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My first glimpse into gaming was back in 2007 on my parents' desktop. I used to play these browser games. Then I discovered "Purble Place", and oh my God was I hooked. I played that game until I was a fucking master pastry chef. Then I and my family went off to Israel for two years, I'm going to be honest, I don't have a lot of memories of gaming from that place. It was like a void for videogames, just nada. Then we moved back to Turkey in 2009, and my dad built himself a desktop a year later, I remember all those shiny parts coming in their boxes, and him trying to figure it all out. He finally got it up and running and was ecstatic, and there I was with my 8-year-old head, trying to understand why my dad was so happy. How could I have known the struggles of building a PC? This machine for me was a game-changer, I played games like "Ace Skies" and "Age of Empires 2", those games were legendary, I hopped on the computer every chance when I got home from school. Then Diablo 3 came out, and my father is a "HUGE" fan, he bought it the first day, and although he didn't actually let me, I just snuck into the room and watched quietly behind, till he got up and noticed me, just to usher me away. Those were fun times, simple times. In 2013 I discovered Minecraft, do I really need to say much? As a kid, I was addicted, this game was like heroin, but in a good way. I and my friends played it and bonded over this "simple" but mind-blowingly complex piece of art. 2014 was the year we moved to Nepal, the school there required we have laptops, I was 12 at this age, so excuse me when I say that I wanted a Mac. Yeah, I know, I know, stupid me :) My parents got me a MacBook Air, and I installed some of the free games I could on it. Then in 2015, I was introduced to "Steam" by my so-called "friends", would have been better off if they introduced me to smoking. I downloaded all the free games I could like Unturned and played that shit for days at a time. My friends were playing CS:GO, but I knew my parents would never let me buy a game online. So when I went to Oman for a swimming competition, I bought a Steam Wallet code, waited for a sale and snagged myself "CS:GO" and "Hitman Absolution". Oh la la, I was now introduced to FPS shooters. Every weekend we had a sleepover just to play that game till we fell asleep on our keyboards. All my friends had these cool skins, but you see, where they had lenient parents, I had my thrifty skills, I traded skins, slowly but surely, worked my way up, to buy a case and a key. Yeah, fucking stupid, BUT GUESS WHAT, I got an R6 Fade STATTRAK FN. I'm gonna be honest, I might have been screaming, while also running around with tears of joy dropping from my eyes. This was the day the R6 was released, so I knew I had to sell it ASAP. Sold it for a clean 350 dollars, and kept most of it to invest in games and trades. In 2016 we got a PS4, I'm going, to be honest, the only game I played properly was Fallout 4, and by properly I mean, "waking up at 1 am when parents are asleep, sneaking to the TV room and playing for 5 hours every night". I did every ending, and every single time I wanted to shoot Preston in the face. "aNoThEr SeTtLeMeNt NeEdS yOuR HeLp" Then at the beginning of 2017, I was suddenly interested in PCs. I don't know why but thank God that happened. I used all my saved up money from birthdays and holidays, and with constant begging to my parents, I got the Asus ROG GL502VS. It had a 1070 and an i7-7700HQ, Yall know what this means. I was finally a part of the PCMR. I was now able to put that CSGO cash to use. I had also done a lot of trades until then, as well as a bit of gambling (pls don't sue me) and had an account worth around 2k. I sold some skins, and bought myself R6 Siege first, I had played it on the PS4, but my dad wasn't a huge fan of the PS+ thing, so I was stuck with fucking terrorist hunt. But now, with me on PC, OH BOY. My hours of practice were unleashed upon a terrified group of sweaty Ash and Jager mains. Mid-2017 we moved to Indonesia, I kept clapping cheeks in R6 and CS:GO but had also expanded to Overwatch and Insurgency. This continued until 2019, we returned back to Turkey, where I realized the GTX1070 as outperforming the 1080p 60hz screen, so again I used the power of constant begging so that my parents would let me buy a monitor with my money, and they did. I bought the Samsung LC34H890, 1440p ultrawide 100-hertz monitor. I also snagged an AT2020 mic and Yamaha MG10XU mixer from Indonesia before I returned, since it was a hell of a lot cheaper there. At this point, I was becoming increasingly more consumed by PC hardware, it was becoming a passion at this point. I was also starting to use Blender more and more for mostly personal projects and had even started to make a bit of money on the side from this hobby. But the quad-core i7-7700HQ was holding me back. So on my 18th birthday, my parents surprised me, and offered to buy me the gaming PC of my dreams, no questions asked. This didn’t feel right, I didn’t want to burden them with this much money, because it was “my 18th birthday”. I told them I would only agree to this if I paid half of it. So I sold my PS4, my old MacBook, and my parent’s 2 old laptops (I made a 10% commission from these two). I wasn’t able to sell my GL502VSK in time, so that’s why you see that in the pictures. I’ll sell that one as soon as somebody is interested in it. So now, here I am, with this beautiful set-up. Grateful for everything I have. Especially for my parents, and Reddit for showing me the way. Thanks to everyone who replied to my posts, and my comments asking how to do “this and that”, you know who you are :) Anyways, I rambled on long enough, here are the specs you have been waiting for. PC SPECS: Ryzen 9 - 3900X Gigabyte RTX 2080 Super Gaming OC Crucial P1 1TB SSD 32GB (4x8) 3600Mhz CAS16 G-Skill Trident-Z Memory Asus Prime X-570 Pro Motherboard Asus LC360 White Edition AIO Seasonic 750watt Focus+ Gold Corsair İ-Cue 220t White Edition The GPU and housings were plasti-dipped. And yes, I know the paint job looks horrible :) PERIPHERALS Yamaha AT-10XU mixer AT-2020 Microphone Logitech G633 Headphones Audio Technica ATH-M50X Logitech G513 Keyboard Logitech G900 Mouse Steelseries Qck Edge Large Mousepad Canon EOS 600D Camera (My dad’s) Logitech C920 Webcam Some Random LG soundbar we had lying around the house. Desk and Chair Combination of IKEA “Alex Drawer” “Linnmon Tabletop”s and “Markus” chair. Final Bits and Pieces: The PC performs exceptionally well and is pure bliss to game on and design projects. I overclocked the GPU to +50Mhz Core and +500 Memory Clock (Msi Afterburner) CPU is at 4.2 Ghz at 1.3 Volts for rendering (Done through Ryzen Master) CPU is at 4.35 Ghz at 1.3 volts with Multi-threading disabled for gaming (Done through Ryzen Master) If you have any suggestions/tips, I would love to read them down below. Thanks for reading the ramblings of an 18-year old, and have a lovely day. [link] [comments] |
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