Your PC specs

Up until about a week ago I was using a Thinkpad from 2010. Was a decent machine in its day (by the standards of a laptop), but it was really showing its age and it was on its last legs.

 

I just got an upgrade in the form of an Alienware 15 R2. I was conflicted on getting another laptop and I'm ashamed to say the words "I have an Alienware gaming laptop" but it was basically placed in my lap so I won't complain. Still not exactly bleeding edge, it's five years old at this point, but it actually functions so I'm glad to have the upgrade. I just got it and I'm waiting on a charging port replacement so I've barely had a chance to do anything on it, but it already runs circles around my sad old machine.

 

8GB RAM (but it's technically upgradable), Core i5-6300HQ, GTX965M 1TB HDD. Pretty modest specs, but I don't play a ton of brand new demanding games anyway. It can only do 1080p, but I don't really care much about anything higher so that's not really a problem.

Alienware A51:

 

Blue Tooth: Y

Display Size: 17.3in

Processor: 10th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 10700 (8-Core, 16MB Cache, 2.9GHz to 4.8GHz w/Turbo Boost Max 3.0)

Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit English

Memory: 32GB Dual Channel DDR4 at 2933MHz

Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2070 SUPER 8GB GDDR6

Hard Drive: 512GB PCIe M.2 SSD + 1TB 7200 RPM Hard Drive

Display: 17.3" FHD (1920 x 1080) 144Hz 9ms 300-nits 72% NTSC color gamut + Tobii Eyetracking technology

Connectivity 1: Media Card Reader, 2x Type-A USB 3.2, HDMI 2.0 Output with HDCP 2.2 Output Port, Mini DisplayPort™ 1.4 Output Port

Connectivity 2: Killer™ Ethernet E3000 10/100/1000Mbps/2.5Gbps Port, Alienware Graphics Amplifier Port, Wedge-shaped lock slot, Global Headset Port

Connectivity 3: Thunderbolt™ 3 Port, Type-A USB 3.2 with Powershare, Audio Out 1/8" Port (Compatible with inline mic headset)

Wireless Connectivity: Killer™ Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 (2x2) 802.11ax Wireless and Bluetooth 5.1

Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2070 SUPER 8GB GDDR6

Hard Drive Storage: 512 Gb

Processor: 10th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 10700 (8-Core, 16MB Cache, 2.9GHz to 4.8GHz w/Turbo Boost Max 3.0)

Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Touch Screen: N

Wifi Enabled: Y

 

Reason for upgrade - so I could play Doom 2016...

 

 

I have a few different PCs and need to get a new one soon. The one I’m using the most lately is an XP-15. It started out as a Windows 8 when I got it in 2014 but has been upgraded to a Windows 10 for quite some time now. 
 

specs:

 

windows 10 Home

x64

intel Celeron CPU N2840

4GB RAM 

 

I don’t use my PCs to play new games much, and mostly only play old games anyhow so I don’t need anything too fancy, but I’d like to upgrade to something with a newer processor and at least 8-12 GB of RAM. 
 

I’ve had this laptop for about 6 years or so and it’s worked fine. The battery is essentially dead at this point though and only holds charge for about an hour, but I am generally always plugged-in anyhow, which is why I may just skip a laptop altogether and upgrade to a new desktop, though I do like the ease of portability a laptop gives me, and I use my PC for more than old school gaming anyhow. 

 

I have an XP desktop that I need to replace both of my disc drives, plus an old tower from the 90s that boots up, but needs new hard drive to be of any use. So those should be fun projects when I get around to those. 

Main rig:

 

Fractal Design Define R5 ATX case

Corsair RM1000x modular PSU

Gigabyte GA-AB350 Gaming 3 motherboard

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.2 GHz

16GB DDR4 RAM @ ~2880 MHz

nVidia RTX 2070 6GB GPU

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe sound card

Intel 802.11ac wireless NIC

Startech PEX2IDE IDE storage adapter

512GB Crucial SSD

2TB WD Red HDD

4TB WD Gold HDD

LG BD-RE drive

Matsushita LS-120 IDE floppy drive

LG 30" IPS LCD monitor @ 3840x2160

Windows 10 Home

IBM Model M 1391401 keyboard

Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum mouse

Roland Sound Canvas SC-88

 

I plan on upgrading this fairly soon, possibly at the end of the year, to a third-generation Ryzen 7 and 64 gigs of RAM.

