My main computer. It's custom-built. It sucks but at least it's powerful enough for pretty much all tasks.
8 GB DDR3-1600
Intel Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz
1 TB WD Blue, 256 GB Samsung SSD
Windows 10 Pro
Intel HD 4000 (normally, I have the Sapphire Radeon R7 260X with 2 GB of video RAM, but it is a serious pile of shit and it causes too much problems, even after getting it replaced. It's considerably more powerful than the HD Graphics, but it's unuseable and I don't know what to do since warranty is done for a while now)
MSI H81M-P33 Logic Board
CORSAIR CX600M (600W)
AMD Athlon XP Mobile 2.1GHZ
1 GB RAM
Abit KT7A
Voodoo 5
WD 500gb hard drive
Windows 95
Full tower, beige like a computer should be, and with no retarded blue LEDs.
AMD Athlon XP Mobile 2.1GHZ
1 GB RAM
Abit KT7A
Voodoo 5
WD 500gb hard drive
Windows 95
Full tower, beige like a computer should be, and with no retarded blue LEDs.
Deal with it.
The only purpose blue LEDs have are to cool off your computer from the extra speed causing heat that red LEDs would provide .
I have various computers and I don't feel like typing up all of the specs, but the 3 I use the most are my Thinkpad T530, Toughbook CF-31, and a Custom built. The Thinkpad and Toughbook have i5s (The Thinkpad has an nVidia card, Toughbook has integrated) and the Custom built has an i7 and a GTX 770.
Not a huge fan of some stuff, I wouldn't consider it a "proper" ThinkPad - fucking huge bezels and the build quality definitely isn't x-series standard, but it's a nice little laptop and still at least has the trackpoint. Shame discord still doesn't listen to dpi scaling settings on Win10. Lenovo 3 year onsite warranty is awesome too, they replaced the keyboard because one key was slightly loose.
Custom build is a close second, though it's a bit of a mess right now in regards to cable management and the LED strip is falling off:
Generally great but the loud HDD worries me. Local store's ridiculously cheap price for the CPU meant that I could get it with a tight budget, up until recently I've been using an "old" 7850 which really can't handle 4K whatsoever. What's nice is the 4K display has picture-in-picture which is great for setting up old PCs, etc.
After messing with various business-grade dual CPU monster servers with stupidly high powerful consumption, I realized it's overkill for a simple web and Minecraft server so I'm using a Zoostorm (UK prebuilt brand):
Haswell-based Pentium CPU (need to check model), 4GB DDR3, WD Blue 500GB, some Asus mobo that seems to be able to OC somehow, Win10 Pro x64 (I know, I know, should be using Windows Server or Linux)
Very dirty inside but it works fine.
For "retro" stuff my Toshiba 110CT is ideal:
Pentium II (???), around 16MB RAM, ~1GB HDD, 800x600 (???) ~12" display, Win95
Battery still holds charge after all these years. Also has an inbuilt PSU which is extremely useful, takes a standard 2pin cable. Still has what seems to be the original install of Windows 95 and Office 97 (???), which seems completely clean. Need to get around to getting some kind of CD drive for it as floppies aren't fun, especially for OS installtion (dual boot with Windows 3.1 is something I'd love to get working), but otherwise it's fun to play with.
imac early 2009
core 2 duo 2.66ghz
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB
8gb ddr3 1333mhz memory
320 gb hard drive
dvd super drive
mac os 10.11.6
my other is a pc
asus m5a97 le2.0
amd fx 6300 6 core 3.5ghz
NVIDIA GeForce GT610 2gb memory
8gb ddr3 667mhz memory
500gb hard drive with windows 7
500gb hard drive with windows 10
160gb hard drive nothing on it
160gb hard drive use for saving stuff
dvd burner
dvd burner
I have a few computers on my desk setup for easy use, I'll post specs for the 3 systems I use the most.
Mac Mini 2014 Model (Used often for Internet Browsing):
Intel Core i5 Haswell @ 2.6 GHz
8GB of Integrated DDR3 RAM
Intel Iris Pro 5100
1TB SATA HDD
OS X 10.11 El Capitan
HP/Compaq DC7800 (Used once in a while for special tasks):
Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4 GHz
4GB DDR2 SDRAM
AMD Radeon HD 6450
750GB SATA HDD
16x SATA DVD-RW Drive + 3.5" Floppy Drive
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Dell Dimension 4300 (Used fairly often for basic word processing and retro gaming):
Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.6 GHz
384MB PC-133 SDRAM
nVidia Geforce FX 5200
40GB IDE HDD
48x IDE CD-ROM Drive + 3.5" Floppy Drive
Windows 98SE with SP2 + Windows 2000 Pro with SP4 Dual-boot
I can't believe there's only been a single post with specs close to the ones I use lol.. I guess I am just really patient when it comes to computing.
