Show your non-Apple rigs! (Anti-Mac Thread)

[cmdrfire]

Right. Enough of this douche hipster aluminium-and-glass crowd posing while running shiny closed hand-holding operating systems.

Let's see some real computers here. There must be some people with decent machines on this forum.
This is the inside of my rig.


I'm running an Intel Core i7 2.67GHz machine... overclocked to 3GHz. That's eight cores four physical cores and four hyperthreaded cores of juicy goodness, cooled by that mighty CoolerMaster V8 cooling tower.
That's backed up with 6GB of high-performance RAM from Corsair.
My gfx card is quite old these days; the GPU is an NVidia GeForce 8800 GTS with 512MB of DDR3, ably overclocked by BFG. Once I've stopped spending money on cars I might upgrade this. That's driving a pair of 22" Samsung Syncmaster flatscreens with a combined resolution of 3360x1050.


I've got 1TB of hdd space onboard over three drives (including a 74GB Western Digital Raptor spinning at 10,000RPM); and a NAS to which I've got a gigabit Ethernet pipe which has 2.5TB of space.
All of that's housed in a sweet black ally case made by Akasa, known as the "Raven".

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit (I'll switcheroo to 64-bit after my exams to make better use of my RAM), and also got installations of Ubuntu, Kubuntu ('cause I wanted to play with KDE4, which is swish), and Debian to play with when I feel like.


Anyone else got a decent machine on here? Someone must do!

[Janner_Sy]

im still using this

[VC]

 

[Hedge]

[Janner_Sy]

wander how many transistors are in that contraption Hedge. was that the god father god all computers lol

[94Luke]

[Hedge]

wander how many transistors are in that contraption Hedge. was that the god father god all computers lol

That my dear Sy is Babbages Difference Engine (well replica methinks) and yes the Great Grandaddy doesn't quite cover it. 

[cmdrfire]

This hasn't exactly gone the way I planned it would go 

That my dear Sy is Babbages Difference Engine (well replica methinks) and yes the Great Grandaddy doesn't quite cover it. 

It is indeed a replica of the Difference Engine No 2. Babbage never finished his first Engine and was working on the second Engine before abandoning that. Before he died he was working on an even further improved device, the Analytical Engine which was never built.

Now all we need is someone to post an image of a Turing machine...

[Thor]

Nice post Ian, iirc Babbage worked alot with IK Brunnel to prove that broad gauge railways were smoother and faster than narrow (standard gauge)

What a piece of clockwork engineering

[VC]

This hasn't exactly gone the way I planned it would go 

...in this forum? this surprises you? 

were only a couple of posts away from randomness or images of women 

[Janner_Sy]

^^^^^^
 
Im sure robin will be along in a minute to sort that

[Hurdy]

I have a fairly decently specced PC.

250gb solid state HD for the operating system, 1TB hard drive, 2 x Nvidea graphics cards (768mb each), some posh soundblaster card, 24" Samsung lcd widescreen monitor, Altec lansing 5.1 sound system. Intel core i7 (not sure of speed!). 8gb fast ram. Bluray and DVD dual system.

I'll find exact specs when I'm at home.

Works lovely on Windows 7 64bit.

I have it hooked up through the media player for Iplayer and sky on demand too, so I can rummage through stuff at leisure.

[mclovin]

Okay, I'm going to try to help keep this thread on topic.

So, this is the desk in my study...



Funky wallpaper aside it looks pretty normal, but there are quite a few computers there, standard stuff first:

Dell Latitude E4300 (Win7) with Docking station on the left, then stacked up next to that is:
Dell Latitude D620 (Win7)
Dell Latitude XT2 Tablet (Win7)
Dell Latitude E4200 (Win7)
Dell Mini 10 (OSX)

On the right is this:



Mac Mini (upgraded with 2.33GHz Core2Duo and 320GB 7,200rpm drive plus external 1TB drive)

and these:



D-Link DNS-323 NAS (2x2TB SATA drives plus external 500GB drive)
Dell Poweredge 840 (Linux)

However the most powerful machine is the one lurking under the desk:





That's a Dell Poweredge T710 (running multiple VMs on VMware ESXi on an internal SD card)
2x Intel Westmere X5670 processors (2.93GHz, 6 cores, 12MB last level cache)
24GB DDR3 RAM (running at 1333Mhz)
4x 146GB 10k SAS drives (RAID 10)
2x 500GB 7k SAS drives (RAID 1)





So, do I win a prize or something? Also, for the record I still think the most interesting thing in my study is the wallpaper

 

[Janner_Sy]

you been trying to hack NASA or something wih that, jesus christ

[cmdrfire]

Wow, mclovin, that's quite the setup you got there. I guess you're using the T710 as a server of some kind? That's definitely a beast of a machine, none of the consumer grade stuff manages to quite touch that. Some (lucky!) guys at work have similarly spec'd workstations that they use for CAD/CFD and stuff.

Out of interest, what's the tablet like? You're the first person I know of to own one.

...in this forum? this surprises you? 

were only a couple of posts away from randomness or images of women 

See! We got some sensible responses! Hurdy's rig is quite nicely spec'd too...