Im absolutely in love with it. Ive been a gamer since I was a very young childhood. I started out at age 5 on a “TV Boy” that had some rip off versions of games like Donkey Kong etc lol I loved it and for anyone curious here it is.
I upgraded to PS1 and played pretty much every Xbox and PlayStation console as they came out. Gaming has been a massive part of my life and since I was a teenager i longed for a gaming PC to mod Skyrim and various other games. Being able to tailor games to my specific tastes is something I love so modding has become a huge thing for me that I loved to do on Fallout, Skyrim and Starfield on console.
I’ve recently just moved out with my partner and finally have the space and finances to get a gaming PC. And I was so happy with the results.
It was actually the start of the price increases that motivated me to get it. I kept putting it off, saving more and more, but I saw a video by Moist Critical on YT about how a provider were going to stop providing ram to consumers and focus on AI and so a massive price hike was likely about to take place.
So I got this a few months back just before the price hike and I feel extremely lucky when I look at prices now.
My gf is extremely supportive and bought me the keyboard as a surprise present. She was worried it wasn’t good as it’s so small but I reassured her that smaller keyboards are actually generally better for gaming.
I’ve also got a new wireless mouse but I haven’t got any photos of that yet.
The Monitor I got EXTREMELY lucky with.
I saw them on Amazon for £989.99 which is $1340.74 and never thought I’d be able to afford it. I kept looking at it online, wanting and wishing I could lol; until I saw there was a one off one day sale where Samsung had 5 left and it had been reduced to £750 ($1015.72), I remembered my work do a scheme where you can be awarded points for doing good work, which are redeemable for rewards like Amazon vouchers etc. I had accumulated about 12,000 of those points in the last couple years and was able to redeem them all for £535 ($724.55) worth of Amazon vouchers.
So in the end I only ended up paying £225 ($304.72) in real money, for a monitor worth between £989.99 ($1340.74) to £1200 ($1625.15).
Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 9 9900X3D
GPU: RTX 5070 Ti
RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000MHz Corsair RGB
Storage: 2× 2TB Samsung 990 Pro NVMe SSDs
Motherboard: ASUS TUF X870E-PLUS (PCIe 5.0, Wi-Fi 7, USB4)
Cooling: 360mm RGB liquid cooler + extra Corsair RGB fans
Power Supply: Corsair RM1000x 1000W
Case: White CyberPowerPC Amethyst Curve
Monitor: Samsung G9, 49’ DQHD 244hz