99% of the time I use a Toshiba Libretto u100 with
Pentium M 753 @ 1.20 GHz ; 400MHz bus
An entire Giga-Byte of DDR SDRAM
Intel Extreme Graphics 2 w/ 64MB shared max --[actually still streams 720p fluently through VLC in fullscreen]
10GB Toshiba PATA HDD --ripped from an original iPod [the first one with the physical scroll wheel; it now has an SSD
If not Windows 95, Debian.
I use a titload of old, relatively irreplaceable equipment and Debian makes a surprisingly decent bridge for swapping files and media between ancient and slightly less ancient hardware / OSes, and I've just slowly started using it for everything else since it is just so nice to old hardware. That said, I still don't know shite about Linux overall, so don't hate me too much for mentioning it on here...
MacBook Pro (Mid-2012)
Intel Core i5 Ivy Bridge @ 2.5 GHz
16GB of DDR3 RAM
Intel HD 4000
500GB SATA HDD
DVD+RW SATA
macOS Sierra 10.12
Two USB HDDs 1TB each: One for backup and the other for extra storage.
I use many computers, but my main desktop is probably what I use the most. Spec-wise it's getting a bit dated, but it doesn't feel overly slow or anything... the only time I'd see a limitation is with some newer games, but I've never been much of a gamer anyway. Although I did recently get the new Skullcanyon NUC and compared to that, my desktop is starting to seem just a tad sluggish... but I think the main issue is actually the OS. My desktop is still rocking the same Windows 7 install I installed when I built the machine in 2011 while the NUC is running Windows 10... 8.x and 10 are definitely faster than 7. I upgraded my work machine from 7 to 8.1 and it's definitely more responsive.
Antec P280 Black ATX Mid Tower
ASRock 870iCafe AM3 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II 965 BE 3.4 Ghz
EVGA nVidia GTX 760 GPU
8 GB DDR3 1600 G.SKILL Ripjaws Series
ASUS Xonar DX 7.1 channel sound card
Samsung 840 Pro 512GB 2.5-Inch SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (MZ-7PD512BW)
2x 2 TB Seagate Barracuda XT 7200 RPM 64MB cache HDD's
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W OCZ600MXSP PSU
LG WH16NS40 Super Multi Blue Internal SATA 16x Blu-ray Disc Rewriter
Das Keyboard 4 Professional Clicky MX Blue Mechanical Keyboard (DASK4MKPROCLI)
Logitech G400s 910-003589 Optical Gaming Mouse
Memory-280 GB SSD and 2 TB external HDD
RAM-8 GB DDR3
Processor-Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0 GHz
Graphics-Intel Q43/Q45 internal chipset and Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 2GB low profile
Power supply-300W
OS-Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
And the other older one
Memory-500 GB HDD
RAM-3 GB DDR2
Processor-Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
Graphics-Nvidia GeForce GT 210 1GB
Power supply-230W
OS-Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
Acer Aspire T of some sort, 2013
Intel Core i5-4440 at 3.1GHz
8GB DDR3 RAM
AMD Radeon R7 240 2GB by XFX
HP vs17e
1TB Seagate hard disk
Windows 8.1 Single Language
Main Laptop:
Dell Latitude E6400
Intel Core2 Duo T9600 at whatever speed
4GB DDR2 SO-DIMM RAM
Intel 45 Series video
Built in display panel
500GB Seagate "slim" laptop hard disk
Dualbooting Windows XP Home Edition / Windows 8.1 Single Language
Main Mactop:
Apple PowerMac G5
Dual Apple PowerPC G5s at 2GHz
2GB DDR RAM
NVidia GeForce FX5200 512MB (AGP Pro)
NEC Multisync 1880SX
80GB WD800 SATA
Mac OS X 10.4.11
Main Mac laptop:
Apple MacBook (Late 2007)
Intel Core2 Duo at 1.83GHz
2GB RAM
Intel GMA 950 (945) video
Built in display panel
60GB SATA
Dualbooting Windows XP Home Edition (via BootCamp) and Mac OS X 10.7.5
I'd say I have too many computers, if I'm allowed to.
IBM/Lenovo (It's branded both, pick one) Thinkpad Z61m
1536 MB of RAM,
Core Duo 1.66 GHz,
Intel Integrated 9450 128MB,
80GB SATA revision 1 drive. (It is both revision 1 and revision 2 compatible, but only works at revision 1 speeds to save power.)
This laptop weighs half a metric ton, but it is indestructible. Even though it is tough, people don't like me using a Windows XP netbook from circa 2006.
Mine's a custom made desktop PC.
PSU: Thermaltake TR-2 750W (80 PLUS model, not the old crappy one)
MOBO: Gigabyte H81M-H
8 GB RAM DDR3-1600
CPU: i5 4440
VGA: Radeon R7 250X 1GB
Storage: Two SATA HDDs, 250GB (OS, W10 x64 and Arch x64 dualboot) and 1TB (backup)
Nothing too expectacular, but it does the job.
Not my personal computer, but it's the only one with internet access at home:
-APU: AMD A6-5400K
-MB: ECS A58F2P-M4(1.0)
-RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
-HDD: 1TB Seagate Hard drive
-PSU: Some 285W Power Supply
-Case: Some generic ATX case (one that does not have blue LEDs)
-OS: Windows 7 SP1 32bit (I use a kernel hack to utilize more than 4GB of RAM)
Core i7-6500U @ 2.5GHz
8GB
1TB spinner
GeForce 940M
Windows 10 Home 64
I also have a few towers laying around but I don't use those often if at all.... actually they're both running Server 08r2 with the first running the Please Burn ESET site.
A Celeron G1820 is not "lightning fast" by any means. It's a CPU for people on really tight budgets. It gets benchmarks equal/worse to 7 year old i5s.
How is 8GB RAM being in one stick impressive? It's not uncommon.....at all.
LC Power? I have never heard of that brand before. From what I see online LC-Power PSUs are for people who cheap out on PSUs and are not of good quality. Never EVER cheap out on your power supply.
A GT 630 with 2gb VRAM? I don't think a GT630 could even handle a game that would require more than 1GB VRAM, so that's pointless.
A Celeron G1820 is not "lightning fast" by any means. It's a CPU for people on really tight budgets. It gets benchmarks equal/worse to 7 year old i5s.
I have to disagree with you right there. A first-gen i5 will just slaughter any celeron, anytime and anyday. Plus, The i5 is a quadcore, whereas the Celeron is a dual-core. BTW, what sort of benchmarks have you been looking at?
A Celeron G1820 is not "lightning fast" by any means. It's a CPU for people on really tight budgets. It gets benchmarks equal/worse to 7 year old i5s.
I have to disagree with you right there. A first-gen i5 will just slaughter any celeron, anytime and anyday. Plus, The i5 is a quadcore, whereas the Celeron is a dual-core. BTW, what sort of benchmarks have you been looking at?
I haven't really looked at benchmarks of desktop i5s much, but I guess I shouldn't have assumed that the Celeron could be equal. I was more thinking of mobile i5s which are slightly below the performance of that Celeron. One thing I do know is that the 8(?) year old Q6700 Dell Precision I have as a backup machine is faster than that Celeron. Not by a lot, but still.
Not all i5s have been quad core. Most are, but the i5-650 was notably dual core with hyperthreading. But, you have to agree with me on the power supply front. That power supply he has is a ticking time bomb.
I have to disagree with you right there. A first-gen i5 will just slaughter any celeron, anytime and anyday. Plus, The i5 is a quadcore, whereas the Celeron is a dual-core. BTW, what sort of benchmarks have you been looking at?
I can attest to this. Big Box 1.0 had a first-gen i5 and it wasn't even bad.
I have to disagree with you right there. A first-gen i5 will just slaughter any celeron, anytime and anyday. Plus, The i5 is a quadcore, whereas the Celeron is a dual-core. BTW, what sort of benchmarks have you been looking at?
I can attest to this. Big Box 1.0 had a first-gen i5 and it wasn't even bad.
Well...I guess then even the first gen i5s are much more powerful than that Celeron. But...that Celeron isn't the worst thing ever. It isn't a very good processor but it's also not bad if on an extreme budget. But, I'm betting that whoever built pcgeek's piece of shit (I think at one point he said a computer store built it) just put together an unbalanced build. Take out the GPU which I bet wasn't needed (I think that Celeron is a haswell chipset, and the haswell chipset has graphics almost as good as that 630) and upgrade to an i3, swap the power supply for an EVGA 500W that won't explode like that "LC Power" one probably will and he'd have a machine more powerful than the first gen i3s, at the same price point.
