Unbloated's computer

Unbloated's computer is a powerful machine that allows Unbloated to program, play games, and be bored.

Setup

The general setup and equipement of the setup are a Logitech G15 keyboard (v2), which lasts from 2008. It has a programmable LCD so you can display anything you want on it, including 6 macro buttons with 3 tabs (which counts as 18 total macros). It also has a barely working "Trust"-branded mouse, which barely works but does its job.

The screen used is a HKC-branded, with the resolution FHD, locked in 60Hz. Attempting to overclock it over 75Hz will provocate high amount of flickering and is barely usable in that state, so leaving it at 60Hz is recommended.

As optional accessories, there is a 15-key Stream Deck which serves as a soundboard, or to trigger macros, and a unbranded microphone I got for only 10 bucks, which quality is fair enough. (It broke, so i resorted to my camera's mic instead.)

Specifications

The computer itself has a case of the VIBOX Commando Midi, making look the computer like some high-tech bootleg dumpster. I'll try to remplace that soon, but there is also a nice LCD in front of the case which indicates the average temperature inside the case, which, can be quite useful often.

The currently used CPU is the Ryzen 7 2700X, which is still very powerful to this day. As of the RAM, there is 16GB of DDR4 @ 2133 MHz of frequency. The GPU is a Radeon RX Vega 56, equivalent to the performance of a RTX 3060 RTX 3070 Ti coming from EVGA (we love EVGA, full name EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FTW3 ULTRA GAMING), this graphic card has 8GB of VRAM and has a very pretty RGB payload.

It has two SSDs, one for the operating system (240GB), and one for everything else (500GB), both of these SSDs are from Crucial.

The motherboard used is the Gigabyte B450M GAMING, which is quite feature-less, but THANK GODNESS it's a B model.

History

Fan upgrade

When I still had my Vega GPU, i thought I lacked of fans because of the hottness of the GPU. When turning to flea markets, I've noticed someone sold like, 6 fans for only 10€ (bazinga!).

They were ALL different and dusty. While mounting them, I've noticed I didn't had enough ports for every fan AND there was proprietary fan aswell... Guess I had to call my dad and tell him what's wrong.

Soooo he fusionned the cables of multiple fans, turned them into molex... And it worked..?? It's gore, some fan was meant to have RGB but only shows red or green... But it works. Insanity.

GPU death

This computer used to run with a MSI RX Vega 56, a graphic card from AMD which was pretty decent for 1080p gaming. It ran DOOM (2016) at full 60fps on FHD with the best graphics, but this game is nicely optimized so it might be why.

However this card had problems to run and made the computer freak out, mainly due to cooling.
Despite it's size, it got only one, metallic fan, which had severe problems to spin correctly. It made Windows crash pretty often (thank god sometimes Adrenaline is saving it), made the computer super hot, and it wasn't good. I thought it was a little issue, but it was a big one, actually.

Then one day the Vega 56 died. There's only a green light in the LEDs, usually it was meant to display the use of the graphic power... and it was meant to be red.

Months after, it finally got remplaced by a MSI RTX 3070 Ti which is twice as powerful. Now it doesn't crash or do anything strange anymore!

Problems

Most problems are easily fixable, some don't, here are them below.

• The current mouse (Trust-branded one) is starting to give up and lose accuracy when I use the left-click button. It also gets dirty very fast and generate weird dust substances. I will attempt to remplace it with a Logitech G512 X Plus if enough money is got (OR a G512 SE/Lightspeed/Hero).
• The case is meh. Probably trying to get a new one if I'm not as lazy.
• The screen has not enough fluidity (60Hz is too low for high-precision games such as Quaver), I need to get a new one, probably 1440p if I could choose the resolution, but 1080p seems alright in most cases.
• Possibly needs other optional upgrades like getting 32GB of RAM at least or a Ryzen 9 3900X (which is weirdly cheap on the second-hand market)
• There is a goddamn integrated fan that does lots of noise when booting up the computer. It calms down after some time, probably some dust that infiltrated and made it evil.