It's too messy to take a picture of right now, plus I'm at work, but I'll describe it.
I have my self-built PC sitting on the far right of my desk, with my pre-HDMI Premium 360 (checkered faceplate) standing vertically to its immediate left. To the left of the 360 are my two monitors; my 17 inch on the left (DVI from PC, VGA from 360), and my 14.5 inch on the right (VGA from PC). Both Monitors are salvaged from my old Gateway set-up.
Hooked up to the PC is my 5.1 logitech speaker system, and hooked up to the 360 is my 2.1 Boise system. I'm big on multitasking, so this way I can be listening to audio from both at the same time, such as playing a podcast or watching a video on my right monitor while gaming on the left. I can also surf forums or search faqs, or chat over AIM on the left monitor while gamin on the right one.
Scattered around the room amidst the pieces and ruins of my dismantled old Gateway (I need to clean up) are a slew of different games and DVDs, as well as my 360 controllers (two wireless, one with chatpad, Xplorer, XBLA joystick.) as well as the three headsets that I've wound up with (wired that came with the system, wired that came with Chatpad, and wireless.)
I have an ethernet hardline piping Fios internet in directly from upstairs (the room is in the basement) which I have going to an ethernet switch, which transfers out to both my PC and my 360, so I can be online on both simultaniously. (For the unfamiliar, the ethernet switch acts to split the connects, but also makes sure that no connects are both sending out packets at the same time, thereby preventing issues that would cause. There is no physical switch on it; everything is done internally.) We have a wireless network in the house (which I use for my Wii in the next room over, and usually used to sync my Zune, unless it is over full with podcasts, and requires manual deletion through a PC sync) but the hardline allows me faster speeds, and saves me the cost of the official 360 wireless adapter, and the hassle of re-flashing custom firmware onto a wireless router.
Pics of my Tower (Taken in a room other than its current spot. The DVD drives have since been move up to the top two bays. It is named Deep Thought, because I am unoriginal. My laptop is also named Hactar, and my Zune is Zaphod. For a brief period of time, my Treo was named Eddie, with the description "Evan's shipboard computer."):
PC specs (it was built as a budget PC, with a focus on multitasking, rather than serious gaming, but it handled the Crysis demo at about Medium settings, if that is any indication of its power. Just want to add that I knew ABSOLUTELY nothing about the technical aspects of a computer going into this project, so I say it worked out pretty well.):
Case: Coolermaster Mystique 632S
Motherboard: ECS NF650iSLIT-A (I chose it because it had two PATA connections, meaning I didn't have to buy any new drives yet. Also, I am using onboard sound.)
Video Card: ChainTech GeForce 8400 GS 256MB DDR2 PCI-E (Originally had an EVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3, but it caused a lot of freezing, especially when booting up, so I switched to the 8400 GS when it was offered to me for free; college student budget, you know.)
PSU: Antec True Power Trio TP3-650
RAM: OCZ Platinum R2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 800
CPU: Core 2 Duo E4400
Cooling: Cooler Master Aquagate Viva
CPU Fan: Vantec Tornado (80mm)
Fan Controller: Super Flower Fan Master
Misc: USB/Firewire PCI-Express card.
HDDs (one 40 gig named Master, and one 160 Gig named Blaster), DVD drives, floppy drive, and card reader are all canibalized from my old Gateway, but I've had my eye on Scyth's combo floppy/card reader, and then using the 3.5 bay that my current card reader is in to add some USB ports to the front of the machine (currently, my USB ports are all either on the top, or on the back.) Also in the plans for the future is to add a larger Sata HDD (500 gigs or more).
