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Glad you got that sorted out. Nice build by the way. I'm about to start my own new build soon. Seeing this is really hyping me up. Not sure if you or anyone else can relate, but when you save those most demanding games on your steam library because you wont dare touch them till you get a beefy computer? OOhhh I can't wait haha!

Hope you have fun with building that new PC! Haha yeah, I've done that. I haven't played far Cry 3 or Crysis 2 yet because I know the integrated graphics will be awful with them!

 

Nice build.

Thank you! :)

| My first build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/117400-my-very-first-build/ | Build for my friend's 18th: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/168660-pc-for-my-friends-18th-with-pictures-complete/ |


ATH-M50X Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/165934-review-audio-technica-ath-m50-x/ | Nintendo 3DS XL Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/179711-nintendo-3ds-xl-review/ | Game Capture Guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/186547-ultimate-guide-to-recording-your-gameplay/


Case: Corsair 200R CPU: i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz RAM: Corsair 8GB 1600MHz C9 Mobo: GIGABYTE Z87-HD3 GPU: MSI R9 290 Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO PSU: EVGA 750W Storage: 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD Display: Dell U2212HM OS: Windows 8

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Great job on your first build buddy. Nice to see you took the time with setting out your description along with a time-line, nice personal touch. Good luck on getting your card Monday, next day delivery can be abit annoying when it's not fulfilled. It'll be well worth the wait however. Well done, nice and clean. A++

Thank you very much! I thought it would be nice for people to see exactly how I went through the build process. It's a shame I had my hands full a lot of the time, I would have taken more pictures otherwise...

| My first build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/117400-my-very-first-build/ | Build for my friend's 18th: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/168660-pc-for-my-friends-18th-with-pictures-complete/ |


ATH-M50X Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/165934-review-audio-technica-ath-m50-x/ | Nintendo 3DS XL Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/179711-nintendo-3ds-xl-review/ | Game Capture Guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/186547-ultimate-guide-to-recording-your-gameplay/


Case: Corsair 200R CPU: i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz RAM: Corsair 8GB 1600MHz C9 Mobo: GIGABYTE Z87-HD3 GPU: MSI R9 290 Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO PSU: EVGA 750W Storage: 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD Display: Dell U2212HM OS: Windows 8

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we want see pics

I added a little teaser to my original post, check it out :P

| My first build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/117400-my-very-first-build/ | Build for my friend's 18th: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/168660-pc-for-my-friends-18th-with-pictures-complete/ |


ATH-M50X Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/165934-review-audio-technica-ath-m50-x/ | Nintendo 3DS XL Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/179711-nintendo-3ds-xl-review/ | Game Capture Guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/186547-ultimate-guide-to-recording-your-gameplay/


Case: Corsair 200R CPU: i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz RAM: Corsair 8GB 1600MHz C9 Mobo: GIGABYTE Z87-HD3 GPU: MSI R9 290 Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO PSU: EVGA 750W Storage: 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD Display: Dell U2212HM OS: Windows 8

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The build is finally complete! Wahoo!

| My first build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/117400-my-very-first-build/ | Build for my friend's 18th: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/168660-pc-for-my-friends-18th-with-pictures-complete/ |


ATH-M50X Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/165934-review-audio-technica-ath-m50-x/ | Nintendo 3DS XL Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/179711-nintendo-3ds-xl-review/ | Game Capture Guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/186547-ultimate-guide-to-recording-your-gameplay/


Case: Corsair 200R CPU: i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz RAM: Corsair 8GB 1600MHz C9 Mobo: GIGABYTE Z87-HD3 GPU: MSI R9 290 Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO PSU: EVGA 750W Storage: 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD Display: Dell U2212HM OS: Windows 8

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silly, the motherboard is not the heart of a system. its the PSU!

When 2 things meet each other, Quantum stuff happens.

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GOOOOOOOD JOOOOOOOBBBBBBB!!!! made sure i put in extra o's and  b's to emphasize the goodness in this build.

