DOOM BREAK: Has anyone ever built their own PC? | |
CigarTigher
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CigarTigher
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79979941 United States 01/25/2021 09:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Built quite a few. Quoting: iSwear One good metric to follow, build around your mother board. Try not to cheap out on the MB. It's good practice to ensure things like memory and hard drives are listed on the MB's compatibility list. This is especially important for M.2 drives. Over clocking isn't really necessary today. But if you do want a rig to OC, do it in baby steps, tiny incremental adjustments. Heat kills a PC faster than anything. Ensure you have a good plan for cooling and corresponding PC case. Heat will burn and kill a computer really fast you are right about that as far as memory I got 32 GB which I don't even use I could have been fine with 16 but every time I get a computer always max out the memory on the motherboard just so I don't have to in the future you right about the motherboard as far as PCU always go with Intel right now I got the i7 4.0 ghz |
dukusprime
User ID: 78274862 United States 01/25/2021 09:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am looking to build my first PC. I want a Nividia 3080 since I stream and play video games at once. Can't find it ANYWHERE. Anyone has experience with building your own PC? Quoting: CigarTigher I know this has nothing to do with conspiracies. Amazon has one for $1499.00 [link to www.amazon.com (secure)] dukusprime |
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CigarTigher
(OP) User ID: 79858106 United States 01/25/2021 09:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am looking to build my first PC. I want a Nividia 3080 since I stream and play video games at once. Can't find it ANYWHERE. Anyone has experience with building your own PC? Quoting: CigarTigher I know this has nothing to do with conspiracies. Amazon has one for $1499.00 [link to www.amazon.com (secure)] The retail is 700 bucks on Nividia =/ |
SpacemanSpliff
User ID: 39691293 United States 01/25/2021 09:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am looking to build my first PC. I want a Nividia 3080 since I stream and play video games at once. Can't find it ANYWHERE. Anyone has experience with building your own PC? Quoting: CigarTigher I know this has nothing to do with conspiracies. I've built more computers than I can count. Good luck finding a 3080. You best start believing in conspiracy theories, you're living in one! |
Epic Beard Guy
User ID: 77993004 United States 01/25/2021 09:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Building a PC is not difficult, but the cost can get kinda' high if you want a premium set up. My youngest son built a great gaming computer a few years ago, and it cost about five grand. Now it's about comparable to a good gaming computer that you can buy retail for a little over half that. I guess it's pretty good for it's age, and you have to plan your baby being obsolete pretty quickly. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe |
darkwolf007
User ID: 73750317 United States 01/25/2021 09:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am looking to build my first PC. I want a Nividia 3080 since I stream and play video games at once. Can't find it ANYWHERE. Anyone has experience with building your own PC? Quoting: CigarTigher I know this has nothing to do with conspiracies. I would not recommend getting any of the latest NVIDIA graphics cards, OP. Mostly because they cost as much as a used car. I would suggest trying to get a 2080 Ti instead. Those are much more common place than any of the 3000 series from what I understand. I built my main computer as a gaming rig, OP. What is your budget? Also what is or are the/are the purpose(s) of your PC? I know my questions sound stupid, but bear with me. If you are looking to get into building up your own YouTube channel, Twitch channel, or what have you having a beefy gaming rig will help you to make money and have a good or better recreational/gaming rig. 2080TI cost about same. There is massive shortage of hardware and it could be years before they can mass produce 30 series again. In fact they are introducing some new cheap cards to try and fill the gap. 3090 VR is gorgeously fast. Ah. I could of sworn the 2080 Ti card prices went down a few hundred dollars at least since the 3000 series cards came out. Well, I got my GeForce 2080 Ti off of someone from Craiglist back in Feburary 2020. I found out early on just why blower type coolers on graphics cards are not exactly favored. Dang thing sounds like a jet taking off five feet from me when it is blowing full force. Ah well. It costed me $900. The woman who sold me the card said it was her husband's graphics card. She claimed he claimed the 2080 Ti was too powerful for him so he downgraded to a 2070. Conspiracy Theorist is nothing more than a derogatory title used to dismiss a critical thinker. A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us." -- St. Anthony The Great Social Credit Loser here. