My first decent gaming pc was a OCuk pre build bought around the time i joined in 2008, it had a Q6600 2.4ghz chip overclocked to 3ghz and 2 x 4850s in crossfire all in a Antec 900 case, it was replaced with the rig in my sig barring the current graphics card and water cooling bits 4 years later.
how far has youre hardware advanced since you joined OCUK?
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The chip itself is great. Mine isn't the best overclocker, but it is more than enough for my 980ti @ 1440p. Compared to my last chip, an i7 4770s, I seem to get better minimums in games, but that's not measured, it just "feels" that way. That said I don't game too much these days but performance is solid.
I had quite a few issues with the board at first, for instance, sometimes the NIC wouldn't fire up after the machine woke from sleep or hibernate. And a few times all audio functionality would just disappear, but I'm on the latest BIOS (1102?) from Asus and it seems rock solid now. Got my chip at 3842mhz on all cores, memory at 3013mhz. For the price, the 1600 is a great chip; I'm going to be using it for playing with some VMs mainly.
The 4790k is still a wicked CPU. If you use it for gaming mostly, I'd stay with that and throw your money into a new GPU rather than jumping platform; plenty of life left in the 4790k, especially if you can get decent clocks out of it.
yea I am happy with the 4790k Ive got it running at 4.6Ghz but I do have head room. I did bench it at 4.8Ghz and I reckon it would have done more.
It runs better than the 4770k that has went into my lads machine.
but yea plan is to upgrade my GPU next and my lad will get my 970.
All I have changed since 2011 is upgrading the GPU and SSDs every few years. But it's getting to the point where my 2500k is bottlenecking me in most games so I think I'll be looking to upgrade later this year.
My 2500k has had such a good run. I'm half tempted to suicide OC it when I do get around to upgrading to give it a proper send off.
My 2500k has had such a good run. I'm half tempted to suicide OC it when I do get around to upgrading to give it a proper send off.
just upgraded my graphics card.. My wee misses picked me up a 980ti as a birthday present. 
she had spotted me looking at them and then started giving me excuses not to buy one as she had got me one..
comparing it to any off the other cards Ive had its a beast. even comparing it to my overclocked 970 it destroys it..
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/12783435/fs/12456730
she had spotted me looking at them and then started giving me excuses not to buy one as she had got me one..
comparing it to any off the other cards Ive had its a beast. even comparing it to my overclocked 970 it destroys it..
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/12783435/fs/12456730
I think my first build I had from OcUK was an AMD Athlon XP 3200+, ASUS A7N8X-X, 512MB Twinmos and Thermaltake Xaser III in blue. Cannot remember what graphics card was in the system then... I may have had the ELSA Gladiac 920 GeForce 3 before jumping to the ATi Radeon 9800XT Half - Life 2 bundle. I was still on an 19" CRT.
Supermicro P6DBE with dual 300a's in MSI slockets with dual FOP32's, ASUS TNT2 Ultra and Abit HotROD 66 and SB 128 Live! in a GlobalWin 802 and 384MB RAM. I had two 20GB? Samsung SpinPoint's set to RAID0 and a few older smaller drives hooked up (hence the HR).
I still recall MadRad toasting the first GeForce card he and Spie got in trying to overclock it, he wasn't happy and the site claimed to be selling 80cm fans
Right now I'm on an i5 NUC feeding dual monitors with a Samsung SSD, it's quick enough for most things I need even though I have an i5 2500 sat doing nothing. How times have changed.
I still recall MadRad toasting the first GeForce card he and Spie got in trying to overclock it, he wasn't happy and the site claimed to be selling 80cm fans
Right now I'm on an i5 NUC feeding dual monitors with a Samsung SSD, it's quick enough for most things I need even though I have an i5 2500 sat doing nothing. How times have changed.
I remember the Slot A Athlon upgrade from the IRC days, both you and someone else I knew had Slot A's and I held out till socket A came out and the KT7A- RAID with the KT133 chipset. I couldn't justify the Athlon so went with a Duron 800 then upgraded to an AXA 1Ghz cheaply on MM and clocked it on a DangerDen water loop with a Peltier after loosing a fingernail In a Delta 'screamer' attack - vicious little so and so's!
Forums re-set and everyone had to re-join in the early 00's from memory.
