MY DESKTOP COMPUTER SETUP

Nothing Fancy, assembled desktop having – Windows 10 and Linux Mint in dual boot,
Processor – Intel core i5 6600 Skylake,
Motherboard – Asus h110m-d Motherboard
RAM – Kingston 16 GB DDR4 non ECC Value RAM,
HDD – Western Digital WD Blue 4 TB HDD,
Power supply – Seasonic M12II-620 Bronze smps
Monitor – LG 27MP68HM 27 inch IPS LED Display
Speaker – Intex IT-2000 FMU Multimedia Speaker,
Keyboard and Mouse – TVS mechanical keyboard, Logitech Mouse
UPS – APC Back-UPS RS 1100
Graphics Card – Nvidia 1050 Ti

Laptop – Dell Laptop Core i5/8 GB Ram/2 GB Video Card/1 TB HDD

D-Link 4G usb dongle on jio 4G plan

Windows 10 is the most stable windows till now, no more “windows explorer has stopped working” error messages, and Linux Mint is the easiest to use Linux in which things can be done fast. Do not forget to use Classic Shell and Old New File Explorer with Windows 10 for more fast working as user interface of Windows 7 was fastest and these two software make Windows 10 user interface similar to Windows 7.

It is more than sufficient for Direct3D11/12 and OpenGL4/Vulkan game programming. I prefer nvidia cards ending with 5/6 like 960 , 1050/1060 instead of ultimate 7,8,9 for supporting medium range hardware, also it is value for money. Whenever I try to buy Graphics Card nvidia has some better and cheaper offering in budget with medium performance segment compared to AMD, so did not buy AMD card till now. While on laptop AMD cards are more famous due to low power usage (on laptops). With AMD my issue is with price compared to similar graphics card from nvidia instead of performance. Processor is enough to compress movies to x264 in handbrake quickly.

Monitor is IPS LED Panel as it has very good viewing angles, very good color accuracy, fast enough response time in games, has matte finish so does not reflect light like mirror (LG and Samsung has matte finish, Dell is shiny) very low strain on eye due to less glare and height of monitor is more than height of a big book, so reading scanned image pdf books or text pdf books is very pleasant on it, also you can zoom the books. 27 inch monitor is best due to big size, bigger than that is not required at a distance of 2-3 feet which I use, 24 inch will also work but 27 inch is better. LG is better than Samsung since I got dead pixels on 2 samsung monitors one TN Panel and other AHIPS LED Panel (it also had lots of very small different rgb colored pixels on whole screen if you look very closely which LG does not have) but LG did not have any deadpixel.

A Canon imageFORMULA P-215II scanner (showed above in picture) for scanning books (scans at 15 page per minute, a 1000 page book is easily scanned in 1 hour, though the book needs to be opened at binding and carefully cut there for getting sheets of paper which this scanner can scan) and a Canon Lide120 flatbed scanner for scanning photographs and normal single pages.

Very efficient for writing novels and doing research for it. I prefer Logitech mouse and Logitech membrane keyboards (due to silent typing) which i generally need to change after 6 months to 1 year. No mechanical keyboard is silent (TVS will kill your ears), though Cooler Master CM Storm QuickFire XT – Full Size Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with CHERRY MX Brown Switches after adding Blue O rings may be good enough. Of course for 14,000 INR of this keyboard I can buy Logitech Membrane Keyboard Mouse combo for 10 years whenever any key starts jamming. Now I have started using TVS mechanical keyboard, while it does make some sound it is very cheap and keys never get hard (its keys are rated for 50 million keystrokes compared to 1 million of Logitech membrane keyboard), will buy CHERRY MX Brown keyboard later, a good choice is HyperX Alloy HX-KB1BR1-NA/A3 FPS Mechanical Gaming Keyboard (Cherry MX Brown)

I use normal keyboard for composing music with FL Studio 12. I use sheet editor mainly, so getting a external Midi piano keyboard like M-Audio Keystation 32 Mini Keys Keyboard is not necessary (but will be very useful). Think yourself more like the producer writing music and conducting performance of various artists instead of a artist playing a single instrument while composing electronic music in FL studio.

A Wacom intuos art for digital drawing and painting.

And a Samsung Galaxy Tab E 9.6 inch for reading books when power is out. Never buy a tablet less than 10 inches for reading pdf books. Though after this size laptops start so 10 inch tablet is the only option.

All in all this is a medium expensive, efficient setup to get work done at extremely high speed without any obstruction.