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Simplicity basically. Which is the reason most people buy macs (whether or not the're prepared to admit it). Its a reasonalbly powerfull thing with a big-ass display running MacOS. For work its perfect and for play it's more than adequate.

At the time i bought it building a similar spec PC was not that much cheaper (once you factor in an IPS Display) and this way I get a 3 year warranty on all the compnents - I've had very good interactions with AppleCare re: Warranty's in the past.

But what it really comes down to is my own preference for MacOS.

And when its time to upgade it will be wall-mounted and become the new TV in the bedroom (screen can act as a display, or more likely just use a USB TV tuner).

I fail to understand how people can have a preference for that POS but fair enough lol, yeah if you wanna get anal and have to have an IPS screen the Dell Ultrasharp is ~$1k, but the other $2k or so would build a fairly kick arse rig.

I do like the screens in them over the Ultrasharps though, I think it's because the glass is glossy.

Not a fan of the all in one form factor, mainly because when something dies it's a huge production, can't upgrade much etc, heating etc etc.

They're all good points. Like you say its a personal preference. Also I sit on the other side of the form factor fence (clean freak). When the time comes to upgrade again; I'll see whats available at the time, I don't strictly adhere to "the code of the mac" like a good little fanboy.

As far as something dying, you're right, it would be easier to replace the faulty component and move on quickly, but on the other hand, Apple Support is excellent and I know if anything at all dies its simply a case of loading it into the box and saying "here, fix this and make sure I keep my data". This has saved my arse in the past (faulty wireless network card on the imac (replaced with a brand new imac in 3 days due to parts not being in stock) and faulty DVD drive on my old Laptop (despite being 3 months outside of the warranty period).

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Hi guys & gurls,

Here is my setup

Case: - Thermaltake Element V Black Edition

Motherboard: - ASUS P6X58D-E

CPU & CPU Cooler: - [intel] i7 930 with Thermaltake Frio Cooling

RAM: - 3x2GBMB Kingston HyperX DDR3 2000MHZ

Monitor: - 22" x2 Acer Widescreen [LCD]

Graphics Card: - [NVIDIA] Inno3D GeForce GTX 480 1536MB

HDD(s): - 1.5TB Seagate + 150GB Inferno SSD

OS Used: - Windows 7 Ultimate

Peripherals:

- Keyboard: Thermaltake Challenger Pro

- Head Phones: Razer Megalodon

- Mouse: [Razer] Abyssus

- Mousepad: Razer Megasoma

Alas, i am an avid gamer..

Bought a skyline recently in hopes to get myself out of my room and into the world of tuning :)

Ill still play games ETC but not as much as i used to.

Mostly FPS (anything battlefield and also Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory)

have been known to dabble in the MMO genre also

My Xfire is oberton1 if you have it :rofl2:

Cheers,

Tim

  • 1 month later...

Hey, noob here...

Just bought a Samsung NF210 (one of the mini 10" laptops.) :)

For the life of me I can't change the wallpaper!!

The usual right click on the picture and "set as background" does nothing, and I can't find a settings box for the wallpaper either!

It's got windows 7 starter...

HELP!

Did some updating over the last year and a bit

Case: Antec P182 P183 with all fans replaced with Noctuas (1x NF-P12 in the front, 2x NF-S12 on the top/back)

Motherboard: ASUS P5Q-Pro

CPU & CPU Cooler: E8500 @ stock, Noctua NH-U12P + additional NF-P12 in push-pull configuration

RAM: Kingston HyperX DDR2-800 4gb kit

Monitor: ASUS 19in widescreen LCD BenQ E2400HD

Graphics Card: ASUS 512mb 4850 MSI 1Gb 6870

HDD(s): WD 160gb Seagate 500gb + WD 640gb

OS Used: Vista Ultimate x64 Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Peripherals: Logitech G15v2 + MX510 Razer Deathadder v2, X-240 Edifier E3350 speakers, Zalman MFC1 fan controller

My Parent's new PC :closedeyes::

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @3.2Ghz

Mobo: Asus M4A88TD-M (AMD 880G/SB850 Chipset)

Ram: 4Gb Kingston 1333Mhz

Hard-drive #1: 60Gb OCZ Vertex II SSD

Hard-drive #2: 1TB 7200rpm Western Digital Caviar Black SATA 6Gbps

Video Card 512Mb Geforce 8800GTS (*my old video card)

PSU: SF 500W (*carried over from old PC)

Case: Thermaltake Soprano (*carried over from old PC)

Monitor: 24" Benq (*Carried over)

I think they are the only ones who have a SSD in their PC out of all the mums & dad's computers I know... (1/2 of them are still running some stone age Pentium 4 based system with Windows XP)...

Edited by Mayuri Krab
  • 5 weeks later...

After having laptops for the last 5 years I was pretty sick of it so I finally bought myself a desktop. Ordered this stuff last week still waiting on everything to arrive. Floods have f**ked some stuff up. Should be a good rig for what I'll be using it for.

Samsung 1.5TB Spinpoint F2 Silencer Series

Intel Core i7 870 Processor LGA1156 2.93GHz 8MB Cache CPU

Antec NSK6582B Black Super Mid Tower Case with EarthWatts 430D Watt PS

Kingston 8GB(2 X 4GB) DDR3-1333MHZ PC10600

Samsung SH-B123A 12x Blu-ray/DVD Combo Drive

2 x Samsung EX2220X 21.5" Wide Led 5ms 1920 x 1080 DVI/VGA Gloss Black

ECS GTX465 1G 2DVI,HDMI

Edited by Beelzebub89

After having laptops for the last 5 years I was pretty sick of it so I finally bought myself a desktop. Ordered this stuff last week still waiting on everything to arrive. Floods have f**ked some stuff up. Should be a good rig for what I'll be using it for.

