Your rig is a bit intimidating to others.

I have a Asus laptop, it is an i5 something something with a nvidia 740m card.
I also have a Nintendo 3DS XL, great machine even  with a vertical resolution of 240 pixels xD. (Adicted to animal crossing at the moment)

I have and AMD APU 5800K, 8GB DDR3 RAM, Nvidia 560ti, need a cpu upgrade rather badly.

I regret buying my Alienware... I wish I had built mine, but I was afraid I'd break it and have wasted $4000 so I hadn't. I have built several computers since then, and have full confidence in building another, when my Alienware becomes obsolete.

Primary Rig Specs:
i7 3930k Hexcore 3.8ghz stock.
16GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600mhz
Nvidia GTX 690 4GB GDDR5 VRAM - Nvidia 3.25 driver.
(Unknown Powersupply - 1200 watts I believe)
Corsair liquid cooling
2TB + 120GB hard drives. (Not an SSD unfortunately)
Alienware Aurora R4 case.

Arch Linux MATE and Linux Mint 15 MATE OS
(Windows 7 is broken at the time of writing this)


Secondary Rig: (needs repairs sort of; I get bad hardware components often)
AMD FX-6100
4GB DDR3 RAM @ 1333mhz
Nvidia GeForce 8400GS 1GB GDDR3 VRAM - Nvidia 3.25 driver
(broken hard drive or motherboard. Was a 500GB WD Blue)
stock AMD heatsink
CX 400 Corsair Powersupply.
Black Case with a handle

Arch Linux OS KDE and maybe PC-BSD soon.

I also got a laptop a couple of days ago:

17.3 inch HP Pavillion
AMD A8-5550M APU
4GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600mhz
AMD RADEON 8550G
Running on Windows 8 (likely to be removed) and Ubuntu Linux Unity 13.10

Now that my proper gaming machine is up, I can post here:

Distribution: Arch Linux
Graphics Driver: R600 Gallium3D Driver
Desktop Environment: Xfce with compositing
Motherboard: MSI 760GM-E51(FX)
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE 3.2 Ghz
Video Card: Diamond AMD Radeon HD 4670
Memory: 4 Gigabytes DDR3 PC10666, 1333 MHz
Boot Drive: 500 GB Western Digital Caviar Black

They are having troubles with the serial number of my RMA, so I decided I should just do what I had wanted to do for awhile and buy for myself a separate high-performance boot drive. When my replacement 2 TB Western Digital Caviar Green drive does finally show up I will make it my drive for long-term data storage.

I also keep an updated list of this on my icculus.org profile:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/

Here are my specs :)



PC:

ASUS P8Z77-V LE, Intel Z77 Mainboard - Sockel 1155
Intel Core i7 3770K @ 4,5GHZ
Prolimatech Armageddon "Night Edition"
32 GB DDR3-1600 Corsair
Gainward Geforce Phantom 670GTX
2 TB HDD Seagate and 128GB Samsung 830 Pro SSD
Fractal Design Define R4 Black Pearl
Seasonic X-660 Gold Modular Power Supply

Linux Mint 15 (probably switching to opensuse or arch soon :> )


Laptop:

Dell Vostro 3460
Intel Core i5-3210M
6GB DDR3 1600 MHz
500 GB HDD

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

32GB Corsair RAM, I like that. Vengeance Pro or Dominator Platinum? They're both awesome.

Allright, being an "energy- & price-efficiency > brute power" guy:

• Mobo: Gigabyte 990XA-UD3


• CPU:   AMD Phenom II X4 960-T (hopefully with 2 more unlockable cores)


• Video: Sapphire Radeon HD6670 Ultimate 1GB GDDR5 (the fastest passively cooled one back then)


• Memory: 2x2GB Kingston reallyrandomramwhogivesacrap


• Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16MB Cache


• PSU: Super Flower Golden King 500W 80Plus Platinum (awesome)


• Cooling: Corsair H100i + 2 Noctua NF-P12 PWM fans (awesomner)


• Case: CoolerMaster Cosmos II (awesomnest) (ridiculous given the specs right now, I know)


• OS: Chakra Project

Power usage 75W (idle) - 130W + (load)
Barely audible, even under load
Still below the 1000€ price level (I think)

Next buys:

• Additional 4GB RAM


• Some 64GB SSD for /

Cool Question!

I'm trying to get in to Linux gaming right now but I need recommendations on PCIe (Gen 2) sound cards!  I don't have a sound card in my box so if you have any low wattage recommendations, that are supported in Linux, please make them.  My system can only handle about 15 to 25 watts max on the card slot.


Here is what I have:
- Dell T-410 server running a single Xenon Nehalem Quad Core processor at 2.8GHz and 32GB of RAM.
- By February, I'll be running two 6 Core Gulftowns in the system, for a max of 12 Cores and 64GB of RAM.


I use the system for everything from learning enterprise system administration, to doing Google+ Hangouts on Air, and am now adding gaming!  I'm looking at all different types of games from standalone to server, because I could host with the hardware that I have.  I hope to try out Steam, and many other games.

Sincerely,
Thomas

My current rig was built as a right-the-hell-now replacement for my aging HP with a Pentium 4 in it and includes a replacement for my shitty 14" 1024x768 monitor which actually cost more than the whole computer.

I like naming them after fictional planets and have dubbed it Bajor:

CPU:  AMD A10-6800K 4.1GHz Quad-Core Processor  (Purchased For $143.98) 
Motherboard:  MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 Micro ATX FM2 Motherboard  (Purchased For $56.00) 
Memory:  G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory  (Purchased For $62.99) 
Case:  Xion XON-720P_RD MicroATX Slim Case w/300W Power Supply  (Purchased For $39.99) 
Optical Drive:  LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer  (Purchased For $25.93) 
OS: Ubuntu Linux 13.04 ($0.00)
Monitor: Monoprice 27" IPS-ZERO-G Slim Monitor WQHD 2560x1440 - Dual Link DVI, VGA (Purchased For $412.07)
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
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I am deciding now if I want to improve on Bajor or if I want to go ahead and build Qo'noS which is considerably bigger and meaner.

I think it was this kit:
Corsair 32gb kit

Quoting: Quote from Caldazar32GB Corsair RAM, I like that. Vengeance Pro or Dominator Platinum? They're both awesome.

Cool to see everyone's rigs. Anyone getting the Prodigy M? I know I am!