how far has youre hardware advanced since you joined OCUK?

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so how much have you upgraded since you joined the forum?

I joined In August 2014 at the time I was running an AMD machine I had built my self..


specs were..
FX 6350 Zalman CNPS5X cooler
Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3
12Gb DDR3 @ 1600MHz
msi 7950 O/C boost edition
1tb seagate system
2tb seagate storage
W7 ultimate 64Bit
zalman z9 plus case
be quiet power zone 650 watt PSU
random Samsung 60Hz monitor

I upgraded this to the 990fx sabertooth R2.0 board then later dropped in an FX8350..

when I went Intel I started with a 4690k and then a 4770k

current specs..

I7 4790k @ 4.6Ghz
Asus Maximus VII Hero
16Gb DDR3 @2400Mhz
Msi Gtx970
Samsung M.2 120Gb SSD system drive
Samsung 850 EVO 256Gb Steam drive
Seagate 2Tb storage drive
W10 Pro 64Bit
Phanteks Enthoo Pro M case
XFX XTR 750 watt fully modular PSU
BenQ XL2411Z 144Hz


back when I joined..

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now..
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not got a 3dmark score with the 6350 but heres a comparison from when I first got the 8350 to now...
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/12375557/fs/4039465
 
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Man of Honour
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So long ago - I might have a few details wrong but something like:

Pentium 4 3GHz w/ HT - Akasa Dark Knight cooler (I think that was the name - it was a solid lump of copper)
DFI 865PE Infinity
OCZ Gold XTC 1GB w/ voltage booster
Gainward 6800 - special edition card with a slightly downclocked ultra extreme core on AGP with 512MB VRAM
Creative Sound Blaster Live! (image is the 5.1 digital but IIRC at the time I joined here I had the flagship "gold" edition in there)
OCZ GameXStream 700W (might be wrong on the wattage)
Various Seagate 7200.9 drives totalling around 300GB of storage or so.

Believe I was still using a CRT monitor for gaming reasons at the time.

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Don't have any images to hand of it setup at the time but still got these bits.

At the time that was quite a machine hah.
 
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Soldato
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I'm afraid my PC has not changed due to not having the money to upgrade (kids come first lol)

I did go from this PC

AMD Athlon x 2 6000+, 4GB of ram and a Radeon HD 5830 1GB

to this

Intel I7 950 @ 3ghz, 6GB of ram and a Nitro 390.

I did this before I joined the OCUK forums, I only joined to get the free postage and I am for some reason still on here most of the day at work and for a bit when I get home lol
 
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It hasn't really.
still rocking an I5 2500K
I think I've increased form 8GB to 16GB RAM in that time

I have a GTX 680 waiting to go in to upgrade my GTX 580, that was donated to be by a friend, but as I don't game so much it hasn't been a priority for me.
 
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I was rocking an ancient PC when I joined. It had been bought originally in about 2002, used quite a lot for about 5 years, then put away when I bought a house and switched to laptop for 3/4 years. I then started using it again, but it was slow as ****, struggled even with youtube, and I wanted to get back to PC gaming (from a sojourn to X360) so started researching a new, cheap build (as I was selling the first house to move somewhere bigger, along with having kids), which brought me to OCUK.

Joined:
Athlon XP 1700+
ECS K7s5A
80Gb + 40GB HDD
1GB ram (DDR)
Geforce 3 Titanium 200 (at some point around joining OCUK swapped for a TI 500, then a 7600GT AGP)

Now:
Athlon x2 270
Gigabyte 970 UD3P
1 GB HDD
4GB DDR3 Ram (1600)
GTX 560Ti (Briefly, when bought, a GTX260)

The current one was built very cheaply, with the intention of upgrading the CPU, GPU, memory and HDD (to SSD) as needed. I still haven't really felt the need for a whole lot of upgrading.
 
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When I joined I was running the following...

Opteron 146 CABNE @ 3.7ghz!!!!! (cooled by freezer7 with vantec tornado)
2x1gb OCZ pc4000
X850XT platinum
2x 36gb wd raptors in raid

Shortly followed by a Q6600, 4gb, sli gtx470 system


Now, 5930k in sig at home, 5820k at the office.

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My first purchase from OCUK if I remember rightly was a slot A Athlon 550MHz, Abit KA7 motherboard and some RAM. That would've been back in 1999 I believe and would've replaced my Pentium 2 450MHz setup.

I then remember actually visiting the OCUK store in 2001 and picking up an Athlon Thunderbird 850 guaranteed to 1GHz along with an Abit KT7A-RAID and some more RAM. I also had grabbed a GlobalWin FOP38 cooler - anyone remember those? I have no idea how I managed to put up with the noise of that Delta fan for as long as I did.

