I was looking into getting a good PC for college since my laptop wasn't powerful enough to run some of the softwares I needed for engineering and I could not play all my games. I looked in buying a PC and soon figured out building one would be way more cheaper and custom for my needs. I've never build a PC before in my life so this was an expensive experiment too. If it weren't for the help of youtube channels like JayzTwoCents, I would never have built a PC myself. I expect this PC to last through my college to run powerful engineering softwares and for my games. I purchased all the parts around black friday to get the best deals. I had an upper budget of $1500. The following are my parts list:
1. CPU - Intel Core i7-8700K (Set to run at 4.7 GHz for daily use, best: 5.2GHz @ 1.36V - Ran too hot after 15 mins of stress testing, got
scared and turned it back down but was stable)
2. Motherboard - Asus - Prime Z370-A ATX LGA1151
3. RAM - GeIL - SUPER LUCE RGB Sync 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000
4. Storage : Intel - 760p Series 256GB M.2-2280 SSD +
Western Digital - Blue 500 GB 2.5" SSD +
Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hard Drive
5. Graphics Card : MSI - GeForce GTX 1070-Ti DUKE 8G 8GB
6. CPU Cooling : Corsair - H100i v2 70.69 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
7. Power Supply : EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
8. Case : Corsair - Obsidian Series 700D ATX Full Tower Case
9. Extra : Cable Mod black and white cables for all required connections +
Intel overclockers protection
Case Fan : Corsair - CO-9050017-WLED 66.4 CFM 140mm Fan
Phanteks PH-FF140RGBP_BK01 Halos RGB Fan Frame High density LEDs RGB 140mm fan mounting
USB LED Strip