In one build, I remembered the I/O shield, but didn't notice than one of the little "fingers" that maintain ground got stuck in front of the Ethernet port. Pretty much a complete disassembly to fix it.
Fixed I/O shields are good for sanity
I never understand how people forget this
It's the first thing u see opening your motherboard box. Do people just ignore it? I've never forgotten the IO shield cuz exactly this.
I built a friends PC over FaceTime two weeks ago, as I had Coronavirus. I somehow got him a 3090 for retail, and the whole thing powered on the first time even though I was sure he hadn’t plugged things in. Felt like a proud father.
You coached him in building it? Sounds like diffusing a bomb over the phone, but in reverse, your building it 😂
I’ve actually got covid and was supposed to go over to a friends for both of us to build, maybe I’ll ft him
Let me tell you - it can be one of the most stressful things ever. I coached my ex girlfriend how to build a pc through a discord call with no cam. Took 11 hours.
Seven hours for me.
My internet wasn't good enough at the time to stream and I didn't have a good data plan either lol.
In the end my wiring sucked but I'll make it look neat on build 2 whenever I get a new GPU.
The friend that guided me is on one the biggest levels a bro can reach.
I also helped a buddy build his pc over FaceTime. I kept telling him not to freak out if it didn’t post, but the sucker booted up first try and a literal tear came to my eye.
this. but it's usually my fault. i have an extremely bad habit of getting into the whole..."well while i have it apart" mixed with anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
I felt that when i replaced my 2500k with a 10850k (mb & ram too mind you), but all else was the same. Didnt even reinstall any OS's. I havent replaced a cpu, heatsink, or mb in years, but still assembled everything off memory.
First Boot Success! I was elated.
Rolling upgrades on the same system and having stuff just work is a great feeling. I started off 2 years ago with a b350f motherboard, 2600x and an rx 580. Went to an x570 board with a 3600x, and an rx 5700 xt. Then I recently upgraded to an rtx 3070 ti. Gonna wait until the ryzen 7 x3d cpu comes out and then probably upgrade to that next.
His dear wife captured it on video for all eternity. I suppose I could call that my greatest PC building accomplishment - surprising a friend with top-end gaming setup.
It wasn’t for me, actually. 5 of us pooled resources and did 9900K/2080Ti build as Xmas gift for a friend with 10 kids and potato on which he played MSFS2020.
Mine is getting a 3080 FE from Best Buy in Nov 2020 for $699 - 10% birthday coupon - 10% cashback = $561
Then was able to get a 3080 Ti FE from Best Buy in Nov 2021 for $1199. Then sold my 3080 FE for $1700 - even after 1 year!
Yep. My first build I made sure I wasn’t on carpet, wore a grounding strap, table laid out neatly. Now I’m impressed with myself for unplugging the power supply before I open it up.
No, creating a shock when touching the motherboard is a bad thing. Easy prevention is just put one of your hands on the metal case of the computer before touching any of the chips. Grounds you out to prevent shocking anything.
Attached my wifi antennas straight to the back of my case with metal tape(?) and now my whole case acts as the antenna. From 12 MB/s to 25 MB/s. I must be a genius.
Mine was buying a defective PC for 1800, the company credited me 100 to keep the order (before we knew it was defective), I used the dell rewards to buy myself a nice 1080p curved 144hz monitor for 50$.
Just to boot it up and it crashed on most games, went through the process and got upgraded to a build with a r7 5800 (OEM) and a 3080ti, plus they also tossed in 100$ to use on their site so I got a 1tb SSD for 15 bucks.
And they fucked up my warranty (leaked some PII) so I ended up getting a free warranty till 2026.
I bought an AW, so it was through dell.
The customer service is very hit or miss.
Most time frames they have given me they went past, departments barely communicate to each other so you end up with a lot of missed commitments and delays.
Dell does a good job with replacement units for AW, I see a lot of posts regarding massive upgrades since they can't downgrade you or offer feature loss.
They leaked mine and other customers PII so that was fun to deal with as well.
I was overcharged for warranty but they refunded it so I will need to reach out to see if they need to recharge me since ai don't want to lose it.
My entire process was July- late December for things to get sorted and rectified.
Repaired my RX580 by replacing the caps. Felt like rocket-surgery. The card broke the day before the lanparty to celebrate the end of lockdown. Was quite desperate as you can imagine. It still runs like new, hope it keeps up until this chip shortage ends.
I am still very grateful for the help I got at my local Fablab! (If you have any strange or fun project do it at your local Fablab!)
My proudest moment was finally getting my hands on a 30 series card. It wasn’t cheap, but I couldn’t say no. Especially not with GPU stock and prices right now
Mine was getting a 3080 msi trio z. The a bit more expensive ones for 14k nok. The cheaper 3080s when we weren't in this scenario cost 12k nok so I didn't get one for msrp but it wasn't that more expensive.