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Nothing like building you're first rig. i love that feeling. looks solid man

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CPU: 4770k @ 4.2GHz 1.15v | Mobo: ASUS z87 Sabertooth | Cooler: Corsair H110 | RAM: Vengeance 32GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz | GPU: GIGABYTE G1 GTX 1070 | Storage: Samsung 840 series 250GB SSD, Seagate 2TB SSHD, Seagate 4.25TB HDD | PSU: Corsair AX850 80+ gold modu | Case: Corsair 650d | Keyboard: Corsair K65 RGB Cherry MX Reds & a Leopold 210TP Numberpad Cherry MX Blues | Mouse: Logitech G502, DECHANIC desk mat | Monitor: 2x Dell IPS 23" S2340m & ASUS 144hz 24" VG248QE | Speakers: CA-3602a | Headset: Steelseries Syberia v2 Frost Blue OS: Win 10 Pro 

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GOOOOOOOD JOOOOOOOBBBBBBB!!!! made sure i put in extra o's and  b's to emphasize the goodness in this build.

 

 

Nothing like building you're first rig. i love that feeling. looks solid man

 

Thanks guys! :)

| My first build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/117400-my-very-first-build/ | Build for my friend's 18th: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/168660-pc-for-my-friends-18th-with-pictures-complete/ |


ATH-M50X Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/165934-review-audio-technica-ath-m50-x/ | Nintendo 3DS XL Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/179711-nintendo-3ds-xl-review/ | Game Capture Guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/186547-ultimate-guide-to-recording-your-gameplay/


Case: Corsair 200R CPU: i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz RAM: Corsair 8GB 1600MHz C9 Mobo: GIGABYTE Z87-HD3 GPU: MSI R9 290 Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO PSU: EVGA 750W Storage: 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD Display: Dell U2212HM OS: Windows 8

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If you don't mind me asking, where did you get that wallpaper in the picture of you downloading your games in the original post?

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Intel i5 3570K || Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8GB FE || 8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport 1600MHz || ASRock Z77 Pro 3 || WD Caviar Blue 1TB || Noctua NH-U12S || Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX Sound Card || Fractal Define R4 || Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I REV 4.2 Wireless Network Card

ASUS VC239H Monitor || Corsair Strafe Cherry MX Red || Logitech G Pro || Philips SHP9500 w/ V-MODA BoomPro Mic || Reflex Lab Pro 36 Heavy Mouse Pad || Google Nexus 6P 128GB

 

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If you don't mind me asking, where did you get that wallpaper in the picture of you downloading your games in the original post?

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I just searched for 1080p wallpapers in google... But to make your life easier, here is a link to my google drive with the picture :) I don't own any credit for this picture, but I do have a few drawings of my own :D

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B51LZM7Hq1K7aXJtdnhMQWZZaTg/edit?usp=sharing

| My first build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/117400-my-very-first-build/ | Build for my friend's 18th: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/168660-pc-for-my-friends-18th-with-pictures-complete/ |


ATH-M50X Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/165934-review-audio-technica-ath-m50-x/ | Nintendo 3DS XL Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/179711-nintendo-3ds-xl-review/ | Game Capture Guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/186547-ultimate-guide-to-recording-your-gameplay/


Case: Corsair 200R CPU: i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz RAM: Corsair 8GB 1600MHz C9 Mobo: GIGABYTE Z87-HD3 GPU: MSI R9 290 Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO PSU: EVGA 750W Storage: 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD Display: Dell U2212HM OS: Windows 8

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I just searched for 1080p wallpapers in google... But to make your life easier, here is a link to my google drive with the picture :) I don't own any credit for this picture, but I do have a few drawings of my own :D

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B51LZM7Hq1K7aXJtdnhMQWZZaTg/edit?usp=sharing

awesome, thank you so much!  ;)

Intel i5 3570K || Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8GB FE || 8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport 1600MHz || ASRock Z77 Pro 3 || WD Caviar Blue 1TB || Noctua NH-U12S || Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX Sound Card || Fractal Define R4 || Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I REV 4.2 Wireless Network Card

ASUS VC239H Monitor || Corsair Strafe Cherry MX Red || Logitech G Pro || Philips SHP9500 w/ V-MODA BoomPro Mic || Reflex Lab Pro 36 Heavy Mouse Pad || Google Nexus 6P 128GB

 

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Hey there guys! The moment I have been waiting for has FINALLY arrived! I get to build my first PC! I'm super excited and thought I should document it, so a forum post will do nicely for that. If you just want to see pictures, scroll for a little bit - I'm just gonna talk about my reasons for building and choosing parts.

