Yesterday I had my yearly computer upgrade, it saw me buying some things that I needed and wanted. I have been waiting for the time to upgrade all year and it finally came around, I am stoked. Coming back to the actual topic here, “What Design Setup are you Running?” I would like you to voice your opinion and let us know what you are running, what specs your computer or Mac has and what you use most of the time to fulfill your working or gaming requirements. It isn’t such a hard thing to do, just drop us a comment with your different specs and see how you make other people envy your setup.
I am going to start off by telling you what my rig consists of and I will indicate what I purchased yesterday for my yearly upgrade.
System:
- Intel Quad Core 3.6Ghz CPU
- NForce 4 L775 Motherboard
- 8 GB DDR2 1066mhz Ram – 2GB NEW
- NVIDEA Geforce GTS 295 – NEW (A Beast)
- 500 + 500 + 320 GB Harddrives
- X Power CPU Cooler – NEW
- Gigabyte 720 watt Power Supply – NEW
- X Force Case with 15 Drive Bays totally LED Lit up – NEW
- Logitech Keyboard & MX518 1800dpi Mouse
- Logitech G Headphones
This is my Computer setup that i am currently running.
Design Tools:
- Adobe Creative Suite CS3
- Maxon Cinema 4D
- Xara 3D and Xara Pro
- Wacom Intuos 4 A4
- Flat Bed 600DPI Scanner
- Sketch Books, Pencils etc
That is basically what I use to create all my Digital Work, start off with planning and then scan it in to take it further. I don’t really have a amazing setup but, it works well for me. Its damn fast too.I have hopefully started this off for you, now its your time to shine and tell us what you are using everyday.
Get Set…..GO
Jacques you have a beast as you said. Here is my humble setup:
Acer Aspire 5536 Laptop
AMD® Athlon™ x2 Dual Core QL64 2.1 GHz
ATI Mobility RadeonTM HD 4570
4 GB DDR2-667
320 GB HDD
15,6″ TFT WXGA 1366×768
That isn’t a bad setup at all for a laptop. You should invest in getting yourself a Standing Pc, works well for maintaining your workflow. Thanks for the comment buddy.
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Ok, here is my setup :)
it´s a bit smaller but I´m fine with it.
System:
MacBook Pro 17
Intel Core 2 Duo
2,33 GHz
4 GB
1000GB + 750GB + 500GB Harddrives (ext)
Mighty Mouse
Design Tools:
Adobe CS4 Suit
Maxon Cinema 4D
Wacom CTE-630bt
Sketch Books, Pencils etc
Nice Setup never the less mate, Macbooks are really good and reliable laptops. Awesome setup
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you guys have great setups … but still mentioning my setup
core 2 duo 2.33GHz
3 GB ram
A3 wacom intuos 3 tablet,
19″ dell LCD and 17″ samsung display connected with nvidia geforce card with 256mb dedicated memory
design tools
adobe web premium cs4
Open office
google sketchup
thats it ! n that works great for me !
Thats awesome, I am thinking of upgrading to a bigger Wacom soon. Maybe a Cintique if I have the cash. ;)
I love topics like this; It’s interesting to see what my colleagues use.
MacBook Pro 17″ (matte)
2.33Ghz / 2GB Ram / 160GB / Leopard
Photoshop CS3 + Flash CS3 + InDesign CS3 + Illustrator CS3
Coda + Transmit
VMWare Fusion w/ Windows XP (w/ IE 5.5, 6.0, & 7.0, Safari 3 & 4, Firefox 3 and 3.5, and Opera) …I had Win7 but it crashed too much.
Backup Disc: 250GB (more than enough for my projects)
Assorted Apps that Make Life & Work Easier: DropBox, Pages, Shovebox, Adium & iShowU
Not much, but cheaper than an iMac + MacBook Pro (15″), and very portable. It’s a complete mobile workstation that I can use wherever I want. :)
Interesting setup, so do you prefer the Xp over windows 7? Or was it mainly because of the computer crashing that you switched back? Nice setup and thanks for the comment. I’ve subscribed to Pixellica hope to see some more posts from you. laters
Dell 435
320 + 320 HD
Intel Core i7-920 processor
ATI Radeon 1GIG 4870 GPU
12 GIG RAM
21″ CRT
Adobe CS3
3DSMAX 7
XAMPP
My setup that needs serious upgrade:
MacBook Core 2 Duo 2 GHz (early 2007)
Intel GMA 950 (auch!)