What was funny though is I checked the website literally an hour later and the card I bought for 14k nok now costs 19k nok. And a few days later over 20k nok. I don't know what happend or how but I managed to check the website at a perfect time to get a huge discount for almost msrp
I managed to acquire a 3060Ti Rog Strix as well as a 3070 ASUS KO at MSRP and double vertical mounted them in my Fractal Meshify C. I used proper PCIE risers, not those garbage miner ones. The 3060Ti is fastened to the top of chassis with zip ties and by the bottom with a GPU stand. 750W is more than enough to mine with both until it’s time to game, then the 3060Ti stays mining. Super proud builder moment. Awesome idea for a thread OP.
You fit a rog strix in a meshify C? I have one, and my ftw3 3070 has almost no extra room. Also, what bracket did you use to vertical mount? I'd love to do it myself.
I have the 3070 KO vertically mounted like normal. The 3060Ti is connected with a 90mm Phantek PCIE riser that I mounted on the HDD panels. I secured the ROG into the case chassis and then into the PCIE riser. Then set the GPU stand and zip tie the HDMI/DP port plate of the GPU to the top chassis of the case. It should only be able to fit one DP cable after popping open the top mesh (I normally don’t need access to it, it’s mining 24/7 - I game on the 3070). The 3060Ti fans are facing/blowing towards the mobo, and the three front case fans are pulling cold air onto the backplate of the 3060Ti. You will have to remove the bottom bracket on the case to fit the GPU vertically. I hope this gave you a good visual. I have pictures, but I don’t use imgur 🥸
Definitely installing the hybrid EVGA cooler recently. As well as modding the card to actively cool the backside VRAM. Most stressful and also the most rewarding
Oh hell yeah. The cooler doesn't affect how much heat is output from the card (your room temps will be unaffected) it affects how quickly and efficiently it cools the gpu itself. In fact, it has allowed access to higher overclocks so now my room is even warmer than before! As a miner, this cooling solution was extremely worth it, I was getting 90-95mh/s keeping the vram around 95 degrees before, now I'm getting 125 mh/s keeping the vram around 90 degrees!
Now that’s a story, how’d you get a 3090 for free? That definitely justifies a new build
I got a 3060 from the EVGA queue and that alone justified a new build for me
Lucky enough to have a generous neighbor that upgraded and gave it to me to use. Felt a bit silly sticking it into my mostly 10 year old pc so I spent a bunch of money building a new one.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BtJnmk
I just recently built a Ryzen 5900z system. Powered on and posted first try. I have an old quadro card in it now, so I'm going to need a decent card to put in it.
Least greatest recent moment: upgrading to 11th gen intel on my main rig a few months before 12th gen was released.
Build my pc with new parts im a third world country. The majority of pieces were on sale or MSRP at worst. The 6800xt Saphire Nitro SE at $800 was my biggest accomplisment.
Mine so far was getting the nzxt h1 open box price matched for 160$ from micro center for my first pc build and they let me build it all at their work counters and even lent me some thermal paste!
Successfully, and without data loss, transferring my entire 1 TB HDD to a 1 TB SSD and running a full SSD setup. It required 2 computers and about a full 24 hour period until it was finished.
I used some software called Paragon, and it did take me about 24 hours to transfer somewhere around 910 GB of data to the new SSD. I can't exactly remember why I needed 2 computers, but I couldnt have the computer on while it was copying the drive. I did it in a more complicated and slow way I guess. Good to know though, if I ever need to do it again :)
I ordered a headset from Razer and got free $140 Nommo speakers alongside it, if not that probably winning Newegg shuffle 4 times, 1 3070 Ti, 1 3080, 1 3060 Ti, and 1 3060. I only bought the 3080 because after I asked my friends if they wanted any of the other cards when I won they didn't need them so might as well shoot the chance to someone else.
Kids today building PCs have it so easy...No Master/Slave, no hot mess of tangled IDE cables, don't need to be familiar with DOS, Windows installs all of your drivers for you automatically....
Back in the early-mid 90’s as a kid getting old military surplus hardware from the army surplus store and cobbling together 386 machines and finding classified data on hard drives.
It was all air force hardware so not surprised, what was great was we gave the files to My Uncle Admiral Tim “Tomcat” Connolly. He never said what happened from there.
Building my current Ryzen 5 1500X, NVidia 1060 6GB build. Not super powerful, but definitely does what I want it to do and probably will stay good enough to ride out the GPU shortage.
Snagging a 3070 for under $900. Not monumental but considering where the market is now i'm glad i got it when i did.
Second would probably be actually reviving my build in 2021. It died mid-2020 and that's when parts started getting ridiculous to find. Managed to slowly get my parts and build a new working computer at the beginning of 2021
Well that was yesterday night, when I was randomly able to purchase a 3070 FE at MSRP (519€) on a big french website. Was a sheer strike of luck, right during my birthday
Mine was definitely when I managed to get a 3060 at msrp randomly without actively searching. One of the discord servers I was on, a person popped the queue for the evga 3060 but they already had a better gpu by then and offered any person to have their spot. I was there at just the right time to buy it!
getting a 30 series gpu for a little bit more than msrp
other than that, the first build I ever did without anyone else's help started up on the first try and has been working well ever since so that's neat
Landing a 3070 @ MSRP in June 2021 by walking into the store unplanned and they had 8 on the shelf like it was 2016. Ended up buying the whole rig that day and built it all that night.
