Post Your PC's

[Adieu]

I like simplicity in such things

 

[AwakenTheSkies]

If I remember the specs correctly (it's olddd, at least 10-12 years old)

eMachines
AMD dual core 2.4 ghz
4 gig ram
250gb HDD
Integrated video and sound card
Windows 7

You will all laugh at it, but the thing has no problems running Daws with lots of tracks and vst's. The machine runs like it's brand new, doesn't lag or anything and is relatively quick. The machine has almost never had an internet connection so the windows "updates" are extremely limited, other than a security update I did recently to use my FM3 as an interface so I have have less strain on the cpu when recording.

DAWs aren't really power or resource hungry...until you start using sample libraries & fancy synth programs. For example if you're programming bass, drums, strings, etc. an HDD will take a lot longer to load everything. Every time you open up your session you will have to wait 5 minutes until the samples have been loaded. And some of the libraries are huge, taking 50-200GB. Then there's the modern synths, some seem to take some power if you have many instances. You can bypass this by bouncing or printing every virtual instrument to audio, but that's missing a bit of the fun of virtual instruments right? Being able to tweak everything on the spot..

 

[cwhitey2]

DAWs aren't really power or resource hungry...until you start using sample libraries & fancy synth programs. For example if you're programming bass, drums, strings, etc. an HDD will take a lot longer to load everything. Every time you open up your session you will have to wait 5 minutes until the samples have been loaded. And some of the libraries are huge, taking 50-200GB. Then there's the modern synths, some seem to take some power if you have many instances. You can bypass this by bouncing or printing every virtual instrument to audio, but that's missing a bit of the fun of virtual instruments right? Being able to tweak everything on the spot..

I can run ezdrummer and maybe 6 tracks before I start having any real issues. I use it for just recording idea's and any actual poroduction.

It loads up saved tracks pretty quick for what it is.

 

[AwakenTheSkies]

He he he since today I'm messing with my PCs I decided to tidy up my old PC. This one still has the CD/DVD recorder! This is still good to record CDs to listen in the car with my friends if they don't have wireless or USB in their car radio. Also I can burn my demos on them and IRL spam everyone.

It was a real dirty mess before I cleaned it.

This one used to be:

i5 3570
Radeon HD 7870 2GB
8GB DDR3

That I "sidegraded" into:

i3 8100
AMD R9 380 2GB
16GB DDR4

Now I keep it as a backup in case something from my new PC breaks. Also I could install some PS2 emulator stuff on it, run a server or do some risky stuff that I wouldn't do with my new PC..

 

[Choop]

I'm thinking to probably move away from mATX back to a regular ATX case -- my Silverstone SG09 has been adequate, but it was better before I got a fire-breathin' RTX 3080. The fans have to run harder than I would like to keep its temps under control as well as the CPU's. The other option is to get an mATX case that supports large Noctua air coolers, but there are so few that do that are also actually good quality cases.

 

[Jeffrey Bain]

Here's my new setup, not a PC though, went with Apple this time for the music production side of things, loving the setup so far though!

 

[Xaios]

My PC:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 3600X
GPU: MSI Radeon 5700XT Mech OC
Motherboard: MSI X570-A Pro
RAM: 32GB 3200MHz DDR4
SSD1: 500GB Samsung 970 Evo (NVME)
SSD2: 500GB Samsung 860 Evo (SATA)
HD: 2TB Seagate Baracuda
Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo Black
PSU: Corsair RM650
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro M

Ordered the parts late 2019, built in the first week of 2020. In hindsight, my timing was pretty much perfect as this was right before prices went insane.

Made some upgrades recently. This is the current configuration:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
GPU: ASRock Radeon RX 6800 XT Phantom Gaming D
Motherboard: MSI X570-A Pro (*)
RAM: 32GB 3200MHz DDR4 (*)
SSD1: 500GB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 (NVME) (*)
SSD2: 1TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 (NVME)
SSD3: 500GB Samsung 860 Evo 2.5" (SATA) (*)
HD: 2TB Seagate Barracuda (*)
Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo Black (*)
PSU: ASUS ROG-STRIX-1000G 100W Gold PSU
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro M (*)

* = Unchanged

The new CPU and GPU should carry me for at least a couple years, and the 1000W PSU should (fingers crossed, knock-on-wood) be sufficient for several more still. The 1TB SSD is basically my Steam Games drive.

 

[Choop]

Heck yeah, the 6800xt is a very impressive GPU. That's a solid lookin' system, there.

 

[Xaios]

Heck yeah, the 6800xt is a very impressive GPU. That's a solid lookin' system, there.

Thanks. Yeah, I'm pretty happy with it thus far. I can crank up every setting in Red Dead Redemption 2 up to Ultra and never dip below 70FPS at 1440P, so I'm happy (although Witcher 3 is more hitchy now than it was before, which is mildly annoying). Gonna pick up MS Flight Simulator next time it goes on sale as I've been jonesing to try that ever since it released, the 5700XT just couldn't hack it at the detail I wanted to play at.

 

[spudmunkey]

Waited for the laptop 4070 reviews to drop this week, aaaand...what a joke.

Pulled the trigger on a Lenovo Legion 5 gen 7 that just delivered today. 3070ti, Ryzen 6800H, 2tb and 16gb. 1080p 165hz IPS screen isn't the best but miles better than what we're used to, even at just 300 nits.

It was purchased as an architecture/3D modeling machine, so the only game it might play is that Chrome running dinosaur game when the internet is down.

Interestingly, looking at some of those comparison websites, a laptop 3070ti is only about a 15% boost over the desktop 1070 I have in my desktop..which I will be thankful to have back once we get all of the software up and running on the new laptop, so I no longer have to use this loaner from my school.

The Lenovo has sort of a cool feature: a UBS port that can distribute power and has an "always on" model where you can basically use the laptop as a phone charger without having to turn on the laptop. I'm sure there are other, better uses for it, but that was the first that came to mind.

Got it direct from Lenovo for $1449, and satisfied with that price.

No fingerprint reader on the power button, but at least the power button is far away from the keyboard and not placed where the "Backspace" key normally is like where so many companies put theirs...