Yet another upgrade to my PC setup.... Also, some other important things in my life.

Not an American, but can't you call CPS or something? Did you sign any legal documents with your friend or his parents? If not, they are probably not legally required to provide you anything or you don't need to legally pay anything.

IMO, PC stuff is the least of your concern when you are struggling to survive. Try to save every penny when possible, open a bank account or something.

That's a tough life you have at the early stage of your life. I hope you can reach out to relatives who can help you.

As someone who's got everything he wants at this point in time, and is in debt to a pair of parents that I'm afraid to be honest about my lack of belief in Christianity (especially the church they go to that's done nothing but yank the chain on my father all of his life), DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON STUFF LIKE A PC!

No, seriously, focus on becoming completely financially independent. The biggest regret I've had for a long time is not getting a job first after graduating from high school and moving out. My parents can be as much of a PITA as I have said in a few choice posts where I've posted them at in my history. Once you're financially independent, you can give people you don't want to hang around the middle finger and become the boss of how you want to live your own life. A gaming PC is nice, having every game to play at your fingertips, for all practical intents and purposes, provides you with plenty of things to do for the rest of your life, but really, focusing on getting a job and making your own money will help you in ways that you wouldn't believe, be it from being able to buy your own clothes, food, utilities, car (do NOT rely on Uber to get you everywhere like some of the people do at my job), your own phone along with its plan (Verizon is expensive as shit), and a bunch of other things that will make you more independent than buying a stationary PC that you can't use unless if you have a power source to supply it (no, don't count on portable batteries to do that) and the peripherals you're gonna have to use to interact with the thing.

I have what I have because I worked hard for it, but one bad decision (read: going to a University I had no passion to go to now that I was able to get whatever I want, whenever I want because I decided to take my manipulative POS of a father's sudden handout in the hopes that he'd keep his word when I should have known better. To say I will be rubbing my more independent life in his and the rest of my family that takes the IFB's shit seriously faces will be an understatement) fucked that all up and has made my life miserable up to this point just because the only thing I really want at this point in my life is to have the entire week to myself, go where I want to go without having to come up with lies and stories, hang out with who I want to hang out with regardless of their brand of Christianity or the lack thereof, and just have full control of my life and free time in general.

What I just described above is my ideal of independence. A way of saying, "I don't give a fuck, and if that has you literally shaking, too bad, the world doesn't revolve around you." That doesn't mean I have the attitude of someone who won't extend their hand out and offer someone free advice or items with no strings attached. On the contrary, I have a bunch of crap I'd love to sell on eBay, but due to apathetic complacency on my part because of the situation I alluded to in the first full paragraph, a part of me just wants to share this stuff with others who'd appreciate it more than I do, and sometimes I just want to get rid of everything I'm not using for free just to clear out space. I'm no hoarder by any means, but when you have far more Micro-USB/USB-C to USB-A cables than you'd ever need, it does make one wonder where they're gonna put it all. And that's my point: one of these days, you will have enough money to buy a full fledged PC with cutting edge parts that will allow you to run games on the PS5 and the Xbox...Whatever The Fuck They're Gonna Call It. But now isn't the time for you. Trust me, you aren't the only one in this situation. There's subreddits on Reddit (yes, I browse Reddit) like r/raisedbynarcissists, r/exchristian, r/exmuslim and others who's main base are people who are in similar boats to you. Unfortunately, we don't get to choose our parents, but we can choose our life paths that we decide to go down. You can either be in the doldrums emotionally, mentally, financially, and socially, or you can make your own success in the real world and not in private time that, as someone who's going to be 25 in a month and 3 years into his first job at a retail store, you're not gonna have as much of as you do now. Plan for the future, not for the present. That's something I wish I had done more of going into college because I was in a similar boat to you, except I waited to even be able to afford my PC that had a weaker build than you had, albeit not by a whole lot.

In the end, it's all up to you to make your own success and get to where you'd like to be in life. Opening up on the Internet is fine and all, but unfortunately, due to previous things that have occurred on the Internet at large and certain...political events *coughs in #MeToo and Cancel Culture*, don't be surprised if some are skeptical. Personally, there's no way to know for sure, with my skills, knowledge, and experience, whether what you're saying is true or not. All of this is, of course, assuming you're not embellishing details and the like just for attention.

PS: Still, if you decide to go with the build (since you make it sound like you already got the items in question), I'll say, at the very least, it ain't as facepalm-worthy as the one from a week or two ago that I went crazy on. Thermaltake isn't the best as far as PSUs go, but at least you aren't going with an absolute no-name brand. At least you have a good sized SSD to boot Windows from. And your RAM sticks match up and everything. Sure, I question the prices on the CPU and the Motherboard (which I'd consider to be the second most important part of any build, it being the foundation and all), but it wouldn't surprise me if someone on Craigslist was trying to just get them out of their house while looking for pizza/vending machine money.

I never really thought about it that way. I should really get a job, you are right. Thanks man. I’ve always wanted to live on my own, but I fail to realize that I would need a fair amount of money to do that.

Anyway, yeah the cpu and motherboard are coming from a friend. That’s why they are so cheap. I don’t have the hd 7979 yet. I have all the other stuff though.

how did you find the parts? and how much did the 570 cost? And yea its a great 1080p/60fps high/est settings pc. I felt bad for the other guy that spent $750 to build an almost budget pc

@gameboy , the RX 570 was free. My friend upgraded his PC and gave his old one to me. It had the RX 570, 250GB SSD, and the 16GB of Corsair Vengeance in it. The motherboard and CPU were stock HP crap so I sold them.

So I basically spent maybe 120$ on this PC.

its not your duty to make choices for your friends. let them ruin their stuff using your soldering iron. just lay low and realize living under someone elses roof will make you bite your tongue. its all just a part of growing up. be good. and play safe.

what you want to do now is take the old parts and sell them while they still have some value