothing fancy. I only bought the monitor that is on the desk. The rest were given to me/taken from my school (they gave me permission of course)

So here are the pictures. Specs and what is here will be after

It's honestly nothing fancy.

The desktop is obviously custom. It was what I could afford at the time. I recently bought a new motherboard, case, and graphics card.

Here are all the parts

ASRock H61MV-ITX motherboard. Cheap!
Intel Core i5 2310 CPU
HIS AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz ed. 2GB
Corsair Builder series CX500 500W PSU
64GB Corsair boot SSD (don't know the model)
1TB Seagate storage drive
250GB WD Blue hard drive, for Android stuff
ASUS DVD-RW drive
Bitfenix Prodigy case (Orange of course!)
And that's it!

Mouse: Logitech Performance MX
Keyboard: Logitech G510
Microphone: Samson Meteor Mic
Headphones: Beats Solo HD
Joystick: MadCatz v.1 or something...
Controllers: generic 360 controller and the Guitar Hero X-plorer (not pictured)
Drink cooling device: USB Mini Fridge
Monitors: Acer S200HL, HP 2009 19" monitor, VIZIO 22" TV

Now for the Mac portion

11" MacBook Air 2011

Core 2 Duo 1.6 GHz
4GB RAM
128GB SSD

Mouse: BlueTooth Mighty Mouse
Headphones: Apple EarPods
DVD drive: LG DVD-RW external drive
Monitor: old Dynex (I think) 19" TV. It works ok

That's the Mac setup.

Other devices:

OUYA Game Console

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (hopefully to be traded soon!)

iPhone 5 16GB Black and Slate

There is also a pair of BlueTooth Plantronics Backbeat GO headphones

The rest of the stuff is just random junk.

 

[FluJunkie]

Bitfenix Prodigy case (Orange of course!)

How do you feel about this case - I was eyeing it, but I scoped out the case in Microcenter and it feels...I don't know. Cheap? Toyish? Something about the rubberized handles and how much they flex didn't impress me.

But it is a really nice size.

 

[Orange Furball]

How do you feel about this case - I was eyeing it, but I scoped out the case in Microcenter and it feels...I don't know. Cheap? Toyish? Something about the rubberized handles and how much they flex didn't impress me.

But it is a really nice size.

I'm a huge fan of soft touch, so I like the rubberized handles. It's made to be a more fun case, that's why they have all the colors. It's not like the CM HAF series where they want that tuff look. It's a beautiful case though. The flexing handles are better in my opinion than hard plastic. Metal would be a little better but then the price would be really high. I personally like it, people that see it immediately question what that "thing" is, and when they hear it's a computer they want one. It's really a nice case. Easy to work inside. Believe it or not the hardest part was plugging in the graphics card PCI power. The rest was probably the easiest pc build I have ever done.

If you do but it, the only problem I had was that both included case fans used 3 pin fan connections. My board is cheap and only has one case fan header, but that probably only applies to me. And it was easy enough to take a spare molex fan and plug it in there

 

[FluJunkie]

I'm a huge fan of soft touch, so I like the rubberized handles. It's made to be a more fun case, that's why they have all the colors. It's not like the CM HAF series where they want that tuff look. It's a beautiful case though. The flexing handles are better in my opinion than hard plastic. Metal would be a little better but then the price would be really high. I personally like it, people that see it immediately question what that "thing" is, and when they hear it's a computer they want one. It's really a nice case. Easy to work inside. Believe it or not the hardest part was plugging in the graphics card PCI power. The rest was probably the easiest pc build I have ever done.

If you do but it, the only problem I had was that both included case fans used 3 pin fan connections. My board is cheap and only has one case fan header, but that probably only applies to me. And it was easy enough to take a spare molex fan and plug it in there

Yeah, I've been looking at it for an mATX build (they're coming out with an mATX version and I like the increased RAM on mATX boards) - I was looking at the CM HAF case, but it's *enormous*.

 

[Orange Furball]

Yeah, I've been looking at it for an mATX build (they're coming out with an mATX version and I like the increased RAM on mATX boards) - I was looking at the CM HAF case, but it's *enormous*.

Exactly I like the small size. It's perfect. If I had an mATX board I would have held out for the Prodigy M

 

[ranviper]

Most recently.

