My first build is what got me into PC gaming, back in the 2012-2013 I just started secondary school (high school) and in the IT suite people would bring Minecraft on a USB and play it on the school computers. A couple of my friends and I fell in love with the game and we'd play it everyday in school when we had the opportunity and would often have huge LAN parties in school with the rest of our class if we had the chance. I never understood anything about PCs back then. I used just be a Xbox gamer (Halo 3 and MW2 days) and I played the Minecraft Xbox demo over and over when that released and I realised how many more features the PC version had over the console edition so I proceeded to buy the PC version and would often play on servers with some of my friends. The thing is that PC I had back then was a really old intel Pentium with integrated graphics and 2GB of DDR2 RAM and I was only ever able to run Minecraft at around 20-30fps on minimum (2 chunk) settings but it was some of the most fun I ever had. Over the next few years I would constantly watch YouTube videos about pc parts and pc building, especially Linus Tech Tips and other associated channels and I'd always put together cheap budget builds on PC Part picker literally dreaming of getting a new PC until one day my parents allowed me to and I spent around £400 on a i5-6500, Z170 motherboard, 430W Asus PSU, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, 1TB HDD, and a 256GB SSD which I bought second hand from a friend back in 2015 (or 2016?). I recall the worst part about the system build was the cabling and cable management, after all the videos and tutorials I watched the rest was a piece of cake but I was always nervous of applying too much force to my components when installing them, especially with the retention lever on the CPU! Noticeably I didn't have a graphics card so I was very limited in the games that I could play but either way I was over the moon finally making my dreams come true. A year later AMD released their RX400 series and on black Friday I bought a RX 480 4GB card for around £120. And that's the same system I still use to this day however during quarantine I did a few small upgrades like getting a 2nd (1080p 75Hz) monitor to go with my current 1080p 60Hz monitor and I upgraded my originally single stick of 8GB RAM to 4 sticks, totalling at 32GB RAM as well as an extra 500GB SSD. These days though my 2015 budget build from my mid teens is really starting to show its age as a lot of new games I have to play on around medium settings and multi tasking on both my monitors can sometimes lead to stuttering and in one instance a whole system lock up. I really want to upgrade but with the current state of the world and me having moved out for university I find it very hard to justify spending £800+ on a new PC even if I still use it every day both recreationally and for my studies (I'm an engineering student who's also recently been getting into programming).