***Uber System Poll 4.0***

[Rebel44]

Its time for new (updated) Uber System Poll.

Results from last year
Link

Results from 2 years ago: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=27&threadid=1956020

Results from 3 years ago: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...did=1623832&arctab=yes

 

[Blain]

Edited for diversity

 

[Rebel44]

 

[Denithor]

I think you should remove the "case window" and "lit up" questions - those are entirely cosmetic and really have no bearing on anything but personal taste.

I also think the GPU interface question could be pulled. I mean, seriously, if we're discussing "Uber" systems and someone responds AGP or PCI - they don't qualify to take the poll.

EDIT: After looking back at previous results, this is really a pretty cool poll. In 2005 AMD ruled the CPU market (80% among the geeks here) but things really switched quickly once Intel launched C2D. System memory & HDD space have gone up drastically over the last three years.

 

[Rebel44]

Originally posted by: Denithor
I think you should remove the "case window" and "lit up" questions - those are entirely cosmetic and really have no bearing on anything but personal taste.

I also think the GPU interface question could be pulled. I mean, seriously, if we're discussing "Uber" systems and someone responds AGP or PCI - they don't qualify to take the poll.

OK - I removed "case window" and "lit up" polls. GPU interface will stay.

 

[Blain]

Edited for diversity

 

[DSF]

Denithor, I think the idea is that the poll is uber, not necessarily the systems.

BTW, where are you from Rebel? I noticed the ,'s instead of .'s to mark decimals.

 

[JackMDS]

I would urge negative posters to cool it down.

There is No Negative, or content that should offend any one in such a poll.

The Topic is easy to see, so if One does not like it ignore it.

If No one is interested it would die on it own.

We have a very diverse population on this Forums and if some find the result of such poll interesting let it be.

 

[Rebel44]

Originally posted by: DSF
Denithor, I think the idea is that the poll is uber, not necessarily the systems.

BTW, where are you from Rebel? I noticed the ,'s instead of .'s to mark decimals.

I am from Czech Republic (EU) - when I post here or at hardforum I usually use .'s to mark decimals but sometimes I forget about this

 

[bob4432]

for hard drive interface, why not add sas?

 

[Rebel44]

Originally posted by: bob4432
for hard drive interface, why not add sas?

OK - I added option for SAS.

 

[Rebel44]

Asus P5B-E
Q6600 @3.11Ghz
8GB DDR2 800Mhz
HD4870 512MB
1.5TB Seagate, 2x 750GB Samsung, 320GB Seagate
24" Acer AL2423W
Stacker 831
Vista Home Premium 64bit

 

[Blain]

You should also add firewire levels to the poll.

 

[JackMDS]

Interesting.:light:

Thus far with 52 votes the outcome is what I would guess giving the nature of the members here.

The only surprise to me was that 30% have Hard Drive less than 500GB.:shocked:

Probably a result of years of wasting money on Raptors.:thumbsdown:

"Macho Geeks" should have by Now 1TB.

 

[eplebnista]

I'm still using basically the same self-built desktop rig from at least the second system poll.

a64 s939 winchester single core cpu w/ stock hsf
1gb dc pc3200
16x ide dvd burner
floppy drive
40gb ide hdd OS
120gb ide hdd Storage
nf4 mobo
nvidia 6600 pcie vc
56k modem
int sound
500w psu
ps2 kb/trackball
headphones
mid-tower case w/ 2 fans
winxp home 32b sp3
19" 4:3 lcd vga monitor
dsl lite
no DC projects since boinc became active

 

[yinan]

Poweredge Server

 

[ZetaEpyon]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Interesting.:light:

Thus far with 52 votes the outcome is what I would guess giving the nature of the members here.

The only surprise to me was that 30% have Hard Drive less than 500GB.:shocked:

Probably a result of years of wasting money on Raptors.:thumbsdown:

"Macho Geeks" should have by Now 1TB.

Not necessarily. I only have just over 500GB in my "main" system, as specified by the poll.
However, I also have a couple TB of available storage on my network.

 

[bobross419]

I'm surprised at how many categories I fall into the dominant vote group. Some of them I'm on the lower end of the spectrum (Half my drives are still IDE and stuff), but based on the number of "OMGZorZ I have 10k EU and w4nt to build the SuperComputer!1!!!11!1!1!" posts I see I really feel better about my little system than I did before

A category for video card strength might also be good, but with the number of video cards out there it might be difficult. Maybe you could break the categories down like this:

High End/Newest Generation
Medium/Newest Generation
Low End/Newest generation
High End/Last Generation
Medium/Last Generation
Low End/Last generation
High End/Older
Medium/Older
Low End/Older

Just an idea. Great job on all you've done. Way too much scrolling for my tastes though... *grumble*grumble* stupid laptop touchpad =p

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Interesting.:light:

Thus far with 52 votes the outcome is what I would guess giving the nature of the members here.

The only surprise to me was that 30% have Hard Drive less than 500GB.:shocked:

Probably a result of years of wasting money on Raptors.:thumbsdown:

"Macho Geeks" should have by Now 1TB.

I'm one of those money-wasters!

I'm happy with my raptor X local - and have plenty of network storage for the bigger files.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: rivan

I'm one of those money-wasters!

:thumbsup:

Some one needs to boost the economy in our consumer driven system.

 

[zerocool84]

E6300 1.8GHz @ 2.8GHz
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 w/bolt-through kit
Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3L
2 x 2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 6400
eVGA GeForce 9800GTX+
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB
Seagate 7200.10 500GB
LG L1933TR 19" 1280x1024
SAMSUNG SH-S223F DVD-R
The Speaker Company MM5.16 5.1 Speakers
Corsair TX650w
Antec 900
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

I guess I'm fairly mid-range with my system.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Blain
You should also add firewire levels to the poll.

guess you could also add sas2 haven't seen much 1394b, but i don't do much w/ 1394 so maybe that is why...

 

[Rebel44]

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Interesting.:light:

Thus far with 52 votes the outcome is what I would guess giving the nature of the members here.

The only surprise to me was that 30% have Hard Drive less than 500GB.:shocked:

Probably a result of years of wasting money on Raptors.:thumbsdown:

"Macho Geeks" should have by Now 1TB.

I'm one of those money-wasters!

I'm happy with my raptor X local - and have plenty of network storage for the bigger files.

Raptors are cheap compared to good SSDs ......

 

[Rebel44]

bump

 

[Denithor]

The results of these polls are actually fairly interesting, when you look back over the previous years.

Mods - can we post a link to this poll in the other hardware forums (CPU/GPU/Storage/etc) to get responses from people who don't read the General Hardware forum?