The Thunderbird 1.333 and 1.4 were nice hot chips. Loved them when I had it on an Asus nForce 1 with a Thermaltake Orb? Cannot remember if there was an ATX version of the NVIDIA nForce 220-D. ASUS A7N266-VM 462(A)
Fond memories of 2001 - 2003. https://www.cnet.com/products/asus-...micro-atx-socket-a-nforce-220-d-series/specs/
Amazing what you find on Youtube.
Fond memories of 2001 - 2003. https://www.cnet.com/products/asus-...micro-atx-socket-a-nforce-220-d-series/specs/
Amazing what you find on Youtube.
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Was here since... I think an early Athlon Thunderbird.
Used to buy TONS of stuff from the MM, literally 100's most months. Was up as far as a Barton XP2200+ (1.83ghz) at 3.5ghz in a chieftec dragon case I'd shoehorned a vapochill PE cooler into (sat in the top where the second PSU space was, exhausted out of the top 3 5.25" drive slots. I thought it was epic at the time, possibly was for it's day).
Do wish I'd kept hold of the vapochill and got to know/understand it better for use in subsequent setups
I've kept hold of a well tuned 2600k for a good few years. Likely a Ryzen 1700 or lower end threadripper sometime later this year
Used to buy TONS of stuff from the MM, literally 100's most months. Was up as far as a Barton XP2200+ (1.83ghz) at 3.5ghz in a chieftec dragon case I'd shoehorned a vapochill PE cooler into (sat in the top where the second PSU space was, exhausted out of the top 3 5.25" drive slots. I thought it was epic at the time, possibly was for it's day).
Do wish I'd kept hold of the vapochill and got to know/understand it better for use in subsequent setups
I've kept hold of a well tuned 2600k for a good few years. Likely a Ryzen 1700 or lower end threadripper sometime later this year
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Went from an Acer Aspire V5 with an AMD a8 in it. To having my current specs. So feel that my hardware has come along way
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I was running in 2001:
PII 350mhz
Abit P3V4X
192mb sdram
GeForce 2 GTS 64mb
20gb ide disk
My tablet has more power than that
PII 350mhz
Abit P3V4X
192mb sdram
GeForce 2 GTS 64mb
20gb ide disk
My tablet has more power than that
Was here since... I think an early Athlon Thunderbird.
Used to buy TONS of stuff from the MM, literally 100's most months. Was up as far as a Barton XP2200+ (1.83ghz) at 3.5ghz in a chieftec dragon case I'd shoehorned a vapochill PE cooler into (sat in the top where the second PSU space was, exhausted out of the top 3 5.25" drive slots. I thought it was epic at the time, possibly was for it's day).
Do wish I'd kept hold of the vapochill and got to know/understand it better for use in subsequent setups
I've kept hold of a well tuned 2600k for a good few years. Likely a Ryzen 1700 or lower end threadripper sometime later this year
This got me curious to quickly put some parts together and had a trip down memory lane. I've forgotten how much I despise Socket A. My fingers!
The Half - Life 2 card bundle, ATi Radeon 9800 XT.
Unreal how tiny these cards were, heavy though with the copper.
The Half - Life 2 card bundle, ATi Radeon 9800 XT.
Unreal how tiny these cards were, heavy though with the copper.
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I spent 20 years buying Mid-range "dells" and the like and slapping a GPU in them. Maybe adding more ram. All the way from x386 was my first PC. (I actually have a vague recollection of having a x286 but I was so small I can't really remember it other than we played lemmings on it). That was as technical as I got. Served me well in fairness.
First PC I truly built myself (Had to have my arm twisted into doing it, and only did it to save a few bucks) was basically the one in my sig a few years ago. All be it I've added RAM from 8GB to 16GB, changed the GPU from GTX770>R9390X>RX480>GTX1060 and got a new case. Still rocking Haswell though. Ryzen next year. Would only ever build PC's now. It's so much more fun and satisfying.
First PC I truly built myself (Had to have my arm twisted into doing it, and only did it to save a few bucks) was basically the one in my sig a few years ago. All be it I've added RAM from 8GB to 16GB, changed the GPU from GTX770>R9390X>RX480>GTX1060 and got a new case. Still rocking Haswell though. Ryzen next year. Would only ever build PC's now. It's so much more fun and satisfying.
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When did cable management and asthetcs become a thing?