Show off Your Setup! (Rev.2)

[Willbot750]

lol i did that like the next day

[Redicat]

 

I know i need to buy cable management kit and working on it just moved here

Internet speed is nothing special..

[gentlemanspot]

On 5/21/2024 at 9:09 PM, Redicat said:

 

I know i need to buy cable management kit and working on it just moved here

Internet speed is nothing special..

keep telling ya self that You get to the cable management buddy!  hahaha

[Drvulcanlord]

Server setup

[Redicat]

18 hours ago, Drvulcanlord said:

Server setup

Damn xd how much power from the wall does that use? xd

[XZDX]

2 hours ago, Redicat said:

Damn xd how much power from the wall does that use? xd

Legitimately 400W at full load, which it probably never hits for more than 2 minutes

 

2 years older on netburst?  Easily 4X.  Core 2 is embedded in comparison

[Redicat]

49 minutes ago, XZDX said:

Legitimately 400W at full load, which it probably never hits for more than 2 minutes

 

2 years older on netburst?  Easily 4X.  Core 2 is embedded in comparison

Depends on the GPUs inside i guess? what GPUs? none? xd

Yeah damn it's alot but i guess NA power cheap?

[CharlieThePlane]

Top Milk Crate (Main PC)

6750XT

5950X (that weird photo of the back is the liquid cooling that is currently blowing the wrong way)

32gb

Bottom Milk Crate (you've seen before) is my server

RX480 8gb

1700X

16gb

steam deck oled limited edition

steam deck 512gb with aftermarket backplate that's transparent and helps with cooling with guilikit sticks

Bambu lab X1 Carbon with X2 AMS (I sell prints)

audio from the main PC goes to ThieAudio Ghost from a topping D2 I got from my friend

Audio to Edifier R1700BT speakers is fed from either my phone or the Sound Burger I got just because it sounded funny and thought would look cool spinning off the edge of the shelf and I thought putting 24 Vinyl records evenly spaced between the windows was a good aesthetic but I am slowly waiting for them to come in the mail, I have 9 so far ordered total, the laptop by the bed is for youtube streams to fall asleep to, it's an Asus GL502V I forget the rest of it and the specs but it is okay

The second laptop you see in front of the milk crates is just for accessing humble bundle for game keys and college stuff

I live alone, the second steam deck is for gaming with my college buddies between classes, this is not a "his/her" setup

I've been slowly fixing up this house since the previous people destroyed it and making it into a place to keep way too many computers and hopefully one day have some friends over for a LAN party, I hope you enjoy all the random bits of tech I shared today, Yes I consider my bed part of my setup since I use the steam deck in it while I listen to music if I just need to chill, I just got the shelf up at 4am after working on something

 

And for those wondering, No Vinyl doesn't sound better, It's just fun to play with, those who tell you otherwise are regretting their expensive hobby

 

Please be honest, is my gamer house cool? what would you do different? seeing everyone's epic gamer setups is so nice, I remember being so envious of setups, but now I am very proud of what I have so I decided to share it too

 

Feel free to ask any questions

 

)

[wilsonryanp]

What do you guys think?  Considering I haven't built a pc since high school 2000ish.  Is it the fastest?  No, but considering its intended use case, it's a bit more than needed.  Lol. Be somewhat nice.  Its been awhile.  Haha

[gentlemanspot]

On 5/23/2024 at 5:57 AM, Drvulcanlord said:

Server setup

you running a hypervisor or going bare metal?  

