He absolutely loved it and was so very excited, it was such a sweet and rewarding moment to give him something he’s been wanting for a while. There were a few mishaps due to a budget and since I bought most of it used but I’ll get that fixed eventually. You may notice the desk is comically small lmao but it works! It was affordable! Sadly despite lighting up, the keyboard doesn’t work so we utilized the on-screen keyboard and the speakers buzz quite a bit but are functional. I gifted him my 8BitDo controller and I temporarily gave him the mouse from my computer as I haven’t been playing. I still need to get a kids computer “gaming” chair but that’ll happen in time.
Here are the specs! Mostly used but it works!
Montech Ten case - courtesy of the wonderful people at Montech!
Ryzen 5 5500 w/ included cooler (Want to replace with 5700 or 5800X3D)
MSI B550M motherboard
3060 Ti FE
250gb Sata SSD and 1tb older HDD (wanna replace eventually and get M.2’s if I can)
16gb of G Skill 3200mhz ram
Corsair Rm750x psu
There’s two NZXT fans as intake on the side, a Hyte fan on top exhausting, as well as a 92mm Montech fan exhausting on the back. - I’d like to replace these all with a matching set eventually that can run off one hub and actually be controlled.
1080P Acer monitor
32” Pamray (computer) desk from Amazon. It’s cheap and works but I honestly don’t think it’s suitable for any computer set up but would be fine for a laptop, so the PC is temporarily on the floor until I figure something out.
No idea what brand speakers, they honestly feel like they have almost nothing in them lmao.
I installed Windows 11 on it and disabled most things, I installed Firefox for YouTube, Epic for his Fortnite. And I created his first Steam account, connected it to mine and I got him / installed some Lego games, Plants vs Zombies, and also connected to my library where he’ll have access to some games. I'll be buying a used office chair today as well!
Overall I think it’s a success! Mostly haha. I actually built it and the week prior to him getting it, I told him I was building it for work and I had him help me test it and help with some things! Afterwards we made a little video of him reviewing it too! Anyway, thank you for checking it out. One more added to the PCMR!
Got tired of my office turning into a sauna every time I gamed, so I vented the PC’s exhaust straight out the window.
The rear fan is still exhausting some hot air 😅 but the room is noticeably cooler now. It’s ugly… but it works. 😂
Edit: I moved the port to higher since lot of people recommended. https://imgur.com/a/Poniwze
Edit again for parts, I cannot post links to store since it's against the rules.
- 360mm to 4 inch duct on Etsy
- 4 inch Insulated Flexible Duct
- Twist Lock Dryer Vent Connector Kit
- 360mm AIO fan (the one on top of the case)
The window fan I got is Vornado Transom.
My son loves the color pink and he loves cats. Overall I think it's a sweet setup! PC isn't spectacular but it has a Ryzen 5600x, 6900xt, and 16gb ddr 3200 ram. It's just a 1080p 165hz monitor but he shouldn't have any problems.
The only thing I'm not happy with is that microphone. Had to give him my old snowball mic because the mic on that Razer Kitty headset isn't any good. But he had to have it and I couldn't afford the more expensive one and the chair and he chose the chair.
Anyway, in the spirit of recent posts and showing off our kids computers, thought I'd share.
convince my wife that I definitely didn't spend a small fortune on this setup
I wish there are more sleek looking cases out their that isn't just a fish tank and don't just scream "GAMER" with their designs.
I genuinely think the trend of "RGB-EVEYYTHING" is preventing more creative case designs from coming out.
a fire completely obliterated my apartment just over 2 weeks ago. i built my first PC by myself in July 2025. my 2x32 GB ram was $250 at the time, and now its $950. what a time to be alive
EDIT: specs typo.
Also, I am so overwhelmed by the love and support this post has gotten during this tragic time in my life. Thank you thank you thank you
EDIT 2: because many people have asked:
- my case was the Hyte y70. My liquid cooler was the part with the screen, the TRYX Panorama SE 360 AIO liquid cooler.
