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ItsMeeYourDaddy

ItsMeeYourDaddy

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I couldn't find a place where I could post my build, frankly because its my first and I'm pretty proud of it. If there is another build thread then by all means point in that direction.

___My-first-build___

Back story- My uncle passed away a couple months ago and he had literally 2 rooms in his home full of PC parts. We had too sell most (including the top of the line stuff)to pay for the burial,etc. but some parts my dad left for me and my brother because my uncle was actually going to build PC's with us(teach us how to build) but we never got to it. The parts listed bellow are what I received, but based on my research, it looks like the parts are a mix of overkill, under-rated, good and bad parts in one.

CPU- AMD FX-6300
CPU Cooler- Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo.
Motherboard- Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX
Memory- Crucial Ballistix Tactical (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600
Storage- Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB SSD
- Western Digital RE4 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM HDD
Video Card- MSI R9 390X 8GB
Case- Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid-tower
PSU- Corsair 850W 80+ Bronze Semi-Modular
Monitor- ASUS VE278Q
OS- Windows 10 64bit

Now its your turn! Lets see what you got!
 
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Congrats on your first build! It's been a few years since I built my last rig and I don't remember what I'm even running. I know I have an i7 2700k and 670gtx and I think 16gb ram but that's all I can recall atm. Sorry about your uncle.

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Nice congrats! My first build was a 1.4ghz AMD Athlon Thunderbird back in 2001. Saved up six months working at the pizza shop so I could afford 1.5 gigs of RAM. Had my first IT heart attack when I tried to OC it & it blackscreened & refused to boot up (then I learned how to pop the CMOS battery). Ah, good times.

Now I own a Chromebook. lol.
 
I think my first build was a Cyrix 166 to replace my Packard Bell 486, with 16 MB of ram iirc. I sold it later to build a Pentium 400. How many here remember the Cyrix CPUs?
 
I have quite a few machines and don't know any of the specs off hand, for servers I tend to go Supermicro / Xeon but have a core2quad box still running too. For workstation I usually go with whatever mid range Intel flavour is around at the time. My gaming setup is an i7 and daily driver Linux box is i5.

But since some half baked specs lists is kind of boring when I don't know specifics off hand... here's a picture of my server room setup: 😛






 
I5 2500k
8 gigs vengeance ram
Gtx 960
80 gig Intel ssd
1 terabyte Wd
Some crappy psu
Win 10

My first machine was a duron 700 with 64 mg of ram and a tnt 2 🙂
 
all i remember it was 300mhz and I spent nearly 500 dollars to add this to it.

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1) c64 (BASIC)

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2) Amiga 500 (Workbench 3.1)
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3) downgraded to pc (ms dos 5.0-6.0-6.2-6.22)
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4) downgraded to windows (3.11)
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5) still downgrading
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I missed the Fry's combo deals but microcenter's deals in the past few years haven't been too shabby....

Current:
i7 4790K
ASrock Z97 Extreme
32 GB DDR3
240 GB SSD
1 TB HD
GTX 970
Samsung 40" 4K Monitor

manual from my first Fry's combo build:
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my motherboard box collection before I threw them out:
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first build was a homemade Apple ][ complete with self etched mb. Mind you my much older cousin did the work, I was just shaking the tin pail :awe:
 
Mayne said:
also upgraded to a 19" monitor that set me back an additional 600 dollars...grand total was around 3500 bucks.
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Having gotten into computers in the late 90's, it absolutely kills me when I hear people complaining about price. People always ask me what a good basic laptop for their kids to go to college with is...I point them in the direction of the $199 or $249 special from Best Buy & they're always like, isn't there anything cheaper? Are you serious? Are you kidding me? It's a freaking laptop for two hundred bucks!! What more do you want??