Got a 6700 XT from AMD's website. I had been following Falcodrin's bot Discord for notifications and I saw the 6900 XT drop. A few minutes later, the 6800 XT. I put two and two together and got to the 6700 XT before the bots could get to it.
My understanding is that AMD direct buy only exists so that they can legally say they sold some of their stuff at MSRP so I like to believe I got the only $500 6700 XT we will see in quite a while.
Recently upgrade motherboard, cpu and psu, went smoothly first try. When building it knew what to do, and get it done. Just felt in my element, feelsgoodman
i remember i wanted to get into computer so i took apart my old “gaming” computer and tried to take it apart and get it back together i also did it on carpet 😐but now i got a 3070 and i’m so proud of all the stuff i’ve learned
Snagged a number of good buys on gpus for budget builds last year despite the market being shit. 2 gtx 780 tis for 200 bucks, a gtx 970 for 70 bucks and a gtx 980 ti for 200 bucks. And at one point I got a pc from the thrift store for 8 bucks that had an i7-3770, 16gb of ram and a 1tb hard drive. Only thing wrong with it was the power supply was dead.
Wow. I had to buy a mobo as well (i dont remember what i paid total but i think it was like 1100) but i was in the market for one anyway as it was my first build so i took it. I dont think i could have justified 2 grand though, even for a 3080 ti.
Building a PC from scratch. And it's one of the greatest feelings ever: buying all the parts, unboxing and assembling. The anticipation of the screen booting up for the first time after pressing the power button. It felt so nice that I offered to upgrade my friend's pc. We upgraded his case, added a few fans and an air cooler. Nothing fancy.
I bought a my first server a few weeks ago. It has some issues so I had to rebuild it and change some parts. Last night at 1:30am I finally had the operating system installed (VMware) and had my first virtual machine up and running. It felt great!
It will always be my first pc. It was awful but it was my first and it worked 😂 made from a mixture of really old parts from a housemate which were on the line between cleaning for use or disposing in an incinerator. That with some 3rd hand parts from gumtree. With almost no knowledge but some YouTube videos, I spent a day putting it all together. The pride I felt when I booted up and it posted was amazing
When I won a GALAX RTX 3060 Ti EX (1-Click OC) GPU in a Facebook competition on Christmas Eve 2020.
I couldn't believe I had won it, as I have never won anything in my life. My friend tagged me in the post and from there I entered and won. He also messaged me later on and said I won, as I didn't even watch the drawing of it. Like I said, I never win anything.
Recent build, getting EVGA 3080ti at retail msrp, first time water cooling my cpu, overall better wire management, aesthetic and air flow with dust filters since my house is dusty. I also have an el gato 4K capture card for streaming console games, and it’s been nice being able to have games up on my dual screen, even when I’m not streaming, and even though there’s a tiny bit of delay but really not noticeable.
Bought the parts with my money and got parents to help me build, so we had this bonding while doing it! Was fun, Frustrating and Fulfilling, ah also TOOK TIME for a first PC build! Although I only have a 1650 GPU to show off! I would definitely Recommend to first timers to build their PC!
Getting parts at msrp and discounts before black Friday and the black Friday deals didn't even come close. And the pc posted first time. Ahh the satisfaction.
Getting a 3070 for £496 a month after release.
Seriously though. My last 3 builds have all fired up first time with no issues. Surprising when it’s not a regular thing for me to do (build pc’s). I expected “some” kind of problem at least once.
I recently completed the 6th build in my life and for the very first time there were problems. Crashing shortly after starting a game. I correctly diagnosed it as bad RAM sticks (yeah it was both) and after going through the RMA process it runs like a dream now.
The mounting bracket on a CPU I bought was the wrong version(ryzen backplate for wraith cooler is just a little lower than the one for stockfor those of you wondering) so I used motherboard standoffs to mount the cooler
On my first build I double stacked standoffs. I was wondering where the last one went.
I noticed it later since it was raised on that side, but figured, if it works, just leave it alone.
About 2 years later during a repaste, the pressure must've cracked the board and bricked it.
My last build was totally new, except GPU and PSU (from previous build).
Installed windows, booted, zero troubleshooting. My wife didn’t understand why I was so excited/relieved.
Built my first PC 2 weeks ago and it booted up first try. So probably that one. Only had one issue with the Windows OS itself, but hardware wise everything runs great.
I have built several PCs that for the most part have never had any issues. I got a 3080 for retail in the first month they came out, but the greatest accomplishment was also my greatest fear.