 

Retro rig:

Chenbro SR209 ATX case

Corsair RMi750x modular PSU

Abit KT7A motherboard

AMD Athlon XP 2200+ @ 1733 MHz

1.5GB SDRAM @ 133 MHz

nVidia GeForce FX5900 GPU

Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Value sound card

Some generic 10/100 NIC

Promise PCI SATA controller

StarTech USB 2.0 adapter card

CompactFlash card reader (rear slot)

80GB Seagate IDE hard HDD

512GB WD Blue HDD

512GB WD Green HDD

Apple 8x DVD-ROM drive

TEAC FD-55GFR 5.25" floppy drive

TEAC FD-235 3.5" floppy drive

Sun Microsystems 21" Trinitron CRT monitor

Windows XP Professional

Windows 98 Second Edition

Bootable CF cards with FreeDOS 1.2, MS-DOS 6.22, and IBM PC-DOS 7

Dell AT101W mechanical keyboard (Black Alps)

Logitech MX518 optical mouse

Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 MkII

 

This one's really fun because the CF card reader is the IDE master and the HDD the slave, so popping one of the CF cards in turns it from a Windows to a DOS rig. Fun to use, anyway. Working on antique cases is a bitch!

 

I also have a custom HTPC but there's not much interesting in there, just cheap low-end shit except for the hand-me-down GTX 1060 and external DAC.

On 9/21/2020 at 6:21 AM, M_W said:

I was going to make a joke saying my PC is some hilariously antiquated system, then I realized I'm on a forum for a DOS game and that probably wouldn't land so well.

 

Looking at what kind of PCs people are rocking here, I'm not so sure about that lol.

On 9/19/2020 at 2:07 PM, unerxai said:

Forgot about this guy; the 8bitdo SN30. It's like an SNES gamepad but with analogs and triggers added. I only use it for platformers. Comfy as hell.

 

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How is the D-pad on that thing?

1 hour ago, Woolie Wool said:

How is the D-pad on that thing?

For the most part is fine. I've find that in games that are very diagonal based (Sonic 3D Blast for example) occasionally it doesn't recognize a diagonal input. It's like a have to be extra precise with this dpad in those situations. I'm better off using the stick for that type of game. Overall it's pretty good for most games I play with it (2D sidescrollers and 3D platformers) but not as good as the dpad on my SNES mini or DS/2DS. The analogs are pretty good. In the past I've had so many PC gamepads with buggy analogs it's not even funny.

 

 

Updated specs:

-Corsair 4000D airflow case

-MSI x570 edge wifi mobo

-Ryzen 7 3700x

-Corsair h100i v2 aio

-16gb Corsair Vengeance 3200mhz

-GTX 1070 (until the 3070 drops, maybe bite on the 3080 who tf knows)

-Doom Slayer gpu sag protector

-750w EVGA psu

-2 500gb Samsung ssds 

-2tb hdd for storage

-Some AOC 1080p monitor oc'd to 100hz

-Razer Ornata Chroma keyboard 

-Logitech g600 mouse

 

 

 

Edited October 27, 2020 by MrDeAD1313

OS: Windows 10

Graphics: Nvidia 740m

Processor: Intel i7

Ram: 8Gbs

460 Gb SSD

and here's a picture

 

Here's a copy/paste of the ordered specs, though I haven't verified each aspect. The power supply was upgraded to 1200W (from 1000W), so I amended that.

 

CASE Corsair 750D Full Tower ATX

Front 2 x 140mm fan , Rear 1 x 140mm fan 1200RPM

2 x USB 2.0 / 2 x USB 3.0 / Audio Front Ports

Bays : External 3 x 5.25” // Internal 6 x 3.5”/2.5”, 4 x 2.5”

Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W Power Supply

80 PLUS Gold certified, High quality Japanese main capacitor

Ultra-quiet 140mm cooling fan with low noise level.

Heavy-duty protection circuitry of Over Current, Over Voltage, Under Voltage, Over Power and Short-Circuit protections.
Asus ROG Strix X399 Series Motherboard

Rear: 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 (Type-A, Type-C), 8x USB 3.1 Gen 1, 1x Optical S/PDIF out, 1x RJ45

Mid-board: 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 2, 4x USB 3.1 Gen 1, 4x USB 2.0 6x SATA 6Gb/s (Support Raid 0, 1, 10), 3x M.2 x4 Socket 3, 1x U.2 port
128GB DDR4-2400Mhz PC4-19200
AMD RYZEN Threadripper 2950X 16-Core Processor 3.5Ghz Turbo Boost 4.0GHz, Cache L3 32MB, Socket sTR4
240mm Quiet Edition Water / Liquid CPU Cooler
SSD 1TB Samsung 860 Series (System Drive)
10TB Storage Drive SATA-3 256MB Cache
GeForce RTX 2080 8GB Super
24X Asus DVD+/-RW
ROG SupremeFX 8-Channel HD Audio CODEC S1220

High quality 120 dB SNR stereo playback output 113 dB SNR recording input

ESS ESS9018Q2C, Supports up to 32-Bit/192kHz playback
Intel I211-AT 1x Gigabit LAN, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth V4.1
MS Windows 10 PRO 64bit

 

