what are your specs?

[BALLZ-BROKEN]

AMD FX-8350
Radeon RX580
32GB ram

 

[Iceland Heavy]

i5-4690K OC'd to 4.2 Ghz
Asus Strix GTX 1080 (also got it right before miners started buying them up)
250GB SSD
2TB HDD
16GB DDR3 RAM

Been doing pretty good for a couple years now though I keep it at 1080p. Assassin's Creed Odyssey is the first game that's given me noticeable framerate issues maxed out.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Mine is old. It's a stationary mini-tower Dell from the local university that I spotted in a second hand store a couple of years ago, bought it for $100, a bargain and I just can't resist those.
The processor was good enough for my needs, it's a i5 2400 so four cores and no threads, eight gigs of RAM, 7200rpm HDD, Linux Mint came installed AND it had a Windows 7 Pro OA license. I ran it headless with Mint for a while, just throwing things at it to chew through while using my laptop.

When my laptop started to feel long in the tooth I decided to upgrade the Dell and started using it as a desktop. Bought a GTX 1050(don't need more), put in more ram(need more), 512GB SSD, nice mouse and keyboard, a couple of nice IPS screens and some other doodads, then used the Win7 license and installed Windows. Those accessories cost quite a lot more than the actual computer but I still don't feel that there's much need to go to a current CPU generation. A decent mid-range CPU would complete certain workloads faster, instead of 2 hours and 40 minute it might be completed in 1 hour 50 minutes, percentage wise that's a huge improvement. So what? I'm not going to be around the computer when I set it to do something that uses 100% of the system resources for an extended period of time, no, when I start that I'm going to be away for a couple of hours.

The i5 2400 is six years old now and it's still good, that's pretty cool. Imagine how bad it would be to have a computer from 1994 in 2000.

 

[dysentery]

1.05Mhz CPU
3-Channel multi-wave SID (6581) Soundchip
64kb of RAM
Official Commodore 5.25-inch floppy drive (Sold Separately).

 

[The Cunting Death]

Cybertron PC but replaced the Motherboard and Graphics Card

GTX 980 graphics card that I got for $100 (friend of mine barely used it)
8 GB of RAM
Broken DVD Drive but working Bluray Drive (just installed during Christmas)
Terabyte of Storage with an extra 100 GB of space on a separate HardDrive.

3D 1080p Vizio TV

 

[Ali della Fenice]

AMD FX-8350
Radeon RX580
32GB ram

I really hope that things overclocked, so that you are just somewhat bottlenecked. Because if it is stock, you are super hyper bottlenecked.

i5-4690K OC'd to 4.2 Ghz
Asus Strix GTX 1080 (also got it right before miners started buying them up)
250GB SSD
2TB HDD
16GB DDR3 RAM

Been doing pretty good for a couple years now though I keep it at 1080p. Assassin's Creed Odyssey is the first game that's given me noticeable framerate issues maxed out.

That cpu is gonna struggle in every open world game at this point.
And With that gpu you really need at least 8 threads.

 

[Hasuke]

Intel Pentium G4600
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050
223GB SSD
931GB HDD
8GB DDR4 RAM

I can play most games on high settings.

 

[ProfDongs]

I5 6500
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070
16GB DDR4 RAM
2 1TB HDD
500 GB HDD
223 GB SSD

The case I bought was too huge so I just threw all of my HDDs in it. Don't remember what the motherboard is but I built it right before the GPU prices got extremely fucked up and its still working great. I think if anything the processor will be the first to go, and then maybe another 16GB Ram just for the fuck of it.

 

[lil bitch]

ryzen 5 2600 w/ a wraith spire my friend gave me (temps are pretty fuckin weird so i might need to reapply the thermal paste later), haven't attempted OC so im running at stock speeds.
EVGA GTX 1070 Ti SC Black Edition, got it for a real good price on black friday, also attempted overclocking but i didn't do it right like a dumbass
2x8GB 3000MHz G.Skill Ripjaws 4 RAM, running at 3000MHz, haven't attempted an overclock yet
MSi x470 gaming plus motherboard (i wish i went with aorus/gigabyte)
Kingston A400 250GB SSD
(no hard drive yet- saving up for a beefy one since i torrent a lot)
EVGA 600B PSU - great but a lot of coil whine, and i mean a LOT. considering an RMA
EVGA DG-76 Case (was 100 dollars off, mediocre airflow, but it comes with an RGB header so im not complaining)
cooler master devastator 2 keyboard my friend gave me
corsair sabre rgb- great gaming mouse
deepcool 200ex rgb strips- great if you don't mind non-addressable RGB, complimented the rgb on my case perfectly.

put this together over the course of 3 months. i either bought every piece of it on sale or a friend gifted a part to me for my birthday under the promise that i'll give them something of equal value back when the time comes. it took a little bit of convincing from my parents, and it was totally worth it after being stuck with shitty netbooks for years on end. i can finally play shit at good framerates and i am ever so grateful that my dad budged and let me build this.

 

[Commander Keen]

I got drunk and put together the new PC and when I awoke from my stupor I saw windows 10 finishing installation. Jeez. I hope I at least bothered to set up a LTSB install.