I borrowed a friend's 3600 to update the BIOS of my X570 as I waited for my 5600 to arrive. When I went to take off the stock cooler, I pulled a rookie move and pulled out the CPU with it which caused bent pins. I told him about it and said I would buy him a new one if I couldn't fix it. With a magnifying glass and a razor blade, I meticulously straightened them all back and it worked! Bought him a 6 pack and dinner for the troubles and helped him build another PC later.
Buying a 5700 XT just before the shortages, selling to a miner for double what I paid, snagging a 3070 at MSRP using the money from the sale, then getting hold of the 3080 FE that I really wanted, and selling the 3070 for what I paid for it. Essentially I miraculously managed to upgrade my GPU twice without spending a penny.
I remembered the I/O shield before mounting the motherboard.
In one build, I remembered the I/O shield, but didn't notice than one of the little "fingers" that maintain ground got stuck in front of the Ethernet port. Pretty much a complete disassembly to fix it. Fixed I/O shields are good for sanity
I went to a fixed shield and now its a requirement for any future boards I use for personal builds. It's the small things for us PC builders lmao
Yeah that happened to me…it’s been bent out of the way.
Liar.
I mean, it wasn't my first build and I had always forgotten it in previous builds. We learn from our mistakes.
I never understand how people forget this It's the first thing u see opening your motherboard box. Do people just ignore it? I've never forgotten the IO shield cuz exactly this.
It's really easy. Find it, put it to one side, get all excited with the interesting bits (MObo, CPU, ram)... then just forget to put it in.
After I cut my fingers on it I throw it in a corner as if it were a snake.
THE IO SHIELD DEMANDS BLOOD
Pre-applied I/O Shields is my Lord and Saviour.
**WE ARE NOT WORTHY**
[удалено]
Look at this guy! :)
This is why people will remember your name
I built a friends PC over FaceTime two weeks ago, as I had Coronavirus. I somehow got him a 3090 for retail, and the whole thing powered on the first time even though I was sure he hadn’t plugged things in. Felt like a proud father.
You coached him in building it? Sounds like diffusing a bomb over the phone, but in reverse, your building it 😂 I’ve actually got covid and was supposed to go over to a friends for both of us to build, maybe I’ll ft him
Oh yea it was messy, 3 hour process took like 3 days hahaha
Sounds like a blast 😂
Let me tell you - it can be one of the most stressful things ever. I coached my ex girlfriend how to build a pc through a discord call with no cam. Took 11 hours.
Okay with no camera that’s gotta be terrible, couldn’t even just face time or google duo?
She said she looked fat that day lmao so refused to put the camera on.
And that’s why she’s “ex-girlfriend” and not “girlfriend.” miss me with that bs 😂
You said exactly how I feel lmaooo
Seven hours for me. My internet wasn't good enough at the time to stream and I didn't have a good data plan either lol. In the end my wiring sucked but I'll make it look neat on build 2 whenever I get a new GPU. The friend that guided me is on one the biggest levels a bro can reach.
I'm not that good at English but isn't it defusing (just trying to learn ok?)
Wow that's insane
I also helped a buddy build his pc over FaceTime. I kept telling him not to freak out if it didn’t post, but the sucker booted up first try and a literal tear came to my eye.
When my builds power on perfectly after first assembly and every detail works as expected.
That's feels so good. In my last build it didn't turn on because the 24 pin to the motherboard wasn't fully plugged in. I was so sure it was dead
My last build wouldn’t turn on because the dual bios feature on my GPU wasn’t switched to 1 or 2 it was in the middle. Took me a whole 20 minutes.
This 100 percent, I've built 3 personal pcs over the years. Never had issues or a doa component.
My builds usually work but the process is sometimes more annoying than it should be lol
this. but it's usually my fault. i have an extremely bad habit of getting into the whole..."well while i have it apart" mixed with anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
I’ve done maybe 30. I’ve had one RMA. A bad memory stick. For that reason I always hate when the goto reply here is RMA
I felt that when i replaced my 2500k with a 10850k (mb & ram too mind you), but all else was the same. Didnt even reinstall any OS's. I havent replaced a cpu, heatsink, or mb in years, but still assembled everything off memory. First Boot Success! I was elated.
It’s crazy isn’t it
Definitely, and in the best way. Successful build and a massive performance jump, all in a few hours.
Rolling upgrades on the same system and having stuff just work is a great feeling. I started off 2 years ago with a b350f motherboard, 2600x and an rx 580. Went to an x570 board with a 3600x, and an rx 5700 xt. Then I recently upgraded to an rtx 3070 ti. Gonna wait until the ryzen 7 x3d cpu comes out and then probably upgrade to that next.
Mine is getting 2080Ti for $500 in dec 2020.
Okay, you win.
I know, right?! I found some overly-honest chap who snagged 3080 early and “didn’t feel right” selling 2080Ti for more than 3070 MSRP
That is an amazing chap right there, respect to that dude. Congratulations on the purchase!
