Operation PC Upgrade: Update

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A few days ago I told you about my plans to upgrade my PC to better suit my 3D design and rendering work. I mentioned how I needed to buy my upgrades piece by piece and that I had started by purchasing the new motherboard. That arrived next day and is now sitting on my shelf.

Once again the awesome @pennsif bought Steem from me in exchange for Amazon vouchers and, with some more funds I managed to acquire, I went online shopping again last night. I fell extremely lucky as the processor, an i7 8700k, had dropped by £40 - $56.25. I caught it at a good time as today the price has increased by £20. As a result I also managed to bag my initial 16GB of 3200Mhz DDR4 memory and a 250GB Samsung Evo M.2 SSD. When funds allow I will get another 16GB of memory. The more the better for my design work.

Of course, I forgot to order some thermal paste so I added that to my cart today, along with some isopropyl alcohol: I am installing all of these parts in my Fractal Design R5 case and, while it has done a great job of filtering dust, I'd like to give the interior a clean, along with the components I am removing.

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I shall be reusing my Noctua NH-D15 cooler. It's huge, ugly, but is a brilliant CPU cooler. It has kept my 3.2 Ghz i5 running at 4 Ghz without overheating or thermal throttling for months. As a bonus, it is also extremely quiet, even when the fan speeds increase. It should have no trouble taming the i7. In sharp contrast, I tried a Cooler Master Seidon 240V all-in-one watercooler with my current system, and the Noctua performed much better.

I am excited - as most geeks would understand - to be able to make these upgrades. My i5 has 4 cores with just 4 threads. The i7 has 6 cores and therefore 12 threads. More threads the better for 3D rendering. I also feel my i5 has bottlenecked my graphics card somewhat, a GTX 980. Even so, in the near future I hope to upgrade this too, possibly with a GTX 1080ti. More money to earn and save.

This would not have been possible on my income previously. It is down to this platform and the awesome support I have received since I arrived in May last year. I look forward to sharing more 3D and design content with you all in future and I am eager to divulge some design plans we have and projects we are working on at The Writer's Block.

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