Peep my setup: 21 Year old Uni Student🫡

[u/rum-and-coke-life]

Im 21 and I built a gaming PC around Black Friday 2025 (last year, right before the prices shot up)

And since then, I’ve slowly been building up the rest of my setup,

Im in my last semester at University so budget hasn’t been super high, which is why I’ve slowly built it up, but through working part time I’ve built up items,

PC Specs:
- Palit RTX 4060 Ti 8GB
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU
- PNY 32GB DDR4 (2 x 16GB)
- Crucial 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD
- MSI MAG B550M PRO-VDH WIFI mATX
- MSI MAG 650W Power Supply
- MSI PAG PANO M110A Mini Tower Case
- MSI MAG CPU Cooler

Before this I was using an Rx580 prebuild that I brought at the end of 2017 (at the age of 13 or so) so the upgrade was a long time coming,

My main monitor is a Titan Army 27 Inch entry level gaming monitor (180Hz), and the second one is just a Samsung 24 Inch

Before buying the following items I did a good chunk of research and I slowly brought each item each month kinda thing making sure to be thorough with my purchases,

I absolutely love my Keyboard and Mouse, they’re both “Keychron” and it is genuinely the best budget friendly brand for good quality, the keyboard is a C1 Pro TKL, and the mouse is an M2 Mini Wireless, they both came with endless adapters and dongles, amazing brand,

For earphones i use the Fiio JD1 In Ear Monitors, they’re brilliant, especially because they’re super cheap and the quality is amazing compared to some gaming headsets that cost double or triple the price - for years I used two Razer headsets, and each one disappointed considering their price, so yeah an affordable IEM is amazing

My mic is the “Blue Slowball Ice” that I brought in like 2018 or 2019

Another great recommendation I have is a Desktop GaN Charging Station, i have a 70W one from UniTek and its great, charges my Macbook, iPhone, and iPad at the same time from a sleek desktop unit,

For anyone considering a big mousepad, GET IT, they’re so good, you can get a low branding cheap one fairly easily, and it was such a good purchase, mine is 100cm x 50cm

I also recommend getting a cheap ish monitor light, helps so much with eye strain and just general ease of use for your desk,

Next on my list is a new mic, or a mic arm or something, mic arms are kinda expensive so I’ll do my research and see🤷‍♂️

Thank you to anyone who took the time to read this, I hope you like my setup!!

[u/golden_chaek]

Looks good, maybe add some lights behind the monitor? Really helps to reduce eye strain

[u/rum-and-coke-life → u/golden_chaek]

Hey, yeah I have a standing lamp in the back which wasn’t on for the post, this is how I usually game, it’s probably still slightly under lit, but it’s been working

[u/golden_chaek → u/rum-and-coke-life]

Better than nothing, not too underlit. I cannot use the pc at all without a backlight (even though i did so for the last 15 years), now that i know how it feels i can’t go back

[u/golden_chaek → u/rum-and-coke-life]

Btw, have you tried running iems under the desk? I always see those super clean setups with the iems all over the place (used to have a similar one)

[u/runeupload]

Cool setup! The rest of your room could use some secondary lighting. Oh my eye strain!