System just ordered

[Alairan]

After lots of humming about, and a bit of scrapping extra funds (having originally been looking at an £800 budget), I ended up ordering this.

Intel 10200i Configurator - Extreme Gaming System
- No Webcam Option (Zero Cost)
- No Headset Option (Zero Cost)
- Speakers Not Selected
- Monitor Not Selected
- Mouse Not Selected
- Keyboard Not Selected
- Full Cable Management
- Networking Not Selected
- No Operating System
- Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CMPSU-850TXV2UK)
- Onboard Sound Card (ZERO COST)
- OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
- No RAID Option (ZERO Cost)
- No Second Hard Drive Option (ZERO Cost)
- Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003)
- No Graphics Card Upgrade
- OcUK ATI Radeon 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 PC Game
- Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX)
- Gigabyte Z68X-UD4 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
- Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3)
- Stage 2: Overclock of CPU - 15% Overclock (Proceesor speed x1.15)
- Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM
- Cooler Master Storm Enforcer Gaming Case - Black

Just over £990 in cost. Now, I was wondering, what should I expect on this arriving? I see people have mentioned graphics cards being seperate from the rest of the system before, should I expect to have to put these in myself?

 

[FARGO]

I beleive the GFX card is sometimes packaged seperately to prevent it snapping off during delivery. I couldn't promise you either way tho.

 

[Reaper 392]

yes, the graphics card will almost certainly be separate, this is to stop damage in transit. its a two minute job to take the side panel off, plug the card in, plug the power cables in, then put the side panels on though so i wouldnt worry.

the cooler will probably be attached, but with it being the venom im really not sure

 

[Stone22uk]

Well the venom has a mounting plate so if it isnt fitted its a bit of a faff to remove the mobo fit the cooler and put it back together. I would have thought it must come mounted

 

[Alairan]

I certainly hope so! Despite having done graphics card and RAM installation before, it still makes me nervous. Let alone the idea of having to fit the cooler.