So I got a bunch of my parts in the mail yesterday. I felt like I was a kid at Christmas when I saw those cardboard boxes had arrived. :biggrin::biggrin:
Right now I'm waiting on just the SSD, Motherboard, and CPU Cooler, which should arrive Monday or Tuesday, before I can get building. I'm still trying to decide on a monitor, but I hope to have a decision made and an order placed by tomorrow since I can test my build using an older monitor to make sure the components are functioning properly. Right now I'm looking into the 24" IPS/PLS monitors as I'm thinking that good color accuracy with decent response time is more important to me than great response time and poor color accuracy. That said there is a small LAN party tonight that a friend is hosting so I think I'll check out what monitors people bring and see if there are any in particular that I like.
Once I get the monitor then all that will remain is the GPU, which I will decide upon after I see what AMD has planned with Hawaii at the end of September. :hmm:
Definitely delidding the CPU to get rid of that nasty black rubber-silicone adhesive that Intel has been using with Ivy and Haswell; after I test the CPU to make sure it works first of course. :sneaky: :twisted: