Frankenputer has been a continuous work in progress for approximately 10 years. Most of the parts over this time period have been reused from old computers given to me by friends and family, some of the nicer parts have been Christmas gifts. Because i have never started over, it's still technically the same PC just upgraded over and over.

For about 9 years of it's life Frankenputer was used as a living room media center computer, being too slow to play games, and almost too slow for the web. YPbPr and S-video outputs off two video cards were used to output to first one and then two 55" projection TVs (free) with VGA to an LCD monitor on the coffee table to allow actually reading text. Sound was through a high end Creative sound card, a vintage Luxman integrated amplifier, and secondhand KEF speakers, so the sound output was excellent. i used to bring it and the speakers up to a friend's cabin for a yearly party, where it was an awesome music player for loud crazy parties.

Frankenputer was eventually upgraded with a new FX-6300 and could now play youtube videos without stuttering. i have tried to choose hardware purchases that allow piece by piece upgrading in the future to keep purchasing costs as low as possible. Around this time 4 5.25" DVD drives were in place, and were used to rip an extensive collection of DVDs and CDs, as well as borrowing a bunch from friends and family, and started a bit of a data hoarding addiction.

Around 2015 friend gave me their 37" 720p plasma TV, and i had sourced more free 80's speakers and a Kenwood power amp and Kenwood receiver, so i set up a 5.0 surround sound system (didn't need a woofer with 4 12" woofers, 2 10" woofers and 4 8" woofers present) using 8 speakers driven off an ASUS xonar DX. A logitech wireless keyboard with trackpad made it finally easy to use from the couch, and a SSD finally got boot times down to a respectable level.

When our friend moved in, his media PC went to the living room and Frankenputer was moved to the bedroom and set up so that i could start streaming, something i had wanted to do for some time. He loaned me his handmade Speedster TMM speakers and an Emotiva power amp when he moved to Australia. After my streaming actually went somewhere, i put some money from it back into the PC to stream better, a GTX 1050Ti for the NVENC chip to finally stream in 1080p HD instead of 480p (and also i bought my first PC game in 10 years to play on it), a new motherboard was purchased to have enough USB ports for accessories and enough SATA ports to add more storage, and a Blue Yeti USB microphone so people could hear me properly, and a new keyboard instead of the ancient basic model keyboard i had been using without play/pause hotkeys. i hooked up our old TV to be wall mounted in the bedroom facing the bed along with the two monitors.

A wonderful user on reddit sent me 2 Toshiba 2TB hard drives to replace a very fubar 2TB seagate drive i spent weeks trying to unsuccessfully recover data from, further proof people are wonderful. One of my 4GB RAM sticks died suddenly, but i ended up getting 16GB of DDR3 for Christmas as well as a new gaming mouse.

For my birthday i got a CPU cooler and case fan, making Frankenputer much much quieter and allowing me to overclock from 3.5GHz to 4.6GHz, though i settled on 4.4GHz for daily use.

Many of the components and brands are not listed on build.gg, so they'll be added to the component list as they get approved.

PCBenchMark
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/15796767

older: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/14331782

FurMark
http://www.ozone3d.net/gpudb/score.php?which=674110