Same thing with VR computers (minimum spec is $1,000)...sure, they are relatively expensive by today's standards, but spending $1k on a PC that can magically transport you into a virtual world through VR gear in HD 360 VR is really not all that much money if you just look back at computer prices a few years ago. I got into CGI around 1999; an entry-level SGI O2 system at the time was literally TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS! It was big news when NT came out & SGI slashed their UNIX-based Octane system price (250mhz R1000 CPU) from $39k to $25k:

http://www.cnet.com/news/sgi-to-slash-workstation-prices/

I mean, I still live on a budget these days, but I pre-ordered my HTC Vive & just tucked a bit away every week for six months. For me, dropping a grand is still something I have to plan for, but in the past, serious systems like that were completely outside my reach back in high school, working for minimum wage. And now you see people whining non-stop online about having to shell out a grand for the latest, amazing, incredible, bleeding-edge real-time virtual reality technology. They have no idea how good of a price that really is 😛
 
I actually upgraded the other day - this is what I have now.

ASRock Z170 Extreme 7+
Core i5 6600k
2x16GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4 2400
Zotac GTX 970
Sandisk Extreme II 240GB SSD
Striped pair of 120GB Intel SSDs
Mirrored pair of HGST 2TB HDDs
Bluray drive (may be RW, I don't remember)
LG 50" 4k


Kaido said:
Having gotten into computers in the late 90's, it absolutely kills me when I hear people complaining about price. People always ask me what a good basic laptop for their kids to go to college with is...I point them in the direction of the $199 or $249 special from Best Buy & they're always like, isn't there anything cheaper? Are you serious? Are you kidding me? It's a freaking laptop for two hundred bucks!! What more do you want??

Same thing with VR computers (minimum spec is $1,000)...sure, they are relatively expensive by today's standards, but spending $1k on a PC that can magically transport you into a virtual world through VR gear in HD 360 VR is really not all that much money if you just look back at computer prices a few years ago. I got into CGI around 1999; an entry-level SGI O2 system at the time was literally TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS! It was big news when NT came out & SGI slashed their UNIX-based Octane system price (250mhz R1000 CPU) from $39k to $25k:

http://www.cnet.com/news/sgi-to-slash-workstation-prices/

I mean, I still live on a budget these days, but I pre-ordered my HTC Vive & just tucked a bit away every week for six months. For me, dropping a grand is still something I have to plan for, but in the past, serious systems like that were completely outside my reach back in high school, working for minimum wage. And now you see people whining non-stop online about having to shell out a grand for the latest, amazing, incredible, bleeding-edge real-time virtual reality technology. They have no idea how good of a price that really is 😛
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Heh, yep. I paid $129.99 for 32GB of DDR4 a few days ago. Hardware is unbelievably cheap.
 
ItsMeeYourDaddy said:
I couldn't find a place where I could post my build, frankly because its my first and I'm pretty proud of it. If there is another build thread then by all means point in that direction.

___My-first-build___

Back story- My uncle passed away a couple months ago and he had literally 2 rooms in his home full of PC parts. We had too sell most (including the top of the line stuff)to pay for the burial,etc. but some parts my dad left for me and my brother because my uncle was actually going to build PC's with us(teach us how to build) but we never got to it. The parts listed bellow are what I received, but based on my research, it looks like the parts are a mix of overkill, under-rated, good and bad parts in one.

CPU- AMD FX-6300
CPU Cooler- Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo.
Motherboard- Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX
Memory- Crucial Ballistix Tactical (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600
Storage- Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB SSD
- Western Digital RE4 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM HDD
Video Card- MSI R9 390X 8GB
Case- Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid-tower
PSU- Corsair 850W 80+ Bronze Semi-Modular
Monitor- ASUS VE278Q
OS- Windows 10 64bit

Now its your turn! Lets see what you got!
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Maybe the 'General Hardware' forum? :sneaky:

Man, it has been probably 6-7 years since I last built a computer. I know it is an i7 quad core system with 8GB RAM and a 500GB SSD running Windows 10 (the SSD is a recent upgrade).

