I'm gonna agree with the Professor here. That was true back in the Pentium 4 vs. Athlon64 days but certainly not since the Core 2 Duo has come out. The original C2D's were actually rumored to run so cool that you could run them without only a passive cooler (or something to that effect) with stability. Recent revisions (especially some of the Wolfdale's) run a lot hotter but still within reasonable levels compared to the Prescott's of 3 years ago.

and the new 45nm run so cool it's retarded (especially when you look at the performance).

Well I sold my workstation last week and I'm now 100% running off my laptop. God I miss her. The laptop is painfully slow compared to my old desktop in CS3. Thankfully I'm only using it for light computing and the occasional photoshop for my own personal stuff.

Acer Aspire 5630
Centrino Duo T5200 @ 1.6Ghz
2gb DDR2 667
160gb 7200RPM Seagate drive (I replaced the 120gb 5400)
15.4 inch LCD
Samsung 916V 19inch LCD as second monitor
Razer Deathhadder

2x 500gb Seagate 7200.11 ES in a Vantec MX JBOD enclosure
1x 320gb Seagate 7200.10 ES in a CoolerMaster Xcraft enclosure
1X 500gb Seagate 7200.10 ES in an Antec MX-100 enclosure
1x 500gb Lacie HD

My main PC

Oldschool Chenming/Antec full tower case (the case is about 7 yrs old)
Antec EarthWatts 380W PSU
ECS motherboard (microATX, nforce chipset, AM2 socket)
AMD 64 X2 5200 CPU
2 x 1GB Kingston PC2-6400 RAM (2GB total)
2 x 400GB Western Digital SATA hard drives (800GB total)
e-VGA GeForce 8600GT pci-x video
Generic dual layer DVD burner
Dell 20" widescreen LCD running at 1680x1050
Saitek gamer keyboard ( USB )
Logitech Mx518 USB mouse
Saitek P2600 USB gamepad
3Com Home Connect USB webcam (ancient)
Windows XP Pro w/SP3

My bedroom PC (mostly used for watching movies from bed)
Generic midtower case with generic PSU
ECS motherboard (ATX, SiS chipset)
AMD Thunderbird 1.4 GHz CPU (Athlon)
2 x 256MB generic DDR RAM (512MB total)
Seagate 40GB IDE HD
Matrox Mystique AGP video card ( 8 MB )
IBM 14" LCD monitor (seriously oldskewl - 1998! one of the first LCDs)
Generic CD burner, keyboard, and mouse
Windows XP Pro w/SP3

100mbit wired network between both PCs, cheap Belkin router to connect both to the internets. Both share a combo fax/laser printer I found in the dumpster for a printer (Pitney Bowes of some kind.. P8 Pro I think?)

I have a few computers, I mostly use my laptop it's really my main computer.
Klaatu (Laptop)
Ubuntu 8.4.01
Pentium M 1.6Ghz
1.25GB RAM
40GB HDD (i'm going to be upping this to a 120GB soon)
15" screen
El-Crapo graphics, but it does what I need it to.

Verada (Main server)
This is my main server, It's runs a Print Server and a File Server.
OpenBSD 4.2
P4 2.8Ghz
2GB RAM
4 750gb HDD in RAID 1 so really only 1.5TB in actual space
ATI 9700 Pro

Also 2 other's, not sure of all the specs on them. One is just the cpu running smoothwall. The other is used for when friends want to browse the web, it's running windows xp with deepfreeze a reboot and it's reset.


And yes the other computer is named Nicto.

My rig is very long in the tooth:

AMD 3800 Dual Core
ASUS M2N-E (eh, I think, at work right now)
eVGA 9800GT 512M
Antec case w/Fortron 400w power supply
2x512M Samsung PC3200
320G Seagate HD
Crappy 20 inch Acer LCD 1680x1050
Nostromo Speedpad N52
Logitech MX510 gaming mouse w/RatPadz
+ other dullish stuff

I upgraded the vidcard from a Sapphire x1950Pro last week (only $100 for the 9800GT!!) but now I realize I am processor constrained for CoD4, UT3 etc. Will go the cheap route with an E7200 with an aftermarket cooler that I should be able to get to 3.5-3.7 depending on what motherboard I buy plus 2G of mediocre RAM - should cost $250 with tax and shipping.

I finally got annoyed with my laptop and bought a new one. Quite the upgrade from my acer (ugh).