The Celeron is more for people who really need a computer and really can't spend much. If you have more than $300 you should be able to get something quite a bit better than a Celeron or Atom that you'd get for that price, or hell even at that price it'd be better to buy used - my i5 thinkpad was $220 + $80 for the SSD and that beats out all of those cheapass budget machines.
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8 GB DDR3-1600
Intel Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz
1 TB WD Blue, 256 GB Samsung SSD
Windows 10 Pro
Intel HD 4000 (normally, I have the Sapphire Radeon R7 260X with 2 GB of video RAM, but it is a serious pile of shit and it causes too much problems, even after getting it replaced. It's considerably more powerful than the HD Graphics, but it's unuseable and I don't know what to do since warranty is done for a while now)
MSI H81M-P33 Logic Board
CORSAIR CX600M (600W)
16 gb HyperX Savage DDR3 1866 MHz (RAM)
ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 (motherboard)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 (GPU)
WD Caviar Blue 1tb
Seagate Desktop Internal 2tb
1 GB RAM
Abit KT7A
Voodoo 5
WD 500gb hard drive
Windows 95
Full tower, beige like a computer should be, and with no retarded blue LEDs.
Deal with it.
The only purpose blue LEDs have are to cool off your computer from the extra speed causing heat that red LEDs would provide
I have various computers and I don't feel like typing up all of the specs, but the 3 I use the most are my Thinkpad T530, Toughbook CF-31, and a Custom built. The Thinkpad and Toughbook have i5s (The Thinkpad has an nVidia card, Toughbook has integrated) and the Custom built has an i7 and a GTX 770.
i5 5200U, 8GB DDR3, 250GB SSD, 1080p 12.5" touchscreen, Win10 Pro x64
Not a huge fan of some stuff, I wouldn't consider it a "proper" ThinkPad - fucking huge bezels and the build quality definitely isn't x-series standard, but it's a nice little laptop and still at least has the trackpoint. Shame discord still doesn't listen to dpi scaling settings on Win10. Lenovo 3 year onsite warranty is awesome too, they replaced the keyboard because one key was slightly loose.
Custom build is a close second, though it's a bit of a mess right now in regards to cable management and the LED strip is falling off:
i5 6600k @ 4.6GHz, 16GB DDR4, 120GB SSD, dying 1TB HDD, MSI Z170XP-SLI, R9 280, NZXT S340, EVGA 600W, Ilyama 4K 28" + vertical Phillips 1080p IPS 23", Win10 Pro x64
Generally great but the loud HDD worries me. Local store's ridiculously cheap price for the CPU meant that I could get it with a tight budget, up until recently I've been using an "old" 7850 which really can't handle 4K whatsoever. What's nice is the 4K display has picture-in-picture which is great for setting up old PCs, etc.
After messing with various business-grade dual CPU monster servers with stupidly high powerful consumption, I realized it's overkill for a simple web and Minecraft server so I'm using a Zoostorm (UK prebuilt brand):
Haswell-based Pentium CPU (need to check model), 4GB DDR3, WD Blue 500GB, some Asus mobo that seems to be able to OC somehow, Win10 Pro x64 (I know, I know, should be using Windows Server or Linux)
Very dirty inside but it works fine.
For "retro" stuff my Toshiba 110CT is ideal:
Pentium II (???), around 16MB RAM, ~1GB HDD, 800x600 (???) ~12" display, Win95
Battery still holds charge after all these years. Also has an inbuilt PSU which is extremely useful, takes a standard 2pin cable. Still has what seems to be the original install of Windows 95 and Office 97 (???), which seems completely clean. Need to get around to getting some kind of CD drive for it as floppies aren't fun, especially for OS installtion (dual boot with Windows 3.1 is something I'd love to get working), but otherwise it's fun to play with.
