Ryzen 5950X, AMD Vega 64, 32 GB DDR4. Running KDE Wayland nicely for the past few weeks!
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Love the little lights winding their way across your desk!
Is that an Akko mech keyboard I see in the picture? I have one and it's fantastic.
It does look close but it's a Varmilo Sakura!
Ah that's why, mine is a Sakura as well (Akko)
My setup here. Turned out nicely.
As for the specs Its a Ryzen 9 5900x with 32GB ram and an AMD RX 6800XT for the pixel-cruncher. Running Garuda Linux on it, which has worked reasonably well for all the games I've played so far. Though i was still on windows 11 when i took the picture.
Steamdeck mainly
Endeavouros, 3070ti 12600k 32gb ram
Updoot for EndeavourOS!
Wow, that is quite a stunning setup!
Ty! it wont go even further here I guess, but my bank account seems to be happy it seems to be finished for a while. Or maybe I need another chair?... Argh here we go again
I play a lot on my Steam Deck these days, but the main battlestation is just a regular old upper midrange workhorse. R5 5600x, RX 6700xt, 32GB of DDR4 3600 and a few terabytes of NVME storage.
I'm still just using vanilla Arch because I haven't found anything better for an enthusiast desktop.
I think the only part where I kind of cut against the grain is that I'm running Gnome. It does what I want with minimal tweaking and it handles my FreeSync monitor without any headaches. It also just looks pretty, and I'm not about to pretend I don't like eye candy on the desktop.
EDIT: Forgot to shill for the case I'm using: A P-ATX. I really wanted a small form factor computer, but I also think ATX motherboards are a better deal than ITX, so this seemed like a good option. When I bought it, the only other thing that came close (from Thermaltake) was out of stock, so I ended up with this and I'm actually really liking it, despite it being a pain in the ass to assemble.
Assembling a new one after almost 10 years :D
Still buying the pieces, but basically i9 13900k, Asus ROG strix Z790 mobo, 64 GB ram, NVME SSDs, Lian-Li Lancool III case, 1440p 170Hz monitor.
Still undecided about the graphic card, surely NVIDIA but haven't decided which model yet (torn between 30* and 40* series because of the connector thing).
Linux MX is my main OS.
I'm gaming on a NUC 11 Extreme kit with a Sapphire Pulse Radeon 6700 XT running ChimeraOS.
Currently it is doing really well, though some games appear to not be using anti-aliasing and I'm not sure why. But aside from that I am super impressed with how well Proton and Lutris have come along!
Workstation + Battlestation combined.
Don't underestimate the 1070 Ti. Just finished Ghostwire: Tokyo (on dual booted Win 11) at 1440p 60 fps locked.
1070 TI is a fantastic sleeper card. I had the MSI Armor one that was undercooled, I kept the heat plate but removed the shroud and cooler and installed an Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV. Been using it since just after it released, and even after upgrading my gaming rig to an RX 6700 XT, I swapped the 1070 TI into my desktop machine, still runs and games great.
i3-10100F, 32 GB RAM, Nvidia 1050 Ti, 23" acrylic Cinema Display
The tenth generation i3s are surprisingly capable, similar performance to the old staple i7-4790k with much lower power requirements. And I like running graphic cards that don't need their own power cable.
It's enough for Skyrim, Witcher etc.,
Dual-core laptop.
I5 9400f, RTX 3060 TI and Linux. I feel a bit limited by the CPU when playing, let's see if I can upgrade it towards the end of the year!
Holy neon that's colorful
7950x3d, Sapphire nitro+ 7900 xtx, 32 gb ram, arch/kde/wayland.
Recently upgraded from r5 2600 and rx580 and it's nice to be able to actually run stuff without tweaking to get a decent balance between performance and graphics
Desktop is ancient by today's standards (i7 4790, 16GB RAM, RX580 8GB), but is still being actively used by my girlfriend for gaming and watching shows. Plays pretty much anything you throw at it with surprisingly good performance.
I use a laptop, that's also nothing to write home about and far behind times but it's a workhorse (i5 9300, 16GB RAM, GTX 1650). Laptop is running Windows / Endeavour OS (each has their own dedicated drive), while the desktop is now running Windows only.
13900kf / 3070 / Arch
Planning on migrating over to water-cooling once again but need to figure out runs / radiator placements in my Jonsplus i100 again as this CPU is another beast.
Mostly playing Risk of Rain / Rimworld so not really pushing the system that hard.
See image when I was running my system as 9900k / 3070 under water.
