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Finally it was time to do some up grading of my system. Before I was running a AMD FX6300 paired with a 4GB RX 480. Prices were down to a reasonable amount on all parts so I pulled the trigger. Yes I know the PC is on the floor close to "dust", but I assure you my place is heavily air purified so dust is very uncommon. Also a robot vacuum cleans around the computer 3 times a day. Everything other then the PC are all budget friendly gear to get me going until I can save up for better stuff. This has been about almost a year long project and there is still more I'd like to do! Let me know what you like about it and what you don't! What would you change if you could? CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600X RAM: 16GB XPG D60G @ 3200MHz Mobo: ROG Strix B550-A GPU: ASUS Dual RX 6600(non XT) Storage: 1TB Silicon Power NVMe M.2 / 240GB Crucial SSD / 1TB WD Blue HDD PSU: Rosewill SMG650 Fully modular CPU Cooler: TH360 ARGB Snow Edition AIO Case: XPG Starker Case Fans: GIM KB-23 ARGB fans

So I finally finished my setup and wanted to share. CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x GPU - Gigabyte Gaming OC 3080 RTX MB - MSI B550 Tomahawk RAM - Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 3600 Mhz CL18 64 GB AIO - MSI Coreliquid 360r PSU - Be Quiet 850W 80+ Platinum CASE - Chieftech Stallion II (modded by myself for better airflow) Monitors - 2x Gigabyte G27QC / curved / 1440p / 165hz Mouse - Razer Deathadder V2 Keyboard - Razer Blackwidow V3 Tenkeyless Mousepad on desk - Razer Goliathus Extended Chroma Mousepad on wall - Razer Firefly Hard edition Headset - Razer Blackshark V2 Pro Controller - AimControllers PS4 Custom mod RGB Cables - Lian Li Strimer Plus Thanks for reading !

Budget (including currency): Without peripherals = 891USD ~ 16,400MXN - With peripherals 1169USD ~ 21,500MXN Country: Mexico Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Apex Legends, Elden Ring, lots of Hades (not heavy on graphics or anything but I love it), Borderlands 3 and basically every game I wasn't able to play before Other details The ultimate PC building got another victim yesterday, ME! I got a significant upgrade all around, before I was playing in a HP laptop with a Ryzen 7 3700U that my uncle got my for my birthday 3 years ago (dont remember the model and its in another place), I had a G213 for a keyboard (not mechanical), a wired G203. My build ended up like this: CPU - Ryzen 5 3600 (stock cooler) > 111 USD ~ 2059 MXN GPU - GTX 1050Ti > RX 6650 XT > 362 USD ~ 6656 MXN MOBO - Gigabyte B550M DS3H > 109 USD ~ 2019 SSD - M.2 Kingston KC3000 1TB > 91 USD ~ 1679 RAM - Kingston Fury Beast RGB > 55 USD ~ 1019 MXN CASE - XPG AIR VALOR > 55 USD ~ 1019 MXN PSU - Corsair RM650 80 Gold > 100 USD ~ 1848MXN And for peripherals I went with a G915 TKL brown switches for keyboard because I wanted the wifelessness and a G502X wired, then the monitor was free, I have a 24' 1080p tv from my grandma which is really good at 60hz (STORY: When national tv changed from analog to digital, government gifted digital signal receiving tvs to old people and my grandma gave hers to me, so I have that and its good enough while I save for a real one with a better response time) some time in the next 2 months I will get a 144hz monitor so I can really enjoy my new FPS counter going over 60. - Here goes the reasoning for the components: Cpu will be upgraded in a couple of months, even though the mobo has a usb bios update feature I didn't want to go through that in my first build, I will probably get a Ryzen 5 5800x in a couple of months, don really need it but its going to be fun having it. GPU, well I am a little desperate person and my gpu arrives in 2 weeks but I already had every other part, so I borrowed that 1050ti from a friend but my real gpu will be an RX 6650 XT The SSD I just wanted something fast to experience it for the first time, all I knew was hard drive speed and the difference is just amazing, also Im getting a bunch of SATA storage but I dont really need it right now so its not a priority The case had 4 fans and was discounted 20usd when I bought it + has a mesh front panel and magnetic filters so its really nice, flexes a little but not so much for how cheap it was PSU I went for modular and powerful enough for future upgrades and even with those have extra room so I feel comfortable, also got a great price, at the time of getting it amazon had it at 130usd-ish and I got it for 100us so great, my second option was a cougar gex 600 and it was also around 100usd so this was the better option I guess. Im really proud of doing it and have successfully booted up in my first try, thermals are okay and I'm yet to tweak bios because I didn't have any wired keyboard to do it but yeah everything its working perfect Edit: Forgot the picture and I dont know how to resize it lol