core 2 duo 2.66ghz
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB
8gb ddr3 1333mhz memory
320 gb hard drive
dvd super drive
mac os 10.11.6
my other is a pc
asus m5a97 le2.0
amd fx 6300 6 core 3.5ghz
NVIDIA GeForce GT610 2gb memory
8gb ddr3 667mhz memory
500gb hard drive with windows 7
500gb hard drive with windows 10
160gb hard drive nothing on it
160gb hard drive use for saving stuff
dvd burner
dvd burner
Mac Mini 2014 Model (Used often for Internet Browsing):
Intel Core i5 Haswell @ 2.6 GHz
8GB of Integrated DDR3 RAM
Intel Iris Pro 5100
1TB SATA HDD
OS X 10.11 El Capitan
HP/Compaq DC7800 (Used once in a while for special tasks):
Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4 GHz
4GB DDR2 SDRAM
AMD Radeon HD 6450
750GB SATA HDD
16x SATA DVD-RW Drive + 3.5" Floppy Drive
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Dell Dimension 4300 (Used fairly often for basic word processing and retro gaming):
Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.6 GHz
384MB PC-133 SDRAM
nVidia Geforce FX 5200
40GB IDE HDD
48x IDE CD-ROM Drive + 3.5" Floppy Drive
Windows 98SE with SP2 + Windows 2000 Pro with SP4 Dual-boot
99% of the time I use a Toshiba Libretto u100 with
Pentium M 753 @ 1.20 GHz ; 400MHz bus
An entire Giga-Byte of DDR SDRAM
Intel Extreme Graphics 2 w/ 64MB shared max --[actually still streams 720p fluently through VLC in fullscreen]
10GB Toshiba PATA HDD --ripped from an original iPod [the first one with the physical scroll wheel; it now has an SSD
If not Windows 95, Debian.
I use a titload of old, relatively irreplaceable equipment and Debian makes a surprisingly decent bridge for swapping files and media between ancient and slightly less ancient hardware / OSes, and I've just slowly started using it for everything else since it is just so nice to old hardware. That said, I still don't know shite about Linux overall, so don't hate me too much for mentioning it on here...
Intel Core i5 Ivy Bridge @ 2.5 GHz
16GB of DDR3 RAM
Intel HD 4000
500GB SATA HDD
DVD+RW SATA
macOS Sierra 10.12
Two USB HDDs 1TB each: One for backup and the other for extra storage.
Antec P280 Black ATX Mid Tower
ASRock 870iCafe AM3 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II 965 BE 3.4 Ghz
EVGA nVidia GTX 760 GPU
8 GB DDR3 1600 G.SKILL Ripjaws Series
ASUS Xonar DX 7.1 channel sound card
Samsung 840 Pro 512GB 2.5-Inch SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (MZ-7PD512BW)
2x 2 TB Seagate Barracuda XT 7200 RPM 64MB cache HDD's
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W OCZ600MXSP PSU
LG WH16NS40 Super Multi Blue Internal SATA 16x Blu-ray Disc Rewriter
Das Keyboard 4 Professional Clicky MX Blue Mechanical Keyboard (DASK4MKPROCLI)
Logitech G400s 910-003589 Optical Gaming Mouse
Memory-280 GB SSD and 2 TB external HDD
RAM-8 GB DDR3
Processor-Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0 GHz
Graphics-Intel Q43/Q45 internal chipset and Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 2GB low profile
Power supply-300W
OS-Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
And the other older one
Memory-500 GB HDD
RAM-3 GB DDR2
Processor-Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
Graphics-Nvidia GeForce GT 210 1GB
Power supply-230W
OS-Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
CPU - AMD FX-6300 Black Edition 3.5GHz
RAM - 32GB Kingston Hyper-x Fury 1866Mhz
GFX - Asus Geforce 960 Strix OC
PSU - Fractal Design Newton 800w Semi-Modular
Boot SSD: OCZ Arc 100 240Gb
Games SSD: Samsung Evo 500Gb (2015)
Other Games: Segate Barricuda 1Tb 7200rpm
Junk Drive: Toshiba 3Tb 7200rpm
Case: Fractal Design Define R5
CPU: Core i5-750 2.66GHz
RAM: 16GB DDR3
VGA: XFX GeForce GTS250 1GB
PSU: PC Power & Cooling 500W
Primary SATA: WD Blue 320GB
Secondary SATA: Seagate 1TB
Case: Corsair Carbide 200R
Main PC:
Main Laptop:
Main Mactop:
Main Mac laptop:
I'd say I have too many computers, if I'm allowed to.
