Eventhough this is now technically retrospective I feel I should share my first ever build with you guys.
I've always wanted to build my own rig and sadly never the space to do so, when I got my own place with my missus however all that changed
Had money I had been saving up for the rig and decided to build it myself, how hard could it be?
When the case arrived (bought components in two halves as I had a £500 limit on CC) I was astounded by how huge it was for a 'mid' case :O
My Asus P8P67-M PRO, fantastic little board and it is all pretty and blue (if you can't tell i'm going for a blue rig here)
Intel i5-2500K outstanding little chip, wanted the best to play my games on, overclocks a beauty.
8GB of Corsair Vengance Blue @1600MHz Figured I may as well pay more for the larger DIMMs, after all, bigger is better
Corsair H60, only reason I wanted this is that it is more compact than the H50 and a lot smaller than air coolers, also it is very quiet and keeps the CPU well chilled, also was my tiny dabble into the world of watercooling
Gigabyte GTX560 Ti, outstanding card, never owned a PC with over 128MB of VRAM before the performance on this is great, OC'd to 1GHz in seconds
Guilty pleasure, I had never experienced an SSD before, but my god they are great, my loading times are the envy of all my friends on LoL. Although not really found a game which it offers significant load times over a SATA 6Gb/s HDD.
Power supply, 750W (plan on going SLI with the 560's) modular, saves a lot on in case clutter
2TB Caviar Green, really struggling to fill with Movies and Games but I feel I'll manage, didn't know OEM purchases came without retail packaging, which is a shame cos I felt the box looked really cool, but pfft, twas cheaper
Inside of the case is very very roomy initally I did mount the stadoffs WRONG 
which lead to contact on the Mobo (don't worry I never powered on) Initally thought I had bought the ATX version of my board, doh!
Board mounted correctly I/O shield was a tough thing to do as everything I did was entirely new to me and I didn't know if pushing and sliding etc was the norm Everything I did, I learned off teh interwebs!!!
SSD in place and hooked up, yes I know theres nothing mounting it but I didn't care, it was an oversight not in the budget
UPDATE: Bought a Scythe twin mounter, now sits comfortably.
Caviar Green in place, Coolermasters mounting trays were a joy to use.
H60 mounted, although at this time I hadn't bought the CPU or RAM or GPU yet, couldn't place the pump over the bracket as there was far too much cable tension, I recommend removing the rad to keep the cable loose when mounted the pump on the CPU.
My Vengeance blue RAM and my trusty Phillips head
(He's gonna save your ass a fair few times so make sure you have a decent one, and a flat-head, especially with screwing down fans, a good PH will tear the sinking off the screw-head, that's when Mr. Flathead saves your bacon.
H60 and RAM comfortably seated, advice when seating the cooler, COMMIT, don't half ass it, decide your gonna do it then push it on and tighten diagonally, stops smudging or ruining the TIM, also RAM only fits one way /facepalm
(NOTE: CPU is fitted underneath )
My GTX 560 Ti seated, easy enough, push in, hear click, screw down, wire up, literally anyone can build a PC as long as they RTFM!
Pwnage cable management, round the back is better than up the front
Dont' worry it's all cable tied and neat now, these cavities are the enthusiasts best friend
UPDATE: Bought two Scythe Gentle Tyhoons for my H60 in push/pull and they make less noise toether than the Corsair fan and dropped my load temps by 10oC!
Also bought two Asaka Blues for the roof exaust, keep excellent airflow, damn near silent and the lights are purdy
Final product, although it has the case on and the spare CM fan on the side airing the GPU Corsair fan makes a racket if not bolted to a rad :S
I am a total testament to the power of the Internet and YouTube, everything I researched, looked up, examined, or bought I did after coming to forums like this and perusing YouTube.
When I first booted the PC I though "will it POST?" and guess what... It didn't. I troubleshot everything, resat most components and even RMA'd the GPU, had a 1,3 error GPU. Card was fine, thankfully the competitor, who I won't name, offered to pick up my rig, and fix it, for free, seeing as all my parts were from them, although they said that didn't matter, if they didn't hold a valid warranty they'd call you up and ask what you wanted instead, then bill yah!
I never lost faith (well maybe a little) and after branding myself a failure and preparing to pay their £30 PEBKAC error fee if no components are faulty, lo and behold, a call! Moboard is faulty, really badly faulty. Replaced and everything is perfect. (Admission these people actually were the ones who cable tied my back, without my permission)
If you feel you can't build a PC, spend maybe 5h on youtube, google what you get stuck on but for crying out load, don't give up!
Once you've built one you just can't stop, I just wanna keep buying new things for my baby.
List:
SLI 560's
1080p monitor
gaming peripherals.
