Thanks... I'll be tearing it down later this year though. Working on a project now and once that's done I'll start a new one where I'll be replacing that build
I stopped when the performance gains from tweaking started to become so minimal as to pointless with all the fuss involved.
Ive got a 5820k at stock and a 1080ti and it smashes everything I throw at it, which is light years away from using a pencil to unlock a Athalon 1800xp and fecking around with jumper switches and a million fans.
I stopped when the performance gains from tweaking started to become so minimal as to pointless with all the fuss involved.
Ive got a 5820k at stock and a 1080ti and it smashes everything I throw at it, which is light years away from using a pencil to unlock a Athalon 1800xp and fecking around with jumper switches and a million fans.
Haha yeah it was a whole lot different back in the days.
Im hoping to go 9700k and 1180 sli in my coming project. I'm playing in 3440x1440 @100hz and my current setup just barely manages (I'm really picky)
I upgrade everything once every 5 years or so. Pure performance and future-proofing as best the tech of the time will allow, is what I opt for.
The leaps in improvement aren't worth the investment these days, so my 5960x and 32GB of ram will suffice for a couple of years yet, I think.
Console gaming has ruined the GPU market, too. That and bitcoin mining, so even on that front, something incredible will have to come along to make me go through the rigmarole of selling what I've got and buying in the next stupidly expensive card.
I'm always very interested in the latest computer hardware and have built PCs for myself and people I know for more than ten years, but I don't have the patience, skill, or money to put together something like OP. ^^
I have a 6700k and was contemplating moving to 8th gen, but doesn't seem to be any good reason in terms of performance to do so. But then again PC building get's boring if you aren't constantly upgrading or rebuilding, it's kind of like an addiction, and an expensive one too, esp with miners ruining the GPU prices.
I upgrade everything once every 5 years or so. Pure performance and future-proofing as best the tech of the time will allow, is what I opt for.
The leaps in improvement aren't worth the investment these days, so my 5960x and 32GB of ram will suffice for a couple of years yet, I think.
Console gaming has ruined the GPU market, too. That and bitcoin mining, so even on that front, something incredible will have to come along to make me go through the rigmarole of selling what I've got and buying in the next stupidly expensive card.
Intel is on the same cpu platform since the last 5 years. Apparently there next cpu will also be on the same platform, there 10nm has been postponed to 2020!
Intel is on the same cpu platform since the last 5 years. Apparently there next cpu will also be on the same platform, there 10nm has been postponed to 2020!
Yea, things have really slowed down these past few years. You have to be pretty hardcore to just 'needlessly' switch parts these days, and even when 2020 arrives, it'll be a case of seeing what these new chips can do before making transition.
My wallet is happy, anyway. Things got a bit mental with the constant leaps in development a few years back, so it's kind of a relief that slowed down.
I think consoles have a lot to answer for, though. Now that games are made for them and then ported to PC, all the advancements and chips arms races we used to see have pretty much been eradicated.
Have a friend who won/got highly ranked and attended some build competitions, he has one amazing fallout like case I think. Give me some time and I'll try and get a picture of it.
I've only ever really used mid to high end laptops until my recently ordered desktop which arrives assembled, and due to my body I can't get myself to build stuff myself.
(excluding a build desktop from it-school days which wasn't mine and a desktop I bought used to be a media-server)
I do think it's awesome when people make a nice and clean setup with a amazing desktop however. Spent a fair few hours on YouTube looking at people's stuff.
That's a beaut @Bogga. I've always built my own systems, but you'd hate the half-arsed way I run my cables and all that! I haven't the patience for proper machine building
I have a 6700k and was contemplating moving to 8th gen, but doesn't seem to be any good reason in terms of performance to do so. But then again PC building get's boring if you aren't constantly upgrading or rebuilding, it's kind of like an addiction, and an expensive one too, esp with miners ruining the GPU prices.
Yeah I game at 4k so GPU is the main driver, most of the times it is OK but there are certain games that will still tax it, I could definitely do with the upgrade. I think your 6700k will certainly live for a while yet!
I do keep my CPUs for a while - before this I had the C2Quad Q6600, which lasted >5 years. Before that I had a 64-bit Athlon for a couple of years, before that the legendary XP2500 Barton.
I agree re the addiction, just swapping out GPUs gets boring after a bit!
That's like saying you build PC's and he says the same, then you compare... and think: maybe I don't build PC's...
It's an achievement to just get the components into the mobo and case all up and working with no fallout! Can't imagine how long it takes to do something like those images.
That's a beaut @Bogga. I've always built my own systems, but you'd hate the half-arsed way I run my cables and all that! I haven't the patience for proper machine building
I upgrade everything once every 5 years or so. Pure performance and future-proofing as best the tech of the time will allow, is what I opt for.
The leaps in improvement aren't worth the investment these days, so my 5960x and 32GB of ram will suffice for a couple of years yet, I think.
Console gaming has ruined the GPU market, too. That and bitcoin mining, so even on that front, something incredible will have to come along to make me go through the rigmarole of selling what I've got and buying in the next stupidly expensive card.
Yes, I delided it myself. Was a fun experience. Lately I've upgraded every generation, just skipped the 8700k (2700k-6700k-7700k and next up is 9700k). 680 x2-970 x2-1080 x2-1080Ti and next up is 1180 x2
In my previous build I used PETG and bent all the tubes...