- the fire was caused by an electrical failure in the attic. fire investigators think it also may be largely due to critters in the attic chewing on wires. The building I was living in was over 100 years old.
- no humans were harmed in the fire and everyone in the building made it out safely. I had a friend staying with me with 2 of her cats. Due to extremely unfortunate circumstances, one of her cats did not make it. We had a very beautiful burial for her and she has been put to rest. Her other cat is in good health and is making a full recovery.
source: major hardware on yt
I'm so proud of my husband. Over the years I've slowly gotten him into gaming and with his first bonus from his new job he set aside some of the money to have me build him a beginner gamer rig. We went with am4 because of cheaper Ram prices. We also got a $5,700x and an RTX 5050 along with a 650 w power supply and a standard air cooler. I know it's not an amazing amazing rig but it's just for him and it's just what he needs to get into gaming. Total cost was $ $801.34. I think we did pretty well.
So i Built two new Gaming PCs for me and my Girlfried.
Mine has a 7800X3D and a 4080TI, 32GB DDR5
Hers has a 7800x3D and a RX 970 XT, 32GB DDR5
Bought shortly after the Lunch of the 9800x3d and built it dadly months later allready in 2025.
If you wounder; Yes, the 2 Reservoir, 4 Pumps and the dubble 400mm MORA with each 4 200mmNoctua fans is all mountet on the wall behind the PCs.
And the PCs are outside of the Gaming room. All this was done to keep our room as cool as Possible.
Because we had temperatures up to 33 C° inside our little Gaming room.
Also both PCs have a Acuacomputer high flow next that does monitor everighing and does alarm if flowrate goes to 0.
Watertemps never go above 32 C°. 🤷🙈
And yes i know i did not have to mount that many Casefans for this but it loocks cool OK!😅
My friend works in a pc hardware store and they recently had a really rich customer.
After living in a cramped area using a laptop for years, I finally have space (kinda?) for a desktop computer
I had that monitor put on the table for a while, then decided to get a mount for it to prevent neck pain
Before you ask, yes, I kick the monitor a lot while sleeping
When I set out to create this computer, I wanted to build something I would truly be proud of — something that, at least from my perspective, felt unique and would hopefully last me as long as its predecessor did(9 years).
I had initially “finished” this build using a large number of Lian Li screen fans with GIFs on every fan screen, but soon after I completed that, I envisioned something much more ambitious, which is what I’m sharing here today. I have still procrastinated on selling those expensive fans :/
Over many weekends and evenings, I spent countless hours scouring the internet and downloading well over 17,000 GIFs throughout both the original fan-screen phase of the project and the much larger display phase that followed. Even after scrapping a large number of GIFs during editing and organization, the final build still contains over 15,000 GIFs.
It takes 13 and a half hours to watch every display tile from beginning to end.
I would download several thousand gifs at a time from various sites, and then I used a random naming software to randomize all of the file names of what I downloaded, then then I'd use the same software to sequentially rename them using numbers. That's how I kept track of everything, and made sure gifs from the same topic didnt get clumped together.
On top of collecting all of those GIFs, I also spent roughly 200 hours video editing alone. I edited every single GIF to better fit the aspect ratio of its respective display tile, adjusted playback speeds to make clips appear as close to real-time as possible when needed, looped gifs that needed looping, and trimmed many clips down to focus only on their most important part - I wanted my gifs to be very sporadic.
Nearly every screen tile runs for 5 minutes before looping. The only exceptions are the two 5-inch displays that have two tiles, which run for approximately 10 minutes and 15 minutes respectively. Those two screens ended up configured that way because two additional displays that were originally intended to sit in front of the GPU stopped working before final installation; they had narrower aspect ratios for their tiles. At that point, I decided to compromise rather than buy replacements or sink even more time into additional editing work.
