Has anyone ever built their own PC? Or have you ever been interested in doing it? I just finished building a desktop for myself. It's actually the second one I've ever built, but the first was for a friend of my dad's. I've always stuck to using laptops, but when my last one went up I just decided to get a cheap laptop and build myself a gaming desktop - and I wound up getting a lot more power and upgradeability/serviceability for a lot less price. The parts for those interested: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz CoolerMaster Hyper 212+ CPU Heatsink/Cooler ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 ATX Motherboard G.Skill Ares 8GB (2x 4GB) DDR3 1600 SDRAM Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM HDD PNY GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB Video Card NZXT Source 220 ATX Case SilverStone ST50F-ES 500W Power Supply Lite-On DVD Burner I want to upgrade to a Blu-ray drive in the fairly near future and add an SSD in the more distant future, but for now I'm absolutely thrilled with the way it turned out. A few of the parts were a pain to install, but in the end it powered up on the first try and everything is running wonderfully.
Try BF3 on PC, though I don't own a PC powerful enough to run it at great settings and I'm more than happy with the 360 port the PC version is a far more outstanding exerience
Wow that's pretty much my exact computer xD I have the 2GB EVGA 560Ti but that's about the only thing that's different. Mine runs excellent. I can run BF3 on Ultra with 30 fps and it's boss. Yours should be about the same.
I've never built my own computer but I've replaced... almost everything but the motherboard & processor in my current desktop so I imagine that counts for something. :s I really wanted to build my desktop when I got it but I had to replace my main computer in kind of a hurry and didn't have time to shop around for parts or even wait for different parts to be delivered so I bought a pre-built desktop. :[ As mentioned, I've been replacing parts of it here and there but it's still not the same as building one from scratch. I'd like to be able to do that one day.
I was really resistant to getting a desktop, honestly. I've always been a laptop person, but you just get sooooo much more bang for your buck out of a desktop. Plus it'll last longer - if something breaks, you can just pull it out and replace it. Laptops break constantly, and when they break you usually can't do much about it at all. So I think from now on I'm going to keep the laptops cheap (since I really need one for school and work) and use a desktop as my main computer - and I can see this desktop lasting me for a long time.
The machine I'm posting this from was built from scratch, albeit on a budget. And I usually salvage usable parts from other systems whenever I build/rebuild, or I am trying to salvage an older machine, so this machine actually has some parts that are newer than others. The bargain bin video card I bought in May is the newest component, though the jury's still out as to whether that gives me better performance than the onboard GPU did, since it was an ATI chipset that could output in HDMI for the onboard chipset. After that, I think it goes: the two 1 TB hard drives, two of the 2 GB sticks of RAM, the SATA DVD+/-RW drive, the PSU & the motherboard & the CPU & the other two 2 GB sticks of RAM, then the 500 GB hard drive, and last and certainly least, the aging PATA CD/DVD drive (which I think was manufactured in 1998, while everything else is at least 2008 or newer).
Currently posting on my machine I built. I'm quite embarrassed to reveal my specs, though. =_= It's not that great at all. It was my first build, and I learned from it. Geoff, your system sounds pretty nice! You should play Eve. >=]
