I've been wanting to build my own custom PC since high school, and I finally did it. It was always intimidating to me because it seemed so complicated and easy to mess up. I was afraid of buying incompatible parts, or putting them together in the wrong way.
I grew up playing PC games more so than console, but over the last few years, I've been mainly on PS4. I'm a huge fan of Overwatch by Blizzard, and I've been playing that a ton on console. I wanted to give it a try on PC, so that rekindled my interest in building my own machine.
Overwatch doesn't have insane system requirements, but I still wanted it to run smooth, so I tried to find the perfect balance between performance and budget. The nice thing about PC parts is that the prices seem to dramatically go down if you're willing to get slightly older parts (1-2 years old). Buying the newest and shiniest would have been overkill for me, and it would have overkilled my bank account.
After reading enough articles and watching enou