For any PC gamer, it is a source of pride to be able to not only save up for a long time to build a good computer, but also to take several months or years to do so. But even greater is the pride of a mother seeing her teenage son do this with determination. This is what a Reddit user shared in a post, leaving photos of the PC that her 14-year-old son built on his own after four years of saving and collecting pieces.
And what makes her most proud is that her little boy did it without her help and not because he didn’t want to, since she assures that she really wanted to help him but doesn’t know anything about computers, although she did give him some dollars along with her father for some parts. In the post titled “14-year-old boy worked really hard this summer to buy and build this on the kitchen table. I don’t know anything. I’m very proud,” she leaves a photo where you can see her son starting to assemble the gaming PC on, precisely, the kitchen table at home.
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In a reply to the post itself, she also reaffirms that she was amazed by the whole process and that she couldn’t help, because as she comments: “I don’t know shit about what just happened in my house. But I’m so proud.” “I didn’t buy, research, study, or learn anything to help him. This is all his doing. And he did great,” she adds happily. In addition, the other players also comment with pride on his technical decisions. One of them comments: “12th generation Intel, great. The 14 year old also dodged a huge bullet by opting for 12th generation Intel and not 13/14,” to which she responds: “I read about it the day after he ordered parts and asked him about it when I got home. And I got the 14 year old comment: ‘Mom, this is cool. ’ Which is code for calming me down and knowing I didn’t waste my money.” He also indicated that, in order to raise the last of his remaining money, he spent the summer “taking care of houses and puppies at night for some friends, and also did demolitions and acoustic ceiling installations with his father.”
Other gamers also share that his build and configuration process is very smart, while some share similar experiences. One of them says, “He’s smart! He tested all the parts before installing them in the case. It was so painful to do all the work and then find out that the motherboard was dead.” “Reminds me of when I was in high school. My friend and I went around the neighborhood doing outdoor chores just to buy gaming PCs. We mowed the lawn, washed cars, and raked leaves. Honestly, we made more money than a lot of people. We both ended up building PCs with G3258 and 750 Ti, which were pretty good budget computers at the time,” replies another.
Finally, in an update to the project shared in another post, this mother leaves a photo of the already assembled team, titling the post: “Let’s put this to bed. Where it started for $300 (+Santa’s GPU) 4 years ago until today.” And she also comments that her son “had fun reading her encouragement and concerns,” referring to the large number of healthy comments on the previous post.
Gamer asks his wife for family money for “small PC upgrade”, and she replies: “Small? Upgrading to DDR5 means new CPU and motherboard, and it’s not cheap.”
Married life and PC gaming are things that should be mixed wisely, as reason dictates that spending on this hobby should always have a fairly low priority compared to others. And furthermore, these should be discussed with the partner, which is what a gamer did recently when trying to persuade his wife to upgrade her computer, she surprised him with arguments and technical knowledge that she didn’t know she had acquired.
The story was shared by this player in a Reddit post titled simply: “She knows too much.” In it, he says that one night they were talking about money and family expenses, when he took the opportunity to mention that he would like to include “a small PC upgrade” in those expenses for the next few months. “For context, she has spent the last 12 years listening to me talk about PCs with my friends and is often around when I watch videos from tech YouTubers. Dawid is her favorite,” said this gamer, adding that “she also has a modest gaming PC that I built from spare parts.”
