I couldn't justify loading up any more. I mean lets be reasonable :). Plus, I threw 32 gigs in my FreeNAS box and I'm waiting for someone come out with some DDR4 with LED's like the Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracers I'm had in my Z77 build.
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Are you sure this build is better then the one i already have? XD
Im plannijg to run Skyrim with ENB mods, Witcher 3, dayZ and pretty much any other game that comes out in the next few years haha.
My skyrim would have a few hundread mods running btw
Sure it is. Skyrim is not thread dependent and two 290s will outdo a single 970 by a long run... Nearly twice as powerful. I'm sure you'll be getting higher frames especially with mods as the 970 has the 3.5gb limitation... The 500mb is there but it's 1/7 of the clock speed causing frame dips when it's went over... As for an i5 over an i7 for gaming you won't see any difference whatsoever. With a 1-2 hundred MHz gain an i5 will outdo it.
GAMES DO NOT USE MORE THAN 4 THREADS AND THOSE THAT DO SEE NO BENEFIT
Like @Freaksmacker said, you may want to spend another $50 and get a gold rated psu and 850 EVO. I just wanted to make a rig similar as possible in price. But yes, it is better. And when opencl can be used it will kick ass.
Edit: and someone will probably disagree with me, but for streaming while you play, look at the 8350. A better GPU setup is nearly always more beneficial than a better cpu setup...
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I guess the Commodore 64 if that counts as a PC.
First actual build was a AMD K6-2, I think it was 266 MHz.
I had a SCSI Card for the DVD player...
I had few pre-builds before them though.
Next was 1st Gen Athlon 64 @ 1 GHz - that was truly revolutionary (with Voodoo). The change between the early 90s to 2000 was insane.
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I got my first gaming setup in the summer of 2013. My laptop. I played games such as Fallout 3 and Fallout NV. On low settings it was decent... In 14 I got a Dell Vostro 200 with a Core 2 Duo... I played Gmod but I only used the desktop for a month before giving up on it. It was terribly slow. In May I built my first rig after having studied computer components since 2012... It has a 5820k, 8gb of RAM, a 7870, 2.5 tb of hard drive space, an R5, and some crappy psu I had lying around. I haven't been able to game on it yet due to Ethernet issues though which sucks... Yeah, I started out WAY more fortunate than anyone here... I saved up for this for around 3 years by fixing computers......... and taking out the trash. Literally.
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Do you mind making a part list with all of these things stated, already on there? Sorry since this is my first build im not very good with finding parts and stuff lol
Does my TI-99/4A count? I mean that thing flew...
First computer I got for gaming was a 200 mhz HP
Second was a custom built one by a shop and almost everything died on it within a few months and while it was still under the shop warrenty they would not repair it so I just rebuilt it. That shop went out of buisness a few years ago, one of my favorite memories. Was an 1.9ghz AMD 3100+ with 256mb Ram and a Nvidia mx400 and a 40gb Hard drive iirc, When I upgraded from that I had it clocked to 2.2ghz with 1gb ram and a GeForce 6200 le with 4 HDDs.
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My first PC that actually could run games that I got would be a 486, rather an Am486 DX2-66 (I think, lost the CPU in the last move, derp). That is an AMD made clone of Intel's 486 they use to make back in the day. Cheaper than Intel, and had higher clocks. This would have been back in 1995 or 1996, I really can't remember any more. Not the best system for games, but I remember playing games like UFO on it :-) I remember the graphics was kinda terrible (VESA local bus baby!), problems with drivers etc was something people can't even imagine today. Still better than the 386SX that had Hercules mono graphics that i used before that, only text games on that one, though I remember getting some graphics to run like Ms flight sim or similar. Ah the sound of a PC speaker...
Couple of years later I built a socket-7 system (AOpen MB) with an AMD K6-2, still have that CPU on a shelf.