Hey all, If your looking for a quick fix of glorious computer beauty shots you may want to come back at Christmas... This one is going to be a while! So the story begins last year when I was given a stripped out G5 Mac case by a friend, it had all the metal hardware inside still and the original fans (not none of the actual PC hardware) and ever since I have been itching to build something inside of it! A few months ago I stripped out all the old mounting brackets to try and get a feel for what could be done. The last photo shows the PSU case in the bottom which having looked at different G5 builds is too small for a normal ATX which means either the case or the PSU have to be modded, I wasn't a big fan of either solution (but more on that later...) While the obvious next step may have been to go to laserhive and buy their ATX adapter plate, I wanted to know what hardware I was going to have so that I knew which version I was going to buy. So I did the next thing any respectable builder with a very tight budget did - I started Ebay shopping! So without further ado, the current hardware that will go into this beast: CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2 (£50) GPU: NVidia GTX Titan Black 6GB (£85) Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H Rev1.0 (£59 + £14 Import fees) RAM: 8Gb (2x4Gb) Corsair Vengence 1600MHz DDR3 (£18) PSU: Intel (Delta) Intel E98791-009 750W Hotswap + INTEL DA0S6CTB4D0 P4304 Power Backplane (£25 + £15) CPU Cooler: Chinese RGB tower Cooler (£20) Total so far: £286 (AKA a bargain!) Now I seem to have been mostly lucky with the parts as this last weekend I put them all together and after a few days of bios swapping and debugging it all works! I'm currently using an SSD from my main system with windows on for testing but I actually have another 128Gb SSD (cheap PNY that I got form Amazon for ~£20) that I have Kubuntu installed on that I intend to be the main disk and OS for this system. The actual idea for this system was to have a workstation that I could play with some tensor flow/Cuda stuff on, I've done some machine learning stuff in the past with CPU clusters (Condor) but never actually had a NVidia card at home that I could use! So I knew setting out I wanted PCIe 3 and a decent NVidia card with CUDA cores to play with! The CPU I just found for buy-it-now at that price by luck and knew I have to have it at that price. As you can see the test looks pretty janky, but it boots (and in fact I'm currently writing this on it!) Some quirks: GPU: The eagle eyed among you may also notice there is no fan or shroud on the Titan Black - it was a company selling off old ones that had been used in a server so had all the fans removed, but it still has the heatsink on so i've currently just butted a fan up against the heatsink plugged into one of the mobo fan headers, which wont do for gaming but seems to be fine for normal desktop usage/testing at the moment. PSU: The power supply I originally thought was a stroke of genius as it would fit perfectly in the G5 PSU case, when I first got it I thought I would buy a Pico-Psu and wire the 12 v directly onto the rails. But after about 2-months of searching I finally found what I was looking for an actual power distribution plate from an intel server (and it was only £15!) By the way that 2 months of fruitless searching was mainly because I didn't know what to call the bloody thing! So on paper a 750w platinum rated PSU for £40 all in seems really good, but I've already run into issues, for a start there are no pcie connectors so at the moment I have two different Molex to PCIe adapters for powering the GPU (which is not going to work long term, and in fact I crashed out when I tried to run the heaven benchmark with a hard reset, and I'm pretty sure that was the reason!) So if anyone knows if there were optional PCIe adapters for these things please let me know! Alternatively I have two unused 8pin Atx adapters that I'm considering if I can re-wire to PCIe? MOBO: I don't even know where to start with this... It originally would not Boot at all with the Xeon in, after a lot of searching I found my problem happened to quite a lot of people with this era of gigabyte board (old white bios boot screen which is unresponsive) and at least two people had said the solution lied with updating the bios using integrated graphics with the GPU unplugged and then later installing the GPU. This obviously wasn't happening with the Xeon (no iGPU ) so I borrowed an I5 from a friend and after going through 6 different BIOS versions with no luck it turned out that booting with no USB devices plugged in was the solution. Anyway I'm now running it on a modded Bios from the tweaktown forum and it seems to be great! WORK STILL TO DO - CASE MOD TO ATX: Before I can install anything I need to get the conversion kit from laser hive - they make a few but I'm probably going with their Full ATX High kit which gives extra PCI expansion slots in place of where the G5 drive mounts used to be. I'm also considering whether to get the front panel mod for USB 3 but I may cut corners to fund other bits... PAINTING: While I am a huge fan of the aesthetics of the G5, this isn't going to be a hackintosh and seeing as I'm already getting in to case modding I want to customize as much as possible! Also painting is a good way to cover up the bodge job I will most likely do on Modding the case! I have seem some beautiful G5 paint jobs looking around and I'm currently inspired by this one from Bradamante on the tonymacx86 forums: I'm thinking of two tone grey with a lighter and darker grey, possibly with an even lighter colour again for the interior of the case for getting some lighting in there. COOLING: Obviously an 80mm fan zip tied to the heatsink of the Titan probably wont cut it, so I either need to find a replacement or my other line of thinking is getting one of the cheap Aliexpress water cooling kits with a GPU and CPU block in, there is more than enough space for a 240mm plus another 120mm radiator in the case without further modification, but potentially room for more with some ingenuity. This would basically just come down to whether I can justify the cost as the Xeon can't exactly be easily overclocked so it would mainly be for the GPU, and the cheap universal blocks would need active VRM air cooling as well anyway. I'd also like to see if it's worth getting the old Mac fans working - I tried one that seemed to have a normal 4 pin adapter (but being mac who the hell knows) but plugging into a fan header on the mobo yielded no results, the two other dual fan setups that where with the G5 case have much funkier adapters that I'll have to find pin-out diagrams for before I can even try to test them. Alternatively the inside may get painted white and RGB all the stuff... CABLE SLEEVING: I've got a ton of grey and cream paracord that I plan on using to sleeve the PSU cables with once I work out what lengths they need to be etc (and once I work out what the hell I'm going to do for the PCIe power connectors.) SIDE WINDOW?: This is a bit of a long shot idea for now, but the mac side panel is held on by a bracket that just screws into the aluminum panel, as the panel itself is perfectly rectangular I was thinking I could get a smoked perspex sheet cut perfect to size and then just attach the mounting bracket (I've already checked and it does just screw off without glue!) So I think there's potential here but it's pretty low down the list of priorities. THATS ALL FOR NOW... Thanks for looking guys, I'll keep this updated as I get new bits and get more done - I'm currently trying to budget getting at least one part a month (though I went a bit crazy last month when I bought the bulk of the final electronic parts!) If you have any ideas for other mods I could do etc. let me know! This is definitely a perrmanent 'project' pc that I can play with rather than needing to have 100% up-time so crazy ideas are welcome

