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The time has come, My beloved PC is now going to get retired (and sold for 300€) I decided to write a small story about this, be sure to write your stories below.

 

So 2 years ago when I was starting to build PC's I had a bunch of old computers I had fixed and old hardware, I traded 

 

- 2x pentium 4, 1gb ram, 20gb HDD

- 3x 300gb - 200gb HDDS ATA

- 1x dual core 2gb ram pc

- some crappy psu's

 

for 

 

(They said to get what I wanted and I got the best I could find, It was a shit store)

-i3 540, 4gb of DDR3 RAM, Mobo asus, case, PSU, Kinda broken 500gb HDD

 

the deal was the trade, me building the pc myslef and 1 hour of labour at the store.

 

I got the PC, Played minecraft and later that month got a GTX 660.

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All was dandy until one day I got windows errors (HDD was corrupt)

I later added an SSD and got a new case with a window and led's.

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Later that year I bought more monitors for a total of 3 and started playing simulators.

The Setup nearly died one night when a forest fire got meters from the house

recently I started playing GTA V and wanted to play flight sims on my 3 1080p screens so I started saving up by fixing Iphone screens and repairing computers.

I also started an overclocking project with this pc and am waiting for the tubing for the loop (wont sell pc until project is finished, link in signature)

 

Last week after earning 580€ I bought by new PC for 400€ and kept 180 for the gpu

specs are in the signature and I will do a build log.

Now this pc will be sold for 300€ and the money will go towards a new gou for the new system

I will then have 480€ to spend on a gtx 1070.

 

 

I will miss you xD

Elemental 

Spoiler

Intel i5 6500 @3.8ghz - 8GB HyperX - 600w Apex PSU - GTX 1060 G1 GIGABYTE 6GB - s340 Black - 240gb Toshiba Q300 - Cooler master TX3i - MSI z170-A PRO.

Old Build (sold for 290€)

Spoiler

Intel i3 540 @ 3.9ghz (On stock cooler, Hits 80c max) - 8gb ram - 500w power supply - P7H55-M LE  120gb SSD - Talius Drakko case

Project Frug 50$ Water loop

 

Laptops

Spoiler

13" Macbook Air - Alienware m14x r2 -  2009 15" Macbook Pro (I was give all of these and would never buy them myself)

 

 

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RIP EA server 2.0

ill pour one out

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CPU: i5 6600k @ 4Ghz | GPU: Zotac AMP! 1070 @ 2GHz | RAM Crucial Balistix 2x4GB | PSU EVGA G2 750w | Cooler: NZXT Kraken x61 | Case Phanteks Eclipse P400s | Motherboard Gigabyte G1 Gaming Z170 | Storage: Toshiba 3TB HDD and MyDigitalSSD M.2 256GB

Perripherals

Keyboard(s) Razer Ornata Chroma, Razer Tartarus Chroma | Mouse: Logitech G502 Spectrum | Headphone: Audio Technica M40x | Monitor HP 22CWA

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Congrats on the upgrade. Just make sure the 1070 doesnt bottleneck anything in your build.

Doomsday: CPU : i5 6600k, GPU : MSI Gaming GTX 1070, RAM : 16GB G.Skill DDR4 2400, MB : MSI Gaming M5 Z170A, Storage: 250GB Samsung 850 Evo/ 2TB Seagate Barracuda, PSU : EVGA SuperNova GS 550, Case : Phanteks Eclipse P400, CPU Cooler : Corsair H100i, Monitor : Acer 1440p60 / Asus 1080p60 OS Windows 10 Pro Audio : Sennheiser HD 598SE / SMSL SD-793-II / Blue Snowball Steam : Vlad the Inhaler

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Just now, LordGrizzillaKreme said:

Congrats on the upgrade. Just make sure the 1070 doesnt bottleneck anything in your build.

Im will be running 5760  x 3240 resolution so ther will be no bottlenecks at all

Elemental 

Spoiler

Intel i5 6500 @3.8ghz - 8GB HyperX - 600w Apex PSU - GTX 1060 G1 GIGABYTE 6GB - s340 Black - 240gb Toshiba Q300 - Cooler master TX3i - MSI z170-A PRO.

