Tell jcap to post his desk, and post yours too! [JCAP POST YOUR DESK]

[SnaFuBAR]

nice spotting the ninja text lol

[ExAm]

Don't make me stab myself in the gut again

[SnaFuBAR]

hahaha. way to make me laugh hard!

[OmegaDragon]

So I was cleaning my parents old computer (the one with 64 MB of RAM) and found that it was covered with about half an inch of dirt. I didn't think of taking a picture before the cleaning, but I did take some after with some of the dust taken out pilled up in a mound.

Outside with dust on mound after cleaning:


Inside after cleaning

[Patrickssj6]

I had to lol so hard ^^

Actually my comp looks worse right now...the Motherboad is lying on a cardboard right now....

[Mr Buckshot]

Lol, when my dad decided to salvage the windows 98 desktop from the attic (it had 64 MB of RAM plus a 200 Mhz P2, ati rage card, and a 20 gig HDD that was upgraded to 80 GB last month), he had to blow it with a leaf blower. I'm serious - it was that dirty. Then he refurbished it and is using it as a server in his office, the reason why he bothered to upgrade the HDD. His main computer is a Sony VAIO SZ laptop though.

I would like to take a picture of my desktop setup, but my parents have banned me from touching their 6-MP digital camera after I got into big trouble at school for photographing an annoying guy, getting Reaper to PS his pic, and broadcasting it.

[SnaFuBAR]

heh, i got the "meh-machine" put back together. guts were free, but i used the old case (in the opening post of this thread) to build better internals. i just threw it in a new 30 dollar raidmax case w/ psu and took the 2nd dvd drive off my primary pc and put it on this one. only thing it's missing (for operation) is a hdd and OS, which i'll yoink out of any old pc i can find. after that i'll be adding a tv tuner card and other things.

basically going to be a party rig, for when my friend comes over and for media.

1.5 amd athlon xp (single core), ATI x1050, dvd-rom, 350w psu.

[Rob Oplawar]

YAY! I have been waiting so long to post my new computer in this thread. There is very little XPS left in this thing (only the ram, hard drive, dvd drive, and sound card).

I give you:
My new computer! The XPS was named Gary, but I think this qualifies as, well, perhaps one of Gary's budded offspring. Therefore I will call it Bud.

[thumb]http://www.spacebrick.net/pictures/blog_gallery/puter1.jpg[/thumb]

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[thumb]http://www.spacebrick.net/pictures/blog_gallery/puter3.jpg[/thumb]

=O Cover your shame, Bud!
[thumb]http://www.spacebrick.net/pictures/blog_gallery/puter4.jpg[/thumb]
Gimme a break, it's my first time doing cable management. Hell, compared to the job Dell did on the cables in my XPS, this is fucking top-notch.

OK, so Bud's no ultimate gaming computer, but I think he's a pretty damn good budget gaming computer.
Important specs:

Processor: Q6600 quad-core 2.4 ghz (will be overclocked once my new heatsink arrives)
Videocard: EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS- not ultra high end, but still a wicked sick card
Mobo: EVGA nVidia chipset 680i (incompatible with the heatsink even though the website lists them as compatible, hence the "new" ie "replacement" heatsink)
PSU: Thermaltake 700W ultra mega mondo thing (so I never have to ever ever worry about enough power)
RAM: 2Gb DDR2
HDDs: 1TB worth of 7200 rpm seagates and WDs

All wrapped up in a ridiculously huge Thermaltake full-tower.

Oh, also 3520x1200 pixels worth of LCD monitor glory.

It would be virtually silent but for the fan on the heatsink that came with the cpu. I gotta get that replacement heatsink soon.

Edit: Oshi I forgot my camera was in super hi res mode, and I'm too lazy to scale down those images now. Thumbed, so click at your own risk.

[rossmum]

:awesome:

Lucky bastard. <>

[Rob Oplawar]

Sweeeet.
I just ran the 3DMark 06 benchmark tests on my new rig. My old puter scored 3600, which at the time was respectable. The new one scored nearly 11000.
I can't seem to track down what the average scores are these days (all I'm turning up is scores fro 2006, and we all know how laughably slow and crappy computers were a whole year ago) but still it seems 11000 is something to appreciate.

I'm happy. =)