First Personal Rig

[iamMINT]

//ADAX//

First personal rig

 

 

//Specs//

AMD 8350 4.0ghz

Sapphire r9 Nitro Fury

8gb Fury X (Will expand later)

1tb HDD

Thermaltake View 27

 

//The Build//

As the name states, this is my first personal rig. But, I work on computers every single day. I just never had the money to buy anything high end for myself until now.

The build took initially about a hour to do, I've done some work since then on it though.

 

//Issues//

I had all kindsa things die in this. First, the PCI Riser that let me vert mount my GPU died after some light overclocking (why it's horz mounted now) and the three way fan splitter.

The case was a little hard to work with but, fur the price I got it for I can't really complain. Most of it was the intake fan filters and mounting.

 

//Why?//

I made this machine because for years I've been rendering and editing professional video on old shit laptops, and it was time to get something new. On the old i5 laptop I had something that would take me about a hour or two to render takes me ten minutes to do on this machine. It cost $800, I'll be reselling at a higher price so I can upgrade to ryzen/vega when that comes out.

 

//Preformance//

This thing is amazing. I work on some several thousand dollar workstations through the week and this thing can even outperform some of them in certain tasks. I could never be more happy with it. In gaming though, with my 21:9 2560x1080 monitor I'll usually get something like 80fps in Overwatch completely maxed out. I'd get quite a bit more if was at 1920, though I haven't tried that yet. Same thing for The Witcher III and about any really taxing game. My Furmark score is almost 6000 with this GPU, which is pretty damn close to the performance of a 960 ti (a $400 card) and smashes the 980 strix ($550) card. Got this one for $250, though I got it mostly for it's hbm, which is super awesome for video rendering.

[Sir Asvald]

Bad timing to get a dead platform. Ryzen is coming in 2 weeks. 

 

 

[Guest]

Why??? Skylake and Haswell was 2 years only

[dizmo]

How on earth do you figure you'll be able to sell it for more than what you paid, when you paid that much and the new stuff is so clearly more advanced? Kind of faulty logic there.

[iamMINT]

23 minutes ago, dizmo said:

How on earth do you figure you'll be able to sell it for more than what you paid, when you paid that much and the new stuff is so clearly more advanced? Kind of faulty logic there.

I live in a pretty shit place, no one around here is making systems for people wanting more horsepower. I saw someone sell a machine he built with nothing but a shit tier i5 in it, no graphics card, for $2000. There's little competition here, I can do it.

 

I didn't buy ryzen because I didn't have more than $100 to spend on a cpu. 

[failwheeldrive]

People in your town don't have the internet?  Or a Best Buy?  Or a Walmart?  Why pay above retail on a used system when you can buy a prebuilt for less?

[PCMasterDebater]

OP. You completed a sexy build and for that you should be proud. Those are good quality parts that form a capable machine for that tasks that you need to preform. There is nothing wrong with that. Some people have no concept of product availability in other regions of the world which tends to illicit responses like the ones you see above. No biggy though, everyone learns.

 

Be proud of what you did.. Remember it... And do it better the next time around if permitted to.  

[iamMINT]

19 hours ago, failwheeldrive said:

People in your town don't have the internet?  Or a Best Buy?  Or a Walmart?  Why pay above retail on a used system when you can buy a prebuilt for less?

They do. Though, where I live there are little to no IT services other than Best Buy's and the two ISP's in the area. If someone around here wants to have something more powerful than what you can buy from Best Buy (which, the most expensive machine they've got there has like a 960 in it and its over $1,500) they have to order it or get it custom built. Only issue is there's no one around here that builds computers other than me, literally. Mostly because no one around here hardly even knows what a computer is in the first place. So, thats why I can sell it for what I can sell it (even though I'm not selling it for a crazy expensive price. Just enough to hop on board the Ryzen train).

 

8 hours ago, PCMasterDebater said:

OP. You completed a sexy build and for that you should be proud. Those are good quality parts that form a capable machine for that tasks that you need to preform. There is nothing wrong with that. Some people have no concept of product availability in other regions of the world which tends to illicit responses like the ones you see above. No biggy though, everyone learns.

 

Be proud of what you did.. Remember it... And do it better the next time around if permitted to.  

Thanks! <3 I appreciate it.

[Lilninjsways]

21 hours ago, JohnBRoark said:

//ADAX//

First personal rig

 

 

//Specs//

AMD 8350 4.0ghz

Sapphire r9 Nitro Fury

8gb Fury X (Will expand later)

1tb HDD

Thermaltake View 27

 

//The Build//

As the name states, this is my first personal rig. But, I work on computers every single day. I just never had the money to buy anything high end for myself until now.

The build took initially about a hour to do, I've done some work since then on it though.

 

//Issues//

I had all kindsa things die in this. First, the PCI Riser that let me vert mount my GPU died after some light overclocking (why it's horz mounted now) and the three way fan splitter.

The case was a little hard to work with but, fur the price I got it for I can't really complain. Most of it was the intake fan filters and mounting.

 

//Why?//

I made this machine because for years I've been rendering and editing professional video on old shit laptops, and it was time to get something new. On the old i5 laptop I had something that would take me about a hour or two to render takes me ten minutes to do on this machine. It cost $800, I'll be reselling at a higher price so I can upgrade to ryzen/vega when that comes out.

 

//Preformance//

This thing is amazing. I work on some several thousand dollar workstations through the week and this thing can even outperform some of them in certain tasks. I could never be more happy with it. In gaming though, with my 21:9 2560x1080 monitor I'll usually get something like 80fps in Overwatch completely maxed out. I'd get quite a bit more if was at 1920, though I haven't tried that yet. Same thing for The Witcher III and about any really taxing game. My Furmark score is almost 6000 with this GPU, which is pretty damn close to the performance of a 960 ti (a $400 card) and smashes the 980 strix ($550) card. Got this one for $250, though I got it mostly for it's hbm, which is super awesome for video rendering.

great build! (don't listen to all those dead platform people I have the same thing for cpu and its GREAT!)

[MidnightBanshi]

Everybody's all Ryzen this and Ryzen that.  I think you did a great job for the money, and it'll last you some time before having to do anything with it.

[iamMINT]

On 2/15/2017 at 6:26 PM, MidnightBanshi said:

Everybody's all Ryzen this and Ryzen that.  I think you did a great job for the money, and it'll last you some time before having to do anything with it.

Thanks man <3 Appreciate it.

 

I'll be reselling and upgrading to ryzen with the money I'll get from it.