How many PCs do you own?

[silentbogo]

My number varies month to month, but at least the ones I use all the time:
* Primary rig
* Office rig
* 2 Home servers (NAS and remote workstation)
* mail server
* Security appliance I've built as a backup to our DVR (makes it easier to access cameras remotely, without relying on shady cloud services)
That's not counting half-a-dozen old PCs collecting dust in my closet or in the office, or laptops, or assortment of random mini-PCs and cheap servers needed for some temporary stuff.

 

[micropage7]

1 PC
1 main laptop
2 laptops in the box

One is enough for me. Work laptop was issued by the company so I don't own it.

office laptop? too bad, you should own something

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Seems enthusiast can also mean collector.
I have two main PC's, my signature rig and a backup/test rig, two laptops ,a win 10 tablet.
And two PC in bits on they're way to completion with a couple that should be in the bin but we'll one's a q6600 ,you can't throw that out it works, slowly but still.

 

[Chomiq]

office laptop? too bad, you should own something

Read it again, I only own my desktop PC. Office laptop doesn't count into this.

 

[dirtyferret]

don't really understand why people are arguing over work vs home PCs, laptops vs desktops, etc., or the point of the question but...

my PC
wife's PC
laptop

I had a 4th PC that was my at home work PC but A) during the pandemic shutdown I ended up doing more work on my gaming PC and B) my mom needed a new computer.

I personally (no pun intended) do NOT consider my laptop a "PC" but I do consider it a "personal computer". The difference? My "PC" sits in a large case on the floor and has a full sized keyboard and mouse, two 24" monitors, multiple internally mounted drives, and an attached full surround sound speaker system connected to my network via Ethernet cable. And it is all powered through a UPS connected to a 115VAC wall outlet. Plus, my "PC" easily "evolves" over many years by supporting nearly unlimited, "industry standard" compliant upgrades.

Out of curiosity what would you consider an all in one like an imac or one of it's knock offs from Acer, Dell, HP, etc.,?

 

[Hugis]

saw the title and thought How Many Mics - YouTube


In total about 4(can be more testing) Core2 and Haswell systems

Reading this further ,I have 4 max in use(me,missus,lappy,tester) this is a family of 2 btw.....(DT=4770k+DT4770k+Lappy(i5)+/Q-QX-xxxx)

 

[Frick]

* mail server

Is this just for storage or do you roll your own mailserver completely? If yes, that's pretty hardcore these days.

 

[Bill_Bright]

I see many people write test PC's. Are those for testing hardware components of software? I'm curious.

Yes.

But also I may open a suspicious or unknown program or file on my test machine to see what it does (or make sure it is "clean") before I try it on my primary systems.

 

[silentbogo]

Is this just for storage or do you roll your own mailserver completely? If yes, that's pretty hardcore these days.

It's an actual mail server (running a very old Kerio Connect Server on top of Ubuntu 16.04). Basically a work-related cluster#$ck, which caused lots of headaches over the past 4-5 years.
Tried to talk my boss into moving it to the cloud (e.g. google business suite or at least renting a VPS or a dedicated server), but the furthest I've gotten to any progress is physically moving it to my house, so it won't be stuck on 2Mbit/s DSL at the main office.

 

[purecain]

Main rig
Secondary Rig
Rig in Parts
Main Notebook
Secondary Notebook

 

[phill]

Can I just say more than 5?

I know I was counting up my boxed and fully functional motherboards the other day, that number was 60...... I'm not wishing to say anything more because people will think I'm even more crazy than I already am..... I can't ruin my rep!!

 

[biffzinker]

Can I just say more than 5?

I know I was counting up my boxed and fully functional motherboards the other day, that number was 60...... I'm not wishing to say anything more because people will think I'm even more crazy than I already am..... I can't ruin my rep!!

I was just thinking of the potential towards crunching with 60 boards. Another fun project would be building a cluster for something such as CPU 3D rendering farm.

 

[toname]

Too many.

"Hi, I'm sam_86314, and I'm a computeroholic."

Desktops:
Main PC (R5 2600X, 32GB DDR4, GTX 1070)
Spare PC (HP Pavilion 500) (i3-4150, 8GB DDR3, RX 460)
Media server (Dell Optiplex 780) (i5-2400S, 32GB DDR3, 8x3TB HDDs)
3D Printer PC (Mac Mini 2009 running Windows 10) (C2D P7350, 4GB DDR3, GeForce 9400M)
First PC I remember using (HP Pavilion a1250n) (Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 2GB DDR, Radeon X1950 Pro)
HTPC (Lenovo ThinkCentre) (C2D E8600, 4GB DDR2, R5 220)
Main PC in late 2015 (HP Compaq DC5800) (C2Q Q9550, 8GB DDR2)
mATX H87 PC (i3-4130)
Small form factor H55 build (Xeon X3470, 6GB DDR3, GTX 480)
Small form factor QM67 build (i3-2120M)
Acer Aspire 603G (Celeron J1900)
Three HP Deskmini 800 G2s, one of which is being used for parts (i5-6500T, 8GB DDR4)

Laptops:
Main Laptop (HP EliteBook Revolve 810 G2) (i5-4310U, 8GB DDR3)
Powerful Laptop (Clevo W650KK1) (i5-6500T, 16GB DDR4, GTX 1050 Ti)
Old Laptop 1 (Toshiba Satellite P55W-C5200X) (i5-5200U)
Old laptop 2 (HP G62) (Athlon II P340, 4GB DDR3)
Cheap Laptop (HP Stream 11) (Celeron N3060, 4GB DDR3)
Netbook (HP Mini 200) (Atom N455, 2GB DDR3)
Two more ancient laptops under my bed

That's not counting ones that I keep in my family's shed.