For the last one (the picture in the top) I used straight acrylic tubing and 90 degree adapters. Acrylic was a bit tougher to work with since it's more brittle
I do be pretty much shitting my pants shaking and sweating when I have to change a motherboard in my PC afraid I'm going to break everything, never mind building something like that. It's sexy though @Bogga
I do be pretty much shitting my pants shaking and sweating when I have to change a motherboard in my PC afraid I'm going to break everything, never mind building something like that. It's sexy though @Bogga
Ryzen is a nice alternative, I'm doing a project now which will be a rendering/streaming computer but also act as a testbench. Going with a Ryzen 2700X for that
Some amazing pics in here, sadly lost a lot of interest in gaming which meant that i am no longer interested in builds and stuff, but i also was never this interested since it's a costly affair. Using a decent laptop now.
Not really the right thread, but not the wrong one either I feel.
It's not built by me, but I picked and paid for the parts while setting everything up myself so far in here, which I'm guessing is more exhausting for me than building a pc is for most people.
Case: Fractal design define C temp G
Motherboard: Asus ROG strix Z370-F
Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K
GPU: Zotac geforce 1080 Ti
RAM: 2x8GB DDR4 2666MHz HyperX Fury
SSD: 512GB M.2 WD Black 2050/800MB/s read/write, 160 TBW
HDD space: 1TB*
PSU: Corsair TX750M
Cooling: Corsair hydroH100i V2
OS: Win10Home, and finally got myself to do a early image backup for once.
*Will put in a couple more I have in the bedroom after my NAS went to shit once I have the energy for it
I'd like to stay at 32GB ram like with my laptop, but the price would have gone up too much for what I could afford for now, and 16GB is normally all you'll need. I'm also hoping the cooling-system doesn't get fecked up as it has a ton of bad reviews, a comforting thing is that they all said they got it swapped out without being too much of a bother on warranty when it did stop working.
I need anything and everything close by, can't get rid of the stuff to the right like medications, painkillers and other stuff.
It is nice to have the switch & tablet under there for easy access, and I'm contemplating if I should set up the extra switch-dock we have somewhere on the desk, but I don't want to fill up the space too much and I rarely feel the need to play docked.
I'll be looking for something i can put under the table instead of the cart in the long run so the stuff doesn't have to be out in the open. I plan on getting a handheld vaccum-cleaner I can mount on the wall beside me so i more easily can clean around the area.
I also need a 1.5-2m USB3 (A male to A male) cable so I can make use of the headphone-stands USB-hub and the microphone without having everything cluttered to the right of the setup. The cable is ordered so it will be sorted quite fast.
I don't have a mechanical keyboard, and this one as can be seen can't configurate the mode & macro buttons and mode-light to white. I'm not sure if I can be bothered to switch it out however, at least not for a while. (It's the Mad Catz S.T.R.I.K.E 3 if anyone has any fixes to that perticular problem. Doesn't seem so online though)
Another couple of things I definitely plan to buy is:
1. Dedicated PC-room PS4-controller so I don't have to configurate the controllers between the desktop & the PS4 in the living-room.
2. Dbrand for my switch to get it into the theme of black & white (for when I use it and have it up).
3. A remote-controlled tower-fan that helps circulate the air in the room better, will have it to the left of the desk where there currently is a vaccum-cleaner so it's aimed at the door and can be adjusted towards me.
I have a canvas that will come up on the wall behind the monitors.
It's basically the same as the current wallpapers with Cloud & Sephiroth from FF7, I couldn't find anything from FF8 that was of half-decent quality on a canvas and in black & white.
I do have the foot-rest that fits the chair (same style), but I have it in the guest-room for now as the hammock is better whenever I'm not watching movies and it's easy to move in here when i want to put the chair down and watch a movie.
Height adjustment both on the desk & on the chair (+ 3 types of back-softeners in/on the chair) to reduce back-pain.
Oh, and I desperately need some better cable-management some day I have the breath to get it done. Currently it's hidden-ish behind the monitors, but I want a cable-box to collect it all in, and preferably one under the desk as well.
I'm kind of holding myself back from firing up a proper game as I want TW3 to be the first on the machine, but I feel I desperately need a proper PS4 controller to play it. Felt really uncomfortable going from PS4 to mouse and keyboard when i tried it on my laptop earlier.
I've installed some old-school games and 3 more modern ones so far:
Lionheart - legacy of the crusder
Icewind dale
Neverwinter nights
Heroes of might & magic 3
The Witcher 3
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Ark: Survival evolved
The people from Dell will come in about 9 hours and hopefully fix my Alienware so I can transfer the emulators & games-library from there and over on the desktop. My girl will be using the Alienware for playing The Sims (3 I think) & I can have it as backup so I don't in the near future at least will go around for a month without entertainment again. I'm glad she's getting something out of the upgrade as well.
Obviously psyched to be bothered to write all of this.
I've been looking at those faster m.2 and nvme but unless one of my sponsors gives me one I'll stick to the ordinary ones. They sure are fast af, but unless you're using a heavier rendering program you won't see much of a difference between that and the "ordinary" ssd
I've been looking at those faster m.2 and nvme but unless one of my sponsors gives me one I'll stick to the ordinary ones. They sure are fast af, but unless you're using a heavier rendering program you won't see much of a difference between that and the "ordinary" ssd
I've installed some old-school games and 3 more modern ones so far:
Lionheart - legacy of the crusder
Icewind dale
Neverwinter nights
Heroes of might & magic 3
The Witcher 3
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Ark: Survival evolved
Hell yes, good selection of games. Loved HoMM3 and Icewind Dale was awesome (I liked at the time the monster scale compared to Baldurs Gate) although I think BG2 is the far superior game storytelling/gameplay wise. I modded NwN when I was a teenager, the mod tools for that were great!
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