[Ronbo]

I own a Mac G5 and a couple of G4's. They work great. The white Mac keyboards are pretty heavy duty and so are the Black ones for that matter. Never had an issue with a Mac OEM keyboard. The new metal ones I have no experience with.

[Adpros]

I never liked Mac's. Could have something to do with the ex-father in-law, (Mac).

But, in reality, I just never caught the Mac habit. I agree they crash just as frequently as a PC but, they always look so cutesy. I was never one for the cutesy stuff. Otherwise, I'd also be driving a hybrid.

[FREE93CORDE]

i always thought mac's were a very expensive circuit tester.

[Austin R/T]

MotherBoard:
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (rev 1.0)

RAM
G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900)

Processor
AMD FX 8120 (8 core) 3.10 Ghz

Hard Drives
Kingston 120GB SATA III Internal 7mm Solid State Drive (just installed fresh Win 7 Ultimate)
Western Digital 500 Gig
Segate 400 Gig

Graphics Card
EVGA GTX 670 FTW (4GB) (just installed it 15 minutes ago)

Power Supply
Corsair 750 W

Overall Windows rating of 7.5 (processor/ram/hard disk) (7.9 on video card)

[EagleESI]

Old Slot 1 CPU!! I used my old PIII Slot 1 501mhz for many years. Steady workhorse. Slow as can be for stable.

I had a pretty big tower as well.


When my $2 Tv was not in the living room, this is what my setup looked like. I enjoyed it ALOT.



Computer Setup then. I think 2.8 ghz, 3 gb ram Nivida 8500GT. Total Spent mebbie 100 bucks. Thinking of finding cheap P/s to throw back in this and have it run 24/7 as a server of sorts for FSX and storage.



Computer setup now. Got the Core 2 Dou E3600 @ 1.86 4gb ram (32bit XP sees only 3) Nivida 8800GT for free from friend, and soon a new 1TB Caviar blue. Total Spent. $80 bucks. Both Monitors I fixed (replaced bad Caps in power supplies)





As you can see I am not much in the way of wire management, however I do make sure my Temps stay reasonably low. Current PC is going to be redone a bit however once my new HD comes in. I am also cheap cheap cheap. I have had many computers over the past 10 years, and I can honestly say I perhaps spent less than 400 bucks total. I just get great deals and freebies.

For as much as a computer/tech person I like to be. I honestly stay out of mainstream stuff. I just don't read or keep up to date on things. This current setup is the best I have had to date and can play the original cyrsis on high avg 25-30fps. Seeing I do not play heavy games like that often it's not a big deal.

[cdmccul]

I like your setup Deven. I totally respect what you're doing, I think that's really cool.

[FREE93CORDE]

was little surprised when saw that older slot one. times its fun to go back and goof around with them. but like some folks do is re purpose items for use. but then i get to thinking of those new fx cpu and can't help but drool about them . lol

[95intrepid99kid]

Yep, that computer is older than me!

[Adpros]

Newer technology is cool like that.

A 20mb hard drive, "Older than me", had to hauled around by train and loaded by a sturdy fork lift truck!

[95intrepid99kid]

Literally!! One of those things could fill up a large Bedroom!

[FREE93CORDE]

just think how big they were with transistors or really go back to when they had tubes and filled up a house and you have more computing power in a 20 yr old scientific calculator then the tube machine.

[cdmccul]

My Dad had one... And was little more than a calculator with a printer. It filled our 1 stall garage. I'll see of I can get him to write up a story for it.

[95intrepid99kid]

Re-Loading the Tower Machine "from scratch" (taking it from Windows XP Professional to Windows XP Media Center Edition) as we speak.

[Franqstar]

i would show mine but my table is a mess lol

[95intrepid99kid]

Mien Auch (mine also) Maybe post specs?