Investigation Post - How I Built My PC

While my new PC isn't quite finished yet, it's so near to completion that I figured that there would be no issue talking about my building process. While many think that building a PC is a highly complicated and involved process, I feels as though it is more comparable to an expensive set of LEGOs.

I first started out by purchasing my case. In this instance I selected the NZXT Phantom 630 Windowed Edition, as it's large size provided me with plenty of room to work in. The chassis also came with a large array of fans, ensuring that my PC would stay properly cooled without having to purchase additional fans.

Next, I acquired my motherboard, the central hub of any PC. In this case I chose the AsRock Z97 Extreme4, a highly-efficient multi-purpose motherboard. If I was just gaming, I would have selected a more gaming-oriented board, but due to my usage of Photoshop and After Effects I opted for the more versatile option.

After that I selected the CPU. In order to have a compatible chipset with my motherboard, I bought an Intel i7 4790k, the best processor for the Z97 chipset. The fairly high quality of the onboard graphics made it a very good choice as I save up for the more expensive graphic card.

While I have not yet purchased the graphics card, it will most definitely be the most defining feature of this PC as far as completion goes. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is the newest graphics card on the market, and its $700 price tag is well deserved for the stunning visuals it outputs.

I then purchased some of the smaller but more vital portions of my PC, including a SteelSeries Apex M800 keyboard, 4 sticks of 8 GB HyperX RAM, 2 Hard Drives, totaling 3 TB of storage space, and a 750W power supply. Even without the graphics card, this PC is a beautiful machine, able to run many programs quickly, smoothly, and efficiently. However, the acquisition of a GTX 1080 graphics card will make it so that there will be no program whose visuals are too much for my PC.