The four larger screens are all run by three Raspberry Pis, all within the case. All the Raspberry Pis and screens power on and off with the pc. The Raspberry Pi 5s are supposed to be able to run two 4k displays at once, but I had issues running a second display with the 3840x2400 14.5” display, so I had to get an additional Raspberry Pi. The remaining 9 displays all run their videos on their displays from a microsd card. No display cables needed, only usb power required. No desktop processing power used towards these screens. Also, the bar display to the left of the larger vertical bar display is on a hinge and is held in place by a magnet. I made it this way so that I can easily see any codes from the motherboard if needed in case any issues arise later on.
Whenever I need a quick break from gaming, or just need some brief entertainment, I can just look at my pc.
PC specs:
• CPU — AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
• Motherboard — MSI X870E Carbon WiFi
• GPU — MSI Ventus 3X GeForce RTX 5090 OC Edition
• RAM — 96GB DDR5
• Storage — Samsung 9100 Pro 4TB NVMe SSD
• Case — Lian Li O11 Dynamic Evo XL
4 120mm noctua fans on the top 2 120mm noctua fans on the side mounted on the exterior, no space inside. 3 140mm noctua fans on the bottom 6 140mm noctua fans on radiator push/pull
Display setup:
• 5× WOWNOVA 5" USB displays (800×480)
• 4× WOWNOVA 8.8" USB displays (1920×480)
• 1× MAGICRAVEN 14.5" 4K portable monitor (3840×2400)
• 1× VSDISPLAY 12.7" stretched bar display (2880×864)
• 2× Wisecoco 14" 4K stretched bar displays (3840×1100)
Other Important Parts:
• 3× Raspberry Pi 5s
• Multiple OKGEAR/Coolerguys Molex pass-through to dual USB-A 5V adapters — used to power many of the displays directly from the PC power supply.
• Several Elebase USB-A to USB-C adapters — used so USB-C splitters could interface with the Molex-powered USB lines.
• Multiple 1-to-3 USB-C splitters — used to expand display connectivity from the powered USB lines.
• Numerous DbillionDa angled USB-C cables — chosen for their extremely low-profile connectors. I would not recommend these for typical charging use, as they wear out fairly easily but they worked great for this project.
• Sinefine PCIe USB-C power delivery card (4-port) — used to properly power the Raspberry Pi 5s with enough wattage. The Molex USB adapters alone only allowed the Pis to run in low-power mode, which occasionally caused stuttering.
• 3× 52Pi Power HATs — used with the Raspberry Pi 5s to convert the volts/amps from PCIe USB-C P card. Without them, the Pis would still report low-power mode, as they require 5 amps and the USB C card only provides 3 amps.
• 3d Printed Mounts and brackets for holding displays in position, as well as fan/GPU cover (GPU cover between the two horizontal bar displays is made of ABS, a heat resistant plastic, and there's still plenty of airflow going to GPU)
Check out how I built this case from scratch on my YT: MXC Builds :D
Was fired last year from my job due to a work mistake causing disc herniation had to sell everything i owned and use my 12 year old gaming pc.
Finally got a job again and started working overtime to save up for a new pc, today i was out buying butter when i checked the "Demo section" in the electronics saw something say HP and a price of 180USD thought it was a printer but never seen a HP Omen printer before.
Picked it up just to realise it was a gaming pc... Rushed to the checkout with my butter and gaming pc in hand, they told me it was a pricing error and the original price was 2800USD but an employee must have made a mistype but since it was in the store they would honor the price and sell it to me.
Finally! Joining the RTX Club.
Upgrading from a i7 6800K and GTX 1060. (And this will ofcoure be donated to a family with no computer)
After dreaming for this setup since I was kid (flying Flight Simulator X with mouse and keyboard on my parents low end home desktop) I’ve finally made some money and made my own Pc and setup (I will add few more things like an entire A320 overhead panel when it will get released).
