Hardware
A history of my PC Hardware. I have wasted invested a total of $12,442.70 CAD in PC Hardware over the past 11 years.
A history of my PC Hardware. I have wasted invested a total of $12,442.70 CAD in PC Hardware over the past 11 years.
MAIN PC "RAPTOR":
Acquired: March 14th, 2026 (New)
Price: $5,609.59 CAD
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Graphics: ZOTAC Solid CORE OC GeForce RTX 5080
Memory: 64GB (2x32GB) G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo DDR5-6000 CL30
Storage: Samsung 990 EVO Plus 4TB
Platform: MSI X870E Gaming Plus WiFi
Cooling: Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360
Case: CORSAIR Frame 4000D RS
Power: CORSAIR RM1000x Shift
OS: Windows 11 Pro
COMMENT: Prices just kept getting higher and higher, and I didn’t want to miss yet another chance to upgrade, so I bit the bullet, bought the parts, and built this PC myself to save money. I am never building another computer ever ever again, f*** the USB 3.0 header.
MONITORS:
Monitor 1: Acer Nitro ED320QR S (1920x1080 @ 165Hz, VA)
Monitor 2 & 3: ASUS VE248H (1080p @ 60Hz, TN)
LAPTOP:
Acquired: June 29th, 2025 (New)
Price: $1,144.49 CAD
Model: MacBook Air (M1, 2020, 13")
Memory: 8GB Unified Memory
Storage: 256GB SSD
Cooling: Thermal Lap Dissipation
OS: macOS 15 Sequoia
COMMENT: I was using a terrible Chromebook that couldn’t even keep up with my typing speed, so I bought a 2020 M1 MacBook Air. Now that I’m done with school, I mostly use it to remote into my main PC when I’m away from home.
SERVER "JELLY":
Acquired: March 11th, 2026 (Used)
Price: $1,000.00 CAD
Processor: Intel Core i5-8400
Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630
Memory: 16GB (2x8GB) CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX DDR4-2666 CL16
Storage: Intel SSD 760p 256GB
Platform: ASUS TUF B360-PLUS GAMING
Cooling: NZXT Kraken 240
Case: CORSAIR Frame 4000D RS
Power: MSI MPG A850GF
OS: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
COMMENT: I bought this PC from my brother because a job I applied for required a separate work computer. I didn’t get the job. A year later, I repurposed it into a Jellyfin/NAS/Minecraft server.
MAIN PC "GIGACHAD":
Acquired: November 26th, 2022 (New)
Price: $3,438.63 CAD
Cause of Death: Raptor.
Processor: Intel Core i5-13600KF
Graphics: ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3070 V2 OC
Memory: 64GB (2x32GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4-3200 CL16
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB
Platform: ASUS TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS WIFI D4
Cooling: CORSAIR iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX 360
Case: CORSAIR 4000D Airflow
Power: Cooler Master MWE Gold 750 v2
OS: Windows 11 Pro
COMMENT: Following the untimely death of Big Bertha, my brother and mom let me get the PC of my dreams from Memory Express, with a price limit of $3,500 CAD. Instead of getting a prebuilt, I decided to pick out all the parts myself, which led to some mistakes like the RTX 3070 and 750W PSU, but the other decisions like the i5-13600KF and 64GB of RAM were genius, as over the years I would make use of all of it. When I purchased "Raptor", I gave this PC to my mom.
MAIN PC "Big Bertha":
Acquired: 2019 (Used)
Price: $1,000.00 CAD
Cause of Death: Spontaneous combustion
Processor: AMD FX-6350
Graphics: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0
Memory: 16GB (2x8GB) G.Skill RipjawsX DDR3-1600 CL10
Storage: Samsung SSD 870 EVO 500GB
Platform: ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0
Cooling: Unknown
Case: NZXT PHANTOM-001RD
Power: Unknown
OS: Windows 10 Home
COMMENT: This is what I consider my first real PC. My mom bought it from my brother as a gift when I was about 11 or 12, along with a new SSD, Stormworks: Build & Rescue, and BeamNG.drive. From day one, this PC was pushed to its limits. Almost everything I know today, like modding or making games, and more, I learned on that machine.
That came to an abrupt end in November 2022 when the Power Supply literally exploded while I was playing a game.
LAPTOP:
Acquired: 2015 (New)
Price: $249.99 CAD
Cause of Death: Big Bertha/MEMZ Trojan
Model: HP Stream Notebook 13-c110tu
Processor: Intel Celeron N2840
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics
Memory: 2GB DDR3L-1600 SDRAM (Onboard)
Storage: 32GB eMMC
OS: Windows 10 Home
COMMENT: This was my first computer. While I hated it then, it taught me the basics of computers, and what not to do. It came pre-installed with what felt like every piece of software known to man. It was slow, but it ran Minecraft and barely Scrap Mechanic, the only two games I played at the time.