AMD A10
AMD 6870
MSI MATX Mobo
8GB GSkill 1866
90GB Corsair Force SSD
1 TB Seagate Barracuda
Corsair 500W
Fractal Design Core 1000

KB is KBT Race 75% Cherry MX blues
Razer Deathadder 3.5

 

[Funkatronic]

My current rather modest setup, no multiple monitors or anything

Setup

Random night shot

i7 3770
16GB DDR3 1333
Gigabyte GA-H77M-D3H
Corsair Force 3 120 SSD
WD Green 1TB
MSI 5770 Hawk
Asus Xonar Essence STX
Corsair HX620 PSU
Corsair 300R Case
A couple of NF-F12's and Corsair AF140's take care of the cooling, nothing fancy, just silent. (All of them using L.N.A's)

Dell U2311H
Microsoft Lifecam Cinema
Klipsch Groove PM 2.0 Speakers
Coolermaster Quickfire TK (Cherry MX Brown)
Razer Mamba (that i'm using wired) on a Steelseries Qck Mass

 

[ZipZapRap]

Cool wallpaper

 

[dylin]

My old Windows set up, but now given to my dad.

Really loved that tiny case.

 

[roadbloc]

Walls could do with a lick of paint maybe.

 

[hobbyrennfahrer]

Some enhancements on my water rig.

 

[erayser]

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Some enhancements on my water rig.

I like the look of your loop... nice job. The black tubing makes me feel a lot better about my color scheme. I'm going for a all black look (minus red) with primochill black revolver compression fittings, black acrylic tubing, and black braided cable sleeving. Just waiting for my preordered asus rampage iv black edition motherboard... which should be shipped tomorrow or Tuesday.

 

[nemesis379]

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Some enhancements on my water rig.

Really like the look of those fittings, what fittings have you used & tubing, I'm looking at doing a similar rig soon.

Thanks!

 

[hobbyrennfahrer]

Really like the look of those fittings, what fittings have you used & tubing, I'm looking at doing a similar rig soon.

Thanks!

Alphacool HF Screw fittings and AlphaTube HF tubing.
http://www.alphacool.com/product_in...ctor-G1-4-outer-thread-on-13-10---Chrome.html
http://www.alphacool.com/product_in...k-30m--100ft---Boxed---semi-transparent-.html

 

[Orange Furball]

My stuff doesn't compare to most of yours, but a did a lot of upgrades! I built a new desk from some left over MDF board and bought a ton of carbon fiber off eBay. Then I bought some new stuff!

Specs of the main PC
Bitfenix Prodigy
Asrock Mobo
Intel Core i5 2310
8GB RAM
64GB Boot SSD
1TB Storage hard drive
0GB Broken decoration hard drive (in the window of the computer)
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz edition w/ aftermarker Arctic Cooler S1 cooler
Custom sleeved power supply

Peripherals
Razer Blackwidow Ultimate 2014 Battlefield 4 edition
Razer Naga Epic wireless mouse (carbon fiber on a bit of it)
Razer Tartarus
Samson Meteor Mic
Cyborg V1 joystick
Cheap Dell speakers
Two Dell 23' 1080p IPS monitors
LG External DVD drive
Beats Solo HDs
other stuff.

There's also a secondary computer (used for printing or guests who need access to it), that's just a standard quad core system I built. Nothing special.

Also pictured are some random accessories, a Nexus 7 (2013) and a bowl of candy.

Here's the pictures, ill put a couple more in a second response.

 

[Orange Furball]

Almost forgot. I bough some orange/yellow LEDs and put them under the desk. In the dark it lights up the room without being annoyingly bright!

 

[M0esmac]

Almost forgot. I bough some orange/yellow LEDs and put them under the desk. In the dark it lights up the room without being annoyingly bright!

I always wanted to wrap my my table in carbon, so - maybe you mind showing how did you do the corners of the table?

 

[Orange Furball]

I always wanted to wrap my my table in carbon, so - maybe you mind showing how did you do the corners of the table?

Will do! I used a heatgun to melt the vinyl and then pulled it around the corner, then after that it might make a little edge. But you can either cut it and fold it under or let it stick then trim it off. I have some extra so I'll take pictures of the process. I'll post pictures of the corners later tonight

 

[M0esmac]

Will do! I used a heatgun to melt the vinyl and then pulled it around the corner, then after that it might make a little edge. But you can either cut it and fold it under or let it stick then trim it off. I have some extra so I'll take pictures of the process. I'll post pictures of the corners later tonight

Great, thanks!

 

[Crusader]

A flight simulation fan Windows setup.

 

[raniel]

very cool setups. will post mine later

 

[erayser]

Took me a while to post my water cooling enhancements and updates... plus the Asus Rampage IV Black Edition X79 board was delayed over a month.

Acrylic tubing, and the art of bending is new to me... so it took me while to get the bends right... and cut tubing to the right lengths. Not as easy as good old soft tubing, but the results are worth the effort.

 

[ranviper]

 

[HIMAN1998]

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I have that same desk chair, got it the other day. Would post my setup here, but I got rid of the PC part of it.

 

[ranviper]

I have that same desk chair, got it the other day. Would post my setup here, but I got rid of the PC part of it.

Bah, why would you do such a thing, haha.