# Playing with the team red
**Disclaimer**: This is my idea of a build log. I like my whys and my rationales, so I add an explanation for everything. I'd try to summarize and maybe I can use spoilers that allow to hide big chunks of post.
During the summer I started to grow a fascination for this little SFF world, and in a matter of days I was searching this forum and just looking at one build after another. I don't quite understand why I like this so much. I realized that at some point I wanted to be a spectator no longer and make a build myself.
What I expect from this PC:
- * There shall be **learning**. This is my first build, so we are here to to play, and get in trouble.
- * Finished and benchmarked, this build should showcase the **advantage of desktop over laptop** to some degree, to a long time laptop user like myself. And I think, so many others like me in 2021.
- * It shall run **Linux**, if it runs at all.
- * It shall have **water cooling**.
Too many options, so my planning goes as follows: SFF limits the components that you can have (unless you are @petricor). The case limits cooling space, the cooling space limits the components' power that you can use within reasonable temperatures. I also thought that the case since SFF is rather custom, would be the last component to arrive. So, just choose the case first!
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