PCs per household

How many PCs are in your house and what are they used for? I've got 4, a gamer, a media server, a general use 'family' PC, and an old Pentium 3, which just sits in the closet cos it was my first PC.

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Permalink Reply by r0lfi on August 24, 2009 at 3:48am: Hello people :-)

This is my setup atm in my house.

Main PC:

Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz@4200MHz
EVGA 132-BL-E758 mainboard
OCZ DDR3 PC3-16000 2000MHz Platinum 6GB
ATI Radeon HD 2x 4890 Series
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Media PC:

THERMALTAKE DH102 DigitalHome
Asus P5K
4GB Geil minne
250GB WD
SONY Blu-Ray Rom Reader
ASUS VGA-Card Radeon HD4670 1024MB
Windows Vista ultimate 64bit
XBMC

Laptop:
Aspire one 751

File Server:

Asus P5K
2X 1TB WD
2X 250GB WD
2X 400GB WD
4GB Geil minne
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Permalink Reply by John Casper on August 24, 2009 at 3:55am: 6 drives on your media?? Whoa. That's quite a bit of heat, bro. You might wanna retire those 'lower capacity' drives and replace them so you're not using up so much power, thus reducing heat.. Heat is the number one enemy to a drive. I personally use 2 1TB USB drives, but one's solely for backups and gets stored in my safe. What would someone use with so much data? :P; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by r0lfi on August 24, 2009 at 5:27am: Well, I got 2 fans on the hard drives, so they are around 21-31 degrees. I will change out the small disk and put in TB hard drives, soon.

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Permalink Reply by John Casper on August 24, 2009 at 7:16am: Ah. Smart idea. I've got most of my drives in 'hot swappable' drives, so they have fans on them and the bay containers keep them pretty cool (90F). Can't wait for SSD's to be reasonably priced tho.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by r0lfi on August 24, 2009 at 8:46am: Yes, can't wait for that to. Less noise and heath:-); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Casper on August 24, 2009 at 8:48am: Yessir. Most dead drives result from a dead motor. Not a dead circuit board. Eliminate the motors, and you end up with one helluva quick drive that's hard as h*ll to kill. Win Win.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Casper on August 24, 2009 at 4:15am: My toaster specs: Shuttle SG31G2 'barebone mini pc', Intel Dual Core Wolfdale E8400 (OC @ 2x3.16gHz), GeForce 8800 GS, OCZ nVidia SLI DDR2 (4 gigs), 250 GB Pata WD Caviar drive, 500 GB Sata WD, Sony DVD +/- RW, Win7 x64 build 7100
general PC: Gateway LX6200, AMD Phenom X4 processor, ATI Radeon HD 3200, 8GB DDR2@800mHz, 750GB Sata 1 TB Sata, Blu-Ray Super-Multi RW, Windows Vista Home Premium x64
Media Server:Emachines, AMD single 1.6, GeForce 4200Ti (AGP) & GeForce 5200 (PCI), 1024 MB (2x512 DDR), 40 GB WD Caviar to boot Win XP Pro, 1 TB drive for mixed media content
P3, custom build, AMD Athlon Thunderbird processor (1.00gHz), GeForce 4200Ti (AGP), 1 GB ram (2x256, 1x512), 30 GB Quantum Fireball drive for Linux, 40 GB partitioned 2x, 20 gigs for Win XP, 20 gigs for Win2k.
Crazy how I can recall all of this without peeking at anything lol; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Adam Spinachless on August 24, 2009 at 3:56pm: -I have a laptop for watching things when I run and other laptopy things.
-An old Alienware for torrents, IM clients, media server, backup machine, that I remote desktop into from other machines.
-Vigor PC I won for gaming/graphics work. I have a monitor shared between the 2 desktops in case I can't remote in for some reason.

The Alienware stays on all the time and is pretty quiet. Vigor is only on when I need it.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Roki1997 on September 1, 2009 at 12:39pm: Belive it or not we have 9 PC's

1.My Gaming PC
2.My sisters PC
3.My brothers PC
4.Download Server
5.Storage Server
6.Laptop (old HP my brothers)
7.Laptop mine
8.Testing PC (Viruses,Malware,Security...)
9.Security PC Cameras around our house about 7 of them 1 is inactive
10.Media Center Server
11.Overclocking PC
12.Network PC (Checking,Connecting...)

Pretty much heh ;); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Casper on September 1, 2009 at 6:40pm: So many PCs with different functions.. I think I'd kill myself. I just got rid of my media server, so it's just my toaster and gateway. :D; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Johannes S. on September 1, 2009 at 12:47pm: Ohh, way too many to count.
I'd estimate around 10 (+/- 3). But I can't name them all.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dave Hufstader on September 17, 2009 at 12:37pm: gaming machine(i7 920), work machine(AMD 3800), storage/download machine(amd 3000), laptop(inspiron 9100), Company laptop, as welll as my old P3 tower sitting in a closet (works fine, just no use for it) and an old IBM thinkpad that works, but has no battery.; ▶ Reply to This