 

also *yeeehaw tractors*  

[gentlemanspot]

6 hours ago, CharlieThePlane said:

Top Milk Crate (Main PC)

6750XT

5950X (that weird photo of the back is the liquid cooling that is currently blowing the wrong way)

32gb

Bottom Milk Crate (you've seen before) is my server

RX480 8gb

1700X

16gb

steam deck oled limited edition

steam deck 512gb with aftermarket backplate that's transparent and helps with cooling with guilikit sticks

Bambu lab X1 Carbon with X2 AMS (I sell prints)

audio from the main PC goes to ThieAudio Ghost from a topping D2 I got from my friend

Audio to Edifier R1700BT speakers is fed from either my phone or the Sound Burger I got just because it sounded funny and thought would look cool spinning off the edge of the shelf and I thought putting 24 Vinyl records evenly spaced between the windows was a good aesthetic but I am slowly waiting for them to come in the mail, I have 9 so far ordered total, the laptop by the bed is for youtube streams to fall asleep to, it's an Asus GL502V I forget the rest of it and the specs but it is okay

The second laptop you see in front of the milk crates is just for accessing humble bundle for game keys and college stuff

I live alone, the second steam deck is for gaming with my college buddies between classes, this is not a "his/her" setup

I've been slowly fixing up this house since the previous people destroyed it and making it into a place to keep way too many computers and hopefully one day have some friends over for a LAN party, I hope you enjoy all the random bits of tech I shared today, Yes I consider my bed part of my setup since I use the steam deck in it while I listen to music if I just need to chill, I just got the shelf up at 4am after working on something

 

And for those wondering, No Vinyl doesn't sound better, It's just fun to play with, those who tell you otherwise are regretting their expensive hobby

 

Please be honest, is my gamer house cool? what would you do different? seeing everyone's epic gamer setups is so nice, I remember being so envious of setups, but now I am very proud of what I have so I decided to share it too

 

Feel free to ask any questions

 

)

AAAWWWWW MANNNN! thats sick!

 

i haven't not made a milk create PC ... but i think I will now! 

[Drvulcanlord]

10 hours ago, gentlemanspot said:

you running a hypervisor or going bare metal?  

 

also *yeeehaw tractors*  

Bare metal, both servers are just running Debian I have another ai server and a different one running true nas.

[Drvulcanlord]

On 5/23/2024 at 11:20 AM, Redicat said:

Damn xd how much power from the wall does that use? xd

Not sure but they are fairly low power systems

[CharlieThePlane]

Sweet post pics when you make your own milk crate PC, be sure to measure!!, gentlemanspot, and send me the pics of it, I tried replying but I don't know how the reply bit disappeared idk if a admin could fix that

 

[gentlemanspot]

23 hours ago, Drvulcanlord said:

Bare metal, both servers are just running Debian I have another ai server and a different one running true nas.

Nice well proxmox is Deb based but depends I the hardware ya have! 

 

But bare metal is neat too  

[Drvulcanlord]

7 minutes ago, gentlemanspot said:

Nice well proxmox is Deb based but depends I the hardware ya have! 

 

But bare metal is neat too  

One is a quad core and the other is a dual core. I actually ran proxmox for a little while but was running out of resources so I switched to bear medal. I could probably make it work but it wasn’t that important to me.

[gentlemanspot]

1 minute ago, Drvulcanlord said:

One is a quad core and the other is a dual core. I actually ran proxmox for a little while but was running out of resources so I switched to bear medal. I could probably make it work but it wasn’t that important to me.

100% get it! 

[gentlemanspot]

Oh Boy!  This is my PC space ... well, the space my PC is living 

 

I was going to clean it up and make it look neat and all ...  but i got sidetracked by putting a Noctura Fan in a gamecube. 

 

to be honest it has never been clean every time  and I always start out doing some kind of cable management and going this time ill keep it clean! ... then i must move something or plug something else in or i get asked to reset a MAC... 

 

I also have a desk for "projects" that gets cleaned then used and not clean then i make space as needed   

I mess with home automation and modding retro consoles and whatever seems like it'll be neat! 

 

My desk is chaos and I'm OK with that. 

 

 

Desktop: 

CPU:  

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor

MOBO:

 

B450M DS3H

RAM:

32 GB  (4x 8GB @ 2133MHz

GPU:

AMD RX 570 (still good)

 

Laptop

Asus TUF gaming laptop 

Ryzen 9 

16 GB Ram 

Nvidia 2060

 

 

 

I also have a capture card that runs to the top monitor and a retro upscaler for the SNES and N64 .

