7+ hours of pure fun and little bit anxiety(first time building).

Unboxing, pushing in connectors and finally when rgb lit up. Lot of fun.

Right.. that costs as much as an entry level gaming pc used to cost back in the early aughts.

You noticed. :D Ive a really long desk 10+ feet. After capturing the photo i moved it to right where i have leg room.

Probably monitor keyboard mouse are pushed closer to PC to stage the photo

I did not know. Joined!

I wouldnt say that its a brag. Part of the reason I did it was because of recent developments and fear of loosing personal computing. Ive always wanted to build my gaming setup. And have postponed it so many times it felt out of reach but this time i just did it.

This is my first and hoping it will be with me for 8-10years.

Boutique PC building has been getting expensive since crypto hoarders bought up GPUs and scalpers drove the prices through the roof pushing it further out of reach. We had a couple early hits with the HDD and memory shortages due to factory damage, those were relatively short lived, crypto otoh was long-term. Now we’ve got LLM datacenters hoarding all the hardware along with manufacturers perfectly happy to allow scarcity to drive up prices.

On top of all that we’re seeing less-subtle suggestions to kill the personal PC and force everyone into a subscription model for everything.

Personally I’d wait for any dip in the market and build another good quality PC. I figure there’s not too many years left before they get their wish.

On the bright side, hardware takes longer to become obsolete now, so at least it will likely last a long time and retain resale value.

you can still build a nice rig with ddr3 and ddr4.

I'm actually getting a GTX 960 to crossfire with another 960 because I don't want to spend $800 on a new card.

if I can squeeze out another 5-8 years out of them I'll be happy.

Thanks for the offer. Unfortunately cannot. Net is bad, power shortage, and sailing the high seas.

Maybe some day. :D

I was trying to get cachyos but live stick was not booting. Could be issue with outdated BIOS firmware. (Cannot update now due to unpredictable power outage)

So tried endeavour it worked.

Will try to get cachy soon

Im feeling it. Setting everything to maxxx!!

That's Dark Souls 1

looks like a dark soul

Yes, it has given a lot of confidence. Ill ve building one for my friend in few months.

I did not know that, more could ve bad. Will research and analyze before adding. Thanks mate.

I still have to try games that will turn on my gpu fans. (Temp is pretty solid on the gpu) Downloading rn.

Yes, I know that now. Will monitor and analyze first and only add if needed. Thank you for looking out and helping. :)

Hope this AI hype train slows down and we get our affordable memories back.

Loving it. Everything is fresh as day I experienced NFS MW in 60fps. Glorious day!