Post A Pic Of Your Pc Here :)

[PCunicorn]

Much better Calin. And quite nice by the way, though it could use a good dusting.

 

[Calin]

Much better Calin. And quite nice by the way, though it could use a good dusting.

yeah it would be a good idea but i dont have any cans of compressed air ATM.

 

[Shane]

New HTPC.

Unsure yet if im going to be running Windows 7 or some Linux Distro...But its primary use will be XBMC.

Specs:

AMD Athlon 5350 2.05GHz Quad Core Processor
Asus AM1I-A AMD AM1 (Socket FS1b) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard
OCZ Solid3 60GB SATA 6Gb/s SSD.

As for the ram,In the picture i borrowed 2x 1gb sticks of 1333Mhz ram from another machine just to test,I've got 4gb 1600Mhz (single stick) on the way,unsure what brand yet,either Samsung, Hynix,.etc..i don't really care as long as it works.

As for why i choose single stick,This board..and i think all the AM1 boards only support single channel anyway.

Nice to be buying something AMD,Not bought anything AMD for years.

 

[The VCR King]

Try Ubuntu 14.04

 

[Jiniix]

I'd recommend Lubuntu over Ubuntu, for almost any PC - especially lower power ones.
First I used Ubuntu. Then I came across Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu). Then I needed a low power distro for my 1.6GHz Atom, 1GB RAM and IGP netbook.
Lubuntu is Ubuntu, but with a different graphics engine.

Edit: Just finished re-building little brothers PC, after his motherboard died. Took everything completely apart and removed the dust (oh lord the dust!)

Intel i7-2600K @ stock w/ Corsair H60 (with Coolermaster 212 Evo fan)
MSI ZH77A-G43 w/ 2x4GB Kingston HyperX 1600MHz
XFX AMD HD 6870 (don't remember if 1GB or 2GB edition)
Bitfenix Shinobi w/ Corsair AF120 QE and Coolermaster SilenProM Gold 600W
Samsung HD320HJ x2 in RAID 1 + Western Digital Black 750GB

 

[PCunicorn]

What case is that Shane? It's awesome.

Jiinix, Linux Mint isn't based off Ubuntu, it's based off Debian which Ubuntu is also based off of. That means they have many under the hood similarities but as a whole, they are noticeably different. Also, Lubuntu uses LXDE instead of what Ubuntu uses (Unity). It's not a graphics engine (that's like calling Windows 7's and Vista's graphics engine Aero, but it is DirectX). It's a "Desktop Environment".

I would also recommend Lubuntu for a HTPC as LXDE is very lightweight. You could abandon a GUI completely and install XBMC from a command line, with a Debian distro that does not include a Desktop Environment.

Nice rebuild Jiniix! Very clean

 

[voyagerfan99]

Nice HTPC Shane :good:

My HTPC is big because it's basically another gaming PC. I bought a reference 560Ti that I stuck in mine. It's a tight fit

I've never posted my HTPC. It's connected to an Onkyo TX-SR607 receiver (7.1) with a Klipsch Synergy SUB-10 Sub, Klipsch Synergy C-1 Center, 4 Klipsch S-1 Synergy Surround speakers, and Polk 65T's for the two front chanels, and a Mitsubishi HC-5500 projector (1080P - 116"). The bulb in the projector is rated at 5,000 hours but we've gotten to 7,600 hours as of today. The bulb is starting to flicker though and some of the contrast is gone. It's driving me up a wall, but I want to limp along on this bulb for a while longer. If it doesn't die before spring break, I'm gonna replace it then before I have a Harry Potter marathon with friends. My father got a free replacement bulb when he bought the projector, so that's good at least.

The system itself is a Gigabyte AM3 board I bought off Vroom_Skies, my old Phenom II X4 965BE, 4GB of RAM, 60GB OCZ Vertex II, 320GB HDD, and a GTX 560Ti reference card I bought off 87dtna. It's a tight fit for that card, and I had to flip the PSU to fit the card in there. The blue LED fan was just something I had laying around so I stuck it in there until I order a plain black fan.

 

[Shane]

What case is that Shane? It's awesome.

Antec ISK110 MiniITX Vesa Mountable Case

I went with this case because its the smallest i could find,Also comes with a 90W External power brick,Plus i got it like £12 cheaper on deal.

Decided im going with Ubuntu 14.04.1,Install Xmbc via terminal then make it start Automatically when ubuntu has booted.

EDIT- Nice Voyager,Wow that is one tight fit

I was originally looking at getting a Gigabyte GA-J1800N-D2H,Which has a built in Celeron J1800 2.41GHz Dual Core,But only has the lowest cut down Intel HD graphics...not HD3000/4000 and i suspected this would have trouble with HD 1080p..so decided to go with the AMD APU above which should be more than enough.

 

[PCunicorn]

Look into uninstalling Unity if possible, with those specs it wouldn't be a bad idea to have less software running.

 

[Shane]

Look into uninstalling Unity if possible, with those specs it wouldn't be a bad idea to have less software running.

Could always run Lubuntu instead,Il give it a try in Virtualbox.

 

[jamesd1981]

 

[WeatherMan]

Any chance you could make them photo's a bit bigger? They don't fill my screen up enough

 

[jamesd1981]

Any chance you could make them photo's a bit bigger? They don't fill my screen up enough

Lol fixed Weatherman

 

[Geoff]

This was from 2005

 

[voyagerfan99]

Back when the G15 was king of the gaming keyboards! Still have mine

 

[Darren]

Good lord I was 9-10 and in 3rd grade when that picture was taken.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Good lord I was 9-10 and in 3rd grade when that picture was taken.

LOL I was entering high school in the fall of 2005.

 

[Darren]

LOL I was entering high school in the fall of 2005.

I would have been going in to 4th grade and been turning 10 in the fall of 2005.

Now I feel young and old at the same time.

 

[spirit]

Loving those CRTs Geoff!

I was 8 in September 2005.

 

[Geoff]

Good lord I was 9-10 and in 3rd grade when that picture was taken.

LOL I was entering high school in the fall of 2005.

Loving those CRTs Geoff!

I was 8 in September 2005.

This was my first built, I was a junior in high school lol