Building the dankest PC, thomas the dank engine Options

[Stupid Fat Hobbi...]

So, after much thought and cost induced heart attacks, I have decided that instead of a crappy ol' laptop, I'm going to join the elite of the master race and not just get a PC, but build it as well with literally 0 seconds of experience in building anything remotely mechanical or electrical, yes I know I AM so brave, but when I have youtube videos and tutorials as my sword and hopefully you guys as my shield, I'm pretty sure I can do this.

Talked with monkey quite a bit about this, and because of the legend he is, he procured a list of the finest components for this beast at a reasonable price (I'm only 16 I don't have wads of cash to spend like you guys)

Here is said list with links and stuff:

cooling gel - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arctic-Cooling-MX-...HDP1RJXAW3ZGZRS £3.95

motherboard - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00K8KJ..._1_1&sr=8-1 £91.74

CPU - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-Core-i7-4790...HDP1RJXAW3ZGZRS £256.90

RAM - http://www.amazon.co.uk/HyperX-Series-1866...HDP1RJXAW3ZGZRS £35.54

fans - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-Series-AF1...HDP1RJXAW3ZGZRS £17.36

case - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-CC-9011052...HDP1RJXAW3ZGZRS £47.38

Hard drive - http://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Desktop-SATA-Dr...=2tb+hard+drive £60.48

SSD - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-2-5-Inch-S...HDP1RJXAW3ZGZRS £73.13

graphics card - http://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-GTX-980-Graphi...eywords=gtx+980 £405.77

monitor - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-VE228TR-Wides...ords=hd+monitor £86.99

The total cost of it with a monitor as well (ikr mad innit?) is just under £1080

You may be thinking, "hey you stupid hobbit, listen 'ere m9, stop bragging and being so awesome" but it cannot be helped and also, I really do need your help, since, as I said before, I have no experience in doing this, I have never even owned a PC of my own, let alone built one.

Monkey told me to ask you guys if you have any objections or recommendations to the components listed above, such as a cheaper option or whatever you can think of; any help is greatly appreciated! I will probably be ordering this stuff after the 20th of August, as this is riding on my GCSE's, so any input before then would be great.

Thanks in advance,

<<<<<<333333 Hobbit

[MonkeyFiend]

There is an issue of stuff not working together to an extent e.g. I could plonk 2400mhz memory in an old asus board that supports memory speeds of 1600. technically it would fit, but it won't work. However aside from one or two minor issues most stuff it it fits together should work. A couple of things to note, have a look at your graphics card of choice to see whether the dedicated power is 6 or 8 pin, then see what you have on the psu - I put an old computer together where I had a pair of 8 pins connectors on the psu and the graphics card had 6 pin connectors. Only cost a few pounds for an adapter cable, but something to look out for.

If you post what you plan to be the final setup here, am sure between us all we could confirm it'll all work nicely together.

As mentioned above, if the cooling on teh cpu is insufficient the computer will tend to just shutdown. The only component I've ever had problems with overheating was the northbridge (especially on asus motherboards for some reason).

Regarding slotting the cpu, there's usually a pin/hole missing in one corner (often with a triangular arrow type marker), corresponding to the same on the motherboard so you know you've put it in the right way.

USB versions of windows will certainly work for installing, the only time you come a cropper is trying to boot on a really old system that doesn't support usb boot or if you're running in non-uefi legacy bios type mode and trying to boot of a usb key that's more than 16gb (as a result of legacy only supporting fat32 filesystems and 16gb+ usb things mostly being ntfs). If you make sure you've got a usb stick up to 16gb you should be fine (although writing an iso image to a usb can sometimes be tricky, there are plenty of tools to do it magiciso/yumi etc.)

BTW what version of windows are you after?

[Yet Another Fool]

although writing an iso image to a usb can sometimes be tricky, there are plenty of tools to do it magiciso/yumi etc.)

Rufus is an awesome tool for making bootable USB
https://rufus.akeo.ie/?locale=en_US