 

Here is my PCPartPicker list if you would like to see:

 

 
CPU:  Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£161.99 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard:  MSI Z87-G43 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£77.06 @ Aria PC) 
Memory:  Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£65.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage:  Sandisk  128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk  (£58.79 @ Aria PC) 
Storage:  Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£39.98 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card:  Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card  (£240.98 @ Dabs) 
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 290 4GB Video Card (£334.29 @ Dabs) - I changed this because I'd waited two months for the 280X to arrive and I got fed up :/
Case:  Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  (£47.98 @ Dabs) 
Operating System:  Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit)  (£71.91 @ Ebuyer) 
Monitor:  Dell U2212HM 60Hz 21.5" Monitor  (£149.99 @ Aria PC) 
Total: £1102.95
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-18 16:31 GMT+0000)
 
So, onto why I am building this!
 
Since 2011 I have had my first computer - a MacBook Pro. Yup. I was in love with Apple at the time (ha, how things have changed) and I had no knowledge of PC building - I didn't even know it was possible to build a PC yourself until I came across, believe it or not, Linus TechTips :) So recently I got into gaming on my MacBook. It's actually a pretty nice little machine for gaming - Portal 2, Borderlands 2 and games like Killing Floor run pretty smoothly at native res and medium details. But it's been so inconvenient having to play on it. It never moves from my desk and I have to crane my neck down while I play games, so I had it perched on some books with a external keyboard and mouse connected! Here's a picture of that:
 
 
So yeah - not really a nice way to game. Add to that the fact that not a huge amount of games are made for macs (I have 75 steam games and can only play 34 of them), it makes it slightly worse. Which is when, in 2012, that I learnt about proper PC gaming by stumbling across one of Linus' videos :) Since then, I have never learnt so much about anything in such a short space of time. I went from knowing roughly what a CPU and GPU are (let alone what they look like), to knowing the ins and outs of a motherboard and how to overclock. All in all, I am very glad I found this community. Everyone is really friendly and it's a great place to hang out. Just a shame the WAN show is on at 12am local time for me so I can never watch it live... :'( 
 
Anyway, I am super excited to start playing the rest of my games in my library and to have a computer that isn't locked down to anything and can run pretty much any program :)
 
I did have a budget for this build, although I still haven't got everything and it's come to £1007 already :/ The focus for this build is going to be performance for a great price. So with the Kingston SSD to make the OS snappy (it was a steal at £40, on sale!), an i5 4670k which I will overclock at a later date, and an R9 280X to provide the graphics horsepower, I think I'll be okay with this build for a long time. By the way I do plan to add a second R9 280X R9 290 once the bitcoin/litecoin craze dies away (hence the large PSU). Currently the card is still out of stock and I am in a queue to have one delivered. It won't arrive until the 7th of March though... So it won't be featured in the build until later. Hopefully the intel HD4000 graphics will suffice... haha... ha. I also bought Windows 8 because of DX11.2 and the fact that I prefer the aesthetic more than 7. But I hate metro. So I'm buying startisback once I get the OS up to date and installed.
 
So I don't quite have all of it so far. The Dell monitor, Seagate HDD, EVGA PSU and the Corsair 200R will arrive tomorrow, fingers crossed that they arrive early! Still to buy is a pair of Audio Technica Ah-M50s, a CM Storm QuickFire Pro cherry MX brown keyboard, a Blue Snowball mic and Powerline adapter.
 
I have a reserved post below that will be updated (hopefully live :D) to include pictures of everything as I do it. Pictures are also in the next post.
 
Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I hope you enjoy the build! This is going to be a voyage of great discovery for me, so for anyone new to building, I hope you learn something too!
 
Please feel free to leave comments about what you think of my first build. :)

 

Hey You got same Keyboard like me!:D

 

Its A Razer lycosia right?