Old Build (sold for 290€)

Spoiler

Intel i3 540 @ 3.9ghz (On stock cooler, Hits 80c max) - 8gb ram - 500w power supply - P7H55-M LE  120gb SSD - Talius Drakko case

Project Frug 50$ Water loop

 

Laptops

Spoiler

13" Macbook Air - Alienware m14x r2 -  2009 15" Macbook Pro (I was give all of these and would never buy them myself)

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Julian5 said:

Im will be running 5760  x 3240 resolution so ther will be no bottlenecks at all

Geez man sounds insane. I got mine running at 1440p and figured that would be enough pixels for the time being. I dont know what you plan to do with that much space but it sounds awesome.

Doomsday: CPU : i5 6600k, GPU : MSI Gaming GTX 1070, RAM : 16GB G.Skill DDR4 2400, MB : MSI Gaming M5 Z170A, Storage: 250GB Samsung 850 Evo/ 2TB Seagate Barracuda, PSU : EVGA SuperNova GS 550, Case : Phanteks Eclipse P400, CPU Cooler : Corsair H100i, Monitor : Acer 1440p60 / Asus 1080p60 OS Windows 10 Pro Audio : Sennheiser HD 598SE / SMSL SD-793-II / Blue Snowball Steam : Vlad the Inhaler

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Just now, LordGrizzillaKreme said:

Geez man sounds insane. I got mine running at 1440p and figured that would be enough pixels for the time being. I dont know what you plan to do with that much space but it sounds awesome.

its because im running 3 1080p monitors which is 3k

Elemental 

Spoiler

Intel i5 6500 @3.8ghz - 8GB HyperX - 600w Apex PSU - GTX 1060 G1 GIGABYTE 6GB - s340 Black - 240gb Toshiba Q300 - Cooler master TX3i - MSI z170-A PRO.

Old Build (sold for 290€)

Spoiler

Intel i3 540 @ 3.9ghz (On stock cooler, Hits 80c max) - 8gb ram - 500w power supply - P7H55-M LE  120gb SSD - Talius Drakko case

Project Frug 50$ Water loop

 

Laptops

Spoiler

13" Macbook Air - Alienware m14x r2 -  2009 15" Macbook Pro (I was give all of these and would never buy them myself)

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Julian5 said:

its because im running 3 1080p monitors which is 3k

Bro... 5760 X 3240 = 9 x 1080p

Doomsday: CPU : i5 6600k, GPU : MSI Gaming GTX 1070, RAM : 16GB G.Skill DDR4 2400, MB : MSI Gaming M5 Z170A, Storage: 250GB Samsung 850 Evo/ 2TB Seagate Barracuda, PSU : EVGA SuperNova GS 550, Case : Phanteks Eclipse P400, CPU Cooler : Corsair H100i, Monitor : Acer 1440p60 / Asus 1080p60 OS Windows 10 Pro Audio : Sennheiser HD 598SE / SMSL SD-793-II / Blue Snowball Steam : Vlad the Inhaler

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2 minutes ago, LordGrizzillaKreme said:

Bro... 5760 X 3240 = 9 x 1080p

sorry meant  5760x1080

Elemental 

Spoiler

Intel i5 6500 @3.8ghz - 8GB HyperX - 600w Apex PSU - GTX 1060 G1 GIGABYTE 6GB - s340 Black - 240gb Toshiba Q300 - Cooler master TX3i - MSI z170-A PRO.

Old Build (sold for 290€)

Spoiler

Intel i3 540 @ 3.9ghz (On stock cooler, Hits 80c max) - 8gb ram - 500w power supply - P7H55-M LE  120gb SSD - Talius Drakko case

Project Frug 50$ Water loop

 

Laptops

Spoiler

13" Macbook Air - Alienware m14x r2 -  2009 15" Macbook Pro (I was give all of these and would never buy them myself)

 

 

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