What do you use that computing power for?

[RadiclDreamer]

+1 internets for anyone with the movie title

Lawnmower man, guys name was Jobe

 

[spacejamz]

Farmville

 

[Powermoloch]

pr0n

 

[dank69]

Solitaire

 

[amdhunter]

I don't. I spent a ton of money getting a new video card, motherboard 6 core AMD, 8GB RAM, just to play Portal 2. Now the computer sits off all the time doing nothing.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Addition and subtraction.

 

[ch33zw1z]

My rig is:

Q9550
Asus P5K
4x1GB Corsair PC-6400 4-4-4-12

Lots of hard drive space. Used for anything and everything except gaming. The most resource intensive task is video encoding.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I don't. I spent a ton of money getting a new video card, motherboard 6 core AMD, 8GB RAM, just to play Portal 2. Now the computer sits off all the time doing nothing.

<---FS/FT forum. Try it, you'll like it.

 

[DesiPower]

Most of "those" badly encoded flash videos can really give your CPU a beating, ones that do not offload properly, besides that most of "those" web pages will have multiple flash components and audio feeds, and then overworking of you firewall trying to protect you protect you against some of "those" sites. Also, you need a machine that can quickly recover from a browser crash, slow browser recovery can be very frustrating...

 

[JimmiG]

I use my computer to read about computers

 

[KaOTiK]

3D/Rendering, Video editing, games, porn, heater in the winter time

 

[Locut0s]

As you can see from the specs my system is kinda crazy. Embarrassingly I only use it for web browsing and movie/tv watching. Oh and distributed computing 24/7. However I do plan on doing some heavy gaming on it coming soon. And with the 30 in monitor I need something of a beast of a system to game at its native res. I'm even thinking of making a few upgrades down the road.

People have different priorities. I don't own a car and have few other expenses so my money goes to my computer.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Gaming. Nothing else taxes it at all. And I do not understand people who build an amazing computer only to waste it on distributed computing and browsing goddamn Facebook. But hey if you like throwing money away, be my guest.

I used to do folding before I realized how much it was increasing my electric bills.

Do you have any clue why people generally put their rigs in their sig?

E-peen comparison

If I post a question where my hardware might be relevant, I will post my specs. Otherwise, no.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

E-peen comparison

If I post a question where my hardware might be relevant, I will post my specs. Otherwise, no.

I post mine because when I'm in a thread discussing hardware, it is easier to say "Specs in sig" rather than post them all again. The rig in my sig is definitely not good enough to be in an e-peen contest.

 

[JeepinEd]

I run a BBS.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I run a BBS.

I am jealous of the rig in your sig. I took my "legacy" systems out of my sig: Commodore 128 w/1571 and an Amiga 2000. I think I'll add the Amiga back in a few minutes.

 

[secretanchitman]

a little bit of everything - gaming, web surfing, schoolwork, encoding, photo editing, the occasional video editing, benchmarking, etc.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Games, video and photo editing, pron, e-mail, web surfing...the usual stuff.

 

[Juked07]

Faster reboot

 

[Locut0s]

Gaming. Nothing else taxes it at all. And I do not understand people who build an amazing computer only to waste it on distributed computing and browsing goddamn Facebook. But hey if you like throwing money away, be my guest.

MEH to each his own. If you look at my post above you will see I said I don't have a lot of expenses and my computer is my entertainment. A couple of thousand every few years on your main / only entertainment or hobby isn't really that bad if you don't have many expenses.

Hmm.. now to add a 120gb vertex 3 to my rig.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I typically turn my PC off when I'm not using it these days. I switched to my Xbox 360 for gaming now that I have a 50" TV....(made a huge difference over my old display)

I've actually bought a QNAP NAS device with RAID1 that runs at 13watts for file hosting while my PC is off...so even less computing power!

 

[vshah]

to play the witcher 2 at medium settings :awe:

 

[Locut0s]

to play the witcher 2 at medium settings :awe:

If it weren't for your vid card you could run it at high settings. Nice quality components in your rig there for the most part but the vid card is a real bottleneck right now.

 

[vshah]

If it weren't for your vid card you could run it at high settings. Nice quality components in your rig there for the most part but the vid card is a real bottleneck right now.

yup, i built in in mid 2009 and Witcher 2 is the first game that has really given it any trouble.

 

[busydude]

I built my humble system mainly to play games. I am spending a fair amount of time on that now, and since building this rig last year purchased... ~30 games and finished most of them.