Just built my first computer

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Yesterday, I received all of the parts needed to build my first ever computer. Some of you may have seen my thread made about a month ago where I listed the parts I was getting. I made a lot of changes to the list, but feel the final parts I settled on were pretty decent.

All in all it was quite tricky to be honest. Putting the parts in was quite easy, but I got quite confused with the cabling. After a few Youtube videos though, I managed to get everything sorted, did a test boot, and everything worked fine. One problem was that my optical drive was IDE, and as my motherboard doesn't have an IDE port, I had to go out today and buy a new SATA optical drive, so I finished hooking that up today, and successfully installed Windows 7 Professional.

I know a lot of you have probably built computers millions of times before but for me it was quite a big task, and I feel I've done a pretty good job. It's an amazing feeling knowing that I picked all of the parts, and then put it all together myself.

I ran performance scan (or whatever it's called), where it gives you a rating depending on the performance of different parts. For my Alienware, which I bought last year for £750, the rating was around 4.6, which I thought at the time was quite high. Today when I ran a scan on my new build, the rating was 7.6 (the maximum is 7.9). I'm not sure how big of an indicator that it, but surely that's a pretty damn good rating??
I've installed the OS on my SSD, so boot up time, and general computer usage is incredibly quick.

Here's a list of all the parts I bought:

Intel Core i7 2600K
Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3, Intel Z68
Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H60
16GB (4x4GB) Corsair Vengeance Blue
650W PSU, Antec TruePower New Modular
64GB Crucial RealSSD M4, 2.5" SSD
500GB Samsung HD502HJ Spinpoint F3
Lite-on SATA DVD reader
HIS IceQ Radeon HD 6870
Cooler Master CM Storm Enforcer Black Midi Tower
LG IPS235V IPS LCD LED 23" HDMI Monitor
Logitech keyboard + mouse

Altogether it came to around £1,100.
Ignore the poor cable management lol....

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