Also my old PC (i7-2600K, 16GB DDR3, GTX 780) which is at another family member's house.

People like you...and so many others in this thread. With so many PCs and other devices. You can qualify as a small business and possibly write some off as a business expense.

It's an actual mail server (running a very old Kerio Connect Server on top of Ubuntu 16.04). Basically a work-related cluster#$ck, which caused lots of headaches over the past 4-5 years.
Tried to talk my boss into moving it to the cloud (e.g. google business suite or at least renting a VPS or a dedicated server), but the furthest I've gotten to any progress is physically moving it to my house, so it won't be stuck on 2Mbit/s DSL at the main office.

It's funny how most home internet connections run faster than most companies one.

 

[silentbogo]

It's funny how most home internet connections run faster than most companies one.

In Ukraine it's not really a problem. Most ISPs offer SMB plans up to 1G/1G w/ static ext. IP at reasonable prices.
Our issue is the building's owner. He does not allow ISPs to do work inside the building, so our only option is DSL. I've added an LTE modem w/ outdoor MIMO 2x2 antenna, but we still have DSL for another server, and as a fallback in case LTE fails.

 

[phill]

I was just thinking of the potential towards crunching with 60 boards. Another fun project would be building a cluster for something such as CPU 3D rendering farm.

I have a few servers with high core counts and I'm looking to swap out all of my 8C 16T Ryzen's with 16C 32T Ryzens instead I've a few other Intel systems but they are with my mate over in the US at the moment, they'll be getting shipped over at some point I think the new core count/thread count will be rather up there... The Ryzen's are amazing multi thread workers, they are amazing and the power consumption is brilliant. I just need to make sure I have the right cooling for them, tweak the volts and away we go

I think the main issue I have right now for bottlenecks is my internet which sucks and then my 1Gbps network, which when I move, will be upgraded to a 10Gbps network Gotta do it right, don't half arse something, well, ever

 

[theeldest]

3 gaming computers (2x 6950s, 1070, 1080)
1 chromebook
1 laptop
8 Raspberry PIs (2 on 3d printers, 1 on electronics workbench, 5 in a turing pi cluster)
1 mini pc (intel pentium)
1 NUC
1 Nvidia Jetson Nano for inference play thing
1 dual socket xeon v4 workstation
1 atom c3000 8-core 1U router
1 dual socket xeon v4 rackmount server for plex, home assistant, pi hole, VMs, etc
3 dual socket xeon v2 rackmounts for kubernetes testing

So ... 22 computers? I have a couple more PIs on order, will probably get a Macbook 16" when they release with the ARM chips. Looking at the newer NVidia Jetson Xavier NX systems too for significantly better AI performance.

Just remembered, a bricked c2000 system sitting in a closet that I need to do something with. Was a backup target but now that's hosed.

 

[Melvis]

To many haha, off the top of my head i think i got 12 desktops and 6 laptops.

 

[Nuckles56]

I've got my primary, gaming rig
HTPC
Media server
2 lappys, though one is now rarely used

 

[ityrant]

Z170 H110 H110 X370 B450 B450 X570

 

[Tom Sunday]

V2 Desktop
2 Laptop
1 iPad

Let's see:
1 Visitor Desktop for the kids brought along by their parents so that they can play my Steam games
1 Serious Desktop for yours truly with all the special Apps, Gaming and including XXX delights
1 Screw Around Desktop (no side panels) under constant construction and keeping old hardware alive
1 17" Asus Laptop dedicated for my wife to pay bills and get digital Kroger food coupons
1 Samsung 13.3" Galaxy Chromebook strictly for reading the 7AM morning news and stock prices
1 Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 -11" at my beside for late night tech-site blogging and getting in trouble

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[Prime2515102]

I only have one, but it's a big one!

j/k... I have one desktop and a laptop used to get online for downloads to fix the desktop when I screw it up. I haven't used the laptop in like 5 years though (other than updating it a few times a year).

If you count smartphones, then I have three, but I still said two in the vote.

 

[Vendor]

1 is enough for me, i don't like having multiple PCs

 

[Apocalypsee]

One main PC for gaming that is on my system spec
Two laptops, one I gave to my wife (Dell Precision m4700) for her work and another I going to repurpose to play light game (it only use A10-9600P)
One for XP retro gaming PC that share monitor with main rig (motherboard currently dead so no retro game for me for the time being)

And a few other half PC from Athlon XP, Core 2 Duo, Athlon 64 that have numerous problems and/or incomplete parts, some inside casing, some only motherboards and CPU. Don't have much time and/or money to build them. Heck I barely play a couple of hours on my main rig per day. My family comes first especially during this pandemic. Hope everyone who reads this do just fine during this difficult time

 

[Samiam66]

5 Desktop
1 laptop

 

[looniam]

depends on how many dumpsters i've walked by lately.

but we'll say one.