Probably my main desktop is the most used, but there's a few others I tend to use often.
Main PC:
CPU- i5-4690k 3.8GHz
RAM- 16GB
GPU - AMD R9 270x
SSD(s) - 2x Kingston HyperX 120GB
MB - Gigabyte Z97-HD3
OSes- Windows 7 Pro, OS X 10.11 (Hackintosh)
Main laptop:
Dell Latitude E5510
CPU - i7-620m
RAM - 6GB
GPU - 1st gen Intel HD
HDD - 500GB generic laptop drive
OS - Win10
Other computers I mess around with on occasion:
The Tandy 2500 SX/25
CPU - AMD Am386SX-25 (stuck in 8MHz mode)
RAM - 6MB 30-pin SIMMs
GPU - Western Digital WDC9000
HDD - 85MB WD Caviar
OS - DOS 5 + Win3.11, now Win95
The iBook (M8862LL/A - PowerBook4,3 - A1007):
CPU - PowerPC 750fx (G3) 800MHz
RAM - 384MB PC-100
GPU - Mobility Radeon 7500
HDD - 20GB
OS - Mac OS 9.2.2, OS X 10.4
Dont know my motherboard (Curse you. HP laptop)
AMD A6-4455M Dual Core 2.1 Ghz
AMD Radeon Graphics 7500G
110G SSD (Dont know Brand)
4 Gigs DDR3 RAM
Windows 10 Home x64
I know, its trash. im upgrading soon to a custom build Bozon 4 (Dont know what it is, youtube.com/duncan33303 [Its Austin Evans Account.])
Model: HP Pavilion g4 (laptop)
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
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"
I have literally reinstalled Windows on there 7 times. It is just a piece of shite.
Then you must be doing something wrong; it's a great laptop. The biggie is, did you make sure the proper drivers were all installed? That was my only issue. After that, it runs like a dream.
AMD dual core processor with clockspeed of 2.3 GHz
4GB RAM (DDR2)
Radeon HD5450 graphics card
Linux Mint 17.2
This is my regular desktop and I use it mainly to run old PC games. I'm on a personal mission to prove that Linux is better for old games than a post-XP Windows OS because Wine and PlayOnLinux are more configurable than the Windows compatibility mode.
Its internet useful days have come to an end but it's still great for those games that Wine won't run as well as I would like. It also has a wonderful screen and superb built in sound for a laptop.
Main PC:
Intel Core i3-550 at 3.2GHz.
ATI Radeon HD 4670 1 GB
4 GB of DDR3 at 1333MHz(Dual Channel)
Some Foxconn H55 mobo.(lga 1156 ofc)
Some Samsung 500gb hard drive.
a DVD-RW drive.
My main desktop is this.
Amd Phenom 9600 Quad-Core @ 2.3 ghz,
4GB Ram,
80GB Hard Drive (Windows 10),
500GB Hard Drive For Storage (Out Of A Cable Box),
ASUSTeK m2n68-am se2,
? watt power supply,
Nvidia Geforce GT730,
A pretty god awful computer but I got it for free and I'm happy.
Main Craptop
Amd E-300 (apu)
1366X768 screen
400GB Hard Drive (Duel booting Windows xp with the unofficial sp4 and Windows 7 Professional sp1)
6GB Ram
It's a crappy compaq laptop, what else is there to say.
All I have currently is a godawful Compaq Presario R3000. It "features" an Intel Celeron 2.8ghz processor, 640MB of RAM (It's an interesting story - it came with only 256MB in the form of two 128MB sticks, and I wanted to upgrade it to 1GB of memory, so I bought two 512MB sticks, but one of them was an odd unnamed Chinese chip, and lo and behold, it didn't work at all, so I have one 512MB stick and one 128MB stick. Guh.), an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP graphics chip running at the maximum resolution of 1024x768 with 32bit color, a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive, a 120GB hard disk (only because the 40GB drive it came with was dead), a non-fucntional battery (which is especially fun because if you move the laptop enough the power cord just jiggles loose and it instantly dies while you're in the middle of something), and, surprisngly enough, really high-quality UBL Pro speakers that outperform any other laptop speakers I've ever heard. It runs Windows XP Home Edition. I guess this computer is perfect if you're an audiophile? But I'm a videophile, and if you throw anything higher than 480p video at this thing, it'll crash and burn. Gonna try and get a new machine soon though.
