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- Processor: Intel Pentium E5300 2.60 Ghz
- 2 GB RAM DDR2
- 250 GB HDD (this value changed with the passage of time, as the disc died a long time ago.)
- Nvidia GeForce 9400 GT 1 GB
It has taken me a long time to get a replacement for the PC because basically I'm slowly fixing my house while saving to buy another PC, and honestly I didn't want to buy something that was going to be obsolete after a year, so it was quite discouraging to have the money there and end up using it in a higher priority, but after a huge sacrifice and many months of waiting, the time has come.
It's ironic, because almost a year ago I was arriving to the Discord server of the community and it was there when I REALLY met some of the people that make life here, I remember that Risha (rishahp) and Jean (therealflaws) were having an extremely philosophical conversation and they were who basically welcomed me, by that time Risha was improving his pc and his excitement was palpable, first he improved his processor and then the graphics card, as well as him, I saw other users that with the passing of the weeks and months made small or big improvements to their computers, and honestly, if they had told me when I entered that at this point I would have a better pc, I wouldn't have believed them, it's almost a circle, because SadBear told me the same thing almost a year ago, and now it happens to me, since then I've spent hours and hours talking about components on the server, because I was very motivated by the idea of building a pc for many reasons.
>Plans to play Fortnite with Mig1 had been in the works since December of last year
Risha was my partner in crime, we talked day and night about the best components to build a contemporary but not too expensive pc, apart from him, other users joined us like Digi (DigitalDicast) or Gabo (gabrielserra), the truth is that they're a lot and I would like to thank them all, but it's something I'll leave for the conclusion.
Those who want to know about components must be drooling by now, those who don't already know, I mean, so I'll be commenting in parallel the components and my experience building the PC.
Case: AeroCool Menace Saturn RGB
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z590 UD AC
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16 GB (2x8 GB)
Not even in my wildest dreams I thought of buying a motherboard for overclocking, but thanks to an unexpected offer on Amazon I got this Gigabyte at LESS than half the price, worth even less than a B560, what I was decided from the beginning were the RAM memories, they would be 2 sticks of 8 GB to take advantage of that precious "Dual Channel" of which the old writings speak.
I began the assembly by placing the RAM memories in the mother, which is the easiest thing, but before that would come the "brain" of the whole operation.
Processor: Intel i5 10400
Heatsink: Jonsbo CR-1400
My initial plan was an i3 10100, its 4 cores and 8 threads would be more than enough for almost any game with a matching graphics (not that I wanted to play everything at 4K), but once again, Amazon offers did their thing, and for a little more money I managed to acquire this processor with a respectable 6 cores and 12 threads, inserting it into the board was a terrifying task, because you must place it in the correct position, and then you must do some force to close the lid that fixes the processor, I thought I was going to break it haha.
The heatsink was something additional that I didn't plan to buy, but I did it to not worry about temperatures in a while, install it wasn't very difficult, but as with the processor, you have to do it with force and in turn carefully, not without placing enough thermal paste.
With these 4 pieces installed, it was time to screw the board to the case, this process wasn't too difficult, but I had to be careful that the screws didn't fall into the cable vault or something like that, there was no accident and the board was fixed without much problem, it was time to install the power supply that will power all the components.
PSU: EVGA 600 BQ - 80+ Bronze 600W
I've been using this power supply for a couple of weeks before building the pc in my old pc because its respective power supply was failing, and as I had also bought the gpu, so I needed to use it to "test" the gpu, although the truth is that I spent these two weeks with an infernal bottleneck of 95%, and that's not saying much.
I had to take the psu out of the case about 3 times during the assembly, because it's semi-modular and I thought I wouldn't need some cables, just to finish including them in different phases as I was installing the components, I needed one of the sata cables for the disks, another one for the fans, and the molex for the checkpoint fans, so the case was a mess of cables everywhere, I think I could do better the cable arrangement, but I did what I could, let's continue.
For storage I used two 500 GB hard drives, and a Kingston 240 SSD for the operating system, so far, I'm satisfied, but it's about time to talk about the GPU, which is almost an open secret at this point.
ZOTAC Nvidia GTX 1070 8 GB
One of the few things I bought second hand, when I went to test it I spent several hours seeing how it performed and despite getting a little warmer than it should, I could verify the proper functioning of the gpu and I bought it, my initial plan was a 1050 ti or a RX 570, but just as the processor was an unexpected improvement, the same happened with the graphics card haha.
These would be the main components, I must say that getting a place for the SSD was a real nightmare because of a construction detail of the case I could not install it in the ideal place where it should be, but after assembling everything, I did a preliminary power on to verify that it would turn on and take away the FEAR THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG, but it wasn't the case, it booted correctly until the bios, so I turned it off and proceeded to make the cable arrangement to finish.
Using cable ties, or however you know them, I was fixing the cables and connectors that were going to be away from the public view so that the lid would close, I don't want to dwell too much on this point because it was a disaster, but finally, everything was in place and the lid closed without problems.
Moving on for a moment to the monitor, the one on my pc has been showing dead pixels for a couple of months, so I thought it would die soon, it still works though, but I decided to buy a second hand monitor to be able to work properly, leaving my old monitor as secondary to have more work area, and the truth is that the space provided by two monitors is spectacular, but for the installation I kept using only one monitor.
Before I started putting everything together I already had a USB with the Windows 10 installer ready, the whole installation took less than 10 minutes, and my power on, power off and reboot times are heaven and earth compared to the old PC, taking less than 30 seconds in any case.
I've been using the pc for a couple of days, installing drivers and verifying that everything works correctly, and the truth is that I couldn't be happier with my new acquisition, which as I said will be a before and after in my performance on the page, and in general, for my daily life.
I want to make it clear, I'm very grateful to Hive and the Hive Gaming community in general (plus some friends outside the community), because thanks to you (all), votes, comments and messages is that I'm where I am, I don't want this to sound like the typical "youtuber thanks", but there's simply no expression that covers everything I'm feeling right now, simply, thank you.
I would like to pause to mention:
| @ACStriker | @cocacolaron | @DigitalDicast |
|---|---|---|
| @gabrielserra | @GtPacheko17 | @gutstheme |
| @Ikasumanera | @kuronokenshi | @Mekhane |
| @Mig1 | @rishahp | @Starmangk |
| @syberia | @therealflaws | @Zhoten |
In alphabetical order, so there will be no fights haha, to all of you, whether you have advised me regarding the PC or not, I thank you for the time we have spent talking or playing together, which I hope will only get progressively better, since just as some of you already have your PC gaminggggg, and me too, soon it will be time for those who are missing, and if I forgot to tag someone please, sincere apologies, my memory sucks, also sorry for not bringing the news earlier, but I wanted to show you in the best way possible.
I don't have much more to add, because more than the end of the post, it is the beginning of a new stage of which I hope a lot, thank you very much for reading, I hope you liked it.
