My Custom PC Build

After a youth of owning netbooks, second hand custom built desktops, refurbished desktops (that I've customized for gaming, experimenting with, dual booting, partitioning, and researching IT skills), laptops, tablets, and a transformer book, I decided to build a custom gaming/learning PC with off the shelf components from various retailers. 

The specifications I decided to use in my first build were: a Deepcool Kendomen case, 9 total cooling fans (with GPU), a 600 Watt Power Supply, a Ryzen 5 2600 6 Core 12 Thread @ 3.4 GHz, an Asus Dual GeForce 1600 6 GB GDDR5 GPU, 32 GB of Ram @ 2,666 MHz, a 2 TB m.2, a 1 TB SATA SSD, a 2TB 5400 RPM HDD, and a multi boot setup with Windows 10 Enterprise and Kubuntu 20.04 with a Hackintosh VM setup. I have used this PC for gaming as well as to experiment with troubleshooting drivers, virtualisation of older versions of Windows, building experience with MacOS, experimenting with and learning different Debian and Arch based Linux distributions, and testing custom builds of Operating Systems such as Android x86. In addition to this, I have used this computer to practice administration of various systems, remote access (from my phone or laptop), system configuration, running open source software and software suites, and configuring Android using ADB, coding, customizing operating systems, installing third party wireless and USB cards, in addition to customizing different UEFI settings.

Edit: Since I last wrote this article, I have upgraded my gaming PC to a Ryzen 7 5700X 8 Core, 16 Thread CPU overclocked to 4.6 GHz, I added liquid cooling for the CPU, since the original cooler could not keep up with the increased demand, and I upgraded my GPU to a Gigabyte RTX 3070 TI, to better support my favourite VR titles, as well as boost my 2K and 4K gaming performance. I have also added 2 x 2TB NVMe SSDs, an 8 TB 5,400 RPM data drive, a 4 TB 5,400 data drive, and I kept the 1 TB SATA SSD, for a total storage space of 17 TB. I also updated the multiboot environment with Windows 11 Pro, Pop! OS 22.04 LTS, and a legacy copy of Windows 10 Enterprise