gaming pc Your first rigs and plans to upgrade?

[Johnsynie1989]

Hi Everyone John O' here

 

Its been a while since i built a new rig, so I want to give you a little history, my first ever experiment took place when i was around 16 years old when my old pc was an acer aspire with a foxconn motherboard with an LGA 775 Socket it still used IDE cables and it had two stat ports it was crazy thats what set me off, the pc began to die on me so removed the ram and exchanged it with new ram which was ddr2 at the time lol,  from a pc that was identical i found in the dumpster, and i swapped the power supply and it worked, so i decided to buy my first secdond hand ATI Radeon x550 where i used to use the TV out connection to use on my old widescreen TV, so sfter then i went to an old dell cant remember the model, but i always experienced problems so i ditchrd it, i decided to make a huge leap after a few years of using various laptops and built my first intel i7 desktop with 16gb of ddr3 with a gigabyte rx480 still performs amazingly to this day even had games running on full settings 1080p, even some running on 1440p at a reasonable fps, however it's time to go to amd ryzen now for my new project which i will start on january.

 

what was your first rig i ask everyone and where are you heading next ??

[amdorintel]

my first rig was circa 1970's think atari 800 for the business

then apple 2 with large 5" floppy diskettes

 

now a flip phone from the 1990's or a calculator is a million times better then those.

 

i am heading to threadripper on the next build

[MartinKweh]

my first rig was back in 2006 or 8? i had those athlon cpu (forgot which one) and a 9800gt or something lower. that pc was horrible when crysis got released lol. so i used it until like the release of skyrim where i literally had to play at windowed more small scale resolution. then i had 2 laptops between 2012 and 2017. then my current PC upgraded from 2017. i was like 14-15 when i had my first personal build so i know it was a bad build lol. my first PC was back in 2000 though windows 98 was so advanced(in my country)

[Statik]

My first rig was like 6 years ago back in HS (the 8320 and 770 in my specs) Never upgraded and finally said fuck it and this BF I’m going all out with a 3700x and 2080S UW1440p build.

[Vishera]

45 minutes ago, Statik said:

My first rig was like 6 years ago back in HS (the 8320 and 770 in my specs) Never upgraded and finally said fuck it and this BF I’m going all out with a 3700x and 2080S UW1440p build.

The 8320 bottlenecks your 770,

I have a 8320E in my closet (OCed to 4.3GHz),It was bottlenecking almost every GPU i threw at it,It bottlenecked my R9 380 which is slightly weaker than your 770.

I have always regretted buying a FX CPU,while i could get a 2600K for the same price at the time i bought it.

[Founders]

My First: Gateway 2000 P5-90 Intel Pentium 900MHz (not my image)

 

Now: I currently have all of my parts gathered for a 3700X build, upgrading from a 4th gen Intel i7 build (it's been a little while).  

[Statik]

59 minutes ago, Vishera said:

The 8320 bottlenecks your 770,

I have a 8320E in my closet (OCed to 4.3GHz),It was bottlenecking almost every GPU i threw at it,It bottlenecked my R9 380 which is slightly weaker than your 770.

I have always regretted buying a FX CPU,while i could get a 2600K for the same price at the time i bought it.

Well wish I knew that 6 years ago. All will be solved soon with 4 stacks and a slight upgrade

[Vishera]

4 minutes ago, Statik said:

Well wish I knew that 6 years ago. All will be solved soon with 4 stacks and a slight upgrade

And the crazy thing is that the 2600K once overclocked still performs well in the most demanding games of 2019,

It can run RDR2 on high settings 1080p with more than 60 FPS.

[Statik]

6 minutes ago, Vishera said:

And the crazy thing is that the 2600K once overclocked still performs well in the most demanding games of 2019,

It can run RDR2 on high settings 1080p with more than 60 FPS.

Like to be honest my 8320 and 770 still drive most new games fairly decently 

[Vishera]

Just now, Statik said:

Like to be honest my 8320 and 770 still drive most new games fairly decently 

Yep,while FX CPUs won't bottleneck you in a lot of modern games,it will bottleneck you in plenty of CPU demanding games,

For example GTA V,Final Fantasy XV,Assassin's Creed Odyssey,and there are more.

[LogicalDrm]

*** Fixed title ***

 

I will check if there was another similar thread, we get these kinda often.

 

E: nothing similar found in last 2 months, this can stay.

Edited November 27, 2019 by LogicalDrm

[Evyatar]

My first "real gaming rig" was about 10 years ago.
it had:
i7 930
8gb ram
gtx 240
lga 1366 x58a ud3r

Since then i've upgraded it serval times, but the latest upgrade was 2 years ago, and about 6 monthes ago I've given it a way.
The latest upgrades were:
8gb > 24gb ram
gtx 240 > gtx970mini
case (random) to 570x by corsair.

If anyone wants me to upload photos let me know

[Vishera]

My first gaming rig was:

CPU: Intel Core i3 2100 3.10GHz
RAM: Kingston D3N9 6GB 1333MHz DDR3
Graphic Card: Sapphire - ATi Radeon HD6750 1GB DDR5
Cooler: ZALMAN CNPS90F
Motherboard: MSI H61M-P23 B3
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint 500GB 7200RPM
Optical Drive: LG DVD±RW GH22NS x22 Black SATA
Supply Power: NEOTech ATX 500W (Generic power supply i bought from Russia with the case for $15)
Case: 3cott 2017 Midi ATX (cheap case i bought from Russia for $10)

 

That case i had is the lightest case i have ever seen,i could lift it with my pinkie,

The inside of the aluminium case is completely bare with no paint. 