Lenovo Thinkpad T500
15.4 WSXGA+ 1680 X 1050
T9400 2.53Ghz 1066Mhz 6MB
4GB DDR3 1066Mhz
200GB 7200RPM
Bluetooth2.0, Intel Wifilink 5300, webcam, fingerprint reader, DVD burner, 9cell battery
I also bought the media extender thing which lets me replace the DVD drive with a regular 2.5 SATA hard drive. So I also have a 500gb drive with all my music and movies and shit. I fucking love this laptop and I don't really miss my old desktop anymore.

q6600@3ghz
gigabtye p35-ds3l
8g ram @ 800mhz
evga 8800gtx
1tb samsung
750gb samsung
250gb WD
xp64
in a 4u rack case

hooked up to a lenovo l220x

this was the first major pc upgrade that i've done in `years`

It's kind of nice to have things like solidworks actually run smoothly for once.

Bah. I just sold the new system I bought for a 400$ profit <.<

So until February:
AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+
2GB (2x 1GB Corsair DDR-800, Dual Channel)
Geforce 7950 GX2
System: 3x Western Digital RAPTOR 74GB 10kRPM drives in RAID 0 (16KB Stripes).
Data: 2x Seagate NS/ES Enterprise 250GB S-ATA Drives w/32MB Cache.
Backup: 1x 1TB Hitachi Cinemastar.

Funnily enough, in the last three months I've mostly only used my EeePC 901. I need to get a 15GB SD card for it...

Other than that, I'm working on a fancy media-centre. Probably going to use the dual-core Atom for it...

And brand new computer!

MB - Asus P5Q3
CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad @ 3.0 GHz
RAM - OCZ DDR3 @ 1600 4GB
HDD - Deskstar 500 GB & Seagate 1TB
Video - XFX GeForce 9800 GTX
Sound - Creative X-Fi 7.1
Monitors - LG Flatron W2234S (22" Widescreen LCD) & Samsung SynMaster 931BF (19" Std LCD)

The thing just rips through anything I do.

Here is my setup at home.

Desktop PC:

CPU: Core 2 Duo E8400
Motherboard: Intel DP45SG
RAM: 4 GB (2x2gB ) DDR3 1333mhz fatal1ty edition
RAID controller: ADAPTEC 2410sa (4 port dedicated SATA controller with 64mb cache)
HD: 4x80GB SATA hds in RAID-0
Graphic card: Radeon HD 3870x2
LG SATA dvdrw
Sound card: SoundBlaster Audigy
Power supply: Enermax FMA II 535w
Case: Antec standard case (i don't remember the model)
Running dual boot Ubuntu 9.04/Vista ultimate 64bits

Netbook:

HP mini 1030r
CPU: Intel Atom @ 1.6ghz
RAM: 1GB DDR2
Screen: 10.2"
HD: 16GB SSD
Wifi G
Running UNR

Networking:

D-Link DL-323 NAS with 2x 500GB HDs in RAID-1

Debian linux box as router/firewall/teamspeak/VPN server (Athlon 1.4ghz 1gb ram 40gb laptop hd) <-- I tried to use the less electricity as possible, so only fan in PS and on CPU, laptop HD(that crappy ECS MB wont boot on USB ).

Cisco catalyst 2900XL 24 ports switch

D-link wireless N access point

Linksys PAP2T VOIP adapter

Videotron 30 Mbits cable internet connection

I'll let you know as soon as I fix it after the narwhals fragged it.

If I totally hose it up I may have to get a new one.

For the hardware geeks out there...
Ive got a few, but here are the main 2:

the workhorse...Raptor.

CoolerMaster CM 690 Case, loaded with fans
Intel i7-940 Quad w/HT at 2.93 gig
6 gigs of OCZ DDR3 1333 platinum XTC ram
Asus P6T Deluxe Board
Nvidia GeForce GTX-280 Graffix
CoolerMaster RP Pro 1250 w PS
SB Audigy2 ZS sound
80 gig sata2 drive
320 gig sata2 drive
Vista Ultimate 64bit
BeyondTV Link to the media pc for tv/pvr
Dameware to manage the remote media pc's.

click to view

the server...Homer.

Thermaltake Xaser VI full tower case
Shitload of fans
OCZ GSX700 700w PS
Coolermaster 4 HDD bay expansion
Asus P5WDG2-WS workstation main board
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
4 gigs of Kingston DDR2-800 ECC ram
600 GB RAID 5 array (3x320Gig SATA2)
2 TB RAID 5 array (3x1.5TB SATA2)
Win XP 32 bit


There is also the dedicated download pc... all 3 of which are connected over an IoGear DVI KVM feeding my second widescreen 21.5' panel, as the first panel is dedicated to Raptor... GigE connecting all comps, printers, consoles and some other shit.

