Don't worry, most of the time not the hardware is what counts the most, but what you do with it. If one would buy a billion dollar PC decorated with Swarovski crystals for Need For Speed, i'll "respect" 1000x more your PC because (i can only guess that) you will be using it to learn something (you created an account on MT). And i also bet that you will care for your hardware, unlike the one with Swarovskis.