The PC (Personal Computer) is a highly configurable and upgradable gaming platform that, among home systems, sports the widest variety of control methods, largest library of games, and cutting edge graphics and sound capabilities.
I'm so jealous of you all at the moment. I can't wait to get started building mine. Unfortunately I have to buy parts per check. Damn bills. I'll just sit and drool at the prospect and hate on you all that already have your gaming rigs.
Power Supply: Cougar 1000 watt 80+ gold power supply
LG Blu-Ray
Asus DVD
Keyboard: Gigabyte K8100 Aivia
Mouse: Steel series WoW cataclysm gaming mouse.
I can play ANYTHING out max right now which is damn nice, also my MB fully supports the features of the new AMD 8 core Bulldozer CPU. Which I am getting day 1.
Mobo : Asus P6T CPU : Intel i7 920 Overclocked at 3.6 ghz CPU Cooler : Coolermaster Hyper 212 + GPU : EVGA GTX 570 HD 12 GB of DDR3 RAM HDD : Two Western Digital 1 TB drives LG Blu-Ray burner (haven't burned anything with it yet but watched a bunch of movies/shows with it) Keyboard : Logitech G15 Mouse : Razer DeathAdder Case : Coolermaster HAF 932 PSU : Coolermaster 1000W (It's overkill, I know)
And now, for some pictures :
That little dude on the desk is Commander Shepard.
I actually just completed my first pc build over the weekend.
Motherboard: Asus P8P67 Pro Processor: Intel i5 2500k Memory: 8GB DDR3 Hard Drive: 500GB Barracuda Video Card: Asus GTX 570 PSU: Corsair TX850 Case: Cooler Master CM 690
I used the build that Tested made for Jeff and then made some modifications to adjust to lower the price. I'm still using my 4 year old Samsung 19" 1440x900 monitor but it works well for me. That will be the next upgrade.
Mobo : Asus P6T CPU : Intel i7 920 Overclocked at 3.6 ghz CPU Cooler : Coolermaster Hyper 212 + GPU : EVGA GTX 570 HD 12 GB of DDR3 RAM HDD : Two Western Digital 1 TB drives LG Blu-Ray burner (haven't burned anything with it yet but watched a bunch of movies/shows with it) Keyboard : Logitech G15 Mouse : Razer DeathAdder Case : Coolermaster HAF 932 PSU : Coolermaster 1000W (It's overkill, I know)
And now, for some pictures :
That little dude on the desk is Commander Shepard.
@armartin812: Buying the parts a piece at a time over a long period of time is not a good idea, if it takes you say 10 months to get all of the components together, by the time you get to building it the warranty on your first component will be 10 months through and there's always the possibility that prices might have dropped or newer equipment might have come out. It makes more sense to save as much as you can for the same amount of time, use the time to research what you want to build and plan around your budget then at the end hit the web, order your parts in 1 go and get building straight away.
I'm so jealous of you all at the moment. I can't wait to get started building mine. Unfortunately I have to buy parts per check. Damn bills. I'll just sit and drool at the prospect and hate on you all that already have your gaming rigs.
Im right thee with you. ill post what I have soon, but right now the only parts I'm waiting is the gpu, Hd, and windows7. Ive bought the rest of the pieces over the past 2 months or so, and this is going to be the icing on the cake. going for1tb in the Hd, and a 580 for the gpu....I've been out of the game for the past 4 years or so....soooo many games to catch up on. admission, I just spent 140$ in the steam sale...but I justify it by thinking that's for the past 4 years! that makes sense right! ..... right?
I will be upgrading this soon. Mainly because my current motherboard doesn't support SATAIII, which reduces my SSD-drives performance. But a new motherboard is going to mean a new socket, which is going to mean a new i7 2600K sandy bridge cpu, and also a new graphics card (because I can't help myself).
At this point, I'm strongly considering going SLI with a second GTX 570 GPU. I can run most modern games at a respectable framerate on high settings with this set-up, but some of the newer stuff like The Witcher 2 takes a hit in the framerate department if I try to push it to ultra.
At this point, I'm strongly considering going SLI with a second GTX 570 GPU. I can run most modern games at a respectable framerate on high settings with this set-up, but some of the newer stuff like The Witcher 2 takes a hit in the framerate department if I try to push it to ultra.
You might want to investigate what's really going on with Witcher 2 and your 570. The 570 should handle Witcher 2 maxed out pretty easily, after patching.
The only setting that will make any single GPU setup suffer is the uber-sampling, which is a multi-frame rendering process. It renders every frame multiple times to basically eliminate aliasing, thus creating a close-to-cgi effect where everything on screen is nice and smooth, but it's a really expensive process for a relatively unimportant effect.
