My first PC (please dont flame me lmao)

[Kesink]

I3-3225

Arctic Freezer 11 LP

ASUS P8H61-MX R2.0

Radron HD 6950

HyperX Beast 4GB DDR3-1600 (I had to take the other 4gb out because it fried)

WD Caciar green 500gb

some weird Colorovo case

Corsair CX 430 80+ Bronze

LG CD Drive

keep in mind i got this for free of my uncle and its been my daily machine for almost 3 years

 

 

[Noah0302]

I remember my first PC with a 2nd gen i5

 

But I would highly recommend that you get a 2nd 4gb stick of RAM for dual channel and 4gb might get maxed out fast with one game + chrome

[Master Disaster]

Why would we flame you?

 

It might not be the fastest PC on the planet but its still a PC, welcome to the master race

 

Theoretically you could drop a 3770K in it for a pretty big performance increase.

[curiousmind34]

1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

Why would we flame you?

 

It might not be the fastest PC on the planet but its still a PC, welcome to the master race

 

Theoretically you could drop a 3770K in it for a pretty big performance increase.

Depending on the use case, an ssd is likely more useful if he is not gaming.

[SEAL62]

 

Your first computer will always be something that you remeber and think back to no matter how expensive or "good" it is.

[Kesink]

3 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Why would we flame you?

 

It might not be the fastest PC on the planet but its still a PC, welcome to the master race

 

Theoretically you could drop a 3770K in it for a pretty big performance increase.

i am planning to get a new PC as there is not much point in upgrading mine, thanks for the tip though!

[Master Disaster]

1 minute ago, curiousmind34 said:

Depending on the use case, an ssd is likely more useful if he is not gaming.

An SSD is more useful anyway TBH, the difference between mechanical and solid state is night and day.

[Master Disaster]

1 minute ago, SEAL62 said:

 

Your first computer will always be something that you remeber and think back to no matter how expensive or "good" it is.

Mine was a Pentium 75 with 8MB of EDORAM, a 2MB ATI Mach32 and a Vibra 16 soundcard. It came with Windows 95 but I upgraded it to Windows 3.11 because it was SOOOO slow running 95. I remember a few months after I got it my uncle gave me 32MB of EDO to upgrade it with and I was so excited to be finally able to run Win 95 on it.

[Vishera]

18 minutes ago, Kesink said:

I3-3225

Radron HD 6950

That's a hell of a bottleneck.

I would love to see the graphics on that HD 6950,those are cool cards.

[Vishera]

4 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Mine was a Pentium 75 with 8MB of EDORAM, a 2MB ATI Mach32 and a Vibra 16 soundcard. It came with Windows 95 but I upgraded it to Windows 3.11 because it was SOOOO slow running 95. I remember a few months after I got it my uncle gave me 32MB of EDO to upgrade it with and I was so excited to be finally able to run Win 95 on it.

And my first PC was a Pentium III ,I didn't know much about PCs back then so i have no clue about the specs.

[Dedayog]

24 minutes ago, Kesink said:

I3-3225

Arctic Freezer 11 LP

ASUS P8H61-MX R2.0

Radron HD 6950

HyperX Beast 4GB DDR3-1600 (I had to take the other 4gb out because it fried)

WD Caciar green 500gb

some weird Colorovo case

Corsair CX 430 80+ Bronze

LG CD Drive

keep in mind i got this for free of my uncle and its been my daily machine for almost 3 years

 

 

No flaming here.  Just not sure why you're posting a 3 year old machine.    Perfectly servicable PC there though.

[Bombastinator]

28 minutes ago, Kesink said:

I3-3225

Arctic Freezer 11 LP

ASUS P8H61-MX R2.0

Radron HD 6950

HyperX Beast 4GB DDR3-1600 (I had to take the other 4gb out because it fried)

WD Caciar green 500gb

some weird Colorovo case

Corsair CX 430 80+ Bronze

LG CD Drive

keep in mind i got this for free of my uncle and its been my daily machine for almost 3 years

 

 

This isn’t Reddit.  Hard to beat free.  That machine will stop gaming well fairly shortly. Looks to me like a 1080p@60 gaming machine from some years ago.  There isn’t much there that is savable if you want to update.  I suggest not touching the machine, and building new if you want more power.  The problem is intel DDR3 machines end at 4/8. There’s no real way around it

Edited March 8, 2021 by Bombastinator

[Vishera]

1 minute ago, Bombastinator said:

Looks to me like a 1080p@60 gaming machine from some years ago.

