I added a "gaming chair" to my setup thanks to Black Friday sales.
It's very comfortable in all positions (upright for mouse+keyboard gaming), more lean back for gamepad gaming:
Wow those rigs are impressive. And here I am thinking about moving from console to PC but with a £700 budget only...
| CGI-Quality said: After finally getting my new parts all installed and ready to go (save for an additional graphics card), I thought it's been a while since I made one of these threads and want to see what everyone is working with these days! So, let's have it! Drop a pic, or two, in here with system specs and also if you plan to make any adjustments to your stuff in time for the next gen consoles (I'll be upgrading my CPU before year's end, for example). SKYLAKE-RTX (as I call it):
Your turn! Let's see those slick builds! |
Sorry I really have to ask... is this only for gaming? That's a lot of money...
Last edited by CGI-Quality - on 28 November 2020
This year I built a budget mini-pc dedicated to retro gaming, just for emulation using LaunchBox/BigBox and RetroArch.
It has not much horse-power, about PS4 performance level at an estimated 1.9Tflops, but it's in a very tiny build!
It works great (with a very little tweaking) out of the box and it is connected to a 65" 4K TV.
MiniPC specs:
APU: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G (4 cores / 8 threads @3.7Ghz) with iGPU RX Vega11 (11 cores @1400Mhz) - €135
RAM: 8Gbyte DDR4 @2933Mhz - €70
Disk: 1x SSD (1Tbyte) - €90
Mini Barebone: AsRock Deskmini A300 (MB Asrock a300, integrated Realtek HD soundboard, stock cooler) (No overclocking possible) - €140
Total cost: about €435 (less then $400)
It runs games from Atari 2600 up to the Arcades, PSX, Saturn, N64, Dreamcast and PSP at fullspeed.
At native resolution works well also for PS2, Gamecube and Wii games emulation.
BasilZero said:
That looks great, how much is that? |
normal price €180 - €200
on Black Friday sale I got it for €131 (shipping & taxes included)
Updated my original post to include all changes I made including the new GPU and updated the inside PIC with the 3090 install not that it look much different with the waterblock on. Installing the Waterblock was a pain sooo many thermal pads to measure and cut and it came with 3 difference thickness so had to be careful to use the correct ones on the correct spots.
I tested it on air to make sure it worked and get baseline number before installing waterblock. Made a huge difference max temp (stock power limit) 67C on Air, 39C on Water. To be fair my case airflow design to maximize radiator cooling so not idea for air gpu but still huge drop. If anyone curious here a pic of what the 3090 strix look like with the waterblock removed.
Now back to playing cyberPunk 2077 truly a gorgeous game.
I'm sorry
Game of the year 2017 so far:
5. Resident Evil VII
Congrats! I'll post mine that got finished early this year.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
CGI a you that. Big set up still.
Going to have fi check my pics. Aint took a pic of me setup in a while and I ant home at the moment.
Nobody's perfect. I aint nobody!!!
Killzone 2. its not a fps. it a FIRST PERSON WAR SIMULATOR!!!! ..The true PLAYSTATION 3 launch date and market dominations is SEP 1st 
I scrapped my plans to get a new laptop since SU5 downgraded FS2020 enough to run at ultra settings without issues, so still rocking this GTX 1060 version
Only mine is sitting on the breakfast table / desk I use for eating, browsing and gaming :)
I did upgrade the RAM to 32GB which is currently pointless since FS2020 was limited to the Series X max use-able ram, but it's nice to use the extra as a ram disk. My mouse changes color, does that count? :)
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