Building a new Computer, Shopping List

[RikuoAmero]

and yet your PC listed in your signature was already leagues ahead of mine, lol. Mine is a pre-built 2008 PC with only a 1.6 GHz Processor, 2 GB ram (added one myself), and 160 GB HHD (I also added a Blu-ray reading/burning drive). Nothing worth mentioning at all. Use to play 720p fine, but it's gotten laggy on some now and will not keep up with any 720p encoded at Hi10 (10-bit). It does fairly well at gaming on the games I play with normal to low specs but I don't game a whole lot and most of the games are 10+ years old.

Was this topic to simply brag about it or was it asking what could have been done differently or something?

Both. This will be the first computer I've built from scratch. The one I have now was store-bought then upgraded. And I'm gonna be evil, I'm expecting the case tomorrow or Monday at the latest, and I plan to do unboxing videos of each component, just so the rest of Kametsu can squirm in jealousy:happy:

[Koby]

and yet your PC listed in your signature was already leagues ahead of mine, lol. Mine is a pre-built 2008 PC with only a 1.6 GHz Processor, 2 GB ram (added one myself), and 160 GB HHD (I also added a Blu-ray reading/burning drive). Nothing worth mentioning at all. Use to play 720p fine, but it's gotten laggy on some now and will not keep up with any 720p encoded at Hi10 (10-bit). It does fairly well at gaming on the games I play with normal to low specs but I don't game a whole lot and most of the games are 10+ years old.

Was this topic to simply brag about it or was it asking what could have been done differently or something?

Well I also got a better PC but I only use it to as a media player for my 40 inch HDTV. All my external drives are hooked to it. It's got a 3.2 GHz Processor, 1 GB ram (one stick died and haven't replaced it thus why ram is low), 320 GB HHD.

My laptop however is probably my most powerful, don't remember the specs of it off the top of my head though.

[RikuoAmero]

Well, the case arrived, and here's a link for a few photos

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2670901496777.278600.1383318742&type=1&l=e595410ce9

The video, and I apologize for the crap quality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARFWLmSDI28

New Edit: The case comes with seven fans (three 120mm front fans, two back 120mm fans, two 140mm top fans). I think the motherboard I have in the shopping list won't be able to connect them, here's what it says on the motherboard page on Asus

1 x CPU Fan connector(s) (4 -pin)

2 x Chassis Fan connector(s) (1 x 4 -pin, 1 x 3 -pin)

2 x Power Fan connector(s) (2 x 3 -pin)

I'm guessing that's not enough connectors for seven fans (eight, if I can fit one on the side panel). It looks like the

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/Maximus_IV_ExtremeZ/

is the only one with enough connectors, if I'm reading it correctly

1 x CPU Fan connector(s)

3 x Chassis Fan connector(s)

1 x Power Fan connector(s)

3 x Optional Fan connector(s)