OMG, I actually BOUGHT my first parts....

[Guarrand]

Since like.. januari, i have been given the "OK" from my girlfriend to buy a new pc, once the taxes were in.

And since then i have started gathering parts....in my head..

 

And now the day is finally here that i have bought my first items!

 

Totally against my previous ideas... i went and bought the Corsair AIR 540 WHITE!

 

 

I am going with a White-Red theme, so i went and bought some red sleeved cables already and the Corsair SP120 Quiet edition fans for the soon to be arriving Corsair H100i.

 

I hope to be buying the rest somewhere next week.

This is my current setup..

 

- Corsair AIR 540 White

- Corsair H100i watercooling

- Corsair RM 650 PSU

- Kingston HyperX Fury 1866 8 GB (2x4)

- Samsung EVO 840 120 GB SSD

- WD Black 1 TB 7200 RPM HDD

- MSI Z87 G45 Motherboard

- MSI GTX 780Ti Gaming 3G Videocard

- Intel 4770K CPU

 

It will also be my first real build EVER... (i used to put stuff together willy nilly ages ago.. but after that, i always bought ready-to-go stuff)

I'll keep u updated on the proces of building .. wish me luck

[FireFox]

Congrats and wow that is a nice looking case

[HeathCliff]

Looking forwards to the build log

[TheDigitalRealm]

It's great to see more and more people getting into PC building and showing enthusiasm for it! Those are some beefy specs, but most importantly, have fun building it!

[qwertywarrior]

780ti isnt really worth the extra $$$ imo

would rather get 16Gb of ram and 256GB ssd

[Nickolas47]

good luck my friend i really like the case

[Avcn42]

Great build, have fun! Be careful while building it, and don't forget to get your free performance (Overclock)!

[FireFox]

It's great to see more and more people getting into PC building and showing enthusiasm for it! Those are some beefy specs, but most importantly, have fun building it!

 

Yea agreed, we need more people to boost up the market so we can get rid of the whole 'PC era is over' bullshit lol

[Izaya Orihara]

May want to consider the Gigabyte Ga-Z87X UD4H because it would fit your theme really well with the white accents on the board.  

 

 

Newegg has it for 144.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128617&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID= 

 

I'm telling you this because the MSI G45 Gaming is not actually red but pinkish. I have build a PC with it. 

[Kiwiandapple]

I like how you call pre-build "ready to go" stuff.  

And I wonder if you need an i7 and a 780Ti.
You could as well get a different lower wattage PSU. The RM series are still a little bit scary but I give 0 fucks, at least corsair has great RMA.  

[brownninja97]

enjoy that pc, im jesus.

[bbqsauce]

That mobo has a brown looking PCB tho. Might not matter to you?

[Guest]

Everyone plays with LEGO when they're young...

Then why doesn't everyone build their own PCs?

[mikeangeles 75]

Have fun and game/edit on!

 

I can only dream of buying a 780 Ti.

[virtualTune]

I was gonna say "looks like a budget performance built" until i saw the gpu ^^ Nice case too

[Mantittys]

YOUR GONNA HAVE A BLAST! Its going to look amazing! I like your thinking white and red theme, AMAZING!

[Guarrand]

Thanks for the feedback and enthousiasme

 

I MIGHT change some things still, but since i read that the MSI Board and some nifty automed overclocking thing for MSI Gaming GPU's .. i thought i'd stick with that combo.

Also, again, i read that 8GB is more then enough for gaming atm. i'd rather have a better performing GPU then some extra RAM that isnt used.

 

But i WOULD really like a whole red/black thing... so if the mobo isnt really red.. i might change it,

i would have thought that the whole "gaming" series from MSI had the same color scheme.

[Guarrand]

A friend of mine mentioned that 650 PSU might not be enough for this.

But i never see much talk about more then 650.. if you are not doing SLI or something.

 

What do you guys think.. 650 enough??

[Terosterone]

Hi, 

Congrats on actually buying the parts !
I did that myself on friday and it was a great feeling.

Waiting for the parts to be shipped from abroad?
Not so great..

Looks like your pc will be a beast

[Guarrand]

Mine are from a local store.. they will arrive 1 day after ordering

[Joshua Ondangan]

780ti isnt really worth the extra $$$ imo

would rather get 16Gb of ram and 256GB ssd

It's his money imo.

 

heck if it's my opinion for gaming anything below 780 ti from nvidia is pure garbage. so is anything below i7 and 16gb of ram.

 

it's more like how well they value their money. Lol in this forum there are more people crazier than I am.

[chilicheeseburger]

A friend of mine mentioned that 650 PSU might not be enough for this.

But i never see much talk about more then 650.. if you are not doing SLI or something.

What do you guys think.. 650 enough??

Sounds like enough to me.

[The_Edster]

780ti isnt really worth the extra $$$ imo

would rather get 16Gb of ram and 256GB ssd

16GB of ram isn't necessary, but as a 128gb boot drive user I can tell him that he may struggle with that size. I think the majority of people would sacrifice some ram and storage for that extra bit of gpu power.

[The_Edster]

A friend of mine mentioned that 650 PSU might not be enough for this.

But i never see much talk about more then 650.. if you are not doing SLI or something.

 

What do you guys think.. 650 enough??

You could maybe manage SLI with a 650 to be tight, if you plan on doing SLI then go for something slightly higher like a 750.

[Guarrand]

You could maybe manage SLI with a 650 to be tight, if you plan on doing SLI then go for something slightly higher like a 750.

i am not doing SLI atm. maybe in a year or 2.. if ever

 

Also, i will probablt be getting 16GB ram end of the year and a 500GB SSD next year... But i want to be able to play Watchdogs and Dragon Age Inquisition on max until then.. until Star Citizen!