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The Me-Time Machine - #Bitwit
by 22Oz Posted on: 8/5/2021Build Description
I built this to game, I took a six year break from gaming while my children where young and needed most my time and slowed it way down when I got married (PS3 era), I always loved building computers in fact this was my 5th build however it's my 1st Gaming Rig I re-fell in love with gaming and finally found the fulfilling hobby I'd been missing, PC Gaming, and all the associated tweaking/obsessive researching. I love my rig and pieced it together with gift cards, sales, mail in rebates, and choose mostly Price/Performance parts.
I'm a firm believer in supporting Brick and Mortar Stores and bought 90% of it at Microcenter
I play single player story driven immersive games:
* Control - Only game I can't hold above 60 FPS
* Senua's Sacrifice
* Tomb Raider Reboot (all 3)
* Jedi Fallen Order
* Portal 1 & 2
* RE3
* RE2
* DMC5
* Lego Ninjago and Lego Movie with my Daughter (got her them for her birthday and a Pink version of my Game Pad, she is very proud of it matching mine!!)
I'm a firm believer in supporting Brick and Mortar Stores and bought 90% of it at Microcenter
I play single player story driven immersive games:
* Control - Only game I can't hold above 60 FPS
* Senua's Sacrifice
* Tomb Raider Reboot (all 3)
* Jedi Fallen Order
* Portal 1 & 2
* RE3
* RE2
* DMC5
* Lego Ninjago and Lego Movie with my Daughter (got her them for her birthday and a Pink version of my Game Pad, she is very proud of it matching mine!!)
Favorite Feature
My GPU! Funny story I bought it to troubleshoot a failing APU in an HTPC I built based around Windows Media Center and Cable Card set up from 2012, but when I decided to go all in with a gaming PC I planned to upgrade my GPU to something awesome by waiting out RDNA... (guess that's the funny part) the GPU is my weakest part, also my favorite though. I literally spent as much on my case and Noctua Fans as my little work horse.
Ryzen 5 2600X
Qty: 1
$250.00

MSI B450 Tomahawk Max AMD AM4 ATX Motherboard
Qty: 1
$114.99
Non-Max version

MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor Overclocked Dual-Fan 8GB
Qty: 1
$130.00
price after Mail in Rebate, also got RE2 Remake and DMC5 Steam

G.Skill Flare X 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 PC4-25600 CL14 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit F4-3200C14D-16GFX - Black
Qty: 1
$89.00
Actually not this one but the CL16, this is the only 1 of the 2 parts I didn't buy at Microcenter. Tuned with Ryzen DRAM Calculator

Lian Li Lancool II Tempered Glass eATX Full Tower Computer Case - Black
Qty: 1
$99.99

Corsair CX650M 650 Watt 80 Plus Bronze ATX Semi-Modular Power Supply
Qty: 1
$91.99

Cooler Master Hyper 212 RGB Black Universal CPU Cooler
Qty: 1
$54.99

Inland Premium 512GB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4
Qty: 1
$75.00

HyperX Cloud Stinger Wired Gaming Headset
Qty: 1
$50.00
These are great! Can't believe I ever gamed with out them

MSI GK30 M&K
Qty: 1
$70.00

MSI Mouse Pad
Qty: 1
$12.00

MSI Optix MAG24C 144Htz
Qty: 1
$180.00
On Sale at Micro Center with gift cards and mail in rebate from GPU, paid $38 out of pocket

Noctua Redux - 2x NF-S12B and 2x NF-p12
Qty: 1
$60.00
These are the only other parts I didn't buy at Micro Center