My Main PC (Emachines W-3410)
Win XP Home
A whole 2 GIGA-BYTES of ram!(Upgraded from 512Mb stock)
AMD Athlon 64
DVD-RW Drive
100 gig HDD
ATI Radeon 200 Graphics
Minecraft!(1.5.2)
USB Realtek WI-FI
UPDATE:Ok so the EMachines is probably dead i press the power button and the HDD Light stays on
and the fans dont slow down and nothing else happens.UPDATE2:need to replace CPU its like $15.
And my laptop (Toshiba A105-s2236...Better that the pc...im using it now...)
Win XP Pro x86
2 Gigs of RAM...again...(1.87 Really)
Intel Celron M 520 @1.60Ghz
DVD-RW Drive
120 Gig HDD
ATI Radeon 200M Graphics
Atheros a/b/g wi-fi PCIe card
Minecraft! (old minecraft 1.5.2,but Minecraft!)
(P.S SomeGuy the link was supposed to be a sad smilie.)
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit
CPU: AMD A6-5200
RAM: 4 GB (It's not much but it's enough for me)
Hard Drive: 750 GB Hitachi Hard Drive
APU: AMD Radeon HD 8400
Main Desktop (home brew):
OS: Ubuntu 12.04 (soon to be upgraded; can also dual-boot to Windows 7, which I rarely use)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 3.2GHz
RAM: 8GB
HDD: (2) 400GB drives
Can't remember the graphics card, but it's not good by today's standards. Only 128MB or something like that.
My setup is old in some places, but sits in the frustrating realm of 'doing anything I really need it to do, pretty well' so I haven't been inclined to save up for anything new any time fast.
The i7 5500U variant. Unfortunately that means the 4k display also which means I can only get around 2 hours battery life at the most, but hell it looks fantastic. Luckily I got one without the supposedly common QC issues. 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD space should be fine for now but I wish the components were easier to access, and in the case of the RAM upgradable at all instead of being soldered.
I also use my X79 build almost as much, running a Xeon E5 2630, Intel DX79SI board, MSI GeForce 770 TwinFrozr, and various random RAM sticks, however I'm probably going to have to sell it at some point. Thinking of dropping down to a Dell Optiplex 3010 temporarily until I can afford a powerful desktop again.
I also keep a Dell Optiplex 755 on the side with a floppy drive and DVD writer since neither my laptop or desktop have either. Ideally I'd like to not have to rely on it at all but my NZXT H440 case has no drive bays at all... sure it looks good but I'd much rather have some sort of drive bay.
Very tempted to upgrade to the newest XPS so I can get ThunerBolt allowing for an external GPU - then replace desktops completely - but that's not going to happen soon.
Laptop? Laptop. Lenovo T530. Not very interesting. i5 variant, the optional nvidia graphics, and an SSD. It's not exactly unique.
Desktop....i3 Skylake, ATI Radeon, and a regular spinning hard drive. I know SSDs are nice but it's a desktop and I rarely reboot the damn thing.
Laptop No.2....Toshiba with a first gen i3. Really nice laptop except battery life has been receding at the speed of light. I tossed an SSD into it and the rest of the parts are original (Even the power adapter).
Laptop No.3...Panasonic Toughbook 31, standard issue sandy i5/8G/120G(SSD). It works fine but I don't use it as much as the others (I do still use it plenty, don't get me wrong) due to the 4:3 1024 display and how thick and heavy the damned thing is.
Honestly, at this point, SSDs are no longer optional for me. Recently I used a NUC with a mechanical drive and it was just absolutely intolerable. Granted it was a 5400 rpm drive, so it was a little worse that a typical mechanical drive. Still, give me SSD or give me death.
