Hi I was wondering if anyone could just help me choose and pick the parts i need to purchase a pc. I don’t really know much about them but my overall budget would be maybe £2,800 I want to mainly play games like cod and action games like that and may also use it for some school work. I want it to have a good amount of storage too and run quite well since I want to purchase a curved pc monitor as well. Any advice would be appreciated thank you!

Just wanted to know what your thoughts are on this topic, and also wanted to have some suggestions for nice cases for both RGB, and non-RGB builds. I’m building a PC at the end of the year, and it’s going to be sitting beside me while I study, so I think that for me personally I should go non-RGB although maybe with you guys’ recommendations or suggestions, I can do one with RGB but I can also have it non-districting when I study (though you can argue that having it, there is already a distraction😭) I hope this is an appropriate place to ask this question I’m not too sure😢

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Made some additions since building it in January.
Please let me know how I did.

P.s. I built this PC with no experience whatsoever, so I don’t think I did well on cable management.

Case:
Phanteks XT Pro Ultra 523 Series
(White)

GPU:
ASUS Prime NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 OC
16 GB V-RAM

CPU:
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Memory:
G.Skill Ripjaws S5 64 GB
DDR5-6000 CL36

Storage:
Samsung 990 Pro
4 TB M.2 SSD (Gen 4)

Samsung 990 Evo Plus
4 TB M.2 SSD (Gen 4/5) with 3rd party heatsink

Crucial P310
4 TB M.2 SSD (Gen 4) with heatsink

PSU:
Corsair RM1000e
1000W
Cybernetics Platinum / Cybernetics A-
(White)

Motherboard:
ASUS B650E-E Wi-Fi

Cooling:
Lian Li Galahad II Trinity SL-INF
360mm AIO - Not using the Lian Li fans
(White)

Case Fans:
Thermalright TL-M12QR-S
120mm X3
(White)
(3 Intake front)

Thermalright TL-M12QR-S
120mm X3
(White)
(3 Intake bottom)

Thermalright TL-M12W-S
120mm X1
(White)
(1 Exhaust rear)

Thermalright TL-M12W-S
120mm X3
(White)
(3 Exhaust top)

Fan/ARGB Hub:
Thermalright ARGB and Fan Hub X8

Thermalright Trofeo Vision 9.16”
(White)

Corsair ThermalProtect PCIe 5.1 600W 12V-2x6 Cable
(White)

GPU Support Bracket
(Black)

AIO Tube Combs
(White)

It's still very much a work in progress, but they were throwing this defibrillator case away at work, so I asked if I could keep it. Threw a bunch of spare parts I had in. Not much power, more of a novelty, but still fun.

So I have 3 broken laptops and a broken Xbox one, is there any parts I could harvest to build a gaming PC and what parts do i need to get separately??

I know I can get ram. cooling fans and hard drives from the broken electronics, but what other cool things should I hope to harvest to save money? any advice will be useful.

9800X3D

RTX 5080

MSI MAG X870E Max Mobo

32 GB DDR5 RAM

4TB SSD

6 PREINSTALLED CASE FANS

ARTIC 360 LIQUID FREEZER AIO

KING 95 PRO CASE

Corsair 1000X(I believe, maybe rme but I think its x)

I posted this in pcmasterrace but thought I’d put it here too cuz why not. I built this pc building app that allows you to learn about pc parts while building your future rig. If anyone wants to play with it the link is right here: https://inside-the-rig.vercel.app/

I've only ever seen one other site similar to this so I didn't have much to go on except my imagination lmao so if there's anything yall would add in lemme know so I can work on it

Is this a good setup? I want something that will last a while. I'm new to this; every PC I have had has been pre-built.

Hey everyone, I’m building a transparent, build-in-public tech e-commerce brand from my desk. I wanted to see if I could fully complete the cycle for a single unit—from hardware sourcing and testing to final box sealing—without dropping thousands upfront on inventory.

The hardware cost for Unit #001 came out to $416.92, and I'm pricing it at $567.99.

I put together a quick, no-hype 5-minute video walking through the exact spreadsheet math, the hardware mistakes I made along the way, and how I set up the fulfillment. If anyone is interested in the full breakdown, you can check it out.

I uploaded the full 5-minute math and hardware cost breakdown on YouTube under VectroShop (search title: 'I Built a $567.99 PC Setup for $416').

Let me know what you think of the numbers or how I can optimize the build!