Of Course You Want To Watch The Witcher’s Henry Cavill Build A Gaming PC

Watch Henry Cavill build a gaming PC. You know you want to.

Screenshot: Erik Kain via Henry Cavill's Instagram

Monster hunter. Man of steel. Lady’s man. Mutant.

All these words and more could be used to describe The Witcher star, Henry Cavill. Another big one: Gamer. In fact, gaming is basically Cavill’s favorite pastime. Because games are wonderful. Oh, and also gaming PC builderâ€"the mark of a true PC gamer.

It was Cavill’s love of video games that inspired him to try for the role of Geralt of Rivia in Netflix’s The Witcher adaptation. While the show is based on the books it takes more than a few pages from the games by CD Projekt REDâ€"and Cavill’s performance was certainly inspired by video game Geralt.

In any case, Cavill has been a serious gamer for a long timeâ€"somehow squeezing in game time between movie and TV shoots and an extensive workout regimen that puts us all to shame. And now he’s built a brand new gaming PC and filmed (and edited down) the process for a post on Instagram.

Watch Cavill build his shiny new PC below. Thankfully, like us mere mortals, he has some issues along the way. Building a PC is never a perfectly smooth experience. There are simply too many small pieces.

This is a good-looking machine. It actually reminds me a little bit of the one I built recently, what with the LED RAMâ€"my first time using gaudy lighting in a PCâ€"though I chose a more compact case this time around. My last case was fairly gigantic and plain black I wanted to give a smaller, flashier build a try.

My PC isn’t quite as beefy as Cavill’s. Inside his machine:

Ryzen 9 3900X

G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB DDR4-3600 CL16 (2 x 16GB) RAM

Asus GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB ROG Strix Gaming OC GPU

Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (Wi-Fi) motherboard

Samsung 970 Pro 1TB SSDs x 2

Fractal Design Define 7 case

NZXT Kraken Z73 liquid cooling

Seasonic Prime TX-1000 PSU

Outside the box:

Razer Huntsman Elite Keyboard

Asus PG279Q ROG Swift Monitor

Steelseries Arctis Pro Wireless Headset

My setup isn’t too far off. I have an RTX 2080 Super rather than the Ti, and my CPU is the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X which was a lot cheaper than the 9 while performing only slightly behind the much more expensive 3900X. Beyond that, 32 GB RAM, 2x1GB SSDs and all the rest. It’s a sweet setup.

So Cavill and I have basically the same computer (though I didn’t opt for liquid cooling, which isn’t really necessary with these Ryzen chips, and my keyboard/monitor/headset are all different). Oh and I’m using the MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI Gaming Motherboard which has treated me well enough, for less than half what you’ll pay for that ASUS ROG mobo.

Now if only I had Cavill’s body fat percentage, perfect jawline and abs, that would be something. C’est la vie.

Read my review of Netflix’s The Witcher here.