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G. Tuazon

Desktop

  • CPU: 3.4 GHz Intel core i5-4670K Haswell
  • RAM: 16GB G.Skill RipJaws DDR3 (8GB x2)
  • GPU: MSI nVidia GTX 1070
  • Storage: WD 500GB HDD, WD 1TB HDD
  • OS: Win 10

Laptop

  • Model: ASUS RoG G501j
  • CPU: 2.6 GHz Intel core i7-4720HQ
  • RAM: 8GB
  • GPU: nVidia GTX 960M
  • Storage: WD Blue 1TB SSD
  • OS: Win 10

I have four PCs and one tablet in total. The tablet being a Microsoft Surface 7, which I use as a reader and for Cisco Academy classes (got Packet Tracer and Wireshark installed). The two PCs shown above is what I use for web and software development only. Both running WSL and utilizing it to create a local server to run and test my websites.

My current work desktop was previously a gaming rig until I built another one earlier last year with hard-to-find parts (took me months to find them). As of now, I just bought an SSD for the work desktop to make things a bit faster and I need to acquire a TPM 2.0 module to make it run Win 11 (if that's possible since it's an older rig).

I did mentioned I have four PCs. Last two are just for fun; the newly-built gaming rig and an old IBM ThinkPad R31 laptop running Win 98. I use the ThinkPad to run DOS and Win 9x games.

Lastly, I have a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian and Ubuntu. This is for fun projects and code I want to tinker with.