Does anyone know of a site that has custom chassis? I've been looking at the Corsair Obsidian 650D and the Cooler Master 650 II Advance but it seems as there are a lot of people that have those. I was wanting to know if there is chassis that not too many people have at the moment? I really like the low profile look of the Cooler Master and the Corsair case. I don't like the cases that look like transformers or the ones that look like they belong on a construction site. If not then I'll decide between the two I've mentioned. As a side not, the chassis has to be big enough to support water cooling as I will eventually install that.
@armartin812: While I don't know off the top of my head a custom case site, I DO know people who get a simple looking case and bust out their dremel for customization. Also, if you don't like the LED look of a lot of the more mainstream computers, you should try Fractal Design cases. They're simple looks make them elegant in my eyes, their Titanium XL Full case is going to be my next upgrade. -Ghooble
I have another question and this one is kind of off the wall. I grabbed a GTX 570 and as some of you may know the EVGA brand comes with a reddish shield on it. I pinched and pinched but the GTX 580 was just out of my spending range. Of course the 580 is the one that is blue. What my question is, is there a place where you can go to get alternate video card shields? The whole reason I ask is because the colors of my computer will be blue and black. Its going to suck to have those two colors be the dominant colors and then right smack dab in the middle I have a red video card lol.
Yet to really test it, I foolishly forgot I only had a 32bit operating system so I'm getting a 64bit one before I download anything significant and start to settle down.
@armartin812: Cool Cool, that was one of the final three choices I came down too. I ended up getting the Cooler Master CM690 II Advanced on sale, so far I like it too.
@Skytylz: Its funny you say that because I was choosing between the 690 II and the 600T. I went with the 600T because I wanted a side panel. I couldn't find the side panel for the 690 II anywhere and when I contacted Cooler Master they didn't have a SKU for it anymore. I think it's been discontinued. Some people may find that to be silly but I really wanted a side panel on my case.
Intel i5 2500k @ 4.2ghz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, GTX 460 OC'd, Antec 300 Case, 40GB SSD + 1TB HDD, Razer Naga Molten SE + Logitech G510 for M+KB. Windows 7 Ultimate x64. It's all been recently built within the last 2 weeks outside of the HDD, case and video card that were ripped from my last computer (C2D e8500 build). Video card will be the next to be upgraded but I think I'll wait it out until AMD's Southern Island cards hit. I'd just be blowing money to upgrade something that performs fine for right now for the most part.
Since I am proud of the first computer I put together myself, I'll show. It's the first computer I have owned that has been able to do everything I have wanted to toss at it. Had some help picking the parts but did the putting together on my own. Gonna toss some pictures up, but all I have is my phone camera and we all know how awesome that is in low-light. I love the look of the case and will never go back to having just a single monitor again. Love the Asus monitor (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236102) to - I am able to have the computer, PS3 and 360 all connected to it.
Motherboard: ASUS M4A something or other. It does the job ¬¬ CPU: AMD Phenom 2 3.4GHz quad core. GPU: HD 6870 RAM: 4GB of something I really do not know. CASE: CM HAF X Other crap: Razer Mamba (Second hand) Crappy dell keyboard, Corsair HS1 headset, samsung syncmaster monitor and some LG monitor with a thousand numbers. Overall an un-organised and huge thing, but I've yet to meet a game I can't play :3
Currently just using a laptop: CPU: Intel i5 520M @ 2.4GHz GPU: ATI Mobility Radeon 5650 RAM: 4GB
It's no beast by any stretch of the imagination, but it gets me by. There's only a handful of games it has trouble running under any settings, and they're all very recent ones (Metro 2033 chugs pretty hard in places, Witcher 2 is damn near unplayable most of the time, performance in GTA4 is dismal both because it really needs a quad core and isn't optimized for shit). Everything else is pretty smooth with the right amount of tweaking.
Going to be starting up a new job in a few weeks and I'll be making a lot more money than I ever have, so I'll definitely be upgrading to a desktop before the year is out, though. I'm pretty excited about it. Already got most of the parts picked out and everything. Even a fairly modest $800 build (that's including a new monitor) should put my laptop to shame, and I'll finally get the chance to play some of the more demanding games the way they were meant to be played.
Just finished building my first PC ever about 2 hours ago:
Category
Part
Motherboard
ASUS P8P67 LE
Processor
Intel Core I5-2500K
GPU
Radeon HD 6950 1GB
Memory
G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB
PSU
Corsair CMPSU-650 TX 650W
HDD
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM
Case
Antec Nine Hundred Black
Optical Drive
ASUS DRW-24B1ST
OS
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Monitor
ASUS VH238H 23"
I'm incredibly happy that I got it to post on my first attempt. It took me about 7 hours to build it (as I'm extremely meticulous) and I thought I had fucked up several times when I did stupid things.
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