Building my PC from parts I'm collecting 01-14-2018, 07:11 PM
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I've spent most of my life on budget laptops or a Dell Optiplex. But fairly soon, I'll finally be able to build a fair-spec PC. It won't be a high end gaming rig or anything like that, but it also won't limit me to 10-15 Firefox tabs (yes, I need much much more). I have been collecting parts for some time, and each component has its own story to it.
So far, I have a CPU (AMD Phenom II X3), a GPU (EVGA GTX 480) and I'm working on getting some RAM now. After that, the only necessities left are the motherboard and a power supply, which tend to be the cheapest parts of a build so I might just be able to buy them. In the spirit of keeping things as budget as possible, I probably won't buy a case and I'll use a spare hard drive I have laying around (~300GB). I'm sure I'll eventually put it in a case and get a nice mechanical keyboard, but I won't upgrade this computer. This build will probably have sentimental value to me for years to come.
Does your build have a story, or any sentimental value to it? Or did you just buy all the parts and put it together?
So far, I have a CPU (AMD Phenom II X3), a GPU (EVGA GTX 480) and I'm working on getting some RAM now. After that, the only necessities left are the motherboard and a power supply, which tend to be the cheapest parts of a build so I might just be able to buy them. In the spirit of keeping things as budget as possible, I probably won't buy a case and I'll use a spare hard drive I have laying around (~300GB). I'm sure I'll eventually put it in a case and get a nice mechanical keyboard, but I won't upgrade this computer. This build will probably have sentimental value to me for years to come.
Does your build have a story, or any sentimental value to it? Or did you just buy all the parts and put it together?
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