CPU : i5-6600
Mothermoard : H170 Chipset
RAM : 32GB (8GB * 4) DDR4
SDD : 256GB
HDD : 2TB
ODD : DVD/RW
VGA : Built-in Motherboard
Processor: Intel Pentium B950@ 2.1GHz
Memory: 6Gb RAM
Storage: 500Gb hard disk (SATA)
Optical drives: 1 DVD-RAM drive
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium x64
Video: Onboard VGA and HDMI Out
Sound: Integrated Intel sound chip
Intel Core i5-3317U @ 1.7GHz (Turbo up to 2.6 GHz)
8 GB RAM
Intel HD 4000 & NVIDIA GeForce 740M 128bit with 2 GB VRAM (Optimus)
500GB 5400rpm Hitachi HDD
Windows 10 x64 & Manjaro x64 (dualboot)
1536 MB of RAM,
Core Duo 1.66 GHz,
Intel Integrated 9450 128MB,
80GB SATA revision 1 drive. (It is both revision 1 and revision 2 compatible, but only works at revision 1 speeds to save power.)
This laptop weighs half a metric ton, but it is indestructible. Even though it is tough, people don't like me using a Windows XP netbook from circa 2006.
PSU: Thermaltake TR-2 750W (80 PLUS model, not the old crappy one)
MOBO: Gigabyte H81M-H
8 GB RAM DDR3-1600
CPU: i5 4440
VGA: Radeon R7 250X 1GB
Storage: Two SATA HDDs, 250GB (OS, W10 x64 and Arch x64 dualboot) and 1TB (backup)
Nothing too expectacular, but it does the job.
-APU: AMD A6-5400K
-MB: ECS A58F2P-M4(1.0)
-RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
-HDD: 1TB Seagate Hard drive
-PSU: Some 285W Power Supply
-Case: Some generic ATX case (one that does not have blue LEDs)
-OS: Windows 7 SP1 32bit (I use a kernel hack to utilize more than 4GB of RAM)
Core i7-6500U @ 2.5GHz
8GB
1TB spinner
GeForce 940M
Windows 10 Home 64
I also have a few towers laying around but I don't use those often if at all.... actually they're both running Server 08r2 with the first running the Please Burn ESET site.
(Main)
CPU : i5-7600 (7th Generation)
Mothermoard : H270 Chipset
RAM : 32GB (16GB * 2) DDR4
SDD : 256GB (Same)
HDD : 2TB x 2EA
ODD : DVD/RW
VGA : Built-in Motherboard
Those are some godawful specs.
A Celeron G1820 is not "lightning fast" by any means. It's a CPU for people on really tight budgets. It gets benchmarks equal/worse to 7 year old i5s.
How is 8GB RAM being in one stick impressive? It's not uncommon.....at all.
LC Power? I have never heard of that brand before. From what I see online LC-Power PSUs are for people who cheap out on PSUs and are not of good quality. Never EVER cheap out on your power supply.
A GT 630 with 2gb VRAM? I don't think a GT630 could even handle a game that would require more than 1GB VRAM, so that's pointless.
I have to disagree with you right there. A first-gen i5 will just slaughter any celeron, anytime and anyday. Plus, The i5 is a quadcore, whereas the Celeron is a dual-core. BTW, what sort of benchmarks have you been looking at?
I haven't really looked at benchmarks of desktop i5s much, but I guess I shouldn't have assumed that the Celeron could be equal. I was more thinking of mobile i5s which are slightly below the performance of that Celeron. One thing I do know is that the 8(?) year old Q6700 Dell Precision I have as a backup machine is faster than that Celeron. Not by a lot, but still.
Not all i5s have been quad core. Most are, but the i5-650 was notably dual core with hyperthreading. But, you have to agree with me on the power supply front. That power supply he has is a ticking time bomb.
This is the same exact one as i am running, but it barely works. Windows 8/ 8.1 is a piece of junk
It's not that hard to reinstall Windows. Software issues don't mean that the machine itself "barely works"
Well...I guess then even the first gen i5s are much more powerful than that Celeron. But...that Celeron isn't the worst thing ever. It isn't a very good processor but it's also not bad if on an extreme budget. But, I'm betting that whoever built pcgeek's piece of shit (I think at one point he said a computer store built it) just put together an unbalanced build. Take out the GPU which I bet wasn't needed (I think that Celeron is a haswell chipset, and the haswell chipset has graphics almost as good as that 630) and upgrade to an i3, swap the power supply for an EVGA 500W that won't explode like that "LC Power" one probably will and he'd have a machine more powerful than the first gen i3s, at the same price point.
The Celeron is more for people who really need a computer and really can't spend much. If you have more than $300 you should be able to get something quite a bit better than a Celeron or Atom that you'd get for that price, or hell even at that price it'd be better to buy used - my i5 thinkpad was $220 + $80 for the SSD and that beats out all of those cheapass budget machines.