Greetings All,
Before I get started I wanted to take a moment to thank the members of this board. I've been doing A LOT of reading the past few weeks as I spec'd out and selected components and parts for my first build. Usually when I Google searched a topic, I would look for TomsHardware to pop up as a site to quickly reference and dig in for answers. Hence my posting my final question(s) here, so thanks again and keep up the awesome work!
My 5 year old gaming PC recently went to PC heaven, or at least part of it did. It was a Dell XPS running GTS-240's in SLI (yes its THAT old). I had wanted to build that PC fresh out of college, but some folks deterred me from the effort stating that although hardware was not too bad, the software side could get nasty. So I stayed away. Now, 5 years later I'm back again with renewed vigor to give it a shot!
Please see below the link to my PC build:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4VxqwP
I have been watching and waiting for my GPU to become available before taking the dive on the rest of the PC, and lo and behold at 7:05 am (6:05 pm EST), the ASUS Strix became available. I went this route for the cooler, quieter running, and because my selected MOBO is also an ASUS. Figured there would be more compatibility. My final question before making my purchases is also the heaviest one... will I receive all the cables and have all the connections needed to assemble my selected components to build my gaming PC?
I've tried to do the list myself, looked at connections, how mana SATA's I have, connectors, are the components all compatible, etc. but I'd greatly appreciate another set of eyes to say, "yep you're good to go, not get to ordering and building that sucker!!"
I'm very excited about this. The PC will be such a huge upgrade, I can't even begin to fathom the experience once its complete. I'm still leery on assembly - like bending pins or giving some "oomph" at the appropriate times, as well as the software interfacing and setup, but I'm hoping Good Fortune will be on my side.
Any and all input is appreciated. Thanks and best regards!
HF
Before I get started I wanted to take a moment to thank the members of this board. I've been doing A LOT of reading the past few weeks as I spec'd out and selected components and parts for my first build. Usually when I Google searched a topic, I would look for TomsHardware to pop up as a site to quickly reference and dig in for answers. Hence my posting my final question(s) here, so thanks again and keep up the awesome work!
My 5 year old gaming PC recently went to PC heaven, or at least part of it did. It was a Dell XPS running GTS-240's in SLI (yes its THAT old). I had wanted to build that PC fresh out of college, but some folks deterred me from the effort stating that although hardware was not too bad, the software side could get nasty. So I stayed away. Now, 5 years later I'm back again with renewed vigor to give it a shot!
Please see below the link to my PC build:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4VxqwP
I have been watching and waiting for my GPU to become available before taking the dive on the rest of the PC, and lo and behold at 7:05 am (6:05 pm EST), the ASUS Strix became available. I went this route for the cooler, quieter running, and because my selected MOBO is also an ASUS. Figured there would be more compatibility. My final question before making my purchases is also the heaviest one... will I receive all the cables and have all the connections needed to assemble my selected components to build my gaming PC?
I've tried to do the list myself, looked at connections, how mana SATA's I have, connectors, are the components all compatible, etc. but I'd greatly appreciate another set of eyes to say, "yep you're good to go, not get to ordering and building that sucker!!"
I'm very excited about this. The PC will be such a huge upgrade, I can't even begin to fathom the experience once its complete. I'm still leery on assembly - like bending pins or giving some "oomph" at the appropriate times, as well as the software interfacing and setup, but I'm hoping Good Fortune will be on my side.
Any and all input is appreciated. Thanks and best regards!
HF