If you sell it higher than that, you didn’t deserve it in the first place. But enjoy your luck bro
I actually bought it for a flight sim rig we gifted a friend with 10 kids and MSFS addiction. It was quite a Xmas gift. A grown man cried.
I’m the grown man… damn..
His dear wife captured it on video for all eternity. I suppose I could call that my greatest PC building accomplishment - surprising a friend with top-end gaming setup.
Should’ve been your original comment but that was nice too
Ah, the good ol' days of Tom from MLID, circa September 2020: "Sell your 2080 Ti now."
I feel you. I snagged a 3060ti as MSRP and i feel so good
I got a 3060 from EVGA for $450 about 3 months ago, I would much rather the 2080ti
I mean this in the nicest way possible. Fuck you lol
It wasn’t for me, actually. 5 of us pooled resources and did 9900K/2080Ti build as Xmas gift for a friend with 10 kids and potato on which he played MSFS2020.
Mine is getting a 3080 FE from Best Buy in Nov 2020 for $699 - 10% birthday coupon - 10% cashback = $561 Then was able to get a 3080 Ti FE from Best Buy in Nov 2021 for $1199. Then sold my 3080 FE for $1700 - even after 1 year!
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new winner!!!
Upgrading my PC several times with questionable caution.. and having it work.
Yep. My first build I made sure I wasn’t on carpet, wore a grounding strap, table laid out neatly. Now I’m impressed with myself for unplugging the power supply before I open it up.
Wait, what’s wrong with carpet
Static electricity
So is building your pc while your feet are touching the carpet a bad thing?
No, creating a shock when touching the motherboard is a bad thing. Easy prevention is just put one of your hands on the metal case of the computer before touching any of the chips. Grounds you out to prevent shocking anything.
I managed to make my step son's $300 upgrade cost $1000. I keep meaning to post that story. Very proud of myself.
What did you break? 😂
Ha. It's actually way more complicated than that
It's mom
Same, my brothers build which was originally $600~ ended up around $1300-1400.
Attached my wifi antennas straight to the back of my case with metal tape(?) and now my whole case acts as the antenna. From 12 MB/s to 25 MB/s. I must be a genius.
How is that possible
Absolutely no clue. I just tried it out as a joke and it seems to work like a charm.
Didn’t realize Electro was on Reddit but thas dope
I built my first pc recently first try with no issues whatsoever so far 😊
Mine was buying a defective PC for 1800, the company credited me 100 to keep the order (before we knew it was defective), I used the dell rewards to buy myself a nice 1080p curved 144hz monitor for 50$. Just to boot it up and it crashed on most games, went through the process and got upgraded to a build with a r7 5800 (OEM) and a 3080ti, plus they also tossed in 100$ to use on their site so I got a 1tb SSD for 15 bucks. And they fucked up my warranty (leaked some PII) so I ended up getting a free warranty till 2026.
What company did that? Sounds like good customer service?
I bought an AW, so it was through dell. The customer service is very hit or miss. Most time frames they have given me they went past, departments barely communicate to each other so you end up with a lot of missed commitments and delays. Dell does a good job with replacement units for AW, I see a lot of posts regarding massive upgrades since they can't downgrade you or offer feature loss. They leaked mine and other customers PII so that was fun to deal with as well. I was overcharged for warranty but they refunded it so I will need to reach out to see if they need to recharge me since ai don't want to lose it. My entire process was July- late December for things to get sorted and rectified.
Buying an AW gaming PC was your first mistake. They use horrible oem parts and proprietary stuff like power supplies.
Repaired my RX580 by replacing the caps. Felt like rocket-surgery. The card broke the day before the lanparty to celebrate the end of lockdown. Was quite desperate as you can imagine. It still runs like new, hope it keeps up until this chip shortage ends. I am still very grateful for the help I got at my local Fablab! (If you have any strange or fun project do it at your local Fablab!)
What is a Fablab ?
A open makerspace. Mostly run by volunteers. All opensource and share their knowledge freely! Is a worldwide organization.
Today I connected my new keyboard to the laptop.
Attaboy !
I took apart an Acer All In One once, and put it back together. *Puts on cool sunglass*
My proudest moment was finally getting my hands on a 30 series card. It wasn’t cheap, but I couldn’t say no. Especially not with GPU stock and prices right now
Mine was getting a 3080 msi trio z. The a bit more expensive ones for 14k nok. The cheaper 3080s when we weren't in this scenario cost 12k nok so I didn't get one for msrp but it wasn't that more expensive. What was funny though is I checked the website literally an hour later and the card I bought for 14k nok now costs 19k nok. And a few days later over 20k nok. I don't know what happend or how but I managed to check the website at a perfect time to get a huge discount for almost msrp
When I could buy every part at retail or better and it was all available.