I dunno Banditt... I think you need more cores on Raptor there.

Finally finished my new build. Been working at it bit by bit for the past few months.

Tokimi:

Case: CoolerMaster Elite 310
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad 9550 @ 3.4 GHz
MB: Asus P5Q-VM
Memory: 8 Gigs of OCZ DDR2 Platinum @ 800, 1:1 FSB
Video 1: ATI 4670 1 GB
Video 2: ATI 4350 512 MB in cut PCIe x1
PS: Seasonic SS-350ET
Boot Drive: OCZ Summit 60 GB
Photos Drive: WD Caviar Black 640 GB
Temp and crap Drive: Seagate 320 GB 2.5"
Burner Old 16X DVD burner
Monitors: Samsung 2443BW, Samsung 2343BWX and 2 X Dell 17" LCD
Bunch of quiet fans

One of 13 PC and servers I have running right now.

Desktop:

CPU: Intel Core2Quad Q9450
RAM: 8GB DDR2 800
system drive: 160GB 7200RPM WD RE2 system drive
Other drives: 1TB Sandisk data drive, 1TB WD Black primary photo drive, 1TB WD green nightly backup photo drive
GPU: nVidia GTX 260 Core 216 55nm Superclocked
PSU: Corsair 520HX
Case: Lian Li PC-V1100B+
Monitors: HP LP2475W and Dell 2007WFP
Burners: 2x NEC Optiarc DVDRW

Laptop:
T400 Thinkpad
2.53GHz Core2Duo
4GB RAM
ATI HDsomethingorother video card & integrated video
14" LED screen
160gb 7200RPM drive

My stuff is starting to get dated, but I'm a poor broke college student, what can you do?

Tower
Case : Coolermaster Wave (Blue)
PSU : OCZ 700W
MoBo : EVGA 780i
CPU : Intel Core2 Q6600 @ 3.2 GHz
Cooler : Zalman CNPS 9700 (Conversation starter when I take my side off)
RAM : 4 gigs OCZ Platinum DDR2 @ 933 MHz
GPU(s) : XFX nVidia 9600 GT 512 MB GDDR3 Core @ 680 MHz x2 in SLI
Sound : Creative Soundblaster XFI Fatal1ty
HDD : 300 GB 7200RPM x2 in RAID 0 (600 G
500 GB 7200RPM x2 in RAID 1 (500 G
OS : Windows 7 Ultimate x64 RTM
Monitor : Samsung SyncMaster 940BW 17" Widescreen x2 (For Non-SLI workspace)

Goodies: Razer Lachesis Mouse
Razer Lycosa keyboard
Razer Barricuda 5.1 Headset

Laptop
Model : Dell XPS m1530 (Tuxedo Black)
OS : Windows 7 Professional x64
Upgrades: Intel Core2 T8300 @ 2.4
4 GB of ram
nVidia 8800M GT 256 MB dedicated memory
Western Digital Black 250 GB HDD @ 7200 RPM
Transcend 16GB Express card SSD ReadyBoost Enabled

Hopefully a server int he near future as well.

Home Desktop:

CPU: Intel Core i5 740 (overclocked to 3.2GHz)
RAM: 8GB OCZ Platinum DDR3 1333
MB: Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3, Version 6, with 24-Phase power, dual gigabit LAN teamed to a single 2GB/sec connection, High-Def Audio, 12x SATA/6x eSATA, Infineon TPM that I had paired to my smartphone for bitlocker, etc...
System: 3x 75GB WD Raptors (RAID 0)
Data: 3x Seagate NS/ES 320GB, 1x WD Green 1TB
Backup: 1x 1TB WD Green, 2x 1.5 TB Toshiba (Ext.)
GPU: nVidia GTX 295
PSU: Zalmann 750W
Case: Thermaltake Elements WS
Monitors: Plain Asus 17inch, Panasonic TX-P46S10E 46inch 100Hz FullHD Plasma
Optical: 1x LG BluRay
Other: Sharkoon QuickPort Pro Duo connected as 2x eSATA, Dual DVB-T tuner, 2x all-in-one internal cardreader, my 2$ black logitech keyboard I sanded (3x and then polished) the keys off 2 years ago to make a great looking dirt cheap DasKeyboard, high-speed RFID BatteryFree Magnetic-Induction wireless mouse.
OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 ("Windows 7 Server") + dozens of others virtualized...