Johnatron 101

I was gifted this pc back in late 2017 by my uncle and I've slowly been upgrading it ever since. It started life with an i5 4670K, 8Gb of RAM, and a GTX 760 2Gb. I started my tweaks by upgrading the ram to 16Gb (which was the first time I changed the internals of a PC) and a few months later I then bought a GTX 1070 to swap out the 760 which was struggling to maintain nice textures in Forza horizon 3 due to the lack of vram. The pc the largely stayed the same until late 2019, when I replaced the old haswell internals with an i5 9600k, Gigabyte Z390 Gaming X, along with 16Gb of Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3600Mhz. During the first lockdown of 2020, I purchased a Corsair H100X AIO (my old be quiet! cooler wasn't quite up to cooling the i5 with a slight OC), a 2 pack of red Corsair AF140 fans, and a Corsair RM850 PSU. Then in early 2021 I decided to cripple my bank account, and purchased an NVIDIA Titan X Pascal, as it offered GTX 1080Ti like performance for £500 ish instead of £650 at the time (also the Titan performs similarly to the RTX 3060Ti, which is what I wanted to buy initially, but scalpers made that unrealistic due to insane pricing). A few months later I decided to purchase a new old stock i7 8086K, as I didn't need an 8 core, but I was getting a few stutters with the 6 core 6 thread i5. Having the extra 6 threads on the i7 has completely removed the stuttering, and this is currently the PCs final config. Without this pc I probably wouldn't have started my pc selling hobby, and I definitely wouldn't have ever built up any of my passion for PCs.
 
Full Specifications:
 
CPU - i7 8086K @5.1Ghz
Motherboard - Gigabyte Z390 Gaming X
RAM - 16Gb (2x8Gb) Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3600Mhz 
Graphics Card - NVIDIA Titan X Pascal 
CPU Cooler - Corsair H100X 240mm
Storage - Corsair MP510 240Gb NVME + 2x WD Blue 1Tb HDDs (Raid 0 (reads and writes at about 350mbps)) + ASUS optical drive (I have some games on disk still, and it's nice to play my CDs occasionally)
PSU - Corsair RM850
Case - Aerocool Aero 800 (getting a bit tired but still suits the look of the pc really well)

I was gifted this pc back in late 2017 by my uncle and I've slowly been upgrading it ever since. It started life with an i5 4670K, 8Gb of RAM, and a GTX 760 2Gb. I started my tweaks by upgrading the ram to 16Gb (which was the first time I changed the internals of a PC) and a few months later I then bought a GTX 1070 to swap out the 760 which was struggling to maintain nice textures in Forza horizon 3 due to the lack of vram. The pc the largely stayed the same until late 2019, when I replaced the old haswell internals with an i5 9600k, Gigabyte Z390 Gaming X, along with 16Gb of Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3600Mhz. During the first lockdown of 2020, I purchased a Corsair H100X AIO (my old be quiet! cooler wasn't quite up to cooling the i5 with a slight OC), a 2 pack of red Corsair AF140 fans, and a Corsair RM850 PSU. Then in early 2021 I decided to cripple my bank account, and purchased an NVIDIA Titan X Pascal, as it offered GTX 1080Ti like performance for £500 ish instead of £650 at the time (also the Titan performs similarly to the RTX 3060Ti, which is what I wanted to buy initially, but scalpers made that unrealistic due to insane pricing). A few months later I decided to purchase a new old stock i7 8086K, as I didn't need an 8 core, but I was getting a few stutters with the 6 core 6 thread i5. Having the extra 6 threads on the i7 has completely removed the stuttering, and this is currently the PCs final config. Without this pc I probably wouldn't have started my pc selling hobby, and I definitely wouldn't have ever built up any of my passion for PCs.
 
Full Specifications:
 
CPU - i7 8086K @5.1Ghz
Motherboard - Gigabyte Z390 Gaming X
RAM - 16Gb (2x8Gb) Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3600Mhz 
Graphics Card - NVIDIA Titan X Pascal 
CPU Cooler - Corsair H100X 240mm
Storage - Corsair MP510 240Gb NVME + 2x WD Blue 1Tb HDDs (Raid 0 (reads and writes at about 350mbps)) + ASUS optical drive (I have some games on disk still, and it's nice to play my CDs occasionally)
PSU - Corsair RM850
Case - Aerocool Aero 800 (getting a bit tired but still suits the look of the pc really well)

