Gaming PC building regrets!! =^{

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Cimarron

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In this thread we talk about what things we regret about how we built our gaming rigs. I'll start first.

i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz
2 TB HDD
Nvidia 3dvison kit
16 gigs of ram

GeForce GTX 580 1.5 GB...... :(

This was almost two years ago. I wish I had sprung for a better card. Or at least one that had more memory than 1.5gb. It is really beginning to show its age when I play some games in 3d now. In retrospect the 16gb of ram and the cpu were probably overkill. :P

What about you?
 
JLeack said:
Yup. I have the GTX 570 which also has 1.5GB VRAM. It simply isn't enough.
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570 here too, i built it for skyrim so I got a good ~2 years out of it, but now I want a 4gb card, was looking at the amd 280s but lame ass miners drove the prices $130 over msrp. So the 770 4gb looks good, but I might just wait till nvidia next series....

fuck litecoins!
 
Cimarron said:
In this thread we talk about what things we regret about how we built our gaming rigs. I'll start first.

i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz
2 TB HDD
Nvidia 3dvison kit
16 gigs of ram

GeForce GTX 580 1.5 GB...... :(

This was almost two years ago. I wish I had sprung for a better card. Or at least one that had more memory than 1.5gb. It is really beginning to show its age when I play some games in 3d now. In retrospect the 16gb of ram and the cpu were probably overkill. :P

What about you?
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Can't you just upgrade the video card? The rest of the rig is still pretty good
 
I bought a GTX 460 768 mb. I should have dropped the extra 30 bucks and gotten the 1gb version. It's a vastly superior card. Yes, I know my GPU sucks. I'm building a new rig this year.
 
I regret buying a i7 920 5 years ago, since it's so good that I still can't talk myself into upgrading.

But seriously, the last purchase of PC hardware I regret is my TV card. I never use it. And I mean seriously never. Exactly once since I put it into the system 2 years ago.
 
I regret never learning how to set up a watercooling system. And still using just air. And not learning how to overclock the bejeezus out of my GPUs and just buying more expensive ones instead.

You know what I don't regret? A 1440p monitor. Game-changer, that thing.
 
GTX 570, still doing what I need it do. I'm playing at 1440p, but I don't use AA and crank the settings all the way up. I've played hundreds, possibly thousands of hours on this over the last 30 months so couldn't be happier.

Will probably be upgraded to a 780/880 whenever the Witcher III comes out.
 
I bought an XFX 8600GT when I built my first dual core system. No fan control so the thing was constantly screeching in my ear + being a budget card the performance was shitty for a lot of games.

I went from playing TF2 at 20-30 fps to 100 though. I suppose that was pretty gdlk...

Edit: Oh is this for our current PCs? Disregard...
 
I regret getting the Gigabyte P55A-UD4P when I built my PC back in 2010(?).

This is because it constantly is flakey with my SSDs in AHCI, so much so that I run all my harddrives in crappy IDE mode, but my i7-870 still serves me well so I've yet to talk myself into upgrading to be able to get rid of the mobo. I've also been unable to talk myself into finding a used/refurb P55 mobo to replace it with. I think I'll just use tax refund money to finally move to Haswell and get onto a more reliable motherboard.
 
Bought a motherboard that won't let me adjust voltage :<

I didn't know until later, I even bought a gigantic heatsink for oc

It actually wasn't the mobo I originally wanted but the clerk sold me a different one since it ran out of stock, that's what suck about shopping locally :(
 
neoenigma said:
I regret never learning how to set up a watercooling system. And still using just air. And not learning how to overclock the bejeezus out of my GPUs and just buying more expensive ones instead.

You know what I don't regret? A 1440p monitor. Game-changer, that thing.
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exactly the same here, except for the monitor . Thing costs just too much for me atm
 
I was pretty happy with my core parts as I'm still using my i7 920. My biggest regret though is gett a full tower case. It's just so big and after building my parents pc with a sff design I really want to build a similar one for myself.
 
RivalCore said:
GTX 570, still doing what I need it do. I'm playing at 1440p, but I don't use AA and crank the settings all the way up. I've played hundreds, possibly thousands of hours on this over the last 30 months so couldn't be happier.

Will probably be upgraded to a 780/880 whenever the Witcher III comes out.
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You didn't bother to read the point of this thread did you?
 
Only thing I regret about my PC is not having a back panel to have easy access to unscrew the goddamn heat-sink. I hate taking the Motherboard out, it's one of the reasons I don't want to upgrade my CPU, hell I might just build a while new PC again, new case, new MB, new CPU(but this time with a back panel!)
 
I wish i bought a bigger power supply, 450w is probably exactly what I need for this stock build, but if I want to overclock my i5 or get any parts that may consume a bit more juice, im pretty sure an upgrade is required just to be on the safe side.
 
Nugg said:
Can't you just upgrade the video card? The rest of the rig is still pretty good
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I plan to. I am just poor at the moment I might just wait until the next Nvidea series comes out 800/Maxwell. I want to future proof it against ports from the PS4/Xbone.
1080P 3D 60FPS! (Per eyeball)
 
I wish I opted to get an inexpensive SSD and a high capacity HDD instead of just getting an expensive SSD. I can only have 4 games installed at a time, it's terrible.
 
