What compromises did you make on your system?

[KWelz]

Just as the Title says; What compromises did you have to make when you built your current system.   Were they financial or practical choices?

 

 

For me I wanted to do an all SSD build.  However at the time larger capacity SSDs were still extremely expensive.   So I went with a number of smaller drives.   This meant I had a lot of drives to cram into the back of the case.  My already mediocre cable management was forced to be even worse.  

 

In addition I had to get a smaller PSU than I wanted due to space constraints.   My 240mm Radiator on the bottom was slightly too big forcing me to sell my original PSU and get a smaller one.  This could cause problems if I decide to get a second GPU.   

[Nena Trinity]

I had to pick a FX-8370 & GTX 970 instead of i7-4790K & 290!

[iamdarkyoshi]

Only buying a 390x and waterblock for GPU. Should have splurged and gotten a fury

[X99stattrak]

My 5820k, I should've saved up for the 5930k

[Filipe Campos]

Compromised my money for fps =P

[zyntaxable]

FX-6300 ;-;

[Cobiee]

Had the same issue with my build made back when Haswell came out in 2013, Was so skint could only afford a 64gb ssd it was £60 at the same, Can get like 120gb+ for the same price now :'D will be going HAM on ssds soon though

[KamiKatze]

I didn't go with the Titan X Tri-SLI right off the bat. That was really dumb. Oh wait, i don't have any money, that's why.

[michaelocarroll007]

getting a 290 & not waiting and splurging for a 980TI/Fury when i have a 4k monitor though 1440p doesnt look too bad on it and it can run a lot of games at 2160p Medium/high  surprisingly  

[TetraSky]

A P7P55D-e LX motherboard, instead of my initial Pro board. Because I ended up killing the Pro board by somehow crashing the cpu sideway in the socket and bending a bunch of pins. I have no idea what happened, it just did, a single moment of inattention cost me $190+$100 for the cheaper alternative that was the LX.

[aneil1998]

Going last gen on my build.

 

Should of gone with 760.

[KemoKa]

A non-windowed fractal design Define R4, for it being white. I wanted a windowed version, but they didn't sell them.

So I took a dremel and gouged one out.

 

The rest, I compromised on absolutely nothing. At the time it was the absolute-most-baller build I could get for the price.

[Gibs960]

I got an R7 260x instead of spending a little bit more and getting a 960 or something similar but I hope to upgrade soon to a R9 380. 

 

I also only bought an SSD instead of getting an SSD and HDD but I managed to use my old laptop's HDD for my pictures and basic programs. 

[pcnoob99]

960 : / was 25 bucks cheaper then 380...

[SometimesStuff]

My hearing.

 

A worthy compromise.

[Juggernaught]

Held off of SLI 980ti and full custom water loop.  Already blew the budget and I didn't want to sleep on the couch for the next year if I over spent any more.

[ShiftHitTheFan]

Fans. Could ha e gotten nice fans, bug went with 120mm sickleflows.

[Tilaron]

Price held me back, if I wanted to starve for a few months I could've bought a Z170 board + CPU, but my Z97 is doing just fine

I suppose I also realised it isn't entirely worth the huge upgrade to the very latest just yet given the minimal performance increase.

[plsno]

I went with amd because reasons

[IMPERIUS]

I save up untill i reach a point with the build that I'm not making compromises that would bother me and get to a level where the build is good enough to run on high settings @ 1080p 60fps for the next 2-3 yrs

[johnny5c]

Mine was not waiting for the 980ti to be released and jumping on a pair or 980's that a friend was selling, recently bought a 3440x1440 display and now I can max out the 4GB VRAM on a few titles.

[mikat]

Just as the Title says; What compromises did you have to make when you built your current system.   Were they financial or practical choices?

 

 

For me I wanted to do an all SSD build.  However at the time larger capacity SSDs were still extremely expensive.   So I went with a number of smaller drives.   This meant I had a lot of drives to cram into the back of the case.  My already mediocre cable management was forced to be even worse.  

 

In addition I had to get a smaller PSU than I wanted due to space constraints.   My 240mm Radiator on the bottom was slightly too big forcing me to sell my original PSU and get a smaller one.  This could cause problems if I decide to get a second GPU.   

960.. but i dont play many games atm so it's fine

[Gikero]

Get 16GBs of RAM, a 240GB Boot SSD, two WD Black 1TB (for mirror), and a backup drive, or put all that money towards a better graphics card? Stuck with my GPU and got the other components. I'm happy with my decision. Still, I want to get a 980Ti. Maybe I'll get something when the next generation is released and I can afford a high end GPU plus some new monitors.

[Fetzie]

Sticking with my old HD 7950 because I'm waiting for Pascal and Arctic Islands before upgrading the graphics card. Otherwise, I guess I could have got a second 1TB SSD for RAID 0 madness?

[PrimeSonic]

I wanted to go with a fully custom water-cooling loop. I was (mentally) prepared to pay through the nose to do it.

But the added cost would have pushed back my plans by a few months.

 

I ended up with AIOs for cooling just so I could actually get the machine built and running sooner.

 

I may yet upgrade it one day but with the awesomely cool temps I've been getting, that may not happen any time soon.