What kind of Computer do you Use?

[Loud Ranger]

mobo: msi p7n platinum
cpu: e6850 3.0ghz (oc to 3.4)
ram: 4gb corsair xms2
hdds: 500gb 7200rpm boot drive, 2tb data storage.
gpu: evga 9800gtx+
os: win7 ultimate x64
psu: ocz 500w
dual monitor setup 37" Phillips lcd for display 1 and a 50" Phillips Plasma As a secondary monitor.

Still plays games well despite its showing its age, last 2 i played were fallout nv and portal 2 and had no lag running nv on ultra settings and portal 2 cranked to the max.

 

[strvger]

built my own several years ago using very reliable components. still using windows xp. it's a compact one using a micro atx mb and case with an amd cpu and nvidia graphics card. has done very well. no complaints. boots up faster than my wife's $3k custom gaming computer and has way fewer problems as mine isn't over clocked or 'over' anything else. plays movies fine over my 19in view sonic lcd. well spent $400 for sure.

 

[NMB2]

alienware m15x with the best of everything they offered 4 months ago.

 

[Rogue_Wulff]

Homebuilt ~2.5 years ago (1/09)
AMD 790GX board (Biostar TA790GX-128M)
AMD 6000+ 3.1Ghz dual core (soon to be replaced with 840 3.2Ghz quad)
4Gb DDR2-800
WD Black 640Gb/WD Black 500Gb
ATI HD4670 512Mb
DVD burner
19" CRT
Win 7 x64/Win XP Pro 32bit dual boot
Logitec MOMO Racing wheel for my racin' games
MS keyboard/lazer wheel mouse (antiques)

Does everything I want/need it to do, and then some......

CPU replaced, now has Phenom II X4 840 @ 3.2Ghz. (7 days ago)
WEI scores went from 6.2 CPU, to 7.3. RAM score went from 7.1 to 7.3.
The 840 comes with a small heatsink, so I reused the copper/aluminum heatpipe heatsink from the 6000+ and AS5. Temps have yet to exceed 100F @ 100% load. Idles in the 66-70F range without CnQ enabled in a 70F room. Case has a side vent/duct to allow the CPU fan to draw room temp air for cooling.

 

[Bryan00]

I’m using a Compaq machine with older specification. It has 2.7 GHz, 1GB ram and 128 VGA. But it doesn’t show any problem and so far it’s working very well.

 

[dangerranger83]

Im running a Lenovo laptop G560. Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - (6.1.7600) cpu Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU P6100 @ 2.00GHz (x64) at 1999MHz gfx Intel Corporation Intel(R) HD Graphics (Pentium) 1.68GB res: 1366x768 32bit 59Hz ram: 3894.9MB hdd: C:\254.14GB D:\ 29GB

May not be the greatest but I love Lenovo and I will always own one. Future plans are to get a 1TB hdd and maybe upgrade the ram. Doesnt have the HDMI out put but I have no use for that. I fit my budget at the time, was on sale, and was better then the model that I was going to buy.

Doesnt get hot, still need to get a program that tells what its running at for that but I have an info. bar that I run from Night Iguana Software that tells me everything that it is doing.

 

[floridaoranges]

Self built almost 4 years ago with upgrades since.

EVGA 780i SLI motherboard
2 EVGA GTS 250 video cards in sli
Intel q6600 2.4 overclocked to 3.0
2 WD black 2tb hard drives
OCZ 8gb ram
lite-on dvd burner
OCZ 850w power supply
Vista ultimate 64 bit

 

[whale]

Will

 

[mylittleblackbird]

Home build a year and a half ago for gaming and hoping I don't have to buy another one for five years.

Asus P6T LGA 1366 mobo
Intel I7-920 @ 2.8ghz(stock overclocking) chip
3x2gb DDR3 Corsair XMS Ram @ 1600mhz
Western Digital 500Gb "Green" sata drive(the bottleneck)
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4860 1GB GDDR5
Rosewill 700W Power supply
Windows 7 Home 64 bit.

All stuffed into an ATX full tower case.

It's the first time I've been pleased with a computer and quite an upgrade from the old AMD XP2800+ with 1.5gb of generic ram and three failing hard drives.

 

[Twizzler09]

Well, I have two machines right now. The one I'm currently using and one that I haven't quite finished building yet. The one I'm using I'm going to give to the fiance once I finish the other one. the one I'm currently using is as follows:

MSI K9N6PGM2-V mATX motherboard
AMD BE-2350 2.1ghz "Brisbane" dual core cpu
PNY 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) x2
LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner
1TB Western Digital Caviar Black SATAII HDD
NVidia Galaxy GT430 (fermi) 1GB gfx
Sunbeam 580w PSU
ASUS VB172D Black 17" 5ms LCD Monitor
Windows 7 Ultimate x64bit
Raidmax Typhoon case

The one I will be using (made from spare parts, mostly):
Intel Core 2 Duo e8500 3.16ghz "Wolfsdale" dual core cpu
EVGA 750i FTW sli-capable ATX motherboard
4GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 PC1066 RAM
1TB Western Digital Caviar Black SATAII HDD
ASUS GTX550 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 192-bit GDDR5
Rosewill 600w psu
Windows 7 Ultimate x64bit
NZXT Gamma case

 

[snomaker321]

one year old dell studio 1558

core i5 M520 2.4GHz processor
4gb ram
500gb hd
windows 7 home premium
9 cell battery

No problems so far. My only complaint would be that the battery now only last 2.5 hours of use vs. the original 5 or so hours.

Has no problem running solidworks, Pro/E, autocad, etc. The most gaming i use it for is minecraft or TF2 and I have no complaints.


Oh and our 9 year old dell at home is still working fine. Just never ever ever cheap out and get wordperfect instead of word. it is awful

 

[mike 96 ws6]

XClio A380 ATX Full Tower, Intel Core2 Quad 8200 2.33Ghz (Zalman cooled), Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R, Corsair TX850 watt, Corsair Dominator 8Gb PC2 8500 (triple fans), Vista X64, EVGA GeForce GTX 260, VelociRaptor 150Gb, Barracuda 1Tb, WinTV-HVR1600, Sony DVD & BluRay,

HP Compaq 6715b business notebook, Turion 64 (TL60) 2Ghz, Vista Business X64, 4Gb PC2 6400, Lightscribe, fingerprint scanner, 250Gb hd, abgn wireless, Bytecc USB HD enclosure/WD SATA 320Gb

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Will

I used to have one of those but it was all one piece, pretty neat to play around with. In the late 90's it was already a dinosaur though.

 

[cr_the_machinist]

Macbook Pro.

 

[Psychopete]

I used to have one of those but it was all one piece, pretty neat to play around with. In the late 90's it was already a dinosaur though.

hahaha in the late 90s!? That thing was a dinosaur by the late 80s! I don't miss them either, they were life vampires, everything was sssooooo slooow to load. And I remember it wasn't perception, they seemed as slow then as they seem today.

Have a MAD magazine from 94 somewhere around here with a BASICA program you could type in, after months of typing it all in, it would print out a picture of Alfred.