My much loved gaming rig

Johnatron 101 · March 27, 2022

I was gifted this pc back in late 2017 by my uncle and I've slowly been upgrading it ever since. It started life with an i5 4670K, 8Gb of RAM, and a GTX 760 2Gb. I started my tweaks by upgrading the ram to 16Gb (which was the first time I changed the internals of a PC) and a few months later I then bought a GTX 1070 to swap out the 760 which was struggling to maintain nice textures in Forza horizon 3 due to the lack of vram. The pc the largely stayed the same until late 2019, when I replaced the old haswell internals with an i5 9600k, Gigabyte Z390 Gaming X, along with 16Gb of Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3600Mhz. During the first lockdown of 2020, I purchased a Corsair H100X AIO (my old be quiet! cooler wasn't quite up to cooling the i5 with a slight OC), a 2 pack of red Corsair AF140 fans, and a Corsair RM850 PSU. Then in early 2021 I decided to cripple my bank account, and purchased an NVIDIA Titan X Pascal, as it offered GTX 1080Ti like performance for £500 ish instead of £650 at the time (also the Titan performs similarly to the RTX 3060Ti, which is what I wanted to buy initially, but scalpers made that unrealistic due to insane pricing). A few months later I decided to purchase a new old stock i7 8086K, as I didn't need an 8 core, but I was getting a few stutters with the 6 core 6 thread i5. Having the extra 6 threads on the i7 has completely removed the stuttering, and this is currently the PCs final config. Without this pc I probably wouldn't have started my pc selling hobby, and I definitely wouldn't have ever built up any of my passion for PCs.

Full Specifications:

CPU - i7 8086K @5.1Ghz

Motherboard - Gigabyte Z390 Gaming X

RAM - 16Gb (2x8Gb) Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3600Mhz

Graphics Card - NVIDIA Titan X Pascal

CPU Cooler - Corsair H100X 240mm

Storage - Corsair MP510 240Gb NVME + 2x WD Blue 1Tb HDDs (Raid 0 (reads and writes at about 350mbps)) + ASUS optical drive (I have some games on disk still, and it's nice to play my CDs occasionally)

PSU - Corsair RM850

Case - Aerocool Aero 800 (getting a bit tired but still suits the look of the pc really well)

Bombastinator · March 27, 2022

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looks to me like a good case too. Good airflow AND 5 1/4” bays at the same time is rare. A little Dremel action to mod in a USBC port on the front panel and you’ll be good for a long long time I think.