(UPDATE) 3/17/16 I must have lost the Silicon lottery because i can only seem to get an extra 100MHz out of my GPU. After that, it runs, but flashes red and green colors every now and then on the screen and i'm not about that.

Every time I look at this thing it just makes me happy. I haven't been into computer gaming until recently, I was a console kind of guy. But let me tell you, this is every gamers dream. I'm glad I made the switch from console to this. I started picking out parts and the more i picked out the more i drifted to more of a Red/Black color scheme. So i went with it and this is the final product.

This was my first build and i wasn't sure where or how to start. Luckily i'm going to school for computers and that helped. My classmates in college helped a lot to so i have to give a shout out to them. Without them, I don't think i would have had the confidence to do this on my own. Also have to give thanks to my girlfriend for putting up with me during the panning, building, and future gaming. I couldn't do it without her.

My budget for this was $2,000. At the time i ordered this, i was sitting just above that. For what i spent, i think i got the most out of my money. I have yet to do any overclocking as of now, but i'm hoping to do that soon. Right now i just have my GPU in overclock mode.

To start, my favorite part is the 980 Ti combined with my 2560x1440p monitor. Everything, all the web pages, pictures, games, look so crisp, it just blows any console/TV combo away. I wasn't originally going to go with a 980Ti, but my friend talked me into it. And from that point on, we both nickle and dime this thing to compensate. But it was worth it.

What started my drive to want to get into building a computer was my college classmates/friends. We all got together one night to have a LAN party, and they all brought their builds. Then here I was, gaming on a MacBook Pro of all things, not even being able to render games at 1080p. So since that day in December, I started creating this build. Each day, tweaking it, making it better, adding on to it, and of course, increasing the price of it.

It was only about three months from start to finish that it took to get everything picked out the way I wanted, to putting it together. I originally tried to put it together with the help of my girlfriend. Got everything put together, and finally powered it on (Six hours later), just to get a "No Signal Detected" message on the monitor. So I called my friend up, and from what we discussed, we determined that it was more then likely a bent CPU pin on the motherboard. We took off the cooler and what do you know, there it was. So we spent about 10 minutes bending it back into place. That was defiantly the spookiest part of the whole thing. Other then that, the build went off without a hitch, and as i keep saying, I couldn't be happier.

My parents saw this as a gaming computer. Well yeah it is. But what they don't understand is that it can do so much more then that. It will outlast any pre-built they buy by years. It can do anything they can think of and anything i want it to do.