Built my second Gaming Rig (for a friend)

Today, I have successfully built another gaming rig for a friend of mine. It was hugely satisfying. I advised him on how and where to get the various parts for his new gaming PC and for how much. We set off on one of the weekend a few weeks ago getting those parts, from Sim Lim Square, Carousell sellers and online through Lazada and Amazon.

The end result; a powerful gaming PC featuring Geforce GTX 1070 graphics card from EVGA, Asus B150M Plus motherboard, 16 GB Ram, an Intel Core I5 6600 Skylake processor, all housed in a beautiful Corsair Carbide Air 240 black case. It is actually quite nice once everything is put into place. The only thing that I hope he would add are a couple of LED strips around the insides of the case to truly showcase the art that we just built. And perhaps some nice sleeved power cables for the graphics card. But all in all, its a beautiful beast and priced reasonably too. His gaming rig specs are very similar to mine and it came just shy of SGD2000, excluding monitor. Here are the full specs:

Intel Core i5 6600 Skylake CPU at 3.2Ghz

Asus B150M Plus Micro ATX motherboard

Corsair Vengence LPX DDR4 16GB RAM (2x8GB)

Cryorig C7 CPU Cooler

Toshiba OCZ 480GB SSD

Toshiba 1TB HDD 7200RPM

EVGA Geforce GTX 1070 SC

Corsair Carbide Air 240

Superflower 600W fully modular PSU (Gold Rating)

The final piece that fell into palce was the graphics card. We ordered from amazon about 2 weeks ago and it finally arrived on time today. I called him to come over to my house to put the finishing touches before bringing it back to his house to set it up with his new desk and monitor. Yeah, he even bought a new desk for his PC, alongside keyboard and mouse. He was using his old gaming laptop for work and gaming for the past 3 years or so and it was time for an upgrade.

I am glad he approached me to help with his gaming rig. Like I said, I truly enjoyed building one. To see it come to life was hugely satisfying. And again, I gained alot of experience building the second gaming rig. It not only reinforces my knowledge of building a PC but learnt a few new tips and tricks along the way, especially when you are building on a totally difference PC case, with its own design flaws to overcome.

I hope I have more opportunities in the future to build future gaming rigs and I am more than happy to provide advice on what kind of gaming rigs would be suitable for one’s needs.