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Here is the obligatory new PC parts post before I install them...

(Cat pillows are my girlfriends so haters gonna hate).

A few months back I embarked on a quest to assemble a newer computer only buying the minimal amount of parts (referred to as the getto build) to get something up and running, now that I've had time to play with it and get used to Windows 10, I'm taking the brave next step; I finally bought some new hardware.

To make one thing clear though I'm not quite ready to decommission my Windows 7 PC, that I've had for almost 10 years now.

This computer will now become my main rig; just some spare parts I threw together, nothing special! (one day I Hope to build a real gaming machine, but this does 'OK' for now... 😉)

I'll give you the Cliff notes on the hardware specs:

OS: Windows 10 Pro (64-Bit)

CPU: Intel® Core™ i9-9900K 16M Cache @ 5.00 GHz

GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Xtreme, 11GB

RAM: 64GB (4x16GB) G.Skill Sniper X @ 3600MHz DDR4

SSD: Samsung 970 PRO 1TB NVMe M.2 (PCIe) SSD, 64L MLC V-NAND, Type 2280

SSD2: Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD

MB: Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master Motherboard

CASE: Corsair Obsidian 750D Black Airflow Edition ATX Case, Window

PSU: Corsair HX850i 850W Power Supply

I'm not gonna lie, this is probably the most amount of money that I have ever spent on a computer or hardware for that matter, I'm expecting it to last quite a long time, hopefully up to 10 years like my last machine was.

I'm finally writing an article about this after today, adding the cream of the crop, a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card. - I think I would have been happy with the 1080 TI but they seem really hard to come by due to stock shortages...

My justification for such expenditure, I was having trouble playing sims 2 so I got new gpu. hope this fixes it...

I did my best steve1989mreinfo impression when I took it out of its box.

The funny thing was I had intended to do this update for a while now while I was undertaking my animation class as one of the biggest bottlenecks I came across was being able to render out the video for viewing testing and confirming there was no artefacts, to help with this I commandeered a few work machines to carry out the rendering while I hacked away at it in the evenings, the majority of renders were done on my work PC, a simple HP ProBook 430 G5, using none other than the integrated graphics. - it's what I used to complete my final render before submitting.

Now let's take a look at that invoice:

Items with an asterisk (*), where purchased in the first part of this build.

So, the total comes to just over $6,294, (over 6 months give or take) and not including the parts I repurposed (like that 250GB SSD).

I actually deeply regret buying the NZXT Kraken X62 Liquid CPU Cooler, because the CAM software that it comes with, is absolutely appalling garbage and requires an account and a login to be able to turn off the RGB on my computer, I've managed to hack it for now so that it doesn't require a login but I can never update it, I managed to Jerry-rig a command line for task manager\start-up script\autoexe.bat\msconfig\whatever to kill the RGB when the PC boots, but it's just awful, I've looked for alternatives, and I found one such as CAM sucks and grid control. - it seems that I am not the only person who feels this way about the CAM software.

I need to update my computer history table, what a journey it has been...