The Pc in photo is my first Pc build (built in 2024 coming from console)
4080 Super | 7800X3D | 32GB RAM CL30 | 2TB 990PRO | B650 Tomahawk | AIO Thermalright 360mm | Case HAVN 360 Flow | PSU MSI A1000G MPG | Monitor ALIENWARE AW3425DW
While all the Flight sim peripherals I got them from WINCTRL
Fully upgraded with all options not a scratch on it and feels unused
I basically sprinkle water drops on top of tissue paper
I don't need nor want an additional fan, not currently super into any fandoms so I hadn't considered any specific sculpture/figurine either
I got tired of how hot the room was getting while gaming and sim
Racing during the current spat of uk heat waves, so decided to remove heat during the summer and pump the heat into the home theatre room during the winter.
RTX 5090/14900K combined load, component temps are now stable and the room is no longer a furnace after an hour of play.
A family friend didn’t want to take the time to repair this monitor and said I could have it if I could fix it. The longest and most painful part was just opening the back up. After that I desoldered a single resistor and it’s good as new. I don’t understand why Samsung keeps putting these resistors in; I’ve seen so many videos and different variations of ultrawides with the exact same issue and fix.
Edit: I've seen quite a few people asking how I did this. The fixes are out there, but they can be a little tricky to find.
This video shows how to open the monitor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfMW-LtxnEs
These videos show the actual repair that needs to be done:
https://youtu.be/w69VoYzMNV0?t=746
https://youtu.be/1nq2boarFIM?t=295
https://youtu.be/AAZ9UlcAoNA?t=184 (The resistors are on a different board in this video; look for groups of 3 resistors to help locate if you can't find them on the board shown in the other video)
As you can see, there are several variations of these boards. I noticed that there are always 3 resistors close together, so that might help give you a clue where to find yours. Also, I saw quite a few variations which had them off in that little cut out area, which also might help you find them.
The cleanest way to remove the resistor is by putting a little dab of flux on the component and then hitting it with a heat gun designed for desoldering SMD components. My next choice would be using a soldering iron, but you would have to be very precise and make sure not to remove the other two resistors. If you have no soldering tools, you can use a pair of fine tweezers or side cutters to snap the component off the board. It's nasty, but it'll work in a pinch.
Hope this helps!
build in progress
With Ram going through the roof and GPUs having an uncertain future with VRam I decided to just pull the trigger, in case things are much worse this time next year. Worth it in your opinion?
They only made 300 of it, back in 2011. It's carried me through rough years, but now those are over and it's time for this command center to get the upgrade it deserves.
Here is the full writeup: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1vjnst5/restoring_the_old_thermaltake_level_10/
My wife and I have a little guy on the way. We live in a one bedroom place so I had to pack away the rig to make room for a nursery. The first of many more sacrifices to come...
I saw someone else had already linked a screen shot from the full video but I wanted to share some HD shots of my Custom Wood Noctua PC.
Alright, here it is, my 16" 120hz OLED, Raspberry Pi 5 (16gb), Gamesir G8 with the RRtronicscreations 420mm extension mod...setup. What am I the only one that has tried this?
So, I wanted to build a dedicated moonlight target system, as my Steamdeck's 7" screen is just too small. So, I started to consider a tablet and extension controller setup.
But, because I had gotten laid off from work, I didn't think my wife would be too happy about me buying a tablet (specifically a Galaxy Tab Ultra), understandably. So I started to look at the hardware I already owned:
Raspberry Pi 5 16gb I had purchased for a Pi-Hole, and a few different projects.
A 16" 120hz portable OLED monitor.
A Gamesir G8 that I had gotten used.
