My partner who’s extremely into Microsoft Flight Sim decided to have me build him a PC instead of borrowing mine to play. We went all out since the game is a resource hog and the GPU market is still insane:
@“kory”#p52315 thanks! I am a huge fan of noctuas too.
This is my main desktop/VR PC, I built it at the very very beginning of 2020, when PC parts were actually cheap.
I did upgrade the CPU because I wanted to build a smaller ITX based machine later in the year, which happened but not as planned.
This machine:
Ryzen 7 5800X
RX 5700XT
64GB of DDR4 RAM
500GB Samsung NVMe M2 SSD
and tons of Noctua fans and some RGB lighting.
The CPU cooler fan is so big, it almost touches the RAM.
[upl-image-preview url=//i.imgur.com/ohWUUcc.jpeg]
I'm normally not a huge fan of RGB lighting in a PC, but went for a Unit 01 color scheme but LEDs aren't great at purple.
[upl-image-preview url=//i.imgur.com/hms4fPC.jpeg]
[upl-image-preview url=//i.imgur.com/lo6iFXP.jpeg]
Uh so I am pressed for time and not really interested in trying to figure out drivers and compatibility or researching parts, so as a result I bought a middle of the road pre-built pc in 2018. I am also very shallow and like all the ridiculous gamer aesthetic RGB crap even though it is very dumb. And I have always been jealous of some of the really cool PC cases I see everywhere.
... would it be feasible for me to take the old guts of my current PC, which weren't that great even when new, and transfer them into a new cool case?
I really am not worried about performance. I'm playing Halo Infinite and Control without issue. Maybe I would get a SSD but other than that I don't really feel like I need actual upgrades to the internals.
@“thebryanjzx90”#p52332 Oh yea, it really shouldn‘t be hard at all! Do you know what size motherboard you have? Generally speaking, if it’s an ATX sized mobo, you should be able to migrate to a ton of different cases with ease.
@“fetus8”#p52329 lovely! I have one of those 140mm beasts in my main PC as well. I refreshed all of my PCs around summer 2020 (well, except for the GPUs…) and jammed as much as I could into this little Silverstone MicroATX case that I have been using for about a decade at this point. I‘ve thought about moving to a new case, but I’m part of that rapidly dwindling cohort of PC builders that insists on having an optical drive present. I was actually planning on putting a second 140mm fan in, but it just barely couldn't clear the RAM, so I put that one in another PC.
This machine's specs are:
Core i9-10900K
GTX 1080
64GB RAM
1TB OS NVME SSD + 2 TB storage NVME SSD + 2 TB storage SATA SSD
I had originally planned on tracking down an RTX 30xx series card for this PC, but the it's just not worth the price and hassle for my purposes. Plus, I have a 2080 ti in another machine that I was able to buy easily at MSRP (imagine!!!) several years ago, and that's more than good enough for the moment.
@“kory”#p52346 That's quite the high end PC with all those components stuffed into that little case. Do those noctuas keep that i9 cool?
I managed to get an RTX 30xx series card this year for MSRP, but it took almost 8 months and came as a surprise. I had signed up for stock notifications on EVGAs website for a handful of different cards in Feburary, and then in late September I got an email that I had a 3060 available to me for 24 hours. I thought it was a joke at first. It was the perfect sized model to fit in my ITX build and I was able to sell my other card on ebay for a little more than I paid for it.
I insist on keeping a disc drive around now too, and gave up on trying to actually put it inside a case. I use a little SATA adapter and just keep it above my main desktop anymore. Now it's "modular" lol
[upl-image-preview url=//i.imgur.com/Mhy3Gtu.jpeg]
[upl-image-preview url=//i.imgur.com/1CX9aRF.jpeg]
@“fetus8”#p52380 I haven’t had any issues with throttling or overheating. I knew the i9 was going to put out a lot of heat, so that’s why I went with the largest Noctua heat sink I could jam in there. An AIO would also do the trick, but this PC is basically on 24/7, so I wanted to keep moving parts to a minimum. The 200mm-140mm-120mm front to back fan arrangement seems to create a nice wind tunnel to keep everything cool.
@“exodus”#p53916 You can blow the controller board on a DC hot swapping controllers. This fixes / prevents that. Basically a mandatory repair at this point.
I've touched on this before in another thread somewhere.
I really like picking up a used game that evidence of the previous user(s). Like notes in the manual and stuff.
I got this copy of Starflight for the Sega Genesis that I'm kind of in love with.
[upl-image-preview url=//i.imgur.com/EnmeYan.jpeg]
For one, I love a game with a tome for a manual. And this one has a bunch of notes and annotations in it which makes me feel like an archeologist who's stumbled upon some ancient writing. The cover is torn too which kinda lends to this "historic artifact" vibe that I get from stuff like this. Some people would be upset by this but I find it endearing.
The only thing is this game is supposed to come with a map and this one didn't have it. So I went on a quest to the local fed ex and printed this on glossy paper. I folded it up and crumpled it so it kinda fits in with the beat up manual.
@“milo”#p54000 I'm looking at this and wondering how have I never played this game?
This looks to be the sort of thing I would enjoy. (I _love_ Star Control II, and I can see the heavy influences coming from Starflight just by looking at that map and a couple of screenshots)
@“sixteen-bit”#p54088 nice collection I’m not much of a Halo person, but I’ve got a thing for limited console variants! The Series X design is a little busy for me, but I would buy the heck out of one done entirely in that starfield pattern they used on the top half.
Oh yeah you gotta check this out then. I played Star Control 2 but it didn't hook me... There was a big emphasis on combat it seemed and I kept getting blown up lol. Starflight has more of an emphasis on exploration and discovery and it's like a Star Trek-esque RPG where you get to crew your ship and manage their stats and stuff.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/c5fa0066849fab4e508a7a9002846629/c1ac15597a418dbf-58/s2048x3072/f5409eb9d83e0335b2bdbcf3670950d3ad4117f5.jpg
I’m not much of a Halo person, but I’ve got a thing for limited console variants! The Series X design is a little busy for me, but I would buy the