That is a pretty decent setup. The 120 GB SSD is nice for the OS, since you can go from off to a login screen in four seconds or so.

I am surprised that your university doesn't offer DreamSpark or Imagine. That gives you a better edition of Windows, likely at a lower price.

Here is my specs table of my secondary laptop since my primary is a MacBook and little is known about the exact parts Apple uses:



This system has had Windows 10 Pro x64 on it twice in the past, however, because of temperamental behaviour with some core apps now replaced by the UWP platform, I have had to reinstall from scratch. Yes, I'm digging my heels...and for good reason: I prefer stability and functionality over appearance; I also get more battery life with Windows 7 than Windows 10.

This system was also used to render my standby cards during my stream-testing phase.

The more you know your hardware, the better your hardware will understand and work for you.

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PSA: To those running Windows 8 or older operating systems (7 & XP), be very aware of the recent WannaCry ransomware. The PCs that were most affected were running Windows 7. Keep your OS up to date using Windows Update and regularly scan your PC for malware using your anti virus software. And always keep your data backed up and disconnected, whether through the cloud or an external hard drive. Be smart on how you use your computer.

For example, if a scareware pops up (Ex. a web browser that displays that your PC is infected and asks to download file(s), immediately press ALT-F4 or Force Quit.

Unless you have data that you have is very dear and valuable, DO NOT pay the ransom if you have been hit by any ransomware

Also: do not open the attachments or follow links of dubious emails from those you've had no prior business with or don't have recollection giving such information to.

Ok here is my build which is getting kinda old at nearly 6 years with minor tweaks along the way.

Case: Coolermaster HAF 932
PSU: Corsair HX650
MB: Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z
CPU: AMD 1090T
RAM: 32 GB Corsair Dominator
GPU: MSI Gameing Radeon R9 290 4GB Memory
SSD: Samsung evo 840 500 GB, Samsung evo 850 500 GB
HDD: 4 WD 500 GB Sata 3 drives
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Monitor: Samsung LS27D590CS 27"
KB & Mouse: Razor Blackwidow Ultimate 2013, Razor Naga 2014

I've had this for a few years now with tweaks along the way..

Case: Fractal Design Define R5 Black Mid-Tower ATX
PSU: Corsair HX850
MB: Asus z87 Pro
CPU: Intel i7 Haswell 47xx w/ Corsair H100i liquid cooling
RAM: 32GB Corsair something - don't remember series
GPU: Asus GeForce GTX 1080 Founders (used to be a GTX780 until about a month or so ago)
SSD: SanDisk SSD UltraII 480GB
SanDisk SSD SSD UltraII 960GB
HDD: Western Digital Blue (3TBx2)
(I also have 4xWD Red 3TB in an external box which gathers dust except for about 2 hours once every week)
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Monitor: Quad- (upside down "T" configuration)
Main: LG 27" 1080P IPS LED (16:9),
L&R Sides: 2x21" Cheapo (4:3) Hanns-G LCD (for toolbars and email, IM, etc)
Top: Samsung 24" (16:9) 1080P IPS LED something (for other stuff- mostly Netflix, YouTube, Crunchyroll, Twitch, etc)
KB & Mouse: Logitech G810 and Logitech G700s

I have a few systems, so I won't bore with specs. My VM server, desktop, and laptop all have i7s. The VM server has 32 gigs of RAM, everything else, 16.

I do recommend some relatively oddball things. Synology and QNAP have some NAS models which do a lot more than just file serving. I have a two drive Synology being an E-mail dump (mail from my E-mail accounts gets archived there), Git server, and a place where documents get synced to. Another el cheap 1 drive NAS (which I don't really recommend for data as there isn't any RAID protection) is a print server and a staging ground for stuff going to Amazon Glacier cold storage. This way, if one of my main desktops gets hosed and I have to reload, it is easy to fetch everything from the NAS boxes and be back up and running in no time.

mine is just a crappy cheap lenovo laptop since my old gaming laptop died a month ago, nothing to write home about. It can run league of legends though which is nice

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Hey guys, thank you for sharing your PC setups here, nowadays is not really cheap to build a decent PC, mostly because of the prices for video cards and hard drives. As most of you know, these devices can be used in different crypto mining activities, so here's the question what video card and hdd should I buy at an affordable price today? The hard drive should have no less than 1 TB and good encryption mechanisms because I don't want to look for fdata recovery services near me if I lose the data due to disk errors in the future.

RTX 3060 is a fine card for price/quality if you play video games.

r2000 wrote:

RTX 3060 is a fine card for price/quality if you play video games.

Besides gaming, having a decent card, alongside other fundamental components, is a must for media and content production; especially if you're thinking of going 4K and beyond.

Owing to the thread title, here's a photo of my desktop, Xenovia*:

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Despite being a not-so-recent 9th-generation Core i9, octo-core, system, she is fully decked out with an RTX 3070 Founders Edition card and 64GB of RAM. When she was first built, she had a low-end GT 1030; trying to render any 4K clip on that thing would fail without even starting.

* Named after a supporting character from the same franchise that my kig, Irina Shidou, originates from.

wsdereds wrote:

Hey guys, thank you for sharing your PC setups here, nowadays is not really cheap to build a decent PC, mostly because of the prices for video cards and hard drives. As most of you know, these devices can be used in different crypto mining activities, so here's the question what video card and hdd should I buy at an affordable price today? The hard drive should have no less than 1 TB and good encryption mechanisms because I don't want to look for fdata recovery services near me if I lose the data due to disk errors in the future.

Motherboards with a higher-end chipsets will have onboard RAID controllers, which will allow you to daisy-chain multiple disks together to achieve greater performance, or to provide redundancy. My desktop (above), has two 1TB Western Digital RED SSDs in a mirroring configuration (RAID1); if one of them fails, the other takes over until the failed one is replaced.