Just finished building my first gaming PC today

[itsyoung!!]

Why not? If you can make it smaller...it's ideal for more people. Not many like buying full ATX towers anymore breh.

Your needs might be different than others though, why do you need a full tower? Are you on your @2gunsup steez?

before ITX was cool I used to get medium sized towers and I used to always cut my hands trying to replace parts in them (I used to upgrade a lot) but when I got full size towers it was better and I dont mind working on it.

plus im not sure a 970 GTX would even fit in that case and I do use more USB/peripheral units than normal people (cause I was streaming which I havnt done in a long time). So I got a dedicated head set, microphone, web camera, Dual monitors, etc.

and room to add a capture card/console set up to the monitors.

im also not the best at cable management but on a bigger tower it doesnt effect air flow as much.

 

[Rice N Beans]

Nice ITX build breh. Thinking of downsizing my tower personally. Make sure you're well ventilated.

 

[Animal House]

shyt got ya boy looking like when this shyt got running. Building this shyt my self got me feeling godly.:mydamn:


Not gone lie..shyt had me frustrated ready to ship all the parts back. Turns out people dont recommend an mini ITX build for your first build. I didnt know..I just like smaller builds. Took me a few days becasue I ordered a regular PSU and turns out I supposed of got a full modular PSU. Took me forever t o find a place for the unused cables . i finally did. Powered it up and it wouldn't come on ..I started googling and someone said remove one of the ram sticks and try. I did and it booted up so i installed windows. . Turns out one of my ram slots had dust or presure from cpu on motherboard was fukking with the ram bank. I blew in it and reseated the cpu/cooler and both ram sticks work now. PC build in total cost bout 450-460.

GTX 660 Ti used on ebay for $90 plus $9.99 shipping. Accepted my best offer
Zotac H67 Itx wifi 1155 motherboard for $50 new amazon.
Crucial Ballistix 2x4gb $34.99 off newegg on sale.
Silversone Sugo sg13 case off ebay $30.
Nzxt 120mm case fan $9.99 new.
Corsair 600w ATX PSU $39.99 refurbished newegg.
i5-2500 cpu used off ebay $95.
2tb 7200 3.5 Hard drive $50 amazon
Noctua low profile cpu cooler $38 off ebay.

Already got windows 7 and keyboard/mouse on deck.

Before you come in and say my build is trash. Dont.

You giving nikkas like me hope breh

I was going to buy a new console this holiday but around the 450-550 price range I should go ahead and get me a pc

 

[Fckumeen]

^^

Thanks breh. I was hesitant but I said fukk it and couldn't be happier. Got that Kodi on deck too.

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

That airflow

 

[duckbutta]

On the one hand...congrats for joining a real gaming community

On the other hand...uh...that 2GB 660 is

But you got to start somewhere...

Congrats breh

 

[Ciggavelli]

Congrats, but that gpu is 2 generations behind and

I see you upgrading that asap once you try to play any modern game

 

[Anti-Anime]

Welcome to the winning team. If the steam group was actually alive I might ask for your steam

 

[Fatboi1]

Congrats, but that gpu is 2 generations behind and

I see you upgrading that asap once you try to play any modern game

Let's not spread that FUD about PC gaming needing $2000 video cards just to play a game.

My cousins GTX 660 can play MGSV on high settings(higher than PS4 at least) at pretty much 60fps though we didn't see how it would fare in most tense situations. Hell, The Witcher 3 ran fine on his system and that was a GTX 660 and an AMD FX 6100. $450 for that build in comparison to a PS4/XB1 is a nice start though I myself wouldn't cop a GTX 660 though.

 

[Ciggavelli]

Let's not spread that FUD about PC gaming needing $2000 video cards just to play a game.

My cousins GTX 660 can play MGSV on high settings(higher than PS4 at least) at pretty much 60fps though we didn't see how it would fare in most tense situations. Hell, The Witcher 3 ran fine on his system and that was a GTX 660 and an AMD FX 6100. $450 for that build in comparison to a PS4/XB1 is a nice start though I myself wouldn't cop a GTX 660 though.

You don't need Titan Xs, but a 2 generation old budget card isn't exactly where I'd start. Sure you can play on low/medium, and maybe that's all he wants, but that's not what I think when I think of PC gaming. But, others are free to disagree of course

 

[Fatboi1]

You don't need Titan Xs, but a 2 generation old budget card isn't exactly where I'd start. Sure you can play on low/medium, and maybe that's all he wants, but that's not what I think when I think of PC gaming. But, others are free to disagree of course

Depends on the game. Suffice to say, his build will play pretty much all multiplats without any issues and with better visuals than it's console counterparts.

 

[Ciggavelli]

Depends on the game. Suffice to say, his build will play pretty much all multiplats without any issues and with better visuals than it's console counterparts.

I have serious doubts about that. But I'll let him cook

2gb of vram is rough in today's market

 

[Fckumeen]

It's a 660 Ti not a 660. There is a difference. I only got it for 100. It's my first build..I had a ps4 and xbox one and they bored me. I never had a gaming pc or knew how they work so I didnt wanna drop a grand on a gaming build just yet. I can upgrade in the future. This thing can house a 970, 980ti, a titan and some other shyt. Also I'll upgrade to watercooling which this thing can also house.

 

[Fatboi1]

I have serious doubts about that. But I'll let him cook

2gb of vram is rough in today's market

You're thinking of games running on settings meant for rigs with 4GB VRAM and higher for 1440P+ resolution users.
2-3GBVRAM will give comparable and at times better performance/visuals with that setup. I know because my cousins computer has a GTX 660 and that has frigging 1.5GB in reality and that shyt can play games on par than XB1 and PS4. I ran MGSV on his system and the settings it defaulted to were pretty much the same if not better than the PS4 base settings which Eurogamer put out.

 

[Ciggavelli]

You're thinking of games running on settings meant for rigs with 4GB VRAM and higher for 1440P+ resolution users.
2-3GBVRAM will give comparable and at times better performance/visuals with that setup. I know because my cousins computer has a GTX 660 and that has frigging 1.5GB in reality and that shyt can play games on par than XB1 and PS4. I ran MGSV on his system and the settings it defaulted to were pretty much the same if not better than the PS4 base settings which Eurogamer put out.

Let's not pretend that mgsv isn't one of the best console ports out

If it gives him what he wants, then that's cool.

All I'm saying is he's a little behind the times. Ubi will kill him (I know, I know) and I really doubt games like the Witcher 3 are gonna run at ps4 levels. That's one of the most demanding games out. But you're right 1080p is a lot easier than 1440p all ultra or whatever.

It's a good first build. I still think he'll wanna upgrade the card soon though. We'll see