Building a new PC

[soybean]

That cable management tho....

 

[rebekahlynn]

:thumbup I'll probably build myself a rig for about $1k soon. Let us know how it runs!

 

[Zerox]

Its time for me to upgrade. The new WoW expansion renders my CPU and video card obsolete.

Along with your social life.

Wake up, New PC Builders. Your life will not change based on different hardware. :laughing

 

[CuriousMike]

So.... the important question is how does it run?

 

[mikev]

:thumbup I'll probably build myself a rig for about $1k soon. Let us know how it runs!

:love

 

[ScarySpikes]

Thought you guys might want an update. Parts were ordered and my friend offered to come over an help me build my PC. Actually, he was the one that mostly put it together with me sitting there watching and asking random questions talking about bullshit. :laughing

Still, from the looks of things it didn't look overly complicated. Plugging parts to the mobo looked simple as it's labeled where stuff is supposed to go. The part that confused me was knowing where to plug the wires into all the parts from the power supply. From there its just a matter of booting up the system and installing the OS. The system works pretty well, though wire management isn't the cleanest as I'll probably have to go back in the future to streamline it.

Realizing my old Dell monitor wouldn't work as it utilizes a different plug that has different pins from the GPU. So I went online to order this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008DWITHI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

And now more or less my entire PC has been completely replaced. Just gotta get around to replacing the old nasty keyboard but that'll probably happen around Christmas.

Congrats. That looks like a pretty nice build, except for the cable management as you mentioned, but that's an aesthetic thing mostly, it probably will have minimal effects on temps. It is definitely more then enough to handle WoW and a lot more demanding games as well.

Along with your social life.

Wake up, New PC Builders. Your life will not change based on different hardware. :laughing

You just haven't experienced the Witcher 3 in 4k yet. You'll get there

 

[Agent Orange]

I haven't really put it through its pace yet but so far the fans haven't had to run higher than usual. In my old rig the fans would turn up higher on warm days when all I would do was had multiple windows going.

I'm kinda disappointed that Windows 10 doesn't have office, and I haven't figured out how to disable the login every time I turn on the PC.