by "Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
Published 12/01/2017 at 20:46
by "Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
Published 12/01/2017 at 20:46
Tags: Planelopnik
; Computers
STARS: 1
The DC-10-50TI is the newest in the fleet...
...of my collection of computers.
When Miss Tesla and I were still in a relationship she cobbled together a gaming rig from a mostly complete computer she was given and a GTX 1050ti that I bought her. It was some of the most fun I’ve ever had with a computer. It played just about any current AAA game and even played the non-Steam Edition Flight Simulator X at a locked 45 FPS on almost ultra settings.
Besides the 1050ti GPU, her computer is running old hardware. It’s running a Core i5-2550K, 8gb of the random access stuff, and a mobo so strange that if you told me it was older than me I’d wager you being correct.
I decided to replicate the build with all new parts.
For a case, I chose this DeepCool Tesseract in a somewhat rare white with window combo.
I’m going to fill it with LED fans then later, water cooling.
The case will get paired with an AMD Ryzen 1300X and a GTX 1050ti that I got on Cyber Monday.
All of those will be tied up with an Asrock mobo that I intend to fill with all the sticks of RAM.
Total cost will be $540 after the extra fans and the power unit arrive next week. Then I get to build my first custom computer!!!!
The computer’s name is a wordplay on one of my favourite trijets, the DC-10.
I decided to name it “DC-10-50TI” seeing as it will primarily play FSX and the name of the GPU fits so well. :3 Also, the DC-10-50 was a real proposed variant of the DC-10.
Hat tip to Miss Tesla for the name! My first choice was going to be “Dassault Falcon 1300X” naming it after the CPU.
What cool custom builds do my fellow Oppos have out there?
"CB" (jrcb)
12/01/2017 at 20:59, STARS: 0
I currently have Elizabeth v2.4, I think. It’s a Cooler Master CM690 case, an 850 watt power supply, an i5-2500k, an Asus P67LE motherboard, 12 gigs of G.Skill DDR3 memory of unknown frequencies, a 1 TB Seagate HDD and a 3 TB Seagate HDD, and an EVGA GTX 760. Oh, and a Cooler Master Hyper T2 cooler, because the stock one fell off when moving to Saskatoon.
She’s not the best build in the world, and I’ve been planning her upgrade (Margaret) for years now, but I keep pushing back the build date. Not doing too badly considering some of the parts are ten years old, and some of the core parts are almost seven.
"EL_ULY" (uly)
12/01/2017 at 21:03, STARS: 0
Rad pewter!
I don’t know much about them or gaming. I think it’s cool though. I wish I knew more.
"facw" (facw)
12/01/2017 at 21:08, STARS: 0
My current machine (which is desperately in need of an upgrade, probably will do an i7-8700k build after the new year):
Intel i5-2500k (4.5GHz)
PNY 16GB RAM (DDR3 1333, Slow!)
ASUS GTX 1070
Hard drives: Sandisk 960GB SSD, Samsung 750GB SSD, Crucial 512GB SSD
Antec P182 case (waaaay too big, luckily it never gets moved)
Monitors: Dell 30", Dell 20" (portrait, used to have another of these but it’s a bit broken now)
Watch what you are doing if you are going top put four sticks of RAM in with the Ryzen, they can be quite picky about the RAM and slow down the clock significantly. I think I read something about them improving since launch, but it was definitely a mess then:
Also as an aside, I never really get why Boeing has such a nice image library but insists on huge disfiguring watermarks, you’d think they’d want to encourage people to post pictures of their planes looking good (to the extent that things like the DC-10 are “their planes”).
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
12/01/2017 at 21:48, STARS: 1
I’m a cheap bastard, so my computers are usually CL/eBay/Goodwill finds, and pieces and parts get moved around as needed to make the ultimate cheap computer.
My main rig is a Hackintosh I built that consists of the following stuph:
HP Elite 8300 CMT that I got on eBay for $201 (i7-3770 @3.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 2TB HD)
Another 8GB DDR3 ($22)
240GB Intel SSD ($45)
3TB HD ($25)
GTX670 that I got at Micro Center a few years back ($80). I’d like to upgrade this, but I’m too cheap to get something over $150 (and I need to make sure it will work with MacOS). FSX and X-Plane 11 run fine with fairly high detail settings, but of course they could be faster with a newer card. I recently got a FirePro W7000 ($50) for my other, older i7, but that’s not really a gaming card. A GTX 980 would be nice, but still too expensive. I’ll have to look further into the GTX 1050Ti, but I’m concerned about El Capitan support for the 1000-series Nvidia cards and don’t really want to move to Sierra/High Sierra.
I had to add a second power supply to drive the video card (frigging HP and their proprietary connections...), so there was another $16 for an adapter board; I used the tiny 250W power supply from a little broken $3 micro ATX system.
24" debranded HP 16x10, ($10), 27" Samsung LED ($30), 22" Dell full HD (~$5) and a Dell 20" 4x3 in portrait mode ($10). The last two monitors are driven off of a Lenovo USB3 docking station with dual DisplayLink ($15)
It’s currently running Windows 10 on the 2TB drive and Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) on the SSD
I’d like to move it all to another case so that I can fit everything inside. Something big and cube-shaped would be nice, like the HP servers I used to administer when I started in IT back in the ‘90s. Nothing fancy - I want my computers to be invisible and silent. In my dining room I have this massive water-cooled HP Blackbird 002 case ($0.50) that I’ve never used and really need to get rid of, and maybe someone will trade that for a GTX 980.
"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
12/01/2017 at 22:06, STARS: 0
My old desktop at work was one of these, the SFF version. Wasn’t that reliable though, the 4 years I had it, had 2 power supplies, a hard drive and a video card (NVS 310) replaced. I got a new primary (800 G3, i7-6700, 32GB, 512GB NVMe SSD), but thanks to crappy development management, some apps weren’t compatible with my new PC since it has Windows 10, I still have it next to the IT support guy and I remote into it daily.