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78427351 United States 01/25/2021 09:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am looking to build my first PC. I want a Nividia 3080 since I stream and play video games at once. Can't find it ANYWHERE. Anyone has experience with building your own PC? Quoting: CigarTigher I know this has nothing to do with conspiracies. I dont know if you have a Frys Electronics store near you. But, thats a good place to start. They have all the individual components you would need, and many knowledgeable reps to help you piece together your dream machine, usually, for fairly cheap too. |
><even
User ID: 79827759 United States 01/25/2021 10:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Last Edited by Xeven on 01/25/2021 10:01 PM I reserve the right to declare my comments and posts as satire. Nothing I post should be considered or interpreted as advocacy for illegal activity. My comments are designed to inspire critical political thinking. I only mean half of what I say and only say half of what I mean. |
Soundman
User ID: 40546062 United States 01/25/2021 10:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Was a time a few years ago I would have jumped at the task of building my own but after researching all options when I needed gaming PC's for my kids I purchased pre-built. I decided to buy the CyberpowerPC brand pre built gaming pc's as it was just easer and my thought was if I purchased each part to build myself and had a issue I would have several manufactures I would then need to deal with for each part and I like one person to call for for support and Warranty. When I priced out each component I may have actually saved money buying the prebuilt as I did buy on sale but was so close in price and I could not justify the hassle of building my own mid grade gaming PC. My 2 cents... Soundman |
kk80
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77725576 United States 01/25/2021 10:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Building a PC is not difficult, but the cost can get kinda' high if you want a premium set up. My youngest son built a great gaming computer a few years ago, and it cost about five grand. Now it's about comparable to a good gaming computer that you can buy retail for a little over half that. I guess it's pretty good for it's age, and you have to plan your baby being obsolete pretty quickly. Quoting: Epic Beard Guy Does he do anything else besides gaming? Honestly you could have spent half the money and get the same performance in games. 5k is wayyy too expensive. |
darkwolf007
User ID: 73750317 United States 01/25/2021 10:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am looking to build my first PC. I want a Nividia 3080 since I stream and play video games at once. Can't find it ANYWHERE. Anyone has experience with building your own PC? Quoting: CigarTigher I know this has nothing to do with conspiracies. I dont know if you have a Frys Electronics store near you. But, thats a good place to start. They have all the individual components you would need, and many knowledgeable reps to help you piece together your dream machine, usually, for fairly cheap too. Yep! Fry's Electronics is the go-to place for anything electronics. Though to know that entirely due to the crypto-currency people all graphics card sales are final. Conspiracy Theorist is nothing more than a derogatory title used to dismiss a critical thinker. A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us." -- St. Anthony The Great Social Credit Loser here. |
shovelbum
User ID: 76796044 United States 01/25/2021 10:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Rx580. 8 gigs of fast ram. Ryzen 6 core. Pcie c drive with standard Ssd drives for storage. It's not super bad ass powerful, but does rank in the top 1% or did when tested. And it is nice enough to look at to grace the cover of pc mag. I only build as needed, which is to say about every 5 years with a midlife refresh in between. I have to relearn a lot each time. Assembly is simple, but matching parts to achieve optimal results does require that you delve into things a bit. A lot changes in 5 years. |
ChefElvis
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shovelbum
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shovelbum
User ID: 76796044 United States 01/25/2021 10:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Building a PC is not difficult, but the cost can get kinda' high if you want a premium set up. My youngest son built a great gaming computer a few years ago, and it cost about five grand. Now it's about comparable to a good gaming computer that you can buy retail for a little over half that. I guess it's pretty good for it's age, and you have to plan your baby being obsolete pretty quickly. Quoting: Epic Beard Guy Does he do anything else besides gaming? Honestly you could have spent half the money and get the same performance in games. 5k is wayyy too expensive. yep. $200-$400 cpu $200 or less for Ram $300-$800 gpu $75-$150 psu $200 drives $150 mobo $300 for the rest This makes a damn solid rig And if that ain't good enough nothing is. |
