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Had a few things for a while however changed mb and gpu
 
PSU: 750w gold coolermaster
GPU: Radeon 5700 xt Gigabyte OC 8gb
MB: Aorus X570 Ultra
CASE: coolermaster MB520
CPU: Ryzen 7 3700x
CPU COOLER: coolermaster 240l AIO
RAM: Trident G.Skill 3200mhz 16gb (8x2)
SSD: 256GB
HDD: 4TB SEGATE
EXTRA: small led light strip to take away some darkness from the bottom of case 

ANYTHING OVER 1920X1080P IS TOO MUCH FOR MOST PEOPLE
that is all

ive got a blackwidow keyboard thats a fucking brick. i could probably kill somebody with it, and itll still work.
and my ourobouros mouse ive had for a few years is still perfect.  although i lost the wireless dongle, so its been wired the entire time ive had it. but its taken a good amount of abuse

So after 7 or so years with my last system, I finally took the plunge and upgraded. I'd been considering an upgrade for several years but the new Ryzen chips finally swayed my head back to team red so here I am.
 
I use my computer for Gaming, Blender, Art, and Music, and if i'm doing an upgrade I wanted it to be at least as future proof as my last build which apart from switching to an SSD boot drive was largely unchanged since it was first built.
 
So the specs of my new system are
 
Ryzen 7 3700X
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro ATX
1TB Corsair MP600 NVME PCIe4 boot drive
Asus AMD Radeon 5700 XT TUF Gaming
32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200
850W Aerocool 80+ Platinum Fully Modular PSU
Be Quiet! Pure Base 600 Mid Tower
Pioneer Blu Ray
1Tb and 2Tb WD Green HDD storage drives
 
I was sorely tempted by an NVidea RTX 2070 Super but I figured the Radeon 5700XT was close enough in terms of performance give or take hardware RTX support so i used the saving on the graphics card to go for the NVME Boot.
 
I'm sticking with the stock cooler at the moment. Temps and performance are ok, no throttling that I've noticed even on long renders.
 
So here it is. Nothing too flashy but it's in my desk most of the time so I don't see the insides. Actually the biggest challenge of the build was modifying my desk so the case would fit on the shelf, my old case was quite a bit smaller and only just fit.

So after 7 or so years with my last system, I finally took the plunge and upgraded. I'd been considering an upgrade for several years but the new Ryzen chips finally swayed my head back to team red so here I am.
 
I use my computer for Gaming, Blender, Art, and Music, and if i'm doing an upgrade I wanted it to be at least as future proof as my last build which apart from switching to an SSD boot drive was largely unchanged since it was first built.
 
So the specs of my new system are
 
Ryzen 7 3700X
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro ATX
1TB Corsair MP600 NVME PCIe4 boot drive
Asus AMD Radeon 5700 XT TUF Gaming
32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200
850W Aerocool 80+ Platinum Fully Modular PSU
Be Quiet! Pure Base 600 Mid Tower
Pioneer Blu Ray
1Tb and 2Tb WD Green HDD storage drives
 
I was sorely tempted by an NVidea RTX 2070 Super but I figured the Radeon 5700XT was close enough in terms of performance give or take hardware RTX support so i used the saving on the graphics card to go for the NVME Boot.
 
I'm sticking with the stock cooler at the moment. Temps and performance are ok, no throttling that I've noticed even on long renders.
 
So here it is. Nothing too flashy but it's in my desk most of the time so I don't see the insides. Actually the biggest challenge of the build was modifying my desk so the case would fit on the shelf, my old case was quite a bit smaller and only just fit.

So after 7 or so years with my last system, I finally took the plunge and upgraded. I'd been considering an upgrade for several years but the new Ryzen chips finally swayed my head back to team red so here I am.
 
I use my computer for Gaming, Blender, Art, and Music, and if i'm doing an upgrade I wanted it to be at least as future proof as my last build which apart from switching to an SSD boot drive was largely unchanged since it was first built.
 
So the specs of my new system are
 
Ryzen 7 3700X
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro ATX
1TB Corsair MP600 NVME PCIe4 boot drive
Asus AMD Radeon 5700 XT TUF Gaming
32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200
850W Aerocool 80+ Platinum Fully Modular PSU
Be Quiet! Pure Base 600 Mid Tower
Pioneer Blu Ray
1Tb and 2Tb WD Green HDD storage drives
 
I was sorely tempted by an NVidea RTX 2070 Super but I figured the Radeon 5700XT was close enough in terms of performance give or take hardware RTX support so i used the saving on the graphics card to go for the NVME Boot.
 
