Originally posted by Adambomb:
...also here's what I'm running for my personal setup, it's a combination of FSAE style with a touch of redneck and tactical flavor. It's about 50% 2006 and 50% 2009 hardware, so nothing impressive by today's standards, but the setup is interesting.
Adambomb's Tactical Phenom
Case: 1981 vintage IBM 5150 "Personal Computer" case with riveted-in ATX motherboard/card base, polished Al diamond plate back panel, massive 5.25" floppy drive milled out and converted to a modular dual hard drive bay, front panel USB and audio pilfered from some other case, Radio Shack old-skool pushbutton for power switch, fabbed drive bay for standard DVD burner
PSU: 550W Antec
Motherboard: MSI, supports Hypertransport 3.0 and DDR2 8500, 95W CPU
CPU: quad core Phenom x4 9600, 2.3 GHz. I wasted many hours attempting to get any overclock, to later discover that these are about the worst ever to attempt to overclock.
Graphics: EVGA GeForce 7900GS, soft-modded to Quadro FX 3500, processor overclocked 20 MHz from the factory, memory overclocked 20%. Was a fairly hot card in 2006.
Memory: DDR2 PC2 6400, dual channel, 4GB
Hard drives: 2x 160 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11's in RAID 0, 200 MB/s transfer rate
Monitors: Same beastly Dell's as above, paid $13 for the pair at university surplus sales.