Think it was in 1998, I usually was strapped for cash, bought old stuff, second hand etc. That CPU was a champ, used it as a linux server later on. That system had S3 graphics I believe, and I also got a better soundcard a Sound Blaster AWE 32, full length ISA card, wooo :-D
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Woooh, I remember that card. I tried so hard to make it work in linux, but it was not to be. I remember there were drivers later on. It worked really well in the games that had support for it in WIndows, but that was about it. Rest In Peace 3dfx.
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My second PC and my first build was a Intel 486dx2-66, and had what like 4 mb of ram back then, I remember vesa local bus and that fantastic SB AWE 32 never had one but had a SB16, I'm glad to see others as old as I am... ;)
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Its no problem :D thanks for your help.
Whilst, everyone's telling me about their amazing first PC builds
Im just sitting here saving up my money haha
First PC was a IBM XT with a 186 cpu - DOS games were the shit!
First PC I built for myself had a Q6600 on an ASUS P5Qpro mobo with an nVidia 8800GTX
Now I feel old.
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First PC I had was the former family computer - Pentium 166mhz, 16MB or ram and 400MB disk I believe. Can't remember what the "graphics card" had, probably around 1-2MB. Got that at around 1998-1999. Built my first PC with the help from my brother a couple of years later. Was a Athlon/Duron 900mhz (not really sure), 128MB ram I think and a Geforce MX(400?) with 32MB. CPU was locked and you could unlock it with a pencil (connecting the L1 bridges together).
Updated that a bit later for a Abit NF7-S, Athlon XP-2500, 256MB of ram and a ATI Radeon 9500, which I got for cheap since a overclocker on the local tech forum said the chip couldn't OC for shit.
Edit: The 9500 was a Pro, not the basic one
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The very first PC I built if I am not mistaken was around 2004, it was a Celeron Prescott-256; I had a GeForce 6500 back then.
I can't remember the whole build, but unlike now, I was buying the cheaper components. You can't blame me, I was young, naive, and had no cash most of the time.
Now? I am much older, wiser, but still with no cash most of the time, but I get good deals on top quality parts lol
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K6-2!..That was my first upgrade after the Pentium in1999 or 2000 or sth. I would go for a Pentium 2 then the guys at the retailer suggested AMD. I have no idea about their existence back then. Best CPU purchase I have ever made. It performed fine and cost 1/5th of the Intel counterpart.
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Dell. Some horrible piece of junk for about 2002. Had XP, a pentium 4 not even HT, no GPU just gma onboard graphics later upgraded to an at I x1600? May have been x1400 or x1800, dual booted the hell.out of it. Tried ubuntu xfce crunchbang, had so.e fun abusing it. It took a.long time to boot up.
Fun story I would play minecraft when it came out and I could not see the starts it was that bad. Only after the gpu upgrade could I see them.
Further past the dark times when in played console.
I built my first actual custom built by me PC about 3 years ago and have been rolling upgrades since.
Originally.
AMD FX 6100 oc to 3.8 all day.
AMD MSi 7870 Hawk
Gigabyte GA-970a-DS3
8gb Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 1600mhz
500gb Seagate
2tb Seagate
Noctua NH-D14
Aerocool Sixth Element white
Win 7
Cheap keyboard and mouse and headset
Hitachi 1440*900 tv
Upgrades
Samsung 850 Pro 256gb
Win 8.1 pro
AMD Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X
NZXT H440 custom pained yellow by me.
Plantronics Gamescom780 headset, horrible
AKG K553 to replace
Rockband mic, temporary
Iiyama Prolite X2783HSU of to 67hz capable of 72 but only over hdmi
iPad screen with Rsznyo display board oc to 67hz
Corsair K95 gone never want to see corsair again.
Filco Majestoich 2 Ninja TKL to replace
Mionix Naos 3200
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lol, just this past October for me. Its been awesome, never looking back to consoles but I hope some games come to PC like Halo 5. Ultra settings and 1440p gaming FTW!
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Interesting sound card mounting.
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