Built my First PC 😍 😍😊

You built it wrong

Jk, looks nice. Specs?

@electrineerThanks,
i5 8600K with GTX1070Ti +16GB Ram and 256SSD +2TB HDD

Oh you gotta show me your IC-Factory

I'd really like to invest into consumer grade IC-Production

And where did you get the schematics? Did you reverse engineer them?

@JustAnotherDevv well done!

You have the same build as me but just a few generations ahead on the CPU, good to see others go for the i5 and not the i7.

Also I bloody love that case!

@groenkek it turns out that building means different things in different circles :P but yeah, designing the circuits and manufacturing them would actually be really cool! Unfortunately that's not really something that consumers can do on their own.. or, anyone but a chipmaker for that matter. And the schematics for consumer electronics often being tightly held by the manufacturers doesn't help either to drive innovation of course, and reverse engineering can be quite tedious... Also, electronics background in your average greenhorn PC builder.. don't expect too much, alright :D

+1

@irene Air intake spaces with dust filters are pretty common these days. Works fine, as long as you clean the filter once in a while.

@irene Can't argue with that, but it's a bit of a trade-off. Closed front isn't optimal for cooling, but open front is gonna look like a dust trap way faster.

@groenkek let me rephrase I assembled 😅😅

@pyaf around $1600

@TeeSeal yes it is NZXT S340

@irene Yes mom

@bittersweet plot Twist. Irene is a guy.

@irene setting traps ey 😏

@irene hmm 🤔 out of curiosity, why'd you want to be a girl? Seems like they've got quite some issues that they have to deal with all the time.. periods, odd looks from strangers, pregnancy and childbirth, etc etc.

@irene good point 😅 boners in public because you're super tired etc.. so fucking annoying!

@irene join the club, and enter the reason why I'm so hooked to devRant.. without this or Facebook, I wouldn't have any friends. There's only a few technologists in Belgium that I know of and am acquainted with. And most of them live too far away to be frequent contacts, at least when the only option is real life meetings. That - socialization - and anger issues when it comes to shitty technology are actually the main reasons why I'm here.

@irene hmm, with people that aren't technologists as well I have that same issue.. and even when they are but are noobs, it's the same. I found e.g. the IT students in my previous networking classes to be rather uneducated. I mean they didn't even know what sudo is etc. And with people that are completely clueless about technology like my home supervisors and people like that? I tolerate their presence, but I sure as hell don't like it. Here I'm considering whether visiting a local hackerspace wouldn't be a good idea. Perhaps consider that as well? From the devRant meets in Brussels, Mechelen and The Hague, I've come to realize that I really enjoy having a drink with fellow technologists 🙂

@irene I'd say work on that self-esteem 🙂 being a hacker myself (in the 80's MIT sense, information should be free etc) I can say that all that matters is curiosity and persistence. Essentially once you can Google or Duck things (at your own preference) you're pretty likely to gain the respect of the seniors out there.. mind ya, we're used to Fb h3xx0ring questions and things like that every day.. it's a huge problem with modern day people, who think that hacking is some kind of magic wand with fancy Knopkes, "FIRE DA LAZER!!" etc. Those are essentially the muggles that we - just like developers - disrespect... But curiosity, wanting to take a peek under her (software's, electronics', whatever) skirt is key. And I actually think that you already have that, so I'm sure that you'd fit right in, no lube required! 😉

By all means try it out! See whether you like hackerspaces and the people that inhabit it 🙂

@irene not everyone will dismiss your views! Only muggles do because they don't care - or rather, don't know any better. Take my home supervisors for example, all I talk about is technology but they don't know jack shit about it so they always try to change the subject.. eventually I've decided to take peace with it, and tolerate their desire to avoid technology. Not that I can really talk about anything else though.. so there's that. But here on devRant, me and you have a whole bunch of technologists that do care about this subject and are in the same boat.. from what I can tell, hackerspaces are essentially that but in real life.. and with fancy oscilloscopes, CNC routers, welders and expensive goodies like that. That's why I'm so interested in it. I kind of think of it as devRant or my technical Facebook friends in a real environment 🙂

Always remember that you're not alone. Alan Walker put that really well in his song ♥️

Just built my first a month ago

@AlgoRythm looks beefy. Dat gtx 💪

@AlgoRythm depending on your mobo, the pci-e slot you have your gpu in may not have all 16 lanes wired. It may or may not hurt performance. It's common that only the first pci-e x16 slot actually has all the lanes.

@electrineer I will take a look in my manual if I remember the next time I touch up the hardware.

Running heavy games fine though. My heaviest are Planet Coaster and Cities: Skylines.