After ascending the mountain of trial and tribulation, after sifting through ancient tomes of PC knowledge, after staring unblinking into the Eye of Error and realising the CPU wasn't powered, I present the finished product:
The build:
- Intel i5-6600 (3.3 GHz) with a third party EKL Alpenföhn Ben Nevis CPU cooler
- GTX 1060 (6GB)
- Crucial Ballistix Sports LT (2x8GB DDR4)
- ASUS Z170-M Plus
- Be Quiet Straight Power 10 PSU
- WD Blue 1TB
- Fractal Design Core 1100 case
- Third party case fan (120mm) I forget the name
- ASUS VS248 24" monitor
That's what it all looks like when put together inside. Note however you may notice a couple of errors in the photo, I took this before plugging in the P8 power cord as I hadn't realised it needed that as well as the 24pin connector. I wondered for a while why all the bits and pieces whirred to life but didn't do anything :]
The keen eyed also might notice that there doesn't seem to be a hard drive anywhere. The hard drive is actually mounted in the slot where a disc drive would be as you can see in the next picture.
This isn't because I'm completely mad. The hard drive I ordered did not match up with the screw holes on the mounting tray, so after noticing the shelf for the disc drive was not in use I made the best of a bad situation and made a lot of cuts int he shelf to fit the hard drive. The fan mounted at the front of the case is also similarly precariously mounted as the case was meant to come with a fan but given the manufacturer had not got back to me and I didn't want to waste time on a return I fit the fan on with spare screws and the leftover mounting screws for the motherboard, lining the holes with blue tack to stop it shaking around.
So in the end, I want to thank all the people that helped me most, Scratched paintjob, Wifidi, Ferwiner and Planet Smasher. I want to thank myself for building it, I want to thank Amazon for being so quick on the delivery, I want to thank my wallet for it's endless contributions, I want to thank my trusty penknife, I want to thank LEGO for teaching me how mend things. it's not perfect not at all. in fact, DO NOT COPY THIS BUILD because it is not compatible (in the conventional sense anyway). Only reason I got it to work was determination and elbow grease.
However, it's Tuesday evening and after running setup I found but it has no wifi receiver built in :[ So I'm getting a USB dongle to covert this as the router is too far away (downstairs).
Full album here:
http://imgur.com/a/PihOn
there is a cpu cooler behind the RAM there
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