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Towards the beginning of 2019 I knew that I had to build myself a computer, my 2007 machine was in disrepair and I really needed a new system. I spent a few months at work, trying to get some money for this thing, and after my 16th birthday, work, and a few other payments I was set for for a new system.

CPU	GPU	RAM	Motherboard	Storage	Case	PSU
AMD Ryzen 5 2600	EVGA NVidia GeForce GTX 1070 Hybrid	4 x 4GB DDR4 2400MHz Corsair	Asus ROG B450F Gaming	500GB Samsung 850EVO SSD + 1TB 7200RPM Storage Drive	Antec P182GMG Mid-Tower	Corsair Vengeance 650M

So what did I decide to use for this system? Originally I was going to go with an Intel i5 8400, which I thought would have been a good idea, it would have been 6 cores and possibly 12 threads, it was originally what I was considering to get, however at the time I was deciding the prices for Intel chips were going through the roof, not to mention that the compatibe motherboards for those CPUs were really over priced, I looked around too see if I could go for a different, slightly cheaper, but still similarly performing platform, I looked around for a while, and found that Ryzen was a thing and was a much better value than the Intel alternative, the chips and the boards were both much cheaper and offered the same, or better performance in some cases, so I decided that I'd go with that instead. I had already gotten the graphics card, a GTX 1050 Ti, and the monitor, an Asus VS248 1080p display, from about a year before whilst I was still using the 2007 machine. Unfortunately I had thrown out the old P182B that the 2007 machine was in before, mainly because of all the broken plastic and the fact that... well I didn't have the hindsight that I have now. I started off the build in early 2018 or 2019, by first buying most of the main componants, the CPU, motherboard, RAM, power supply, etc, I already had a cooler, a CoolerMaster H412R, and the case at the time, an Antec 300... a really bad, far too small case, which I also already had lying around my room. Putting this thing together was a bit of a pain, and the main reason I got another P182, seeing as the 300 wouldn't fit many of the upgrades that I wanted, so the original specs were a Ryzen 5 2600, 2x4GB DDR4 2400MHz (I probably should have gone for 3000/3200MHz RAM), a 1050 Ti (EVGA SSC) a Corsair VENGEANCE 650M power supply, Asus ROG B450F gaming motherboard, a Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD, a few large capacity hard drives I had lying around, and a few other things, this was the first revision of my new custom PC. A few months later, I went back to work, and over a few weeks I made up some more money to get a better case (another P182, but this time in gunmetal, rather than black) another 2x4 DDR4 2400MHz kit, and a GPU upgrade to a watercooled 1070 hybrid from EVGA, and it was like that for a while, until I decided to upgrade the cooler to the CNPS9900A-LED, so here we have it now in it's current state.

Yoooooo dude look at the GPU... And that cooler I mean yeah that stuff right?

So the rear I/O on this computer is pretty much the most late 2010s thing you'd get, USB-C, onboard video/audio stuff .

These drives were on the edge of going bad... The SSD was fine though as it was brand new and nothing dramatic had happened to it, I'd swapped it in and out of this system just a few times.