250 GB HDD internal + 250 GB FW400 external for TimeMachine + 500GB 2,5″ LaCie littleDisc
2 GB Ram
Samsun 971p external LCD (PVA, great one but currently to small :/)
Wacom Graphire4 XL
Epson V500 Photo scaner
A4Tech X7 mouse (considered gaming) – absolutly best most accurate cheep mouse ever
USB Keyboard 10$,
Soft:
CS4 Design Premium
Coda
+ 100 smal apps
Thinking of new iMac 27″ or good ‘selfmade’ tower PC with Win7 / Hackintosh.
here is my setup :
MacBook Core 2 Duo 2 GHz
60 GB HDD ( :-( )
2 GB RAM
Monitor Dell 20”
adaptator Mac/VGA
tablet genius 4X5
keyboard logitech
mouse pleomax (samsung)
scan canon
Sketch Books,,,
App:
snow leopard
adobe creative suite cs4
maxon C4D
pixelmator ( for arabic font )
TBH I didn’t really notice that much of a difference in the nuts-and-bolts behaviour of Win7 over XP; But then again, I’m by no means a power user on Windows anyway so it’s not surprise I really didn’t notice any. The only major difference was the new taskbar, the behaviour of which I personally found a bit irritating.
But mostly, you’re right; I got rid of it because I had too many problems.
I am a newspaper page designer and graphic artist. However, I can’t afford the really nice stuff that would make stuff better. I make what I have work for me. This is how the other half lives.
For work:
Hardware:
Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Dual 2 GHz Power PC G5)
1.5 GB DDR SDRAM
Software:
Quark 7.5, Photoshop CS2, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard, Firefox 3.5
At home:
HP Pavilion laptop, 140 GB; 300GB+250GB portable hard drives
Vista Home Premium
Microsoft Publisher 2007/Scribus (for video game newsletter design)
Photoshop 7
Sony Vegas Movie Studio (video editing)
Sony Acid Music Studio (sound editing)
Firefox 3.5
Open Office
Various apps for newsletter production
I wish I could afford a copy of Quark, Dreamweaver and CS4. In April I will be upgrading my desktop (so ancient it doesn’t have Ethernet ports).
Oh hai!
24″ Imac (3.06 GHz Core 2 Extreme)
4GB RAM
nVidia GeForce 8800 GS
640GB HDD+320GB HDD(external)
Wacom Bamboo(dying)
Lumix LX3 still camera
2005 G4 Powerbook that still runs great.
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
AfterEffects
Flash
Transmit(rocks!)
CssEdit(rocks!)
Smultron
Hazel(rocks!)
FontexplorerX(old free version, can´t live without)
Anxiety
Pens, pencils, brushes, scrap paper, 50′s magazines, sketchbooks
My setup go’s a litlle something like this
MacPro: stock setup
2x 2Ghz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
unfortunately still running 2 Gig of ram
160gb, 200gb and 1tb hard drives
large but old Aiptek tablet
logitech MX518 (still going strong)
logitech X-230 2.1 speakers
24″ Samsung 2443 LCD
20″ Benq LCD
Canon 400D
CS3 Design premium
but i mostly use Ps iL (would like to get more into iD and do more print work though)
thats the main points anyway…
L.
@An1ken – wow man, that’s totally a beast. You play games? Cuz if you do, i know that it will sky rocket.
anyway, here is my setup:
CPU: Intel Core2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33Ghz
RAM: 2.0 GB RAM
Graphix: NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT 512MB (lame)
Motherboard : ASUStek Computer Inc. P5QPL-AM
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster P2050
keyboard/mouse: logitech
Im planning to upgrade my grphx card and motherboard for my gaming needs and of course, for design.
an Nvidia GTX 295 maybe?
Hey bro, you don’t have a bad rig, boost the ram and the Graphics Card and your set. The GTX 295 is a nice card.
This pc is all design purpose actually. I don’t play games anymore, haven’t played a game in 2 years, unless solitaire counts.
Thanks for sharing your rig ;)
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‘A yearly upgrade’!!!! Dude – you must be RICH! In my dreams…
Haha, I just work hard each year to be able to do it :)
Quad core 2.8
8 gig Ram
2 x 1gig HD 4870
Wacom Tablet
1 x 75 gig raptor
3 x 500 gig HDD
1x 350 external
2x 22 inch Viewsonic Flat panel
Windows 7 Ultimate
24” Monitor 1920×1200
Quadcore 2.66 ghz
4gb of Ram
Nvidia 8800 gts OC’d
1 300gb HDD
1 500gb HDD
1 750gb HDD (Full)
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