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The first PC I ever built.

User Profile: amicableox0685
amicableox0685 December 20th, 2024

I finished building this last Saturday...


Ryzen 5 5600g

Radeon 5500XT

Cooler Master Q300L

MSI B550m Pro Vdh Wifi

G Skill Trident Z

Red Dragon Keyboard


I was surprised when I finally got it all assembled...I actually messed up the first motherboard I bought for it, ha.




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User Profile: Carloveremma911
Carloveremma911 December 23rd, 2024

@amicableox0685 that is amazing! What a great build. You must have been so proud of yourself and excited to try it! Truly an amazing project. Hats off to you! 

User Profile: Positron2
Positron2 December 23rd

I hope it bring syou many years of enjoyment.
It's so much more satisfying when using a PC you built!

User Profile: Fenrisulfr
Fenrisulfr December 23rd

Very nice built and looks good, good job on putting that together. 👍

User Profile: limePrune2761
limePrune2761 December 23rd

The satisfaction of getting your PC built on your own !

User Profile: tryingtosurvive2024
tryingtosurvive2024 December 23rd

@amicableox0685  I took 2 years of electronics.  One of the things they taught us was how to build a PC.  The PC I am currently running to write this is one I have built back in 2016.  I am currently running Linux Mint on it.  System Specs:

System:

  Kernel: 5.15.0-130-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0

    Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia

    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy

Machine:

  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Z170M-PLUS v: Rev X.0x

    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 3805

    date: 05/16/2018

Battery:

  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M525

    charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: Discharging

CPU:

  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-6600K bits: 64 type: MCP

    arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB

  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 high: 801 min/max: 800/4200 cores: 1: 801 2: 800

    3: 800 4: 801 bogomips: 27999

  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

Graphics:

  Device-1: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] vendor: eVga.com.

    driver: nvidia v: 535.183.01 bus-ID: 01:00.0

  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: nvidia

    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nvidia

    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz

  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

    v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.183.01 direct render: Yes

Audio:

  Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK

    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3

  Device-2: NVIDIA GM107 High Definition Audio [GeForce 940MX]

    vendor: eVga.com. driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1

  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-130-generic running: yes

  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes

  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes

Network:

  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: kernel

    port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6

  IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>

Drives:

  Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 120.37 GiB (6.5%)

  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SDSSDH3 1T00 size: 931.51 GiB

  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: SanDisk model: SDSSDH3 1T00 size: 931.51 GiB

Partition:

  ID-1: / size: 915.32 GiB used: 120.36 GiB (13.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2

  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat

    dev: /dev/sda1

Swap:

  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 16 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile

Sensors:

  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 34 C

  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 40%

Info:

  Processes: 243 Uptime: 17m Memory: 15.56 GiB used: 2.12 GiB (13.6%)

  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 Packages: 2904 Shell: Bash

  v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.13


User Profile: MsKarma
MsKarma December 23rd

@amicableox0685

Wowwww aren't you an amazing! You did a great job! Building computers may be your niche. You could do such amazing things as building custom made  and designed computers for businesses and organizations, which will eventually bring in a financial abundance! 

How long did it take you to create this masterpiece of yours?

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User Profile: amicableox0685
amicableox0685 OP December 24th

@MsKarma

First time building it, about 4 weeks. What stumped me initially was the front panel connectors. Before even trying to put it in the case I assembled everything thinking that the motherboard had a power on button.

Realized that the case had its on source of power.

Everything else was a breeze.


Wouldn't recommend trying to build unless you're using a chip that has onboard graphics. Makes everything a lot simpler.

The project started off with just trying to find a way to expand my graphics on my laptop using what's called occulink or U.2 . My laptop's motherboard board didn't support that but trying to use the device for occulink was the stepping stone...

...Lo and behold

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User Profile: tryingtosurvive2024
tryingtosurvive2024 December 24th

@amicableox0685  The other day, I needed to replace heat sink paste.  The clips broke getting them out.  I ended up buying a back plate.  In order to install it, I had to unplug everything on that computer, and remove the entire main board.  What should of been just a 5 or less minute job turned into an hour and a half job.  Yeah I know what it is like connecting the front panel stuff.  Lots of wires a diagram helps.

User Profile: MsKarma
MsKarma December 24th

I think it's great that you have that kind of knowledge. Of course since it's your first build you encountered trial and error like any first time creator.


I'm sure it takes a lot to achieve the goal of building a computer and you did a wonderful job!

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User Profile: tryingtosurvive2024
tryingtosurvive2024 December 24th

@MsKarma  I have rebuilt and built several PCs in my day.  They are not extremely hard to do.  But sometimes you run into odd things.  For an example my power supply has a weird plug on it.  I actually had to put a round plug into a square hole on the main board.  None of the instructions that came with my stuff told me to do that.  I had to go online, and research just to make sure that was what I needed to do!  Apparently that plug matches up differently on other main boards.  I run into that kind of crazy stuff all the time.

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User Profile: amicableox0685
amicableox0685 OP December 24th

@tryingtosurvive2024

I bought a steam deck from Amazon a while back because I figured it would be nice to have if I plan on traveling. The power supply included with it was for a euro outlet so I had to buy an adapter for a American outlet.

Glad I knew that power outlets in other countries are different than America otherwise I would have tried to connect it into the outlet for a laundry dryer...🙃

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User Profile: tryingtosurvive2024
tryingtosurvive2024 December 24th

@amicableox0685  That wouldn't of been good!  Boom! 😊

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User Profile: amicableox0685
amicableox0685 OP December 25th

@MsKarma

Thank you! It took some planning and research but it worked out.

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User Profile: tryingtosurvive2024
tryingtosurvive2024 December 25th

@amicableox0685  That is the way it always goes.  Since I build my PCs to work with Linux, I can't buy the latest and greatest unless I ordered something expensive from System76.  I currently run 4 computers, and none of them can run Windows 11 with it's new hardware security requirements.

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User Profile: Fatmaisasoup
Fatmaisasoup December 24th

Awesome 😍😍😍😍

User Profile: cupidzheart
cupidzheart December 24th

@amicableox0685 looks great!

User Profile: NewYorker11
NewYorker11 December 24th

@amicableox0685

WOW!!! i love PC Video Gaming, your rig is awesome! happy gaming!

User Profile: yuinana
yuinana December 24th

翻訳者すご!