 

[Ali della Fenice]

ryzen 5 2600 w/ a wraith spire my friend gave me (temps are pretty fuckin weird so i might need to reapply the thermal paste later), haven't attempted OC so im running at stock speeds.
EVGA GTX 1070 Ti SC Black Edition, got it for a real good price on black friday, also attempted overclocking but i didn't do it right like a dumbass
2x8GB 3000MHz G.Skill Ripjaws 4 RAM, running at 3000MHz, haven't attempted an overclock yet
MSi x470 gaming plus motherboard (i wish i went with aorus/gigabyte)
Kingston A400 250GB SSD
(no hard drive yet- saving up for a beefy one since i torrent a lot)
EVGA 600B PSU - great but a lot of coil whine, and i mean a LOT. considering an RMA
EVGA DG-76 Case (was 100 dollars off, mediocre airflow, but it comes with an RGB header so im not complaining)
cooler master devastator 2 keyboard my friend gave me
corsair sabre rgb- great gaming mouse
deepcool 200ex rgb strips- great if you don't mind non-addressable RGB, complimented the rgb on my case perfectly.

put this together over the course of 3 months. i either bought every piece of it on sale or a friend gifted a part to me for my birthday under the promise that i'll give them something of equal value back when the time comes. it took a little bit of convincing from my parents, and it was totally worth it after being stuck with shitty netbooks for years on end. i can finally play shit at good framerates and i am ever so grateful that my dad budged and let me build this.

You could have gone with a ryzen 1600, and 1060 or 580 for gpu and b450 for mobos.
Definitely would have saved you some money and still got you very good framerates.

 

[lil bitch]

You could have gone with a ryzen 1600, and 1060 or 580 for gpu and b450 for mobos.
Definitely would have saved you some money and still got you very good framerates.

you right, i coulda went cheaper but i didn't because i wanted it to be the most up-to-date fresh system i could build at a decent price when parts were on sale. i built this thing to last, which is why i didnt mind blowing more money. i think 1060s might be getting a bit dated, too, lately.
besides, i needed an x470 chipset mobo for VRM and USB capability, too. if i ever wanna upgrade to a ryzen 7, i heard b450 boards wouldn't cut it, it'd overheat. i also have a lot of USB devices i need to use like a wireless bluetooth reciever, my drawing tablet, my condenser mic, mouse and keyboard obv, and my USB drives i use a lot for school, so x470 was right up my alley with that.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Laptop (Daily driver)
Processor i7-8750H
16 GB's of RAM (looking to upgrade that to 32GBs)
GTX 1070
970 Evo 1TB x2 (upgraded already)
2TB Firecuda (upgraded already)

Workstations a secret.

 

[OG 666]

I actually just built my first PC a couple of weeks ago. I'm v happy with it.

Ryzen 5 2600 3.4ghz
Sapphire RX 590
16GB DDR4-3000
500GB Samsung Evo SSD (going to add an HDD soon as well)
NZXT H500i case
Acer XF251Q monitor

I'm planning on getting a nice keyboard whenever tax season rolls around.

 

[lil bitch]

Sapphire RX 590

how is the rx 590? i heard that shit a very solid card but i aint ever meet no one who has one so im just wonderin

 

[Ali della Fenice]

how is the rx 590? i heard that shit a very solid card but i aint ever meet no one who has one so im just wonderin

It is just an overckocked 580. so not much difference but you get 3 games (re2, dmc5 and the division2) with it. With a 580 only 2 games instead but it is quite a bit cheaper.

you right, i coulda went cheaper but i didn't because i wanted it to be the most up-to-date fresh system i could build at a decent price when parts were on sale. i built this thing to last, which is why i didnt mind blowing more money. i think 1060s might be getting a bit dated, too, lately.
besides, i needed an x470 chipset mobo for VRM and USB capability, too. if i ever wanna upgrade to a ryzen 7, i heard b450 boards wouldn't cut it, it'd overheat. i also have a lot of USB devices i need to use like a wireless bluetooth reciever, my drawing tablet, my condenser mic, mouse and keyboard obv, and my USB drives i use a lot for school, so x470 was right up my alley with that.

Im impressed, you know your shit.
You could also have done 1700+x370 but with the 2600 you get a bit better framerates so it is still good.
1060 is still plenty good for 1080 max settings. If you play at 1440p, you did the right choice with a 1070ti. It is either that or vega56.

 

[lil bitch]

It is just an overckocked 580. so not much difference but you get 3 games (re2, dmc5 and the division2) with it. With a 580 only 2 games instead but it is quite a bit cheaper.

ah, interesting. not too surprised but it definitely sounds like great value, something AMD is quite known for in my opinion.

