PC upgrade time! Hey, if you think this isn't art, just think of other artists who post their brushes or pens/pencils laid out.

This is pretty much that in a digital sense!



Saw a lot of deals and I was really eager to upgrade since the last one was SEVEN YEARS AGO and I still had parts from the intel CORE 2 DUO DAYS in there!





The first upgrade I posted here on DA was an upgrade out of pure, panic and need! I was working with a kickstarter group and my PC started bluescreening randomly. Which wouldn't have been such a problem if these BSDs weren't literally corrupting my art when they happened. The motherboard was failing, I didn't know what the issue was at the time but I knew it was time to upgrade and my hand was forced at this point.







So, this one then:

I saved up cash for this for a while, I hated, HATED the old case. It was solid steel and heavy as heck. So if I had to take the thing out to dust it, it was both absurdly large for the hallway outside my room AND heavy to add to it being so cumbersome. I think the case alone weighs more than the new build.



The SSD mounts were on the back of the mobo plate- so if I wanted to mount them I'd have to remove my mobo and screw it into the back of the case.





Case aggravation aside, I had overclocked my 4770k by 20% and this helped make streaming work better but- I also couldn't put a panel on my case because the CPU would get too hot, which would also effect the rest of my rig's performance. Now the machine runs cooler, works far better with multi-tasking. I don't have an SSD flopping around the DVD area, no more Jerryrigging to get a fan to slot in the case. My front headphone jack works, I have enough USB slots without expansion slots for my small business and work.





It multitasks like a beast, which is nice to have for streaming art and games. On my last build with only 8gb of ram it'd hurt to have a browser open while doing streaming. The biggest annoyance was my SSD was so small that with barely anything installed on it, I had only 40GB left which is the bare minimum you want for a scratch disk for art and such.







This is my first complete overhaul of my machine in well over 10 years it's nice. As in, I had several parts last time from the previous build. Which, wasn't ideal. With some TLC this machine should last 10 years or more. I haven't updated any of my accessories like my monitors, kb/m but they're all doing fine and I'm not about to go nuts on that. The storage like SSDs and such are all fine as well so they got moved over.





I'm not super keen on RGB- but they don't seem to have non-RGB for the parts I was looking at so uh...yay glow stuff?







My old machine went off to a new home, hopefully to game on for years and years.







New specs:



AMD Ryzen 3900x

32GB G.Skill DDR4 RAM

Nvidia RTX 2070

1TB Gen4PCIe

3x 1TB Samsung SSDs

2x 1TB HDD





Accessories:

Huion GT191 artist tablet

ASUS MG248

Dell 1907FP

Corsair K63

Logitech 603

Blue Yeti Mic

SONY MDR-XB950BT headphones



2 external HDDs



Controllers: XB1 Gen2, 8Bitdo M30, 8bitDoSN30pro+















Last 2 machines:

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Intel i7 3.5ghz quad core

8gb corsair Vengeance DDR3 ram

Geforce 560GTX

MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING

128gb Samsung SSD 840PRO Series

1TB Western Digital Black Caviar HDD

500GB Seagate HDD

750GB external Seagate Freeagent PRO

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UPGRADES TO THIS BUILD last year:

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Intel i7 3.5ghz quad core (OC 4.2)

16gb corsair Vengeance DDR3 ram

Nvidia RTX2070







Accessories:

Canon LiDE 600F scanner

Logitech G9x mouse

Logitech keyboard & Speakers

Wacom Cintiq 12wx

Samsung 24 inch LED screen

Antec case

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Intel Core 2 Duo: 2.66Ghz (OC 3.33ghz)

4gb OCZ DDR2 ram

Geforce 560GTX

Nvidia Mobo (no idea which)

500GB Seagate HDD

500GB Seagate HDD

750GB external Seagate Freeagent PRO (Bro)



