QOTD: What Do You Mainly Use Your PC For?

[DT12]

Everything. Crysis being the most used game....TV...etc etc...

 

[ImmortalJman]

Media storage, flight simulator, and Folding@home. I prefer to use my Mac for all else.

 

[harshahorizon]

primarily for gaming

 

[Guest]

this should be a poll!
for me it'd be:
-Converting ebooks
- Watching upto 720p video's
- bittorrent
- run some software
- blogging
- forum
- occasional an older game like sims or openttd

Apart from the 720p video I do about anything an Atom processor can do.

 

[joefriday]

Mainly: web surfing, news, word processing. Occasionally: playing MP3s, watching DVDs, watching streaming online video, LEGALLY downloading an app/MP3/video, encoding video, gaming. Rarely: powerpoint, Excel, ripping/burning CDs.

Ever since I built a dedicated HTPC for recording and playing back television, I haven't had a need for highend hardware. My main computer now is an undervolted Celeron 420 at stock 1.6GHz, 120GB hard drive, Nvidia IGP, 1GB ram, Windows XP, and CDRW/DVD-rom combo drive. It's all I need.
My HTPC is an AM2 Sempron LE-1100 undervolted and mildly overclocked to 2.0GHz/1.1 volt max, 850MHz/0.8volt idle. 200GB hard drive, 1GB dual channel ram, ATI x300SE graphics card, PVR-250 dual tuner card, Windows MCE 2005, DVDRW drive. Jetway nvidia 6100-405 motherboard.

I would like to see the overkill hardware specs for the 75% of people above me that do jack on their computers. Perhaps you guys should run Task Manager minimized to system tray 24/7 like I do, then it might become apparent just how little of system resources are being used.

 

[gero1369]

I surf the internet, run my eBay store, web development (HTML, CSS, JS, etc.), and other misc. stuff.

 

[leon2006]

circuit design, math intensive calculations, HD movies, Listening to good music while working.

My entire house is controlled by PC's that i built. I built a new house ~ 3 years ago and everything is wired to my PCs from lighting controls to water sprinklers.