An overview of all the computing tools I currently employ for projects
and for play as well. My philosophy regarding computers or technology in
general is not having the most powerfull tool in the shed - I find more
joy in re-speccing old gear for modern usage.

Some aspects I don't mind having the best of the best, like guitars or where
performance really matters (like cars or some electronics) - the bliss of squeezing
every bit of power you can from a more weathered machine is absolutely fantastic.

Hardware

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PrimeZuko:

What started as a hand me down PC case and PSU from my little brother turned
into pretty much a full PC lol.

This my daily driver, I mainly use to program, techie stuff or browse the
youtubez - I occasionally game on this if I feel like it. Mostly used for
research purposes, some programming here and there and trading ideas.

I recently upgraded my GPU to a RX 580, it's been a week. Just waiting to see
if there are any kinks running normal, I might decide to overclock it, not really
sure. Also upgraded to an I7-6700K coming used from ebay. Once I tasted how quick
i7s' were compared to everything else, I could not go back. I was thinking of getting
the 7xxxK series but after some research, there wasn't really a big gap in performance
between them so I settled for the 6700k.

[WIP] no real ideas so far, maybe more RAM or SSD.

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SerenityPrime:

This was my main daily driver last year, it was a christmas present from my sister.
I mainly use this as a backup, a file server, media player & computational
projects that I want to offload. I also sometimes use it as a private game server.

I chose the Quadro P400 as a GPU because if I ever want to encode videos, this has a
pretty modern version of NVENC compared to the other GPUs' that I have laying around
and this was a steal.

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zeeee-HP3115mm:

I mainly use this to play around the ArchLinux environment where my future progression
with it is to use for cybersec fun. I use pacman for managing applications, Alacritty
for terminal l33tness and bash as a shell. This machine used to be controlled by a virtual
KVM but I ended up switching to an analog one because the program, Barrier, seems to be broken
or a newer version is in the repo while the windows version is a slightly older build.

This laptop, while I don't want it to happen, is my throwaway gear since I'll be trying
to pull off some dubious stuff on this LOL.

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More to come as I am working on bringing back 2 ASUS computers and some sort of
Rasperberry project.

Archive:

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S1l1c0nT0r:

This was a birthday present from my sister but I've been out of the loop
in regards to hardware for years, I remember this Optiplex because there
was a year where everyone was buying this for budget gaming builds.

This my daily driver, I mainly use to program, techie stuff or browse the
youtubez - I occasionally game on this if I feel like it. Mostly used for
research purposes and trading ideas. I feel like there a 1 millisecond lag
doing stuff but I feel like it's more of a Windows 11 problem than a computer
problem because if I reinstall Windows 7 or Arch on this, performance would not
be an issue.

I use Windows Terminal, VSCode, and Office Suite 97 mostly on this. I run
Google Chrome as my main browser as well so I don't have to worry about
syncing my stuff and I faily use Google tools alot. I am now using the Scoop
package manager mostly. I also use this for work sometimes but I might but
a laptop for that as I tend to reset my computer and I don't want to have to
call my IT guy every month or so LOL.

As well, I have a couple of mechanical keyboard and mice that I switch around
whenever I feel like but I only use mechanical keyboard and gaming mices. I'm
a firm believer of tactile responses and muscle memory so I tend to use the
same tools over and over again.

[WIP] ideas for upgrade are NVME adapter, CPU cooling, case mod,
updated PSU and Rx 6400 low profile GPU (final upgrade).

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m@1nfr@m3:

This was my main daily driver for years, also the first PC I bought and built
myself. I mainly use this as a backup, a file server, media player & computational
projects that I want to offload. I also sometimes use it as a private game server.

I mostly played PC games on this LOL or web stuff, not a lot of technical stuff as I
always had a spare computer running where I was doing my projects. I feel like I didn't
do as much technical stuff with this PC but I was probably wrong, I just can't remember
what I used to do on this, some programming maybe?

Oh music stuff, I was really heavy into music production when this was my daily driver.

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