Building my first custom PC (with a friend)

caszillah

caszillah

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Hi guys,

After using my current gaming PC for 6 years and only upgrading the graphics card, I am currently looking into building a gaming PC of my own with the help of a friend who has built several PCs before and knows what he is doing (unlike me).

We have made a list of components to get and I have picked a case I would like to use.
I was wondering if someone would perhaps know if the components named below would fit in the case mentioned below or that there would be a problem with that.

Case: Corsair - Carbide 400C ATX Mid Tower Case
CPU: Intel - Core i5 - 8600K 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard: ASUS - ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: Kingston - HyperX Fury 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5'' Solid State Drive
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
OS: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit

Apart from this he also adviced me to get a CD Drive and a M.2 ssd but I am not sure what would be a good pick, so any advice on that would also be greatly appreciated.

If anyone would be able to help me out with my questions or has some general advice based on the components listed above, that would all be very much appreciated.

Thank you guys.
 
Hi Guys,

Thank you for all the suggestions.

First of all, I won't need a free copy of FarCry5 as I literally bought the game this week :P

Apart from that, current GPU is GeForce GTX 970 and I personally don't feel like that needs to be upgraded at this time.
Budget is between 1 and 1.2k, preferably not over 1.2k.
Current screen resolution is 1920 x 1200 and I am currently using a single monitor, although I am thinking of upgrading to two monitors in the future.

As for the OS license, I did not even know there is a possibility of transferring that! Wonder how you do that? The license on this one is originally windows 7 I believe which they upgraded to windows 10, I am not sure if that would be a problem for this either? I dont mind buying a new OS but obviously if it is not necessary I'd rather transfer the license ;).

I like tamz's build and getting a 8700k build instead would be great tbh, although I am not personally a big fan of the way the suggested case looks, wonder if there is any other ones that would work just as well?
 
Had a look at the strong hold version and that looks fine to me tbh, although I do like the bit of lights of the 400c :P
Wouldn't want the case to be too big, just need to make sure all the parts fit haha. The windowed side panel is nice and I'd like that. Apart from that not too loud and decent temps, but nothing extremely high end is needed I think.
Since I'd like to go for 8700k if thats possible which it seems it is, I think going with whatever is required for that would be the smartest idea.
 
Quite like the Phanteks case, the in win 303 looks quite nice too but would prefer a black case to be honest (picky I know). Build mentioned above seems quite good to me, may need to add the OS on top of that if I cant get the license thing to work but even then it should still be well within budget to be honest.
 
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