GothicSyn
Blue Mage
It amazes how far tech has come from the days I built my first PC, cosnidering my first jaunt as a "PC" user was never technically a PC as I started out on the Amiga and old A500+ before buying and seriously upgrading an A1200, that thing had HDD and a modem (A 28.8k). So I started there, and my A1200 finally gave up the ghost in 2009 (At a guess it looks the floppy disk had just had enough).
I built my first PC somewhere around late 99 early 2000 and old 900Mhz Processor, Soundblaster Sound Card and Voodoo 3 3000 GFX card. Was so proud I managed to assemble this together carefully following the Motherboard Manual to make the assemble, complete with shock straps to prevent static discharge.
Not the point of this story I promise, I built another PC in around 2004 before pretty much playing console exclusively after that, it was only in 2010 after my laptop blew its board (Yup I kill tech alot!) That I went back to PC, between 2010 and now I've pretty kept a single system running harvesting parts from others PC's to keep it going (2 HDDs from Sky HD boxes).
So finally saved up enough to make a MASSIVE upgrade to my ageing AMD 64 X2 380+ Dual Core system, new system is part new and part cannibalised but it all helps. My ageing rig is struggling to cope with game development and the compilier taking 30 minutes or more to make even small changes to game code is starting to annoy me! Not to mention I have FF14 on PC now and while it runs I have to turn the GFX all the way down to get it to work fluidly. I cant steam from my PC either which is another kicker, nor can I run half of my emulators now without severely stressing the CPU.
So here's the kicker, I assemble it, seat the motherboard in the case, try and fire up not power Turns out old PSU isn't enough to power new rig, turns out new board takes a 8pin on the 12v rail, old PSU has a 4pin 12v rail. Fine I spend extra cash to grab a 550w PSU, get this installed and fans spin up but system doesn't fire up, so take it all apart, sit the board on the box to run tests still no luck.
So I go back to ebay to check the parts and low and behold the idiot I am I bought High Density RAM which has a whopping 10% compatibility with any system, yea my board isn't one of em! Gah I feel dumb, had to buy MORE RAM and take an 8Gb loss in the process. When did PC building ever get so damn complex!! New RAM arrives tomorrow and I am sat praying that it fires up first time!
Old System
AMD 64 X2 3800+
500GB HDD
4GB DDR 2 Memory
Nvidia GeForce 610 GT
450w PSU
New System
AMD FX 6300 Bulldozer 6 Core
1TB HDD + My old 500GB HDD
8GB DDR 3 Memory
Nvidia GeForce 610 GT
550w PSU
I built my first PC somewhere around late 99 early 2000 and old 900Mhz Processor, Soundblaster Sound Card and Voodoo 3 3000 GFX card. Was so proud I managed to assemble this together carefully following the Motherboard Manual to make the assemble, complete with shock straps to prevent static discharge.
Not the point of this story I promise, I built another PC in around 2004 before pretty much playing console exclusively after that, it was only in 2010 after my laptop blew its board (Yup I kill tech alot!) That I went back to PC, between 2010 and now I've pretty kept a single system running harvesting parts from others PC's to keep it going (2 HDDs from Sky HD boxes).
So finally saved up enough to make a MASSIVE upgrade to my ageing AMD 64 X2 380+ Dual Core system, new system is part new and part cannibalised but it all helps. My ageing rig is struggling to cope with game development and the compilier taking 30 minutes or more to make even small changes to game code is starting to annoy me! Not to mention I have FF14 on PC now and while it runs I have to turn the GFX all the way down to get it to work fluidly. I cant steam from my PC either which is another kicker, nor can I run half of my emulators now without severely stressing the CPU.
So here's the kicker, I assemble it, seat the motherboard in the case, try and fire up not power Turns out old PSU isn't enough to power new rig, turns out new board takes a 8pin on the 12v rail, old PSU has a 4pin 12v rail. Fine I spend extra cash to grab a 550w PSU, get this installed and fans spin up but system doesn't fire up, so take it all apart, sit the board on the box to run tests still no luck.
So I go back to ebay to check the parts and low and behold the idiot I am I bought High Density RAM which has a whopping 10% compatibility with any system, yea my board isn't one of em! Gah I feel dumb, had to buy MORE RAM and take an 8Gb loss in the process. When did PC building ever get so damn complex!! New RAM arrives tomorrow and I am sat praying that it fires up first time!
Old System
AMD 64 X2 3800+
500GB HDD
4GB DDR 2 Memory
Nvidia GeForce 610 GT
450w PSU
New System
AMD FX 6300 Bulldozer 6 Core
1TB HDD + My old 500GB HDD
8GB DDR 3 Memory
Nvidia GeForce 610 GT
550w PSU