# What's your hardware setup? Lets see those rigs! **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux lounge\ **Created:** [August 27, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/whats-your-hardware-setup-lets-see-those-rigs/7436 "2020-08-27T00:06:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![magtuired](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/magtuired/32/12336_2.png) [@magtuired](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/magtuired)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/whats-your-hardware-setup-lets-see-those-rigs/7436/61 "2020-08-28T16:01:10Z")
One of my favourite things about that PC. I am sorely tempted to hunt down a Compaq Presario 5000 or 7000, just to have it, but I’ve heard they have shoddy capacitors and are generally pretty supbar pieces of kit. ---
**Author:** ![Othoric](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/othoric/32/9134_2.png) [@Othoric](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Othoric)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/whats-your-hardware-setup-lets-see-those-rigs/7436/62 "2020-08-28T16:40:43Z")
I had a Compaq Presario 5000 back in the day. Got the Compaq monitor and speakers to go with it and the salesperson at Circuit City even convinced me to buy a printer! It had a CD-RW drive and I was the coolest dude in the neighborhood. Everyone would knock on my door with lists of music they wanted me to download and burn to a CD for them. I tried to explain that with my AOL dial-up service a single mp3 would take a few hours and if someone picked up the phone it was all over. Of course no one ever listened to me. ---
**Author:** ![tlmiller76](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/tlmiller76/32/96350_2.png) [@tlmiller76](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/tlmiller76)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/whats-your-hardware-setup-lets-see-those-rigs/7436/63 "2020-08-28T18:57:32Z")
Bit late to this party, but this is where I differ from a lot of people. I can’t honestly say I liked ANY version of Windows. When Win95 was released, within 6 months is why I found Linux because I was actively looking for SOMETHING as an alternative as I was already “done” with Windows nightmares. Win98 cemented in my mind that I needed to find something other than Windows to use (Still on a WinModem until year 2000). Although to be fair I never really used XP heavily, as I had already started switching to linux full-time by it’s release. I DID use it on my primary desktop for games, though. ---
**Author:** ![plgonzalezrx8](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/plgonzalezrx8/32/12353_2.png) [@plgonzalezrx8](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/plgonzalezrx8)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/whats-your-hardware-setup-lets-see-those-rigs/7436/64 "2020-08-31T11:34:24Z")
That’s a really clean setup. Do you stream? ---
**Author:** ![alenbasic](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/alenbasic/32/11699_2.png) [@alenbasic](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/alenbasic)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/whats-your-hardware-setup-lets-see-those-rigs/7436/65 "2020-08-31T11:39:33Z")
Thanks mate, trust me it looks worse than those photos suggest. I need to tidy it up 😂 The mic and webcam are mainly for work since in my last job we had been working from home since like March. I do have a headset mic but I was getting so many complaints about people not hearing me that I got that dedicated Yeti. The secondary/tertiary purposes for it were for maybe eventually doing some podcasts/video tutorial series as well as streaming. I do stream once in a blue moon but it wasn’t the primary reason for the setup I got. ---
**Author:** ![anon31687413](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@anon31687413](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/anon31687413)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/whats-your-hardware-setup-lets-see-those-rigs/7436/66 "2020-08-31T13:12:41Z")
Also had one of these Presario, albeit a desktop rather than a tower, I think it was 2xxx something, with a 1st generation Pentium, and of course the classic side-mounted speakers. Good computer, still runs with original hardware, added RAM, and “hardware” overclock, but ridiculously overpriced back then. ---
**Author:** ![anon31549144](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@anon31549144](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/anon31549144)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/whats-your-hardware-setup-lets-see-those-rigs/7436/67 "2020-08-31T13:27:23Z")
Is that a hot-swappable cat rack in the bottom left? 🙂 Can’t really tell from the image, but it looks like it would only fit a small or medium-sized cat-unit. ---
**Author:** ![freebird54](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/freebird54/32/83106_2.png) [@freebird54](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/freebird54)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/whats-your-hardware-setup-lets-see-those-rigs/7436/68 "2020-08-31T13:33:15Z")
Obviously the filters failed miserably at controlling cat hair - perhaps a cat-astrophe is inevitable? Or some sort of cat-aclysmic failure… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![anon53396576](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@anon53396576](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/anon53396576)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/whats-your-hardware-setup-lets-see-those-rigs/7436/69 "2020-08-31T13:50:47Z")
That is actually a drive cage from another case. It’s nice because it has a backplane with power and sata connectors on it. You can just pop the drives in and out. It holds 4 x 1Tib ssds. Maybe a kitten could fit 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![anon31549144](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@anon31549144](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/anon31549144)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/whats-your-hardware-setup-lets-see-those-rigs/7436/70 "2020-08-31T14:07:57Z")
I was referring to the space on the left of the drive-rack. For reference this is how a hot-swappable cat-rack looks like (this one suports large cat-units) 😆 : > [@A little joke on a regular day](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/a-little-joke-on-a-regular-day/1020/159): > > [cat] [Previous page](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/whats-your-hardware-setup-lets-see-those-rigs/7436.md?page=3)