My first custom built PC!

[ArchAngelThomas]

Good day everyone!

 

So my old PC was at the 5 year mark, and I wanted to upgrade. So since I previously discovered the LinusTechTips youtube channel and these forums, I thought I'd use the resources available to build my own PC from parts. Took me about 4 hours for the entire thing, including drivers and necessary software. It was my very first build so I'm assuming most of you could probably do this in half the time, but here are some photos documenting the process. Feel free to share any thoughts/comments!

 

The parts:

 

-Intel Core i7-4790k 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor

-Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 829 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler

-Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

-Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory

-Samsung 840 EVO 256GB SSD (Was already in my old pc, but the motherboard was so old it was bottlenecking SATA 3)

-Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

-My old hard drive from my old PC, just in case I needed to access some files on it

-Nvidia GeForce GTX 660Ti graphics card(was already in my old PC, just transferred it over)

-Corsair CX 600W Power Supply (I went a little higher than I needed just in case, and for possible future upgrades)

-Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (Just in case I ever actually need to use a CD/DVD again.

-NZXT Phantom (White) ATX Full Tower Case

 

Below I'll try to attach some photos of the build process. 

 

All the parts just before I was starting the build. SSD and Graphics card are not seen here because they were currently sitting in my old PC

 

Motherboard screwed into place:

 

Powersupply, drives, Graphics card, optical drive, all installed, and sporting some pretty horrid cable management:

 

The processor just before installation! 

 

Everything is in, turning it on, fans are running, lights are glowing, pretty good sign so far:

 

It's alive!

 

The finished product!

 

[ForsakenLive]

You are supposed to connect the cables from behind the motherboard tray, so they don't show up on the front side and block part of the airflow.

 

For example:

[Ionizer]

Very nice build for your first try! Not much you could really add apart from a different, more substantial GPU later on (it would really increase performance since your cpu is top-notch!)

[Huginn]

Not bad. Cable management though

Also, maybe you should've invested less in the CPU/RAM and more in the GPU? It's quite unbalanced atm.

 

But nicely done nonetheless!