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So, i want to know peoples PC specs.
So ill go first!

My Game PC(Budget range around 3000 dollars.):

CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage V Extreme Extended ATX
RAM: 16GB (4x4GB) Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 2800MHz
Video Card(s): 2x EVGA GeForce GTX 980 ACX 2.0 Superclocked
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster ZxR
Boot Drive(Windows only for ultra fast booting): Samsung 850 PRO 1TB SSD
Storage Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black 3TB HDD
Optical Drive: OEM DVD Drive
PSU: Corsair AX1200i Platinum
Case: Corsair Obsidian 900D
CPU-Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H100i
Operating System: Windows 7 64bit home premium(Legit not pirated ofc)

My school Laptop:

CPU: 2.8GHz Core i7-4900MQ
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage V Extreme Extended ATX
RAM: 16.00GB DDR3
Video Card(s): Nvidia Quadro K2100M GPU
Storage Drive: 256GB
Operating System: Windows 7 64bit

Didnt do a full PC check for this one soooo...

My bring along Computer:

CPU: AMD A-series A6 5400K (VISION A8 Technology) (Horrible need to replace soon.)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1333
Video Card(s): NVIDIA GTX650 1GB DDR5 (Full HD)
Sound Card: HD Sound (Intergrated)
Storage Drive: 1000 GB S-ATA 3 Western Digital
Optical Drive: DVD brander +/-RW Lite-On 24 speed Dual Layer
Case: CoolerMaster K380
Operating System: Windows 7 64bit home premium

Server computer:
In building, until now 64GB ram, dont have more yet.

You need to replace the "t" in the topic with an "e".

ssilk wrote:You need to replace the "t" in the topic with an "e".

Pose your PC-Specs?

Lol nobody says that ssilk.

Lol. I thought it was a good play on words, but it's just nonsense.

“Look at me, I spent lots of money!!11”

kanersps wrote:...
My school Laptop:
...

...tells everything.

Gandalf wrote:“Look at me, I spent lots of money!!11”

Yep, this exactly.

Well, posting PC specs is always about ePeen.

Let me post mine.

Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64bit

CPU: QuadCore Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450, 2666 MHz (8 x 333)
Board: Gigabyte GA-X48-DS5
RAM: 8192 MB (DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM)
Video: AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series (3072 MB)
Monitor 1: Samsung SyncMaster 226CW (Digital) [22" LCD] (HS3Q203314)
Monitor 2: Samsung SyncMaster 226CW (Digital) [22" LCD] (HS3Q203430)

Audio Adapter Creative SB X-Fi Audio Controller - 7.1

Storage Controller GIGABYTE GBB36X Controller
Storage Controller Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO/PCH SATA RAID Controller
Disk Drive storage 2 (1266 GB, IDE, RAID 0)
Disk Drive backup (931 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive storage 1 (931 GB, IDE, RAID 0)
Disk Drive system (131 GB, IDE, RAID 0)
Optical Drive TSSTcorp CDDVDW SE-S204N

Maybe the most important information:

System installation date: November 19th, 2009 - 09:13:57 am


I know, it's ancient, it's running as on day 1, it's clean, it's mine! The only thing that has been changed since it's original configuration is the graphics adapter.

But hey, what do you expect from someone in it's thirties, who's driving a motorbike which is 20 years old and which is also still running as on day one ... the only thing I love fresh and young are women in their early 20s!

i5 4670K
8GB
GTX970
Samsung 840 EVO 500GB

But that doesn't matter at all for Factorio.

ThaPear wrote:

Gandalf wrote:“Look at me, I spent lots of money!!11”

Yep, this exactly.

Not really, as a car is also fast 7-8 thousand dollars.

Last significant amount of money i spent for my PC-systems was for two good color-calibrated IPS-monitors.
Spending more than 1000 on a "Gaming PC" is just absolute overkill (Even with SDD, fine casing, silent components etc). Expensive overclocked RAM maybe gets you 1-3% better performance for twice the $ in typical situations.

"Boot Drive(Windows only for ultra fast booting): Samsung 850 PRO 1TB SSD"

BurnHard wrote:Last significant amount of money i spent for my PC-systems was for two good color-calibrated IPS-monitors.
Spending more than 1000 on a "Gaming PC" is just absolute overkill (Even with SDD, fine casing, silent components etc). Expensive overclocked RAM maybe gets you 1-3% better performance for twice the $ in typical situations.

"Boot Drive(Windows only for ultra fast booting): Samsung 850 PRO 1TB SSD"

Okkay the boot drive is not windows only, i have other OSs also on it. But as this PC is running 3 Full-HD screens and i want to be playing a different game on each and do video editing on this, i need this for it.

