My First PC Build!
Ever since I was young and playing games, I always wanted a gaming PC of my own. It’s a cliché line but I think most PC gamers are rooted in the same aspiration, to have their very own system built to play games. Now my friends, I have finally managed to build my PC! It’s not the PC of the Line kind of PC but just the PC that is future-proofed or upgradable, able to game in the recommended requirements spectrum in today’s games, and has lights. Yep, it has flashy lights baby! Jokes aside, its fast and amazing and cool! It’s a core memory really if Inside Out was true, but in a sense yes, it is a historical memory.
There she is, the day she was alive. I can only describe that moment as similar to Dr. Frankenstein seeing his monster being alive or in the movie Das Boot after their engines were back and running, “It’s alive!!”. Well, on the above image it wasn’t done yet, I was missing a set of fans and an air filter. It might be mundane to some but the sense of accomplishment of building a PC is overwhelming. PC Masterrace friends!
Now we talk about specifications. For the processor I went with team Red, an AMD Ryzen 5 3500 specifically because it handles better at multitasking and me being an alt-tabber loves that. A Gigabyte Aorus B550M Elite motherboard because it’s a b550 chip which welcomes the upcoming Zen 3 processors of AMD with open arms, a decent I/O, has 2x M.2 slots both NVMe but one is 4.0 and the other 3.0, support for PCIe Gen 4, quad channel memory with support for ECC and non-ECC memory, addressable RGB headers, Smart Fan and Q-Flash for those sweet and dangerous BIOS update, and lastly being budget friendly. I went with 2x 8Gb Memory modules from Corsair clocked at 3200 MHz and with RGB. Another team Red for the graphics card, and AMD Radeon RX570 8Gb, which is very bang-for-the-buck and budget friendly, has support for VR and is enough to run games at recommended to high settings or play 1080p@60 FPS on most games (Cyberpunk 2077, I now have the means to play you at launch!). For the PSU, Corsair CV650 80+ Bronze, upgradability and reliability folks, surely we don’t want to slap an unknown PSU for our first build don’t we? For the case, I chose the Rakk Haliya which is a Pinoy brand also with the fans, support the locals! For storage, I am sticking with the Gigabyte SATA SSD 240GB for the mean time and a Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm HDD, need fast drives for lesser load times. Those are the specs but is very subject to change as I’m still saving for an All-in-one or AiO cooler for my cpu, and m.2 SSDs which I tell you is a bit expensive but Christmas is in the corner so yay! That’s my first PC folks and I’m so proud of it! Cheerio!