Are you unhappy with your computer build?

[Mushious]

I'm in sort of the same position as you concering the monitor. Owning a 24" atm at it's starting to feel small, was thinking about upgrading to a 27" .

Would you advise going to a 27" or would say skip it and go straight to 34" ?

 

I went from a 23" to a laptop (13.3") to the 27" and it was a huge difference that took a long time to adjust to. I'd say 27" is the perfect size and if you want bigger, don't look further. I want larger simply because games I'm playing would benefit from it (Elite: Dangerous is so much better on a larger screen for example, especially when running a HOTAS setup).

[simson0606]

nope for the first time in a few years i'm actually quite happy with it. 

 

Of course i have upgrade ideas/plans but those wouldn't make the user experience that much better for me... (sleeved cables and more ssd space, already have 2x240 raid 0 and 200 for data and 1tb hdd)

[lol1290]

Am I happy to have it? HELL YEA, I never had anything so powerful before!

 

Do I like it? NO, Its so damn loud I can't do anything with it...(because of that WD Blue :angry: )

[GeekJump]

I love my build! Managed to build a powerful pc for the price of a entry-mid pc (due to work and partner discounts at the time).

 

The one thing I regret is, since it was my first build in awhile, I went with a larger case than I really needed (R4). Currently have no plans to add another GPU or watercool so I have too much room to grow. Wish I would've planned better and went with a smaller mobo and case

 

Now I have a huge PC under my desk in a tiny office

[Guest]

I only wish i'd taken an even smaller case. I started ATX, realized i'd never add anything other than a video card, so downsized to ITX and a bitfenix prodigy. 

I regret not getting a node 304

[Dan Q]

Wish i'd got a 1x8gb kit of ram instead of a 2x4. Would make upgrading it easier. 

[EmeraldFlame]

I've been more than amazingly disappointed in my motherboard.

I have a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 which was one of the very first boards to support both USB 3.0 and Sata 3 (6Gbps). But the board stability has been absolutely freaking terrible, so much so that I will never buy another gigabyte product. The board takes a good 35-40 seconds for it's post procedures (with all fast boot options turned on) before it even starts loading windows. If you fill all 6 DIMM slots, it can't run RAM at higher than 1333MHz, despite them advertising differently and using approved RAM for the board. The USB chipset is shoddy and half the ports aren't fully compatible with all devices. Wake On LAN support has always been shoddy. The board tends to crash on post a lot, especially if your are trying to access the BIOS for some reason. Heck, I even RMA'd the thing twice, and sat on support with them multiple hours to go over configurations, and even their support team couldn't get the stuff working. This is the only board I have had this many problems with in my 12 years or so of building computers. It was just a junk design.

I honestly can't wait to build a new workstation just so I can freaking trash this board.

[Antivenom101]

Mine's probaby the worst in this thread.

 

Mostly because I was shoved into a shit situation when my laptop died and needed a quick solution with all my work damn near perished. I was also low on money at the time.

Fast forward today, aaaaaand it's still using most of the crappy parts I started out with. Only thing I changed was the aftermarket cooler for my cpu, the case, & the psu.

 

Not to mention my gpu died recently and I'm still waiting for cash to roll in so I can get a new one... only (recently) finding out it's not gonna work as well thanks to my budget CPU. So my rig's been sitting around being a massive paperweight.

This whole situation I keep getting myself into because of my damned pc, is starting to make me regret ever spending everything I have on it so far.

 

If this goes on, I might call it quits.

[Mihle]

buying 750w PSU and not a 800 or a 850w, cause I cant buy a second of my gpu(standard OC) and still use 750w. I think, may be wrong

[Oskar94a]

kinda, want the 3770k and some new fans, other than that I'm quite happy with my system.

[Sir Asvald]

My system is okay-ish I need a new CPU and a CPU cooler. So I want to get the Xeon 1231v3 with the hyper 212 Evo. I know the CPU has a cooler with it, but is crap.

[App4that]

I'm in sort of the same position as you concering the monitor. Owning a 24" atm at it's starting to feel small, was thinking about upgrading to a 27" .

Would you advise going to a 27" or would say skip it and go straight to 34" ?

On topic: Wish I had found this forum before I started my build.

Should've gone for an i5 instead of i7.

Regret buying a 128GB SSD instead of a 250GB, but at the time SSD's were expensive per GB unlike now.

Wish I had invested more in my GPU instead of trying to cut costs on the GPU part.

Plenty of people looking to trade a i5 for that i7 if you're serious.

[Nomy]

Plenty of people looking to trade a i5 for that i7 if you're serious.

Why would I ever do that? :huh: Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy with my cpu.

I just regret overspending on the cpu when it brings me no benefit whatsoever to gaming compared to an i5 which in turn was 140 euro cheaper than the i7 which I bought.

I could've spend the money resulting from this towards a better gpu or a bigger ssd at the time.

[App4that]

Why would I ever do that? :huh: Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy with my cpu.

I just regret overspending on the cpu when it brings me no benefit whatsoever to gaming compared to an i5 which in turn was 140 euro cheaper than the i7 which I bought.

I could've spend the money resulting from this towards a better gpu or a bigger ssd at the time.

Then I'm confused. If you want the cash over a better CPU, trade with someone and get the cash back. but you have a point that you already bought the GPU so the extra cash won't help with that.

[JamesLombardSA]

My yellow GTX 760 hawk in a red and black color scheme. Love that Gpu

though!!

[B16CXHatch]

Other than the fact I'm still using the video card and few other parts out of my last build, I'm happy with it. It's about the cleanest looking and most well laid out build I've ever done. Once I replace all the old stuff, I'll be super happy with it.

[finn3732]

hate all the cables

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wish cables became invisable

[ConnorDahne]

It could always be better...

Looking into a new case, and gpu..

I'm fine with i5, I don't edit or render

[harrynowl]

My build doesn't actually make sense but I like it...

[Ivelin__]

Kinda, but atleast it's a mid-end PC- FX-4170 and a gt 640(gddr5). It's not the best but not the worst. Change of platform is gonna be around 2017-18, my old PC lasted 5-6 years before being changed to this one.

The old PC had 1GB Ram, celeron 430 and the igpu of g31, then it got an upgrade to a c2d e6300 and a 2gb ram stick, later a gt 210(gt 640 for a while but my 280X went bad so it went into my PC), 2 weeks ago yet another upgrade- E8400 C0 with stuck sensor. 1080p30fps youtube no problem

[Yoinkerman]

Nope I'm quite happy with it.

[legend8887]

Wish I didn't spend so much money on the wrong things. And I really hate the case.

[jaggysnake57]

im happy wit it though that dosent mean ill leave it as is

 

in order (well roughly)

 

+8gb ram

+2TB HDD

swap my i5-4570 to an i7 k 

change my PSU for something bigger

+g1 970 for sli

+ 1440p ips 144hz gsync 27 inch

+water cool i7

+watercool GPUs

 

sell and start all over again!

[SnakeDrone]

We have grown apart and I will move on soon, but no hard feelings.

[Textosterone]

yes i am... I did not do research before i got my motherboard, CPU and PSU