PC Setups

Here you can share your PC Setups, which can be designs (an idea) or actual PCs.

Here is my physical PC Setup.

OS: Windows 10 (was on 7 a month ago)
CPU: i3-4330
GPU: RX 560 4GB
RAM: 16GB DDR3
HDD1: 500 GB, [REDACTED] RPM
HDD2: 6 TB, 7200 RPM

Here is my ideal Toaster starting setup (344.93$CDN without taxes):

OS: Windows 10
CPU: Ryzen 3 1200
GPU: RX 560 4 GB
RAM: 8 GB DDR4, 3000 MHz
SSD1: 512 GB
HDD2: 6 TB, 7200 RPM


Beautiful!


Wonderful!

Magnificent! Elegant! Pure toaster!

Feel free to post your setups!

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I guess I might as well post what I have

OS: Fedora 30 (Linux) + Windows 10 for those times when I need to do Thrive stuff on it
CPU: i9-7900X
GPU: GTX 1080 Ti
RAM: 112 GiB DDR4
Disk: 40TB, half reserved for backups. Mostly spinning disks, but I also have a few terabytes of SSD for installing program and OSes.

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Why tf do you have 112 GiB of RAM and 40 TB HDD? What kind of work do you even do that requires that? Creating a simulation of the entire damn universe or something?

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I use both firefox and chrome. That already takes around 20 GiB. And then a bunch of clang autocomplete servers taking a few GB at a time and a bunch of open programs, it adds up quite fast. Iโ€™m currently using just 28.9 GiB of RAM, but I usually go up to around 36 GiB of used RAM when Iโ€™m not forced to restart my computer for some time.
I didnโ€™t buy all my RAM or hard drives at once, Iโ€™ve been adding to them over the years. It helps to having a motherboard with 4 channel memory and a lot of memory slots to go with it, so I can use 3 sets of RAM.

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But can you CPU even handle that? Those background programs donโ€™t take up a whole lot of processing power, but I would assume it would add up to quite a lot if you have near 40 GiB of programs piled up.

So far it has handled just fine. Most of the background tasks donโ€™t consume a lot of CPU. It also helps that my CPU is a 10 core 20 thread one. Right now most of my cores are idling between 1.3-2.0 GHz, whereas the maximum turbo frequency is 4.2 GHz on most cores, with one core overclocked up to 4.5 GHz. There isnโ€™t really any noticeable slow downs unless Iโ€™m compiling software with a bunch of cores at once.

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Yeah alright fair. I have to say though, I feel insufficient right now with my weakling computer, even though itโ€™s still pretty high-rank. (16 GiB RAM, RTX 2060, i7 9750, 1TB HDD and 256 GB SSD)

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Well, you have a better PC than mine. I wonder why it would be a โ€˜weaklingโ€™.

Because it does not have more than a hundred GiB or RAM, nor 40 TB HDD.

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You mean โ€˜of ramโ€™ or โ€˜or ramโ€™? Also, since when was 100 GB of RAM needed? I mean, I still have 16 GB DDR3, and Iโ€™m handling most games just fine.

I think itโ€™s time to discount hhyyrylainen whenever he says the game should run smoothly on someone elseโ€™s computer.

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Iโ€™m bookmarking this post for later use. :upside_down_face:

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https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-works-on-my-machine-certification-program/

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I had also another more powerful setup that I might share later.

The more I see other peopleโ€™s setups, the more I feel inferior with my 2009 MacBook that overheats if I open Steam.

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Hmm, oh well.

We are superior!

I canโ€™t use any other video editor except Filmora because of playback.

Here is my new ideal Toaster setup.

CPU: Ryzen 3 1200
Motherboard: ASRock B450M/AC Micro ATX
RAM: 16 GB DDR4-2400
SSD1: Team GX2 512 GB 2.5"
HDD2: Hitachi Deskstar NAS 6 TB 7200 RPM 3.5"
GPU: MSI RX 560 4 GB
PSU: Thermaltake Smart 500 W
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mini Tower

My toaster! I hope it wonโ€™t be friedโ€ฆ

Is that a good setup for gaming?

EDIT: Upgraded version named โ€œMy Dragon Toasterโ€

CPU: Ryzen 9 3950X + CPU cooler
Motherboard: ASRock B450M/AC Micro ATX
RAM: 16 GB DDR4-2400
SSD1: Team GX2 512 GB 2.5"
HDD2: Hitachi Deskstar NAS 6 TB 7200 RPM 3.5"
GPU: MSI RX 5700 XT 8 GB/Zotac RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB
PSU: Thermaltake Smart 500 W
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mini Tower

Why tf do you have a gaming setup with 6,5 TB of memory, 16 GB DDR4 RAM, and a 500W PSU, but a a ryzen 3 1200 with an MSI RX 560 GPU? Thatโ€™s ridiculously strong for basically everything, except for the most important 2 things in the PC for gaming (GPU and CPU), who are below potato quality.

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Itโ€™s a toaster after all.

My current CPU: i3-4330

My current GPU: RX 560

RAM: 16 GB DDR3 1600 MHz

[justify]How could it make it any worse?

My current setup runs most games pretty fine in 1080p.[/justify]