New Gaming PC

[BillyCarpenter]

Tryx curved screen AIO

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ncz-ua2FncU?feature=share

[Gift]

That's beautiful - sort of 20x more expensive than my CPU cooler 🤣🤣🤣

@your video:

you should also make yourself a gift and get yourself something with a nice and video capable camera^^

[BillyCarpenter]

For Christmas, I gave my son a new AIO CPU cooler. It's so cool. He hasn't installed it yet, but here's a look at what it is.

[BillyCarpenter]

One final video on my son's gaming PC with the new 4k touch screen. I apologize for the poor video quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6--dFyuPgI

[BillyCarpenter]

Finally, the 4k Infinite Touchscreen display is off back order. Just ordered it.

Here's what it's gonna look like:

[BillyCarpenter]

New Hyte Keyboard

[Hart]

At this point, a Steam Deck with a dock

[BillyCarpenter]

Stop throwing your money please

I'm touched that you're looking out for my wallet. What a nice guy you are. But can you be more specific? What shouldn't I have ordered?

[Hart]

Stop throwing your money please

[BillyCarpenter]

Well, the Lian Li LCD fans were delivered but unlike the old style, these require and 8 pin to 6 pin ATX power cable. He doesn't have an extra so I'll ship him one that I have.

Yesterday, I ordered him a badass keyboard unlike anything I've seen.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wqeLkPhD3yk

[BillyCarpenter]

We're on phase 2 of my son's gaming PC. We had to replace the Hyte Y60 case with the HYTE Y70. Initially, I was planning on going with the ASUS GeForce 4060 Super GPU but at the last minute ordered the ASUS GeForce 4080 super. The 4080 is a 3 1/2 slot GPU...it's HUGE. As a result, the fans were pressed against the glass and not really cooling as it should. The HYTE Y70 Touch is one of the most expensive cases on the market but what am I gonna do? It had to be done.

Today, I also ordered all new Li Lian LCD fans that are amazing. Those crazy bastards really did it. The put a LCD on the fans.

There's a couple of other small things that I want to do and this build will finally be done.

I'll post pictures when it's finished.

[Hart]

[BillyCarpenter]

[BillyCarpenter]

I've been trying to decide on what GPU to buy for my son's gaming PC. I've gone back and forth between the RTX 4060 and RTX 4070. In the end, I ended up buying the:



ASUS - ROG Strix NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Overclock 16GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card - Black


This is a beast of a card. It's flagship model for the 4080. There's only one GPU in the world that's better and that's the RTX 4090.

This is getting very expensive as now I have to buy a 4k monitor. Anyway, check it out.



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[BillyCarpenter]

I've been reflecting back on the things I learned helping my son build is dream gaming PC. For starters, picking the right motherboard, CPU and the rest of the parts was very eye opening. There were probably 35 or more CPU's to choose from. A staggering amount. Without going into great detail, you can spend anywhere from $200 - $700. When gaming, it all comes down to bottlenecking. That can happen at the CPU or GPU. Normally, modern games are more GPU intensive than CPU. Still, the processor you pick is important and you have to account for newer games that have yet to be released. Doing my homework kept me from overspending on a CPU that would have been overkill.

Ditto for the MOBO. Most of the high end MOBO's have features that I really didn't need and mostly had to do with overclocking. There were some nice features on the high end boards that would have been nice but not with the extra $300. The important thing here is to pick the right MOBO that allows an upgrade path in the future. an AMD 4 socket leaves you with little upgrade path. An AMD 5 socket is the way to go.

I also learned how to calculate power usage of the components I picked for the build. Fortunately, there are websites that allowed me to easily do this. But I didn't know this until doing my research.

There's also the matter of picking a GPU. This is the most expensive part of the build. You can spend as little as a few hundred bucks up to around $2500.00.

Then there are things like your gaming monitor, AIO, ram, NMVE drive, ect.

I don't even want to say how much money this build cost but it was expensive. I always get carried away this stuff. But past experience has taught me that (for me) it's better to buy a part once and be satisfied than buy a lower end part and eventually decide that I need to order order what I wanted in the first place.

That's it for now.