What kind of computer does the average CP'er use?
 

I'm curious. Did you build it yourself or did you buy it off the shelf?

If you built it yourself... why did you chose the components you did?

If you bought it off the shelf... why did you chose the unit you did? Was it a budget buy for a tool you need or did you shell out for a boutique build?

Do you know the specs of your computer (what CPU or video card (if any) you are using?

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I built mine in 2013. It is an Intel Core i7 4770k on a Z97 motherboard. Running a Power Color Vega 56 (Power Color Red Dragon) and 32GB of memory. 500GB M.2 for my boot drive and just a 1TB drive for personal storage (which really has nothing but photos of my foster pups.

When I built it... I had a cutting edge machine and I built it to be future proof. I originally had a 7790 video card in there but have upgraded a handful of times over the years to the Vega 56 I run now.

I still use it more for gaming than anything else and it still handles its own. I can play games like Apex Legends at an average of 97 FPS on "medium". That said... its nearing the end of it's run as the heavy game machine in the house.

ROFL
that just sounds funny reading it :thumb:

I used to build all of mine. Researching and gathering parts was fun but I tired of it and have no need for a full desktop any longer. For a very long time I just utilized my company laptop. I don't have that anymore so I just bought me a "budget" gaming laptop, not that I game much but it's powerful with a 17 inch 144hz screen. Lots of stuff drawing on the batter so battery life sucks balls but I'm plugged in mostly. I can turn all kinds of stuff off and stuff to get 5 hours. Key backlighting is red and red only which isn't ideal. I pushed GTAV full everything and it handled it like a champ. As well as Cities: Skylines. I'll probably end up purchasing Cyberpunk now. Hope it's been fixed up. Been having an issue with Office 2007 configuring itself every time I open it though it's a legit registered copy.

MSI GS75 Slim: $1,100 w/shipping

• PU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10300H CPU @ 2.50GHz
• Memory: 16 GB @ 1466 MHz (two sticks)
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti, 4096 MB
• Graphics: Intel(R) UHD Graphics, 1024 MB
• Drive: SSD, KINGSTON OM8PCP3512F-AI1, 476.94 GB

TRS-80

I have a Dell Inspiron 17. I don't want to brag, but it fits in my lap and it's more powerful than this:

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I game on playstation, and prefer to have hard copies of my favorite music if at all possible... so all I need is something super basic to surf the webz with

Dell Latitude E6410 with Intel Core, whatever the hell that means

Chromebook...holds a charge like a champ and it's pretty secure.

Sir what is a hardcopy?

LMAO exactly

Ok Millennial

I'm a borderline millennial actually, born in 80. But I'll say this a year ago I invested in Sonos and I now no longer need any hardcopy music that shit changed it for me.

What is a computer?

Cell phone.

iPhone.

It'd suck to not have a computer.

Yes it would.

Actually I do have one. And I am on it right now. But my wife usually uses it.

Mostly I use an ipad.

The percentage of Americans without a computer or a smartphone has to be extremely low.

I'm older than Mecca.
:cuss:

I built my own i have since the mid 2000's. Im a PC gamer though, so mines built for games!

i have a Ryzen 7 3800x with a AMD Radeon 5700 XT. Was the only card last year that i was able to get for MSRP because of stupid crypto mining.

Nvidia or AMD?

i put my specs in.

Ok I just saw that.

I normally just buy cheaper ones from Best Buy either desktop or laptop. Have both at home and my own desktop at the office. Best part with having OneDrive and Google Drive its like all my computers are the same now.

I miss compusa.

They closed Fry's Electronics out here. Major blow for computer stuff. That place was a wonderland.

Still running the last one I built for myself about 8 years ago... i5-4590 with an AMD RX 570 4gb/256-bit and 16 gb ram. Still plenty fine in most games but it's definitely time for an upgrade. Built plenty of others in the interim for everyone else but just haven't treated myself. Waiting on AMD to catch up with the console demand so their prices drop back down to normal before I do another.

I've tried that, but I can't get my garage sealed well enough to make the semiconductors.

I have a Miscrosoft Surface Pro. Love it

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I don't think this was intended to be a flex thread.

Yeah you're kinda out there in the ether, somewhat in between generations

I kinda get it... but nothing pleases me more than having an actual CD of my favorite album, it ALWAYS sounds better on my early 2000s stereo with real wood built speakers than any kind of computer stuff IMO

I use to build PC’s. But since I work in tech, I don’t want to **** with making tech work in my leisure time.

Ive used nothing but laptops for 20 years or so.always go for the big screen ones. 17 inch or so. More gaming builds although I don’t do gaming. Just want more Piwer and speed to keep up with my bandwidth.

I have an octo-core amd system. Something like that. It's fast when not updating every little piece of software.

I use my Android phone for CP stuff. Much easier.

I'm not a techy but I did once stay at a Holiday Inn. I'll be 71 in July but I've been on the internet since '93 and owned a online business form '93 to 2004 when I retired, BuccaneerRecords.com. We sold import CDs and videos, classic, metal and hard rock. I believe it was Macromedia Dreamweaver I bought and used to built my website and I did magazine advertising, mostly Goldmine, which was a record collector publication.

