First Build in a Decade

[Zoolook]

2009, when Windows 7 was still in pre-release, was the last time I built a rig. It was an all-AMD affair, a Phenom II 955 and a 4870 - not bad for its day.

Anyway, after a minor hiatus, I decided I wanted to play some of my old games again, as well as some new ones. My needs are small, as a middle-aged gamer 1080p @60fps seems positively futuristic, so I built a pretty modest rig in a small Cooler Master Lite130. Here it is:

Ryzen 1700X

Gigabyte GA-AB350N-Gaming Wifi

EVGA nVidia GTX 1060 (6GB)

16GB Balistix RAM

500GB Samsung EVO 970 NVMe (boot disk + common apps)

2TB BarraCuda 3.5" Drive

Masterliquid ML120L liquid cooling

SilverStone 450W SFX PSU

Some quick benchmark results (no overclocking and RAM timings all at auto):

GeekBench: 4,105 / 22,212

CineBench: CPU- 1,522 / GPU- 102.17fps

3DMark Vantage Performance 42,794 (my old Phenom Rig got 8,953 for reference)

3DMark TimeSpy: 4,262

3DMark Fire Strike: 11,142

Superposition (1080P Extreme): 2,165

CPU Temps at idle are around 25 celsius and at load 65 celsius, so far no issues. Building a rig is still a pain in the neck but so much more satisfying. My first was in 1997, 21 years ago!

Peace.

[TekRed]

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