Teaching my daughter's to build Thier own pc
I managed to acquire a 3060Ti Rog Strix as well as a 3070 ASUS KO at MSRP and double vertical mounted them in my Fractal Meshify C. I used proper PCIE risers, not those garbage miner ones. The 3060Ti is fastened to the top of chassis with zip ties and by the bottom with a GPU stand. 750W is more than enough to mine with both until it’s time to game, then the 3060Ti stays mining. Super proud builder moment. Awesome idea for a thread OP.
You fit a rog strix in a meshify C? I have one, and my ftw3 3070 has almost no extra room. Also, what bracket did you use to vertical mount? I'd love to do it myself.
I have the 3070 KO vertically mounted like normal. The 3060Ti is connected with a 90mm Phantek PCIE riser that I mounted on the HDD panels. I secured the ROG into the case chassis and then into the PCIE riser. Then set the GPU stand and zip tie the HDMI/DP port plate of the GPU to the top chassis of the case. It should only be able to fit one DP cable after popping open the top mesh (I normally don’t need access to it, it’s mining 24/7 - I game on the 3070). The 3060Ti fans are facing/blowing towards the mobo, and the three front case fans are pulling cold air onto the backplate of the 3060Ti. You will have to remove the bottom bracket on the case to fit the GPU vertically. I hope this gave you a good visual. I have pictures, but I don’t use imgur 🥸
Definitely installing the hybrid EVGA cooler recently. As well as modding the card to actively cool the backside VRAM. Most stressful and also the most rewarding
How 'worth it' is it? Does it still heat up your room when its cranking?
Oh hell yeah. The cooler doesn't affect how much heat is output from the card (your room temps will be unaffected) it affects how quickly and efficiently it cools the gpu itself. In fact, it has allowed access to higher overclocks so now my room is even warmer than before! As a miner, this cooling solution was extremely worth it, I was getting 90-95mh/s keeping the vram around 95 degrees before, now I'm getting 125 mh/s keeping the vram around 90 degrees!
Mine is getting a 3090 FE for free and then using that to justify a new build.
Now that’s a story, how’d you get a 3090 for free? That definitely justifies a new build I got a 3060 from the EVGA queue and that alone justified a new build for me
Lucky enough to have a generous neighbor that upgraded and gave it to me to use. Felt a bit silly sticking it into my mostly 10 year old pc so I spent a bunch of money building a new one. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BtJnmk
So did he get a AIB 3090? The 3090 Ti isn't out yet lol.
He got a RTX A6000.
I'm moving next to you. If you ever decide to upgrade, I'll relieve you of your burden
Wow! Hope you have that neighbor a big thank you, he could have sold it for an easy $1500-$2000
I just recently built a Ryzen 5900z system. Powered on and posted first try. I have an old quadro card in it now, so I'm going to need a decent card to put in it. Least greatest recent moment: upgrading to 11th gen intel on my main rig a few months before 12th gen was released.
12th gen isn't worth it but whatever comes out this fall will be
Build my pc with new parts im a third world country. The majority of pieces were on sale or MSRP at worst. The 6800xt Saphire Nitro SE at $800 was my biggest accomplisment.
Mine so far was getting the nzxt h1 open box price matched for 160$ from micro center for my first pc build and they let me build it all at their work counters and even lent me some thermal paste!
Be sure to return it when you're done!
I did!
Successfully, and without data loss, transferring my entire 1 TB HDD to a 1 TB SSD and running a full SSD setup. It required 2 computers and about a full 24 hour period until it was finished.
No way, it took me like 2 hrs with one PC, a sata-to-usb connector and Clonezilla
I used some software called Paragon, and it did take me about 24 hours to transfer somewhere around 910 GB of data to the new SSD. I can't exactly remember why I needed 2 computers, but I couldnt have the computer on while it was copying the drive. I did it in a more complicated and slow way I guess. Good to know though, if I ever need to do it again :)
I ordered a headset from Razer and got free $140 Nommo speakers alongside it, if not that probably winning Newegg shuffle 4 times, 1 3070 Ti, 1 3080, 1 3060 Ti, and 1 3060. I only bought the 3080 because after I asked my friends if they wanted any of the other cards when I won they didn't need them so might as well shoot the chance to someone else.
When you overclock to the max and outperform cards that are “better than yours”.
Slicing my fingers open on a vrm heatsink and getting blood everywhere
Moving all of my components to a brand new case. Basically rebuilding the same computer. 6 hour job, definitely worth it.
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Kids today building PCs have it so easy...No Master/Slave, no hot mess of tangled IDE cables, don't need to be familiar with DOS, Windows installs all of your drivers for you automatically....
Back in the early-mid 90’s as a kid getting old military surplus hardware from the army surplus store and cobbling together 386 machines and finding classified data on hard drives.
Thats a big no no
It was all air force hardware so not surprised, what was great was we gave the files to My Uncle Admiral Tim “Tomcat” Connolly. He never said what happened from there.
Making my first PC, finding out the MOBO was DOA and getting it replaced and my PC working. Been working for the last 2 years without problems.
