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1) Blue LED's on everything! In every Fan slot! Keyboard, mouse even USB ports! LED LED!!

2) Getting PC cases like this to stand out at LANs

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3) MAXIMUM cooling phase, putting the biggest possible fan in every possible slot despite not even OC'ing anything. 

4) Spending more time building/working on your PC than actually using it phase, dat cable management! 

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1. Not being on PC

2. Being on PC

"How hard can it be?" - Jeremy Clarkson

"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you." - Jeremy Clarkson

 

"There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking." - Leslie Nielsen

 

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Haf X, green LED fan in the front + rear, titan, pleb status is real.

 

Now I know better than to go full retard lol. Can't wait to finish my current build, should be ordering my 4790k sometime this week.

 

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@Askew is right Not having one to having one was also my only phase lol

CPU: i7-4770k @4.8ghz---Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth z97---Ram 32gb Corsair Vengeance---GPU: 2 EVGA GTX 980 4gb way sli---Case: Corsair 600T White---Storage: 500gb 850 Pro & WD Black 4tb---PSU: Corsair RM1000

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1. Peasant

2. Master Race

Build: CPU: Intel Core i5 4690k | CPU Cooler: Hyper 212 Evo | Motherboard: MSI Z97 Gaming 5 | RAM: 8GB G-Skill Ares 1600Mhz CL9 | Storage: 120GB Samsung 840 Evo + WD Blue 1TB 64MB Cache + Seagate Barracuda 2TB 64MB Cache | GPU: MSI GTX 960 | Case: Cooler Master Storm Enforcer | Power Supply: EVGA 600B Non-Modular | 

 

 

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1. Upgrading my old Dell

2. Humble but proud

3. Running into a large sum of money which I dumped into my PC

4. Retro is the new "new"

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  1. Thinking SSDs were terrible because they failed all the time, and hating them for that reason
Getting one of the best consumer-grade SSDs on the market, and realizing that I fucking love them.

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1. wanting to buy a pc with high cpu speeds (crappy cheapy amd stuff)

2. realising speeds are not everything

3. wanting leds

4. wanting loads of fans

 

disclaimer: did not buy leds, fans or that amd cpu luckily

CPU: i7 8700k Motherboard: MSI Z370 Krait Gaming RAM: 4x 8GB Corsair Vengeance Pro (2 white, 2 black) GPU: MSI RTX 2070 Armor Case: Corsair Crystal 570x White HDD: 2x 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm Sata 3 SSD: 240GB Corsair Force 3 + 500GB Samsung 970 Evo Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series™ H150i PSU: Corsair RM750i OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit

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1. wanting to buy a pc with high cpu speeds (crappy cheapy amd stuff)

2. realising speeds are not everything

3. wanting leds

4. wanting loads of fans

 

disclaimer: did not buy leds, fans or that amd cpu luckily

I did the same thing, but with cores. OMG AMD 8 corez!!! 

Ryzen 7600X | MSI Trio X 3080 | 3440x1440p asus vg34vql1b | Antec HCG 850 | 1TB WD Blue SSD | 500GB Aorus Elite | Asus B650 Strix A

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  1. Thinking SSDs were terrible because they failed all the time, and hating them for that reason
  2. Getting one of the best consumer-grade SSDs on the market, and realizing that I fucking love them.

 

What SSD would that be? 

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1. Not accepting my really old Dell OEM PC from 2001 couldn't play new games.

2. Not playing PC for years.

3. Getting back into PC games.

4. Not having the drive to play games much anymore.

I have number 4 atm. 

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1. No PC, cause NES, SuperNintendo, N64 (good old times :3 )

2. Had to beg for every upgrade possible, cause I was a child.

3. PC-components chosen by a friend of my dad's.

4. Decent Phase, very clean look, all money on GPU/CPU

5. Upcoming...Mini-ITX!

QBX / Portable Rig / RetroPi / Borderlands Casemod / IKEA Kallax Casemod / German Talk

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What SSD would that be? 

Samsung 840 EVO 120GB. I should have said one of the best cheaper consumer-grade SSDs, but this thing is damn near perfect IMO.

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Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

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Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1800MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 11 Pro

OptiPlex 7040M

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Intel Core i7 6700, 2x16GB Mushkin Redline (stuck at 2133MHz CL13), 240GB Corsair MP510, 2TB Seagate Barracuda 2.5", 130w Dell power brick, Windows 11 Pro

Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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Apple M1, 8GB RAM, 256GB, macOS Sonoma

Consoles: Steam Deck LCD (512GB), Softmodded 1.4 Xbox w/ 500GB HDD, Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Falcon, XB1X w/2TB MX500, Xbox Series X, PS1 1001, PS2 Slim 70000 w/ FreeMcBoot, PS4 Pro 7015B 1TB, PS5 Digital, Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Wii RVL-001 (black)

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  1. Thinking SSDs were terrible because they failed all the time, and hating them for that reason
  2. Getting one of the best consumer-grade SSDs on the market, and realizing that I fucking love them.

 

 

what ssd?

 

it's k I saw your above post :)

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1. Matx phase

 

2. ITX phase

 

3.??? (something smaller then ITX? will it ever happen?)

ITX Monster: CPU: I5 4690K GPU: MSI 970 4G Mobo: Asus Formula VI Impact RAM: Kingston 8 GB 1600MHz PSU: Corsair RM 650 SSD: Crucial MX100 512 GB HDD: laptop drive 1TB Keyboard: logitech G710+ Mouse: Steelseries Rival Monitor: LG IPS 23" Case: Corsair 250D Cooling: H100i

Mobile: Phone: Broken HTC One (M7) Totaly Broken OnePlus ONE Samsung S6 32GB  :wub:  Tablet: Google Nexus 7 2013 edition
 

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Only real phase I went through was interior lighting...

 

Actually, I guess I went through a bit of a sleeving phase.  

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Samsung 840 EVO 120GB. I should have said one of the best cheaper consumer-grade SSDs, but this thing is damn near perfect IMO.

I should get one of those then. 

 

Word of mouth ftw! 

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I should get one of those then. 

 

Word of mouth ftw! 

You will not regret it. :D Just a tip, if you don't mind ghetto mounting it (like in a 5.25" or 3.5" bay or something, and assuming your case doesn't have 2.5" caddies), just get the baseline EVO, since it's a better deal. ;)

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Intel Core i5 11400 w/ Shadow Rock LP, 2x16GB SP GAMING 3200MHz CL16, ASUS PRIME Z590-A, 2x LSI 9211-8i, Fractal Define 7, 256GB Team MP33, 3x 6TB WD Red Pro (general storage), 5x 8TB WD White Label/Red (Plex) (both arrays in their respective Windows Parity storage spaces), 1TB Teamgroup MP33 (dumping ground) Corsair RM750x, TrueNAS Scale

Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

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Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1800MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 11 Pro

OptiPlex 7040M

Spoiler

Intel Core i7 6700, 2x16GB Mushkin Redline (stuck at 2133MHz CL13), 240GB Corsair MP510, 2TB Seagate Barracuda 2.5", 130w Dell power brick, Windows 11 Pro

Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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Apple M1, 8GB RAM, 256GB, macOS Sonoma

Consoles: Steam Deck LCD (512GB), Softmodded 1.4 Xbox w/ 500GB HDD, Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Falcon, XB1X w/2TB MX500, Xbox Series X, PS1 1001, PS2 Slim 70000 w/ FreeMcBoot, PS4 Pro 7015B 1TB, PS5 Digital, Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Wii RVL-001 (black)

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1. Plenty of spare time to use and play on pc but no money and games were expensive before steam and keydealers.

2. Sh*tloads of money (lol not really) but no more time.

The troubles of growing up i guess.

i5-3570k @ 4.6Ghz|Asus P8Z77-V-LE PLUS|16GB Kingston Hyper X DDR3|ASUS STRIX GTX1070 8GB OC

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Playing PS3

Gaming laptop: ARMA 2 and Planetside 2

Gaming tower: Everything

 

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All the parts are here, just need to get customized cords to connect the motherboard to the front panel.

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1)Playing on a sh** laptop

2)Used a VGA cable to hook it up to a tv

3)Playing on a cheap 7850 rig with cheap peripherals

4)Started looking at other peoples rig

5)Built an excessive R9 290x rig

 

Currently in custom loop phase.

Case:Define R4 | MOBO:ASRock z75 Pro 3 | CPU:i7-3770k 4.0GHz | CPU Cooler:H100i | GPU:970 Strix | RAM:Hyper X 16GB | 


Peripherals:ATH-M50x Limited Blue Edition | K95 RGB | M65 RGB | Blue Yeti MIC | (3x)1920x2080 Acer Monitors


 

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