what are your specs?

[lil bitch]

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.

yeah, that's why i got a 1070 ti. i won't have to upgrade for a long, long time, this baby's only about a year old and crushes anything i can throw at it.
powerlevel, but hell, at least i'm not this one kid at school, this fucker got a build with a 1080 laying around in his house and he don't even use it, all he do is go on ps4. when you ask him what gpu he has he says "geforce gtx, real good stuff". i aint that dumb lmao
MSi is actually quite good, indeed, however you can't beat the quality and value of a good ASRock or gigabyte board. ASRock taichis are fucking primo and gigabyte boards are a lot more value in terms of what you get compared to an MSi board- but MSi is quite good for quality and the price tag ain't for nothin on those high-end carbon boards.
i do regularly watch actually hardcore overclocking, that's how i became so interested in PCBs. his PCB analysis videos are some real insightful stuff. main takeaway of the mobo videos, at least for ryzen chipsets- all board manufacturers lie about mosfet phases.
my apologies if i'm rambling, i never get the chance to talk about this shit lmao

 

[lil bitch]

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.)

also holy shit buddy, that's some awesome stuff, both builds of course.
1 terabyte m.2 ssd is some real shit right there, real fuckin fast i bet, you lucky as hell!
i really do find the retrocomputer more interesting, however- tell me, is it that much different from modern computer hardware or have things changed drastically? all i know is that you'd have to use a certain fucky tool to take the CPU out of the motherboard lmao

 

[Ginger Piglet]

also holy shit buddy, that's some awesome stuff, both builds of course.
1 terabyte m.2 ssd is some real shit right there, real fuckin fast i bet, you lucky as hell!
i really do find the retrocomputer more interesting, however- tell me, is it that much different from modern computer hardware or have things changed drastically? all i know is that you'd have to use a certain fucky tool to take the CPU out of the motherboard lmao

The ST was one of the first computers with a graphical user interface. Hardware wise, it's a completely different beast. While nowadays the x86 line of CPU is ubiquitous, back then it wasn't. Only the PC used x86. Atari and Amiga and Apple all used 68000, the 8 bits used the 6502 or Z80 or whatever, and developing for any of them meant assembly language which in turn meant learning anew with each architecture.

Sure, there was C but compilers were less efficient than today.

Hardware wise, retro systems are far less modular. They were taking Apple's idea of vertical integration to move units. As such, a lot of them had things like the OS on roms, RAM chips bolted to the motherboard, proprietary interfaces, and so on. A cottage industry existed on the ST in weird and wonderful hardware mods such as the Marpet ram board, accelerator boards that plugged into the CPU socket, graphics card adapters (the ET4000 was popular for video editing in the ST and Amiga and adapters existed for both), even memorably a device that came with the ST port of Gauntlet that allowed you to insert two additional joysticks in the printer port so you and your friends could get into brawls over who shot the food.

Retrodevelopment? Well, you're much closer to hardware. It is therefore possible to access undocumented features or even do things that the designers didn't think possible. For instance, overscan video modes, having the screen split between two resolutions (so you could have an 80 column text resolution for a status bar with full colour graphics above), reading the sound chip registers to time something to a chiptune or piece of tracker music... This was the age of the demoscene and they really took advantage of it.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Hardware wise, retro systems are far less modular. They were taking Apple's idea of vertical integration to move units. As such, a lot of them had things like the OS on roms, RAM chips bolted to the motherboard, proprietary interfaces, and so on. A cottage industry existed on the ST in weird and wonderful hardware mods such as the Marpet ram board, accelerator boards that plugged into the CPU socket, graphics card adapters (the ET4000 was popular for video editing in the ST and Amiga and adapters existed for both), even memorably a device that came with the ST port of Gauntlet that allowed you to insert two additional joysticks in the printer port so you and your friends could get into brawls over who shot the food.

