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Photography, hence my 4 HDDs 

Photographer, future counselor, computer teacher.

3600X and RTX 2070 with too many storage drives to count. 

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Stuff I do on my PC other then gaming:

 

Homework, Coding, running VMs, Web Browsing, Listening to Spotify, Using MS programs, Watching YT, Online Shopping, LTT Forum, Discord, WhatsApp Web for that matter aswell (my class is like:wtf ? how is he replying so fast ?), learning to become better at typing and using the 10 Finger System, 

You can take a look at all of the Tech that I own and have owned over the years in my About Me section and on my Profile.

 

I'm Swiss and my Mother language is Swiss German of course, I speak the Aargauer dialect. If you want to watch a great video about Swiss German which explains the language and outlines the Basics, then click here.

 

If I could just play Videogames and consume Cool Content all day long for the rest of my life, then that would be sick.

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mostly this.

I live in misery USA. my timezone is central daylight time which is either UTC -5 or -4 because the government hates everyone.

into trains? here's the model railroad thread!

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LTT discussion forums

Downloading (perfectly legal, of course) torrents of my favorite TV shows and movies.

Streaming movies/TV shows to our roku TV downstairs via Plex

Light office work, mainly keeping our checkbook in excel updated

Paying bills 

Editing videos of motorcycle trips my wife and I have gone on 

Storing motioneye videos uploaded by my rpi

Raspberry pi project research  ?

 

 

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Mostly School work, a lot of online homework for my electrical engineering courses. On rare occasions I work from home (taking chats, calls, emails) for my techsupport job at my school. Much prefer my pc for work with the nicer keyboard and especially the extra ram. The ticketing system we use has a problem where it just slowly consumes ram so at work where the desktop only has 8gb of memory I have to close the ticketing system and open it again to free up memory. At home I have 32gb so I can work uninterrupted for the most part. I'd like to get back into 3D modelling but haven't set aside the time to do so yet

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Main Rig (Pulsar)

CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X MOBO: MSI MEG X570 Unify RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB (4x8gb) 3200Mhz 16-16-16-32 GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S Chromax (LTT Edition) Storage: Intel 6000p 128gb boot drive, Intel 665p 1tb (x2), Samsung 850 EVO 1tb, Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Tempered Glass PSU: EVGA SupeNOVA G1+ 750W OS: Windows 10 Pro 64 bit  

FreeNAS Server (The Vault)

CPU: Xeon E5-2603 v3 MOBO: MSI X99 Tomahawk RAM: G.Skill Aegis (4x8gb) 3000Mhz 16-18-18-38 GPU: EVGA GT 710 Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED Storage: Intel S3520 x2 for boot, x16 in RAIDZ for storage, Seagate Ironwolf 2tb (Striped will be a steam cache) Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro Tempered Glass PSU: Corsair CX750 750W

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Stress test the absolute FUCK out of it. I do this because I can't get over how good it is compared to my old pc. My old pc had a CPU from 2008, and a GT630 gpu.

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On 11/5/2019 at 5:56 PM, battlebox56 said:

For those of you with dedicated gaming PC rigs, what do you do on them other than gaming?

I code and work from my pc. I also spin up test environments to deploy and test said code. Also web browsing and general nerdy stuff. When i had my machine running windows, i also gamed like a mofo.

Main Workhorse:-

Dual Xeon E5-2687W v3 | SuperMicro X10DAi Dual Socket Workstation Board | 64GB ECC DDR4 2400Mhz | Intel DC Series 500GB SSD | EVGA Geforce GTX Titan X | Seagate 7200rpm 2TB | SuperMicro Gold Series 1Kw PSU | SuperMicro EATX Chassis | LG Ultrawide 34inch 75hz | LG 1080p 22inch IPS 75hz | Ubuntu 19.10 x64 |

 

Server:-

Dual Xeon E5-2680 v1  | SuperMicro X9DRW-3LN4F+ Server Board | 64GB ECC DDR3 1600Mhz | 7 x Intel DC Series 500GB SSD's | SuperMicro SuperChasis SC119TQ-R700WB 1U | Redundant 450w Gold rated PSU's | ESXi 6.7

 

Laptop:-

2018 15 inch Apple Macbook Pro Touchbar with 16GB Memory and 256GB NVMe

 

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On 11/6/2019 at 7:55 AM, GodSeph said:

Office work. I need to have multiple remote sessions logged in at a time and sometimes its remoteception where ya gotta go 3 deep. Also giant excel sheets a plenty on multiple monitors. The only reason I have 64GB ram and heavily multithreaded processor LOL not just for gaming at 4K while putting agmes in RAMdrives lol.

