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KeyboardDemon
PC Gamer: Nearly Dangerous
My case was half the price of the Thermaltake, plus it has a PSU shroud that makes it easy to hide cables and get a neat build, (I've added some pictures below with the side panel off, the glass doesn't make it much hard to see inside though, it's picked up some dust try and ignore that, I've added fans and improved the RGB lighting scheme).
In my opinion, a case where you can hide the PSU and cables is a must but that doesn't make the Thermaltake a bad option just be clear on what you want from your case before you make your final decisions.
2 lessons I learned when I completed my build.
What you're talking about will require around $1200 for the GPU alone, that's a big spend, I put my full system together for around that price so I didn't have to sell my existing build to afford it and you will find that your new GPU when paired with a 3-year-old CPU, won't be giving you as good a return in frame-rates as you would get in a new build with a new CPU.
I am not saying that what you're planning is a bad idea, all I am saying is that if you look at your total costs and plan around a few different possibilities, you might get a build that covers all of your needs. Such as building a new PC and selling off your existing PC, building new and keeping the second for LAN or multiplayer gaming with someone else in the same house as you, or go through the staggered upgrade route where change different components every few years and upgrade bit by bit round-robin style.
This video compares the performance of a 2080 Ti on a 7700k vs 10700k and you can see how the 7700k leaves potential performance on the table as the newer CPU has double the number of cores and higher boost speeds.
I hope this post doesn't come across as a bit preachy, just trying to help out where I can, I'd be interested in reading about what you decide to do with your build. I hope you enjoy my pictures below.
You can see some of the other iterations of colour schemes that I went through with my build before I decided on this 1.
An MSi motherboard and an MSi GPU, I had to put my MSi Lucky Dragons on show as well, didn't I?
In my opinion, a case where you can hide the PSU and cables is a must but that doesn't make the Thermaltake a bad option just be clear on what you want from your case before you make your final decisions.
2 lessons I learned when I completed my build.
- 1. Just because the mobo you want states RGB doesn't mean you can plug RGB lights directly into it, the RGB control with my mobo is just for the lights under the RAM at the top right and in this mobo the software sucks, I managed to get it to work for a short while and then an update broke it again. If you want RGB control from your mobo, then make sure it has 5-volt RGB headers on it.
- 2. My case has RGB fans included, but due to the mobo issues I couldn't connect the case to the mobo in order to get the mobo to control the RGB, my case has buttons, but to match all of my RGB I have to use 3 software packages, 1 for the CPU fan, 1 for the RAM and when I can get it to work 1 for the mobo lights, plus the buttons to pick the style and colour of lighting I want to use.
What you're talking about will require around $1200 for the GPU alone, that's a big spend, I put my full system together for around that price so I didn't have to sell my existing build to afford it and you will find that your new GPU when paired with a 3-year-old CPU, won't be giving you as good a return in frame-rates as you would get in a new build with a new CPU.
I am not saying that what you're planning is a bad idea, all I am saying is that if you look at your total costs and plan around a few different possibilities, you might get a build that covers all of your needs. Such as building a new PC and selling off your existing PC, building new and keeping the second for LAN or multiplayer gaming with someone else in the same house as you, or go through the staggered upgrade route where change different components every few years and upgrade bit by bit round-robin style.
This video compares the performance of a 2080 Ti on a 7700k vs 10700k and you can see how the 7700k leaves potential performance on the table as the newer CPU has double the number of cores and higher boost speeds.
I hope this post doesn't come across as a bit preachy, just trying to help out where I can, I'd be interested in reading about what you decide to do with your build. I hope you enjoy my pictures below.
You can see some of the other iterations of colour schemes that I went through with my build before I decided on this 1.
An MSi motherboard and an MSi GPU, I had to put my MSi Lucky Dragons on show as well, didn't I?
