Some Fractal cases come with that vertical slot, really wanted to utilize it actually but had to use an extension. Looks awesome to me :)
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Yeah it looks great. Strange that the case has vertical slots. I thought you did it because you could not for the card in with the two GPUs.
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It kinda had to be that way lol. The bottom GPU slouches so much that its fans where audible through my headphones. Slot between the cards is taken by my wifi adapter and top slot is taken by USB 2.0 hub.
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DX12 draw call API overhead benches show 6 CPU cores to be the sweet spot with more having a negligible increase with current high end cards.
Pentium P75 that I swapped out for a 100Mhz monster CPU, I cant remember anything else about it.
It was ether a 386 or 486 box from 1994. Ran everything I threw at it, not max settings but it was nice. Thats all I remember about it, I was 2 at the time.
My first "real" gaming pc I owned would be relatively recent compared to others here. An i7 2600 pc with HD6870 graphics card from AMD, from when around the chip was first released.
If we include more personal computers than the traditional "PC" however, I would say my first gaming pc was a macintosh, from Imac G3 to G5. I used to play deus ex, Thief series, building sims, unreal tournament and later halo on macs (and many more games).
Look at that sexy g3 ass hnnggg.
Despite being disregarded nowadays as non gamer orientated many games ran pretty well on macs.
First build was a strict budget of $1k including monitor etc... Built it at the end of 2013 I ended up with an fx6350 paired with a 7970 was pretty good ran everything maxed out.
AMD 5x86 with 16meg of ram and 1 meg of L2 cache inside an old PC AT case with a samsung 640 meg HD.
My mother-in-law spent a fortune on a new Pentium 60 and when she came over she could not believe how fast it was.
Remember the sales guy arguing with me about how no software was likely to need more then 256k of L2 and 1 meg was a waste. Been loyal to AMD ever since.
Was for my bro and I (around '91') - 386sx: played Gunship 2000, and Kings Quest just fine. Just DOS.
First PC of my own '98' - k6-2 400 (overclocked via the mb pins) + voodoo 2: Forsaken and Quake beast.
Fairly new to the pc game, just built my first 'true' gaming pc last september, fx-6300, asus 7970, 8gb ram, 990fx ud3 gigabyte, h105, and a 1tb baracuda drive for main storage, with old sata 2 350gb for important backups. Oh and a corsair cs600m in case anyone was wondering.
It was most likely over 7 years ago. My first "Gaming" PC was a laptop, that could run CS:S with whopping 40fps on lowest possible settings.
CPU: Pentium M 1.73Ggz
GPU: Radeon X700(128mb VRAM)
RAM: 1GB DDR ( Later upgraded to 1.5GB)
HDD: Something 75GB
It was pretty awesome at that time, when I got it. I could also run Bioshock with slight tweaks. Right now it's running Windows 7. Tried installing Linux on it last time, but it went all weird.
I'm not exactly an old timer at this. In very late 2012 I threw together an FX-6100 cooled by the Arctic Freezer A30, 8GB of RAM, GTX 550 Ti, Asus M5A99FX Pro R2.0 motherboard, Aerocool VP-750 PSU (I know that pointlessly large capacity with meh quality is not the way to do it, but back then I was a rookie at best) and a 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD all wrapped inside a Cooler Master Centurion 5 II. Potato quality "gaming" mouse & keyboard and a 1366x768 monitor completed the picture.
I made a few mistakes during assembly but once I got it going I thought it was badass. I mean, Mass Effect 3 maxed out. Skyrim ran nice as well. Heck, even Crysis 3 was easily playable.
In the summer of 2013 I gave overclocking a go and got that CPU up to 3.9GHz on that cooler. And got seriously addicted to overclocking.
Technically, you could say that I still use that same PC today as I haven't built a new one from the ground up, but the only original component in it is the motherboard. Everything else has been upgraded at least once. Oh, and that monitor serves as my secondary these days.
First gaming system was the following:
Shuttle HOT-591P Motherboard
AMD K6-2 500 @ 550 MHz
384MB PC133
3Dfx Voodoo3 16MB AGP
SB Live 5.1
8.4GB Quantum HDD
52x TEAC CD-ROM
Windows 98 SE
This was back in 1999. I had a heck of a time trying to play various games to the low FPU in the K6-2. It was then replaced with an MSI K7T Turbo-R, Duron 750, and an MSI GeForce2 GTS.
I got my first gaming PC about 4 years ago and it was a complete screw up since it was my first build and I hadn't learned about PCPartPicker at this point and was just buying crap on newegg. Me and my buddy chose all the parts had them on different tabs on chrome, figured it was good to go and then ordered them.
what happened next was one of the times in which I've experienced real disappointment. What happened was I bought a micro-motherboard, okay, not a huge problem right? wrong, not only was it a micro-motherboard and I had ordered a ATX case but I'm pretty sure that socket for the CPU was wrong. so we RMA'd it and got one that fit, so we get the second motherboard and hook everything up and then either one of my sticks of RAM was DOA or its a part of the incompatibility with the motherboard, at any rate that's been replaced but before that I had some absurd booting problems. So I was using a 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD which I thought was going to be fine but after a year it started dying on me, I ended up replacing it with a HyperX SSD.
In the end I learned an incredible amount about PC building and each build teaches me something new, I feel like I'm constantly learning new things when it comes to building rigs and it's exciting every time. At any rate my PC runs great now lol