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[KenShjIN]

I7 Intel rig4 gigs of ram
integrated Graphic chip thingy
Im on fire

 

[Deleted member 560402]

My keyboard and mouse are "Rii" instead of Wii.

I chuckle at this. :p

 

[DanCalibur]

Mine is a made of the cheapest new and used parts I could get.
I5-12400 + Soyo B660m + 16Gb Maxsum 3200Mhz Ram new from AliExpress;
GTX 1660TI used from AliExpress;
PSU, HDD and NVME are from my previous computer;
I use it with Retrobat on a 1080p TV with some 8bitdo controllers. It costed me less than a Series S and served me well for the past four years since I don't care for modern games and it can emulate anything.

 

[Tonyz95]

This is my HP élite 8300.
I use a 32" tv as display and a Dualshock 4 as controller.

 

[nobitakun]

Sounds like a great idea :)

I forgot to tell I made it last weekend. I was kind of busy and I usually wait for the weekend to do these things, and it also took me a few days to find the specific Cx0 model I was looking for. Today I remembered because I also got a 2GB DDR2 module for this baby, because it came with 1GB, and as I installed Windows XP I can use it with 2GB. Using it with Windows 98 was a bit overkill, and 99% of the games that run on Windows 98 can run on Windows XP with minimal effort, and I avoid having an OS that crashed DLL's as a daily basis lol.

It is very curious that they added thermal pads to the RAM, it does not even get hot when turned on:

The IDE to SD adapter is something I also added. It came with a 1GB IDE eMMC.

The Wyse costed me 6€, the adapter 4€ and the DDR2 module 2€. 12€ in total, because I had a compatible AC adapter at home.

 

[DanCalibur]

I forgot to tell I made it last weekend. I was kind of busy and I usually wait for the weekend to do these things, and it also took me a few days to find the specific Cx0 model I was looking for. Today I remembered because I also got a 2GB DDR2 module for this baby, because it came with 1GB, and as I installed Windows XP I can use it with 2GB. Using it with Windows 98 was a bit overkill, and 99% of the games that run on Windows 98 can run on Windows XP with minimal effort, and I avoid having an OS that crashed DLL's as a daily basis lol.

It is very curious that they added thermal pads to the RAM, it does not even get hot when turned on:

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The IDE to SD adapter is something I also added. It came with a 1GB IDE eMMC.

The Wyse costed me 6€, the adapter 4€ and the DDR2 module 2€. 12€ in total, because I had a compatible AC adapter at home.

Beautiful

 

[Tonyz95]

Beautiful

Update your signature: you said your CPU is i5 but it says AMD Sempron.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Just a steam deck lol

 

[DanCalibur]

Update your signature: you said your CPU is i5 but it says AMD Sempron.

That's my old win98 machine

 

[Questless Knight]

I forgot to tell I made it last weekend. I was kind of busy and I usually wait for the weekend to do these things, and it also took me a few days to find the specific Cx0 model I was looking for. Today I remembered because I also got a 2GB DDR2 module for this baby, because it came with 1GB, and as I installed Windows XP I can use it with 2GB. Using it with Windows 98 was a bit overkill, and 99% of the games that run on Windows 98 can run on Windows XP with minimal effort, and I avoid having an OS that crashed DLL's as a daily basis lol.

It is very curious that they added thermal pads to the RAM, it does not even get hot when turned on:

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The IDE to SD adapter is something I also added. It came with a 1GB IDE eMMC.

The Wyse costed me 6€, the adapter 4€ and the DDR2 module 2€. 12€ in total, because I had a compatible AC adapter at home.

Man that´s awesome and 12 euro not bad at all kind of a nice price to have a nice and small pc for retro games.

 

[nobitakun]

Man that´s awesome and 12 euro not bad at all kind of a nice price to have a nice and small pc for retro games.

The CPU is a little bit weak compared to a late Pentium III, but for playing games from 2000 or earlier, there is no issue, as long as I don't use very high resolutions.

The most appealing part is that this chipset is low power, finding mini PC's in the Pentium III era is barely impossible. The ones I saw are very rare and bulky, thin clients are the solution to this issue in my humble opinion :)

 

[Questless Knight]

Yeah thin clients are great especially as it does not take up allot of space. And great for old games.

 

[SherionVane]

Update your signature: you said your CPU is i5 but it says AMD Sempron.

like that ?

second one

thirt one

last one

i loved that thing

 

[petran79]

After 9-10 years of a reliable rig, time to upgrade, this time with energy efficiency in mind

From i7 4790K to i5 245K on Z897 chipset
From 18 GB DDR3 1600 to 32 GB DDR5 5600
From GTX 1080 to RTX 5060 Ti OC 16 GB
From 650W PSU Bronze to 750W Gold Modular
added a 1 TB M2 SSD disk
Kept the original SATA SSD and two old SATA drives
Upgraded from Win 10 to Win 11

System is 3-4 times as fast in the games compared to the previous CPU, though I do not intend to play those demanding new games they use for benchmarks, as they feel like tech demos.
Monitor has 100 hz/fps limit anyway as I focus more on Gsync and 3440x1440 ultrawide

I already have Linux Mint on an 8 year old laptop. Adding dual boot option on the new desktop would be risky and would took even more maintenance time. Perhaps in 10 years.

