[PiccoloNamek]

Did some upgrades recently, performance is way better than my old i7-990x setup: https://valid.x86.fr/6nl6de

Certain tasks in Photoshop like the surface blur or copying and editing smart layers complete almost instantly instead of taking several seconds or even longer. Gained a huge amount of FPS in many games and scored almost 73,000 points in 3DMark2001SE just for fun.

CPU is running a little hot but not dangerously so. I'll still probably get a better cooler sometime this week, though.

Edit: Picked up a big Noctua cooler and temps are just fine now!

 

[Amberlamps]

Intel Z170, asus pro gamer mobo, intel i7 6700k cpu, 32GB corsair vengeance ram, samsung 850ssd, corsair something ssd, 2x ocz summit ssd's, corsair Ax1600i psu, nvidia 680 4gb evga crazy overclock version and about 20TB of prOn. corsair obsidian 800D case. Windows 10 corsair all in one watercooling.

I haven't used the above rig for the last 2 years, I've transitioned to an intel nuc

Intel i7 8559U BEH barebones nuc, Akasa Turin fanless case, 500gb samsung 870 evo plus m.2 ssd, corsair mp510 960GB M.2 ssd in external inclosure, some cheap ssd for roon backups, 32GB corsair vengeance ram, wifi and bt5 aerials which are extremely hard to connect, anker 10 usb 3 port powered hub. Windows 10.

My nuc is the best non gaming pc I've ever had, 100% silent unlike my old i7 6700K rig. I'd recommend a nuc for any budding audiophile, that and an ipad and you have the best roon experience fullstop.

 

[gimmeheadroom]

My nuc is the best non gaming pc I've ever had, 100% silent unlike my old i7 6700K rig. I'd recommend a nuc for any budding audiophile, that and an ipad and you have the best roon experience fullstop.

Does the NUC not have a fan at all? I have a Lenovo "tiny" box but the fan can be annoying even though it's small. I'd like to go totally fanless but the dedicated fanless rigs I saw were pretty expensive.

 

[Amberlamps]

Does the NUC not have a fan at all? I have a Lenovo "tiny" box but the fan can be annoying even though it's small. I'd like to go totally fanless but the dedicated fanless rigs I saw were pretty expensive.

In it's stock form, yes it comes with a fan, but I bought an Akasa Turing fanless case and transplanted the nuc in to that.

Now it's totally silent and runs pretty cool.

http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail.tpl&no=181&type=Fanless Chassis&type_sub=Fanless NUC&model=A-NUC45-M1B

£100 for the case.

Some more info.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13943/akasa-turing-passively-cooled-chassis-for-intel-bean-canyon-nuc

Also, the version I have is more powerful and better spec'd than a roon nuc, and only costs £800, but you could get it for £400 depending on the parts used.

It's basically exactly the same thing as the most expensive version of the Roon Nucleus that costs £2000+

The roon nucleus is just an intel nuc and roon rock OS.

 

[gimmeheadroom]

In it's stock form, yes it comes with a fan, but I bought an Akasa Turing fanless case and transplanted the nuc in to that.

Now it's totally silent and runs pretty cool.

http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail.tpl&no=181&type=Fanless Chassis&type_sub=Fanless NUC&model=A-NUC45-M1B

£100 for the case.

Some more info.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13943/akasa-turing-passively-cooled-chassis-for-intel-bean-canyon-nuc

Also, the version I have is more powerful and better spec'd and cost £800, but you could get it for £400 depending on the parts used and, it's exactly the same thing as the most expensive version of the Roon Nucleus that costs £2000+

All the roon nuc is, is an intel nuc and roon rock OS.

Yowza. That's not cheap. Did you measure the temps with the original case and this one?

 

[Amberlamps]

Yowza. That's not cheap. Did you measure the temps with the original case and this one?

Yes, depending on the speed of the cpu, it could idle at roughly 30oC and top out at nearly 100oC, that is in the stock case with a fan.

In the fanless case, idle speed can be mid 20s to mid 30's oC and top's out at about 80oC when turbo mode is enabled and with the cpu running at 4500mhz.

Usually, it never gets hotter than 35 - 40oC, thats with turbo mode disabled. This nuc gives my i7 6700K cpu a run for it's money and I now use my nuc as my day to day pc using windows 10.

 

[gimmeheadroom]

Yes, depending on the speed of the cpu, it could idle at roughly 30oC and top out at nearly 100oC, that is in the stock case with a fan.

In the fanless case, idle speed can be mid 20s to mid 30's oC and top's out at about 80oC when turbo mode is enabled and with the cpu running at 4500mhz.

Usually, it never gets hotter than 35 - 40oC, thats with turbo mode disabled. This nuc gives my i7 6700K cpu a run for it's money and I now use my nuc as my day to day pc using windows 10.

Thanks a lot. That's surprising! Maybe it's cheaper than a better fan

My local chain carries that brand. I will check if they have their cases in stock.

 

[Amberlamps]

Thanks a lot. That's surprising! Maybe it's cheaper than a better fan

My local chain carries that brand. I will check if they have their cases in stock.

It's basically just one ( technically two ) big lump of aluminium, excellent for fast heat dissipation.

Very heavy for it's size, but it can be mounted vertically or horizontally.

The only thing thats tricky is getting new wifi and bluetooth 5 aerials attached to the nuc's motherboard, but it can be done.

