I have thought about building a dedicated computer for gaming ever since 11th grade. Last week, I pulled the trigger and built one.

The specs:

• Antec Nine Hundred SE Case link
• Antec Truepower 650W Power Supply link
• Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4 Motherboard link
• AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad-Core Processor link
• two 2GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600MHz RAM link
• PNY GeForce 9800 GTX+ Graphics Card link
• two 500GB Hitachi Deskstar HD in RAID 1 link

As you can see above, the case has a massive 200mm fan, USB ports, Firewire port, 3.5mm audio jacks and a rubber lined shelf thing for keeping USB drives and stuff in.

In addition to the 200mm fan, there are two 120mm fans up front, one 120mm in the back and one 120mm on the side. They all have LEDs that make them light up blue! ^^

Above is the current peripherals setup. I have my almost 6 year old Logitech G5 mouse, cheap Dell keyboard, Playstation Eye (for webcam and microphone) and a 1600 x 900 LCD monitor that my parents weren’t using.

I ended up naming it Anduril. I was going to install Linux too and give it two different hostnames based on OS, but I was too lazy. In a few months, I’ll probably install an after market cooler and try to overclock from 3.4GHz to 3.8Ghz and maybe add 4GB more RAM. And maybe upgrade to a baddass graphics card.