I built myself a pc to game but its more or less budget and i still need a gpu. CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X RAM: 16GB 2933Mhz DDR4 GPU GTX 1050 TI X OC 4G so i was looking up a bottleneck calculator and it tells me to get a gpu from the list below because my gpu is bottlenecking by 100% GPU suggestions: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti NVIDIA GeForce TITAN Xp COLLECTORS EDITION NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 NVIDIA GeForce TITAN V NVIDIA NVIDIA TITAN Xp NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 TI NVIDIA Quadro P6000 NVIDIA NVIDIA TITAN X What should i go for to get 100% out of my cpu ? would the 1080 TI be enough or do i need a 2080 TI or even one of the others ?

Okay, so, I've always been interested in hardware. I've tore down old machines, watched a billion and one build guides, and even tried, and failed, to build a machine out of scraps from a bin. But finally, I am ready to construct my own machine out of new parts! This is not only a first build, but a budget build. I gave myself a budget of 400 dollars, and ended up blowing that budget by 200. Hopefully not in vain. All the parts have been ordered, and the last one shipped today, so come Friday, I will have all the parts and all weekend to build, though there *are* a few things I've been wondering about. Let's start with this: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/diogenesofindy/saved/BYxvVn This is everything I have ordered so far. I know I'm missing a GPU, but damn it, I just can't afford it. And I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but the prices are simply ridiculous, flat outrageous. Out of curiosity, I threw that build up on another tech forum, and they said it was a great budget build, but if they were to do anything, they'd get an I3 8100, and the mobo to fit it. Making it this: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/diogenesofindy/saved/v3wQVn Now, if I were to return the mobo and cpu, I'd save a good 20 bucks, and the benchmark for the 8100 is 36 points better, according to http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i3-8100-vs-Intel-Core-i3-6300/3942vs3536 At this point I should say, I am currently using an old as hell dell inspiron 530S. I haven't ever cracked open the case, but ik it's packing an Intel pentium E2200 (the benchmark comparison is pitiful http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-Dual-E2200-vs-Intel-Core-i3-6300/m1712vs3536 ) It's also got <4 gigs of, what I assume, DDR2 ram, though, like I said, I haven't opened it since I got it second hand. I'm running Linux Mint's Sarah on it atm. The fossil can't even run undertale or minecraft even in their lowest settings, and the fan sounds like a helicopter taking off. Needless to say, I really don't want to use it for much longer. I'm honestly afraid it'll catch fire. Basically, what I want to know is, is the performance boost between the two CPUs great enough for me to return the 6300 and mobo, wait for the refund, and then wait for the new parts? Or will is it so minor, I won't really notice it while I play MC and surf the interwebz? Whatcha think guise? Anyway, whether or not I decided to keep the parts already bought I will be sharing my experience with you all. This is my first post, so excuse any faux pas. And thanks!