My current setup is pretty old
For the past 4 years I've been running my current PC and it's age is starting to show. It's starting to struggle with newer games, It can't really keep up with gaming and streaming at the same time and productivity wise it also takes a long time to do various things.
Anyone who has seem my computer can appreciate that making changes and upgrades is actually a large undertaking as I have to no only manage and drain/refill two water loops, but I also have to often make minor modifications to my case to make everything fit.
I'll likely need to bend new tubing that goes to the GPU and CPU waterblocks as the locations of these parts is not always the same across motherboards.
Current Setup:
CPU: Ryzen 5900x
MOBO: Gigabyte x570 Aorus Master
Ram: Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB DDR4
GPU: Radeon 6900XT
The old rig as it was!
Newer GPU made quite the difference!
A few days ago I actually upgraded just the GPU to start with.
I got the Radeon 9070XT Red Devil from power colour and it alone has made quite the improvement to my computer, It's even made my programs use LESS CPU than before which is nice. My CPU isn't quite struggling as much as a result.
As you can see it's currently running it's stock air cooler, I've ordered a water block for it but it won't be here for another few days.
It's a good thing my CPU and GPU water loops are completely separate :D
And since I'm going to do redoing the liquid in both looks when I water cool my GPU.. I figured I might as well just do a full platform upgrade and be sorted for the next 4 years.
So I spend loads of money I technically don't have.. yay credit cards! xD
Replacing my CPU, MOBO and ram, my new kit is going to be as follows.
CPU: Ryzen 9 9950X
MOBO: Asrock X870 Steel Legend
RAM: 64GB (x4 16GB) G.Skill Ripjaws M5 Neo RGB CL28 6000MT/s
Overall the total cost including GPU and waterblock so far is £1958.76
Which is only marginally more expensive that my previous Radeon 6900XT waterforce GPU that cost me £1800 cause prices back then where crazy.
I can probably make back a fair chunk of this my selling my old parts so it's all good really.
Custom case going to look epic!
Since the motherboard is now white and the GPU also has a white PCB the inside of my case is actually going to look a whole lot better!
I'll naturally be making a post once it's complete chock full of pictures.
Once it's all up and running I can actually focus more on the case itself and get some newer RGB lights with better colour accuracy as well as deal with some of the airflow issues in the front compartment. In other words simply design it better.
As a final note for those who read this far.
My PC isn't actually called 'rainbow puke' It's officially called Rainbow Tower on my network. I'm just meme'n with those who despise RGB for some reason. XD
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It's quite a rig that takes up some space. I have a fairly large tower, but there's not that much in it. At least it is pretty quiet as I chose parts for that. It's old though and would be no good for modern games. I just don't play them.
Yeah, I've spec'd mostly for performance and the case is all about the looks. I just wanted something crazy to showcase everything in. :D
Mines actually very noisy largely due to the current fan and airflow setup, it's long been on my list of things to do sorting it out. I have 8 intake fans which blow into each others from either side of the case so cause a hell of a lot of wind noise. Been meaning to make ducts and baffle like things to help with the noise hopefully.
That's a nice thing about computers if the still do the thing you need them to do you can pretty much run them for decades.
I did look into making mine even quieter, but it can get expensive and complex. I tried a passive CPU cooler, but it just did not work, so I got one with a big fan instead. If I had a big GPU then I expect I'd need more fans or liquid cooling, but it mostly does what I want. The only time the old hardware is really an issue is when rendering video.