 

[gimmeheadroom]

It's basically just one ( technically two ) big lump of aluminium, excellent for fast heat dissipation.

Very heavy for it's size, but it can be mounted vertically or horizontally.

The only thing thats tricky is getting new wifi and bluetooth 5 aerials attached to the nuc's motherboard, but it can be done.

I'm running my boxes on ethernet but this is good to know. Thanks for the help with this!

 

[Sebastiaan156]

Pc is designed for gaming, surfice pro for all else

My pc is a little old lady:

Mbo: MSI Mpower z97
Cpu: Intel I7 4790k (4.8 GHz 1.3v)
Ram: G.skill DDR3 2400mhz 10-10-10
Gpu's: MSI 980ti oc edition X2 in sli (1300 mhz)
SSD:. Multiple ssd's for 2tb of space
Sound card: Creatieve ZxR (love this one)

Cooling the cpu with an EK costum loop kit with thick 280 rad.

Case is a Corsair obsidian 700 with a Corsair psu Rm 850w

Input:
Corsair k70 RGB silent
Logitech g502 wireless
Xbox one elite controler and PS4 controller
Trust master rs500 race wheel

Screens:
- 4k het 42 inch phillips tv with ambilight linked with Phillips heu lights
- Dell ultra Sharp 27 inch 2560*1440 ips

Sound still my old poor Phillips fidelio X1 as i cant part from her.

 

[alex9090]

My current setup is composed of:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 1600
Motherboard: Asus B350M Mortar
RAM: 16 GB RAM GEIL EVO X DDR4
GPU: R7 260X (desperately asking to be replaced)
PSU: Silverstone 600W
Case: Deepcool Pangu
And for storage 2 SSDs put in RAID 0 and around 2 TB of hard drives.
Overall a decent PC, but it started showing its age and at least the GPU lacks any modern performance in gaming (besides gaming in like CSGO or old school games)
Unfortunately I'm not able to take a picture because the PC is quite dusty, but I will update it when everything is a little clean.

 

[edoin]

My Potato Rig:

CPU: AMD FX-6300
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme 4
RAM: 16GB DDR3-1866 Kingston HyperX
GPU: PowerColor HD7870XT Myst
PSU: Seasonic S12II 520W 80+ Bronze
Case: Bitfenix Shinobi Window
SSD: 500GB Sandisk SSD Ultra
HDD: 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue
Monitor: 19" Samsung SF350 (1366x768)
Cooler: ID Cooling Frostflow 120

 

[tdockweiler]

I probably hold the record here for the least powerful PC.
It's really only for web browsing, office apps, video encoding and no games.
I'm perfectly happy with it and it never feels slow to me. I stopped caring about computers long ago!
I can encode from 1080p to 480 DVD in about 40-45 minutes. Not too bad I guess.
I upgraded from a Q6600 and motherboard that didn't even support USB 3.0!

Intel Core i3-6100
MSI Z170-A Pro (Skylake)
Crucial 8gb DDR4 1066mhz
Onboard video AND sound (!!)

Samsung 850 EVO 256gb (Main. I basically use only 4-5 apps).
Seagate 2TB Raid 1
5tb Seagate Backup Plus drive (SMR..worst drive I ever bought!)
8tb Western Digital Easystore (Red NAS inside!! Love this HD.)
2tb Western Digital Green

Longest use i've gotten out of a PC part is my Dell 24" display. No HDMI, just DVI but default resolution is 1920x1200.
I've seen similar 24" displays at local stores and they only seem to go up to 1080p. Wonder why. I guess my monitor is weird.

I really miss having a dual display setup.

PS Next upgrade might be an M2 drive, but I don't know if i'll notice any improvements really. I know it's a lot better on paper..

 

[Kukuk]

"I'm never going to buy an RTX 2080ti" I said.

"It's too expensive for the performance uplift from a 1080ti. Raytracing isn't going to take off any time soon. I don't need the extra features"

Also me:

I liked how it looked better before, with the video card in one of the lower slots and the sound card above it, but the 2080ti just wasn't getting enough air flow. The 1080ti was fine down there, but the 2080ti puts out significantly more heat.

I've made some small tweaks to my computer since the last time I posted here, but it's largely unchanged, outside the video card.

AMD Threadripper 2950x OC'd to 4ghz
Gigabyte Designare EX X399
32GB DDR4-3000 in quad channel
EVGA RTX 2080ti
2x 512GB NVMe SSDs, 1x 480GB SATA SSD, 1x 6TB HDD
900w PSU

Interestingly, when I first bought this PSU it was so far above overkill it wasn't even funny. Now the PSU merely has "some extra headroom".

 

[Voxata]

This has been my secondary/LAN rig and it has performed very well. Just recently had to pull it apart to extract a dead onboard Wifi card so I took some pictures and upgraded that in the process.

Specs:
9700K Delidded w/Copper IHS Upgrade + Black Ridge HSF V2 (65C Max)
G.Skill 16GB 3600Mhz C16 (B-Side w/heatsinks removed)
Asrock Phantom Z390i
Asus GTX 1070Ti Strixx w/fan shroud removed and SanAce fans attached (games at 50-55C dead silent)
960 Evo 250+500GB+1TB Samsung 850 Evo
Sliger SM560 Case, Corsair SF650 PSU