Well today i put the finishing touches to my first ever pc build,It all started from getting pissed off with my old pc being very tempremental so i thought f**k it i,m gonna build myself one which was a big ask from someone who up to 12 months or so ago had never owned a pc.Anyway that was the target so i set myself a budget of £1000 and so the quest began,trawling sites for parts reading countless reviews,watching endless amounts of installation videos which paid off enormously because by the time i was ready for putting it all together it were as though i knew where everything should go..........So for you folks thats thinking of building your own thats never done one before....DO YOUR RESEARCH!!!.
My original ideas were to build around the AMD Phenom 1100T 6 core and use SSD's but when i saw the price of the drives i soon changed my mind......lot of money small capacity,so i decided to go the RAID 0 route and get 2 500 Gb WD Blues plus a 1Tb WD Black.I also lowered the spec on cpu to the 1090T which saved me a few quid and im not losing that much performance compared to the 1100T.Mobo,i chose the Asus crosshair IV formula,nice board looks the biz only thing is you cant sli nvidia cards which is a shame cos i got the EVGA GTX570 and would of loved to have two of those rigged up,fantastic card.Add to that a Cooler Master Storm Scout case and XFX 750W black edition power supply and some GSkill Sniper ram,Cooler Master V8 cpu cooler and a couple of extra fans and i was good to go.Total cost,not much change from £900 /$1400US and overall quite easy to assemble,so i am a very Happy Chappy.....Some pics