Show us your computer room 2!

It is handy for school work where I have many things open at once. Originally bought it for stock trading - which I ended up hating, but got a monitor out of it

I go to GMU. I have a single because I have alot of credits and get first dibs on rooms haha. I am one of 6 people in my dorm, 2 singles and 2 doubles. We all share a common living room and kitchen and have 2 bathrooms. It of course cost more than the doubles.

 

WHAT IS THAT ON UR WALL? Are those ram sticks and cpu.... framed?!

 

Where are your consoles>

 

Screw Consoles!

 

I can't find that picture posted by Sponsi any more, was it a bug,or something wrong with my computer.

 

From motorola 1 mhz to intel dual core, Yea, its the evolution of cpu, i always wanted to frame something like that, it looks very sexy (i'm glad someone notices it, this is a PC forum after all, we should all be geeks...)

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=386244&page=74

#6

 

lol that is pure awesomeness, can we get a closeup of that? i would love to see that. btw, did u create it or u bought it from some1?

 

Here ya go:



And yea i made it, was fun getting all these from different places.

the one next to the Pentium pro is a Pentium pro opened up, you can see the core and the cache, thought it looked hot because its engraved in such big size, you can actually see the architecture of the processor

 

lol quick reply, thxs for the image, that is totally sweet!

 

swap out the Acer 11.6" for a 13.3" white Macbook 2.1, and it's pretty current

 

so what do you do across 3 laptops? lol

 

that is seriously awesome. i myself bought a 486 66 brand new in the 90's... crazy how far we have come

 

Did you try create a WTB post in a few forums stating something similar before?

 

I sold off my quad core desktop in June, as I was tired of sitting at my desk all the time. Much better to just sit on the couch

The Thinkpad is off all the time, but that will very quickly change. I bought it for primary use, but ended up on my netbook instead. I bought it for VMware.

The HP is for multimedia. Video games, Blu-Ray, etc.

The MacBook I'll be using as my work computer for the job I just got hired at yesterday. Windows via Boot Camp for work, OSX for play..


I'm actually looking at picking up a 4th for the job, so I can reclaim the Mac as my "toy" system, so I can play around with OSX & Linux.

 

busy man!

I cannot cast aspersions though haha, looking at getting an M17 to accompany my M17x lol

 

@Sponsi

I like your room

 

LIKE A MAN

 

I should look into this as I have quite a few old CPUs laying around.

Not that I disagree with your setup. But wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to have gotten one quad core 17in to do everything instead of 3 different laptops? Maybe its just the jealous part of me.

 

Very nice setup.. was thinking of doing something similar but with two monitors I can fold down/lower when watching movies on the background tv.

A couple questions if you happen to know, and could help me out :

The ATI 5870 appears to have 2 DVI out, 1 HDMI out, and 1 DisplayPort out.
So, do you have 2 dell monitors on the 2 DVIs and 1 dell monitor on the HDMI ? And it will detect them all ? What if I do 2 monitors for the DVIs, and then connect the HDMI to the Wall TV, if the TV is off , will it still work fine on the 2 alone do you know ? So, when needed, you could power on the TV and play a movie from the PC as a 3rd monitor, and turn the 2 Dells off ?

thanks!

 

The dude with the 3 notebooks i know how you feel lol, i have 4 myself, a new toshiba Qosmio x505, the core i7 is phenom, dell xps m1530, dell studio xps m1340, and a dell precision m6400, and probably a secondary portable semi ok nettop asus 1201n or UL30, probably the 1201n best bang for your buck.

 

Two of the U2410 Monitors are using DVI
The third one is using the Display Port
The TV is using the HDMI

The 5870 (and 5850) can use all 4 connections but ONLY 3 at the same time, and if you use 3 at the same time ONE of them must be the display port connection. If you use 2 or 1 monitor only it can be any of the connections.

So what that means is to use the TV I have to go into my display control panel and swap the TV with one of the active monitors and if I want 3 screens on at once one of them has to be the monitor connected to display port.

May sound annoying but it only takes a few seconds and not many video cards can support 4 monitors out of the box, usually you would need 2 video cards. So its kinda just extra, and you can of course just get a cheap 2nd video card to run more monitors if you wish.

HDMI carries sound too of course so thats why its good for the HDTV connection, but I dont use the sound on the HDMI I use the output on my X-Fi card directly into my home theater amp.

 

Awesome... ViciousXUSMC thanks for the explanation !

 

PIMP! great job.

 

well it is not a computer room, but this should give you a taste of what my first laptop had haha

I loved this thing (I was the cool kid in high school that had an OLD hand me down laptop)

 

Sorry for the mess. I am going to work on cleaning up the wires. We mainly use this for web surfing, working and printing documents.

