This is my first build. Glad we got that out of the way. This is something that I have been desiring to do for years, and the means finally became present, so I jumped on it.

My goal I had in mind for this build was simple. Make a working computer, don't break things, and be cheap. I achieved all three. I wanted to see this thing do some simple web tasks for the wife, and take on my gaming needs (World of Warships, TOR, War Thunder) So far, it does excellent with both. NOTE: in the future I fully intend to add a graphics card into this. For now, budget won out. I'm thinking either a GTX 950, or whatever the Pascal equivalent will be.

Everything went pretty smoothly I dare say. When the opportunity to build arose, I literally spent months watching videos, researching, browsing part picker here, and various other medias just absorbing info on what is "good", and what in the world to do. The building process was pretty easy and straight forward, and when my fears started to calm a little bit of frying everything with static, it moved right along. It was, for the most part, hassle free. The biggest issue I ran into was dropping a mount screw into the abyss of my case and having to remove my PSU (with board and everything already installed) just to retrieve the screw. People with a MicroATX Rosewill case probably know that the struggle is real. My hard drive was a fun story. The screws I got with my case weren't the right size, and there weren't any screws that came with the drive. I ended up using the right size thread, but the screw was too long. So my drive is hanging by two screws and can slide wherever it pleases, for the most part.

Booting Windows and everything was pretty seamless. I had an old copy of Windows 7 laying around that I had dual booted onto my MacBook, and figured it was time to let the Mac be a Mac. From there I upgraded to Windows 10. I only needed one driver update to get all the graphic settings, otherwise that was about it. The only issue I did run into was when mobo stuff was updating and installing, all USB peripherals decided that working was overrated. After a restart, all was well.

Initially, I'm sure I'll get an ear full about cable management on some of the first pics, I had the 120mm fan connected straight to a power line and that thing was running full speed all the time. This is because mobo only has one fan header apart from the cpu fan. A week or so ago, I went in and cleaned up the wires and put the 120mm into the mobo header, and plugged the stock Rosewill 80mm into the power line. Best. Decision. Ever. In regards to this computer. It went from sounding like a soul sucking power machine, to a mild-mannered servant.

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed this process. It was like a big ole' puzzle. An electrical, circuity puzzle. This makes me want to build more and more computers. This feels like a potential problem brewing. I enjoy that my Windows games are now MUCH more readily and easily accessible, rather than having to boot back and fourth. One of these days I'm going to reinstall my old Command and Conquer games, get some Red Alert action going, Pharaoh, and Roller Coaster Tycoon.

I apologize that I don't have benchmarks, stress tests, etc. to share with you all. Being my first build, as I mentioned, there were somethings I was quite unsure of. I would like to check all that info, any pointers/info would be greatly appreciated.

Please feel free to comment and provide constructive criticism. I want to improve this guy as much as possible. Well, reasonably speaking.

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