Thanks to a long culmination of threads on GFY I managed to finally get to it on Sunday and Monday, and now its all done...
Not gonna give a song and a dance or expect praise, but aside frm a few minor hitches, it went pretty smoothly tbf. Wasnt quite sure what to expect, but it was all pretty painless and I took my time - The biggest hurdle was the massive cooler that almost covers the entire motherboard and the ram sticks. Took me ages to get the clips right and stuff, so its gonna be a pain in the ass to remove, should I need more RAM in the future, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it... Anway, here were all the parts....
Then this is it powered up and installing windows 10...
Quick yet blurry photo of the insides with the subltle red glow I wanted to achive - I wanted a 'bit' of coulor, but not a fucking disco on my desk... (Note the MASSIVE cooler I was on about!)
But then its onto the important stuff ! GFY !!!
Need to tidy up the cables outside the case now of course, and that kinda thing, but overall Im happy - Last pic also shows my new mouse and clicky keyboard. You can also see the soundbar, behind the monitor, but again, that needs to be straigntened up...
Aside from getting my 3TB drive to be availible (See my other thread on page 1) all is fine - Memory XMP has been activated in the bios, so Im getting full bang for my buck, and Ive also enabled 'Turbo Boost' in the bios as an easy overclock - Turns out its just a little bit better than the 'Game Mode' overclock setting...
So all is good - Ive got an Xbox pass for just ONE POUND, and Im downloading 3TB of games as I type this on my mac
Anyway, PC saga over and done with, but MANY THANKS to all you guys who have helped me out along my journey - Its all been really appriciated, and even if I didnt take every suggestion, I still really appriciate you making them