2017 Gaming PCs

Current Systems

Home Theater Gaming PC

This system is definitely better than my gaming system in all but one way, the graphics card is a bottleneck.

• Case: Thermaltake CA-1D5-00S1WN-00
• PSU: EVGA - 80 PLUS 600W -fixed
• MB: ASRock Z170M Extreme4
• CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K - 4.0GHz
• RAM: GeIL EVO POTENZA 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-2133
• GPU: XFX FX-797A-TNFC AMD Radeon HD 7970 CE - 3GB
• OS Drive: MyDigitalSSD 120GB (128GB) BP5e SATA III M.2 SSD

Gaming PC

I can't believe I was still running a Gen3 i7 from 2012 in this system. Five Years is quite the run for a gaming system

• Case: SilverStone Fortress Series FT02
• PSU: Thermaltake TR2 RX - 750W 80 PLUS Bronze - Modular
• MB: ASRock X79 Extreme 4
• CPU: Intel Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E - 3.6Ghz
• RAM: G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3-1600
• GPU: EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SC - 4GB
• OS Drive: Plextor M5P Series 2.5" 128GB SATA III SSD

New Systems

Home Theater Gaming PC

I will replace the AMD Graphics with the Nvidia Graphics Card. PSU may also need to be replaced. This was my first mATX build and it looks pretty nice in the theater room.

• Case: Thermaltake CA-1D5-00S1WN-00
• PSU: EVGA - 80 PLUS 600W -fixed
• MB: ASRock Z170M Extreme4
• CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K - 4.0GHz
• RAM: GeIL EVO POTENZA 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-2133
• GPU: EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SC - 4GB
• OS Drive: MyDigitalSSD 120GB (128GB) BP5eSATA III M.2 SSD

New Gaming PC - Won

Handily beats my current gaming system. Also beats out my Home Theater system by moving to the Gen7 Intel chip, and upgraded graphics. The 1070 was what I was concidering for my next GPU.

• Case: Phanteks Eclipse P400 Tempered Glass Edition
• PSU: Corsair CX650M — 650W 80 PLUS Bronze - Modular
• MB: MSI Z170A GAMING M5
• CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake - 4.2Ghz
• RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3000
• GPU: EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 - 8GB
• OS Drive: Intel 600p PCIe M.2 SSD - 512GB

I may add images in the future.