The Bleeding Edge Chase!

[Princess Luna]

Hiho every one!

 

It has been a year that I've been around, I have had plenty of fun and enjoyment in this forum, cheers for every one I get to know in here, I have been always really into the PC world but since my Core2Duo E7600 and GTX 560 Ti computer from teenager times I went a huge gap even without it, only stuck to a shitty laptop.

 

You know how it goes college and all harsh times but I sworn to myself when I got a good job and all was settle down nicely I would really invest in this as a hobby. As promised as delivered, when I got hired on my new job which I'm still at for this whole year I went and bought myself a system at last, it was the best I could possible do on Brazilian market at the time for the budget I had in hand.

 

Nothing to throw away either it featured an i7 6700, Asus h110m-C, 8GB Corsair Value Select, 2nd hand GTX TITAN X on my recently moved in new home:

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It served me greatly but obviously I always wanted more and I chased more through this first year I was part of here, I become addict for the second hand deals and I managed over time get a pair of two GSkill Trident Z static white 3200mhz 8gb sticks for a killer price almost I feared every day until it get to me that it was a scam from how good ^^

 

I managed to sell my TITAN X and in the very same day get off our brazilian ebay (mercadolivre) a second hand only 1 month used EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FE from a closing down rendering studio making a "trade" without losses ^^

 

With these two awesome deals I managed to have a far better system that was already perfectly capable of any game I throw at it featuring the i7 6700, 16gb still at 2133mhz though, and the 1080 Ti:

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Sadly though that wasn't "bleeding edge" enough to fight my brother

Seriously though I wanted to balance all nicer, I kept trying to find deals until a church, yes a church, ask me to do a budget for a capable enough system for their youtube streaming and video editing and what not... it was the supposedly "tech savvy" of the church, very good kid they say but really bad at knowing hardware... heheh

 

He wanted i7 and gpu with 2gb, that's it, literally all he could say.

 

So I offered the i7 6700, with the old 8gb Corsair VS stick, for a fixed priced plus work, and he said "oh much wow most cheap one I go with you" literally.

 

Be as that I may I built him an i7 with 2gb GPU, made quite the buck on it, don't feel bad about it because for what is worth it still a great computer.

 

Went though the hassle of preparing it:

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FINISHED:

Either ways when I went to give the PC all went well and I very soon already ordered my new one, I literally tried to make the best value ever possible within high end, I knew it would still be costy but I with deep thinking I walk away on overclocking the i7 and settle for the locked one, as I have written plenty around already I strongly believe that is the best value in Coffee Lake since not only the CPU is cheaper you get to cheap up on just about every thing and still something cool and awesome performing.

 

Parts got home and building it up began, it was all pretty enjoyable, had wine during it and all, had a scare at the end when it wouldn't post but was a silly out of practice mistaken with the memory dimms used:

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Now this is the part I will give my special thanks to @MageTank suggestion of case, I have been wonderfully satisfied by the product in every way, thanks to @PCGuy_5960 and @done12many2 and @Morgan MLGman for always reassuring me that even though overclocking is all that awesomeness one can live quite satisfied with the locked one in the mainstream just as much, be this a living proof that sometimes that unlocked i5 with all the fancy cooling and mobo might not be the best way around.

 

@dizmo Because I like talking to ye

 

@STRMfrmXMN for making picking a good power supply easy.

 

System is up and running delightfully, I have upgraded my bedroom as well with good furniture so you can say the very hard working year totally paid off ^^

 

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Will start playing around with it now, seems like it'll deeply suffice for my gaming and content creation ^^

 

I lost the superposition SS right now but it was 6000 perfect score on 1080p Extreme for whoever wants to know, graphics card is running according to MSi Afterburner at 1976mhz  core clock and 5999mhz memory clock once stables at long period of usage with around 77Cº max temps.

 

Cheers and thanks for checking out.

[Enderman]

What chase?

Did you mean case?

Or chassis?

[NinJake]

I was confused about that at first, but I think they are referring to "chasing the bleeding edge" or trying to keep the best computer over time. @Enderman

[TheGlenlivet]

Chase, like always upgrading to the latest thing.

[Morgan MLGman]

Damn, that's a nice post! I'm glad you're happy with your current PC!

Seriously though, it's super-nice to find other people that love building PCs as much as you do

P.S. Get a fan working as exhaust in the back in your rig, it should improve airflow and it will look better if you get a nice fan too

[Princess Luna]

17 hours ago, Morgan MLGman said:

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Thank you very kindly ^^

 

It was a very exciting build, who knows I won't try the same feat when we have ice lake and Volta/ampere out ^^

 

The money from the old PC plus some saved extra sadly only served for these, even had to cheap up on the mailing service lucky it worked out fine...

 

So without means to afford the extra fans now I took as much advantage of the included 2 ones with the case, put from the rear to the front since the FE does works as an exhaust fan on its own, so far the system is extremely silent and already greatly cool, it was an amazing upgrade.

[dizmo]

Great build blog! I definitely appreciate the pictures, it really completes a post like this. If I was in charge I'd make it a requirement, and a minimum number of pictures as well! It's been interesting watching your computer evolve. It's almost like every time I look at your signature there's something new.

It's 2017...no love for RGB?

 

Oh, and I enjoy talking to you as well

[Princess Luna]

On 12/26/2017 at 5:32 PM, dizmo said:

It's 2017...no love for RGB?

Oh call me a rebel but I wanted it to be RGB free

 

I used to be even more into changing stuff regularly when my brother still lived with me, he is the true enthusiast, from what I know he is trying to sell his Ryzen 7 1800x for an i9 7900x now that his job justifies a really powerful workstation, be not mistaken though even he does money management as he can, his TITAN Xp's were all second hand deals with regretful buyers that did not know any better when putting that "powerful gaming station".

[dizmo]

20 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Oh call me a rebel but I wanted it to be RGB free

 

I used to be even more into changing stuff regularly when my brother still lived with me, he is the true enthusiast, from what I know he is trying to sell his Ryzen 7 1800x for an i9 7900x now that his job justifies a really powerful workstation, be not mistaken though even he does money management as he can, his TITAN Xp's were all second hand deals with regretful buyers that did not know any better when putting that "powerful gaming station".

Haha, how dare you! Though tbh I likely wouldn't fiddle around with colors either. Most of the time I don't even want a windowed case at all All about that SFF life.

 

Lucky! Honestly, even though I can buy new stuff, I find it more exciting to hunt down deals on the used market. Seeing how sweet of a system I can get for as little investment, while still meeting some basic requirements (nothing super old, etc). Though Intels new chips have destroyed virtually all the value in doing that.

 

Do you get some of your brothers old stuff?

My dad's really into PC gaming and upgrading, but sadly he runs even older stuff than I do seeing as he was running it all (until his free 55" 4k TV he got recently) at 720p on a rear projection TV. Though now that I think about it the computer in his room must have had something better in it..