Surprisingly the PSU never gave me problems

 

4 hours ago, Evyatar said:

case (random) to 570x by corsair.

The case of my main rig is a replica of that case,but better than the original (in my country we make our own cases).

It comes with a fan controller, and 4 better looking RGB fans,

I removed the front glass panel for better airflow.

I paid $70 for that case

[Mitko_DSV]

The first computer I bought for myself was a pre-built (didn't know that much about computers back then). That was in May 2012. And I'm still using the same PC, well quite upgraded.

CPU: Intel Celeron G530 2.4GHz →Intel Core i5 2320 3GHz→Intel Core i7 2600s 2.8GHz

Cooler: CoolerMaster with 92mm PWM Fan→DeepCool Ice Edge Mini FS v2→back to the previous one since the 2600s is only 65W

RAM: 4GB DDR3 1333MHz→8GB DDR3 1333MHz Dual-channel→16GB DDR3 1600MHz Dual-channel

GPU: AMD Radeon HD7470 2GB→AMD Radeon RX460 4GB

HDD: Seagate 1TB→add Seagate 500GB→remove Seagate 1TB and add Sandisk Z410 120GB SSD and WD Blue 1TB HDD

Case: Acer→CoolerMaster Silencio 352M

PSU: FSP Group 250W→CoolerMaster B500 v2 500W

Monitor: Samsung S19B300 19" 1366x768→Samsung S22D300HY 22" 1080p→Acer SA220Q 22" 1080p IPS

Everything that I've replaced on my PC is still being used by me. The Seagate 1TB HDD is a backup. And from the other spare parts I built my secondary PC. Actually the Celeron isn't used for anything, it just sits in a box on my desk.

Now as for plans for the future - I don't have any. This PC may not be the newest of fastest, but it's enough for my needs. Especially since I don't play games that much anymore and the games I do play run great at 1080p max settings (well not all games are at max settings, but most of them).

[X-System]

My first computer was Apple Macintosh SE/30, it was in 1989 or 1990. And my first computer x86 was Compaq Presario desktop Intel 486DX4/100, it was in 1994.

[ThurraxKidd]

Hey all, I'm Planning to upgrade my current rig which is running a i5 650, evga gtx 660 sc, 8gb ram, a 500w power supply, 1tb hdd, and 250gb ssd. Mostly just want to upgrade mobo,cpu, gpu, and obviously ram. Are the provide photos good choices?

[Vishera]

2 hours ago, ThurraxKidd said:

Hey all, I'm Planning to upgrade my current rig which is running a i5 650, evga gtx 660 sc, 8gb ram, a 500w power supply, 1tb hdd, and 250gb ssd. Mostly just want to upgrade mobo,cpu, gpu, and obviously ram. Are the provide photos good choices?

Spoiler

 

 

 

With Ryzen the stock cooler is good enough,you can use the stock cooler.

About the motherboard i would recommend the MSI B450 Tomahawk or Tomahawk MAX for $10 more,

You can even use a 3950X with the Tomahawk.

[NineEyeRon]

After being a prebuild owner since 2003 and my last one used for 9 years where only the case, MoBo and CPU remained.

 

Built my first PC last year to game on for 5 years at least, after 1 its still going strong and I don’t expect that to change. It’s an Intel i5 8600 paired with an RX580 in Nano S case. I love it!

 

It can take me 1440p so I am saving up for that but it’s not urgent or necessary. Planning to do that xmas 2020.

[Mark Kaine]

My very first PC was a Fujitsu Ergo Pro with a Pentium processor. 

It still works too... Those were apparently build like tanks compared to the Lego style PCs we have nowadays which apparently break by just looking at them.  ;D 

[JordRob33]

Hi Guys,

  I’m current looking to upgrade, Iv got a budget of £300 - £400. I don’t have a great deal of knowledge when it comes to my PC, so Ive been scouring the web and youtube for advice. So I’m currently running i5 8400, 24G Ram, GTX 1060, 1 TB HDD but I’m also playing on my old HD tv. I wanted to know whether il be better off spending my money on a CPU, GPU, or even an SSD and Monitor? Iv been looking at the i7 9700k, EVGA RTX 2060. Thanks for your time 

Jordan

[NineEyeRon]

1 hour ago, JordRob33 said:

running i5 8400, 24G Ram, GTX 1060, 1 TB HDD but I’m also playing on my old HD tv. I wanted to know whether il be better off spending my money on a CPU, GPU, or even an SSD and Monitor? Iv been looking at the i7 9700k, EVGA RTX 2060. Thanks for your time 

Jordan

SSD to boot from and a 1080p 144hz monitor, total cost about £300. Monitor is about £240 and SSD is under £60.

 

What reason do you have to go to a 9700k and a 2060 when you could put a 2080 with your current CPU without issue?

 

[Teddy07]

Don´t know, long gone with the trash

[JordRob33]

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[JordRob33]

28 minutes ago, NineEyeRon said:

SSD to boot from and a 1080p 144hz monitor, total cost about £300. Monitor is about £240 and SSD is under £60.

 

What reason do you have to go to a 9700k and a 2060 when you could put a 2080 with your current CPU without issue?

 

Yeah I’ve been leaning towards the monitor and SSD. Il also have a read up on the best settings to run as I haven’t really changed anything since buying the PC. Well as I said I don’t have a great deal of knowledge on the subject and I wanted to make sure I spend my money in the right areas. Thanks for your time mate appreciate it 

 

Btw I didn’t mean I’d go for both the GPU and CPU, I wasn’t sure if they seemed pretty balanced? or if I’m not getting the best out of one or the other..