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Post Your Windows Setup: Past & Present!
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Holy crap, is that a Tuniq Tower? I want one for my machine, but that puts things in perspective...I'd be afraid of it breaking the mounting braket.
I still want one.
yes. with a nexus 120mm fan@7v. and one more nexus 120mm to the left. and one 92mm nexus fan@7v to the right. and the harddrives are hanging free so my comp is SILENT =)
Roblin, playing poker for money?
yes. only reason i have to put up with PC.
I have a 20 inch iMac but here are pictures of my windows setup!
3.0ghz processor, 2GB Ram, 500 GB Harddrive. 19' Widescreen AOC Display.
3.0ghz processor, 2GB Ram, 500 GB Harddrive. 19' Widescreen AOC Display.
My setup is of no comparison to my computer itself:
Its fast...
Cooler Master Stacker 832 Case, Mushkin 650w Rail Fusion Quad 12v Rail Power Supply, ASUS P5N32-E SLI 680i Motherboard, Intel Core 2 Duo e4300 "Allendale" Processor @ 3.3GHz (1.8 stock), Zalman 9700LED CPU Cooler, 2GB Mushkin eXtreme DDR2-800 Memory @ 4-4-3-10, 4x Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200.10 Hard Drives in RAID5 (900GB effective), and last but most certainly not least an EVGA 8800GTX Graphics Card.
Its fast...
Cooler Master Stacker 832 Case, Mushkin 650w Rail Fusion Quad 12v Rail Power Supply, ASUS P5N32-E SLI 680i Motherboard, Intel Core 2 Duo e4300 "Allendale" Processor @ 3.3GHz (1.8 stock), Zalman 9700LED CPU Cooler, 2GB Mushkin eXtreme DDR2-800 Memory @ 4-4-3-10, 4x Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200.10 Hard Drives in RAID5 (900GB effective), and last but most certainly not least an EVGA 8800GTX Graphics Card.
Sweet Mother Mary, spectacular machine. It is unfortunate that you are running that God Box on a CRT, fix that soon
Any reason you kind of skimped on the processor?
Sweet Mother Mary, spectacular machine. It is unfortunate that you are running that God Box on a CRT, fix that soon
I decided for $170 (now only $120) that with a little effort I am beating out the x6800 extreme C2D in performance (when its not overclocked of course). So thats like $1000 of performance for a fraction of the cost. Also, if my CPU burns out 6 months sooner, even to replace it I'm still out far less money than if I had just gotten the x6800 or even like a e6700 CPU. Just my theory.
My Mac setup, showing it's Vista side. It doesn't go there very often.
Note - The Dell speakers in the picture, are temporary. I have a set of Logitech Z4i's in the mail.
Note - The Dell speakers in the picture, are temporary. I have a set of Logitech Z4i's in the mail.
This is my complete setup i posted in the post your mac setup thread yesterday so i will not repost that picture but i will just link that instead.
This is what my setup normally looks like-
http://usera.imagecave.com/picturesmac/set_up07.jpg
I also own a Mini AOpen PC 1.73-M,80GB 5400 PMR,1GB, GMA 900, Wifi, DVD-RW, i think that it has got 128 of shared vram as well. I use the AOpen mainly really for media purposes really it is like my little media box. I use it for picture editing sometimes as well. I like having a little dedicated media box.
It didn't really cost me much to put it together at all. I bought a barebones model in the States and i got my friend in America to ship it onto me.
Anyway this is the Windows part of my setup. I am running Windows XP Professional on there.
I may upgrade the Mini PC in the future and give my own to my dad and use the money and buy myself the next one up as he wants one but i may not do that.
This is how my setup used to look about four years ago. I was using a Satellite Pro 6100 back then.
http://usera.imagecave.com/picturesmac/oldwindows1.jpg
This is how it was not that long ago.
http://usera.imagecave.com/picturesmac/resize2.jpg
This is what my setup normally looks like-
http://usera.imagecave.com/picturesmac/set_up07.jpg
I also own a Mini AOpen PC 1.73-M,80GB 5400 PMR,1GB, GMA 900, Wifi, DVD-RW, i think that it has got 128 of shared vram as well. I use the AOpen mainly really for media purposes really it is like my little media box. I use it for picture editing sometimes as well. I like having a little dedicated media box.
It didn't really cost me much to put it together at all. I bought a barebones model in the States and i got my friend in America to ship it onto me.
Anyway this is the Windows part of my setup. I am running Windows XP Professional on there.
I may upgrade the Mini PC in the future and give my own to my dad and use the money and buy myself the next one up as he wants one but i may not do that.
This is how my setup used to look about four years ago. I was using a Satellite Pro 6100 back then.
http://usera.imagecave.com/picturesmac/oldwindows1.jpg
This is how it was not that long ago.
http://usera.imagecave.com/picturesmac/resize2.jpg
An update to earlier (up the page a little) of my crazy desktop pc...
I am awaiting a 24" Dell, should be here within the week.
That might be the most un-heterosexual metaphor I have ever heard. It really creaped me out.Hehe, probably should have turned the flash off for that shot.
Oh, and Edward and Derek should meet up sometime. As long as you don't have any viruses, I'd be more than happy to share some erm... files.
Got my Dell 24"! No more fatty 21" CRT on my so called "God Box" as dubbed by indigoflowAS.
More info/pics here: http://www.joshuahenryproductions.com/computer/
More info/pics here: http://www.joshuahenryproductions.com/computer/
That's more like it
Hope you are enjoying your complete experience now (look at those speakers!) Well done.Now to show my inferior setup, next purchase: 8800GTS 640 stuffed into my still-beige box