I'm sticking with the stock cooler at the moment. Temps and performance are ok, no throttling that I've noticed even on long renders.
 
So here it is. Nothing too flashy but it's in my desk most of the time so I don't see the insides. Actually the biggest challenge of the build was modifying my desk so the case would fit on the shelf, my old case was quite a bit smaller and only just fit.

CGI Starfury on an Amiga is the correct use of an Amiga. Points for you!

This is not a specific component or part but it is definitely retro. I was a fan of Commodore Amiga computers and I didn't move to Windows until 2007. I didn't get many pictures of my old systems since digital cameras were still in their infancy and were pretty expensive. But I did get a picture of my Amiga 2000 in 1998 in a digital format by getting a Kodak Photo CD when I sent in this roll of film to get developed. (So this picture is a retro artifact on its own.) I was experimenting with using those as one way to get digital pictures onto my computer since my CD-driver software had support for the Kodak disks and format.

As I stated, this was my Amiga 2000 in 1998. For those familiar with the platform, I had upgraded it with a DKB Megachip 2000/500 board and the 2 MB Agnus--this increased Chip RAM, a shared memory space that the CPU and Custom chips could directly access, from 1MB to 2MB--the max that Amiga hardware could address. You could add Fast RAM, that could be much larger, which was where most of your work was done. I also had the Super Denise upgrade chip that upgraded my graphic chipset from the OCS (Original Chip Set) graphics to the ECS (Enhanced Chip Set) graphics which allowed more native screenmodes and also allowed me to easilly change from NTSC to PAL via software.

Also added by me was the Kickstart 3.1 ROM. Commodore had some of the OS on a chip--just enough to allow the computer to boot up off of floppy or HD. I was running Workbench 3.1 and later worked my way up to OS 3.9, the last update from the inheritors of Commodore until a recent release from Hyperion of OS 3.1.4--yeah, that version number is kinda screwy.

Now these chips originally sat in my old A500--the A500 was all self contained with a built-in keyboard and floppy drive. Since it and the A2000 came out at the same time, they shared many of the same parts. The A500 was more of a home/game machine while the A2000 was a classic desktop of the time with room for internal expansion cards. (The A500 was quite upgradable but that is a whole story of its own.) So when I had a second-hand A2000 drop in my lap, the upgrade was well worth it.

One last shared item was my accelerator, a Supra Turbo 28--a 28MHz 68010 that is as basic of an accelerator as you can get. It suffered from not having a spot for added Fast RAM but it was a big upgrade from the 7.16MHz (NTSC) Morotola 68000. On the A500 it was in an enclosure that plugged onto the side of the computer. If you remove it from its case and set a jumper, you could plug it into the processor slot on the motherboard. The A2000 had the base 68000 CPU soldered onto the mobo, but when you plugged an accelerator into the slot, it took over.

To run that external SCSI CD-ROM drive, I had an A2091 SCSI card in there that had the capacity for me to add RAM, but I didn't add it to this card since it would have conflicted with a larger 8MB RAM expansion (A2058) I had in there. I did have an Individual Computers Buddha IDE board to run my 2GB internal hard drive--which I had paid too much for earlier when it was installed in my A500.

That beefy floppy drive is the classic Amiga 1010. That modem was a Supra FAXModem 28.8--a real workhorse modem that I was just a little sad to let go when I upgraded to faster modems. I did do a fair amount of logging into some of the remaining dialup BBS' that were still around. I could also go on to the Internet, but it wasn't until I got my Picasso IV graphics card for my A4000/040 where I could see things in full color. The Monitor was a Commodore 1080, a great monitor that you could use with the Amiga, C-64 (with the Luma/Chroma video cable if you wanted sharper video, but it could do standard composite video), and C-128 (with the Luma/Chroma and 80-column modes). I believe that the monitor is showing output from a DCTV--an external device that displays high-color pictures via a composite video output. It also works as a slow-scan video digitizer. 

Unfortunately, I no longer have any Amiga hardware. My ultimate dream computer room would not only contain a fast new computer, but I would want to have a retro system or two set up as well. I do have emulation for both the Amiga and the older Commodore 8-bit computers, but there is something about running things on original hardware.

I still have those speakers though and they still sound decent. That device on top of the modem is an external caller ID display.

The pic displayed on the screen is still available on what remains of the Aminet archive. Here it is to save you from a long search