Samsung 1.5TB Spinpoint F2 Silencer Series

Intel Core i7 870 Processor LGA1156 2.93GHz 8MB Cache CPU

Antec NSK6582B Black Super Mid Tower Case with EarthWatts 430D Watt PS

Kingston 8GB(2 X 4GB) DDR3-1333MHZ PC10600

Samsung SH-B123A 12x Blu-ray/DVD Combo Drive

2 x Samsung EX2220X 21.5" Wide Led 5ms 1920 x 1080 DVI/VGA Gloss Black

ECS GTX465 1G 2DVI,HDMI

keep a eye on the temps of that GTX 465 in a mid tower.

updated list of my gaming rig aswell as the server

Gaming rig

Case: Thermaltake Xaser Super tower with LCS

Motherboard: Gigabyte EP45-UD3L

CPU & CPU Cooler:Intel Q9400 2.66GHz

RAM: 4GB Kingston HyperX DDR2

Monitor: 2x Samsung 24" Dual linked

Graphics Card: XFX GTX 285 With Artic cooling GTX pro Leadtek GTX 470 with Artic cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus cooler

HDD(s): 1x Samsung 1.5TB 1x Samsung spinpoint 500GB Western Digital Green 1TB

OS Used: Visa Home premuim

Peripherals: Logitech G25,

Razer lycosa keyboard

Razer diamondback mouse

Razer eXactmat

LG DVD burner set to region 2 ( Japan region)

samsung DVD burner set to region 4 ( Australia)

Thermaltake toughpower 850W PSU

logitech 5.1 surround sound

eation 5110 UPS

Server

Case: Thermaltake M9D Mid-tower

Motherboard: Gigabye EP45T-UD3LR

CPU & CPU Cooler: intel celeron E3300 2.5GHz

RAM:2GB DDR3 RAM

Monitor: one of the 24" LCD's of my gaming rig

Graphics Card:Asus EN8400GS 512MB

HDD(s): 4x western digital 2TB Hard drives

OS Used: XP hom

Eaton Ellipse ASR M66780AL 1000VA 600W UPS

Case: Antec 1200

Cooling: Noctua D14 CPU Cooler, 8+ Antec Case Fans

Motherboard: Asus RAMPAGE PII Extreme

CPU & CPU Cooler: Intel I7 920 @~3.4Ghz @55 Degrees @1.27v

RAM: 6GB Corsair XMS3 @1600Mhz 1.65v

Sound: Creative X-Fi Sound, Behringer 1202FX Digital Mixer, Shure SM58 Microphone, Yamaha 5.1 RX, Custom Accusound 5.1 Speaker Package w/ 15" Active Sub.

Monitor: Dell UltraSharp U2410 24"

Graphics Card: nVidia GTX295

Power: Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W PSU

HDD(s): Western Digital Green 1TB < Soon to be 2x 128GB SSD's in RAID 0

OS Used: Last7

Peripherals: Logitech G25 Wheel,

Logitech G19 LCD Keyboard,

Logitech G9 Mouse,

Logitech Extreme 3D Pro,

IceMat 2 Pro (Glass)

Boots successfully at 4.25Ghz, but it doesn't like it for long. Now runs @ approx 3.4Ghz clock speed which leaves memory at 1600Mhz. Slightly bumped Vcore, QPI, ICH, and IOH voltages.

Probably get another 295 for it soon. Still not much of a need.

Server: Crap dell server running an MD1000 Vault with 4x 2TB HDD's for now. Room for up to 15 drives total.

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Case: Thermaltake V9

Cooling: Some large Thermaltake Heatpipe type setup

Motherboard: Asus P5e SLI

CPU & CPU Cooler: Intel Q6600 @ 3.3 standard volts (i think)

RAM: 4GB Xtreem Dark 1066

Sound: On Board

Monitor: Acer G245H 24"

Graphics Card: 2x 4850 1gb OC

Power: Coolmaster 850w

HDD(s): Western Digital 320gb primary 800gb games

OS Used: Win7 64bit ultimate signed edition

>>3d Mark Vantage 13438<<

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  • 2 weeks later...

Hi Guys,

Thought I'd share with you guys my new PC after 6 years with a P4 Northwood. Specs are:

CPU: Intel i7 950 with stock HSF

Memory: 12Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz (3 x 4Gb)

Motherboard: Asus Rampage III Gene

Primary HDD: OCZ Vertex 2 E 120GB SSD

Data HDD: Western Digital WD1200FAEX 1Tb

Video Card: Leadtek GeForce GTX570

PSU: Corsair HX850

Optical: Pioneer BDR-206BK (BD burner)

Case: Lian Li PC-V354 Black

Basically bought and built mid december. Won't be doing any overclocking and may buy another GTX 570 later for SLI (when prices come down)

Cable loomed pretty much every cable. I didn't notice I had a 'black' theme going until I finished.

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Once PSU was in, cable management went to sh*t. Stupid ultra long power cables.

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When turned on.

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Plays all the games I've thrown at it without it missing a beat. All graphics settings on the highest. The only drawback with the system is the case. Its a pain the ass to just open it as its not your standard 2 screws at the back then slide the side off. instead, you have to unscrew 8 small screws thats holding it on the chassis. So my community announcement would be to avoid this case if you tend to open the sides alot.

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