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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
My current setup is working really great. I initially installed EndevourOS with KDE plasma, and it was "ok" but most games had some stuttering issues. i tried Nobara linux next which was really good for gaming but had some other problems. I then finally went back to EndevourOS but after some research, opted to go for xorg and Gnome. which is really stable and high performance for the games i play ( Diablo IV and Overwatch )
Im really happy to be able to skip windows altogether.
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