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I have an old Inspiron 640m, but my day-to-day computer is a Dell Latitude E5530 that I used for my last job but they never asked for back.
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One of my computers. The build cost about $700.
It's pretty powerful as well.
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Gaming Rig:
Also have a Linux file server with 6tb of storage, a small form factor PC I use for XBMC and console emulators, my personal laptop (a Dell Inspiron), a couple of cheap tablets (one I use as an XBMC remote control), and a Kindle.
For work, I have a Dell Precision 390 XP testbed, a Poweredge T1100 Server 2012 testbed, and a new Dell Latitude laptop.
CPU: AMD FX-8120
Memory: 16gb DDR3
Board: Asus Sabertooth 990FX
Video: 2gb GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Storage: 256gb Samsung SSD + 1.5tb Western Digital
Case: Coolermaster HAF XB
Other stuff: Thermaltake liquid CPU cooler, 24" Samsung monitor, Logitech G110 keyboard, Logitech G400 mouse
Memory: 16gb DDR3
Board: Asus Sabertooth 990FX
Video: 2gb GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Storage: 256gb Samsung SSD + 1.5tb Western Digital
Case: Coolermaster HAF XB
Other stuff: Thermaltake liquid CPU cooler, 24" Samsung monitor, Logitech G110 keyboard, Logitech G400 mouse
Also have a Linux file server with 6tb of storage, a small form factor PC I use for XBMC and console emulators, my personal laptop (a Dell Inspiron), a couple of cheap tablets (one I use as an XBMC remote control), and a Kindle.
For work, I have a Dell Precision 390 XP testbed, a Poweredge T1100 Server 2012 testbed, and a new Dell Latitude laptop.
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- Aug 24, 2014
I have the specs of my main computer! (Not the one in the picture though.)
EDIT: Pictures of gameplay (Highest settings of CS:GO, no motion blur)
Specs of my computer:
CPU: Intel i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10 GHz (Haswell)
Motherboard: Gigabyte H87N-WIFI
GPU: AMD Radeon R7 200
RAM: A-Data DDR3 1600 (8 GB)
Hard Drives:
Crucial CT120M50 SCSI Disk Device (SSD)
Seagate BUP Slim SL USB Device (2 TB)
Monitors:
1920x1080 Asus 23" Monitor
1920x1080 AOC 23" Monitor
3840x1080 Display in total
Mouse: HP Wireless Mouse x4000
Keyboard: Logitech K120 Wired Keyboard
Webcam: Logitech C270 HD Webcam
Microphone: Same as my webcam until I get a better one
Not sure about my power supply though
CPU: Intel i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10 GHz (Haswell)
Motherboard: Gigabyte H87N-WIFI
GPU: AMD Radeon R7 200
RAM: A-Data DDR3 1600 (8 GB)
Hard Drives:
Crucial CT120M50 SCSI Disk Device (SSD)
Seagate BUP Slim SL USB Device (2 TB)
Monitors:
1920x1080 Asus 23" Monitor
1920x1080 AOC 23" Monitor
3840x1080 Display in total
Mouse: HP Wireless Mouse x4000
Keyboard: Logitech K120 Wired Keyboard
Webcam: Logitech C270 HD Webcam
Microphone: Same as my webcam until I get a better one
Not sure about my power supply though
EDIT: Pictures of gameplay (Highest settings of CS:GO, no motion blur)
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I want to put together a file server at some point. I bought some random discount desktop computer off of ebay, thinking I could toss a few drives into it and turn it into a file server. Though, goddamn, I learned a lesson: never buy any, any hardware without consulting your friends first. Like, I could make it work, but I didn't pay close enough attention to the connectors and stuff. So that computer is just gathering dust.
Currently I have an XBMC computer that just mounts my desktop via NFS. It works fine, but whenever my desktop shits itself, suddenly I can't wait for the situation to resolve itself and watch TV.
Heh, I also have a couple of TV tuners in my XBMC computer. I should hook them up to XBMC. Right now I can watch broadcast TV streamed over the network to my desktop, which is cool. But they're not set up with XBMC. I need to work on that...
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I have a shitty Inspiron from 2011, that somehow has a battery that can still hold a charge for 3 hours.
I also have my gaming desktop, that is now on case #2. It isn't the most powerful, but it gets the job done. Just heats my room up too much to use constantly during the summer.
I also have my gaming desktop, that is now on case #2. It isn't the most powerful, but it gets the job done. Just heats my room up too much to use constantly during the summer.
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2009 MacbookPro 13 inch. I upgraded the ram to 8gb, moved the orginal HD to where the dvd drive was and put in a SSD.
2013 Toshiba Satellite for vidya and movies. It wasn't much more expensive than the bluray player I was looking at (second hand)
2013 Toshiba Satellite for vidya and movies. It wasn't much more expensive than the bluray player I was looking at (second hand)
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I have a 2013 Dell Inspiron 15. The battery gave out about three weeks ago, so it's essentially a laughably weak desktop at the moment. The battery is relatively cheap online, but I have the whole unemployed thing going on right now. The fact that it has a touchscreen boosted my productivity by about 5% compared to the laptop I had previously. I don't really game (being poor and, while I was in grad school, not wanting to distract myself) or store much more than Word documents and a shit ton of images, so I don't really need something ridiculously powerful. That being said, as soon as I find a real job, I'm going to build a nice gaming PC and start playing again.
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Some old sony laptop I cobbled together from the remains of a couple of laptops of the same model, plugged into an external monitor because the screen's busted.
Just got an old Toshiba laptop from a buddy, haven't restored it to factory yet so it's hard to parse it as "mine" still. Seems okay. Runs WoW better than the Sony.
I also have an ancient dell xp tower that was my video player at home for a while, now it's a dedicated audio playback/recording unit at my job.
Just got an old Toshiba laptop from a buddy, haven't restored it to factory yet so it's hard to parse it as "mine" still. Seems okay. Runs WoW better than the Sony.
I also have an ancient dell xp tower that was my video player at home for a while, now it's a dedicated audio playback/recording unit at my job.
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I have the same problem. I have a 2006 Dell Inspiron E1505 and the LCD screen crapped out on me 4 years ago and have it set up on a monitor. The battery is done for too and I have the adaptor plugged in. I plan on getting a new laptop in my budget in the near distant future. I don't have a high paying job at the moment to get a laptop for gaming, web browsing and writing. :[
One of my computers. The build cost about $700.
It's pretty powerful as well.
Lucky!!
I have the specs of my main computer! (Not the one in the picture though.)
Specs of my computer:
CPU: Intel i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10 GHz (Haswell)
Motherboard: Gigabyte H87N-WIFI
GPU: AMD Radeon R7 200
RAM: A-Data DDR3 1600 (8 GB)
Hard Drives:
Crucial CT120M50 SCSI Disk Device (SSD)
Seagate BUP Slim SL USB Device (2 TB)
Monitors:
1920x1080 Asus 23" Monitor
1920x1080 AOC 23" Monitor
3840x1080 Display in total
Mouse: HP Wireless Mouse x4000
Keyboard: Logitech K120 Wired Keyboard
Webcam: Logitech C270 HD Webcam
Microphone: Same as my webcam until I get a better one
Not sure about my power supply though
EDIT: Pictures of gameplay (Highest settings of CS:GO, no motion blur)
Wow it looks great! Can we trade? Haha!
How much RAM do you have? I have 1.0 GB of RAM and a Core Duo CPU and Firefox is horrible with the lag. It's better than IE anyway.
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I have 8 GB of RAM right now with an Intel i5-4440 CPU (full specs in previous post).
kekLucky!!
EDIT: I'm currently getting the specs of this computer! I'll be listing them in this post.
EDIT 2: Here are the specs of the build!
CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K
Motherboard: MSI A58-M33
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730
RAM: Dual-Channel DDR3 RAM (8 GB)
Case: ENERMAX OSTROG ECA3253-BR Black?Red SGCC / SECC ATX Mid Tower
Power Supply: LEPA N Series N500-SA 500W ATX12V Power Supply
Monitor: Upstar 16" VGA Monitor
Motherboard: MSI A58-M33
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730
RAM: Dual-Channel DDR3 RAM (8 GB)
Case: ENERMAX OSTROG ECA3253-BR Black?Red SGCC / SECC ATX Mid Tower
Power Supply: LEPA N Series N500-SA 500W ATX12V Power Supply
Monitor: Upstar 16" VGA Monitor
It's a good computer compared to my old laptop. I don't use my other build for anything; maybe we can trade.
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Just joking about the trade. I'll deal with this for a little longer. 8 gigs huh? It's weird because I don't think FF should be spiking that high. I know there's a way to keep FF from spiking your RAM and CPU but there's too many steps to do it though.
I have a 2011 21.5" iMac. I have Windows 7 installed on a smaller partition in it so I can still do art.
I'm looking to upgrade my RAM from 4gb to at least 8gb though. The current Mac OS X version I have (10.9) runs terrible on my machine and I don't know why. I'm hoping a RAM upgrade will help.
I'm looking to upgrade my RAM from 4gb to at least 8gb though. The current Mac OS X version I have (10.9) runs terrible on my machine and I don't know why. I'm hoping a RAM upgrade will help.
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That's weird. My 2008 iMac ran it like a champ with only 4 gig of RAM.
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Running 10.10.3 here just fine on a 2010 MBP with 4 GB.
I find it useful to turn off some of the more hoggish GUI shit. Here's a nice list of shit to turn off.
The very first, the transparent windows, is really useful. System Preferences --> Accessibility --> Display. There's a checkbox "Reduce Transparency." Click that fucker. Speeds things up noticeably.
That's part of why I think it's so weird that I'm having trouble with Mavericks. I haven't seen anyone else with this trouble before and I haven't had this issue with other Macs I've owned.
Thanks for the link.
Later this weekend I'm going to sit down and figure out what's hogging everything, which I think a lot of it pertains to what's in the link. It's probably just a simple fix and I'm just blind and can't see it.