VerT
User ID: 79423413 United States 01/25/2021 10:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The worst part is shelling out $100 plus bucks for windoze os. Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. If the more I know, the more I know I don’t know, then do I truly know what I know because I know I don’t? You cannot reach a correct conclusion if you begin with an incorrect assumption |
shovelbum
User ID: 76796044 United States 01/25/2021 10:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Building a PC is not difficult, but the cost can get kinda' high if you want a premium set up. My youngest son built a great gaming computer a few years ago, and it cost about five grand. Now it's about comparable to a good gaming computer that you can buy retail for a little over half that. I guess it's pretty good for it's age, and you have to plan your baby being obsolete pretty quickly. Quoting: Epic Beard Guy Does he do anything else besides gaming? Honestly you could have spent half the money and get the same performance in games. 5k is wayyy too expensive. yep. $200-$400 cpu $200 or less for Ram $300-$800 gpu $75-$150 psu $200 drives $150 mobo $300 for the rest This makes a damn solid rig And if that ain't good enough nothing is. Honestly you can build quite a respectable rig for $1500. |
VerT
User ID: 79423413 United States 01/25/2021 10:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The worst part is shelling out $100 plus bucks for windoze os. Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. If the more I know, the more I know I don’t know, then do I truly know what I know because I know I don’t? You cannot reach a correct conclusion if you begin with an incorrect assumption |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77725576 United States 01/25/2021 10:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Building a PC is not difficult, but the cost can get kinda' high if you want a premium set up. My youngest son built a great gaming computer a few years ago, and it cost about five grand. Now it's about comparable to a good gaming computer that you can buy retail for a little over half that. I guess it's pretty good for it's age, and you have to plan your baby being obsolete pretty quickly. Quoting: Epic Beard Guy Does he do anything else besides gaming? Honestly you could have spent half the money and get the same performance in games. 5k is wayyy too expensive. yep. $200-$400 cpu $200 or less for Ram $300-$800 gpu $75-$150 psu $200 drives $150 mobo $300 for the rest This makes a damn solid rig And if that ain't good enough nothing is. Yep, graphics card is the only thing that really matters. A $400 CPU is more than enough for games. If he spent 5k then chances are he got a CPU that's wayyyyyyyyy overkill for games. |
TheDenier
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shovelbum
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shovelbum
User ID: 76796044 United States 01/25/2021 10:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Poor kid starts blowing my phone up the other day. I'd coached him through his first build about a year ago. He opened it up a couple weeks ago to clean it and it would never post again. He kept on that his Ram went bad because he only had 8gigs and was overworking it. No buddy, you fried your mobo. He couldn't accept that. We went through every diagnosis path there was. He never could accept that it wasn't the Ram. You know, because fucking war thunder overheated his 8 gigs of ram or something. Guess what it was. Mobo. Static discharge destruction is quite rare, but it does happen. Last Edited by shovelbum on 01/25/2021 10:33 PM |
shovelbum
User ID: 76796044 United States 01/25/2021 10:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Building a PC is not difficult, but the cost can get kinda' high if you want a premium set up. My youngest son built a great gaming computer a few years ago, and it cost about five grand. Now it's about comparable to a good gaming computer that you can buy retail for a little over half that. I guess it's pretty good for it's age, and you have to plan your baby being obsolete pretty quickly. Quoting: Epic Beard Guy Does he do anything else besides gaming? Honestly you could have spent half the money and get the same performance in games. 5k is wayyy too expensive. yep. $200-$400 cpu $200 or less for Ram $300-$800 gpu $75-$150 psu $200 drives $150 mobo $300 for the rest This makes a damn solid rig And if that ain't good enough nothing is. Yep, graphics card is the only thing that really matters. A $400 CPU is more than enough for games. If he spent 5k then chances are he got a CPU that's wayyyyyyyyy overkill for games. Kid probably had 64 gigs of ram too. |