What kind of 'puters are you guys rocking?

[seri0us]

It's also the first time since the 90s I owned a computer that looks "professional" and not like a 14 year old counter strike player's (or whatever the kids play these days) wet dream

They still play that game. Often times the kids with expensive machines will brag about it on voice chat even though their parents bought it for them.

 

[Cod of War]

Gaming Desktop
I5 11400F
GTX 1660Ti
16 GBs RAM
500GB NVMe SSD
2TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD
Some 120GB Samsung SSD I pulled out of some old office PC

A HP 2000 Notebook
Some Dell notebook I was giving that uses Ubuntu

 

[XiaoMeiMei]

Main PC has; GTX 3080, Ryzen 3700x, 32GB DDR4 and a few TBs of SSDs. Runs Arch.
My HTPC has a RX 6600, i3 12100F, and 8GB RAM. Runs ChimeraOS.

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

potato laptop that crashes if you breathe at it wrong

 

[Master Xehanort]

Ryzen 7 2700. RX 6700 XT. 16GB 3200 RAM. 850 watt PSU. 250gb SATA SSD. 2tb hdd. 3-4tb external HDD.

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

Desktop/HTPC
Asrock Deskmini x300
Ryzen 4650G / Noctua L9a / 32GB / 500GB nvme

Laptop:
16” M1 MacBook Pro
Biggest M1 Max / 64GB / 4TB

 

[Rozzy]

A 4th gen Intel i5 Dell with 32GB SDRAM running a live Linux distro.

 

[Nick Gars]

My primary died on me (hard drive probably, modern laptop so it's a pain in the ass to open up), so I'm stuck using this fucking thing.

It's a Dell Latitude XT2, one of the earlier convertible laptops. This thing from what I can gather was used for charting and notes primarily in hospitals, and it definitely shows. Even just running MS FUCKING PAINT or Old School RuneScape will this thing chug. Rendering a video makes it sound like a 747 and makes it 100% unusable until it's done (5 hours later than a regular computer at that). I also have the "media center" attachment for it which adds a dvd-r drive and a couple extra USB ports, but even though that thing is mounted to the port on the bottom, a slight jostol will disconnect it.

And no, the pen tablet feature doesn't really help for my pixel art either. The battery life is too shit, it gets nuclear fucking hot when trying to use it as a tablet, and no matter how much you calibrate it, there's always dead zones. It's a painful thing to use and not a day goes by where I don't want to snap it in half because it's struggling like a paraplegic with broken arms on a highway with the simplest of tasks.

 

[PC LOAD LETTER]

It's a Dell Latitude XT2, one of the earlier convertible laptops. This thing from what I can gather was used for charting and notes primarily in hospitals, and it definitely shows. Even just running MS FUCKING PAINT or Old School RuneScape will this thing chug.

I had one of those a long, long time ago. Want to know why it's so slow? It literally boots from and runs off an iPod hard drive. For those who've never had the misfortune of using one of these early ultraportables, this is what it was like back in the day:

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

Finally getting to afford a late-gen I5 machine to replace my ancient, Windoze XP-upgraded-to-7 rig. It has M.2 NVME slots on the motherboard...but honestly they're overkill AF for me. So I'll stick with a couple brand-new SATA drives to replace the equally ancient ones I have now before they fail without warning due to age.

I need a 3080TI so I don't need to get another GPU for a long-ass time but what the fuck is this with retail prices increasing? I cannot afford the 1000-1200 for a single component, that was my budget for an entire machine.

 

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I need a 3080TI so I don't need to get another GPU for a long-ass time but what the fuck is this with retail prices increasing? I cannot afford the 1000-1200 for a single component, that was my budget for an entire machine.

Pandemic supply chain problems, economic inflation, and Nvidia jacking up prices to profit off Bitcoin retards and then never bothering to lower them again.

 

[AmpleApricots]

runs off an iPod hard drive

I think some iPods even had Microdrives

Pandemic supply chain problems, economic inflation, and Nvidia jacking up prices to profit off Bitcoin retards and then never bothering to lower them again.

and then they wonder. Between all these "high-end" video games being the same repetitive drivel I already played ten years ago and a card costing a cool thau it isn't really hard anymore to decide to just not upgrade. There's so many games with very engaging gameplay that barely need what you'd consider a graphics card.

Refurbished Lenovo ThinkCentre

I'm thinking about buying one too. They're so cheap in my corner currently (I think mostly because Microsoft dropped Win11 support for the old CPUs and that makes organizations retire them) that they're not a serious investment in any way and even undercut many of the better ARM SBCs in price. I could use some kind of always-on server. I bought a refurbished Thinkpad X1 Tablet Gen2 and it's actually been a really cool "semi-mobile" computer that runs most of what I bother throwing at it. Very nice screen too and very competitive power consumption.

