What hardware do you use? :D

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Just wondering, what hardware do you guys run ftb on? Custom-built powerhouse? Grandpas calculator? Let me know :D
i custom built mine this summer:

Gigabyte z97 Motherboard
Intel 4690k @ 4.2ghz cpu
8gb Kingston HyperX ram
Sapphire R9 380 Gpu
WD 1TB HDD
Corsair CX750 power supply
Corsair 230t case
Cooler Master Hyper Evo cpu cooler

Edit: It's not hardware (although I think its relevant), but I'm running Windows 10
 
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Wagon153

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Well, I custom built as well. But that was last year. I dual boot Arch Linux and Windows 10.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor ($113.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI CSM-H87M-G43 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($77.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Mushkin ECO2 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital WD Green 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($51.45 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($45.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 280 3GB Double Dissipation Video Card ($189.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Thermaltake TR2 700W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($81.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Other: Some Parvum Systems Micro-ATX case.
Total: $661.27
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-08 23:04 EST-0500
 
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Yeah I plan on getting a 250gb Samsung 850 m.2 ssd soon o: I think my i5 proves its worth on other games though. Skyrim and FO4 come to mind, which are stupidly reliant on the cpu, and are multithreaded.
 

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MSI Z97 PC-Mate
I7-4790k @ 4.4Ghz
16gb 1866 ddr3r ram
NVidia 750ti
1TB HDD 7200RPM
Rosewill HIVE 750s semi-modular PSU
Cooler Master 212 Hyper EVO

I know the difference between the 750ti and 4790k and a bit ridiculous, but I decided to just go all out on one part at a time.


Yeah I plan on getting a 250gb Samsung 850 m.2 ssd soon o: I think my i5 proves its worth on other games though. Skyrim and FO4 come to mind, which are stupidly reliant on the cpu, and are multithreaded.
You saying that Skyrim is heavily CPU reliant makes realize how bad my GPU is bottle necking me, upgrading to the 4790k from an A8-3870k gave no performance increase at all.
 
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Nice build :D but yeah gpu upgrade sounds like a good idea. Still, Skyrim and FO4 give me fps drops that bug the s*** out of me. But honestly, as much as I love the games, their horribly coded game engine holds them back. On another note, my gpu gets me like 105 fps avg in direwolf
 

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(this was all the information from hardinfo that actually says me something, if there is something wrong, or missing that you really want to know well...just ask and I will see what I can do)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4820K CPU @ 3.70GHz3675,00MHz
GPU: VGA compatible controllerAdvanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Bonaire XTX [Radeon R7 260X]
Motherboard: X79A-GD65 (8D) (MS-7760)
Total Memory16384520 kB (16 GB)
1 1000GB hdd drive and an ssd which amount I forgot and don't care about enough to look up as debian only has 20 GB from it to work with anyway (thanks to windows) It was more then 100 GB though.
OS : Debian jessie GNU/Linux (desktop environment is mate) and windows 7 although I basically never use it.
 

lenscas

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Cool. Custom build?
I only picked the components and have it get build for me. I don't have a good place where I could build it, nor do I have spare components which I could use to check what went wrong if something broke. Having it get build for me also wasn't that much more expensive.
 

Wagon153

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Yeah custom building is great, first build is the most stressful, took me hours of sweating buckets to build first pc, second one though with a lot more bits to setup only took about an hour.

Haha well I spent a long time anticipating my build till I had some money so I learned everything I needed to know before I even bought any parts, so when I had some cash I bought the case and mobo, then the cpu and then the ram, hdd, and psu and then my gpu and overall I was pretty confident about the build. After I was done installing the cpu I had everything I needed to boot it up, and it booted on the third try, after I remembered to plug the thing into the wall and then after I remembered to flip the PSU switch B)
 

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Not very good with specs and shiz, but I have a Lenovo Y50 15.6" laptop that I recently got for Christmas.

Intel Core i7-4720HQ processor
16GB memory
1TB of storage (idek what i'll use that terrabyte for tbh)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
it was around $900, but its on sale now for around $870.

and... yeah. all of that came with the laptop - the y50 runs pretty well for a laptop, I get around 100 to 150 fps on DW20. I know it's not the best, but i don't play a lot of other games except for minecraft and fallout 4 (and fallout 4 runs okay at high graphics).

i probably could have built a pc that ran better and cheaper, but i go around a lot so i bring my laptop with me to game.
 

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Might as well post mine

Intel i5-4590 3.3Ghz quad-core
AMD 380 4gb clocked at 985 mhz (haven't gotten around to overclocking it)
8gb ddr3-1333mhz
1TB harddrive
Windows 7 (also haven't gotten around to setting up dualboot with ubuntu)

And with the case, motherboard, psu, and monitor all of this cost....more than I like to think about