The Build Saga: Part Thirteen

The video card has been ordered.

PCPartPicker part list

To be ordered
Case Fan: Noctua NF-F12 PWM 120mm  Fan
Case Fan: 3 x Noctua NF-S12A FLX 120mm  Fan
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 140mm  Fan
Optical Drive: Asus Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer
Monitor: 2 xAcer H236HLbid 60Hz 23.0" Monitor  ($149.99 @ NCIX US)

Ordered
Logitech G500 Laser Mouse
Thermaltake Meka G1 Keyboard
Windows 8 Professional (64-bit)
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB
Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium
Gelid GC-Extreme
ASRock Z87 Fatal1ty Killer Motherboard
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD
Corsair H100i Liquid CPU Cooler
Kingston Blu Red 2x8GB DDR3 1600 RAM
NZXT Phantom Enthusiast (White/Red) ATX Case
NZXT FS-200RB Red LED Case Fan
Antec HCG-750M 750W Semi-modular Power Supply
BitFenix Spectre Pro 230mm Fan
Intel Core i5-4670K Processor
ASUS DirectCUII nVidia GeForce GTX 780

We are getting very close to the end.  I am still debating about the monitors, but this is my choice as of right now.  I am still trying to decide if I want one larger (27 inch) monitor or two smaller (23 - 24 inch) monitors.  Either way I will probably pick up a new display and give my wife my old one.  She will be excited, I hope.  She just inherited my Phenom II 955BE with 8 gigs of RAM and a Radeon HD6870.  I will probably need to get her a new drive.  Her drive is 160GB and very loud and very old.  I think a 250GB SSD may be in her future...

I am very excited to get to the end of this process.  I have assembled most of my parts, but I have yet to really take an enthusiast approach with it.  I have not setup my SSDs to be optimized.  I have no fooled with Corsair LINK.  I have no overclocked or adjust anything (other than my RAM which was surprisingly easy).  I look forward to next month when I will get the chance to take a break and really fool with all of my new toys.  It will also be just in time to give my wife a special birthday and HOPEFULLY get into a shift that allows me to see my family.  As much as I love my new PC, I'd love to spend some time with my family, too.

I am really thankful that my brother came over and hung out with me while I put all of this stuff together and helped out A LOT.  I get a little anxious about things like this when I build for myself.  I mean REAL anxiety, here.  He will be bringing by a nice camera to take some pictures soon, once we get it all finished.  We wanted to get some build video, but did not.  We might still take some, but it won't be progressive.  I also ordered some case badges for about 6 bucks to fix in the color scheme that will really put the finishing touches on it, I hope to get a chance to show those off on this new rig, too.