 

[PFM]

Thinkpad t480's motherboard just took a shit so I'm going to replace it with another Thinkpad t480

 

[Scale Smerch]

I need a 3080TI so I don't need to get another GPU for a long-ass time but what the fuck is this with retail prices increasing? I cannot afford the 1000-1200 for a single component, that was my budget for an entire machine.

Not to flex but this was the only reason I bought my 3080 12GB for ~$1000 early last year, it'll last me at least 5 years before software and vidya develops enough to require something better, particularly with gaming increasingly dictated by console hardware.

On a more serious note though I feel you. It's basically Nvidia betting on the crypto hype lasting, losing that bet, and still doubling down because monopolistic greed. Current pricing is mostly down to Jensen overpricing the 4000 series to move the significant 3000 series surplus without a price drop and keep the shareholders happy. AMD follows the lead because they have no reason not to, particularly with how both obnoxious reviews have become in setting general consumer sentiment and pro Green Team many of them are. Things unfortunately won't improve anytime soon so you're either going to have to bite the bullet or hope the next 12-24 months actually yield some deflationary pressure.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

Not to flex but this was the only reason I bought my 3080 12GB for ~$1000 early last year, it'll last me at least 5 years before software and vidya develops enough to require something better, particularly with gaming increasingly dictated by console hardware.

I may manage to get mine for considerably less because the seller is desperate for cash. Fingers and toes crossed, auction has a few days left.

 

[Catgirl Enthusiast]

They still play that game. Often times the kids with expensive machines will brag about it on voice chat even though their parents bought it for them.

My kids brag about the basic ass gaming rigs I built for them. My rig is worth more than the SUV I drive them around in. Bragging never ends.

 

[CumDumpster]

A custom PC built off the back of an aging HP prebuilt.
Board: B550 MSI Gaming Plus
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3700x, Cooled with BeQuiet Shadow Rock LP heatsink under an Noctua A12X25.
GPU: Zotac GTX1050ti Mini (Taken from the old prebuilt, runs considerably cooler now)
RAM: 4x8GB (32GB) Team Group VulcanZ
Case: Corsair Carbide 100R
Not bad for a puter built 2, going on 3 years ago.

 

[Rembrandt]

Fuck off Steam, I don't care who Valve sends I am not completing the hardware survey

 

[Susanna]

I have three computers I use regularly.

My workstation:
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
128GB DDR5-6000
AMD Radeon 6900XT
Nvidia Geforce GTX1070
3x 2TB WD SN850 SSD

My server:
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
64GB DDR4-3200
4x 8TB Toshiba N300 HDD
3x 500GB Kingston A2000 SSD

My laptop:
Lenovo Yoga Slim 14"

I do CAD and CFD on my workstation, so a beefy CPU is mandatory. The 7950X is pretty amazing, with nice 10 it'll happily run just about anything in the background, and the load is imperceptible on whatever I'm doing in the foreground. I can work in multiple containers and virtual machines simultaneously and never worry about running out of computer. The GTX1070 is just there to give me CUDA without all the hassle involved in getting pytorch to run on the 6900XT. I barely use CUDA, so I don't feel any need to upgrade yet. The SSDs are in a ZFS pool, giving me 4TB to play around with, with redundancy, automatic backups to the server, and all the other nice features ZFS has to offer. The 6900XT is for gaming, it handles Civilization V and Stellaris just fine. Custom loop water cooling with a 280mm radiator keeps the temperatures low even at full load. Only issue I've had is with the DDR5, which really doesn't like running at high frequencies in two DIMMs per channel mode. I've had to loosen the timings quite a bit, and it takes literally ages for the machine to boot.
The server is mostly a NAS. The HDDs are in a ZFS pool, with the SSDs serving as metadata and L2ARC special vdevs. The server is also a wireguard node, letting me remotely access any device on my network. I'm running 10GbE between the server and the switch, and between the switch and the workstation, but there's probably some configuration issue somewhere because file transfers rarely go faster than 5Gbps.
The laptop is for travelling. I used a 2013 Macbook Air until a few months ago, when its SSD finally died. Apple SSDs are weird and proprietary, so I got a new laptop instead. It has an OLED screen, which is pretty cool, but I'm not particularly fond of the keyboard, the trackpad, or how noisy it is. I miss my macbook.(

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

It's nothing special, just some DIY 'puter:
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
AMD Wraith Prism Cooler
MSI X470 Gaming Pro
ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER OC Evo
32GB G.Skill RipJaws V DDR4 - 3200
1000GB WD Blue 3D NAND SSD
Corsair Carbide 300R case

For the games I play, most of them from the early to mid 2000's like Silent Hunter 3 (2003) or ETS2 (2012) it's more than enough and even games like SCUM or MSFS 2020 run good on it. So I won't upgrade for the forseeable future.
Only thing I might change is the cooler because it's not the most silent one, actually it sounds like a vacuum cleaner when working hard.