Welcome to the 64GB Ram club. lol

Main Workhorse:-

Dual Xeon E5-2687W v3 | SuperMicro X10DAi Dual Socket Workstation Board | 64GB ECC DDR4 2400Mhz | Intel DC Series 500GB SSD | EVGA Geforce GTX Titan X | Seagate 7200rpm 2TB | SuperMicro Gold Series 1Kw PSU | SuperMicro EATX Chassis | LG Ultrawide 34inch 75hz | LG 1080p 22inch IPS 75hz | Ubuntu 19.10 x64 |

 

Server:-

Dual Xeon E5-2680 v1  | SuperMicro X9DRW-3LN4F+ Server Board | 64GB ECC DDR3 1600Mhz | 7 x Intel DC Series 500GB SSD's | SuperMicro SuperChasis SC119TQ-R700WB 1U | Redundant 450w Gold rated PSU's | ESXi 6.7

 

Laptop:-

2018 15 inch Apple Macbook Pro Touchbar with 16GB Memory and 256GB NVMe

 

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I make low quality YouTube videos and buy stuff online.

Gaming With a 4:3 CRT

System specs below

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X with a Noctua NH-U9S cooler 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 Aorus M (Because it was cheap)
RAM: 32GB (4 x 8GB) Corsair Vengance LPX 3200Mhz CL16
GPU: EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC Blower Card
HDD: 7200RPM TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 1TB, External HDD: 5400RPM 2TB WD My Passport
SSD: 1tb Samsung 970 evo m.2 nvme
PSU: Corsair CX650M
Displays: ViewSonic VA2012WB LCD 1680x1050p @ 75Hz
Gateway VX920 CRT: 1920x1440@65Hz, 1600x1200@75Hz, 1200x900@100Hz, 960x720@125Hz
Gateway VX900 CRT: 1920x1440@64Hz, 1600x1200@75Hz, 1200x900@100Hz, 960x720@120Hz (Can be pushed to 175Hz)
 
Keyboard: Thermaltake eSPORTS MEKA PRO with Cherry MX Red switches
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Internet porn, watching anime hentai and hanging here in a great forum. ㊙️

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15 hours ago, dumbuz said:

Stress test the absolute FUCK out of it. I do this because I can't get over how good it is compared to my old pc. My old pc had a CPU from 2008, and a GT630 gpu.

What are your current specs?

Pc Specs: 

Ryzen 7 5800x- ROG STRIX X470-F  - G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16gb 3200mhz - Kraken X63 AIO - MSI VENTUS 3x OC RTX 3070 - EVGA 1000W GW - NZXT H500i

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On 11/8/2019 at 5:20 PM, Pascal... said:

learning to become better at typing and using the 10 Finger System

I also use the ten finger system. Two are working and eight are resting.

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I'm a graphic designer, so I do things with Photoshop. Light video editing for my S/O who works for an A/V company when they need something from a conference. In school for Cyber Security, so I do school work also. Other than that, YouTube, music, chatting, etc.

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Freelance VFX works. watching Movies & Tv shows. and browsing the interwebs and youtube. 

 

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CAD, sketching, derpixon, and tons of "art". 

 

? I swear it's purely platonic. 

Cor Caeruleus Reborn v6

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CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K

CPU Cooler: be quiet! - PURE ROCK 
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver - 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste 
Motherboard: ASRock Z370 Extreme4
Memory: G.Skill TridentZ RGB 2x8GB 3200/14
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive 
Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive
Storage: Western Digital - BLACK SERIES 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: EVGA - 970 SSC ACX (1080 is in RMA)
Case: Fractal Design - Define R5 w/Window (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA P2 750W with CableMod blue/black Pro Series
Optical Drive: LG - WH16NS40 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer 
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit and Linux Mint Serena
Keyboard: Logitech - G910 Orion Spectrum RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard
Mouse: Logitech - G502 Wired Optical Mouse
Headphones: Logitech - G430 7.1 Channel  Headset
Speakers: Logitech - Z506 155W 5.1ch Speakers

 

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2 hours ago, Arika S said:

My desktop is essentially just a gaming server for my laptop 

how is it setup?

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1 hour ago, amdorintel said:

how is it setup?

it's turned on and i use Moonlight to remote control/remote play from it. It's by no means complicated

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Not going to lie, its movies and porn. 

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mostly gaming/youtube/movies. It Also hosts a network drive that my other devices and xbox can access that has a ton of tv/movies on it. Occasionally dabble in video editing.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5700x  (evga 240 AIO cooling)
PBO Settings:
Boost Override CPU: +200
CO: -17 all core
PPT: 140
TDC:  110
EDC: 150
Scalar: Auto

Mobo: Asrock x570 steel legend wifi ax

GPU: asrock challenger 7800xt 16 gb

Ram: 32 gb @3600 mhz

Case: Fractal Design Meshify C White

PSU: Seasonic Focus GX-1000

Storage: 1tb Samsung 860 ssd, 1tb nvme, 2tb Hitachi HDD, 3tb HDD for media

Display: Samsung 27" CHG70 1440p QLED Monitor

 

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On 11/6/2019 at 2:51 AM, aaradorn said:

Obscene amounts of youtube.

Same here....and web browsing as well as actual work. One thing about a nice gaming rig folks...they can do quite a bit of anything you can throw at them and then some!

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Document writing, occasional video editing, playing with music workstation software, virtual machines, browse the Internet, watch youtube, etc.

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I’m seeing 75 replies.  I’m going to guess at least 37 either said pr0n or they were lying.

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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