My original PC built for Star Citizen in 2013 finally died

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The year was 2013.

An exciting new game was just over the horizon, it was going to be called Star Citizen!

To play the Hangar module, I would need a really beefy(er) PC, so I scraped together the money I had and with the help of some generous members of TEST, managed to put together a budget build.

A few years later my son was born, I had upgraded by then and this PC became his. That little AMD 270x GPU worked pretty well for his gaming needs until this week when it finally died.

I forgot what CPU was in there, but like all the old AMD chips, it ran HOT!

I originally had 8gb of RAM which was upgraded to 16gb somewhere along the line.

This thing pumped out a lot of heat and warmed the room up nicely in the winter!

In the summer it had fans running at 100% speed all day and kept the room at sauna like temperatures! :D

RIP little AMD build, you served us well!


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Oh and the plastic clip holding the GPU was so brittle, it simply snapped off when I tried to take out the GPU :D
 
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Well my courrent rig data bakc to 2016 when I sign for SC... it still run fine, but defenetly need a re-vamp especially considering the jump in performance we have seen recently botth on CPU and GPU compartment, just... da fuck I'm going to pay the ridiculus price of today for assemble a new rig.

Right now, as much as I hate the idea, buying a pc from a system builder is cheeper then assebme one your self... assuming you could find the components of course...
 
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Cugino83 said:
Well my courrent rig data bakc to 2016 when I sign for SC... it still run fine, but defenetly need a re-vamp especially considering the jump in performance we have seen recently botth on CPU and GPU compartment, just... da fuck I'm going to pay the ridiculus price of today for assemble a new rig.

Right now, as much as I hate the idea, buying a pc from a system builder is cheeper then assebme one your self... assuming you could find the components of course...
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GPUs are nowhere to be found.

All the 3000 series are out of stock.

All older cards are so overpriced, its not worth it.
 
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Mine died too on Sat - built in 2013. Went to microcenter... picked up a prime z590a and a Gen 10 processor - half off... yep, I said 1/2 off for a Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900KF CPU @ 3.70GHz, 3696 Mhz, 10 Core(s). 20 Logical Processor(s). So, the board is ready for the 11th generation when and if I want to make a jump. The GPU is hosed too so I stole my sons 2070 super... and he is super pissed, but he plays xbox and can suck it up until I can get a new 3080 if ever. Prolly end up getting at 4080 by the time its available.

Lessons learned - gen 10 does not natively support 3200 ram so the system dialed it down to 2133. Gen 11 will support 3200... its kind of a trade off depending on the components you want to use.

Other than that the system is back in action. The Prime motherboard was a little temperamental but I did manage to get everything situated.
 
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ColdDog said:
Mine died too on Sat - built in 2013. Went to microcenter... picked up a prime z590a and a Gen 10 processor
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Sounds like a conspiracy to me.. our old machines dying on the weekend?

Congrats on the new build, thats a gigantic leap in performance!

Everything must be running great!
 
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I got myself a Ryzen 7 5800X this January. With continued forced use of my older GTX 1080 I didn't see much performance boost over my (Edit: Imeant) 4790K though.

But I don't worry. It will certainly take 2-3 more builds until the game is ready ;)
 
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Ploeperpengel said:
I got myself a Ryzen 7 5800X this January. With continued forced use of my older GTX 1080 I didn't see much performance boost over my 4950K though.

But I don't worry. It will certainly take 2-3 more builds until the game is ready ;)
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I remember discussing with other TESTies in 2014 about the impossible specs we need to run this game at a good framerate.

The 1080ti seemed like the answer we needed when it came out, but the current 3000 gen took such massive leaps in price and performance, I think its safe to say we are there.
 
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Montoya said:
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The 1080ti seemed like the answer we needed when it came out, but the current 3000 gen took such massive leaps in price and performance, I think its safe to say we are there.
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Ehm... do you realize this is the same exact thing people are saying since the advent of PC right?
"We now have computer with 256mb oof RAM and 2GB of hdd who will ever need more!"
Current evarage office pc does have 8GG of RAM and 500Gb of HDD.... the avarage game pc is 16Gb of RAM and a couple of TB of disk space...

Component will always improve and for a game like SC I'm confident that, in the future, CIG will be able to levarage even the new hardware thanks to continius improvement on the game... just wait for the "core" structure to be finish and polis then we'll see some amazing implementation of RT or other improvement both in visual and simulation aspect.
 
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Cugino83 said:
Ehm... do you realize this is the same exact thing people are saying since the advent of PC right?
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Right, but Im saying that to make Star Citizen run at 30fps, what would min specs be?

We are past the point of the high end stuff being the min spec for Star Citizen.
 
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Mine is still ticking, built it around that time, in 2014 I think, had a 4670k, changed to a 4770k just last year, had upgraded to max RAM and ofc GPU's were changed along the way.
I gave it to my father to play MSFS along with my old 1060 6gig this Christmas, and built myself a new on.

@ColdDog I run a 10700K on a Z490 with 64gigs of RAM in two slots running fine with XMP1 enabled at 3200Mhz. So yeah, do turn it up cos that stock 2000 something Mhz won't do you any good.
10th gen intel Can handle 3200-3600 just fine, those are the standard low numbers it likes to run at, even though "natively" it's not advertised as such.
 
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Montoya said:
Are you sure that is enough RAM?
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I'm sure it isn't.
Yesterday I ran a smoke + fluid sim with Phoenix FD in Max in a scene with 14 million polys, with like 60+ complex materials, and it was getting close to topping it out. Not my regular daily workload, but it's sure nice to keep Chrome open while working with the tab row maxed out... 🙃
 
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My old 4770k is still going well, I kept it liquid cooled though. Still upgraded, but I could probably put it back together...
 
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