Need to save a little more tho
Thanks for reading
I've always wanted to build my own rig and sadly never the space to do so, when I got my own place with my missus however all that changed
Had money I had been saving up for the rig and decided to build it myself, how hard could it be?
When the case arrived (bought components in two halves as I had a £500 limit on CC) I was astounded by how huge it was for a 'mid' case :O
My Asus P8P67-M PRO, fantastic little board and it is all pretty and blue
(if you can't tell i'm going for a blue rig here)
Intel i5-2500K outstanding little chip, wanted the best to play my games on, overclocks a beauty.
8GB of Corsair Vengance Blue @1600MHz Figured I may as well pay more for the larger DIMMs, after all, bigger is better
Corsair H60, only reason I wanted this is that it is more compact than the H50 and a lot smaller than air coolers, also it is very quiet and keeps the CPU well chilled, also was my tiny dabble into the world of watercooling
Gigabyte GTX560 Ti, outstanding card, never owned a PC with over 128MB of VRAM before
the performance on this is great, OC'd to 1GHz in seconds 
Guilty pleasure, I had never experienced an SSD before, but my god they are great, my loading times are the envy of all my friends on LoL. Although not really found a game which it offers significant load times over a SATA 6Gb/s HDD.
Power supply, 750W (plan on going SLI with the 560's) modular, saves a lot on in case clutter
2TB Caviar Green, really struggling to fill with Movies and Games but I feel I'll manage, didn't know OEM purchases came without retail packaging, which is a shame cos I felt the box looked really cool, but pfft, twas cheaper
Inside of the case is very very roomy
initally I did mount the stadoffs WRONG which lead to contact on the Mobo (don't worry I never powered on) Initally thought I had bought the ATX version of my board, doh!
Board mounted correctly
I/O shield was a tough thing to do as everything I did was entirely new to me and I didn't know if pushing and sliding etc was the norm Everything I did, I learned off teh interwebs!!!
SSD in place and hooked up, yes I know theres nothing mounting it but I didn't care, it was an oversight not in the budget
UPDATE: Bought a Scythe twin mounter, now sits comfortably.
Caviar Green in place, Coolermasters mounting trays were a joy to use.
H60 mounted, although at this time I hadn't bought the CPU or RAM or GPU yet, couldn't place the pump over the bracket as there was far too much cable tension, I recommend removing the rad to keep the cable loose when mounted the pump on the CPU.
My Vengeance blue RAM and my trusty Phillips head
(He's gonna save your ass a fair few times so make sure you have a decent one, and a flat-head, especially with screwing down fans, a good PH will tear the sinking off the screw-head, that's when Mr. Flathead saves your bacon.
H60 and RAM comfortably seated, advice when seating the cooler, COMMIT, don't half ass it, decide your gonna do it then push it on and tighten diagonally, stops smudging or ruining the TIM, also RAM only fits one way /facepalm
(NOTE: CPU is fitted underneath
)
My GTX 560 Ti seated, easy enough, push in, hear click, screw down, wire up, literally anyone can build a PC as long as they RTFM!
Pwnage cable management, round the back is better than up the front
Dont' worry it's all cable tied and neat now, these cavities are the enthusiasts best friend
UPDATE: Bought two Scythe Gentle Tyhoons for my H60 in push/pull and they make less noise toether than the Corsair fan and dropped my load temps by 10oC!
Also bought two Asaka Blues for the roof exaust, keep excellent airflow, damn near silent and the lights are purdy
Final product, although it has the case on and the spare CM fan on the side airing the GPU
Corsair fan makes a racket if not bolted to a rad :SI am a total testament to the power of the Internet and YouTube, everything I researched, looked up, examined, or bought I did after coming to forums like this and perusing YouTube.
When I first booted the PC I though "will it POST?" and guess what... It didn't. I troubleshot everything, resat most components and even RMA'd the GPU, had a 1,3 error GPU. Card was fine, thankfully the competitor, who I won't name, offered to pick up my rig, and fix it, for free, seeing as all my parts were from them, although they said that didn't matter, if they didn't hold a valid warranty they'd call you up and ask what you wanted instead, then bill yah!
I never lost faith (well maybe a little) and after branding myself a failure and preparing to pay their £30 PEBKAC error fee if no components are faulty, lo and behold, a call! Moboard is faulty, really badly faulty. Replaced and everything is perfect. (Admission these people actually were the ones who cable tied my back, without my permission
)If you feel you can't build a PC, spend maybe 5h on youtube, google what you get stuck on but for crying out load, don't give up!
Once you've built one you just can't stop, I just wanna keep buying new things for my baby.
List:
SLI 560's
1080p monitor
gaming peripherals.
Need to save a little more tho
Thanks for reading
