My Cheaper And Older Gaming PC!

[logo897]

Hi all,

Just wanted to show you one of my PC I have completed recently. Please let me know what you think of it. I have attached some pictures of it. Please note it is not the best looking, but I've done all I could with my own tools and hands. My friend's dad helped me cut the side of the case out, too! I bought the acrylic at lowes so dust wouldn't get in the case as fast.

I am always open to future upgrades for this PC. And yes, I know my CPU is older along with the PC, but it's the best I can do now. My system specs have been updated below. The games I play run surprisingly well!

I will definitly get a new pc in the next year or two, but for now I'd like to have fun with this one and upgrade it.

Please tell me your thoughts and what should be upgraded to achieve maximum stability without lots of bottleneck though. OR any fun accessories to add to it! Thanks!

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Is the memory maxed out at 8gb's ?
For gaming it's always best to look into more recent gpu's with at least 4gb's
Now that the gtx1080ti's are out you can find some really cheap gtx 980's and even some gtx1050 thru 1070's around
Post a budget.

My acer build in my system spec's is probably close to yours
I did this for laughs use test you pc on the top right
http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/796267

 

[logo897]

Hi,
Is the memory maxed out at 8gb's ?
For gaming it's always best to look into more recent gpu's with at least 4gb's
Now that the gtx1080ti's are out you can find some really cheap gtx 980's and even some gtx1050 thru 1070's around
Post a budget.

My acer build in my system spec's is probably close to yours
I did this for laughs use test you pc on the top right
http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/796267
View attachment 398300

Here's my results http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/3510858

And no, the maximum memory the pc can handle is 16GB.

For GPU's I don't really want to spend more than $300 dollars. What 4gb GPU would you recommend? I think more than 4gb, my cpu will bottleneck it.

 

[logo897]

How about this: EVGA GeForce GTX 690 04G-P4-2690-KR 4GB (Similar performance to GTX 980) | eBay

or: msi gtx 980 | eBay

MSI GTX 980 Gaming 4G 4GB GDDR5 Nvidia Graphics Video Card

Geforce GTX 980 SC Reference Model



You sure are right... all of these good deals and more!

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Well that is the great thing about new releases of gpu's the prior versions drop so you could take advantage of that in which ever budget you have
These items came up
Your sata connection could be the same as mine without sata 3 compatibility and only sata 2
The hdd well you might look into that a little closer basically switch to the black series hdd not the blue :/
Oops I see it is almost full.


MSI has some good gpu's
The 1050-60-70 are also good and low power units so your 600w psu wouldn't matter
Some if not all of the 980's have 600w minimum requirements or at least the ones I've looked at.

 

[logo897]

Thank you very much. What's the difference though between blue and black western digital?

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
At 7200 rpm's not much
The issue I see now is it's just near full or at least what the test showed possibly you have some unallocated space on it ?

 

[Mellon Head]

Thank you very much. What's the difference though between blue and black western digital?

The warranty. If memory serves me correctly, the warranty on a blue drive is one year, while the warranty on a black drive is five (?) years.

 

[RoasterMen]

I would raid the drive if you plan on getting two.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
This is one I usually get it says 3 years
WD Black 1TB Mobile Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gbs 32MB Cache 2.5 Inch - WD10JPLX-Newegg.com

3.5" say 5 years,
WD Black 1TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gbs 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD1003FZEX-Newegg.com

Here's a blue which says 2 years
WD Blue 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA III, 32 MB Cache - WD10EALX - Newegg.com

 

[Mellon Head]

Here's a blue which says 2 years
WD Blue 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA III, 32 MB Cache - WD10EALX - Newegg.com

They've increased it to two years now? Cool. It used to be only one when I bought my last Blue.

 

[logo897]

Does the warranty come with the hard drive or is it separate? I do not see a 5 year warranty

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
The manufacture warranty comes with it so you should have 2 years regardless

 

[logo897]

Thank you!

 

[logo897]

Hi all, hope you don't mind me bumping this, but I wanted to inform you that I FINALLY got myself all the parts needed for me to build my new computer. I ordered them on amazon and they should be here very soon!

logo897 - Saved Part Lists - PCPartPicker

These are the new parts. For now until I get a better GPU and SSD, I will take these out of my old computer (specs are still below until the system is done being built and then I will update it)

Hope you enjoy and I look forward to posting pics of my new build soon!

 

[johnhoh]

Right before you shut down the old system for the last time before moving your hard drive to the new motherboard and booting your new system, go into device manager and change your IDE/ATA hard drive controller to the Standard AHCI Serial ATA Controller. That way you can keep your windows installation as is, without having to do a sysprep or a reinstall.