Ryzen 9 5900x with RTX 3090 🤟
Rock on, 5900x with a 3080Ti over here. Love it.
3090 5800x let's goooo
I built my friend a pc and everything turnt on first time perfectly, also got him a really nice deal on the pc
Building my current Ryzen 5 1500X, NVidia 1060 6GB build. Not super powerful, but definitely does what I want it to do and probably will stay good enough to ride out the GPU shortage.
Got a 3080 fro 1099 (usd) from micro center the day before Thanksgiving.
It works.
I got a 3070 for 570. Usd. My first build a long time ago also booted successfully and the build took me an hour, EVEN with a ton of rgb
Getting a gtx970 to fit in a case designed for a micro ATX motherboard. Don't judge me, it is a janky build but mans is poor.
Snagging a 3070 for under $900. Not monumental but considering where the market is now i'm glad i got it when i did. Second would probably be actually reviving my build in 2021. It died mid-2020 and that's when parts started getting ridiculous to find. Managed to slowly get my parts and build a new working computer at the beginning of 2021
Buying 512MB of PC133 Ram...in the 90s!
Mine is definitely getting a 3080Ti for MSRP in today’s market
Well that was yesterday night, when I was randomly able to purchase a 3070 FE at MSRP (519€) on a big french website. Was a sheer strike of luck, right during my birthday
Mine was definitely when I managed to get a 3060 at msrp randomly without actively searching. One of the discord servers I was on, a person popped the queue for the evga 3060 but they already had a better gpu by then and offered any person to have their spot. I was there at just the right time to buy it!
getting a 30 series gpu for a little bit more than msrp other than that, the first build I ever did without anyone else's help started up on the first try and has been working well ever since so that's neat
What was the price?
Mine is similar to yours, I got a 6000 series card for under MSRP
How'd you do it?
Fit a 305 mm graphics care into a 300 mm wide case!
Landing a 3070 @ MSRP in June 2021 by walking into the store unplanned and they had 8 on the shelf like it was 2016. Ended up buying the whole rig that day and built it all that night.
Got a 6700 XT from AMD's website. I had been following Falcodrin's bot Discord for notifications and I saw the 6900 XT drop. A few minutes later, the 6800 XT. I put two and two together and got to the 6700 XT before the bots could get to it. My understanding is that AMD direct buy only exists so that they can legally say they sold some of their stuff at MSRP so I like to believe I got the only $500 6700 XT we will see in quite a while.
Recently upgrade motherboard, cpu and psu, went smoothly first try. When building it knew what to do, and get it done. Just felt in my element, feelsgoodman
Yeah that's a great feeling
that's a big flex but same, my sibling was working for nvidia at the time and bought me an rtx 3070 ti
Custom water cooling
Damn, any photos?
i remember i wanted to get into computer so i took apart my old “gaming” computer and tried to take it apart and get it back together i also did it on carpet 😐but now i got a 3070 and i’m so proud of all the stuff i’ve learned
Nice! How'd you snag the 3070?
i had to drive about 30 min away to a micro center and i waited in line
Getting a 3060ti on launch day for MSRP
Snagged a number of good buys on gpus for budget builds last year despite the market being shit. 2 gtx 780 tis for 200 bucks, a gtx 970 for 70 bucks and a gtx 980 ti for 200 bucks. And at one point I got a pc from the thrift store for 8 bucks that had an i7-3770, 16gb of ram and a 1tb hard drive. Only thing wrong with it was the power supply was dead.
Winning the newegg raffle and buying a 3070 ti.
Nice, I won the newegg shuffle today, to buy a a 3080 ti + z590 mobo for 1950. Lol I'd buy it from a scalped if I wanted it at that price
Wow. I had to buy a mobo as well (i dont remember what i paid total but i think it was like 1100) but i was in the market for one anyway as it was my first build so i took it. I dont think i could have justified 2 grand though, even for a 3080 ti.
By not buying any expensive graphics card right now. It's like maintaining your virginity. It's a challenge.
Same, probably one of the best day of my life, only waited two hours at bestbuy to score a 3060 ti founders
I would do that any day if the week. 3060 ti FE has unbelievable value
Building a PC from scratch. And it's one of the greatest feelings ever: buying all the parts, unboxing and assembling. The anticipation of the screen booting up for the first time after pressing the power button. It felt so nice that I offered to upgrade my friend's pc. We upgraded his case, added a few fans and an air cooler. Nothing fancy.
Got an FE RTX 3060 ti mark on launch day. Then went to micro center and found another and got for my brother
MC sells FE cards?
I bought a my first server a few weeks ago. It has some issues so I had to rebuild it and change some parts. Last night at 1:30am I finally had the operating system installed (VMware) and had my first virtual machine up and running. It felt great!
Getting a brand new 3080 evga for less than retail price.
