02/13/2026
With the development of all the new AI data centers around the world SSD (solid state hard drives) and RAM (random access memory) prices have gone through the roof.
What used to cost $80 retail for a 1TB SSD is now $200 plus and the cost of RAM is worse yet.
What used to cost $200 for 32GBs of RAM is now well over $400.
I am trying my best to buy PC’s that I can retail for a competitive price, but it is becoming harder and I no longer purchase SSD’s or RAM to have on hand, but order as needed as prices are so volatile.
With that being said, I did have the privilege of building a custom PC for a customer the other day.
He wanted a custom built PC with room to upgrade.
As always we started with the motherboard, we used an Asus TUF gaming X870E-Plus and added an AMD 9800x3d CPU with 32GBs of Vengeance Pro Corsair memory.
The motherboard uses one of the latest chipsets with tons of connectivity and the CPU is the best bang for the buck CPU for gaming (I run the same CPU in my personal rig) and 32GBs for RAM is the sweet spot right now for gaming.
For graphics we used an Asus TUF RTX 5080 16GB GPU (again the same GPU I use).
To keep things, cool an Arctic Liquid Freezer II cooler and seven Lian Li RGB case fans.
Powering this beast was an Asus TUF series 1200Watt 80+ Gold PSU.
And finally we put everything into a Lian Li mid-tower case.
I really enjoy when I am able to use all Asus components, and this build was very satisfying.
Here are some pictures of the build.
I hope you enjoy them also.
If you want to know more, feel free to contact me.
360-665-0023
or
503-468-8317
https://chriscustomcomputer.com/
Not only do I build computers, I sell them, I fix them, rebuild them, upgrade them, remove viruses, system optimization, remove old dead programs, remote access, in-home networking, cell phone screens, and all things computer.
Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Thanks, Chris Eros