I don't know much about the Atari but the Amiga had SOME nice and easy expansion options. I remember a guys dad, a neckbeard before neckbeards, who was really big into the Amiga(he even bought the games) going on a BBS to download some SNES games for us. Something was fucky and in what seemed like routine he lifted the Amiga and angrily yanked out the 040 board(yeah, really into the Amiga) that didn't play well with the software or something like that.
What you could easily do was limited though things like putting in 512kb more RAM in the 500 or using the expansion slot was straightforward enough. Installing a Vampire accelerator is more involved but it's really cool to see Elite 2 running on it.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

I don't know much about the Atari but the Amiga had SOME nice and easy expansion options. I remember a guys dad, a neckbeard before neckbeards, who was really big into the Amiga(he even bought the games) going on a BBS to download some SNES games for us. Something was fucky and in what seemed like routine he lifted the Amiga and angrily yanked out the 040 board(yeah, really into the Amiga) that didn't play well with the software or something like that.
What you could easily do was limited though things like putting in 512kb more RAM in the 500 or using the expansion slot was straightforward enough. Installing a Vampire accelerator is more involved but it's really cool to see Elite 2 running on it.

I think the A1200 was best known on the blue and beige side for expandability?

There's at least one bloke I semi know who uses his Atari TT (a rather rare system from 1990 that was designed as an attempt to get into the workstation market) as a daily driver. I don't know what he's stuffed into it though.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I think the A1200 was best known on the blue and beige side for expandability?

There's at least one bloke I semi know who uses his Atari TT (a rather rare system from 1990 that was designed as an attempt to get into the workstation market) as a daily driver. I don't know what he's stuffed into it though.

You're probably right about the A1200 and it's a better platform to build on, but even the A500 had the easy access expansion slot on the bottom and the one on the side(Zorro), though it probably went unused because the people that bought the machine didn't really need expansions and things like a 20-40MB hard drive and a controller card was outrageously expensive to a teen.

 

[c-no]

My old crappy modern rig died and now I spent money on a better top of the line computer. Here's the specs:
-Intel® Pentium® II MMX 233MHz processor
-32MB SDRAM
-12.1" SVGA TFT display, 800 x 600 resolution
-Trident Cyber9388 graphics card
-3.2GB HDD
-Windows 95
-16-bit SoundBlaster™ Pro-compatible stereo sound

 

[korejapan 01]

Had this PC for 3 - 4 years now, never failed me, and I won't be replacing it for a while:

What's Inside
CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 @ 2.7GHz, Quad-Core
GPU: ASUS STRIX GTX 970
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB DDR4 @ 3000MHz
OS: Windows 10 Pro


Peripherals
Monitor: ASUS VG248QE 144Hz Refresh Rate, 1ms Response Time (1920x1080)
Keyboard: Ducky MIYA Pro, 60% Sub PBT QWERY layout (Cherry MX Black mechanical switches)
Mouse: Logitech G502

I was going to replace my keyboard with an IBM Pingmaster and get a converter to micro USB at some point since I've wanted Alps switches for as long as I can remember.

 

[Anime-Free Penguin]

Had this PC for 3 - 4 years now, never failed me, and I won't be replacing it for a while:

What's Inside
CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 @ 2.7GHz, Quad-Core
GPU: ASUS STRIX GTX 970
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB DDR4 @ 3000MHz
OS: Windows 10 Pro


Peripherals
Monitor: ASUS VG248QE 144Hz Refresh Rate, 1ms Response Time (1920x1080)
Keyboard: Ducky MIYA Pro, 60% Sub PBT QWERY layout (Cherry MX Black mechanical switches)
Mouse: Logitech G502

I was going to replace my keyboard with an IBM Pingmaster and get a converter to micro USB at some point since I've wanted Alps switches for as long as I can remember.

Good build. I rate it a 3.5 out of 4 GB.

