- Sep 23, 2010
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I had the idea of building a new gaming PC after the summer, or during it. I built my current PC back at the end of 2010, and while it has served me well, it has not been doing that well lately. Temperatures have doubled. Cleaning the dust out and changing the thermal paste only helped a little. Since it is my first build, I can admit that I failed in some ways. The cable management is horrible. One of the fans on my GPU hasn't worked in years because the power cable to the CPU was pushing up against it, which killed it. It only has 6 gigs of RAM. I first noticed real trouble after playing Fallout 4. The PC which used to be able to handle almost anything now performs like a drunken and visually impaired driver on a motorbike with two flat tires driving down the wrong lane. And recently, the heat issues have caused my PC to freeze. The fans in the case are making horrific and rapid clunkety-clunk sounds. It's like my PC is being waterboarded and it's begging for final peace.
Well with that said, I recently built my nephew a new PC. He was hard up so I gave him 600$ to add to the 500$ he had saved, and he "let" me pick out the parts and build it for him. It turned out beautifully. I put it through the test, but its CPU wouldn't go over 27 degrees celcius. I used a Noctua NH-D14 aftermarket cooler, and a Corsair Air 540 case (very nice case, BTW--best I ever used). I went through great pains to manage and tie cables, etc. And after playing games on it, I realized just how bad off mine is. Wow. The difference is absurd.
The thing is, I don't want to dive in and spend a load of money on something foolishly. I'd rather go about this wisely. In all honesty, I could wait. I'll be bored as heck, but it won't be the first time. I'm curious to know what you guys think: Is now the best time to build a new PC, or would it be wise to wait a little longer? 3 months? 6 months? Lay it on me. What would you do?
Well with that said, I recently built my nephew a new PC. He was hard up so I gave him 600$ to add to the 500$ he had saved, and he "let" me pick out the parts and build it for him. It turned out beautifully. I put it through the test, but its CPU wouldn't go over 27 degrees celcius. I used a Noctua NH-D14 aftermarket cooler, and a Corsair Air 540 case (very nice case, BTW--best I ever used). I went through great pains to manage and tie cables, etc. And after playing games on it, I realized just how bad off mine is. Wow. The difference is absurd.
The thing is, I don't want to dive in and spend a load of money on something foolishly. I'd rather go about this wisely. In all honesty, I could wait. I'll be bored as heck, but it won't be the first time. I'm curious to know what you guys think: Is now the best time to build a new PC, or would it be wise to wait a little longer? 3 months? 6 months? Lay it on me. What would you do?
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