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Don't worry. I'll just hit you over the head with my full tower case... Although that would be rather hard... Can you just uhmmmm like lay down and I tip it onto you?

I built my first PC back in January, I love it. It does everything I want it to do (every game I've tried at 30fps+ on medium-high settings), enough space, and I can upgrade it any time I want. The whole system cost me about £500, but I'm saving up for a graphics card that'll bump it up to £650. Even then it's still cheaper than most prebuilts, and the price for mine even included the monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, etc, which is something I didn't see very often when I was looking around before I chose my parts.

Definitely building my next one. I have to say though, handling a motherboard for the first time is both exciting and terrifying. Same with a CPU.. so powerful, yet so fragile.

(excuse the poor cable management and surrounding area, my room is awful)

I have to agree with the cpu/motherboard part so many things can go wrong so easily.
Mine was around $1200 dollars and I have no problem running anything on highest but I'm going to need a new heatsink because I've been hitting upwards of 70c/158f

I know haha, the amount of times I'd thought I'd broken something was astronomical. Especially because it worked on the test boot, but not when I'd plugged everything in. In the end it turned out that my case fans weren't connected properly, but it was still damn scary.


Are you running the heatsink that came with the processor? You could always invest in a new CPU cooler, I don't need one yet but I'll definitely be including one in my next build.

Yeah I am I have the I5 k series so the stock heatsink is nice but not quite good enough.
I've heard the corsair h60 is pretty good and it's inexpensive so I might go with that one.

It is good, but it can sometimes be a bit of a pain to mount in a rear exhaust fan socket as its a bit bigger than the fan hole, so it doesn't fit in some smaller cases.

It looks like it will fit in my case but I will measure it later just to make sure.

If not you could just cut it a little bit, its not that difficult to do, just a hacksaw will do it.

Yeah , btw What are the specs on your system?

finished my build on the 27th of january and it cost me exactally £500 no word of a lie

Pics?

dont have a camera im affraid

:( Specs then?

amd fx 4170
gigabyte ga-970a-ud3
amd hd radeon 7770
seagate baracuda 500gb
case and powerpack is some no name crap aswell as the optical drive

Not bad how is the 7770?

its ok actually its a shame there is no vga as both my monitors have vga but 1 has dvi aswell so i had to go the round about way of using a dvi to vga for 1 screen and a hdmi to dvi for another but quality is good in my opinion. the only thing that gets on my nerves wierdly is the driver comes up with 7700 instead of 7770 but i can deal with that eventually...

Ah that sucks.

This is mine atm, I hate cable management so I just kind of left them where they were instead of tidying a bit more, I plan to sort it but i never get round to it. It cost me about £1200, I got most of it from Scan and some of the water cooling components from Ebay. I love it too much.

What kind of graphics car do you have, and where the hell is your power supply?

The power supply is in the bottom left, its just behind the radiator, you can make out its fan. I have a Sapphire Radion HD7870 2GB

Is it sideways? Or am I just retarded?

yeah, it is sideways, the fan is on the top normally. Its like that to fit it next to the radiator.

Ah, that's just the first time I've seen it done that way.

Its fairly common in bigger cases. That one has the space for 2 next to each other at the back, not that you'd ever really need 2.

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Well, that's pretty nifty. Learn something new everyday.

Nice how much was it?
This is mine.

that's pretty impressive, I like your LEDs :D

Haha thanks I wish it had more though XD

mine isn't a top of the range one, it was a bit between $700-$800

Not a bad price you can get some good hardware for that price.
Specs?

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Building it isn't the hard part. It's finding what you want and knowing what's what. For instance, the difference between a standard drive and a solid state drive. But, putting the parts together took me about an hour, and I'd never put one together before in my life.

It's not terribly difficult. Most components come with instruction manuals, and there are plenty of guides on Youtube and such.

Try the thermaltake soprano RS, it's a nice mid size case.

Good but too expensive right now.
Thats my old one.
Crazy party..

Did you check amazon, newegg, and microcenter? Dude, don't be bitching about price. If yo want a GOOD case, spend more money.

Also, what the hell happened?

There was this party, birthday party.
Right now im broke but I need really need case thats not broken.
had to fix walls in the wall etc.
Yeah I checked them all...

Dude. Sorry to say but you are shit out of luck.
Equipment costs cash, I paid 400 for my case.

Yeah, I need something cheap for few months.
I know everything works inside, its just the dust that I hate (and the broken power button)

Any cheaper suggetions?