Yes, it can run Minesweeper and Excel 97. Some old software bombs out because it doesn't believe the amount of RAM reported, and thinks it doesn't have any. :)

Back in 2019

 

 

 

 

I'm waiting on two items before upgrading:

1. AMD 5950X 16-core

2. NVIDIA Ampere Titan RTX (yet to be released)

 

Current (2015) build:

 

ASUS RoG Maximus VI Hero C2

i7 4790k quad-core 4.0GHz

16GB DDR3 RAM

2x EVGA GTX 970 4GB SLi

2x Seagate Baracuda 2TB 7200rpm HDD

 

In progress build:

ASUS RoG Strix X570-F

Ryzen 9 3900X 12-core 3.8GHz

32GB DDR4 RAM

MSi RTX 2070 Super 8GB

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB NVME M.2 SSD

SanDisk Ultra 3D 2TB SSD

Elgato Game Capture 4K60 Pro Mk.2

I'm pretty sure that I legit have the shittiest computer in this thread so far.

For the past 2+ years I've been trying (And repeatedly failing.) to save up enough money to buy a brand new proper PC. Why ? Here's why:

Intel Pentium E5300
2 GB DDR2 RAM
Intel Q45/Q43 Express Chipset (What dedicated GPU ? lmao)
74GB Seagate ST380815AS (No, this isn't some kind of joke, oh also I only have a little over 5 GB of free space as you could probably guess.)
A 60hz Samsung monitor*
A 10 euro Nod keyboard (I could probably find out the specific model, but it's not really neccesary.)
Some 4-5 euro Philips mouse lol

If I had a better computer I'd have pretty much never thought of playing a game as archaic as Doom outside of maybe trying it out on DOSBox for about an hour, and would've never been on this forum in the first place obviously. But here I am since Doom is pretty much about the only game this old small form factor office shitbox from 2007-8 can run. My current smartphone is literally more powerful than my PC in every way.

Oh also since some people have posted photos of their PCs here's one of mine as well.




*Previously I had a 1280x1024 monitor that I had bought all the way back in 2013-4 along with the PC itself, but it crapped out last month so I had to buy this new 1920x1080 Samsung monitor while using my own TV as a monitor until it arrived.

Just now, inkoalawetrust said:

I'm pretty sure that I legit have the shittiest computer in this thread so far.

For the past 2+ years I've been trying (And repeatedly failing.) to save up enough money to buy a brand new proper PC. Why ? Here's why:

Intel Pentium E5300
2 GB DDR2 RAM
Intel Q45/Q43 Express Chipset (What dedicated GPU ? lmao)
74GB Seagate ST380815AS (No, this isn't some kind of joke, oh also I only have a little over 5 GB of free space as you could probably guess.)
A 60hz Samsung monitor*
A 10 euro Nod keyboard (I could probably find out the specific model, but it's not really neccesary.)
Some 4-5 euro Philips mouse lol

If I had a better computer I'd have pretty much never thought of playing a game as archaic as Doom outside of maybe trying it out on DOSBox for about an hour, and would've never been on this forum in the first place obviously. But here I am since Doom is pretty much about the only game this old small form factor office shitbox from 2007-8 can run. My current smartphone is literally more powerful than my PC in every way.

Oh also since some people have posted photos of their PCs here's one of mine as well.




*Previously I had a 1280x1024 monitor that I had bought all the way back in 2013-4 along with the PC itself, but it crapped out last month so I had to buy this new 1920x1080 Samsung monitor while using my own TV as a monitor until it arrived.

 

The old good office pc.

 

At least the vintage look you have it

Ryzen 3400G w/ Radeon Vega 11

16GB DDR4-3200

ASRock B450M Pro4

1TB SATA SSD

320GB HDD

1080p TV

 

It does the job well enough. I'm saving up for a Radeon 5000 or GeForce 20 series card on Black Friday.

This is my first time posting specs. Usually I just say I have 4GB ram but let's go.

OS: Windows 7 64x
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 8570D
Sound: AMD High Definition Audio
Processor: ADM A8-6600K APU 3.90GHZ
Ram: 4GB
Hard drives(?): ST 2000DM (random numbers) SATA Disk Device
                      WDC WD16 (more random numbers) SATA Disk Device
My friend installed the second hard drive for me so i'd have more space...
Total storage space: 2010 GB, of which I use around 600gb
Monitor: BENQ G774 from 2002 ( I've heard the only right way to play doom was to play it with a CRT so I urbexed some trash containers )
Keyboard and mouse: Fury thunderstreak

I hope I did it right... This is pretty much all I need for now. I'd love to play DOOM on pc though so maybe i'll upgrade this someday, somehow.

os: unix

processor: one room

graphics: no

ram: probably some

hard drive: only saves to punch cards

sound: no

monitor: no