 

The Gamecube has its own HDMI adapter 

And the switch is HDMI 

[Windows Alternative]

i7 10700 rtx 3060ti

[Booga]

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
24.0 GB DDR3

Radeon RX 570 Series
Please help

[R3AL-AiM]

Both junk yard systems and entire setup including desk/chair = $600

Hacked together Victus 15L mainrig

5600G w/Thermalright Assassin X90SE setup as push/pull with two 90mm fans, two 120mm fans up front to pull in cold air and circulate it up, one 120mm fan added to the rear with some case modding to pull it through the cooler and dump out the rear. 32GB Crucial 3200mhz, added a 1TB WD HDD, the stock 512GB NVME and the RX6400 - Which is getting a used 3060 or 6600XT in the next coming weeks (we'll see what I score) 

 

Hacked together Optiplex 3020 emulation machine (pretty much just an HD PS2 LUL)

i5 4570 (Buying a Xeon), 8GB DDR3 (Mixed kit - 16GB is like $10-20 for DDR3 locally), HD 8570 1GB Dell OEM (Probably thinking, WOW, what a hunk of crap. You're right, BUT it plays everything I've thrown at it PS2 wise at full speed 720p to 1080p upscale with AA. Beat out the 730 2GB I had lying around. Ofc a cheap sata SSD, 500GB HDD and a WiFi/Bluetooth PCIE card (Is mostly for my two older children) 

 

Some Lenovo monitor I got off a WFH guy for $40, I just use Super Resolution to 4K and color correct. Is 75hz too, so while not true 4K, calibrating a display with upscaling does indeed help with the quality while general computing and running games at 1080p or older ones at 1440p don't look as bad as they would on a native 4k display. It's temporary.

Razer Basilisk X Hyperspeed I got on sale for $25.

Red Dragon 60% $10 new in box and I bought some AliExpress caps for $15.

Audio is Bose Companion 2 I got for $20 - while junk compared to audiophile stuff, is much better than anything else I could find in that price range (I use Peace Audio to balance everything out).

CoDMW19 Astro A10's for $20. KZ EDX Pro $7 (Pre-Repro. versions), so they don't sound like complete dogsh*t. 

$15 AT Walmart for a bluetooth Zelda Switch controller.

$40 for a red Xbox Series controller that I customized using an old gray controller I had (Go figure, got drift right outside of warranty - use for games that don't need right stick and disable the axis it drifts on. You're welcome) 

 

Just sharing why and how I avoid buying consoles. 

 

I have had a better system and I have done full builds with new parts, but I have never had this many children or bills... BUT I refuse to succumb to drinking Bud Light on the couch while playing Warzone and Madden on my PS5. 

 

Just not me. I'd rather do all of this. 

(EDIT: Fixed the errors I could, excuse me, it's late here lol) 

 

Oh and an old Galaxy S10 on a controller mount I use as a mini display. So it's 60Hz OLED and I can throw whatever I want on there - video over USB.

 

Almost forgot. Could be better, but I know we've seen worse.

[LogicalDrm]

7 hours ago, R3AL-AiM said:

Both junk yard systems and entire setup including desk/chair = $600

Hacked together Victus 15L mainrig

5600G w/Thermalright Assassin X90SE setup as push/pull with two 90mm fans, two 120mm fans up front to pull in cold air and circulate it up, one 120mm fan added to the rear with some case modding to pull it through the cooler and dump out the rear. 32GB Crucial 3200mhz, added a 1TB WD HDD, the stock 512GB NVME and the RX6400 - Which is getting a used 3060 or 6600XT in the next coming weeks (we'll see what I score) 

 

Hacked together Optiplex 3020 emulation machine (pretty much just an HD PS2 LUL)

i5 4570 (Buying a Xeon), 8GB DDR3 (Mixed kit - 16GB is like $10-20 for DDR3 locally), HD 8570 1GB Dell OEM (Probably thinking, WOW, what a hunk of crap. You're right, BUT it plays everything I've thrown at it PS2 wise at full speed 720p to 1080p upscale with AA. Beat out the 730 2GB I had lying around. Ofc a cheap sata SSD, 500GB HDD and a WiFi/Bluetooth PCIE card (Is mostly for my two older children) 

 

Some Lenovo monitor I got off a WFH guy for $40, I just use Super Resolution to 4K and color correct. Is 75hz too, so while not true 4K, calibrating a display with upscaling does indeed help with the quality while general computing and running games at 1080p or older ones at 1440p don't look as bad as they would on a native 4k display. It's temporary.