I'm now on my 5th computer. On Black Friday 2018 I bought this all-in-one at Best Buy for $499, I thought I did good. It still runs great and it was $829 at that time, now it's $699.

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Lenovo - IdeaCentre A540 24" Touch-Screen All-In-One - AMD Ryzen 3-Series - 8GB Memory - 256GB Solid State Drive - Black

Have a gaming desktop I built in 2015 or so, upgraded video card at some point. MacBook pro 2017. Storage server and a couple raspberry pis.

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I hear you. I am 74 and closing in on 75.

All I need is something simple and reliable.

But I do love the internet.

Who’d have thunk it when we were youngsters??!

What kind of computer does the average CP'er use?
 

Our laptop basically only has to function as an in between device to get things from phones and cameras to the external storage hard drive we keep for all of our videos and photos. Other than that it’s really only used for specialized things not easily done on the phone, but also not things that any off the shelf laptop can’t accomplish.

A little long in the tooth, but pretty steady all things considered [knock wood]

WIN10
Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3
Intel i5-2500K 3.3GHz
NVidia GeForce 9600 GT
20 Gb Ram
5 Tb Storage
Fiber internet
Stereo, Phone, TV and all peripherals [KB, Mouse, headphones, speakers, printers, etc] are wireless, either Bluetooth or WiFi.

I was thinking that I was going to have to retire my TRS-80 color computer because it wasn't keeping up. But then I upgraded the memory from 16k to 64k and now it really rocks.

I can load an entire 30 page document into memory all at once instead of only doing 3 or 4 pages at a time and having to swap them in and out, off the hard drive.

Look out world here I come.

It kind of went right over my head how much my public school was 'investing' in me [which went to waste somewhat, overall] back in grade school. But in grades 4-6, I was practically married to the school's TRS-80. I can't remember how many they had, but I can't have been a lot. And I would be on that during recess and rest period, any free time, after hours, learning the language and writing programs.

It was all pretty BASIC [punny] because the teachers really didn't know any more about computer architecture or programming than I did, really. But they let me futz around on it to my heart's content. Fairly rare for the late 70s, I'm sure. Probably had something to do with me being ADHD and a distraction in class as well.

Acer Chromebook.

It's all you really need to screw around on Chiefsplanet.

Running really old stuff...

AMD Phenom II 720B
8GB DDR2
Radeon 7850
Win10

It still works and is fine for the few games that I play.

Want to upgrade to a Ryzen however not much need for it since I burned myself out on FPS a long time ago.

My system is about six years old now. Did most of the build myself, under the close supervision of my IT buddy, whose instructions I followed to the letter. :D

3.50 gigahertz Intel Core i7-4770K
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Z97-A Rev 1 motherboard
16K RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

Still runs great and I haven't had any issues with it. Which is good, because I understand PC components are currently in short supply and ungodly expensive.

I have two laptops, one for work and one personal. The personal one taps into AWS which has as much scalable computing power as I need, which is currently a development and production EC2 server and two RDS (development and production) instances.

Man. Dreamweaver. Now that's a flashback.

sure, bud. you wanna trade that 'puter for a stick of gum?

PORNOMATIC 5000

Have you given any consideration to overclocking the processor? The CPU we are both using is already the bottleneck for the video card I'm using... and yours has more umph than mine.

I've been able to get to 4.4GHz with complete stability but the fan is SO ****ING LOUD.

I recently had the opportunity to build a new rig (ie, I got hands on a 3070 but let my brother have it) but I decided to hold off. Even if I build a new system based on the 11th gen i9 11900k (I wouldn't... I would build an i5 11600k if I was going to build a modern rig today), I would "only" be getting a performance increase of 41% in a span of 8 years. I was coming from a Core 2 Duo E8400 when I upgraded to the 4770k and that was a 72% performance increase in a span of 5 years.

It just doesn't seem worth it to me to upgrade yet. Perhaps the 12th gen Intel processor is gonna give me that performance bump of 70% I'm looking for. As it stands... my rig can still play any game I throw at it. Even at 3440x1440.

I'd have to consult with my brain on that one. :)

I only use a computer at work. I surf the web and cp with either my iPad or phone

A sweet Pelosi laptop

I have a 2018 MacBook Pro


There is a brand new one on my desk at the office, but I just can't make the switch yet for some reason.

Old ones. Both our desktop and laptop are Dells with I-3 and 6 Gb of RAM. I upgraded the laptop to Windows 10 last year because none of the new tax software won't run on Windows 7. I use the desktop for most of my heavy duty writing because the laptop keyboard is too small. I'm too cheap to buy new ones until one crashes. We had Dell laptops with docking stations since the mid-90s because managers were on 24 hour call and I just got used to them. I have to use a stylus if I have to use my cell for anything besides dialing.

i have a used 17" Dell laptop I bought for $250 about 3 years ago after I accidentally spilled a whole 16 oz coffee on my HP and listened to it sizzle and die.
Im very happy with it as the former owner put a 500 Gig Samsung SSD in it, the same drive I upgraded my HP to before it met its untimely death.
I now have an external 500 SSD drive for my backup.
I'm not a gamer so I do not need an ultra fast processer like an NVIDIA set.