However it seems I only joined in 2004...at which point I would almost certainly have had a Pentium 4 2.6C at 3.2GHz and an Abit IC7-G. Graphics card I suspect either a GeForce 6800 GT or Radeon X800 Pro.
 
Soldato
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When I joined I'd just built my first PC, with...
  • Core 2 Duo E6300 @ 3.3ghz (faster than the Extreme Edition of the time - those were the days when you could overclock an Intel CPU whichever version you bought :mad:)
  • Asus P5N-E SLi motherboard (overheated easily but was great for overclocking)
  • 1GB Crucial 10th Anniversary RAM (overclocked easily, also overheated easily but solved that with putting a fan above)
  • Asus Radeon X1950 Pro graphics card (rubbish, crashed lots, got replaced with an 8800GTS 320mb which was much better)
Now I've been and done most of the PC thang over the last ten years. Had custom watercooling, SLi, CrossFire and ran a seperate graphics card for PhysX. These days my rig is a bit more modest - i7 2600k @ 4.5ghz, 16GB RAM, 512GB Samsung 850, XFX 480. Looking to upgrade to Ryzen in the next few months for new features, warranty etc.
 
Soldato
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First "gamer" PC got it cheap from a local selling page and ended up stripping it all out

I7-2600 3.40ghz CPU
6GB DDR3 Ram unbranded 1333Mhz
MSI ATI HD 6850
Asus Xonar DSX 7.1 surround sound card
OCZ - agility 128gb SSD
2TB HDD
Corsair Builder Series CX430 V2 PSU

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Put the build in to a new Zalman z9 case and got a Gelid CPU cooler.

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Bigger upgrade - new motherboard, PSU, CPU cooler & ram.

I7-2600 3.4ghz CPU
Phanteks CPU cooler
16gb Corsair Vengeance Pro Red @ 2166mhz
MSI R9 290 4gb Gaming edition
ASRock Fatal1ty-M professional Z77
SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W PSU

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Most recent build

I7-6700K 4.6ghz CPU
Corsair H105i AIO CPU cooler
16gb DDR4 Corsair LED @ 3000mhz
EVGA GTX 1080 FTW
Gigabyte Z170X Ultimate gaming motherboard
EVGA G2 650w Supernova PSU
512gb Samsung 750 evo SSD

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And a newish laptop for good measure :p

I7-6700HQ 3.4ghz CPU
16gb DDR4 @ 2133mhz
Nvidia GTX 970m
512gb M.2 PCI-E SSD


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My usage has changed. I did have an AMD x2 thingy, then an 8200 running in an HTPC. Now I use a Roku instead of an HTPC. I have also added a server using an i3-3150 and a HP N54L as an XPenology machine to my loft to serve the house.

The main thing that has changed since I joined is the day to day machine I use. It used to be an old dual core 15" laptop, now I have a nice i7 XPS 13.
 
Soldato
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Joined 2009, bought a i7 920 at that time..and still use it to this day. The whole PC has undergone some changes though such as two new graphics cards, a PSU change or two, some different RAM and some hard drives additions/changes, case etc but the core CPU and motherboard are the same. It's amazing really that a near 8 year old core system can still do everything I ask of it.

I did however buy the components for an Athlon 64 3000+ based system off OCUK several years previously (maybe 2003/4), I may or may not have joined the forum at that time. If I did the account is long since dead.
 
Soldato
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Joined in 2005 but can't any thread beyond 2009 so this is what i had back then.

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail
Gigabyte P35-S3
Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX Dual Channel (TWIN2X4096-6400C5)
Antec truepower trio 550W
Western Digital RE3 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD3202ABYS)Digital RE3 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD3202ABYS
Sapphire X1950 Pro 512MB
 
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I think I had a AMD Athlon XP 2000+ when I joined and then upgraded most years after that, sometimes changing cpu's once or twice per year. Things have slowed down in the past few years though as we just haven't had any worthwhile platform upgrades.
 
Man of Honour
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Yeah upgraded to a nice E6600 based system soon after joining here. Sadly I'm just not as excited about hardware as I was in those days and much more sensible purchasing - splashed on a 7950GX2 and some insanely expensive RAM which fortunately didn't work as it was like £600 for 4GB and replaced it with G.Skills 6400 stuff that was like £130 or something.

EDIT: £606.28 for 2 sets of OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-8000 Dual Channel Titanium Alpha XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2TA1000VX2GK) - I feel kind of silly now looking at that - fortunately it went back and got this instead: G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ) for £220 instead (still a bit more than the £130 I thought it was).
 
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Soldato
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Lurked here when i had p2 400mhz , learnt how to overlook the celeroon 600, first CPU to 1 GHz! Then got a athlon 1.2 GHz was top CPU back then!
 
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Been using OCUK since early 2000's and has always helped with decision making so I thank it for that. Just wished over the years their prices were more competitive with many things purchased (not all) have been from competitors..
 
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