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Humble beginnings

In this post, I share the progression of my home work+play station over the years, in chronological order.

2016

Intel I7 4790 Quad Core Gaming Pc Computer 1tb 16Gb Nvidia GTX 960 2GB Galaxy

My first Desktop, pre-built from Ebay and it cost a grand total £676.99

Side profile featuring my attempt at re-creating the COD:Zombies Perk-a-Cola

First time upgrading accessories;

Triton PRO+ Headset
Blackwidow Razer Mechanical Keyboard (Green switches)
Razer Orochi - fingertip style

I also picked up a caffeine addiction…

Running DayZ on the big screen, trying to get the tactical advantage but I was still shit

After deciding I didn’t want to burn my retinas, I scaled down to a sensibly sized triple monitor setup

Also migrated to a new keyboard, the Razer Deathstalker

My setup was chaotic and I loved it

Life was good but I spent more time out drinking with mates than learning new technologies, I always felt this in my day job as a Junior Engineer

I lacked direction and motivation in what felt like a very intimidating industry

But I had also developed an obsession with setups so I had to get my graft oan $$$

2017

Apple Macbook Pro 14,3/i7-7820HQ/16GB Ram/512GB SSD/15’/560 4GB Grey/A Laptops - MacOSX

Model

After working up to a mid-level engineer in early 2019, i bought my first overpriced Macbook Pro at a grand total of £2428.80

Which i recently sold in (2021) for £479.00

2018

After moving a few times, I finally settled into a new flat where I kinda neglected my Desktop for a little while

I was spending a lot of time doing development on my Macbook and stopped gaming as much

Same setup but on a slighter bigger desk

Switched back to a Mechanical Keyboard

Blackwidow Razer Mechanical Keyboard

Early 2019

Scan-gate

After consulting for a few months I put some of my profits into a beastly workstation. I bought my second pre-build Desktop from Scan and it cost a grand total £3512.48

3XS Vengeance Fluid Ti RTX, Watercooled Intel Core i9 9900K “Coffee Lake”, 16GB DDR4, 11GB NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti, 500GB SSD

Base Model

The hilarious thing here is that after paying tooth and nail for a professionally built system, It arrived with a pipe leak which had wrote off a brand new RTX 2080ti 11GB worth around £2k

After hours of mourning I returned the first build and few weeks later received my second build with some complimentary upgrades

Collant color change to White EK-CryoFuel
Additional M.2 500GB SSD

Luckily this build arrived in a healthy condition and I was running it for about a month or so when…

One day I sat down to play some Rust and as the game launched, a coolant pipe had exploded at eyelevel

I vividly remember watching the coolant continue to pump out over the GPU as my arse collapsed

Orginal reddit post

After a shit tonne of complaining I was sent my fourth and final build that included an extra radiator to maintain the heat levels coupled with re-inforced tubing

Upon setup, I could tell this build was much more sturdy and thankfully had no leaks

Finally, I had a healthy machine!