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QOTW: What are the specs of your main PC?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 6 December 2013, 16:30

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It's that time of year that most of us are contemplating spending some well-earned time away from work. Most of us, I hazard, will use this time to play the latest games on the beloved PC.

There's been plenty of opportunity to upgrade the PC this year, with SSD prices tumbling, a raft of new graphics cards launched, and Intel debuting the Haswell chip and associated 8-series motherboards.

What we want to know for the Question of The Week is, right now, what is the specification of your main home PC and whether you're happy with it?

I'll start the ball rolling with the PC that sits in the study.

Case: Corsair Graphite 600T
PSU: be quiet! Dark Power Pro 850W
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K @ stock
Cooler: Arctic Cooling Freezer 13
Mobo: Gigabyte Z77X-UP4H
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760
Memory: G.Skill 16GB (2x8GB) RipjawsX DDR3-1,866
Storage: Crucial M500 240GB
Monitor: Dell 2405 (1,920x1,080)
OS: Windows 8.1, 64-bit

The system is potent enough to do everything I need, including the occasional gaming. What about you guys and gals? Feel free to leave your specs, thoughts, and pictures in the comments facility below.



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Athlon xp 2600+ (Thoroughbred)
ECS K7S5A (with Pro Bios)
Geforce 7600GT
Zalman CNPS6000-ALCU Flower Cooler
1GB budget DDR ram @ 266mhz
Generic ~250w PSU
80Gb WD IDE
40Gb Maxtor IDE
No-brand ATX case
Windows XP
4:3 ratio 19" Samsung TFT
And, include a pic of the inside of your PC as well.
Case: Fractal Design R4 w/ 3x 140mm Noctua NF-A14 Fans
PSU: Corsair Pro 750W
CPU: AMD FX8350 @ 4.4Ghz
Cooler: H100i w/ 2x 120mm Noctua NF-P12 Fans
Mobo: Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
GPU: 2x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST (Xfire) @ 1050Mhz
Memory: Corsair 16GB (2x 8GB) Vengeance @ 1866Mhz
Storage: 500GB Samsung 840 SSD
Monitor: Dell U2713HM (2560x1440)
OS: Windows 8.1, 64-bit

Server: HP n54l MicroServer, 8GB ram, 5x 2TB Samsung F4, 1x 250GB Hitachi Mech, 2x 1TB Samsung F4 in ICY Boxes, nVida 210 GPU.
hmmmm, define “main” PC ;) I have several that get used for different jobs :p

if you mean the one I use most often, it's my laptop, which is a 15.6" HP Pavilion some number, with an A10-4600M, 8GB Crucial DDR3-1600 and a 1TB spinny disk. Lovely bit of kit :)

But if you mean the most powerful machine I have available to me, the SFF desktop just about pips the laptop, and comprises an ASUS M4A785TD-M EVO, a Phenom II 905e (2.5GHz), 8GB (2x4GB) Crucial Ballistix VLP (1600MHz CL9 @ 1.35v), a Sapphire low profile Radeon 7750 and a 750GB Seagate spinny disk, all housed in an AOpen H360B in beige, and connected up to an Iiyama ProLite E481S (19" 1280x1024 native).

EDIT:
OilSheikh
And, include a pic of the inside of your PC as well.

Well, I don't think I have any of the current incarnation, but I need to replace the PSU soon so I'll try to get one when that happens ;)
Case: Corsair 600T White
PSU: Corsair HX850
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.2GHz
Cooler: Prolimatech Megahalem
Mobo: Asus P8Z77 WS
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 (EVGA SOC)
Memory: 8GB Corsair Vengeance Black DDR3-1600 Low Profile
Storage: 2 x Samsung 830 (256GB) RAID0, 2 x Corsair Force 3 (240GB) RAID0, 4 x 1TB HDD RAID5, 2 x 1TB HDD stand alone
Monitor: 2 x Dell 3007
OS: Windows 8.1 Enterprise, 64-bit

I could do with a little more graphical oomph for the new BF4 maps but otherwise the system flies along doing everything I want it to. The RAM is even more than sufficient as I have dedicated ESX hosts for that.