My laptop

Processor type : Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM Processor
clock speed : 2.00 / 2.90 Turbo GHz
Front Side Bus : 1333 MHz
3rd level cache : 6 MB

Operating System / Platform Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit (pre-installed, Toshiba-HDD recovery)

Design Colour colour : Metallic Urban Black with glossy rim and textured line pattern, black keyboard

System memory standard : 8,192 (4,096 + 4,096) MB
maximum expandability : 8,192 MB
technology : DDR3 RAM (1,333 MHz)

Hard disk capacity : 750 GB
drive rotation : 5,400 rpm

Blu-ray Disc™ drive compatibility : CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-R(DL), DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R(DL), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-R(DL), BD-RE, BD-RE(DL)
maximum speed : Read: 24x CD-ROM, 8x DVD-ROM, 6x BD-ROM/ Write: 24x CD-R, 4x CD-RW, 10x HS CD-RW, 16x US CD-RW, 8x DVD-R, 4x DVD-R (Double Layer), 6x DVD-RW, 8x DVD+R, 4x DVD+R (Double Layer), 8x DVD+RW, 5x DVD-RAM, 6x BD-R, 4x BD-R (Double Layer), 2x BD-RE, 2x BD-RE (Double Layer)
type : Blu-ray Disc™ rewritable drive (BD-RE) with recording, rewriting and playback support, including DVD Super Multi drive functionality

Display size : 43.9cm (17.3”)
type : Toshiba TruBrite® HD+ TFT High Brightness display with LED backlighting and 16 : 9 aspect ratio
internal resolution : 1,600 x 900
response time rise + fall (Typ.) : 8 ms

Graphics adaptor type : NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M with CUDA™ Technology and NVIDIA® Optimus™ Technology
memory amount : 2,048 MB dedicated VRAM. Available graphics memory can be expanded using system memory, through TurboCache™ technology: up to 4,095 MB with 8 GB system memory installed as shown in the NVIDIA control panel (with pre-installed 64-bit operating system).
memory type : DDR3 Video RAM (resp. Video RAM and system memory combined)
connected bus : PCI Express®

Internal video modes The following internal video modes are supported: :
resolution : 1,600 x 900

Max External Video Modes Max Resolution : 2,048 x 1,536
Max Refresh Rate : 100 Hz
Non-interlaced resolution with max refresh rate : 1,600 x 1,200

Interfaces 1 × DC-in
1 × external monitor
1 × RJ-45
1 × headphone (stereo)
1 × integrated 1.3 Megapixels Web Camera with built-in microphone
3 (Left 1, Right 2) × USB 2.0
1 × HDMI supporting 1080p signal format
1 × Multi-Card Reader (supports SD™ Card up to 2 GB, miniSD™/microSD™ Card with adapter up to 2 GB, SDHC™ Card up to 32 GB, SDXC™ Card up to 64 GB, Memory Stick® up to 256 MB, Memory Stick Pro™ up to 16 GB, MultiMedia Card™ up to 2 GB and xD-Picture Card™ up to 2 GB)
1 × external microphone supporting Sleep-and-Music
1 (Left) × USB 3.0 supporting USB Sleep-and-Charge

Expansion 2 × memory slots

Wired communication topology : Gigabit Ethernet LAN
speed : 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T

Sound system supported audio format : 24-bit stereo
speakers : built-in Harman Kardon® stereo speakers
manufacturer : Toshiba Bass Enhanced Sound System with Dolby® Advanced Audio

full list http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-p ... -p775-10k/

I have two computers with exactly the same components and memory speeds, one for work and one for home.

One of them has memory latencies 9 and one of them 8.

The latency itself makes more than 6% of difference of compile time of Factorio. Did you know that the computer just waits for memory data most of the time?

Amd fx 8350 8 core cpu @4.3ghz with a coolermaster hyper evo cpu cooler

8 gigs of ddr3 @1333mhz

nvidia gtx 760 mini oc edition

And a crap 1T storage drive that bottlenecks the entire pc

kovarex wrote:Did you know that the computer just waits for memory data most of the time?

In a lecture on operating systems I heard the prof give a very nice comparison of memory access times to real world equivalents. I think this was about it:
CPU registers -> short term memory (immediate access)
CPU cache -> long term memory (may take a few minutes until you remember something)
RAM -> the info you seek is written down somewhere within a one hour drive. go find it.
HDD -> the info you seek is on the other side of the planet. get on a plane to find it.
tape (still in use!) -> hitch a ride on the next voyager mission, fly to pluto, find the info, return

Well, i have pretty bad PC..
Intel@ 1800 GHZ
2GB RAM
150GB HDD
nVidia 8600

At least my phone is better...

Desktop Spec:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K
GPU: Radeon HD 7850
RAM: 8GB
Storage: 1TB HDD

Laptop Spec:
Thinkpad X1 Carbon: The version that they messed everything up on and reverted
in the following version
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4600U
GPU: Integrated
RAM: 8GB
Storage: 128GB SSD

I just built myself a brand new tower a few months ago, so I've got some rather nice hardware. Cost me a pretty penny too. About $2500 CAD once it was all said and done.

The short version for people who don't want to follow the link:

OS: Windows 10 Professional
CPU: Intel i5 4690K (w/o OC)
Motherboard: Asus Z97 Pro (w/ WiFi)
RAM: 16 GB DDR3 (4 x 8 GB, mixed brands)
GPU: nVidia GeForce GTX 970
Storage: SiliconPower 120 GB SSD (application drive), Seagate 1 TB HDD (data/game drive)
PSU: Corsair CX 600W
Monitor: Asus VG 248QE (24 inch, 144 Hz)
Peripherals: Blu-ray RW drive, Razer Deathstalker Chroma, Cyborg MMO 7 gaming mouse, Steam controller, Xbox 360 controller, Sentey Gaming Headset, Oculus Rift Development Kit 2

All packed inside or attached to a Corsair C70 case, in military green.

PC Part Picker link with pictures:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/b/ZGzMnQ