Why no Office 365?

My HP work laptop at Amazon is a 5 time hand me down that sucks. Probably at least 5 years old. So much security software and other shit on it specific to Amazon.
Its constantly wanting to isolate my computer until I upgrade or update shit every Sunday I come back to work for the week.
We also use tons of excel tools for calculations that it is a resource hog.
I may have 4-5 different excel tools and trackers open at once.
I hate it.

I'm 9 years older. Proud to be a Gen X

Commodore 64

Blackberry cell phone.



It's a little slow.

Hell yeassss.


Proud Gen X here. That being said, sorry about how I raised my children.

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My dad actually did upgrade that computer to 64k and I do still have possession of it. I figure one of these days its got to be a collectors item...

Typewriter

System: Host: pete-desktop Kernel: 4.15.0-112-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.5.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: AB350M serial: <filter>
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https://youtu.be/pv3fcwx2TUY
https://youtu.be/ziVpqh9UXmI

Can you please run this through the CP translator? :LOL:

A few work laptops ago, I had one that was so weak and bloated, it could easily take ~5-10 minutes from sleep to get a usable desktop. Not a huge deal first thing in the morning, but completely unacceptable when getting called off hours and especially in the middle of the night..... it might take 5 minutes for the piece of shit to start up and less than that for me to fix whatever was happening.

They went to SSD eventually and that made all the difference in the world.

17" Dell Alienware with a nice cooling pad.

Overkill most of the time, but do a little gaming on it and virtual machinery, and run a couple of OSs.

The equivalent of the limited edition of the Ford Taurus of PCs. :D

I guess we can now add to the list for the average CPer...

12" dong
4.3 40
Goatee
Shaved head (hiding the male pattern baldness, and aerodynamics for the 4.3 40 )
Camaro
Super model wife
$1500-2000+ custom built PC or 17" laptop with an I7 processor, 32 GB RAM, and NVIDIA GeForce graphics card... because it makes ChiefsPlanet run faster.

You forgot mullet you ****face! :cuss:

And it's 14" dong. They measured it at the e-mail conformation process.

Like this?

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I thought it was a Ferrari! :doh!:

AMD Ryzen 5 1400 Quad Core 3.2 GHz
NVIDIA GTX 1060 3GB
ASRock AB350M Motherboard
16 GB DDR4
Kingston 120 GB SSD
Toshiba 1 TB HDD

He's running the Linux Mint 19.3 operating system. The rest of that part just says he's using the standard Cinnamon user interface and that Mint is a mod of Ubuntu (base).

I build them and update them as needed. Right now this is what I have:

I7-10700K water cooled and overclocked to 5ghz.
Gigabyte Z490 Aurus Elite Motherboard
RTX 3080 Founders Edition
2 500gb NVME drives
2 1tb ssd drives
3tb old mechanical hard drive

With the chip shortage it took me 3 months of trying to get the video card. I'm just glad I was able to get it for MSRP.

Currently running a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon I bought on sale from hotel room right after Mahomes broke one off in Houston.

I'm too lazy to look up the specs but it's a lot faster than the other ones I've been running.

I have it run a docking station at both home and the office because who does anything on a laptop keyboard unless they're actually traveling? At home I have a 32" screen and at the office I have 2x 22" screen. I probably need to find some other monitors that will fit at the office, but I'm lazy.

I bought some Surface bluetooth and mouse sets for both places and damn, they are nice. I was sick of giant ****ing keyboards because at the office they just sit on top of the desk. They have a nice feel, don't take much room, and have a clean utilitarian look to them.

I'd definitely recommend those.

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I mean yall know me for the most part if you are media center posters.

My entire living room is a battlestation for the whole fam with 3 gaming pcs, custom built desk, RGB, etc.

My current rig is -

lian li 011 dynamic case
MSI Tomahawk X570
32gb gskill trident Z @4200
AMD 5900x
NVidia 3090 founders edition
NZXT Kraken x62
Seasonic 850w gold
Samsung 970 EVO NVME drive

Also in less detaail, wifes PC is

Asrock z270 Taichi
7700k OCed @ 5.0ghz
16gb corsair dominator platinum @3400
nvidia 1080ti founders

kids pc is

asrock x570 pro4
AMD 5600x
Nvidia 1660ti
16gb Gskill ripjaws V @3200
gigabyte nvdia 1660ti

I need a new computer.

I really just need so basic. I don’t use it for anything special.

Gaming laptops

Any of you gaming Geeks have one of those liquid cooled PCs?

I saw one once and thought it was awesome until I heard how much it cost. It was like $12,000 for the full setup.

https://www.clxgaming.com/gaming-pc/...45mk/configure

It's not that expensive but it depends on how you do it...