You should see my lab. It requires 3 desks, 9 comps and a custom NAS(in a 4u rack mount case.) I am currently in the market for a 4th desk. *dies*

Curious to what you use that setup for seeing mines overkill for average daily use and pushing a year old. Should snap a pic of my other computer desk in the basement one PC there is older than most the people on this site lol

I have a PC before steam was invented too, but it's rusting...I'm sure of that. I have the 4 Raspberry PIs for parallel programming and cluster work. My main comp for gaming one for video production and the rest for CCNA/MCSE work.
The gaming system is by itself connected to a combo 50in Plasma TV and Heater. Which I build specifically for Skyrim and mods. I am just a big nerd!

Nods cool. Well tried Skyrim on my laptop and 8FPS on the lowest settings and that provoked me to build a pc that would run Skyrim at its highest settings and them some lol.

Have 3 PCs that are preSteam had 4 but the 40 Mhz 386DX died a few years ago, though still have a 100 Mhz Pentium, an 733 Mhz Celeron, and a 1.67 Ghz AMD Athlon 2000XP just barely pre steam but it was built early 03.

WOW! Those ARE old skool. The last one I had that I still use it's skeleton as a night stand is an old CompaQ ML 370 G2 pedestal server.
That is exactly what I did for Skyrim. I started adding mods which started making the FPS drop just enough so I notice a stutter in certain high foliage areas. Now I'm in the market for a new video card which I may end up buying for my BDay in a few days. I am still undecided on wether I want to go nVidia or switch to ATI. I am leaning to stick with nVidia due to the fact my Adobe products use the CUDA cores, however, my video production system has an identical card as my main system(GTX 650 2GB). I can use BOTH premiere(and Photoshop) on that one if needed. Just not sure which ATI card or cards(for crossfire) to get. Any suggestions?

Well in you video mach why not put both GTX 650s in it an run them in SLI, while in your gaming rig make the jump to maybe a GTX 770 or higher, and if you have deep pockest go for the 700 series GTX Titan and have the best of the best in your gaming rig.

I wish I could. The tragedy with the 650s is they don't do SLI so I'd be setting one off to collect dust.
When it comes to my comps, my funds are almost unlimited(and that I don't have a GF to tell me no :P). But I can build another Skyrim comp for the price of those 2 Titan cards. I may get 2 from the 770 series. 700$ for a dual setup isn't too bad at all.

BtW, how do you like that Kingston HyperX SSD? I've heard some good about them from random reviews I've come across, but I have 2 Crucial M4 128GB SSDs. One in my main rig and the other in a MacBook Pro and they are wicked fast. Coming up on the second year of ownership. I upgraded the Mac with the SSD and also upgraded from 4GB to 8GB of RAM and the boot time went from 47sec down to 7sec. It's like a brand new machine.

Ah you have the base gtx650, was hoping they were the gtx650 Ti Boost those 650's do support SLI. Yeah the titans are quite expensive but they are the best of the best right now, the 770's are just a bit more powerful than the 670's.

My SSD has served me well so far, actually just put one in my grams pc as well its an older Dell with a Core 2 Quad, and it flies now, boots in 9 seconds, my desktop boots in like 7 seconds.

Mac? why on earth you own one of them, over priced & underpowered, I bought an iMac G4 (last Apple product I'm ever buying still have it)about the same time I built my AMD desktop, the AMD desktop cost 1/3 as much and was more powerful. The only reason they are more secure is because Apple holds such a small percentage of the personal computer market. I mean even after Apple jumped to Intel from the PowerPC cpus they are still over priced for what you get.

Typical Mac argument. :P The last one you bought was one of the last ones that sucked. The G series and prior comps were just terribly slow and underpowered. The new intel systems give regular Windows PCs a run for their money. While I still think they are expensive I wanted a laptop that I could carry round and be rough with and not have it fall apart. I have several laptops that have fallen apart within 2years. I've had this MacBook Pro for 4 years and still runs like it did on day one and had NO damage to it. Yes it cost me 2032$ USD, but I used to buy a 1000$ HP laptops every 2 yrs and so far it's equal in price since I have kept it for so long. I have also not had to replace any parts like they keyboard or HDD.(yes, I did swap out the HDD for an SDD, but the HDD did NOT need to be replaced). I don't have a Mac Pro or any other Apple products, only my 2 MacBook Pro laptops. I also may not buy any more of their laptops since they went a different direction with them by soldering in the RAM and making many parts irreplaceable. That was definitely bad for business.

The argument is still sound a $2000 PC will wipe the floor with a $2000 MAC, I once would have sworn by HP laptops I had a ZE4700(10 years old) that's still going strong my dad uses it now the only thing ever replaced on it was the battery which no shame in the original it lasted 6 years, this HP G72 has been nothing but a headache replaced the keyboard 3 times now and its going on 3 years old. My brothers Sony Viao laptop was a tough lil thing, had to replace the hdd twice but each time was my brothers fault, knock of your desk while on is gonna kill the hdd, it looks a bit worse for wear now after surviving college life, but still works like a champ, oh yeah just had to put a battery in it too but after 4 years no complaints and its was a $450 laptop my G72 was a $250 black Friday special, the ZE4700 was a $1100 laptop in 2004. The only reason I have that iMac is cause of my uncle , him and my autn both have MacBook pros, her has work like a champ, his has been service twice that I know of, so seems not all Macs are created equal either.

Very true and iMacs are shit. I think anything with an little "i" in front is shit. I don't have an iPad, iPod, iPhone because iDon'tGiveADamn about them :P
The MacBook Pros are solid when it comes to hardware and they use quality parts. They are also not more secure. That was the 'typical' part of the argument I was leaning toward. I am in network security and even though they're more secure than a typical Windows PC they have their own huge list of problems/vulnerabilities. They're not impervious. Same with Linux. If a Linux box gets compromised get ready for a command and control system for a botnet to come online. By no means am I a fanboy either. I use Windows, Mac and Linux OSes just for the mere fact that I work in network administration and security. Have to know how they all fair against the real world :) You should give backtrack linux a try. I think they rebranded it to Kali linux. One of the best penetration OSes out there.
Also very true about a 2K PC wiping the floor with a 2K Mac. This Summer I am going to build a 3500$ Workstation. I never built a monster before, just mid range gaming PCs. I am probably going to get another 4u rack mount server case to house it since I am going to need a custom cooling system for it and will need to be quite large. If I get another rack case I should probably think about getting a rack to hold them...oooo then I can get a few cisco rack routers. hmm, I am off to go look for some racks :D
This has been a great conversation. Been a while since I've talked to someone about computers that actually knows what they are talking about :)

My current computer is the most expensive one I built to date, If I would have had the money I would have went for more power, its overkill for a lot of what I use it for but its nice knowing that extra power is there when needed. The only true work station pc I've had was that 386dx I mentioned earlier, in its day is was insanely powerful Running at 40mhz with 8 Mb Ram 1 Mb Vram 2 120 MB HDDs and cd rom with 5.25 and 3,5 floppy drives, nowdays those specs are pitiful but in 89 it was insanely powerful and would set you back id say roughly 8k, a computer from where my dad worked and was used mostly for CAD and CAM work.

The only Linux I've used so far was RedHat, well guess you could count Lindows too. Wish I would have done more with my computer degree (Information Systems Support Technician) and wish now I would have gone to a 4 year school vs 2 basically all I don with it any more is repair computers from time to time, not an overly high demand for that anymore since most computers today are cheaper to replace than repair. Plus I got out of college about the same time as all the dot com crashes and made my degree even more useless at that time.\ since a lot of companies downsized heir IT staff.

So, what are the specs on your blinds?

Umm Walmart Mainstays Charcoal black, that need replaced lol

I see all my artwork on your screens ahahahah XD

Hehe yep whats can i say youre an awesome artist

How well does the Huion work? Planning on ordering one tomorrow so I can try animating better..using a mouse for all those years is starting to hurt. XD

It works surprisingly well, the only features it really lacks when compared to the Wacom Intuos Pros, is it don't have the pen tilt sensitivity, and it don't have an eraser nib on the top of the pen. For the price I have to say it's one of the best on the market. Make sure you get the H610 Pro, there is also just the H610, the h610 pro comes with a much lighter rechargeable pen, and is just a better tablet overall, but both are good for their prices.