[spoiler= Dream machine (There is also a buildlog)]

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Luxe - CPU: I7 5820k @4.4 ghz 1.225vcore - GPU: 2x Asus GTX 970 Strix edition - Mainboard: Asus X99-S - RAM: HyperX predator 4x4 2133 mhz - HDD: Seagate barracuda 2 TB 7200 rpm - SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB SSD - PSU: Corsair HX1000i - Case fans: 3x Noctua PPC 140mm - Radiator fans: 3x Noctua PPC 120 mm - CPU cooler: Fractal design Kelvin S36 together with Noctua PPCs - Keyboard: Corsair K70 RGB Cherry gaming keyboard - mouse: Steelseries sensei raw - Headset: Kingston HyperX Cloud - Build Log

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Hey You got same Keyboard like me! :D

 

Its A Razer lycosia right?

Yep, I quite like it! I just wish it was mechanical, but I don't have the money for that right now...

| My first build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/117400-my-very-first-build/ | Build for my friend's 18th: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/168660-pc-for-my-friends-18th-with-pictures-complete/ |


ATH-M50X Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/165934-review-audio-technica-ath-m50-x/ | Nintendo 3DS XL Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/179711-nintendo-3ds-xl-review/ | Game Capture Guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/186547-ultimate-guide-to-recording-your-gameplay/


Case: Corsair 200R CPU: i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz RAM: Corsair 8GB 1600MHz C9 Mobo: GIGABYTE Z87-HD3 GPU: MSI R9 290 Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO PSU: EVGA 750W Storage: 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD Display: Dell U2212HM OS: Windows 8

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Yep, I quite like it! I just wish it was mechanical, but I don't have the money for that right now...

What is a mechanical keyboard:S?

[spoiler= Dream machine (There is also a buildlog)]

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Luxe - CPU: I7 5820k @4.4 ghz 1.225vcore - GPU: 2x Asus GTX 970 Strix edition - Mainboard: Asus X99-S - RAM: HyperX predator 4x4 2133 mhz - HDD: Seagate barracuda 2 TB 7200 rpm - SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB SSD - PSU: Corsair HX1000i - Case fans: 3x Noctua PPC 140mm - Radiator fans: 3x Noctua PPC 120 mm - CPU cooler: Fractal design Kelvin S36 together with Noctua PPCs - Keyboard: Corsair K70 RGB Cherry gaming keyboard - mouse: Steelseries sensei raw - Headset: Kingston HyperX Cloud - Build Log

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What is a mechanical keyboard:S?

This is probably for another thread, but I'll explain it here. :)

 

When I say a mechanical keyboard, I'm talking about the type of switch that each key on the keyboard uses to register a press. There are two main types of "keyswitch" - membrane keyswitches and mechanical keyswitches. Membrane keyswitches are relatively cheap compared to mechanical keyswitches. They are basically squishy membranes underneath the key that provide a little bit of force for each press, so you know you've pressed it. You have to pretty much press the key all the way down to activate it, as well. The keyboard we have uses a membrane switch, I believe.

 

A mechanical keyswitch is quite different. They are much more tactile than membrane keyboards and have a very satisfying feel to them (in a lot of people's opinions, especially on this forum). There are lots of different types of mechanical keyswitch, all with their advantages and disadvantages. Most mechanical keyswitches are made by Cherry, and they are differentiated by colour. Here are the types of coloured keyswitch:

 

Cherry MX Blue switches make a loud click when you activate the key, as well as having a tactile bump when you activate it.

Cherry MX Brown switches are the same as blue switches but they don't click as loudly.

Cherry MX Red switches don't have a bump and aren't very clicky (this apparently makes them nice for gaming)

 

The great thing about mechanical switches, though, is that you don't have to press the key all the way down to activate it. This makes things like typing much faster.

 

There are other colours of keyswitch too, with different level of pressure needed to activate them, and other things as well. These three are the main types. 

