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windude99
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This can be the Linus Tech Tips Forum showdown of who has the lowest spec'd desktop PC. Even if yours isn't the oldest, post it here anyways. It can be a prebuilt or a custom rig. It must be a desktop, though! Please post pics and specs (atleast most of them like CPU, RAM, GPU, HDD etc.)

I will start us off with my lowest spec'd desktop, a Dell Dimension 2100.

It has:

A whopping 1ghz Intel Celeron 

256mb of DDR RAM

I upgraded the hard drive from the original 20gb to a 160gb drive.

It has a creative sound card.

A whopping 130 watt PSU! (You could definitely run a GTX 970 off of that...JK)

A DVD-ROM drive (put in myself)

Integrated Intel graphics

Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (with the registry modification that allows it to keep getting updates)

There are some pics below: 

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System: HP Pavilion P7-1010 Upgraded... CPU: AMD Athlon X4 645 3.1ghz, RAM: 6gb DDR3 1066mhz, GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 5670, PSU: Seasonic S12 II 380w Bronze, SSD: Samsung 840 Evo, HDDs: WD Caviar Green 1tb 5400RPM, Seagate Barracuda 1tb 7200RPM, Case: Generic HP case, OS: Windows 7 Professional 64Bit SP1

2nd Best: Dell Dimension 5100 Upgraded: CPU: Intel Pentium D 945, RAM: 3gb DDR2, GPU: PNY GT440 1gb, HDD: WD 120gb 720RPM, PSU: Seasonic OEM, OS: Win8.1 32bit

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Look at my profile.

 

I win.

"Sulit" (adj.) something that is worth it

i7 8700K 4.8Ghz delidded / Corsair H100i V2 / Asus Strix Z370-F / G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16GB 3200 / EVGA GTX 1080Ti FTW3 / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q

Samsung 850 EVO 500GB & 250GB - Crucial MX300 M.2 525GB / Fractal Design Define S / Corsair K70 MX Reds / Logitech G502 / Beyerdynamic DT770 250Ohm

SMSL SD793II AMP/DAC - Schiit Magni 3 / PCPP

Old Rig

i5 2500k 4.5Ghz | Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P | Zotac GTX 980 AMP! Extreme | Crucial Ballistix Tactical 16GB 1866MHz

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I have a potato. Does that count?

Future Build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/fGh3Mp Linus responded to my post on a sub-topic (WOO)  http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/318185-linus-can-you-re-veiw-this-motherboard-please/#entry4326751 Chrysos Build Log: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/318594-chrysos-in-progress-pc-build-log-in-step-1/#entry4338813

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Your system is decent

doesn't meet my requirements these days :(

 

.....and i look at some people's rigs on here and i cry a lil inside

"Sulit" (adj.) something that is worth it

i7 8700K 4.8Ghz delidded / Corsair H100i V2 / Asus Strix Z370-F / G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16GB 3200 / EVGA GTX 1080Ti FTW3 / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q

Samsung 850 EVO 500GB & 250GB - Crucial MX300 M.2 525GB / Fractal Design Define S / Corsair K70 MX Reds / Logitech G502 / Beyerdynamic DT770 250Ohm

SMSL SD793II AMP/DAC - Schiit Magni 3 / PCPP

Old Rig

i5 2500k 4.5Ghz | Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P | Zotac GTX 980 AMP! Extreme | Crucial Ballistix Tactical 16GB 1866MHz

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doesn't meet my requirements these days :(

.....and i look at some people's rigs on here and i cry a lil inside

That has a better GPU than my main desktop (Radeon HD 5670 512mb GDDR5) and maybe a better CPU than mine too (Athlon X4 645)

System: HP Pavilion P7-1010 Upgraded... CPU: AMD Athlon X4 645 3.1ghz, RAM: 6gb DDR3 1066mhz, GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 5670, PSU: Seasonic S12 II 380w Bronze, SSD: Samsung 840 Evo, HDDs: WD Caviar Green 1tb 5400RPM, Seagate Barracuda 1tb 7200RPM, Case: Generic HP case, OS: Windows 7 Professional 64Bit SP1

2nd Best: Dell Dimension 5100 Upgraded: CPU: Intel Pentium D 945, RAM: 3gb DDR2, GPU: PNY GT440 1gb, HDD: WD 120gb 720RPM, PSU: Seasonic OEM, OS: Win8.1 32bit

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What are the specs

Oh you know,

OS: Potatoware Ketchup OS 2 

CPU: Potato iFry- 5330PP (PP is for Potato Performance)

Motherboard: A potato 

Case: A big, hollowed potato

RAM: Mashers MASHED 16kb of ram

Storage: A potato sack

GPU: A small potato

PSU: a lemon

 

Really good right?

 

No but seriously, I have a 2001 Dell Optiplex GX270. The specs:

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 using integrated graphics

36GB of storage of a SLOW harddrive

A Floppy disk

2GB of 400MHz DDR RAM

A 210W hard drive

and Windows XP Enterprise (I doin't know why)

If you want the whole specs (Mine is the Small Desktop Which is actually the biggest one), here: http://gosrock.com/mygx270/ug/specs.htm

Future Build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/fGh3Mp Linus responded to my post on a sub-topic (WOO)  http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/318185-linus-can-you-re-veiw-this-motherboard-please/#entry4326751 Chrysos Build Log: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/318594-chrysos-in-progress-pc-build-log-in-step-1/#entry4338813

I'm da Ca$hman

Step 1: Don't      Step 2: Refer to Step 1

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HELIOS in my sig is the "slowest" desktop I have.

Main rig on profile

VAULT - File Server

Spoiler

Intel Core i5 11400 w/ Shadow Rock LP, 2x16GB SP GAMING 3200MHz CL16, ASUS PRIME Z590-A, 2x LSI 9211-8i, Fractal Define 7, 256GB Team MP33, 3x 6TB WD Red Pro (general storage), 5x 8TB WD White Label/Red (Plex) (both arrays in their respective Windows Parity storage spaces), 1TB Teamgroup MP33 (dumping ground) Corsair RM750x, TrueNAS Scale

Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

Spoiler

Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1800MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 11 Pro

OptiPlex 7040M

Spoiler

Intel Core i7 6700, 2x16GB Mushkin Redline (stuck at 2133MHz CL13), 240GB Corsair MP510, 2TB Seagate Barracuda 2.5", 130w Dell power brick, Windows 11 Pro

Mac Mini (Late 2020)

Spoiler

Apple M1, 8GB RAM, 256GB, macOS Sonoma

Consoles: Steam Deck LCD (512GB), Softmodded 1.4 Xbox w/ 500GB HDD, Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Falcon, XB1X w/2TB MX500, Xbox Series X, PS1 1001, PS2 Slim 70000 w/ FreeMcBoot, PS4 Pro 7015B 1TB, PS5 Digital, Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Wii RVL-001 (black)

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