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What are your grandparents running in their rig?

Disclaimer: I only glanced at the specs before i had to leave. My grandfather has:

Cooler master case

MSI mobo

Intel i7 codename Bloomfield

GT220

GT9000?

AIO liquid cooler 140mm rad

550w psu from cooler master

500gb HDD

It idles at 50 degrees and 65% of the memory is consistently used. The amount of icons on the desktop has me twitching.

I will be upgrading the graphics to something a little more modern.

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Oh God... Uh... some ancient Compaq system. I have no clue what's in it, and frankly I'm surprised the thing still runs. Seriously, my grandparents are so archaic they were running AOL until about two years ago. My dad would often joke that they were the last people in the world to still have Dial-Up connections.

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P4, 1gb of ram and a super old ati card (73mb) in a 17' laptop which was our old laptop (still runs lots of games....sort of)

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My grandparents don't even have a computer on one side of my family.. on the other, a dell, and a Toshiba laptop.

Case: NZXT H440 | CPU: i5 4670K @ 4.5 GHz | GPU: MSI 970, Kraken G10 | Mobo: ASRock Z97 Extreme3 | Cooler: H100i | PSU: Corsair AX750 w/ Sleeved Cables | Display: 3xBenQ RL2455M | Fans: 5xNoctua NF-F12, 1xBitFenix Spectre |

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A Dell P4 I think that began running so slow that I told them I'd build one for them and so it happened :D now they have a beast (in most grandparents terms) with an i3, gt640 asrock mobo etc. I wonder if it's gonna last more than 7-8 years like their p4 did (I think), that thing won't die :o

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Dell dimension 3000, 1gb ram, and win xp service pack 1

MoBo: GA-z77x-ud3h CPU: 2500K @ 3.1 (miss my h80) Cooler: Stock GPU: EVGA 780 ACX RAM: 8gb G.skill SSDs: 2X Sammy 120EVOs HDDs: 2x Seagate Barracudas PSU: Corsair RM750 Case: Blue NZXT H440

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hmmm lets see.... my dads side has a nice mac book pro. my moms mom has a new dell only cost $799 for something that has about $400 or parts and software (wish they would have talked to me before they bought it when they were only looking for a keyboard at frys...) and my moms dad has an old hp that couldn't even connect to his cell phone(no drivers for it and no time for me to find them)

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Some old Windows 98 thing that doesn't even work anymore. My grandpa never even used it, he doesn't even know how to use the cell phone my mom bought him...

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I built my grandpa's new PC (He's a photographer so he wanted a decent computer for his work)

Fractal R4

i7 3770

Sabertooth z77

2x8gb Corsair vengance pro 1866

Noctua NHD14

128gb Samsung 840 pro

GTX 560ti

i7 3770 | Asus Maximus V Formula | Asus GTX 780 | Corsair H100i | Silverstone Strider Plus 750W | Obsidian 650D | Samsung 840 Pro 128GB | 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance Pro

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Both of my grandparents are too poor to afford a computer. :P

Case-NZXT H440 | Motherboard-Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H | RAM-Kingston HyperX Blue 2x8GB 1600MHz | CPU-Intel 3770K @ 4.3GHz at 1.215v | Heatsink-Coolermaster Hyper212 Evo | GPU-EVGA GTX660 SC | SSD-MX200 250GB | HDD-Seagate Barracuda 3TB | PSU-EVGA GS650

Mouse-Logitech G600 | Keyboard-Ducky Shine 3 MX Blue. white backlight | Headphones-Audiotechnica ATH-M50s. Beyerdynamic DT990

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My grandparents have a P4 2.4Ghz with 256MB RAM running Windows XP.

 

My grandfather uses it once a year to open MS Word and write.

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well my grams has a nice little system purely for web surfing and stuff

 

a core i3 3220 i think

some decent z77 gigabyte board

8gm corsair vengeance 1866mhz

crucial m464gb drive

inside a nice little silverstone case that looks oddly like reciever lol

 

we didnt bother with a mass storage drive cause we have 13tb of nas storage in our house and she really doesnt need a dedicated drive

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<---------- is a grandparent and i have an OLD pentium 3 400 Mhz rig from sometime around 1995ish up to my current FX-8350 desktop and my new (2 weeks old) Alienware M18xR3 Viking laptop that im using right now.

Current Rig as of 7/30/13

 A10-6800k, Asrock Extreme 6, 16GB Kingston Hyper X 2133Mhz RAM, Asus 2GB 7770, OCZ vertex 4 128GB SSD, 2TB Barracuda HDD, Rosewill Hive 750 watt supply, and CM Storm Trooper case.

 

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Some pc i built a while ago. im not very proud of it.

 

God knows what case it has.

intel core 2 duo 8**** one with was 2.6ghz

2gb ddr2 ram

nvidia gt 610

256gb hdd

dvd drive

cpu: intel i5 4670k @ 4.5ghz Ram: G skill ares 2x4gb 2166mhz cl10 Gpu: GTX 680 liquid cooled cpu cooler: Raijintek ereboss Mobo: gigabyte z87x ud5h psu: cm gx650 bronze Case: Zalman Z9 plus


Listen if you care.

Cpu: intel i7 4770k @ 4.2ghz Ram: G skill  ripjaws 2x4gb Gpu: nvidia gtx 970 cpu cooler: akasa venom voodoo Mobo: G1.Sniper Z6 Psu: XFX proseries 650w Case: Zalman H1

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A calculator.

Rig: i7 2600K @ 4.2GHz, Larkooler Watercooling System, MSI Z68a-gd80-G3, 8GB G.Skill Sniper 1600MHz CL9, Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce 3x 2GB OC, Samsung 840 250GB, 1TB WD Caviar Blue, Auzentech X-FI Forte 7.1, XFX PRO650W, Silverstone RV02 Monitors: Asus PB278Q, LG W2243S-PF (Gaming / overclocked to 74Hz) Peripherals: Logitech G9x Laser, QPad MK-50, AudioTechnica ATH AD700

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TV Remote control. My Grandparent can't use pc.

MB :MSI Z77a G45 | Proc: I5 3570K (Stock) | HSF : CM 212X turbo | RAM : Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2X4GB) | VGA : MSI GTX 660 Twin Frozr | PSU : Corsair GS600 | Case : CM Storm Enforcer | Storage :  OCZ Vector 128GB, WD Blue 500GB , Samsung 840 Evo 120GB, WD Blue 1TB

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Fujtisu-Siemens laptop, not sure about the specs but something along the lines of;

 

1.8GHz Sempron

1 GB DDR2

120GB SATA

Vista Home Basic

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