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Thread: The Video Game Thread
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01-20-2022, 11:15 AM #985Hall Of Fame Poster
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01-20-2022, 11:36 AM #987Hall Of Fame Poster
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Re: The Video Game Thread
I'm an "IT guy" and I lost track of what's what tech wise and have no feel for what good prices are anymore. I just bought a laptop and that's pretty much all I'll ever own from here on out so I have a decent feel for that market but not really for desktop PC components. I'm sure you can spend as much as you want/have.
For a desktop you to shop certain things for any PC you build:
Case
Power Supply
Motherboard (you can buy an all in one or one with processor or just the board)
CPU (don't need if you but them as a package but usually if your building a PC and not a mame cabinet or some low end generic computer you get them separate)
IO/raid card (this is how old I am, I think almost all motherboards probably have that built in now but if you want to do anything fancy with raid arrays you may need that separate.)
RAM
Hard drive/drives (compatible with onboard controller or raid card)
Graphics card (again can be built into mother board. I would imagine there are some decent onboard graphics chipsets but if you are a gamer you are likely buying it separate and paying a lot for this.
A fan or fans for the CPU and to keep the graphics care cool.
That's really it. If I'm way off or missed anything I'm sure someone will let me know. I have not built one in a long time. I did void the warranty on my NAS a couple months ago by adding 16G of ram which is about 12G more than they say you can and still receive support.
You can just buy here and there when you have the cash and put it together when you have everything.
Some of the stuff people do with lights and cases now is off the hook. It's a whole subculture and has been for at least 15 years. A kid I worked with in 2007 who was a big WOW guy had one of those pulsing LED things, lol.
It's a pricey but kind of a neat hobby. I'm not really a hardware guy though. I think when I paid $600 for 16M of ram back in 1996 right before prices dropped drastically I realized PC's were not a great place to park your money, lol.
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Re: The Video Game Thread
Yeah, it really isn't that difficult, everything pretty much just snaps or clicks into place. The hardest part is cable management and making sure the case airflow is okay, I suck at that. I've been out of the PC building game way too long to give any specific recommendations. But it's not anything that you should be scared/worried about doing, anyone can put a computer together. I did my first one when I was 16.
If you get one down the road I will give you an extra monitor I have for free. I know you live close to me.back on twitter
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01-20-2022, 11:54 AM #989Hall Of Fame Poster
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Finding drivers and getting everything tight from that perspective can be a challenge too. I remember way back in the day setting dip switches to make sure everything was using it's own "interrupt" lol. Things I think are definitely a easier in many ways now but technology is like stone age to jetsons relatively speaking now.
But yeah, some guys really dig all that cable dressing. I worked for a guy that loved to dress computer cabinets OMG that guy got done and it was like a bomb went off with cable ties and velcro and all kinds of left over/unused fasteners and what not. A nuclear explosion wouldn't affect his cabinets they were so completely locked down. That's not my favorite but I think if you are hardcore all those details get attention.
The crypto miners having been buying up all the gpus for some time now. We hired this lunatic that built his own Ethereum rig about 5 years go. Not a lunatic for doing that, a lunatic because he was just a lunatic. We ended up firing him after a couple months.Last edited by BustOfPallas; 01-20-2022 at 12:00 PM.
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I was lucky enough to snag an rtx 3070 at microcenter while grabbing a cpu... Then caught best buy on a 3080 drop later, but even then this gen is pricey.
Even moreso if you go amd since all their board partners added the scalper premium to the cards in stores.
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