Thank you!

If i was going to keep this build, i would have purchased sleeved cables to make it just a little better. Over the years, i lost the rear metal covers for the pcie slots, I probably would have gotten more of those too.

I started with the 250gb SSD and didn't want to spend a lot of money on another when it started getting full (remember, this is past prices of SSD's before m.2 drives). I have both 250gb drives in a raid 0 config for games. After the prices dropped, i bough a 500gb drive for my steam library. The 128gb is the OS and the 1tb is backup/redundancy.

That was the original OS when i built it. Windows 10 was in alpha/beta I believe then. I did end up doing the free update to windows 10 though.

Sell the cpu, board, ram, and gpu to cover some of the costs of the upgrade. My final version of the build is going to feature the Asus 1080ti Strix OC cards instead. The SC2 was mostly a placeholder since the FTW3 was sold out and i wanted to see what Kingpin was going to bring.

I believe when he bought the parts for this system, Ryzen wasn't out yet (built in April 2015). So at that time, productivity related tasks was still dominated by Intel CPUs. Windows 8.1 is probably because of either a spare license or more likely because of software compatability.

This is an old parts list. When I built it, no one had even heard of a Ryzen rumor yet; it didn't exist. As for the GPU, I've have SC2 GPUs from EVGA since the 780ti, so it's mostly habit.

I highly debated if i wanted to get the 1900x or not. I ended up getting the 7820x and the Asus x299 Strix-e board. I realize i lost the best value award here, but the main reason I did it was the higher clock speeds and the better overclocking potential. I plan to build a custom water loop for the first time on this platform to maximize the potential of this chip. I already gave it a test run using my h105, i was able to achieve 4.8ghz on cores 1-4 with cores 5-8 @ 4.4hgz at 1.29v. If i try to go any higher, it starts to throttle. Plus, i don't have a 4 pin cpu cable so that could help too once i buy a custom sleeve set.

I am going to run sli 1080 ti cards, but running them at 8x8 instead of 16x16 only gives marginal loss to fps.

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