DogeOfDisaster

Build me one too juseyo

Welcome to my build log of my brother's custom PC!
This is my brother's first ever custom PC, built on September 27th.
 

 
My case of choice for my brother's new build is the DeepCool Frame, it's a standard £25 case that tries to cut you at every edge, but it's compact, light, spacious, and looked simple to work in, so this is what I chose for him.
 
First is to pop off the side panels to reveal a cluster of cables and a drive cage, which I know I'll never use. The front has a 120mm fan space while the back supports 80mm and 90mm fans. I had neither, so moving on.
 
Case prep was easy enough, taking off the PCI slot covers, side panels, and leaving only what was tied to the case's skeleton.
 

 

 
Next is the motherboard. I chose the ASRock B450-M Pro4, it was a reliable, solid-looking motherboard that was highly recommended, so it's what I went with.
 
The CPU of choice is the AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with its AMD Radeon Vega 8 graphics. It fell right into the budget of £300 nicely.
 
The RAM of choice is the Patriot Viper 4, it's rated for 3000MHz and had nice price-to-performance being £77 at the time of purchase.
 

 
As for the cooler, we stuck to our guns with the stock AMD Wraith cooler, it's simple and does the job, so there was no reason to spend extra for an aftermarket one.
 
I let my brother apply the thermal compound as well as installing the cooler itself, I monitored him and the cooler carefully. Spoilter: I failed.
 

 

 
Here's the part where it got slightly hectic.
 
Back when my brother and I were deciding on parts - actually that was 90% me anyway - we didn't have enough budget for a storage device so we assumed we could use the old HDD from his old PC... No, no we couldn't. That HDD was on tight.
 
So I begged my dad to drive me around town and hop to computer stores everywhere searching for some form of storage device. This began at 4PM.
 
I eventually found a 240GB Integral V2 SSD that I bought for £60, and hurried on home.
 

 
I landed back home at 6:30PM.
 

 
I learnt where the SSD was meant to go, and so I installed it easily, and connected up the required power and SATA cables.
 

 
So, with everything in order, I got the build up and running through my monitor, installed Windows 10, and got to the Windows screen.
 
At this point, this is what the build looks like right now. It's a spaghetti mess up front, but that's all I could due to the non-modular PSU that is the be quiet! Pure Power 10.
 

 
I opened up Task Manager, expanded the view, and behold, the Ryzen 2200G is on screen and we're set.
 

 
I also made sure in the BIOS that everything was working and detected, and yes, it all checks out. I later changed the RAM speed to 3000 from the 2133 as shown.
 

 

 
As it turns out, the 2200G was getting unusually hot, that I rushed back here to confirm that my temperatures were abnormal:
 
Of course, I stopped the system, and my beliefs were true. My brother did in fact not screw the cooler in enough and as a result, the IHS didn't make any contact with the cooler.
I redid the cooler, as per protocol.
 

 

 
The finale is the big boss, the Cinebench test for the temperatures. The temperatures speak for themselves.
 

 
Overall, I am happy with how this build turned out. It took us a grand total of five hours not including the quest to find a storage device. My brother will be sure to enjoy this new PC for his gaming sessions, and the total cost of £373.02.  
 

 
My brother officially now has a GTX 1050 Ti inside his PC! It's a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB single fan model, bought for £150.
Relatively straight-forward, slotting the GPU into the PCIE slot, an install of drivers, and it was up!
 

 

 

 
My brother decided to buy a new storage drive since he's already filled up hos 250GB Integral V2 SSD, and so he bought a 240GB Kingston A400 SSD!
 

 
He now has a 250GB Integral V2 SSD and a 240GB Kingston A400 SSD inside his system, totalling to 490GB (where 460GB is useable) in his PC.