And my laptop (Toshiba A105-s2236...Better that the pc...im using it now...)
Win XP Pro x86
2 Gigs of RAM...again...(1.87 Really)
Intel Celron M 520 @1.60Ghz
DVD-RW Drive
120 Gig HDD
ATI Radeon 200M Graphics
Atheros a/b/g wi-fi PCIe card
Minecraft! (old minecraft 1.5.2,but Minecraft!)
I have an older HP 530 laptop that had a Celeron M520, I upgraded it to a Core 2 Duo. I really like Toshiba laptops and it's worth spending around $5 for a T7200. If you haven't upgraded a CPU for laptops before, you need to look up thermal compound. And don't replace the thermal compound for the graphics card or northbridge, they'll have thermal pads and that'll be fine, only replace the thermal compound for the CPU. Once you replace the CPU you can upgrade the RAM to 4G and upgrade the laptop itself to Win7 or hell, even Win10.
And my laptop (Toshiba A105-s2236...Better that the pc...im using it now...)
I really like Toshiba laptops and it's worth spending around $5 for a T7200. If you haven't upgraded a CPU for laptops before... Once you replace the CPU you can upgrade the RAM to 4G and upgrade the laptop itself to Win7 or hell, even Win10.
+1, I also have a Toshiba Satellite A105, the differences between that one and the one I have is mine has 4GB of RAM, A 200GB Hard Drive, An Intel GMA 950 GPU and a Core Duo, I plan on getting a Core 2 Duo CPU for it sooner or later along with a replacement keyboard since this laptop is in need of some fixing and thorough cleaning, I agree that Windows 7 will run fine since mine runs 7 Ultimate x86 just as well as its original XP installation did.
Compared to this post, my other two machines haven't changed at all, So for now, I'm only posting specs for the previously mentioned HP and my main laptop.
HP/Compaq DC7800 SFF Desktop:
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz
- 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 SDRAM
- AMD Radeon HD 6450 PCI-e Graphics Card (1GB of VRAM) - 500GB Western Digital Enterprise Grade SATA Hard Drive, The old 750GB Seagate drive died from constant operation so it was replaced.
- 16x SATA DVD-RW Lightscribe Drive + 3.5" Floppy Drive
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Dell Inspiron 13z/5323 (Not used often, but I mostly use it as a portable at coffee shops and other places with hotspots):
- Intel Core i3 3217U @ 1.8 GHz
- 6GB (4GB+2GB) DDR3 SDRAM
- Intel HD 4000 GPU
- 120GB Kingston SATA Solid State Drive
- Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Soon, I'll be building a Skylake i3 rig using the case from my Dell Inspiron 660 Tower which suffered from motherboard failure several months ago.
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Main PC:
CPU- i5-4690k 3.8GHz
RAM- 16GB
GPU - AMD R9 270x
SSD(s) - 2x Kingston HyperX 120GB
MB - Gigabyte Z97-HD3
OSes- Windows 7 Pro, OS X 10.11 (Hackintosh)
Main laptop:
Dell Latitude E5510
CPU - i7-620m
RAM - 6GB
GPU - 1st gen Intel HD
HDD - 500GB generic laptop drive
OS - Win10
Other computers I mess around with on occasion:
The Tandy 2500 SX/25
CPU - AMD Am386SX-25 (stuck in 8MHz mode)
RAM - 6MB 30-pin SIMMs
GPU - Western Digital WDC9000
HDD - 85MB WD Caviar
OS - DOS 5 + Win3.11, now Win95
The iBook (M8862LL/A - PowerBook4,3 - A1007):
CPU - PowerPC 750fx (G3) 800MHz
RAM - 384MB PC-100
GPU - Mobility Radeon 7500
HDD - 20GB
OS - Mac OS 9.2.2, OS X 10.4
AMD A6-4455M Dual Core 2.1 Ghz
AMD Radeon Graphics 7500G
110G SSD (Dont know Brand)
4 Gigs DDR3 RAM
Windows 10 Home x64
I know, its trash. im upgrading soon to a custom build Bozon 4 (Dont know what it is, youtube.com/duncan33303 [Its Austin Evans Account.])
