Roast My Build

[AirSocial]

So this is my first PC. I am 15 years old and don't have a job. I've been saving for around a year now for just what I have. I'm planning to get a GPU later on. Here are the pictures. So first things wrong is The colors. I have a RGB strip set on lowest brightness of blue for like a mood theme. I have a red fan that came with my case and a JetFlo 120 Blue Led fan in the back. My end goal is to get the Blue Fans all around.  I will also get custom cables (Again its hard to get money) that would be black and blue for my GPU and my Motherboard. Gpu end goal would be a 1060 or something better. Also I am looking to upgrade from 8 Gigabytes of ram to 16 in the beginning of next year. Tell me hat you think so far and how you think it will turn out. Also let me know what you see wrong and what I should fix

[Crunchy Dragon]

I mean, the only things I see really "wrong" about this build is the mATX board in an ATX tower and lack of dGPU.

 

I like the red intake and blue exhaust, I've actually got the reversed version of that in my rig.

[Br3tt96]

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I mean, the only things I see really "wrong" about this build is the mATX board in an ATX tower and lack of dGPU.

 

I like the red intake and blue exhaust, I've actually got the reversed version of that in my rig.

I must be really dumb, but is that two intakes ?

[AirSocial]

8 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I mean, the only things I see really "wrong" about this build is the mATX board in an ATX tower and lack of dGPU.

 

I like the red intake and blue exhaust, I've actually got the reversed version of that in my rig.

When I bought it didn't know about the different sizes. So I just bought something that supported the 8th gen Intel and which had 4 ram slots. (For Upgrade Later Down The Road) I under stand it A LOT more now. I would say that probably makes it look bad the most. Thanks for your input and making me feel that its actually not that bad

 

8 hours ago, Br3tt96 said:

I must be really dumb, but is that two intakes ?

uhhhh. how do i know? not really sure to tell intakes or exhaust, I just kinda put them on..

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, Br3tt96 said:

I must be really dumb, but is that two intakes ?

Looks like it actually....

 

I can't get a good enough look at the front fan to be sure.

[AirSocial]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

Looks like it actually....

 

I can't get a good enough look at the front fan to be sure.

Should I switch it around or do you want me to take a better picture for you?

[Crunchy Dragon]

8 hours ago, AirSocial said:

uhhhh. how do i know? not really sure to tell intakes or exhaust, I just kinda put them on..

There are arrows on the sides of the fans that indicate rotation and airflow direction.

 

As a general rule of thumb, the sticker on the fan will point in the same direction as the air will move.

 

8 hours ago, AirSocial said:

Should I switch it around or do you want me to take a better picture for you?

I'd switch the back fan to exhaust if your front fan is also an intake. See my above post for more information on determining that.

[AirSocial]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

I'd switch the back fan to exhaust if your front fan is also an intake. See my above post for more information on determining that.

im really slow... im sorry

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, AirSocial said:

im really slow... im sorry

No worries, you're all good.

[AirSocial]

HOLY CRAP THIS MAKES SENSE. I was like why does my fan with the blue light only bright from the outside of the case. THIS MAKES SOOO Much sense!!

[Ashleyyyy]

why didn't you build with used hardware? just for the price of the ram you could have had a quad core cpu+motherboard+ram... 

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

11 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I mean, the only things I see really "wrong" about this build is the mATX board in an ATX tower and lack of dGPU.

 

I like the red intake and blue exhaust, I've actually got the reversed version of that in my rig.

No RGB? HERETIC! 

 

/s I have all my shit set to blue anyway

[Crunchy Dragon]

2 minutes ago, OrbitalBuzzsaw said:

No RGB? HERETIC! 

 

/s I have all my shit set to blue anyway

My rig has RGB.

 

Red fans, GeForce GTX logo, blue fans.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

My rig has RGB.

 

Red fans, GeForce GTX logo, blue fans.

damn you

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, OrbitalBuzzsaw said:

damn you

As long as the OP gets a FE or reference Nvidia card, it'll fit in with the RGB standard of the day.

[Raspi454]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

As long as the OP gets a FE or reference Nvidia card, it'll fit in with the RGB standard of the day.

Yup.

[AirSocial]

8 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

why didn't you build with used hardware? just for the price of the ram you could have had a quad core cpu+motherboard+ram... 

I don't want to buy used shit and then have a chance of it not working or just having the seller scam me.

[Jurrunio]

Cant roast this, because there are wayyyy to many first time builds that are worse than this one.

[AirSocial]

8 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I mean, the only things I see really "wrong" about this build is the mATX board in an ATX tower and lack of dGPU.

 

I like the red intake and blue exhaust, I've actually got the reversed version of that in my rig.

Also, for the red fan i'm doing a blue/black build so its kinda throwing it off. Right now its just like the only thing I have so I just threw it in there. Like I said I plan to get that blue fan all around my system later down the road.

 

8 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Cant roast this, because there are wayyyy to many first time builds that are worse than this one.

Thanks!  Like I said I tho it was really bad. I guess falling asleep to "How To Build Gaming Pcs" and "How to Build PCs" for about an year paid off!

[Crunchy Dragon]

2 minutes ago, AirSocial said:

Also, for the red fan i'm doing a blue/black build so its kinda throwing it off. Right now its just like the only thing I have so I just threw it in there. Like I said I plan to get that blue fan all around my system later down the road.

I agree, I'm somewhat regretting getting red and blue for my rig.

Might replace them with blue down the road and use my red fans for something else.

 

Looks good though, as @Jurrunio said, there are a lot of worse first time builds.

I'd rate it a solid 9.5/10.

 

.5 point loss due to the board size, not a big deal but a bit of a problem with aesthetics.

[AirSocial]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I agree, I'm somewhat regretting getting red and blue for my rig.

Might replace them with blue down the road and use my red fans for something else.

 

Looks good though, as @Jurrunio said, there are a lot of worse first time builds.

I'd rate it a solid 9.5/10.

 

.5 point loss due to the board size, not a big deal but a bit of a problem with aesthetics.

The saddest part is when I just looked at this board for $5 more you could have got a full size board. But again as I saw it about a year ago. It was $5 so I was like why not go with the cheaper one. I'm paying for it now

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, AirSocial said:

The saddest part is when I just looked at this board for $5 more you could have got a full size board. But again as I saw it about a year ago. It was $5 so I was like why not go with the cheaper one. I'm paying for it now

Oh man, that hurts.

 

I could have saved 15 or so on my board by getting the mATX, but I was adamant about getting an ATX since mATX boards are so cramped.

[AirSocial]

They increased the price. Its now a $9 difference.

 

 

Edited July 25, 2018 by AirSocial

[MrJoosh]

Looks good - can't fault it tbh

 

Nicely done