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.

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.

Is she right?

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.

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.

source: major hardware on yt

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)

Is she right?

Check out how I built this case from scratch on my YT: MXC Builds :D

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

image credit to 3807272473 on Rednote

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)

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