Show off your Gaming Rig...

[Sirisian]

Clevo P170HM from Malibal
17.3" 1920 x 1080 FHD LED
Intel® Core™ i7-2920XM
16GB 1333MHz DDR3 - 4 SO-DIMM
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 485M 2GB GDDR5
120GB Intel® X25-M SATA2 SSD Drive

Here's a picture from my cell phone below. I just unboxed and installed most everything I use except a few development tools.

[Bags]

What in the world is using up 2gb of ram?

[Sirisian]

Originally Posted by Bags

What in the world is using up 2gb of ram?

Modern operating systems use the RAM as a cache for previously opened programs. You won't normally see this if you only have 1 GB of RAM. If you have 2 GB you can expect Windows to use 1 GB to store things into that you might need later. I could turn it off, but it's not that big of a deal. Having 16 GBs and it's a fresh installation I could expect a lot more to be used later on actually. I do have page file and many other I/O features in windows turned off to let my SSD live for years.

[BUGGER]

1983 Bronco
5.0L 2BL 8cyl
Stock auto C6
33 A/T BFGs
3'' Raise
Soft canopy, daimond plated bed


Oh wait wrong rig...

[Rbstr]

I never understood "Gaming" laptops.
They aren't really portable and they're more expensive and less powerful than a desktop.

I've found that if you forget about playing hardcore games on the portable and have a desktop you get a better machine for both tasks.

[Hamma]

Going to have to agree there. I've never quite understood the gaming laptop market - it also usually ways 300 pounds.

[Sirisian]

It's only 8.7 pounds. I'm a graduate student so I tend to keep my computer close moving between my parent's house, campus, and work it helps to have something you can take with you. I think my 5 year old dell inspiron laptop is heavier actually. I'm 6'2" so I can't really tell the difference between carrying a computer bag on my side versus not having it.

Part of it is also I used to go to LAN parties a lot and I took my old gaming laptop which was nice. Packing up a desktop every weekend to go to a friend's house was a PITA. Good times playing Planetside at my friend's house around a table actually.

Also price wasn't really a question since I don't spend money, and I have two jobs.

Speaking of speed though the i7-2920XM is the 15th fastest consumer processor which can be overclocked to beat a lot of the stock processors and the 485m is a beast. I'm not trying to brag, but I'm just pointing out that "gaming" laptops have come a long way since their dragtop past.

[BorisBlade]

Just got my new rig last week.

i7 2600k (sandybridge) overclocked to 3.9ghz (from 3.4 stock)
Dual 240mm fan liquid cooling
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 motherboard (about as good as it gets and designed for overclocking)
8gb 2000mhz DDR3 RAM
EVGA gtx 580 overclocked
250gb SSD + 1tb HD
950w power supply
inwin Dragon full tower gaming case. Tons of extra fans and cooling. love it.

Also picked up a nice mechanical kb and a Razer Carcharias headset (which im very impressed with).

And before you ask about the mobo choice and high power supply, yes im only runnin one graphics card atm, but im set up and ready to add a second. That was intentional. But ive been runnin crysis 2 maxed out and still gettin insane fps' so im not really in any hurry just yet to shell out another 500 bux on another overclocked 580.

Also this was an upgrade from my old system which i got when ps was only 2 years old.....yeah 6 year old pc was top of the line when i got it but felt like i was using an abacus nowadays. So the upgrade was rather huge. =D

[Traak]

Asus Lamborghini VX2S in yellow. Look it up if you wanna see a picture of lag and being confined to doing CE because PvP is a slideshow.

[Traak]

Originally Posted by Hamma

Going to have to agree there. I've never quite understood the gaming laptop market - it also usually ways 300 pounds.

Some of us don't have a permanent home. For example: myself, since I got the lappie, here: Hawaii, Oklahoma, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Honduras, Vietnam, Canada, Thailand, and now back in Honduras. It's "laptop or no gaming".

I FAR prefer a huge, power-slurping tower, replete with unnecessary lighting and gew-gaws.

But, I can't be anchored in one spot for long (figurative) so a lappie it is.

Better's a day spent playing PS on a laptop than a day with no PS. Even as the lowly "gets ownt by cloakers" engineer that's helping the other guys "play safe."

[Sovereign]

Lol, I'd love to see the empirical evidence to support the claim that all laptops nowadays are allegedly 300 pounds...

I can bear witness to the fact that my Asus is only 7.4/8.8 pounds, granted some would consider that "heavy" probably because their so bent out of shape and weak...

Here are the stats : http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/asus...ml#reviewPage1

[Rbstr]

I'm in an out of class and two different labs all day. It's not the fact the the laptop alone is heavy, it's the books and binders and other junk that goes along with it. The battery life is also a big issue. I hate having to pack up the charger every time I shift places.

I get it if you're very transient...but if you mostly go home to one place a thin and light notebook and a mid-upper range desktop are just so much better at each respective task than a big gaming lap-scorcher. Even the the 480m is a cut down mid-range desktop card, remember. I've found my mobile graphics to be adequate for a little gaming now and then, like when I'm visiting my parents, though not on high settings.

[Sentrosi]

Gonna drop it like it's hotT (old school style)

Processor
Intel Core2Duo 8400 (3.0Ghz stock)

Memory
4GB DDR2 800

Hard Drives
1 - 500GB SATA II
1 - 1TB SATA II

Optical Drive x 2
24X DL DVD+/-RW Drive

Graphics
ATI Radeon 6850 1 GB

Audio
Sound card - Integrated

Ethernet
10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet

Power Supply
650W ThermalTake TR2 RX Modular

Case
CoolerMaster Cosmos

[DCode]

You can't beat one of them new-fangled 6 core processors they have out now-adays.
(course I wish I had one.. only got some weak dual core PC)

[firecrackerNC]

Case CoolerMaster HAF 922 Gaming Case - Black/Red
Harmony SRS Sound Reduction System
Processor Intel® Core™ i7 980X Processor Extreme Edition (6x 3.33GHz/12MB L3 Cache)
Processor Cooling Asetek 550LC Liquid CPU Cooling System - Enermax Dual Silent High Performance Fan
Memory 24 GB [4 GB X6] DDR3-1600 - Corsair Vengeance
Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 - 3GB - Single Card
Motherboard ASUS Rampage III Extreme w/ 4x PCI-E 2.0 x16
Power Supply 1200 Watt -- CoolerMaster RSC00-80GAD3-US
Primary Hard Drive 120 GB Intel 510 MLC SSD SATA 6 Gb/s - Single Drive
Data Hard Drive 640 GB HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive
Optical Drive 24X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - [Lightscribe Technology] Black
2nd Optical Drive 24X Sony Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Black
Flash Media Reader / Writer 12-In-1 Internal Flash Media Card Reader/Writer - Black
Meter Display NZXT Sentry LX Aluminum Fan Control, Clock, and Temperature Display
Sound Card Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit