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Back to where it all started! A Gaming PC...

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I had never envisaged going back to PC (Microsoft Windows) again since I had moved to Apple iMacs over 15 years ago....but here comes the twist in the plot. My soon to be teenager son puts in a humble request that he would like to build a Gaming PC with me! That instigated the phone call to my cousin - to find out what was the latest in the PC market (as he has continued to use and build PCs) unlike myself who jumped ship 15 years ago. He guided me to  www.pcpartpicker.com   and then began the research.....  Honestly speaking it got me really engaged so much so that within two weeks every part was researched into, including prices, stocking issues, delivery times and potential build dates.  The parts we went for - Case - Be Quite! Pure Base 500 ATX CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU Cooler - Be Quite! Dark Rock Pro 4  Motherboard - MSI B450 Tomahawk Max Memory - 2 x 8GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance 3200Mhz PSU - Corsair VS550 Video Card - XFX Radeon RX 580 8 GB DDR5 Storage - S