 

If you want a brief summary from the god himself, here's a video Linus did on them :)

 

| My first build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/117400-my-very-first-build/ | Build for my friend's 18th: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/168660-pc-for-my-friends-18th-with-pictures-complete/ |


ATH-M50X Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/165934-review-audio-technica-ath-m50-x/ | Nintendo 3DS XL Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/179711-nintendo-3ds-xl-review/ | Game Capture Guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/186547-ultimate-guide-to-recording-your-gameplay/


Case: Corsair 200R CPU: i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz RAM: Corsair 8GB 1600MHz C9 Mobo: GIGABYTE Z87-HD3 GPU: MSI R9 290 Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO PSU: EVGA 750W Storage: 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD Display: Dell U2212HM OS: Windows 8

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wow.. no one mentioned you making a possibly insanely huge mistake.. you placed the mobo on top of the anti static bag... the outside of those bags LEADS electron, meaning if you put any kind of power into that you will fry the board or chip :(

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wow.. no one mentioned you making a possibly insanely huge mistake.. you placed the mobo on top of the anti static bag... the outside of those bags LEADS electron, meaning if you put any kind of power into that you will fry the board or chip :(

Haha I know that, but at that time I wasn't doing anything with the board - I was simply taking it out of the bag to take a picture of it :) Don't worry, I made sure to keep myself grounded and work on a hard surface when I was building it!

| My first build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/117400-my-very-first-build/ | Build for my friend's 18th: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/168660-pc-for-my-friends-18th-with-pictures-complete/ |


ATH-M50X Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/165934-review-audio-technica-ath-m50-x/ | Nintendo 3DS XL Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/179711-nintendo-3ds-xl-review/ | Game Capture Guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/186547-ultimate-guide-to-recording-your-gameplay/


Case: Corsair 200R CPU: i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz RAM: Corsair 8GB 1600MHz C9 Mobo: GIGABYTE Z87-HD3 GPU: MSI R9 290 Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO PSU: EVGA 750W Storage: 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD Display: Dell U2212HM OS: Windows 8

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Haha I know that, but at that time I wasn't doing anything with the board - I was simply taking it out of the bag to take a picture of it :) Don't worry, I made sure to keep myself grounded and work on a hard surface when I was building it!

 

Good things, its such a easy mistake to do so i wanted to mention it for the future to make sure :)

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Good things, its such a easy mistake to do so i wanted to mention it for the future to make sure :)

Well thank you for making sure :)

| My first build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/117400-my-very-first-build/ | Build for my friend's 18th: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/168660-pc-for-my-friends-18th-with-pictures-complete/ |


ATH-M50X Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/165934-review-audio-technica-ath-m50-x/ | Nintendo 3DS XL Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/179711-nintendo-3ds-xl-review/ | Game Capture Guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/186547-ultimate-guide-to-recording-your-gameplay/


Case: Corsair 200R CPU: i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz RAM: Corsair 8GB 1600MHz C9 Mobo: GIGABYTE Z87-HD3 GPU: MSI R9 290 Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO PSU: EVGA 750W Storage: 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD Display: Dell U2212HM OS: Windows 8

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Hey there guys! The moment I have been waiting for has FINALLY arrived! I get to build my first PC! I'm super excited and thought I should document it, so a forum post will do nicely for that. If you just want to see pictures, scroll for a little bit - I'm just gonna talk about my reasons for building and choosing parts.

 

Here is my PCPartPicker list if you would like to see:

 

 
CPU:  Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£161.99 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard:  MSI Z87-G43 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£77.06 @ Aria PC) 
Memory:  Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£65.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage:  Sandisk  128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk  (£58.79 @ Aria PC) 
Storage:  Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£39.98 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card:  Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card  (£240.98 @ Dabs) 
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 290 4GB Video Card (£334.29 @ Dabs) - I changed this because I'd waited two months for the 280X to arrive and I got fed up :/
Case:  Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  (£47.98 @ Dabs) 
Operating System:  Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit)  (£71.91 @ Ebuyer) 
Monitor:  Dell U2212HM 60Hz 21.5" Monitor  (£149.99 @ Aria PC) 
Total: £1102.95
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
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So, onto why I am building this!
 