Razer Basilisk X Hyperspeed I got on sale for $25.

Red Dragon 60% $10 new in box and I bought some AliExpress caps for $15.

Audio is Bose Companion 2 I got for $20 - while junk compared to audiophile stuff, is much better than anything else I could find in that price range (I use Peace Audio to balance everything out).

CoDMW19 Astro A10's for $20. KZ EDX Pro $7 (Pre-Repro. versions), so they don't sound like complete dogsh*t. 

$15 AT Walmart for a bluetooth Zelda Switch controller.

$40 for a red Xbox Series controller that I customized using an old gray controller I had (Go figure, got drift right outside of warranty - use for games that don't need right stick and disable the axis it drifts on. You're welcome) 

 

Just sharing why and how I avoid buying consoles. 

 

I have had a better system and I have done full builds with new parts, but I have never had this many children or bills... BUT I refuse to succumb to drinking Bud Light on the couch while playing Warzone and Madden on my PS5. 

 

Just not me. I'd rather do all of this. 

(EDIT: Fixed the errors I could, excuse me, it's late here lol) 

 

 

 

Oh and an old Galaxy S10 on a controller mount I use as a mini display. So it's 60Hz OLED and I can throw whatever I want on there - video over USB.

 

Almost forgot. Could be better, but I know we've seen worse.

 

Merged to Show off megathread.

[R3AL-AiM]

11 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

Merged to Show off megathread.

Thank you!

[Orion_]

My hybrid water cooled Scar 16 4090/13980hx has finally basically become a desktop. I got a new job and wont be taking it with me to work every day anymore. 

For the last two years Ive had a unbelievably slow paced job with absurd amounts of down time. I not only made two water cooled laptops but also got 6 AAs to kill time (never went for a BS because of inconsistent hours). I also brought my laptop to work with me every day and have around 2500-3000 hours in different games because of it. I finally got a new job where it will actually be busy again, so my laptop is now finally becoming a “desktop replacement”. 

With the water cooling, I have second place on TS for the laptop 4090/13980hx, absolutely no games get over 65* while pushing 5.2Ghz CPU and 2500Mhz GPU while the whole laptop pulls nearly 400w thanks to a shunt mod on the GPU. For all intents and purposes, the laptop is a near equivalent to a 4080/14700 combo. Oh, and the air cooling still works, so it is mobile, despite some extra bulk on the bottom. 

[R3AL-AiM]

6 minutes ago, Orion_ said:

My hybrid water cooled Scar 16 4090/13980hx has finally basically become a desktop. I got a new job and wont be taking it with me to work every day anymore. 

For the last two years Ive had a unbelievably slow paced job with absurd amounts of down time. I not only made two water cooled laptops but also got 6 AAs to kill time (never went for a BS because of inconsistent hours). I also brought my laptop to work with me every day and have around 2500-3000 hours in different games because of it. I finally got a new job where it will actually be busy again, so my laptop is now finally becoming a “desktop replacement”. 

With the water cooling, I have second place on TS for the laptop 4090/13980hx, absolutely no games get over 65* while pushing 5.2Ghz CPU and 2500Mhz GPU while the whole laptop pulls nearly 400w thanks to a shunt mod on the GPU. For all intents and purposes, the laptop is a near equivalent to a 4080/14700 combo. Oh, and the air cooling still works, so it is mobile, despite some extra bulk on the bottom. 

That's wicked cool