I had been battling with depression for a little over half a year and have used gaming as a way of distracting and occupying my mind. Around December last year I started doing some research into building my own PC. I had zero knowledge of the PC world and starting researching everything piece by piece. During my research I then realized what an absolute horrible time I chose to build a PC as a lot of the main components were pretty being sold out within seconds, if even stocked at all.

I finally had put together my part list and started searching for the parts in stock. A week later I changed my entire parts list and went with a completely different build. So that was fun. My original build was with AMD and decided to go with an Intel build. It took me about a month to get all the parts (and then some)for my build. I will say my budget sky rocketed real quick with all the options and accessories, also underestimated the cost of some things.

After everything arrived I got about halfway through my build when the case I originally picked was literally about 20mm too small. Talk about heartbreak. I had to order a new case and start all over again. During this time I was dealing with a wave of depression and everything just sat on my kitchen table for about a week. I had completely lost interest and didn't want to even think about putting everything together a second time.

One day I just sucked it up and even though I didn't want to I persevered and started putting everything together. For my first build, having not very much knowledge on PC building, having some help from some amazing people online and YouTube I got it built. It was a very amazing feeling of accomplishment for me to complete this build.

I ran into a few problems, mainly me over thinking a lot of the wiring but over all it really wasn't that difficult. We won't talk about cable management, that was probably more of a pain than actually building the PC for me. I didn't want to go too crazy with RGB, I wanted enough to pop slightly, but not over do it. I was wanting to go with more of a rainbow aesthetic. (Also waiting on my matching 24 pin. This was an extension I had prior due to my previous case. The plug is at a right angle and the cords were completely out of view. So I had to order a matching 24 pin for this case since you can see it).

I titled this my first happiness build because since I have built this PC I look at it and feel happiness. It puts in a happy mood most days and has helped me in a lot of ways dealing and coping with my depression.

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Western Digital Black Series 2T HDD
Acer Nitro XV272U Monitor
Logitech G733 Headset
HyperX Keyboard Wrist Wrest (seriously so comfortable)
Lazy Boy Managers Chair (I originally got this chair for work since I work from home and use it when I game on my PC too)