Specs: HP Athlon XP 3000+, 2GB RAM, GeForce 6200, 250GB Hard drive.



In the corner of my bedroom, I have this small corner desk setup to surf the web, do some downloading, and e-mails before I sleep or get up in the morning. The HP DV2-1030 is light and thin enough to take to bed and watch some anime before going to bed.

Specs: Athlon Neo 1.6Ghz, 4GB RAM, 12.1" Screen, 320GB Hard Drive, Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit



When I need to get some serious work done, I goto the dining table and boot up my MacBook Pro. A minimalist workspace but there are no distractions. Dining table is usually clear when it isn't mealtime so it's easy to focus.

Specs: MacBook Pro 15" 2.53Ghz Unibody, 4GB RAM, 500GB Hard Drive, Snow Leopard.



HP Mini 110 used to quickly jump on the web and e-mail while watching TV. I also take this thing with me on vacation since it's so light and does it's job very well. I dumped the Vaio P for this and haven't looked back since.

The mini mainly resides in my car so I can easily pull it out when I'm at a coffee shop or wherever WiFi is available

Specs: Intel Atom 270, 10" Screen, 2GB RAM, 160GB Hard Drive

 

Sir, you have way too many. Please share. Nice!

 

Yes someone else besdies me who has a lot of notebooks. How do you like the hp dv2? I am looking at different videos at it and you can get it from j and r for only 500 bucks and it comes with the external drive!

 

I AM SORRY FOR THE QUALITY





new setup


With the laptop









The monitors are 23 inch Dells
the big one is a 32 inch Samsung for TV and other stuff while on the laptop
300w home stereo system behind the speakers

* yes that is a weird fan on my desktop .... its a modified Exhaust fan that pushes enough air through my desktop that its kinda scary .... requires its own AC plug as well

 

Are those excel sheets for the boy scout merit badges or just what they say.

I'm an Eagle Scout from a few years ago and it caught my eye

 

I'll have some pics of my setups up soon. No, I didn't make a typo. I do in fact, have two computer setups in my bedroom. Soon, it may be three. Currently, I have my main setup which I plan on doing some changes to soon and I also have my recording setup which has my Ion belt-drive USB turntable, graphic equalizer, Yamaha 5-disc changer, and G3 iMac. I mainly just use that setup for making digital versions of records.

 

DV2 is very well worth it, and it usually does come with the external drive. It blows away any netbook and is as light as one, and smokes just about any ultra-portable notebook in it's class. I have the single core Neo version but if you can get the dual core, it will be even better. Love the display, love the size, love the graphics, but my biggest issue is the crappy battery life (just under 3 hours). Performance wise, if I had to choose between the HP Mini 311 Ion and this, I would definitely go for the DV2!

 

Very good looking setup Moo, much nicer than the last one you put up.

And yes, those are merit badge spreadsheets, that was my laptop during my sophomore and junior years of high school (finishing college now). I did get the Eagle Scout too

 

Bought a Nikon camera meh

 

Everything, all of your "setups" are very nice! Kudos..


Cin...

 

Nice setup Moo! You and viscous by far have the best setups IMHO.

 

thank you, lots of saving and Subway

 

LOL, is your girlfrien on the wallpaper? We can't see her face.

 

Fiance, and yes that is her

 

The background reminds me of Riddler.....somehow.

 

Didn't you just finish highschool not too long ago?

 

that don't mean you can't be engaged....he has been with her for 4 years

 

4 years and 2 months now and we NEVER fight ....I could not be happier , so please save it

 

Wow,
Some of you guys are amazing, I am truly jealous. I need to do do a better job with my space.

 

Why do you have so many laptops? o_o

Anyhow, here's mine ( updated picture ):

 

I was engaged at your age (actually 17 and Im assuming you're 18) and I'm still married to my high school sweetheart who is my BEST friend. So you save it

edit: I was just confused since these days its rare to find people like my wife and I, and Im VERY glad to hear it.

Duckfart: That must be one HOT desk you have there.

 

I just cleaned up my dorm here at good ol' UPitt, since I'm going home tomorrow. And a few things have changed.

First, the TV. It's a Samsung 32". Got it for $399 (no shipping fees or taxes) after Black Friday. HDMI cables when I get back after the holidays.

The keyboard has finally found its way out from under my bed; I now have room for it and can play at my leisure.

The Xbox is new. It is the CODMW2 limited edition. It has a 250GB hard drive.

 

Nice Kierkes...Good deal on the TV.

Can I have some CheezIts? Pwease!

Cin...

 

Nope. Not even when you said please...I can see your puppy dog eyes through your post! But thank you. I looove the TV sooo much.

 

Here's mine but I cut out all the boring stuff.