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[06YarisRS]

Originally Posted by SirDigby

i have recently built some sweet computers. custom cases and custom water loops are very fun. lot's of fun! let me know if i can do something for you!

Man, if I was still into gaming, I'd get you to build me a serious machine! I built a couple machines in my time, but nothing like those.

How about some specs on those machines?

[SirDigby]

Originally Posted by 06YarisRS

How about some specs on those machines?

the desktop is old, i built it when fallout 4 came out. (hence all the nuclear)
4790k, ROG Hero Maximus VII, EK CPU WB (overclocked 7%)
32GB Mushkin DDR3
(recently upgraded) EVGA FTW2 1070Ti GPU
samsung 850EVO SSD's
Noctura fans
Corsair 860AX power supply
all Bits Power fittings for water.

Portable:
8700k, ROG Strix X370-I, Artic Liquid Freezer 120 AIO (overclocked 37%)
16GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4
Gigabyte 1060 OC 6GB
2x Samsung NVMe M.2 SSD's
Crucial SSD
Corsiar ML120 fan
Corsair CX650M power supply

[06YarisRS]

Originally Posted by SirDigby

the desktop is old, i built it when fallout 4 came out. (hence all the nuclear)
4790k, ROG Hero Maximus VII, EK CPU WB (overclocked 7%)
32GB Mushkin DDR3
(recently upgraded) EVGA FTW2 1070Ti GPU
samsung 850EVO SSD's
Noctura fans
Corsair 860AX power supply
all Bits Power fittings for water.

Portable:
8700k, ROG Strix X370-I, Artic Liquid Freezer 120 AIO (overclocked 37%)
16GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4
Gigabyte 1060 OC 6GB
2x Samsung NVMe M.2 SSD's
Crucial SSD
Corsiar ML120 fan
Corsair CX650M power supply

Those sound like pretty awesome rigs! My current gamer (a few years old) runs the 4790k as well, no overclocking. One variant of the chip is not overclockable, maybe the basic 4790? A pretty powerful cpu for $$. The card in that machine isn't bad for basic gaming. I think it's a 4G GTX 750TI.

[SirDigby]

Originally Posted by 06YarisRS

Those sound like pretty awesome rigs! My current gamer (a few years old) runs the 4790k as well, no overclocking. One variant of the chip is not overclockable, maybe the basic 4790? A pretty powerful cpu for $$. The card in that machine isn't bad for basic gaming. I think it's a 4G GTX 750TI.

nice. your machine will still outperform any ps4/xbox without issues. the "k" is the overclock-able on chip sets. i don't do any "tweaking" for the overclocking. the ROG MB comes with optimizing software. i run the computer for about 2 hours, then i ran the software and let it optimize all the settings. i didn't believe the portable at 37% and ran it 3 different times. 37% every time! sweet!

you will probably want to get a new video card in a year or two. i'd let them get in a generation or 2 on this new RTX before i'd buy one. IMO.
the GTX one's are pretty well priced now. i got the 1060 OC 6GB for like $200.