With that CPU?,I don't think so.

Back in 2013 i had a bottleneck playing Assassin's Creed III on an Intel Core i3 2100,

These dual-cores won't run above 30 FPS playing Assassin's Creed III,no matter how powerful your GPU is.

[Master Disaster]

Just now, Vishera said:

With that CPU?,I don't think so.

Back in 2013 i had a bottleneck playing Assassin's Creed III on an Intel Core i3 2100,

These dual-cores won't run above 30 FPS playing Assassin's Creed III,no matter how powerful your GPU is.

To be totally fair, ACIII is not exactly the gold standard in PC ports, heck its not even the stone standard in PC ports but yeah, that CPU is a huge bottleneck.

[Bombastinator]

20 minutes ago, Vishera said:

With that CPU?,I don't think so.

Back in 2013 i had a bottleneck playing Assassin's Creed III on an Intel Core i3 2100,

These dual-cores won't run above 30 FPS playing Assassin's Creed III,no matter how powerful your GPU is.

It’s only 2 thread?  I assumed 4.  Something 4/8 is the highest that can be done with that board and memory though so I’m not sure putting something bigger in wouldn’t be throwing good money after bad.

[Vishera]

53 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

It’s only 2 thread?  I assumed 4.

It's 2 cores/4 threats.

Back then it was:

Pentium - 2 cores/2 threats

Core i3 - 2 cores/4 threats

Core i5 - 4 cores/4 threats

Core i7 - 4 cores/8 threats.

[ccRicers]

10 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Why would we flame you?

 

It might not be the fastest PC on the planet but its still a PC, welcome to the master race

 

Theoretically you could drop a 3770K in it for a pretty big performance increase.

Old Xeons sell for very cheap and you can also upgrade to 4C/8T that way, for less than $70. Intel's desktop boards accepted server CPUs before DDR4. Xeon 1270 v2 has same base clock as 3770K.

The main tradeoff for the cheaper prices of Xeons is you cannot overclock them (you couldn't OC a 3770K anyways, with a H61 board)
 

[Vishera]

4 hours ago, ccRicers said:

The main tradeoff for the cheaper prices of Xeons is you cannot overclock them (you couldn't OC a 3770K anyways, with a H61 board)

Overclockable Xeons exist.

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, Vishera said:

Overclockable Xeons exist.

They’re cheap (assuming they’re still cheap) but it’s $70 of real money.  There’s an argument for it because a 4/8 cpu should be able to do everything but game for years, and can still currently game (most games anyway) How long will that last though?  It could be anywhere from months to years.  It’s the bottom pile gaming cpu atm.  That gpu is good for 1080p on a lot of things. Replacing that is even harder and harder to argue for.  To step up takes nearly a grand though.  Step one might be to research which xenon you can get that will fit your socket, find out how much you will get it for, and understand that the whole thing could wind up costing you however much you spend on the used cpu and produce a computer that while it will still bottom pile game, will only be able to do it for an unknown amount of time.  

Edited March 9, 2021 by Bombastinator

[ccRicers]

 

17 hours ago, Vishera said:

Overclockable Xeons exist.

I guess they're mostly LGA2011 socket ones, correct?

[Kesink]

On 3/8/2021 at 12:41 PM, Kesink said:

I3-3225

Arctic Freezer 11 LP

ASUS P8H61-MX R2.0

Radron HD 6950

HyperX Beast 4GB DDR3-1600 (I had to take the other 4gb out because it fried)

WD Caciar green 500gb

some weird Colorovo case

Corsair CX 430 80+ Bronze

LG CD Drive

keep in mind i got this for free of my uncle and its been my daily machine for almost 3 years

 

 

Guys, I got a new PC. It has a i3 10100, GTX 960 2GB, Corsair Vengeance 4x4gb 2666mhz, a 240gb ssd and a 4tb hard drive, 500w power supply, Corsair H100i Aio, and a corsair 110r case. I am going to upgrade it soon by putting in a i7 10700k, RTX 3070 (good luck finding one for retail) and a 850w psu.I will also add a 500 gb m.2 ssd. Any ideas on what power supply I should get?