 

[Ali della Fenice]

Had this PC for 3 - 4 years now, never failed me, and I won't be replacing it for a while:

What's Inside
CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 @ 2.7GHz, Quad-Core
GPU: ASUS STRIX GTX 970
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB DDR4 @ 3000MHz
OS: Windows 10 Pro


Peripherals
Monitor: ASUS VG248QE 144Hz Refresh Rate, 1ms Response Time (1920x1080)
Keyboard: Ducky MIYA Pro, 60% Sub PBT QWERY layout (Cherry MX Black mechanical switches)
Mouse: Logitech G502

I was going to replace my keyboard with an IBM Pingmaster and get a converter to micro USB at some point since I've wanted Alps switches for as long as I can remember.

Isnt the clock on that cpu a bit too low?

Ps forgot that the .400 series always had low base clocks and relied heavily on their boost.

 

[Einon]

What's Inside
CPU: Intel Core i5-7600 @ 2.7GHz, Quad-Core
GPU: Geforce GTX 1080
RAM: 8gb ram DD4
OS: Windows 10 Pro


Peripherals
Monitor:Hp Lp2475w 24inches 60htz -Gonna get a new one soon
Keyboard: Legion by Lenovo k200 backlit - It's not the best but I won It in a Beat Saber tournament and It gets the work done
Mouse: Some cheap shitty 5 dollar mouse.

 

[Cod of War]

 

[DeadwastePrime]

so ive been thinking of building a pc but my budget is about 500 bucks are these parts good?

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth 990
Processor: AMD FX-8120 8-core
Memory: 16gb Ripjaws DDR3 1600mhz
Graphics: 6bg Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060
Storage: 240gb Samsung SSD + 1tb Western Digital Black HD
Case: Coolermaster HAF
Other: Samsung 32" monitor, Logitech G403 mouse, Logitech G213 keyboard

 

[Ali della Fenice]

so ive been thinking of building a pc but my budget is about 500 bucks are these parts good?

I dont know what your max budget is but, I would try to go for at least a g2200 and a b450 mobo or a cheap b350/x370 ( but yould have to update the bios first) and faster ram with possibily the heatsink on, so you can oc it a bit.
If you want to go with the athlon at all costs, buy at least a msi mobo, not a320 though, because it is the only manufacturer that allows overclock on that cpu.

 

[tarni]

i7-6700k @ 4.1 GHz
32 GB DDR4
GTX 1080 (This was before the miners got their hands on them and made them like a grand a pop and sold out everywhere. I got mine very early for near MSRP)
View Sonic G-Sync 1440p Monitor
Ben Q 1440p Monitor
1 TB SSD
2 TB SSD Hybrid

And this sexy beast:
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I basically scrimped and saved for like 2 years to build this rig. I don't do 4k because I don't think its worth it, and I'd rather have a longer life-span for games, since 1440p is fine for me. With my monitor though, I'm basically eternally stuck to NVIDIA cards.

I need that keyboard in my life

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I need that keyboard in my life

Get your paints and brushes out and do it. I painted my keyboard a couple of weeks ago using 20+ years old Citadel paints I found in an old tobacco box. Stiff brushes can be gently massaged back to life by chewing on them and I'm no artist but my keyboard now looks like complete ass and while they're not watery chinese myth dragons the goblin green on sun burst yellow makes it infinitely easier to see the Function keys that Microsoft decided to make the size of tic tacs, with no separation between groups, with tiny lettering that is dark blue against glossy black.

 

[AltisticRight]

I'm using a shitty laptop hooked up to a monitor, lame. Thinking about going Ryzen for my work, couple with 2060s/2070s.

(I do advise people to not show too much... if it's very specific)
The laptop:
Dell Gaylienware 17 R5
GTX1060, i7, 16G generic ram, lots of SSD for my work.
External monitor is a wide-gamut, certified 99% aRGB photography/design monitor. I want the accurate colours for CAD shit. Had to get jewed several hundreds for a calibrator too.

For carry:
Dell Galienware 13 R3, 7th gen i7, 16GB RAM, crap graphics card.

Thinking about replacing the desk-laptop with a proper PC.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

dell inspirion with an i5 4200u and integrated graphics from 2013

i get a solid 13fps in tomb raider 2013

 

[HeyYou]

i5 9600K and a 2060.