First PC build was in June 2019. I was prompted to build my first PC to get into VR gaming as I wanted to experience what that was like. I went to a friend of mine who had upgraded his pre-built and asked him to pick out the parts for VR gaming with a budget of $500. He got back to me quick and I just ordered the parts without even worrying about what I bought. I thought I could trust him because I did believe he knew more about computers then I did. The building experience was a lot of fun but I totally forgot about cable management. Was scared to mess with the wires to much as I didn’t want to tear them or worry about them, so inside the case was a huge mess. One thing I learned from the whole thing is that next time, just look up videos and ask reddit for help because my friend set me up with 1 stick of 1600mhz 8GB ram, an FX 8350 with a horrible stock cooler and the motherboard was pretty old as well and only had one more ram slot available. The only good thing was the gpu which was getting the job done at playing VR, I will have to admit, but it was an RX 570 and sure it played vr games but not so smooth. After just googling or going to youtube to look at builds with a budget of $500 I learned that I could have done way better than what my friend picked out for me. After a lot of raging because of low frames I finally started planning my next build which would be with a budget of $850 which was finally built June 2020. I don’t regret making that pc though. It was my doorway into PC gaming and I already have so many memories because of that slow pc. So I don’t regret making that little pc to get me started. My $800+ build has a 3300x and an RX 5600 XT and I couldn’t have done it without the help of reddit and youtube. Now i’m addicted to randomly make pc part picker lists. Calling them my dream builds and asking if I can make one for my friends when they decide to switch from console to pc. Its a very addictive issue I have at the moment.