I spent a lot of money and created a souped up rendering MACHINE with dual monitors and a pretty beastly, well, everything.
This machine will assist me in my work over the next few years at university (and beyond)_, as well as being instrumental to my gaming experience. The wonderful thing about PC's is that their components are constantly being updated and upgraded as the the technology gets better and better but also becomes more and more affordable. This is why I have invested so much money into this computer, not only so that I have a machine capable of being an effective workspace, but also having the flexibility of being able to upgrade if and when I feel like it.
Part List
Case:
Fractal Design Define R5 Black Pearl
RAM:
Corsair DDR3 2400MHz Vengeance Pro Red
Motherboard:
MSI Z97 GAMING 5 Socket 1150 DVI HDMI DisplayPort 8-channel audio ATX Motherboard
CPU:
Intel Core i7 4790k 4GHz Socket 1150 Processor
GPU:
MSI GTX 970 Twin Frozr V 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
Cooling Fan:
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Air Cooler
HDD:
Power Supply:
Corsair RM 750W Fully Modular 80+ Gold Power Supply
Mousemat:
Corsair MM200 Gaming Mouse Mat Standard Edition
Mouse:
Razer Naga Gaming Mouse
Keyboard:
Razer BlackWidow Tournament Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
Shoutout to Lawrence for helping me put it all together
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| All the parts, excluding the 2TB hard drive which came about 4 days after we finished putting the main components in. |
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| The naked case, sides off and ready to be filled. The Power Supply goes in first |
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| Next, the processor gets mounted onto the motherboard, (we had to follow a youtube tutorial for this) |
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| Motherboard, Power Supply, Processor, RAM and the extra large cooling fan all mounted onto the motherboard. |
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| Another angle |
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| GPU (graphics card) is now mounted |
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| Progress after the first day, including cable management and about 7 hours of hard graft/ All that was needed at this point was the hard drive (which came the next day), and then we were ready to finish. The hard drive slots into one of the white racks seen on the right hand side. |
Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of putting the hard drive in, but aside from that all there was left to do was boot my totally legitimate version of windows up and eventually start using my computer.
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The final set up, including mic, keyboard, mouse and twin monitors. |