Im just upgrading a comp i built in 2021, that only cost me 650 at the time. I pulled the vid card 1060 6gb and 2 tb hdd. Old comp kept the sata ssd and the 550 ti rejoined the 3350/8gb, a fine back up.
new comp had a 1tb boot, 32 gb ram 10600 and a 650 ps, 240mm cooler, fractile case, with dvr. Awesome build/upgrade for 650 dollars and swapping parts. I really had planned to go all in on an entire build this time. But that comp is still hilding strong wirh what i play and i dont like the 200 chips and even the 1060 gives me smooth stutter free frames in outlaws albeit low fps on low settings, but im ok with that. Everything else is over 60 on high and records/edits just fine i decided to upgrade.
So upgrade time! Added a 2tb evo 980 plus a a year or two ago as back up but thats going to boot for 130, I was running out of room and price was right. Then jan 90 for another 32 ram, perfect for large edits to large vide files, plus a 4 bank of rgb looks sweet. This month 70 on 3 noctuna fans to keep the new OC cool bringing my chip to 5.1 ghz, extra power for edit/record. Till now 4.3 was fine but ill squeeze the cpu for a couple years verse all 6 to extend its life. Lastely 4 tb ssd for main edit and 8tb hdd for storagea of 100s of hours of vintage moto-x racing encoded from vhs vid camera to post online.
a 5060 ti 16 might see its way in eventually as my poor 1060 is loosing driver support, but maybe it can hold out till 6060s, but for some reason i feel i might have to cave and grab a 50 series.
So basically a 550 upgrade to what became an 800 dollar comp/upgrade. Anyway you slice it, its all great upgrades for the aging comp, but even better, all but the ram is just going to get swapped into my build. Which will just be board chip ram. Then this old rig turns into back_up cd ripper and kitchen recipe surfer. But hey, it will have a good run.
I know lots of folks prefer total builds, but i find i get better vaule, and my comps work longer for what i need while spreading out the cost over far longer. i get 2k+ dollar systems, but only shell out a bit at a time.
Maybe i should of made this its own post as a how do you build your comps
But im on my phone now and not sure i want to loose this whole thing in an errant copy paste
new comp had a 1tb boot, 32 gb ram 10600 and a 650 ps, 240mm cooler, fractile case, with dvr. Awesome build/upgrade for 650 dollars and swapping parts. I really had planned to go all in on an entire build this time. But that comp is still hilding strong wirh what i play and i dont like the 200 chips and even the 1060 gives me smooth stutter free frames in outlaws albeit low fps on low settings, but im ok with that. Everything else is over 60 on high and records/edits just fine i decided to upgrade.
So upgrade time! Added a 2tb evo 980 plus a a year or two ago as back up but thats going to boot for 130, I was running out of room and price was right. Then jan 90 for another 32 ram, perfect for large edits to large vide files, plus a 4 bank of rgb looks sweet. This month 70 on 3 noctuna fans to keep the new OC cool bringing my chip to 5.1 ghz, extra power for edit/record. Till now 4.3 was fine but ill squeeze the cpu for a couple years verse all 6 to extend its life. Lastely 4 tb ssd for main edit and 8tb hdd for storagea of 100s of hours of vintage moto-x racing encoded from vhs vid camera to post online.
a 5060 ti 16 might see its way in eventually as my poor 1060 is loosing driver support, but maybe it can hold out till 6060s, but for some reason i feel i might have to cave and grab a 50 series.
So basically a 550 upgrade to what became an 800 dollar comp/upgrade. Anyway you slice it, its all great upgrades for the aging comp, but even better, all but the ram is just going to get swapped into my build. Which will just be board chip ram. Then this old rig turns into back_up cd ripper and kitchen recipe surfer. But hey, it will have a good run.
I know lots of folks prefer total builds, but i find i get better vaule, and my comps work longer for what i need while spreading out the cost over far longer. i get 2k+ dollar systems, but only shell out a bit at a time.
Maybe i should of made this its own post as a how do you build your comps
But im on my phone now and not sure i want to loose this whole thing in an errant copy paste
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