My pc desktop: R7 5800x, AMD RX 6700XT e 32 GB DDR4, Kde wayland with a multimonitor setup. And then my steamdeck
I've been with the same platform since about 2015, save for GPU and disk upgrades. i7 4790k and a 6600XT, about 16 TB of slow storage and 3 TB of faster stuff. Running Pop for about a year, because my girlfriend and I share the PC (it's a living room TV PC).
Tbh, I'm still really happy with it, though I've been eyeing a mobo/CPU/RAM upgrade. With the games I play I haven't felt the 4790k too much --occasionaly a tweak here and there, but at 1080p and with the games I play, the GPU always gets most of the load.
My (non-work) laptop is running Arch and Hyprland. Kind of love it so considering a general switch with the impending upgrade.
If it's affordable for you, I would say take a look at the NUC Extreme kits for a living-room PC upgrade. Custom small form-factor that was designed for standard GPU sizes (check the dimensions carefully - my Sapphire 6700XT fit the specs but was still a tight fit), and it's fairly quiet even with graphics settings set up to high.
My wife has been happily playing her games in the living room this past week, and I've been able to sneak a few hours in between.
Thanks for this suggestion. Even though it's a living room PC, I don't really have a small form factor requirement -- the machine itself sits in a rackmount behind the wall behind the TV. Thanks to that it also pulls double duty as a regular PC in the next room over, though I use it less over there. But I'm planning to upgrade with a full size ATX mobo.
7700x 7900xt on a gigabyte b650 aorus elite. 3 nvme triple Pop os/Fedora/win 11 triple boot. Runs like a champ. I spend most time on Fedora.
A Lenovo laptop with external mouse and keyboard hooked up to a TV. Yes, I'm weird.
This Quazatron? I’ve always adored Quazatron in static screenshots in magazines. An isometric/3D-ish Paradroid?! <3! But I guess the Zedex was too alien to me to get around to it.
That Quazatron. :-)
Lovely little game with absolutely atrocious scrolling. Quazatron seems to be the Speccy version of Paradroid (which I never played, but will someday).
You can actually play it online. The controls are a bit weird for the WASD generation, but if you can get past that there's a neat game in there.
They are the same game in many ways, but Paradroid has a flat top-down view with smooth omni-directional scrolling and can quickly become FAST AND DEADLY on any of the more dangerous decks…
-ryzen 3600xt -16gb ddr4 3200 -ROG strix gaming 570-i gaming (something or another) -1tb samsung 970 1tb nvme -XFX 6700xt 12gb -Arch
its a pretty solid box. I had it in a really nice low profile case, but the pci-e L-bracket riser/extender was causing some issues with the GPU's uefi posting, took a while to figure that issue out. Moved it to some cheap aluminum case I had kick'n around that I got from a client, an old custom build case complete with an old molex fan control front panel knob system
Here's a neofetch screenshot, since my desk is far too messy to get a photo of >_>
My pc died so im just on my steam deck for now
You and me both.
I just built this machine a couple of months ago and am really diggin' it.
My current setup.
FX-8350 at 4.6Ghz, RX580, 24 GB of DDR3-1866, 1 TB SSD, and 512 GB HDD running Mint 20.3 Yeah, it's getting a little "long in the tooth", but I end up upgrading my kids' computers instead of mine.
Upgraded last year to a Ryzen 5 5600, 16Gb 3600 RAM, 2x 1TB NVME, AMD 5700XT graphics card. So far ive been very happy with it.
It's such a leap from my old fx8350. It's a joy to use now as its so fast.
Cpu: Ryzen 5800X3D
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 32 GB
GPU: Palit RTX 3080ti
PSU: BeQuiet 800w
Storage: 2x Samsung 980 nvme 1tb
Filesystem: btrfs 2tb span across the two drives
OS: Fedora 38 with kde plasma
Am really happy with it thus far. unfortunately I bought the GPU before making the switch to Linux. Otherwise I would have bought a rx6800 or something similar
I have a few, honestly.
Gaming rig (for couch gaming):
- Ryzen 5 5600x
- Radeon RX 6700XT
- 64 GB DDR4 3600
- LG C1 55" OLED TV
Desktop PC (desk/LAN gaming and general use):
- Ryzen 5 5600x
- Nvidia GTX 1070 TI
- 32 GB DDR4 3200
- Sceptre 21:9 1440p ultrawide 35" (C355W-3440UN)
Other than those, I also tend to game a lot portably, and interchangeably play on a Nintendo 2DS XL, a Samsung Tab S7 FE (SD778g version), and more recently, a Powkiddy X55 handheld.
Been loving my Thelio from System76 and it's been rock solid on the gaming front.
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