I have literally reinstalled Windows on there 7 times. It is just a piece of shite.
4GB RAM (DDR2)
Radeon HD5450 graphics card
Linux Mint 17.2
This is my regular desktop and I use it mainly to run old PC games. I'm on a personal mission to prove that Linux is better for old games than a post-XP Windows OS because Wine and PlayOnLinux are more configurable than the Windows compatibility mode.
I'm also very attached to my HP Pavillion ZV5000 laptop. It was bought new back in 2004 and was quite a high end multimedia machine in its day:
https://www.cnet.com/products/hp-pavili ... 0z/review/
Its internet useful days have come to an end but it's still great for those games that Wine won't run as well as I would like. It also has a wonderful screen and superb built in sound for a laptop.
Intel Core i3-550 at 3.2GHz.
ATI Radeon HD 4670 1 GB
4 GB of DDR3 at 1333MHz(Dual Channel)
Some Foxconn H55 mobo.(lga 1156 ofc)
Some Samsung 500gb hard drive.
a DVD-RW drive.
Amd Phenom 9600 Quad-Core @ 2.3 ghz,
4GB Ram,
80GB Hard Drive (Windows 10),
500GB Hard Drive For Storage (Out Of A Cable Box),
ASUSTeK m2n68-am se2,
? watt power supply,
Nvidia Geforce GT730,
A pretty god awful computer but I got it for free and I'm happy.
Main Craptop
Amd E-300 (apu)
1366X768 screen
400GB Hard Drive (Duel booting Windows xp with the unofficial sp4 and Windows 7 Professional sp1)
6GB Ram
It's a crappy compaq laptop, what else is there to say.
My Main PC (Emachines W-3410)
Win XP Home
A whole 2 GIGA-BYTES of ram!(Upgraded from 512Mb stock)
AMD Athlon 64
DVD-RW Drive
100 gig HDD
ATI Radeon 200 Graphics
Minecraft!(1.5.2)
USB Realtek WI-FI
UPDATE:Ok so the EMachines is probably dead i press the power button and the HDD Light stays on
and the fans dont slow down and nothing else happens.UPDATE2:need to replace CPU its like $15.
And my laptop (Toshiba A105-s2236...Better that the pc...im using it now...)
Win XP Pro x86
2 Gigs of RAM...again...(1.87 Really)
Intel Celron M 520 @1.60Ghz
DVD-RW Drive
120 Gig HDD
ATI Radeon 200M Graphics
Atheros a/b/g wi-fi PCIe card
Minecraft! (old minecraft 1.5.2,but Minecraft!)
(P.S SomeGuy the link was supposed to be a sad smilie.)
CPU: AMD A6-5200
RAM: 4 GB (It's not much but it's enough for me)
Hard Drive: 750 GB Hitachi Hard Drive
APU: AMD Radeon HD 8400
OS: Ubuntu 12.04 (soon to be upgraded; can also dual-boot to Windows 7, which I rarely use)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 3.2GHz
RAM: 8GB
HDD: (2) 400GB drives
Can't remember the graphics card, but it's not good by today's standards. Only 128MB or something like that.
Main Laptop:
Model: Lenovo ThinkPad T520
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i5-2520M 2.5GHz
RAM: 8GB
HDD: (2) 500GB drives
2.7GHz Intel Core i7-4800MQ
16GB DDR3 RAM
250GB SSD (going to upgrade eventually)
Switchable Nvidia Quadro K1100M/Intel HD 4600 Graphics
15.6" 1920x1080 Display
Full Size Keyboard With 10-Key
Fingerprint Scanner
Samsung 840 SSD 250 GB SATA3
WD BLACK 2 TB SATA3
WD My Passport 2 TB USB3
Samsung T1 portable SSD 1 TB USB3
ASUS VG278 27" 1080p 120Hz
BenQ XL2420T 24" 1080p 120Hz
Logitech G510s
Logitech G502 Proteus Core
Speakers: Logitech Z906 5.1 Optical output
Sound Card: Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro
Roland MT-32 mark I w/ Real World Interfaces mod (an interesting find)
Roland SC-88 Pro
YAMAHA MU2000EX
The i7 5500U variant. Unfortunately that means the 4k display also which means I can only get around 2 hours battery life at the most, but hell it looks fantastic. Luckily I got one without the supposedly common QC issues. 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD space should be fine for now but I wish the components were easier to access, and in the case of the RAM upgradable at all instead of being soldered.