A couple of years ago I bought an AM2+/DDR2 motherboard not realizing that both AM2 and DDR2 were right about to be phased out. I went to upgrade a few months later and NOPE.
 
Not getting a sound card

I have no idea how this mobo has a flatter sounding integrated sound chip than my last one but good god it all sounds so glassy.
 
Here is my current PC build that I made last November

NZXT Phantom ATX Full Tower case
OCZ-ZX 1000W PSU
8GB DDR3
i5-3570 K @3.4 Ghz
ASUS P8Z77-V
Sapphire Radeon X HD 7970 Ghz 3 GB.

I believe its a future proof build? ( what do you guys think :/ ) my biggest regret is I was too excited to be getting a new PC and I never really looked much into some of my parts since I wanted this PC to be good for a few years. I think my CPU and GPU will be able to hold up for the next few years..But I could be wrong :/
 
The first pc I ever built around 12-13 years ago I bought a PC case with the LED lights blazing though the side panel like this. NEVER AGAIN. I have never built another with lights, what a pain to try and sleep at night with the room lit up while downloading stuff.

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Havent really had any lately., guess the worst choices i made would be picking a motherboard with a Nvidia 680i chipset, God those where terrible
 
My gaming PC regrets are constantly flipping between gaming desktop and gaming laptop, costing me money each time. I'll have a desktop for a while, then think it'd be nice to have portability so I buy a laptop. Then I think how it'd be good to have more power for my money so I go desktop again
 
Alric said:
The first pc I ever built around 12-13 years ago I bought a PC case with the LED lights blazing though the side panel like this. NEVER AGAIN. I have never built another with lights, what a pain to try and sleep at night with the room lit up while downloading stuff.

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Sounds like my best friend LOL
 
I purchased an MSI N670 PowerEdition two years ago to replace dual radeon 6950's... don't regret the decision & the N670 still provides all the power I need.
 
Well my PC is actually pretty well built luckily, I had a friend who knew a lot more than me who provided me with some guidance to building a powerful system, although I opted against 16GB of RAM and instead chose 8GB of significantly faster RAM, a choice I think was a good move still.

There is one niggling problem however, I was pointed toward and Asus motherboard which has a habit of causing a failed boot sometimes, possibly even two or three in a row, a bit of searching at the time revealed that it's a common issue with the motherboard. In future, I will not buy an Asus motherboard.
 
I built my first gaming PC in 2012, at the time RAM was really cheap. I think I paid $43 for 8gb. I wanted 16, but I decided that could wait. Next thing I know, RAM is suddenly double the price.

I think I'll stick with the 8gb...
 
My only regret was not getting an SSD the moment I built my PC. Got one recently, and goddamn. I've been missing out!
 
My biggest regret was waiting too long to build a computer, and having bitcoin miners drive up the cost of AMD cards so much that I had to settle for a 2gig GTX 770 instead of a 3gig 280X
 
Metalmurphy said:
I just got a R 290 2 weeks ago, not getting the performance boost i was expecting : /

Can't even get stable 60 on BF4.
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Thanks for this bit of info, I was starting to regret purchasing my 770 4Gb because of the benchmarks that AMD was touting for the R9 290...

Funny how real world benchmarks always tend to be different.
 
A few years back, I thought it'd be cool to pick up two 4890's and crossfire them.
Great in concept and they worked flawlessly in tandem, but holy shit did they get hot as hell. My build was pretty efficient in cooling, but nope. Damn cards were ready to burn so I sold both, went single card and never looked back.

Crossfire/SLI are great, but I just don't enjoy dealing with the headaches of compatibility in some games. Single card it is for me.
Also whoever invented the removable back panels and motherboard trays should get some kind of Nobel award, god damn saves so much time and effort versus the old days of getting a knuckle cut on some random piece of hardware while fiddling inside the case.
 
I bought my original reference 7970 with the intention to watercool down the road. Ended up buying, and installing, the ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme 3 fan cooler. I've got that, and a 7970 Vapor-X, happily humming away in my case.

Oh well, maybe next build =(.
 
The only thing I regret is 500GB HDD.I got over 170 games on Steam in 6 months and I don't have space for most of them.

Serick said:
Thanks for this, I was starting to regret purchasing my 770 4Gb because of the benchmarks that AMD was touting for the R9 290...

Funny how real world benchmarks always tend to be different.
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It's not like 770GTX can achieve stable 60fps in BF4 :P
 
A Noctua NH-D14 is INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT to fit into a mATX case, specifically the Definine Design mini. Not my build, but mine is just as cramped (even moreso with a GTX 780 and a Creative ZXR). Fitting power cable connectors and shit behind/next to the cooler onto the motherboard was a nightmare. I don't ever want to have to repaste my system, because I'm going to have to remove the motherboard to do it.
Next time, I'm going with a closed loop cooler.

The upside is that it is a very quiet cooler, even with a 4770k @ 4.1GHz.
 
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