I know there are quite a few computer themed threads already but I'm curious what kind of hardware people are sitting in front of when they visit this magical realm of everypony. Myself, I'm on a Dell PC; More specifically, a Studio XPS 8000 from 2009. Originally it came with windows 7, but I've since upgraded it to Windows 8, and then 8.1 last month. Spec-wise, i'd like to think it's pretty good for a 4-year old PC; Core i7 CPU, (2.8GHz quad-core), 8GB Ram, and an Nvidia Geforce 240 video card (1GB). I originally had a 1TB drive in it, but replaced it with a 300GB hard drive at some point a while back - I keep most of my software and media files on an external drive so I can afford less storage locally. I guess that's it for the main specs - I'm thinking of getting a bigger PSU, maybe 600W (instead of the current 350W) as my PC has a tendency to overheat or do other quirky things as a result of being starved of enough energy to run properly.
Ouch bro... I have a Sony VAIO T-series ultrabook that I use for university and work among other things. No spectacular hardware of course, aside from newer 3rd gen i7 processor. I do have a desktop as well, only thing of worth on it is probably a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 TI graphics card. It's gotten rather slow though since it still runs on a dual core processor that I've never gotten around to upgrading...Though the whole thing needs to be gutted and suited with a new mobo as well.
The one my friend help me built about a year and half ago. No idea what's inside it anymore. I think I poste the spec stuff in greyone's profile at some point though. So you could always look there if anyone really wants to know
I'm usually on a 2011 27" iMac (weird to think it's 2yrs old now) Sandy Bridge i7 CPU 3.4Ghz Radeon 6970m 1GB GPU 1TB HDD 4GB RAM So glad I bought this when I was still living with my parents and actually had money lol. I really need to upgrade to more RAM, which I think I'll finally do now that its tax time and I should be getting a decent sum back, considering how cheap it is atm I'll just get 2x8GB sticks and add them to the 4 already there. I would love to put an SSD in there as well but I'm in no rush, I can very happily wait for prices to come down, and for my savings to go up lol. Otherwise, when I'm not on the mac I'm on an iPhone 3GS that was given to me. I've dropped it enough times that most of the buttons and the speakers don't work. I'll just keep using it until it either is totally non-functional or is just too old and slow.
lets see.... I upgrade a fair bit (an expensive hobby :/ ) i7 3820 OC @4.6Ghz nVidia Geforce GTX 670 2GB 2TB Internal HDD, OCZ Vector 256GB SSD. 2TB External HDD 16GB DDR3 RAM ASUS Xonar Essence STX sound card 1200W PSU 2 24" monitors and some decent fans
I usually use my home desktop. Built it myself. 6core AMD processor, 4gigs of DDR3 ram, it actually has a gaming pc power supply. The monitor is a toshiba 32" and it has a wireless mouse and keyboard. I'm buying a new laptop for college soon though. Any suggestion? Preferably something I could game on.
Hm...from what I've seen at Best Buy (lol) The ASUS laptops look pretty good. You'll want something with at least a core i5 in it, though I use a MacBook Pro with an i7. More the better :3 Also look for processing speed and RAM capabilities. These days you can get some with terabytes of storage memory as well. Hope that helps...I'm a geeky gamer girl. XP
I have an Asus N53SV. It wasn't super expensive, and it's sufficient for running Dota 2, Bethesda RPGs and the like beautifully.
It often is, yes. I would advise against it, but do what you wish. i7 isn't necessary, i5 is just as powerful, bar a couple features that most developers don't take advantage of too often. for gaming nowadays, I would recommend no less than 6GB of RAM. You can get away with 4, but not for too long. Since your main specification you've supplied is a gaming one, the graphics card is arguably the most important, but you have to decide how much you wish to spend, what games you intend on playing and what settings you'd like to have.
For the Interwebs I use some ancient ACER laptop that barely runs 2004-era games. For actual gaming I now use my brand spanking new Rig (she deserves the capital letter): CPU: AMD FX-8350 Eight Core CPU (4.00GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3+) Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 (DDR3, USB3.0, 6Gb/s) RAM: 16GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB) Graphics Card: 2GB AMD RADEON™ HD7850 - DVI,HDMI,DP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 3 Capable HDD: 1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE Power Supply: 450W Quiet 80 PLUS Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan Processor Cooling: Corsair H40 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler Operating System: Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit w/SP1 Is loving a collection of wires and silicon wrong? 'Cos I don't wanna be right.
I'm currently talking to you from Reejus, my Toshiba Satalite Laptop. It's got an i3 processor, a decent amount of RAM and hard drive space. It's got an Intel HD Graphics Card, so it's not perfect. They seem to have terrible support for most games.
If you look into it you'll notice that Alienware is actually owned by Dell; so in regard to the overpriced part, yes it's not worth the money to buy alienware brand. The Dell XPS models have very similar hardware to alienware and are much cheaper. My laptop and my desktop were both XPS; They're generally a good balance between cost and performance I think. (and if you're gonna go with dell make sure to do it online so you can customize!, in-store PCs are terrible xD)
I'm using a 2006 HP Pavilion dv6736nr... Is old and and slow in everyway possible. The only thing good about it is its 250gb harddrive. Sent from my LG-MS770 using Tapatalk 2