Since 2011 I have had my first computer - a MacBook Pro. Yup. I was in love with Apple at the time (ha, how things have changed) and I had no knowledge of PC building - I didn't even know it was possible to build a PC yourself until I came across, believe it or not, Linus TechTips :) So recently I got into gaming on my MacBook. It's actually a pretty nice little machine for gaming - Portal 2, Borderlands 2 and games like Killing Floor run pretty smoothly at native res and medium details. But it's been so inconvenient having to play on it. It never moves from my desk and I have to crane my neck down while I play games, so I had it perched on some books with a external keyboard and mouse connected! Here's a picture of that:
 
 
So yeah - not really a nice way to game. Add to that the fact that not a huge amount of games are made for macs (I have 75 steam games and can only play 34 of them), it makes it slightly worse. Which is when, in 2012, that I learnt about proper PC gaming by stumbling across one of Linus' videos :) Since then, I have never learnt so much about anything in such a short space of time. I went from knowing roughly what a CPU and GPU are (let alone what they look like), to knowing the ins and outs of a motherboard and how to overclock. All in all, I am very glad I found this community. Everyone is really friendly and it's a great place to hang out. Just a shame the WAN show is on at 12am local time for me so I can never watch it live... :'( 
 
Anyway, I am super excited to start playing the rest of my games in my library and to have a computer that isn't locked down to anything and can run pretty much any program :)
 
I did have a budget for this build, although I still haven't got everything and it's come to £1007 already :/ The focus for this build is going to be performance for a great price. So with the Kingston SSD to make the OS snappy (it was a steal at £40, on sale!), an i5 4670k which I will overclock at a later date, and an R9 280X to provide the graphics horsepower, I think I'll be okay with this build for a long time. By the way I do plan to add a second R9 280X R9 290 once the bitcoin/litecoin craze dies away (hence the large PSU). Currently the card is still out of stock and I am in a queue to have one delivered. It won't arrive until the 7th of March though... So it won't be featured in the build until later. Hopefully the intel HD4000 graphics will suffice... haha... ha. I also bought Windows 8 because of DX11.2 and the fact that I prefer the aesthetic more than 7. But I hate metro. So I'm buying startisback once I get the OS up to date and installed.
 
So I don't quite have all of it so far. The Dell monitor, Seagate HDD, EVGA PSU and the Corsair 200R will arrive tomorrow, fingers crossed that they arrive early! Still to buy is a pair of Audio Technica Ah-M50s, a CM Storm QuickFire Pro cherry MX brown keyboard, a Blue Snowball mic and Powerline adapter.
 
I have a reserved post below that will be updated (hopefully live :D) to include pictures of everything as I do it. Pictures are also in the next post.
 
Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I hope you enjoy the build! This is going to be a voyage of great discovery for me, so for anyone new to building, I hope you learn something too!
 
Please feel free to leave comments about what you think of my first build. :)

 

MACBOOK PRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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MACBOOK PRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Umm... What about it? lol

| My first build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/117400-my-very-first-build/ | Build for my friend's 18th: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/168660-pc-for-my-friends-18th-with-pictures-complete/ |


ATH-M50X Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/165934-review-audio-technica-ath-m50-x/ | Nintendo 3DS XL Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/179711-nintendo-3ds-xl-review/ | Game Capture Guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/186547-ultimate-guide-to-recording-your-gameplay/


Case: Corsair 200R CPU: i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz RAM: Corsair 8GB 1600MHz C9 Mobo: GIGABYTE Z87-HD3 GPU: MSI R9 290 Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO PSU: EVGA 750W Storage: 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD Display: Dell U2212HM OS: Windows 8

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The buildlog has now been updated to include new pictures taken with my awesome new DSLR :D

| My first build: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/117400-my-very-first-build/ | Build for my friend's 18th: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/168660-pc-for-my-friends-18th-with-pictures-complete/ |


ATH-M50X Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/165934-review-audio-technica-ath-m50-x/ | Nintendo 3DS XL Review: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/179711-nintendo-3ds-xl-review/ | Game Capture Guide: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/186547-ultimate-guide-to-recording-your-gameplay/


Case: Corsair 200R CPU: i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz RAM: Corsair 8GB 1600MHz C9 Mobo: GIGABYTE Z87-HD3 GPU: MSI R9 290 Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO PSU: EVGA 750W Storage: 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD Display: Dell U2212HM OS: Windows 8

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