Picture of my main setup. Don’t worry. I tested the shelf. It’s solid haha
Edit: keyboard is Corsair and mouse is Logitech 960? (I believe it was 960 haha. With the wireless charging mouse pad because why not? 
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And the wall ac unit for maximum cooling efficiency!!! kidding. It doesn’t actually work anymore haha.
It fits the theme 
Thought I would revive this topic:
Recently Win10 was causing a lot of RAM useage and was very slow to open software (and I could hear all my harddrives doing what I would guess was indexing work). Every 3 or so hours…
Fixes/Workarrounds:
- Disable/reduce page file - I set it to 500MB
- Disable superfetch - NOT prefetch!
-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Policies NtfsDisableCompression= 1 -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management ClearPageFileAtShutDown= 1
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My PC consists of:
Ryzen R5 3600
Ripjaws 16GB DDR4 3200MHz
MSI B450 Gaming plus MAX
Gigabyte Windforce OC RTX2060
All thrown in a Fractal Design Meshify C.
My most recent addition though is my new monitor, an LG GL83A-B. I’m really loving that monitor.
I just to run a dual-boot with Windows and Linux, but it’s just a bit of a pain in the ass. Now I hook up my peripherals to my laptop when I need to work.
mine is a lenovo flex 14 with a ryzen 5 3500U with vega graphics, 6 gigs of ram (upgrading that to at least 8 in the future)
a 2TB intel 660p i installed in, and windows 10… i am interested in using linux but there is no real audiophile players and exclusive mode stuff on linux… nothing like wasapi and no bitperfect things
Linux is good for:
- Real time
- Massively paralel
- Not having all the security holes
- being efficent
- programming
Linux is meh at best for:
- audio
- photo editing (allthough it is getting better and better)
On Linux, you don’t need exclusive modes or other hacks for the reason of the kernel not being shit 
Edit: If you have big projects in Blender you want to render, do that in Linux for an extra 15 to 30% performance boost (yes, really).
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Parts List
- AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor
- Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB Video Card with EVGA Hybrid Liquid Cooling kit
- Corsair H100i RGB PLATINUM SE 63 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
- G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory
- ADATA XPG SX6000 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive
- ADATA Ultimate SU800 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive
- Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case
- Corsair 760 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
- 2 x Corsair LL120RGB LED (Three Fans With Lighting Node PRO) 43.25 CFM 120 mm Fans
- Corsair Fan Controller Commander Pro (CL-9011110-WW)
- 2 x Samsung LC27JG50QQNZA 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor
- Corsair STRAFE RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard
- Corsair Sabre RGB Wired Optical Mouse
Just wanted to share my pride and joy! 
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I’m waiting for more info on the Zen 3 based Ryzen APU’s. then I will look to upgrade.
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IF, like, BIG IF AMD manages to squeeze the XboxSeriesX (or XboSeX for short) into AM4, AMD just wins.
I rarely wait on things to upgrade, there is always something better around the corner.
I guess I did wait for a 3900X, because I wanted the 12 cores.
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And it costs 25% less.
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I hope my desktop PC doesn’t have emotions, because it will probably feel inadequate for simply displaying this thread 
. Actually, even though it’s now ancient, it’s been quite a champ. It still gave me very playable framerates on Doom Eternal on 1080p and high. Most of this stuff I bought somewhere in the 2008-11 timeframe. The CPU, mobo, and half the RAM were bought in July 2011 for sure. I’m amazed at how we’ll they’ve held up. The GPU and SSD are the newest parts and I got them in 2016. If I ever stop buying audio gear, maybe I’ll have money for a computer upgrade. Specs:
Core i5-2500k
Asus P8P67 Mobo
4x 4 GB Corsair RAM
Asus GTX 970 4Gb
Samsung 500Gb SSD
WD 1 TB 7200 rpm HDD
Seagate external 3TB HDD
LG Blu-Ray and HD DVD drive
Corsair 850 watt PSU
Cooler Master case that’s at least 12 years old and I don’t remember the model. Great shape though.
I also have a Surface Pro 4 that’s a Core i7, 16GB RAM, and 256GB SSD. I also dropped an extra 256 GB of memory in its microUSB slot. FLAC files aren’t small…
I was given a MacBook Pro for work for awhile. I believe it was a 2012 model. IMO, Mac is some seriously overrated stuff. It started going to crap after 2 years.
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Apart from the CPU being ancient, that is a perfectly capable machine.
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the mobile versions are already out and laying the smakdown on Intel. time will tell if we get a desktop version soon or whether companies deploy the mobile units to fill that space.
The CPU is the bottleneck for sure, on the one or two programs where it can be a bottleneck. I’m mostly amazed that it’s 9 years old and still ticking. I had 3 or 4 builds before this PC and they never lasted more than about 2 years. Somewhere around 2009 I was tired of spending $500 every few months (was a college student most of those years) to fix my computer and thought it was possibly my bargain-basement PSUs doing the damage. So I spent good money on that Corsair PSU. It’s still in there and I credit it for prolonging the life of the stuff inside - which may not be accurate - but still, the mobo, cpu, and ram have at minimum tripled the life of any other like components I’ve had.
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It probably is on the PSU.
The less ripple and V-droop it causes, the less the VRMs on the mobo/GPU are stressed, increasing life time.
Intel’s first 4 generations of core ix hold up really well. Aside from multithreaded applications, you don’t get huge gains from more recent releases. That’s why AMD absolutely destroys them now (though I have separate concerns about that). Even the jump from Zen+ to Zen2 is bigger than the jump from the ix-4000 to the ix-9000. Having bought a 2700x 2 years ago you can imagine how that irritates me.
Ever wondered how much stuff you can fit on an ITX sized mainboard?
https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=X570D4I-2T#Specifications