I also use my X79 build almost as much, running a Xeon E5 2630, Intel DX79SI board, MSI GeForce 770 TwinFrozr, and various random RAM sticks, however I'm probably going to have to sell it at some point. Thinking of dropping down to a Dell Optiplex 3010 temporarily until I can afford a powerful desktop again.
I also keep a Dell Optiplex 755 on the side with a floppy drive and DVD writer since neither my laptop or desktop have either. Ideally I'd like to not have to rely on it at all but my NZXT H440 case has no drive bays at all... sure it looks good but I'd much rather have some sort of drive bay.
Very tempted to upgrade to the newest XPS so I can get ThunerBolt allowing for an external GPU - then replace desktops completely - but that's not going to happen soon.
Desktop....i3 Skylake, ATI Radeon, and a regular spinning hard drive. I know SSDs are nice but it's a desktop and I rarely reboot the damn thing.
Laptop No.2....Toshiba with a first gen i3. Really nice laptop except battery life has been receding at the speed of light. I tossed an SSD into it and the rest of the parts are original (Even the power adapter).
Laptop No.3...Panasonic Toughbook 31, standard issue sandy i5/8G/120G(SSD). It works fine but I don't use it as much as the others (I do still use it plenty, don't get me wrong) due to the 4:3 1024 display and how thick and heavy the damned thing is.
Honestly, at this point, SSDs are no longer optional for me. Recently I used a NUC with a mechanical drive and it was just absolutely intolerable. Granted it was a 5400 rpm drive, so it was a little worse that a typical mechanical drive. Still, give me SSD or give me death.
2.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz, with 3MB shared L3 cache
8GB RAM
Intel Iris Graphics 6100
256GB PCIe-based onboard SSD
The DOS Machine: Dell Latitude C610 -- yes, this thing can run DOS
1.2 GHz Pentium III
256MB RAM (used to be 384MB but one of the RAM slots went bad)
16MB of dedicated graphics RAM
I have an older HP 530 laptop that had a Celeron M520, I upgraded it to a Core 2 Duo. I really like Toshiba laptops and it's worth spending around $5 for a T7200. If you haven't upgraded a CPU for laptops before, you need to look up thermal compound. And don't replace the thermal compound for the graphics card or northbridge, they'll have thermal pads and that'll be fine, only replace the thermal compound for the CPU. Once you replace the CPU you can upgrade the RAM to 4G and upgrade the laptop itself to Win7 or hell, even Win10.
Compared to this post, my other two machines haven't changed at all, So for now, I'm only posting specs for the previously mentioned HP and my main laptop.
HP/Compaq DC7800 SFF Desktop:
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz
- 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 SDRAM
- AMD Radeon HD 6450 PCI-e Graphics Card (1GB of VRAM)
- 500GB Western Digital Enterprise Grade SATA Hard Drive, The old 750GB Seagate drive died from constant operation so it was replaced.
- 16x SATA DVD-RW Lightscribe Drive + 3.5" Floppy Drive
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Dell Inspiron 13z/5323 (Not used often, but I mostly use it as a portable at coffee shops and other places with hotspots):
- Intel Core i3 3217U @ 1.8 GHz
- 6GB (4GB+2GB) DDR3 SDRAM
- Intel HD 4000 GPU
- 120GB Kingston SATA Solid State Drive
- Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Soon, I'll be building a Skylake i3 rig using the case from my Dell Inspiron 660 Tower which suffered from motherboard failure several months ago.