A player had to wait many years until he could finally play in Full HD resolution. Overwhelmed by the experience, he started to cry.
Upgrading your own gaming PC can elicit different reactions. If something goes wrong because of a beginner’s mistake, bad mood is almost guaranteed. A 22-year-old player had a completely different experience with his successful PC upgrade, as 3djuegos.com reports.
For years he waited to experience games with good quality in Full HD resolution. When he realized that the moment had finally come, he could not contain his joy and burst into tears.
Long-awaited upgrade leads to emotional moment
What brought him to tears? The 22-year-old player Algok2001 dreams of owning a gaming PC that allows him to play in better quality at 1080p resolution. Until now, this was only possible at the lowest settings and lower resolution. Algok2001 has had this dream since he was 14 years old.
When this longed-for wish finally came true, he was overwhelmed by his emotions and started to cry. In his Reddit post, he shares the details and the overwhelming experience that came with it.
He describes the moment as follows: “I don’t know what came over me, but I just started crying because I thought I could finally play. The 14-year-old boy who dreamed of having a computer to play the good games in high resolution can finally do so at the age of 22.”
Why did it take so many years to upgrade to Full HD? In the comments under his post, Algok2001 addresses the questions of other users. He also mentions the reasons why it took so long for him to enjoy games in Full HD resolution.
He states on Reddit: “As much as I love gaming, my real priorities such as a house, insurance, retirement, debt repayment, and similar things will always take precedence over gaming.”
This statement makes it clear that the player had the financial means for an earlier Full HD upgrade, but he responsibly chose to invest his money first in more important things than a better gaming PC.
Details about hardware and community reaction
What hardware fulfilled a dream? For the upgrade to Full HD, Algok2001 focused on three components. The processor, the RAM, and the graphics card were replaced with more powerful models.
For the CPU, he switched from an AMD Ryzen 3 3200G to a used AMD Ryzen 5 3600. The upgrade from 4 to 6 CPU cores with an increased turbo clock speed from 4.0 GHz to 4.2 GHz results in a performance boost of over 50% in the PassMark test. (via cpubenchmark.net)
The player does not provide information about the manufacturer or the speed of the RAM. The upgrade doubles the available size of the DDR4 RAM from 16 GB to 32 GB. It remains unclear whether additional memory sticks were installed or the old modules were replaced with larger variants. Depending on the game, more RAM can indeed lead to a performance increase.
Switching from an Nvidia GTX 1650 graphics card with only 4 GB video memory to an AMD RX 6600 with 8 GB VRAM has also proven worthwhile for him. Here, the performance increase thanks to the used GPU is nearly 50%, similar to that of the processor. (via videocardbenchmark.net)
How does the community react? Some users in the community can relate to his reaction after the PC upgrade and feel reminded of their own emotional PC moments.
- Dystopian8888, who found himself in a similar situation, said: “I built my first PC at 24, and I know exactly how you feel.” (via Reddit)
His mature approach to significant investments is definitely met with approval in the community.
- TAastronautsloth99 praises the player and says: “Man, it sounds like you really have clear priorities.” (via Reddit)
That a PC upgrade does not only bring tears of joy is demonstrated by another gamer who was careless during the installation of new components. An unknown noise after the hardware change in his gaming PC made him anxious: Player exchanges expensive graphics card in gaming PC, hears strange noises: “Thought I had a serious problem”
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