Im impressed, you know your shit.
You could also have done 1700+x370 but with the 2600 you get a bit better framerates so it is still good.
1060 is still plenty good for 1080 max settings. If you play at 1440p, you did the right choice with a 1070ti. It is either that or vega56.

thanks, PC components and such are my passion, and i'm either going into comp sci or comp eng when i'm older. not sure which one. i love em both just as much, but probably comp eng because the concept of PCBs and engineering really intrigue me, not to mention the decent salary that comes with that.
and yeah, the 1700 is at a very good price point right now, and i would have gotten it, but i had bought my motherboard before i bought the CPU, which of course supports second gen ryzen. did not want that to go to waste, of course, so i just got a 2600. any lower and i would have been stuck at a quad-core ryzen with integrated graphics, not too keen on that. i don't regret it though, you're right, definitely more powerful than the first gen ryzen equivalent.
don't get me wrong, the 1060 is very good, but i predict in the coming years it might not run many triple A games very well. esports titles, sure, they crush it, but as we know, GPUs never stay dominant forever with every single game. i don't play at 1440p, it's kind of a weird res to me and i don't see why anyone would imo, i just play at normal 1080p, all highest settings and get good frames.

 

[Indrid Cold]

...been building PC's since I was 8 and now that I'm 10 (almost 11), I really know my shit.

My latest build was a ton of fun because I refused to buy anything new. It was a 100% recycle build; only used parts allowed! Put on my jew-haggler cap and humped CL/Offer-Up/Local Ads.

Here's the build:
Corsair Carbide 270R Case with Corsair CX550M - $50
MSI Pro Series Z270 SLI PLUS mobo - $140
Intel Core i7-7700K with Corsair liquid block/rad- $180 (LOL!)
Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 8gb - $320
16gb DDR4 PNY Anarchy - $100 (feel like I overpaid)
Win 10 x64-PRO - Uncle Gates loaned me his personal copy.
500GB Samsung SSD from another build - $0
2TB Hitachi HDD from another build - $0

Not too bad for ~$800 in parts and another $500 in gas driving to all these weirdos houses to pick this shit up! I probly have fleas now, but the PC rips and I shred through most AAA titles at more fps than I can even recognize.

 

[Ali della Fenice]

I actually just built my first PC a couple of weeks ago. I'm v happy with it.

Ryzen 5 2600 3.4ghz
Sapphire RX 590
16GB DDR4-3000
500GB Samsung Evo SSD (going to add an HDD soon as well)
NZXT H500i case
Acer XF251Q monitor

I'm planning on getting a nice keyboard whenever tax season rolls around.

You should try occing that thing if you feel comfortable. Especially the ram but even at stock is a very nice balanced config.
Good job.

ah, interesting. not too surprised but it definitely sounds like great value, something AMD is quite known for in my opinion.


thanks, PC components and such are my passion, and i'm either going into comp sci or comp eng when i'm older. not sure which one. i love em both just as much, but probably comp eng because the concept of PCBs and engineering really intrigue me, not to mention the decent salary that comes with that.
and yeah, the 1700 is at a very good price point right now, and i would have gotten it, but i had bought my motherboard before i bought the CPU, which of course supports second gen ryzen. did not want that to go to waste, of course, so i just got a 2600. any lower and i would have been stuck at a quad-core ryzen with integrated graphics, not too keen on that. i don't regret it though, you're right, definitely more powerful than the first gen ryzen equivalent.
don't get me wrong, the 1060 is very good, but i predict in the coming years it might not run many triple A games very well. esports titles, sure, they crush it, but as we know, GPUs never stay dominant forever with every single game. i don't play at 1440p, it's kind of a weird res to me and i don't see why anyone would imo, i just play at normal 1080p, all highest settings and get good frames.

1070ti at 1080p is a bit overkill but plus side is that you wont have to upgrade for a long time.
You should check actually hardcore overckocking on youtube if you like that sort of stuff and havent already. He even made am4 buying guides, ranking various mobos from best to meh, in regards to vmr, capacitors etc, both for the 300 series and in 2018 for the 400. Msi should be definitely on the better end of that.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Atari STE
68HC000 processor (a must, really, on an STE because otherwise it doesn't play nicely with a Gotek or virtual floppy drive. Also keeps temps down)
4 MB 30-pin SIMM RAM
Gotek Flashfloppy
External B floppy drive which I got off eBay and which had the main live wire from the power supply to the drive itself cut for some reason and had to be replaced
Ultrasatan (a device which allows you to use SD cards as hard drives)
Self built arcade joystick that can be plugged in either as a standard 9-pin affair or effectively as a Jagpad (albeit without the phone keypad)
NEC 1770Nx monitor
GBS-8220 circuitboard to make the monitor signal be in a range that a non-CRT screen will accept

(I got into retrocomputing and retrodevelopment pretty hard last year. Prepare your autistic ratings, boys and girls. As an aside, I still can't get past world 4 of Turrican 2 even 25 years on without cheating.)

As for what I'm typing this on:

AMD Ryzen 1600, overclocked to 3.75 GHz
Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, blower version
Asrock AB350 ITX motherboard
16 GB DDR4 RAM
1 TB M.2 SSD
LG 4K monitor
Noctua AM4 CPU cooler
Goobang Doo mechanical keyboard
Generic USB 5 button mouse
Thrustmaster Joystick
Generic USB optical drive
Silverstone SG13 case

(Contemplating an upgrade to a Ryzen 3000 if they come out this year and still play nicely with older AM4 socket motherboards as it is claimed they will.)