10 Reasons Why Building a Gaming PC is Awesome

[Chrisa]

Life is good. You have a new gaming PC.

 

[DaveBG]

LOL actually I sometimes disassemble my PC and then put it together again just for fun (ok and cleaning)
Its awesome feeling.

 

[Uncle Al]

Geezzeeee .... My first one I built was the original Heathkit, where we actually had to solder all the components onto the printed circuit boards. Took several weeks of nightly work and worry that if I just ran two bits of solder together .... poof! Now it all plug & play. Fairly simple stuff, but there are those moments of excitement. Build my last one a few months back with the first SSD's I've owned and that was fun. Learn to balance the fan blades and viola! Everything runs cool, quiet, and on so nice!

 

[gingerpower121]

I swear this is the exact same article a year ago...

Still a good read I guess.

 

[Nobina]

It's this article again...

 

[Dino Dub]

My PC Building Experience
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I remember as if it was yesterday, when I owned an internet/gaming club, years ago - and mixing up stuff like Bartons 2000 & 2500+ the best AMD's CPU's before INTEL kicked their asses with Core2Duos, mixing them with cheap-at-that-time VIA KT 400 boards (ASUS A7V8X-X, and having frustrating problems with the mobo/cpu/ati radeon 9600 - like VPU recover error message). At the time I was getting into the whole building PCs world, and was told that it would work. Trying to run Vice City at other 10 PCs with nVIDIA GeFORCE MX440... Ahh those times....

From back then, I've switched few PCs (at my home), starting in 2006. with nForce2 ASUS mobo/Athlon 2500+/1 GB of DDR SDRAM, then in 2008 going to Gigabyte p35/Intel C2D E8500/radeon 3850/4Gigs of DDR2, then switching those with the CPU with E8600/radeon 4870/8Gigs of DDR2, then in 2010. I got myself the RADEON 6870 from POWERCOLOR, and finally in autumn of 2014 I bought myself the mighty SAPPHIRE R9 280x... all on the same p35/c2d platform... Sometimes with the purchase of r9 280x, I had to get myself a tT PSU SMART SE 630W, which serves me till this very day... an excellent low-price power supply.

And recently, a week or two back, the mobo/cpu/ram upgrade became a reality.
It took me almost 2 weeks of researches, compromises, reading tons of pages of PC builder's guides, if it is worth to go for Skylake, or Devil's Canyon or Sandy Bridge...
I finally am settled with Intel Core i5-2500k (4.2GHz with TB and slight overclock), ASUS P8Z77-M (really amazing board for its price point) and an 8GB of preclocked Fury Hyper-X DDR3 RAM (1866Mhz) - all of which I paid only 260$ for (in Bosnia), getting a warranty of 2y for mobo and ram and 1y for CPU The change is mindblowing. The FPS with this combo is crazy. Paired with 850EVO 250GB Samsung it blew my friends' minds. Thank you tech support forums, thanks TechSpot, thanks to my bro who helped me with a build

Till next upgrade Happy holidays and future PC builds to all of you fellow hardware guys.

 

[Igrecman]

Also cool is recycling the old one in the living room, dedicating it to Kodi (aka xbmc).

 

[Uncle Al]

I swear this is the exact same article a year ago...

Still a good read I guess.

OMG ..... we've been re-gifted, online no less!!!

 

[HellcatM]

Number 11, since you built your own PC you know its not a mac and you have something that will last and you can upgrade.

 

[Darth Shiv]

LOL actually I sometimes disassemble my PC and then put it together again just for fun (ok and cleaning)
Its awesome feeling.

I think that's a form of sadism

 

[Unearthed]

Having put together a few top-notch desktop PC-s I found the most rewarding experience in having a very quiet PC. My current one is totally silent, it is always on, and that's why I love it.

Yessssss. I made sure this time around all my components are whisper silent. The online reviews are extremely helpful when selecting parts.

 

[Unearthed]

Every time I build a new PC the hardest part is usually the CPU heat sink installation. I've been building PCs all my life, but I still get a bit nervous when pressing the power button for the first time. There's usually always a bit of tinkering needed to get a picture displayed, but once you get a picture it's a huge relief that all the parts actually work.

The worst nightmare is getting a DOA mainboard and spending the night troubleshooting. There's always some risk involved but to this day I make sure to use an anti-static wrist wrap.

During my early teenage years, I made the mistake of using too much thermal paste for the first time. I fried my board. Back then there was no youtube. Computers have come a long way. I really love the PC platform.

 

[Nishu SK]

What is the name of the case in no. 10?

 

[treetops]

OMFG it wont turn on! Oh my power switch is off. OMFG the monitor wont show anything! Crap when I took out the video card to move some wires I forgot to plug in the power cables.... Its working, glory be!

 

[RustyTech]

Having put together a few top-notch desktop PC-s I found the most rewarding experience in having a very quiet PC. My current one is totally silent, it is always on, and that's why I love it.

Agreed!
I'd also like to add...not flashy lights! NONE! I hate them...I don't need flashy anything since it's all about the performance anyway.

 

[commanderasus]

Only 10 things? I bet you ask any game pc builder out there and they will reply with many reasons. For me it is the challenge to figure out what suits the build for the budget, how to give the biggest bang for the buck. At the top of the list is a good ssd/power supply/gpu/ram and a case that will keep things cool. Yes quiet is king. Motherboards are so close these days it is a matter of what features the customer wants. As builders we are always looking for more ways to tweak the system. In my earlier years I build high performance cars, this is just as much fun as well as cheaper and you have clean hands afterwards! The last engine I build for a sprint car was $65,000. Now that will build a lot of gaming pcs!