PC was bought as a brand new prebuilt office PC from PC specialty store back in March of 2011. Monitor was not included but plain KB and mouse were.

During the years, i upgraded this office PC to gaming rig with plenty of upgrades. Only original parts are: CPU, CPU cooler, MoBo, one stick of 2GB RAM and Samsung HDD. The rest have been replaced or added during my upgrades.

Since it came without a monitor, at first, i used my old 17" CRT monitor that i borrowed from my Pentium II build from 1998. At that time my old CRT monitor was 13 years old. Managed to get another 8 months out of it until it completely died and i had to get new monitor in November of 2011. So, went on and bought Topview T2491Wd 24". Topview monitor has served me very well and it was in service with my Skylake build from October of 2016 until Mach of 2019, Since i bought a new monitor for my Skylake build, my trusty Topview returned back to my AMD build.

Few years on-ward and i managed to fill my 500GB OS drive with data (mostly games). And so in September of 2013, i bought Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB HDD for additional storage space.

In April of 2014, i bought 2nd stick of 2GB 1333Mhz RAM for a bit better performance in games. Since OS is Win XP Pro SP2 32-bit, the actual RAM PC can use due to the OS limitations is about 3.14GB. Even though PC can't use full 4GB of RAM, the additional 1GB of RAM is handy, especially in games.

My AMD build came with Radeon HD 5450 GPU. Since i mostly did game on it, i pushed the GPU hard and eventually got tired of it's low performance on 1024x786 resolution. So, in March of 2015, i bought Radeon HD 7770 Ghz Edition GPU for it, which was a huge boost in gaming performance.

With far better GPU, i was able to push my CPU hard and i managed to overheat my CPU several times. Most that i saw out of my CPU was 102°C before PC automatically shut down to protect itself due to the overheat. So, to fix my overheating issue, i replaced the original Codegen ATX-308-CA-USB/Audio (silver/black) case and original Codegen ATX450W V2.03 P4 PSU out. Codegen case had only 1x 80mm rear exhaust fan without any additional fan mounts for extra fans. Oh, top mounted PSU too. In May of 2015, i bought Chieftec DF-02B-U3 case, Seasonic S12II-520 PSU and 4x 120mm Akasa fans and 1x 120mm Arctic fan. With all of this, my PC was properly cooled, while being powered by good quality PSU.

In August of 2015, i bought Kingston HyperX 3K (240GB) SSD as an OS drive. While SSD doesn't improve gaming, it does reduce boot up and loading times considerably.

Since in October of 2016 i bought my Skylake build, i took many components out of my AMD build to get a complete build. Over the time, i've bought new components to my Skylake build and borrowed parts have been returned to my AMD build. There are still few parts used in my Skylake build which i originally used with my AMD build. Those are: SSD, ODD, monitor and speakers.

After completing my Skylake build and also upgrading my Haswell build a bit, i decided to improve my AMD build by creating a nice color theme with a new case. Since my Skylake build has black & red theme, Haswell build has black & blue theme, i decided to create a black & green theme for my AMD build. So, in August of 2017, i bought Sharkoon DG7000-G Green case for it. Besides the all important components, i also re-used 2x Akasa green LED fans and put them as top exhausts.

In December of 2017, i bought 2x Bitfenix Spectre Pro (white w/green LED) 140mm fans for my AMD build so that i can replace the 120mm Akasa green LED fans out that were installed as top exhausts. With this fan replacement, i now have 140mm fans all around for best airflow performance.

Since i have 5.25" external fan controllers in my Skylake and Haswell builds, in January of 2018, i bought Aerocool X-Vision 5.25" external fan controller for my AMD build as well. I prefer to control most or all of my case fans from external fan controllers rather than letting BIOS to control them.

In the March of 2018, i bought M.2 NVMe SSD for my Skylake build and thanks to this, the Kingston HyperX 3K SSD did return back to my AMD build as an OS drive.

Since my Skylake and Haswell builds have fully-modular PSUs and CableMod custom sleeved power cables to match the build theme, i wanted the CableMod cables in my AMD build as well. And so, in December of 2018, i bought Seasonic Focus+ 550 (80+ Platinum) [SSR-550PX], CableMod SE-Series full cable kit (green), CableMod MoBo I/O cables (green) and CableMod cable combs (transparent) for my AMD build. While i felt sad to retire my trusty Seasonic S12II-520, which served me well for 3.5 years, new PSU offers newest tech in PSU world, a lot better efficiency and also modular cables, making the usage of CableMod custom sleeved power cables possible. Now, all 3x of my PCs have CableMod cables in them to match their own unique theme.