Okay your nerds and nerdettes... what gear ya runnin'?

[Worf]

I just parted out my first rig in a coon's age so I'm here to find out what the folks here are running...

My old rig:
AMD 8350
Radeon R90 Vid card
8 gigs of something.
Thermaltake Level 10 GT case (Combat Edition)
1 TB Samsung SSD
3 TB Enterprise volume drive
Windows 7 (I know... I know)
NO RGB of any sort.

I've been rolling my own since the 486-33 days and have been runnin' AMD since the Athalon chips. I'll probably be sticking with an all AMD rig as well. I could probably just upgrade to Win 10 on this thing but I decided to treat myself to a new outfit.

What are you runnin' and what do YOU recommend....

The Wizened Worfster

 

[dubpynchon]

I still have an Intel 2500K chip, and it still works fine (I have to use Advanced System Care to clean up the system every week or two as otherwise it'd probably slow down a lot). My graphics card is a 1070 TI from about two years ago, it's the strix version so its fan switches off unless you're gaming.
My big purchase for this year was a Synology NAS, a four port, with two 12tb western digital hard drives, so I can store my 400 odd movies on it and watch them on the tv downstairs.
Someday I'll upgrade my processor but at the moment it still works find and doesn't bottleneck too much in games (maybe the odd time). It's the idea of having to buy a new motherboard as well as memory and a new copy of Windows, as this was the free upgrade they did to 10, that puts me off. I figure another two years or so and then I won't have much choice in the matter if I want to play anything recent.

 

[3fingers]

Windows 7 (I know... I know)

There's not a darn thing wrong with 7.
We still run it at work because some of our software likes nothing newer and virtual doesn't work as well as the real deal. I'll keep it until they take it away from me.

 

[GHT]

 

[LizzieMaine]

Mac G4 "Mirrored Door" Dual 1.25 GHz PowerPC running OS 10.4.11. (Found it at the side of the road in front of a house with a "FREE" sign on it around 2008.) Two hard drives installed, one 275 GB, the other 250 GB, and both with about 30 GB of space available. My desk is a mess too.

I also have three second-hand Mac Minis (Intel 1.66 gHz blah blah) running OS 10.6.8. These machines are used to program audio for three SSTran 3000 AM radio transmitters operating at 100 milliwatts on 990 kc, 1230 kc, and 1330 kc to ensure that I always have something to listen to on the radio that isn't crap. The audio content is played from iTunes 10 using an automation platform called Daypart v. 2. 2. 1 which controls the programming for all three stations.

Nothing else runs on these Minis but the radio content and the automation software, and the oldest of them has been running 24 hours a day for the past eight years. A couple times a year I blow the cat hair out of the vents, which seems to keep them healthy.

 

[Paisley]

A Macbook Pro from mid-2010. My only complaint about it is that it's hard to find files.

I recently recycled my PC laptop. It didn't work with Windows 10 and I got tired of waiting on a million updates on the rare occasion I used it.

 

[Worf]

There's not a darn thing wrong with 7.
We still run it at work because some of our software likes nothing newer and virtual doesn't work as well as the real deal. I'll keep it until they take it away from me.

Hey I LOVE Windows 7 I'd run it till the aliens invaded BUT they don't support it anymore with security updates and it doesn't recognize the new AMD Zen 2 processors... so.... I gotta do the switcheroo....

Worf

 

[Bushman]

Um... it's a Dell tower?

 

[Trenchfriend]

2012s Toshiba notebook, Xubuntu/Win7
1999s Compaq Presario Pentium III 500 MHz, WinXP Home
Playstation 1

 

[Trenchfriend]

My Philips GoGear 2110 mp3/wma-player still works! Bought it probably around 2007. 1 GB.

The two-level green backlight is defect, only the first level works. Even better, saves precious battery!

 

[Edward]

I'm typing this on the work machine - an original, mark one Microsoft Surface Pro, bought new in 2013. For home use, I have just my phone and a basic 10" tablet. Somewhere I have a laptop running 7 (a HP from 2011), which I will upgrade to 10 in due course, though I plan more than anything to use it as a base to access digital music, hooked up to my hifi system via a DAC.

My future acquisitions will probably be:

- An 8" android tablet with a keyboard cover for very portable use

- either a refurbished Dell laptop or, if I'm going to splash out, an MS Surface Go for more serious o the move work.

- Toying with the idea of a nice, alu-bodied Chromebook, though: this could beat out a laptop if it's only for entertainment & online, which is 99.9% of my home computer use at present.

- After I move house, a desktop set-up, built around a mini-pc with high GB RAM and something basic like 256GB SSD storage, wifi-linked to a 10+ TB home network-storage drive (which will also host my music files). Also want to get into some photo editing and a little home sound-recording, so this will be the set-up for that.

Increasingly, I think there's a lot to be said for having outboard storage at home and only keeping what you need on the machine. SD cards can help; my Surface was effective 'full'; £20 and a few hours later, I had sobled it's capacity with a 128GB Micro SD card, and reorganised all my files. Not been in the red zone since. I don't like being dependent on cloud storage (especially not when they trap you with subscriptions); I use my own outboard options for that.

A nice tablet or chromebook is grand for online browsing, but for much more, as long as you're happy with the locational limitation, it's impressive how much you can get fo your money desktop-wise nowadays.