Bah… Just joined the PC master-race myself too. The cheapo 400gig  SSD tipped me over the edge. 

Got a mini itx with a GTX 760 from ebuyer. 

Should work under the plasma tv jobbie. Hopefully.. Don't really want to add a fancy monitor on top too but we'll see how it goes. Managed to stop myself from getting  sodding water cooled CPU cooler but it was a close one. Sweet jesus…. I'd forgotten how daft gaming PCs were. 

Been a while since I've done the high stress Lego fun of putting together a whole load of bits. 

All the Titanfall chatter got me thinking. Ultra res and 60fps here we go!

I've never seen you on Dota, when are you hopping on to get torn apart by the evil Russian GG crew?

Having a creaking old Macbook Pro and a Steam catalogue full of games that I couldn't really think of pushing also tipped me over. 

Will try to fiddle about with the Steam group a bit more now I have am ability to actually run stuff in something more than 640x480… DOTA2 always sounds impenetrable and full of angry team mates irate at the fact I haven't fizzled the plipoppetron an with the correctly timed mega-sploop of the character I've inadvertently chosen. Feels like a boat that has hit full steam and not easy to get onboard from zero by now?

My MOBA skills stop at ~6.8mins of Awesomenauts on the 360. I was confused… It apparently is much more fun knowing that you're clicking real people dead? I do have DOTA 2 in the library so may well get addicted in time.

A Civ 5  game that doesn't stutter to a infuriating crawl after 100 odd turns will be enough to get me going. True next gen right there.

What the blue fuck is an RF shield?

Oh I was using an odd term. The shitty plate that comes with the motherboards for the case. Fixed it now after a good push.

Right. Screwing it in, I'm probably being paranoid but I can use the metal screws for the motherboard to the case right?

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Oh I was using an odd term. The shitty plate that comes with the motherboards for the case. Fixed it now after a good push. Right. Screwing it in, I'm probably being paranoid but I can use the metal screws for the motherboard to the case right?

Yes you can. Make sure you ground yourself by touching radiators frequently and the most important thing is the manual that came with the mobo. That'll tell you exactly where to put what, especially those tricky wires to power the fans and any LEDs.

Sorry i'm gushing questions. A tad nervous. Fearing/excited for the first power button press.

Fuck leds they are pure shit.
No fans, leds, etc are essential unless they are in sequence with something else you need, for example there will likely be an led linked to the power button but those light up sides can be left.

Right, motherboard fitted with processor, ram and GPU (and screwed in). Time for connectors.

Also time for cider. Good idea.

This is kind fun actually, like a jigsaw that will play Titanfall.

How's it going?

Had a mare with my heat sink as I hadn't fit the plastic screws properly. Fell a short distance onto the motherboard and the processor is covered in paste. Which I take it is ok. Just about to power it on. Gack. Found it an issue getting power cables for all the hardware and I'm short a slot on the PSU for the HDD so I'm leaving that out for now.

Well it powered up alright. But nothing appears on the monitor after ten minutes. Not for VGA or HDMI. Nothing. I'm at a loss.

Strange. Are you sure you've plugged the hdmi cable into the back of the gfx card?

Boring Windows install next.