 

[Deleted member 560402]

i think my Sceptre monitor finally crapped out on me. This red line showed up but wouldn't appear in a screenshot so i recreated it in Paint. Only had this for about 2 months so far. ^^'

 

[repousr]

What's up. New user and new to this retro stuff... I think this is the perfect thread for my first post, here check this out! And no I'm not a glowie... Maybe..

Ever since I start using linux, I begun to downgrade my electronics. I had Asus TUF A15 (Ryzen 5 4600Hl, GTX 1660ti), Asus Strix G15 (6800H, RTX 3050) and Lenovo Legion Slim 5 (Ryzen 7840HS, RTX 4050). Currently I'm using Asus Zenbook OLED 14. soon I will get me a Thinkpad :D

 

[MegaDrive1987]

Ryzen 5 5600X
16GB DDR4 RAM 3600Mhz
RTX A2000

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I'm honestly amazed that this old post of mine still exists, but here you go:

Spoiler

This is my current desktop, in all its blurred glory.

Now, I know what you are thinking: "That doesn't look very computer-like" and that's because it's not. You could look all around this picture and I guarantee that you won't find any CPU, monitor or any other pieces of hardware (bar the obvious keyboard and mouse) that are normally associated with a computer set up.

For those who don't know, I need to explain something first: I live in Argentina and the prices of everything (but particularly imports such as technology) strongly depend on what mood the US dollar is in and its relation with our national currency, the Peso. That's normally pretty hard to swallow, but recent, global events have triggered all prices so badly, computers have remained on the reach of a selected few... effectively coming full circle.

When my last --budget-- one bit the dust, I simply couldn't replace it and that's how I ended up with this seven-piece monstrosity you are staring at here. I'm extremely pleased with it, though! So, let's tour the components from left to right, shall we?

The scrappy little phone on the far left is a Samsung Galaxy J1 Mini Prime. I got it stupidly cheap because the screen has been cracked beyond any hope (and there's simply no precision tapping to be done there), but it has one feature that made me seek out this particular model and spend my hard-earned money on it: It can read 64 GB SD Cards! You guys wouldn't believe how many Android devices refuse to go beyond 32 GBs, so this was a huge extra for me! Its writing and reading speeds are blazing fast as well, and the battery life I found to be on the long side. This phone I use as a glorified file manager and it accomplishes its mission with commendable efficiency.

The orange tablet next to it is an Aero 7: Kids. I also got it very cheap because of its "for kids" status, but all those kiddie features are just aesthetical and not too hard to disable. This tablet is a raging beast under the hood as well, which was a very nice surprise.

Not only does it also read 64 GB SD Cards, but it's also compatible with pretty much anything I have thrown on it. On the interest of not overtaxing any system I currently own, I made this one my "media" tablet, so its mission is to play music and videos from the aforementioned card and also to run DOS games through a DOS emulator and other games through a variety of emulators, from NES to Nintendo DS. It's also my E-book reader. Again, very pleased with it and provided extremely good value for the asked price.

The only thing I didn't like about it is that it came packaged with the lamest, most counter-intuitive excuse for a file manager I had ever seen, but it's nothing that installing ES File Explorer wasn't able to solve. Again, very pleased.

What I was NOT pleased with, however, was the black tablet to the right of it.

I paid full price for it just a couple of months ago and it's SUPPOSED to be my most powerful devise, running Android 7, but this "Tablet-PC" by Zira came handcuffed and blindfolded.

Not only did it adamantly refused to work with most of my trusted apps, but it also skipped functions on those that it did allow in. The aforementioned ES File Explorer, for example, found itself unable to do its "Share" function, because something deep on the code of the tablet forbade it from doing local file exchanges. That would be pretty awful in and on itself, but it gets worse! The tablet literally came with no virtual keyboard of its own, expecting you to talk your way through all its apps... and it, again, refused to allow any third-party on-screen keyboards in. Only the appropriately-named "Simple Keyboard" was permitted to work (and the tablet still tries to pull some fast ones on it).

I'd sell this one without much regret if it wasn't for the fact that it actually works really well with a great little app called "Tablet Remote", which allows an Android device to remotely control another one. This is useful when one of the other tablets is running low on battery while in the middle of watching, reading or playing something (and the remote also doubles as a gaming pad).

All of that is secondary, however, to the main piece of this miss-matched ensemble: the blue tablet on the middle of the picture.

This one I got for free, because the previous owner dropped it one day (smashing both the frontal AND rear cameras in the process) rendering its touchscreen capabilities completely useless, as it only registers gestures made on the lower right corner of the screen... yeah.

But I actually really love this one because this CX9011 is a complete beast and it came jam-packed with features I was longing to have.

