This was my first custom desktop PC, which is a bit of an achievement in this day and age, given the cost of many of these components.
The pricing of these components were a bit less when I actually bought them, but the prices have since gone up, inflating the price of this build. Additionally, some of the drives I already had, such as a couple of the NVME SSDS (pulled from my previous daily driver gaming laptop), as well as the HDDs (pulled from old junk laptops, drives still worked) and one of the SATA SSDs (The 870 EVO was from a old project build I did, which was getting an old junk PC up and running).
Overall, I'm very happy with how this build has turned out.
Date CreatedMarch 01, 2026