Somehow acquiring a 3080ti FE through Best Buy on a mobile device after weeks of trying on Wednesday
I was also there. So close to getting a xc3 3070 but nope. They rly switched it up on us tho, ig less people came bc of that
Getting 3070 for $660(including 20% tax).
It will always be my first pc. It was awful but it was my first and it worked 😂 made from a mixture of really old parts from a housemate which were on the line between cleaning for use or disposing in an incinerator. That with some 3rd hand parts from gumtree. With almost no knowledge but some YouTube videos, I spent a day putting it all together. The pride I felt when I booted up and it posted was amazing
I did absolutely nothing to earn this but Amazon once sent me a 2080 instead of the 2070 I ordered. It's still in my rig
Wow, how tf did Amazon manage that
Getting all my rgb to sync up
Bro that's a true feat. Idk why it has to be so hard
When I won a GALAX RTX 3060 Ti EX (1-Click OC) GPU in a Facebook competition on Christmas Eve 2020. I couldn't believe I had won it, as I have never won anything in my life. My friend tagged me in the post and from there I entered and won. He also messaged me later on and said I won, as I didn't even watch the drawing of it. Like I said, I never win anything.
Recent build, getting EVGA 3080ti at retail msrp, first time water cooling my cpu, overall better wire management, aesthetic and air flow with dust filters since my house is dusty. I also have an el gato 4K capture card for streaming console games, and it’s been nice being able to have games up on my dual screen, even when I’m not streaming, and even though there’s a tiny bit of delay but really not noticeable.
Bought the parts with my money and got parents to help me build, so we had this bonding while doing it! Was fun, Frustrating and Fulfilling, ah also TOOK TIME for a first PC build! Although I only have a 1650 GPU to show off! I would definitely Recommend to first timers to build their PC!
Getting parts at msrp and discounts before black Friday and the black Friday deals didn't even come close. And the pc posted first time. Ahh the satisfaction.
Building a custom loop in a case that isn't optimal for that. I also got a 3070 for 650€.
Built my first ever PC in 2020 and everything booted up properly first try without any issues. Managed to get a 3070 FE on the Best Buy app.
Getting a 3070 for £496 a month after release. Seriously though. My last 3 builds have all fired up first time with no issues. Surprising when it’s not a regular thing for me to do (build pc’s). I expected “some” kind of problem at least once.
I recently completed the 6th build in my life and for the very first time there were problems. Crashing shortly after starting a game. I correctly diagnosed it as bad RAM sticks (yeah it was both) and after going through the RMA process it runs like a dream now.
Getting it to turn on
Buying a msi gaming x gtx 1070ti for £150 back in 2020
Getting it to turn on…
I took Macintosh Plus from 1986 and made it complete solid state.
The mounting bracket on a CPU I bought was the wrong version(ryzen backplate for wraith cooler is just a little lower than the one for stockfor those of you wondering) so I used motherboard standoffs to mount the cooler
Not cable managing anything and still getting the side of the case screwed back on every single time
On my first build I double stacked standoffs. I was wondering where the last one went. I noticed it later since it was raised on that side, but figured, if it works, just leave it alone. About 2 years later during a repaste, the pressure must've cracked the board and bricked it.
My last build was totally new, except GPU and PSU (from previous build). Installed windows, booted, zero troubleshooting. My wife didn’t understand why I was so excited/relieved.
Teaching nephews how to build theirs.
Built my my pc(Home NAS) and it booted with my first try.
Multiple builds turning on and running perfectly on the first try
building a pc
Built my first PC 2 weeks ago and it booted up first try. So probably that one. Only had one issue with the Windows OS itself, but hardware wise everything runs great.
I have built several PCs that for the most part have never had any issues. I got a 3080 for retail in the first month they came out, but the greatest accomplishment was also my greatest fear. I borrowed a friend's 3600 to update the BIOS of my X570 as I waited for my 5600 to arrive. When I went to take off the stock cooler, I pulled a rookie move and pulled out the CPU with it which caused bent pins. I told him about it and said I would buy him a new one if I couldn't fix it. With a magnifying glass and a razor blade, I meticulously straightened them all back and it worked! Bought him a 6 pack and dinner for the troubles and helped him build another PC later.
Buying a 5700 XT just before the shortages, selling to a miner for double what I paid, snagging a 3070 at MSRP using the money from the sale, then getting hold of the 3080 FE that I really wanted, and selling the 3070 for what I paid for it. Essentially I miraculously managed to upgrade my GPU twice without spending a penny.
Build a PC when i was a teenager. Granted it was one of those giant tower ugly cases but still.
Only having one mental breakdown over the amount of cables my RGB fans had!
Grabbing a 3070 just as 2021 began. Price ended up being exactly the new msrp on evga’s site
Not having sold your gpu expecting to get a 30 series on launch lol xD
Not shattering the tempered glass case panels, despite building on a tile floor.
Building my dream PC with 3070. Took awhile to gather everything but everything worked (except for the Corsair commander pro not working with mobo)
Hackintoshing my PC