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I have finally made some more progress on Project Man Cave. The gaming PC I've been dreaming of building from scratch for years and year and years. Last week, I made a big purchase. I got the motherboard, and a 500gig NVME M.2 SSD. Two more parts to go, then I can assemble the machine. Anyway, here's what I got: Motherboard After reading up on the Z390 chipset, and the various options out there, I decided on the Gigabyte Z390 GAMING X. This one  https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z390-GAMING-X-rev-10#kf It cost me about R2800 here in SA. It's not the top of range by a long shot, but seeing as this PC will literally only be for gaming, it's more than sufficient for what I'll need. Ahh that new motherboard smell! Storage As for storage, I've opted for the 500gig Western Digital SN750. Wow these things are tiny! I have plenty of storage in the house, so won't be getting dedicated storage for now, the NAS will serve that purpose just f...

I'm making progress on my Man Cave Project! To re-cap, I've always wanted to build a proper dedicated gaming rig from scratch, and kit out this room we have in the house next to our kitchen to be the official Man Cave. And I'm going all out (well, for me at least!). I started in February to buy the parts I'll need for it. In my previous post, I mentioned the first few items: the Chassis, Power Supply, some case fans, and my awesome Steelseries Acrtis 7 Wireless headset. Now, I have some more progress to share :D At the end of April, I bought myself the Logitech Z607 5.1 Speakers, and I just couldn't let them sit in their box until I finally have everything, plus I wanted to make sure they work. They are great! The only hassle I had was it only included one cable to connect to my PC, which meant it wasn't 5.1 sound after all, so I bought a couple of extra RCA to 3.5mm cables and now it's connected properly. They sound great! I already have a wireless ...

Since forever, I just wanted to buy a brand new gaming PC. As in everything new. From scratch. A quick history My wife is a graphic designer, and in roughly 2011 she bought a new PC to work on. At the time, it was pretty well spec'd. i7-2600 with 16GB RAM, SSD. Basically everything you would want at that time. It was her work PC for 3 years. Then, in October 2014, our son was born. We both work from home, and we thought (not sure why haha), that for her to get a Laptop as her main PC would be great, then she can sit with the baby and work and things like that. So, she bought a MSI mid-range gaming laptop (i7, 16GIG RAM, SSD, GTX760m), and her old PC became my dedicated gaming PC. We have this room next to our kitchen, which is a glorified walk in pantry/storage room. I put a table in there, took a network cable through the ceiling and turned it into my man cave. I put a GTX970 into that PC, and it became dedicated just for gaming. It was awesome! Meanwhile, my normal work...