Anyone build their own PCs?

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My last two computers were custom built and they worked out very well for me. Beat way to get a really high quality machine for cheaper than if you were to buy a prebuilt one. And in the end you end up with a better setup than you can buy prebuilt because you lick top of the line parts for everything.

But last PC I built was back in fall of 2016 so it's almost been 8 years and I think the time is right to build a new one even though my current PC is still going strong.

Below is what I currently have put together. Thinking ofaybe adding a second SSD hard drive, probably 1 TB that would be my first HD to put my OS on amd them everything else I'll throw on the 4 TB hard drive.

 
Just built one with my son for Xmas and I think that's the same motherboard even that we used. I'll look at my partpicker in a bit and see what I put together.

One thing I will say is we didn't put an SSD in there at all. If that's the same motherboard then it has multiple m.2 slots and so we just used a 1TB NVMe drive and can add another if he somehow fills that one up. He wanted a gaming rig so we built for that and 1TB will hold multiple games at any time.

I'll post the partpicker later in case it helps.
 
fordman84 said:
Just built one with my son for Xmas and I think that's the same motherboard even that we used. I'll look at my partpicker in a bit and see what I put together.

One thing I will say is we didn't put an SSD in there at all. If that's the same motherboard then it has multiple m.2 slots and so we just used a 1TB NVMe drive and can add another if he somehow fills that one up. He wanted a gaming rig so we built for that and 1TB will hold multiple games at any time.

I'll post the partpicker later in case it helps.
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What CPU did you go with? I was almost set with going eoth this AMD but now I'm reading about all sorts of instability issues people are having so I might have to switch to a more expensive intel.
 
RememberTheKoy said:
What CPU did you go with? I was almost set with going eoth this AMD but now I'm reading about all sorts of instability issues people are having so I might have to switch to a more expensive intel.
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I have a grandson who is graduating high school in May that has been building for friends to raise college money. He and his younger brother are also into game designing. If I live long enough for them to finish college, I might invest in their startup.
 
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Back in the day when Windows 98 was around I built a couple of PCs.

Thought about building one lately only because I'd like to see how things have changed.
 
Fog said:
Back in the day when Windows 98 was around I built a couple of PCs.

Thought about building one lately only because I'd like to see how things have changed.
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It's gotten a lot more expensive that's for sure. Even sine the last time I built one in 2016 it's gotten so much more expensive. I blame all the assholes crypto-mining.
 
RememberTheKoy said:
What CPU did you go with? I was almost set with going eoth this AMD but now I'm reading about all sorts of instability issues people are having so I might have to switch to a more expensive intel.
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AMD Ryzen 5.

And the biggest cost increase is the GPU. Most other parts all have come down it feels like. RAM, storage, and power are dirt cheap.
 
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