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Building a desktop, getting excited

Cimeryd Jan 23, 2016

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This has been a long time coming. I haven't built a PC since before year 2000, and have used Macs mostly until 2014.

A friend donated some leftovers to me, notably a CM Storm Scout 2

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and a GeForce GFX550Ti. The case is perfect, it is what I would have bought anyways. The GPU is meh, but will hold me over until I have the ready cash to spend on something better. Two advantages to this, I get to hold off until I see if AMD is actually releasing something on par with Nvidia this time, and I get to get all excited again when it comes time to upgrade.
The screen, keyboard and mouse will be nabbed from the Mac Mini, which will then be wiped and donated to my father.

Now, to stuff it with cool hardware. I have placed an order for the following:

ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING, Socket-1151, because it seems silly to jump into it with anything but the newest chipset, and this was a decent price.
Intel Core i5-6600K Skylake Bundle, should be more than enough oomph for me, and after using a Core M 0.8 GHz CPU in my laptop for a year, I know I won't believe the speed.
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133MHz 16GB kit (2x8GB), leaving two slots open for future expansion.
Corsair CX 750M, 750W PSU, because this is apparently not the part to cheap out on.
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD, I'll be damned if I allow this to be my bottleneck.
Seagate Barracuda® 3TB, or if I run out of space.
Samsung DVD Writer, SH-224FB, cheapest they had in stock. I don't expect to use it much, but you never know.

The package left today and I expect it to cross my doorstep on Tuesday.

Almost afraid to ask, but does anyone see problems with this setup?

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Xpander Jan 23, 2016

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pretty good setup.. that GPU needs upgrade and fast imo :D it wont look good on that build :D its several generations old and quite a lowend :P

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Cimeryd Jan 23, 2016

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I know the GPU sucks, but apparently it's still better than the Intel graphics by a good margin. Also, remember that my current rig is a Core M laptop, I'm not exactly spoiled on good graphics.

Did not know about the PSU, hoping I didn't go overboard with it. My thinking was simply that I sure as hell wouldn't want one too weak for any future upgrades.

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Cimeryd Jan 26, 2016

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Update: I got the parts today and spent the afternoon putting it all together. Got it really neat and nice.

My friend's old GPU seems completely dead. Screen was black on boot, and when I plugged the screen cable straight into the motherboard, BIOS don't even register the card. Bit sad, but it was really old. Intel graphics a while more then.

Now I have finally set up Fedora properly, calling it a day. Yay!

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