The Good News Thread

[mooby]

Originally Posted by DynamiteRave

My computer crapped out last week so I've been on hiatus. I'm back now.

My last computer was about 5 years old (aka, A dinosaur) so I said f, it and I built myself a new computer. Got the parts and a case, and viola, here I am.

It's my first build so I'm pretty proud of myself. I did have some help from the gf, but I picked out all the components, mounted most them and troubleshooted the majority of the issues I had all by myself. Thanks to my dad forcing me to do some of my own upgrading by myself (simple things like, adding/removing RAM, adding/removing GPUs, etc) when I was a kid in middle school, I already knew my way around a computer's interior.

Kinda proud of my new rig.

Nice, congrats! I built my first rig last year, skimped on a couple parts like the graphics card and the cd drive but I am really happy with how it's turned out a year later. I can't recommend it enough, I've already swapped parts out for better ones and it's still running great (for what I ask it to do). Hope yours works out for you as well as mine has for me.

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by mooby

Nice, congrats! I built my first rig last year, skimped on a couple parts like the graphics card and the cd drive but I am really happy with how it's turned out a year later. I can't recommend it enough, I've already swapped parts out for better ones and it's still running great (for what I ask it to do). Hope yours works out for you as well as mine has for me.

I do like that aspect of it, being able to swap out parts whenever you're ready to. I skimped out on the graphics card as well. It's an older high end card (about 2-3 years old). It was on double clearance for less than $100 marked down from over $300. I figured whenever I have the cash, I'll get a better one. I can't complain though because this is the first time ever I've been able to play games at ULTRA settings. I used to play on low and if I was lucky, medium.

And I just swapped out the CD drive from my old machine as well as the RAM since there was nothing wrong with them. lol gotta save where you can, ya know?

[RobH4413]

Originally Posted by DynamiteRave

I do like that aspect of it, being able to swap out parts whenever you're ready to. I skimped out on the graphics card as well. It's an older high end card (about 2-3 years old). It was on double clearance for less than $100 marked down from over $300. I figured whenever I have the cash, I'll get a better one. I can't complain though because this is the first time ever I've been able to play games at ULTRA settings. I used to play on low and if I was lucky, medium.

And I just swapped out the CD drive from my old machine as well as the RAM since there was nothing wrong with them. lol gotta save where you can, ya know?

If you can swing it, make sure to pick up a SSD. My mom had complained about her slow laptop (about 4 years old) and was going to drop $500+ on a new one. I went to best buy, grabbed a $80 SSD and her laptop flies. Boot time went from 3-4 minutes to 30 seconds and the overall speed is great.

Did the same to my brand new laptop and the difference is remarkable. Kinda wild how I've always thought the best bang for your buck was processor or additional ram. Not the case...By far a solid state drive.