The first thing I love about this one is that it has a Mini-HDMI-to-HDMI port, so I can broadcast the screen onto any LCD or Smart TV of my choosing on a variety of resolutions (although, I keep it on default). It's also fully compatible with the generic wireless (albeit not Bluetooth) set of keyboard and mice I paired with it. I gave it some thought and I came to the conclusion that the advantages of getting a Bluetooth keyboard would be lost if I had this tablet with HDMI output, WiFI and Bluetooth on. It'd be a battery-draining mess and it'd also bottleneck the connections in a very bad way.

I support this tablet with a Kingston 32 GB SD Card and, coupled with its rather massive 8 GBs of internal storage, it truly is the ideal machine, with a very respectable battery life per charge and a lot of neat little features to play around with. This is my main devise I use and the one I browse the internet with.

To the right of it is the final piece of the Frankenstein monster: the white phone at the edge of the picture.

This one... ugh. It's not a bad phone at all, but its battery life leaves a lot to be desired and it can be gone real quick if you are not paying attention. So yeah... not ideal, but it does the one thing I ask of it and it does it well: it's a brilliant hotspot for its own mobile data, which can then be caught by the CX and used as a direct WiFi connection. It's super neat in that regard! And my only complain is that if, again, you are not keeping an eye on its battery levels, the hotspot might drain it completely and shut off the devise without warning, effectively yanking you offline.

Other than that, though... pleased!

As for the screen... it's a 32'' Hitachi Smart TV I got on a massive discount last holidays. It does what it's asked of it, so I guess I can't complain :P

Anyway... that's my rig xD

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Usually I don't like telling that stuff because it'd be like telling the size of my... fingers but I can give it a go.

This small site is quite useful to check the rating of the computer (I've gotten my current one in May of 2023).

I'm pondering about upgrading my RAM and my GPU when it will reach its fifth year in the middle of 2028 (and if I wanna emulate the PS4 and Xbox One properly).

 

[RandomHajile]

My current main rig (I have another older one I use for JRPGs that is hooked up to the TV as a quasi-console) is such:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9900X
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Motherboard: ASRock Phantom Gaming X870E Nova WiFi
Memory: 96GB T-Force Delta RGB
Main HD: NVMe SSD (Slot 2): 4TB WD_Black SN850X (Want to Dual boot SteamOS)
Secondary HD: NVMe SSD (Operating System): 2TB WD_Black SN850X
Power Supply: 1200W FSP Hydro PTM Pro

I wanted the 9900x 3D as my CPU, but the 3Ds were sold out. Not a big deal though. In time, I want to get a small form factor PC that I use as a sort of all-in-one console, but I have a feeling that Steam is doing something along those lines, so I'm holding off on that build.

 

[sadgrrly]

I recently built a new machine, my prior rig having been a secondhand office PC i'd stick a graphics card in.
CPU: Intel I5-13400F
GPU: Intel Arc A750 8GB
Motherboard: ASROCK Z790 Steel Legend Wifi
Memory: 32 GB DDR5 RAM
Storage: x2 Western Digital 6TB WD Blue HDDs
PSU: Don't remember the exact model, slightly older 750 watt PSU that's been working perfectly.

Nothing ultra fancy, but it's been a lovely change of pace from my old machine. I also jumped ship from windows over to linux, and I have very few regrets.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I recently built a new machine, my prior rig having been a secondhand office PC i'd stick a graphics card in.
CPU: Intel I5-13400F
GPU: Intel Arc A750 8GB
Motherboard: ASROCK Z790 Steel Legend Wifi
Memory: 32 GB DDR5 RAM
Storage: x2 Western Digital 6TB WD Blue HDDs
PSU: Don't remember the exact model, slightly older 750 watt PSU that's been working perfectly.

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Nothing ultra fancy, but it's been a lovely change of pace from my old machine. I also jumped ship from windows over to linux, and I have very few regrets.

Neat looking keyboard and nice 4:3 screen.

 

[Tonyz95]

like that ?

second one

thirt one

last one

i loved that thing

I'd keep one of the first 2, if it's your current setup.

 

[SherionVane]

I'd keep one of the first 2, if it's your current setup.

They are all separate machines, the last two are very old, maybe over 10 years old, the first two are 6 and 5 years old,the strange thing is that the first one is older than the second one, but it has a higher score while got half the RAM :).

 

[MegaDrive1987]

I recently built a new machine, my prior rig having been a secondhand office PC i'd stick a graphics card in.
CPU: Intel I5-13400F
GPU: Intel Arc A750 8GB
Motherboard: ASROCK Z790 Steel Legend Wifi
Memory: 32 GB DDR5 RAM
Storage: x2 Western Digital 6TB WD Blue HDDs
PSU: Don't remember the exact model, slightly older 750 watt PSU that's been working perfectly.

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Nothing ultra fancy, but it's been a lovely change of pace from my old machine. I also jumped ship from windows over to linux, and I have very few regrets.

What made you switch?