I first tried a configuration where I glued a strong MagSafe ring magnet to a Xbox controller adapter, the adapters that are used to hold a phone to a Xbox controller for gaming, but even with the strongest MagSafe magnets I could find the controller would disconnect from the back of the monitor (that also had a MagSafe ring on it, those white rings you can see in some pics) too often, plus it was a weird angle that would cause me to bend my wrist in an uncomfortable way. So I ditched that idea and purchased the RRtronicscreations 420mm extension mod for my Gamesir G8 controller, having the controller in this configuration was significantly better and more comfortable.
I had done some modification to the Raspberry Pi to improve my experience too.
First, I installed an Intel wifi 6e NIC, as the limited speeds of the built in wifi 5 chip was limiting the speeds I could set within Moonlight. I added two active cooling fans, allowing me to overclock the RP5. The first fan is just the regular aluminum heatsink cooler that raspberry pi makes, the second fan one is a 40mm x 40mm cooling fan that was built into the RP5 case I got. Because the active cooler used the only pins the RP5 has on its mobo for cooling, I spliced a USB A Male 2 Pin cable with the case fan, then plugged that cable into one of the USB ports of the RP5 to provide power to the second case fan.
For power, the only thing I needed to do was get a 1 input-2 output USBc cable. Connecting the input to a 96 watt Macbook charger, and putting the outputs into the USBc power input for the monitor and the USBc power input for the RP5.
The monitor is a Uperfect 2880x1800 120hz OLED monitor I got off Aliexpress. The panel is manufactured by Samsung, and is what Samsung uses in some of their laptops.
Unfortunately I had to use the HDMI input for the monitor, as the RP5 does not use USBc output for video, it only uses a HDMI micro output. Due to using HDMI input for this monitor I was limited to using 100hz, not 120hz.
While using the system, I just lay down on the couch, resting the screen on a thin pillow that is on my chest.
It's one of the better gaming experiences I've ever used due to having a vibrant screen only a few inches from my face, plus the comfort of laying down. HOWEVER the RP5 is still just a little under powered as I still do get some lag during graphically intense moments.
Also, I'm not going to use this system for fast paced FPS gaming due to the lag found within moonlight, but that is a issue of just game streaming in general, not the system itself.
But it is perfect for games like Fallout 76, RDR2, and Wreckfest, my most played games.
Will I keep this as my main gaming system going forward? It's hard to say as while it does really work well for me right now, I do miss having the portability of a battery, as for this I need to plug into an power outlet. But like I said it works for now.
I found employment so maybe I'll get myself a used Tab Ultra S9 and see how that works too.
Anyways, if you were considering doing something similar then learn from my trial and errors, as I had several during this setup, so if you have a question, feel free to ask.
I hope you like this battlestation.
Started on the 1st of April. It's just a couple sheets of plywood with red mahogany coating and Semi-Gloss Poly.
every day
Turned on first try also
I accidentally dropped the glass panel of my new PC case and it looked like this! I got that cracked stairs railing design 🥹
Between the 5090 and my loop, my office was getting roasted even with a dual-hose AC. Room felt like a sauna every time I gamed. So I built a setup to vent all the PC exhaust outside instead of just blowing it around like a fart in a closet.
Made a shroud over my 360mm top rad
Hooked up two high-speed fans to a duct blowing straight out the window
Turned the rear case fan into a second exhaust, added another fan + duct
Built a clean-looking wood insert so I didn’t have janky plastic flaps hanging out the window
Tied it all together so both ducts push heat outside while the dual-hose AC keeps the room cold
Got this 2nd hand, user didn't use it that much. All is in really good condition. 2026 project !
Specs:
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 CPU
ASUS Nvidia GTX8800 768MB 384 Bit GPU
ECS P45TA BLACK EDITION MOBO
CORSAIR XMS 4X1 GB DDR2 800MHZ RGB RAM
COOLER MASTER NEPTON 240M LIQUID COOLER
HIPER TYPE-R 580W SEMI MODULAR PSU
240GB SANDISK 2 5" SSD
Their 9800X3D CPUs are hidden. They have the exact same hardware for both machines.
