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RE: The mysterious and complicated tale about building a computer 🖥 from used parts by raj808

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· @raj808 ·
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One hell of a Christmas project `@c0ff33a` and a lot of fun was had by the look of it. And, well... a decent work PC for £128.21 can't be sniffed at. 

This blog took me back to my computer-building days. I used to build (and occasionally fix) PCs for friends, then in 2012 I spent £1.5k on all the parts for a mega beast water-cooled gaming system, and built that in a day. It is still up and running mid/high graphics settings (although that does depend on which game I'm playing 😂) now 11 years later. 

It is definitely true that you can get much more bang for your buck building ur own PCs if you know what you're doing. 

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I do just like meddling with computers, always have. One thing I have never got into is water cooling - it just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen connecting up pipes that pump water with fiddly connectors inside something full of expensive electronics that hate water. That said I do like the new sealed CPU cooler systems - AO I believe they call them where you get the radiator and CPU block already sealed and the pump is in the cpu block - just plug the cable into the cpu fan header and super simple liquid cooling.

Most modern A-list games nowadays need some serious hardware and storage to run, I've been through the Watchdogs series, Shadow of Tomb Raider, Spiderman, Guardians of the Galaxy (love it), Cyberpunk 2077 and Assassins Creed Valhalla and the run surprisingly well on the 2017 build I reclaimed from my boy. 
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@raj808 · (edited)
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> That said I do like the new sealed CPU cooler systems - AO I believe they call them where you get the radiator and CPU block already sealed and the pump is in the cpu block.

Yeah, I bought a water cooling version of this for the gaming rig i built way back when. It was much cheaper (and less scary) than building a bespoke water cooling system 😂 All i had to do was fit the water cooling radiator/reservoir inbetween two fans sucking air from outside the tower, and then attached a connected cooling unit to the cpu. It was all ready built, pipes attached to radiator/reservoir and to the cpu unit. 

I wanted to play assassins creed vallhalla when it came out, but my gpu didn't have enough vram. Strangely, cyberpunk 2077 works on my rig, but only at mid graphic settings. Red dead redemption works at mid/high... but overall it runs well for a pc built in 2011. All I've ever upgraded in it since the build is upping my ram to from 8gb to 16gb and i bought a new gpu about 5 years ago. But cause i sold my old one on ebay, the new gpu only ended up costing about £70 if memory serves me right.

I have to admit that my computer building days are probably past me tbh. But it's good to have the knowledge and confidence to take my current system apart to do a deep clean, which i do at least every few years. I'm guessing that's why it's lasted so well.
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