Alright, I want you guys to know the backstory to this PC, as I am proud, and feel accomplished about it. Not needed to read, so feel free to skip. I worked a 32 hour work week in a kitchen washing dishes for this PC - ontop of 40 hours of school a week. I worked 2 months straight working a 6 hour shift on Friday and a two 12 hour shift on a Saturday and Sunday. I came out exhausted, but still kept going to school, and passing classes. Before hand I was using a shitty AMD A-10 laptop, which could only run CSGO workshop maps at 720p. (I spent about 200 hours before I even hit up competitive.) I then quit after 2 months when I hit about £950. I bought the PC in November, 2017 and built in December.
The Build:
The total cost of the build was £850 back in November/December 2017 and has actually grown profit if I were to sell it.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
The Struggles:
- I was using 60hz until January as I thought HDMI would transmit 144hz - I am now using Display Port.
- Storage Space - I only had a 250GB SSD until February.
- Headset - Didnt have a headset (and hugely regret this headset I bought (was £80% off so was a steal though) as it really is shit.
- At first, I didnt have a desk, so i didnt know how to use my PC, so I came up with this solution... I came out with horrible back problems and yeah... it sucked. See for yourself.
What Is Next?
The Build:
Here is the completed build! Cable management is all done except under the desk, my next pay-day (new job working with an old coworker at a small diner - 20 hours a week over the weekdays being a line chef - yes, I ranked up! Woo!) will be buying a 4k TV which will be above my monitor to use as a TV for my room, but will be used for my PC too - and cable management supplies to hide it all, maybe a net under my desk for the wires to land.
The room will be redecorated in the next few weeks when I get a couple weeks from school, it will be just a white wallpaper as we moved into this house about 6 months back.
Benchmarks:
- Here. This is before any overclocking is done. Overclock is now at 4.0Ghz / 1.415v
- MSI afterburner causes me to hard crash and weird things when I turned on Windows.
Thanks for all the help you guys here at /r/buildapc have done while building for me, you guys are fantastic and we make a wonderful community - we should be proud.
Alright, I now have 1 huge problem with my PC which 2 /r/Buildapc threads couldn't help fix :( :
My PC hard crashes - real hard. Normally random, but while playing a game whether that be CSGO or PUBG or Adventure Capitalist. I first thought I fixed it by reseating my ram (faulty connection?) it worked for maybe 24 hours but the hard crashing still happens. I'm guessing it's hardware, which fortunately if it is, I can repair without too much hassle as payday is next Monday and I do not have to pay any bills due to being 15.
Here is the most helpful post of them all, but I am now having hard crashes every 30mins - 1 hour. I tried to OBS capture when it breaks while having speccy open, but it's crashes at around 60c so i'm not sure it's heat related. Last post. Any help would be great as it is ruining the feel, and all the Windows Event Log errors are here.
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