Computer Build: Part 1 - Working Out and Ordering

For my birthday on the 16th of June, I asked family members for money towards a new project i wished to undertake: a kick ass computer with which to play games, do programming projects and photo editing (which I do from time to time). So I set about researching it, giving myself a budget of £900 as this is what I thought my family would give me (at an estimate, as they are a generous bunch).

So i set about on my favorite website overclockers.co.uk looking for parts that would fit in my price range. Needless to say, it got me a decent PC spec up and running. Needless to say, my birthday came around and my family were even more generous than I had predicted and I had around £1500 on which to spend on a computer! So I upped the spec a little, and this is what i ended up with (ordered this morning):

It has a top of the range unlocked (heavily overclockable) Core i5 2500K processor and an SSD, which should help bring boot times of Windows down, as I think i will only really keep Windows 7 on it, as it is only 60GB (SSD's are expensive!). Also I got a bundle with Windows for one hard drive, which I am going to use as my games HDD, and I have another 500GB at home which i will most likely use for media storage (i have a large music library). The 2TB is for backup purposes.

So that should be with me tomorrow (yay!!) and will be building it on Thursday after my last exam finishes at around 11:30!

I also have a Matrix Orbital display coming with it from another website (wasn't cheap...) which should look great. I'm going for a blue light colour scheme so it should fit right in. 

Pictures when the parts are delivered (hopefully) tomorrow!

Hello World

Hello everybody, its been a while since i posted anything on here or anywhere to be honest!

Exams are upon me, life is sprawled out in front of me, everything is clicking into place...

So yeah, mostly the standard revision time stuff is going on at the moment. But, there is always something in my life worth talking about!!!

Building a Computer


For my birthday i've been asking for money from family and friends as I have been wanting to undertake a computer build for a very, very long time!! So i've been planning over the last couple of months, mostly in the price range of £600-£800 however some parts take it over the £1k mark! If you want to take a look at my computer parts list, it's all in a Google Doc here.


Uni + Exams


Planning on building it myself for Uni, where I have confirmed Hull university to do Computer Science w/ Games Design, which i am really looking forward to!!

Exams start in 1 week as of yesterday, and my 18th birthday is in 2 weeks from today. Going to be a good month!!