Any PC Gamers Around?

[x808drifter]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

Doesn't look like as assassin's creed game to me.

Neither did Odyssey.
And it kinda wasn't.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

Doesn't look like as assassin's creed game to me. ]

For those not in the same region as @Captain Snooze. I agree, hard to tell from this, but well VIKINGS!

[alphasaur]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Yea, everything I've seen about NAVI says end of the year. Right now Nvidia has the edge in performance but I'm a bit of an ATI/AMD fanboi when it comes to video.

I've used both in builds but my own personal build has been ATI/AMD going all the way back to the original VGA Wonder card in the 80's.

Currently running a 5700xt on water, I like it a lot.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by alphasaur

Currently running a 5700xt on water, I like it a lot.

Finished up my build this weekend. Had to change a few parts from the original list in my previous post due to availability, upgrading the M.2 specs. The first video card I go was DOA so had to return it for a replacement. Swapped out for a different one that had 4x Displayports instead of 2x Display port and 2x HDMI ports. I really need 3x displayports.

Anyway, introducing FireStorm. The benchmarks are my old 2011 vintage modded Dell XPS vs this one. I think it was a good price/benefit build. Pushing the specs any higher would have had a low return.

Still, the Dell was holding it's own given it's nearly a decade old.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Finished up my build this weekend. Had to change a few parts from the original list in my previous post due to availability, upgrading the M.2 specs. The first video card I go was DOA so had to return it for a replacement. Swapped out for a different one that had 4x Displayports instead of 2x Display port and 2x HDMI ports. I really need 3x displayports.

Anyway, introducing FireStorm. The benchmarks are my old 2011 vintage modded Dell XPS vs this one. I think it was a good price/benefit build. Pushing the specs any higher would have had a low return.

Still, the Dell was holding it's own given it's nearly a decade old.

Can't see much inside the case due to glare

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Can't see much inside the case due to glare

Yea, I realized that after I looked at the photo. I'll have to try and take a better one.

Unfortunately the glass is going to be turned against a wall most of the time anyway based on where the tower will sit on my desk. I may have to rethink that but I have limited room.

I did have an odd problem during Windows install. It kept bluescreening on the network drivers. I had to turn them all off in UEFI, let Windows install, then turn them back on.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Yea, I realized that after I looked at the photo. I'll have to try and take a better one.

Unfortunately the glass is going to be turned against a wall most of the time anyway based on where the tower will sit on my desk. I may have to rethink that but I have limited room.

I did have an odd problem during Windows install. It kept bluescreening on the network drivers. I had to turn them all off in UEFI, let Windows install, then turn them back on.

You could take a picture with the whole side panel removed?

Your network driver bit is indeed odd. I haven't heard of anything like that, but I haven't had to install Windows on anything in quite a while. But good to know it can happen and how to work around it.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Spuds

You could take a picture with the whole side panel removed?

Will do that tonight. In the office today.

Originally Posted by Spuds

Your network driver bit is indeed odd. I haven't heard of anything like that, but I haven't had to install Windows on anything in quite a while. But good to know it can happen and how to work around it.

Yea, i thought so too, particularly I was doing a clean install with the latest bits downloaded directly from the Microsoft site. Oh well, where's the fun if it all goes right the first time!

[Yoshoobaroo]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Finished up my build this weekend.

What case is that? looks sick!

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

What case is that? looks sick!

Corsair Carbide SPEC-02 Redshift Special Edition

Apparently they were going for the longer name is better. It comes with 3 fans and is tool-less for the most part. The only thing I didn't like is the motherboard tray doesn't pull out separately, but other than that a nice case. You have to like red though as the fans only "do" red.

I primarily picked it because it was the nicest looking one they had that still had an external 5.25" bay as I'm not quite ready to give up my bluray RW drive

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Can't see much inside the case due to glare

@Spuds, I added a photo ^above^ with the side panel off. Still need to do a little cable management, but most everything is tucked away.

[Spuds]

Ah yes, cable management. I remember that taking me hours lol.

Looks good! I assume the drive cage doesn't come fully out?

[soundman98]

one day i'd love to build a pc like this...



and then i remember that things fail, part numbers get discontinued, and it would never last.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Looks good! I assume the drive cage doesn't come fully out?

No, but it doesn't really need to. The top one is for the external bay, and the drive slips in from the front with no tools required. There is an additional 5.25" bay there for a drive you can access by removing the front cover.

The 3.5" bays at the bottom all load from the side.

I don't have any spinning drives in this other than the bluray writer in the top bay, so that wasn't much a concern.