Photography Phridays 1.31.19

• apologies for the hiatus, school, work..help!

This time were are gonna talk about reviving one of my passions..Computers! more specifically building computers!

It all started when I was in middle school. Now this was more of “side quest” interest from gaming I was never into competitive gaming, but casual gaming was usually a way for me to hang out with friends since living in Las Vegas everyone was far away and there wasn’t anything to do outside( especially summer) so to gaming was perfect. Now being raised primarily by my grandparents tech-knowledgeability was zip, but from playing games on a lowly laptop with a intel centrino cpu and integrated graphics I wanted to know why frames were so bad on maplestory, combat arms,league of legends, starcraft ii and how to fix it!

Fortunately, that lead me to do my own research and I just so happened that one of my closes friends was studying computer science and was into building computers. My first experience of building a computer was like learning code for the first time..

What I understood thought really early on was that laptops can’t really be upgrade. The only thing I could do for my 15 inch notebook was increase the ram from 2gb of ddr2 to 4gb to ddr2 Running WINDOW VISTA!! Boom desktops were the way to go for me. My first desktop was a prebuilt unit from walmart. Some Acer mini tower, and yes I used to bring it to LAN parties since it was the size of a modern day xbox one! The specs were really..budget it cost about 350$ and it had 4 gb of ddr3, a dual core AMD athlon, and a 1tb WD blue( that still works today!!) along with integrated graphics on the Motherboard radeon 3000 or something..yeah they don’t do that anymore thank God! I remember being able to play league at a whole 30fps on low to medium on 1366 x 768! Other games seemed to be ok like some fps and stuff,but at the same time I didn’t know what a game looked like with eye candy and 60fps for that matter. It was when I tryed starcraft ii the demo that I realized..my machines was getting wrecked. All two cores maxed out and the gpu..well trying average was 10fps then it crashed. From that point I was like alright maybe it was just Starcraft I dont love the game anyways lets try skyrim..haha nope..

So that spawned research that gave me the knowledge to build the computer now! Of course of course there was various other parts like going to a gts 530, then to a phenom ii cpu, them to completely building up my entire computer in a new chassis,but I save that for another time. Right now I am working on a relatively new ryzen system with the venerable ryzen 1700 with 8 cores and 16 thread, a whole quadruple the core count and 8 times the threads of when I started! More later as my personal experience and build continues!!