Swansong

ShadowChaser · June 17, 2020

So I'm going to be off to uni soon, and as such most of my (admittedly excessive) hardware collection needs to be disposed of. With that in mind I decided to throw together one last overkill (for me) setup before I tear everything down and start selling and what not. Please excuse the mess on my desk as this was done pretty much in the middle of packing but I ended up being pretty happy with the result. I've recreated the setup that I used for most of this past year, though 'used' is rather generous as the system sat untouched for many days at a time as I relied on my laptop for remote learning and work.

Final Setup:

Build:

This is the computer that I'll be bringing with me - I splurged hard on an NCase M1 and the accompanying Iceman pump/res block and Bykski DDC pump. This was a massive upgrade from my Node 202 for not a lot more space sacrificed.

Inside are the following components:

i7-8700K - 5.0Ghz @ 1.225v

Corsair H75 CLC

2x16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666

Asus Strix Z390I Gaming

MSI Aero GTX 1070 Ti - EKWB Titan X Pascal block + XSPC TX240 Radiator w/ 2x Silverstone FN123

Samsung 970 Evo 500GB + HP EX920 1TB

Corsair SF450 Gold + Sleeved Cable Set

Tubing is Primochill LRT Black.

The whole setup brings these into the mix:

Primary Monitor: AOC Agon AG241QX QHD 144hz Gaming monitor, which I am lucky enough to be able to bring with me

Secondary Displays: Asus VS247H-P FHD 60hz monitors, 5 year old displays that have outlived every single part of the original build I paired them with back in 2015

Peripherals:

Razer Blackwidow Ultimate Stealth w/ Razer Orange switches
HIRALIY F300 Gaming Mouse, the cheapest RGB mouse I could afford at the time
Blue Snowball iCE + Knox scissor arm & filter, which got me through all the voiceovers for documentaries I filmed for history class
Wacom CTH-480, one of the best tablets ever made, it still makes me sad they aren't available anymore
Creative A250 2.1 Speaker System, also the cheapest speakers I could get that weren't crap.
Kingston 7-in-1 Card Reader
WD Elements 8TB, used only for backups
Mouse Windows Hello Webcam

This is the setup that I've been living with, more or less, for the past few weeks and I'm sure to miss it. It's great for my 'purely a hobby' video editing and digital art workflow, while also being completely overbuilt for both single and multi-monitor gaming in my case. Feel free to roast me on my now rather outdated setup and the atrocious state it's in

YT_DomDaBomb20 · June 19, 2020

On 6/16/2020 at 10:18 PM, ShadowChaser said:

So I'm going to be off to uni soon, and as such most of my (admittedly excessive) hardware collection needs to be disposed of. With that in mind I decided to throw together one last overkill (for me) setup before I tear everything down and start selling and what not. Please excuse the mess on my desk as this was done pretty much in the middle of packing but I ended up being pretty happy with the result. I've recreated the setup that I used for most of this past year, though 'used' is rather generous as the system sat untouched for many days at a time as I relied on my laptop for remote learning and work.

Final Setup:

Build:

This is the computer that I'll be bringing with me - I splurged hard on an NCase M1 and the accompanying Iceman pump/res block and Bykski DDC pump. This was a massive upgrade from my Node 202 for not a lot more space sacrificed.

Inside are the following components:

i7-8700K - 5.0Ghz @ 1.225v

Corsair H75 CLC

2x16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666

Asus Strix Z390I Gaming

MSI Aero GTX 1070 Ti - EKWB Titan X Pascal block + XSPC TX240 Radiator w/ 2x Silverstone FN123

Samsung 970 Evo 500GB + HP EX920 1TB

Corsair SF450 Gold + Sleeved Cable Set

Tubing is Primochill LRT Black.

The whole setup brings these into the mix:

Primary Monitor: AOC Agon AG241QX QHD 144hz Gaming monitor, which I am lucky enough to be able to bring with me

Secondary Displays: Asus VS247H-P FHD 60hz monitors, 5 year old displays that have outlived every single part of the original build I paired them with back in 2015

Peripherals:

Razer Blackwidow Ultimate Stealth w/ Razer Orange switches

HIRALIY F300 Gaming Mouse, the cheapest RGB mouse I could afford at the time

Blue Snowball iCE + Knox scissor arm & filter, which got me through all the voiceovers for documentaries I filmed for history class

Wacom CTH-480, one of the best tablets ever made, it still makes me sad they aren't available anymore

Creative A250 2.1 Speaker System, also the cheapest speakers I could get that weren't crap.

Kingston 7-in-1 Card Reader

WD Elements 8TB, used only for backups

Mouse Windows Hello Webcam

This is the setup that I've been living with, more or less, for the past few weeks and I'm sure to miss it. It's great for my 'purely a hobby' video editing and digital art workflow, while also being completely overbuilt for both single and multi-monitor gaming in my case. Feel free to roast me on my now rather outdated setup and the atrocious state it's in