The Specifications Of My Main Computer!

Mind the wires, but yes, this is my blogging computer, which I also use for gaming and stuff. Main games I play are Starcraft 2 and GTA 5 online. But the majority of my time is spend web surfing and watching Youtube videos to be honest with you. I honestly can’t dedicate all my time to this blog so I just put in one blog post in per day, below you will see a good picture of my desktop computer under my desk, which you will notice that it has two big RGB fans and some lighting on the side from the RAM.

I’ve put a lot of extra parts into this computer ever since build the computer around late 2022 with money that I had saved from selling my big screen TV. I will detail all the parts near the bottom of this post, but yeah, this Mid Tower gaming PC is pretty tough and has been through a lot. The best part of this machine is the Optical drive bays, it has two, and most Gaming PC’s don’t have those slots no a days. Fractal Design makes this case, and they did a heck of a good job. It’s not a cheap case at all, it’s very well built. Of course I wish Corsair made a case like this and everything would be polished aluminum (in my opinion), but this comes pretty close to their build quality standards.

Okay so here are the specifications of this computer, and please note that many of the parts are still available today, but may cost more because they’ve obviously been discontinued and scalpers are charging more for the part since it’s no longer available. I know the wires are a mess so my cable management is lacking, but that’s how I’ve done things for years and it’s always worked out for me. Honestly I wish I did a better job. I should mention that I used to use water cooling but those all-in-one coolers are a bit bulky, and so are the regular giant heatsinks so, I might I would just use the old school heatsink in this machine since that’s what gaming PC’s have been using for years now if you know what I mean. Anyways, here are the specifications finally, I’ll stop blabbing away about it.

• Case: Fractal Design Focus G White Mid Tower Computer Case with Window Panel FD-CA-FOCUS-WT-W – $79.99 CAD before tax and free shipping.
• Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX B550-A Gaming – $170 CAD before taxes (picked up at Memory Express).
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X – $188 CAD before taxes (picked up at Memory Express).
• CPU Cooler: (Couldn’t find the exact one but it’s a bigger heatsink than what you get in the box with the CPU!).
• SSD: Sandisk 4TB Internal Solid State Drive – $400 CAD before taxes off Amazon (I ordered this later on).
• RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200 8GBx2 C1620 – $49.99 CAD before taxes.
• Additional RAM (added later on): Kingston Fury Beast 16GB 3200MT/s DDR4 CL16 Desktop Memory – $61.99 CAD before taxes.
• Optical Drive: ASUS DVDRW Internal 5.25 24X Black OEM – $38.98 CAD before taxes.
• Video Card: MSI GTX 1650 D6 Ventus XS OC – $279.99 CAD before taxes (at the time but now is worth $151.01 CAD.

Total cost: $1268.94 CAD (before taxes).

Conclusion!:

I’ll admit that making this post took awhile, but I do plan on putting a link to this post in my About page of this computer build, just to inspire some people. I honestly have built about over 10 computers in my lifetime which I am sure there are people out there that have built more but… this is probably one of the fastest ones I’ve built so far (well duh it’s the newest one you’ve built!), but I’ve honestly never spent so much money on a computer before so this one will last me a few years I hope. Coming up pretty soon I will be upgrading to Windows 11 so that’s going to be interesting as Windows 10 support has been dropped as of October 14th (just the next day after my 36th birthday lol).