First PC build

[David_Kwan]

So I have finished my first ever PC build and I have to say it was an amazing experience!

I find myself lucky that there were no major issues when building it.

 

Though there were some things that made me anxious. First I tried to do a test to see if the components were working.

First was the mobo, cpu and ram installed. But when I booted it up there was nothing showing on the screen. Then I went to look online and found out I was an idiot and that my 2600 has no graphics...

 

Since everything lit up and the cpu cooler worked I proceeded to test the system with the gpu installed. But when I tested it there was no signal on the monitor(using display port from gpu to monitor.).

So I kind of panicked a little and tried seeing if everything was in order. Nothing was wrong, cables all ok. So I just decided to boot it up again but this time having the Windows 10 USB installer plugged in.

 

And it worked! I don't know any technical reason as to why I wasn't getting anything on screen before so please let me know. (Driver issues?)

 

And after updating BIOS, installing Nvidia Drivers and having Windows Update handle the other drivers my PC was ready.

 

Did some overclocking of the gpu and got it to +70 core and +1000 memory. I think I can push it a little more but since I could play Destiny 2 and The Division 2 with no problems I'll just leave it as is for now.

Destiny 2 was played in Ultra settings and I got 144+fps.

All in all I am really glad I decided to build my own PC!