I was gifted this pc back in late 2017 by my uncle and I've slowly been upgrading it ever since. It started life with an i5 4670K, 8Gb of RAM, and a GTX 760 2Gb. I started my tweaks by upgrading the ram to 16Gb (which was the first time I changed the internals of a PC) and a few months later I then bought a GTX 1070 to swap out the 760 which was struggling to maintain nice textures in Forza horizon 3 due to the lack of vram. The pc the largely stayed the same until late 2019, when I replaced the old haswell internals with an i5 9600k, Gigabyte Z390 Gaming X, along with 16Gb of Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3600Mhz. During the first lockdown of 2020, I purchased a Corsair H100X AIO (my old be quiet! cooler wasn't quite up to cooling the i5 with a slight OC), a 2 pack of red Corsair AF140 fans, and a Corsair RM850 PSU. Then in early 2021 I decided to cripple my bank account, and purchased an NVIDIA Titan X Pascal, as it offered GTX 1080Ti like performance for £500 ish instead of £650 at the time (also the Titan performs similarly to the RTX 3060Ti, which is what I wanted to buy initially, but scalpers made that unrealistic due to insane pricing). A few months later I decided to purchase a new old stock i7 8086K, as I didn't need an 8 core, but I was getting a few stutters with the 6 core 6 thread i5. Having the extra 6 threads on the i7 has completely removed the stuttering, and this is currently the PCs final config. Without this pc I probably wouldn't have started my pc selling hobby, and I definitely wouldn't have ever built up any of my passion for PCs.
 
Full Specifications:
 
CPU - i7 8086K @5.1Ghz
Motherboard - Gigabyte Z390 Gaming X
RAM - 16Gb (2x8Gb) Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3600Mhz 
Graphics Card - NVIDIA Titan X Pascal 
CPU Cooler - Corsair H100X 240mm
Storage - Corsair MP510 240Gb NVME + 2x WD Blue 1Tb HDDs (Raid 0 (reads and writes at about 350mbps)) + ASUS optical drive (I have some games on disk still, and it's nice to play my CDs occasionally)
PSU - Corsair RM850
Case - Aerocool Aero 800 (getting a bit tired but still suits the look of the pc really well)

Hi, thought you guys might be interested in the pc I built for my friend recently for £450 which features a very rare Ryzen 7 1700x which was branded as a Ryzen 5 1600 from the factory. These processors were apparently only in production for the 36th week of 2017 which makes this CPU very rare and my friend very lucky as I nor the seller knew about this until I checked hardware monitor which showed 8 cores and 16 threads but with the CPU still showing as a 1600. I later ran a cinebench r20 run with all 8 cores @3.7Ghz (Temps peaked at 75c ish after an hour) which I've attached a picture of showing the CPU actually outperforming the r7 1700x (helped by the oc probs).
 
CPU - Ryzen 7 1700X (branded as an r5 1600) £103.85
Motherboard - MSI B450 Tomahawk Max (allows nearly any CPU upgrade so long as the PSU is up to the task) £45
Ram - 16Gb Corsair Vengeance LED 3000Mhz CL15 £44.20
Graphics Card - MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V (peaks at about 69c after an hour of furmark) £185
Case - Neutron Labs Fuzion WO7 ARGB (expansion slot missing to install friends current wifi card) £38.47
Power Supply - Corsair CX 450 (wattage is a bit low but came bundled with a 240gb ssd for £34)
Hard Drive - 1Tb WD Green £15
 
Also, yes I know it isn't ideal to use 2nd hand storage but both drives are relatively new and they have also passed their health checks totally fine.
 
Hope someone finds this build interesting, and I'd also be interested to see what others have built for a similar budget.
 
Thanks for reading! 🙂

Thanks, I'll look out for that.

Image of pc

Hmm I'll give your idea a try tomorrow. And yes, all the pci power cables were plugged in with a corsair rm850.

Here's the finished build: 
 
 

Just built this PC for my grandparents so that they could access their old files and stream sport... Maybe a little overkill?  
 
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Johnatron101/saved/3dMjpg

Maybe in the future ?

I made a post like this a while ago, don't know where it went though. 
 
So, here's the one i made for that
 

 
And another i made recently for another forum thread.
 

 
EDIT.
Thanks, Linus. For dissing me on the livestream! I did forget to say that the top one was pretty terrible though

As a summer project I decided to build myself a computer on a tight budget that I could use for gaming and work so I ended up building this:
 
Specs: 
Processor - Intel core i3 9100f
Motherboard - Gigabyte h310m
Ram - 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2400mhz (1x8)
Graphics Card - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 4GB (Single Fan)
Power Supply - Corsair VS450 
Storage - 480GB Kingston SSD
Case - Deepcool Matrexx 30

As a summer project I decided to build myself a computer on a tight budget that I could use for gaming and work so I ended up building this:
 
Specs: 
Processor - Intel core i3 9100f
Motherboard - Gigabyte h310m
Ram - 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2400mhz (1x8)
Graphics Card - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 4GB (Single Fan)
Power Supply - Corsair VS450 
Storage - 480GB Kingston SSD
Case - Deepcool Matrexx 30