I haven't built a custom computer in several years and decided to get my hands dirty again. I just finished building this system and wanted to share some screenshots of it.
I'm very happy with the result. Here are the specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X99-Ultra Gaming rev1.0 CPU: Intel Core i7-6800K 15M Broadwell-E 6-Core 3.4 GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W BX80671I76800K Desktop Processor (stock speed) Memory: 32 Gb (4x8Gb) Gskill [Trident Z] F4-3200C14Q-32GTZSW. DDR4-3200 PC-25600 CL14-14-14-34 Video: MSI GEFORCEŽ GTX 1050 TI 4G OC Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart M 850W power supply Solid State Drive: 250Gb Samsung 960 EVO 3200/1500 read/write Cooling: Asetek Waterchill XTernal AIO unit and Watercool HEATKILLERŽ CPU Rev3.0 waterblock
My 4 year old desktop, just placed a new GPU in it! Might upgrade to a new system next summer, since the CPU is getting weak for example: playing rocket league and stream at the same time: 100% CPU.
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit CPU
Intel Core i5 3570K @ 3.40GHz 40 °C
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology RAM 16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (9-9-9-24) Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P8H77-V LE (LGA1155) 28 °C Graphics
S22F350 (1920x1080@59Hz)
IPS235 (1920x1080@59Hz)
8192MB ATI Radeon RX 480 Graphics (Sapphire/PCPartner) 47 °C Storage
931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-9YN162 (SATA) 28 °C
119GB Samsung SSD 850 PRO 128GB (SSD) 29 °C
15GB SMI USB DISK USB Device (USB)
I have a rack with a 3U server in it, will post specs tomorrow with some pics
Server
Since this is a home server, it is a low budget one since its second-hand. You will see on the pictures why
It is used as a test environment, especialy for pentesting.
Operating System
VMware ESXi CPU
8 CPUs x 2.83GHz (Dual CPU) Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5440 RAM
48GB Samsung DDR2 Motherboard
Supermicro X7DW3 Storage
2x 1TB, had a SSD in it for database testing (only using SSD web/database servers now!) Power supply
800W
Pics
Since it's a cheap-as-possible build and the motherboard is a special big format, it doesn't suit in every case haha. https://i.imgur.com/tJHZoL8.jpg
Thanks for sharing guys! That's awesome! It's always nice to see what others are running. With my current setup I'd say I should be good for several years. I don't do a whole lot of gaming anymore, that's why I settled for a middle-grade GPU, but overall it still outperforms the hell out of everything. It'll be a nice workbench for dev work, virtual stuff, trial & error and anything for that matter.
I'm running Windows 7 x64 right now. If I were to upgrade I'd go to Win 10, but I just dislike the "icon" menus now as well as the fact that MS likes to spy on stuff.
With my watercooled system I am surprised at how cool it stays. When I was running stress tests for 24 hours+, the highest I saw it climb was 26 degrees Celsius. On average I run at 19-20 degrees Celsius.
Posting another image of the whole case. This is probably the cleanest (least cluttered) setup I have built, but cords will always be inevitable and a pain. I saw some cases that have slots to feed the cords through on the other side so it looks clean. I might do that at some point in the future, but for now this works for me.