CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 925 (4 cores, 4 threads)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3
RAM: 12 GB of DDR3 (4 sticks, two 2 GB and two 4 GB. They also have different speed and timings. It works, deal with it.)
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 580, 8 GB variant (Powercolor Red Dragon)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Disks: Five SATA hard disk drives, I'll post the details later.
Case: Antec Three Hundred
Sound card: Creative Sound Blaster Z
Display (primary): AOC C24G1
Display (secondary): Philips 170 S4
Display (third): Sharp Aquos LC-40LE600
Rest of the specs to be added at a later time.
This used to be my main machine for years and years. It still kind of is, at least for now.
I absolutely love Windows 7 as an OS. It's my favorite operating system of all time and what I consider to be the swan song for the Windows series of operating systems. A last hurrah before it all went downhill.
I might make a love letter to Windows 7 in an article at some point. That is how much I love the OS.
I'd use this computer as my main machine forever, as long as it lasts, but Windows 7 is getting tougher and tougher to run as a daily driver.
Software developers are dropping support for the OS faster than ever, after Google announced that they'll be dropping Chromium support for it in early 2023.
Now I don't care about Google Chromium, but many software today relies on it to work. If you don't know what I'm talking about, see Electron (software framework) on Wikipedia (outside link)
Mozilla also has announced that Firefox ESR 115 will be the last Firefox version to work on Windows 7 (and 8.x).
Since most day-to-day tasks depend on using the web and using an up-to-date web browser, the time for Windows 7 to retire as a daily driver OS is coming.
Sooner or later some website that I need to use, a web banking website for example, will refuse to work on my out-of-date version of Firefox.
(Yes, I do know how insecure using an OS like this supposedly is, but in my opinion and experience as long as you know what you're doing, you'll be fine.
I'm doing it at my own risk though so I can't really recommend doing so in good faith. Update your systems y'all.)
So anyway, this machine will be moved into a role of an offline gaming and music production rig, sometime in the near future.
I have it all setup and working perfectly for those tasks so I will be using it for those purposes for the foreseeable future.
This machine is a Frankenstein's monster that I've put together from parts sourced from various different places. That Antec case for example is way back from the mid 00's iirc.
I received the CPU, some of the RAM and the motherboard from a friend, sometime in the mid 2010's..
The RX 580 I bought because my previous GPU I had in it, the NVIDIA Geforce GTX 580, 1.5 GB VRAM version, died in late 2019. (I went from a 580 GPU to a 580 GPU, how nice, heh.)
I have a lot of love for this machine <3 It's been with me through a lot.