I went for a system that is as quiet as possible so all the case fans and power supply fans are 120mm. It is almost silent.
 
My current build is a total joke. Running an i3 2100 with iGPUb/c my GPU pooped the bed about 5 months ago.

Planning a new build actually soon. Going i5 6500 (still iGPU for now) and reusing a bunch of old parts. I only casually game now... I basically just use PC for web surfing stuff so I'm going to save the $200 on the RX 480 and spring for a new PSU since it's about 6 years old. Once the hype dies down on the 480's, I'll grab one once it's cold out and gaming season for me begins 😛
 
My first build was an 8088. 32meg HD, 1meg ram. 14" EGA monitor. The 32meg HD was $600. The EGA monitor was $350. the MFM controller was $100. Was 4.7hz with 10hz in "Turbo" mode. Ah, good times! I think my first game on that was "if it moves, Shoot it!"
 
ItsMeeYourDaddy said:
Back story- My uncle passed away a couple months ago and he had literally 2 rooms in his home full of PC parts. We had too sell most (including the top of the line stuff)to pay for the burial,etc. but some parts my dad left for me and my brother because my uncle was actually going to build PC's with us(teach us how to build) but we never got to it. The parts listed bellow are what I received, but based on my research, it looks like the parts are a mix of overkill, under-rated, good and bad parts in one.

CPU- AMD FX-6300
CPU Cooler- Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo.
Motherboard- Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX
Memory- Crucial Ballistix Tactical (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600
Storage- Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB SSD
- Western Digital RE4 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM HDD
Video Card- MSI R9 390X 8GB
Case- Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid-tower
PSU- Corsair 850W 80+ Bronze Semi-Modular
Monitor- ASUS VE278Q
OS- Windows 10 64bit

Now its your turn! Lets see what you got!
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Condolences for your loss.

I'd disagree with your assessment though. I'd prefer a bigger SSD myself, and you could plan on upgrading to 16 GB of RAM eventually. But I don't see anything there that I'd characterize as "bad parts." It's just a typical midrange AMD build with a big ol' GPU like people tend to enjoy having.
 
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mooncancook said:
I think my first build was a Cyrix 166 to replace my Packard Bell 486, with 16 MB of ram iirc. I sold it later to build a Pentium 400. How many here remember the Cyrix CPUs?
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I do, but they were already around 10 years old when I first experienced them. I'm sure it was a great value for the money back in the day, but fuck that thing was slow, and running 98 on 16MB of EDO didn't do that poor processor any favors either. I tried upgrading it to 32MB but the motherboard didn't even support 16MB modules. D:
 
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Kaido said:
Having gotten into computers in the late 90's, it absolutely kills me when I hear people complaining about price. People always ask me what a good basic laptop for their kids to go to college with is...I point them in the direction of the $199 or $249 special from Best Buy & they're always like, isn't there anything cheaper? Are you serious? Are you kidding me? It's a freaking laptop for two hundred bucks!! What more do you want??

Same thing with VR computers (minimum spec is $1,000)...sure, they are relatively expensive by today's standards, but spending $1k on a PC that can magically transport you into a virtual world through VR gear in HD 360 VR is really not all that much money if you just look back at computer prices a few years ago. I got into CGI around 1999; an entry-level SGI O2 system at the time was literally TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS! It was big news when NT came out & SGI slashed their UNIX-based Octane system price (250mhz R1000 CPU) from $39k to $25k:

http://www.cnet.com/news/sgi-to-slash-workstation-prices/

I mean, I still live on a budget these days, but I pre-ordered my HTC Vive & just tucked a bit away every week for six months. For me, dropping a grand is still something I have to plan for, but in the past, serious systems like that were completely outside my reach back in high school, working for minimum wage. And now you see people whining non-stop online about having to shell out a grand for the latest, amazing, incredible, bleeding-edge real-time virtual reality technology. They have no idea how good of a price that really is 😛
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Except Vive still needs your beefy pc to render :awe:
 
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