Spectral 700N

My build journey began with the announced release of Cyberpunk 2077. After 35 years of choosing PC games based on my machine’s inability to play the latest and greatest, I decided it was time to trade in the “Tank” aka a 2013 Macbook Pro and make an attempt at building my first PC from scratch. You see, like many of you out there, I was sick of playing games at the lowest graphic settings. I had one goal during my design phase, max out Cyberpunk 2077 graphics and gameplay while having plenty of “juice” to spare for future epic games in the next few years to come.

I had no vision aesthetically. Heck, I didn’t know if I’d be able to build a working PC at all. I liken my experience and understanding of PC components and their interconnecting functions to my 60 year old non-gaming father joining WoW Vanilla... Completely out of depth.

As I began building, troubleshooting, rebuilding, and doing what seemed like endless wire maintenance, I realized my empty chassis was no different than a blank canvas to an artist. That’s when a vision formed and the aesthetic design phase began. After another month of tinkering, my build was complete.