What was your favorite system you had or used?

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yggdrasil

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Ok this has been in my head since I sold my last system and regretted it since and could say miss it.

SO what is your favorite system you had or used, not your best fastest system, just the one you liked the most, pics are welcome.

I loved my old system that had a Asus P5Q PRO with a Intel core 2 Quad Q9400, 8GB of corsair 800MHz XMS2 and running a 9800GTX+ with Windows vista (Upgraded to 7 Latter) on 2x 1tb WD Black HDD's. I miss that system and am working on re building it to spec, I still have the original video card and I picked up a mobo for $60AU and I can get the RAM new still, Just need to hunt down the CPU
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So what was your favorite computer system?
 
my fave rig is the one i won in the snow white comp.

why? because it was FREE, and put together by TTL's loving hands
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Mine is also the one I have now, the one I had before this was good at the time I built it though which was a Q6600, ATI 4850, 4GB DDR2 800mhz and a Asus P5Q SL/R.
 
I loved my "Heaven & Hell" build tbh as it was my first proper rig. was only an E6850 @ 4ghz and a silly overclocked 8800GT all on watercooling though.

Some good memories with that rig
 
I loved my old Antec 900 build. Was the first time I took a spray can and hole cutter to a case.

 
My current pc is my all time favorite, and i will be upgrading to 2 lovely msi gtx 570 twinfrozr cards this week, making it even better.
 
My first watercooled rig, which had a PA160 rad shoe-horned inside an old Lian Li PC60.

Can't remember the specific components but both the CPU & GPU were watercooled.

Was one of the few rigs at the time that had black powdercoat internals too.

Wish I had kept some piccies of it
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My fave was the first one i built to overclock, it was a mix of bits from pcworld and parts recommended in custompc which I got from local fairs and markets.

It was a sempron 3400, in an asrock nf4 board with 2gb of corsair cas 2 DDR and a fx5900. It was cheap as chips and when I slapped an akasa evo 33 on it and had it running at 2.5ghz it was out benching p4 that cost more than the whole system lol

Tbh it didn't last long but it was the system that I cut my teeth on, and for that it will always have a place in my heart and mind.
 
Had to have been the Athlon Thunderbird rig I made for uni. While everybody else was trudging around at 20fps on their terrible Celeron pcs that were distributed to every student, I was running circles around them in quake II and III and UT. Gotta love dorm tourneys
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First AMD chip I ever had, and also one of the best.
 
My last rig which was an Intel Pentium Duel Core E5500, 4GB of DDR3 Ram and a Gigabyte G41MT-D3

One of the main reasons i liked it so much is that i had the cpu clocked at 4Ghz on air (Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2) Cheap and cheerful
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Edit: also had a 256mb 7900GS
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Just to be totally left-field of you all, my favourite system was the Commodore Amiga A600 from way back in 1993, that was fitted with a 40Mb (whoo!) laptop hard drive.

I had more fun with that 2Mb machine than I have had with any PC since.

I still have several A600s, a few A1200, an Acorn Archimedes, a few ZX Spectrums and some Acorn Electrons, along with my original Commodore 64 from 1983.

Rose-tinted retro? You'd better believe it!!
 
Merlin said:
Just to be totally left-field of you all, my favourite system was the Commodore Amiga A600 from way back in 1993, that was fitted with a 40Mb (whoo!) laptop hard drive.

I had more fun with that 2Mb machine than I have had with any PC since.

I still have several A600s, a few A1200, an Acorn Archimedes, a few ZX Spectrums and some Acorn Electrons, along with my original Commodore 64 from 1983.

Rose-tinted retro? You'd better believe it!!
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the 1080STFM kicked amiga500's butt
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if we are going back that far, then my atari800XL was my best
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My fav rig is also my current one. I7 950, Gigabyte X58A-UD5 mobo, 6gb Patriot 1600Mhz ram, EVGA GTX 295 Co-op, running Win 7 64-Bit on a 600GB Velociraptor hard drive. Will eventually upgrade to a solid state drive and GTX 590 when prices come down on both lol. But I must say my last Q9550 rig also served me very well! I only upgraded to i7 to keep up with the Joneses, but I quickly learned thats a fast paced, never ending race lol.
 
I only upgraded to i7 to keep up with the Joneses, but I quickly learned thats a fast paced, never ending race lol.
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Well said =] However the key when building computers is to buy the best you can at the time with the money you have, and most of all ENJOY IT!
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dugdiamond said:
the 1080STFM kicked amiga500's butt
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if we are going back that far, then my atari800XL was my best
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But the Atari 1080 STFM couldn't kick the Amiga A1200's butt though, could it? You aren't comparing like with like, as the Atari 520ST was the Amiga A500's competitor.

The Commodore 64 was way more popular and capable than the Atari 800; I had an Atari 400 for a while before I got a C64 and I hated the 'plink plink' keyboard....

This is like Luke Skywalker saying to Ben Kenobi....

"Did you really fight in the Commodore vs. Atari fanboi troll wars, Ben...?"

"Yes Luke, but that was a long time ago..."

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