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by Mike McNamee Published 01/04/2017

Assembly
Self-build is not a task for the unskilled. Most things fit together OK, but experience is quite important and the naturally clumsy should steer well clear – the delicate pins and connectors can easily by smashed by the unwary! Our progress was smooth and uneventful with Son of Editor doing the building while his father held the tools, took pictures and made the tea. We had to use the videos provided by the manufacturers (on an iPad) but overall things went well and the build was completed in a couple of hours. The greatest trouble was caused by fitting the CPU cooler; it required a base plate underneath the motherboard and then a fiddly cruciform harness on the top side to clamp the cooler tight onto the CPU. You have to grind your way through a lot of similar, but not identical, model numbers just to work out which holes to put screws through.

Main Component List:

Samsung 1TB 960 Evo PCIe SSD
Nvidia Quadro K1200 4GB GDDR5 4x Mini DisplayPorts PCI-E
Intel Core I7-7700K 4.20 GHz Socket 1151 8MB Cache
Samsung 850 EVO 1TB 2.5inch SSD
Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB Kit DDR4 3200MHz Memory
WD Red 4TB 3.5" SATA NAS Hard Drive
Asus Intel ROG STRIX Z270E GAMING LGA 1151 ATX Motherboard

Windows Pro 10 32-bit/64-bit Box pack USB flash drive Corsair RM650x High Performance Power Supply
Logitech M705 Wireless Mouse Black
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 4 Heatpipes/1x120mm Fan CPU Air Cooler
Pioneer DVR-221BK 24x Internal SATA DVD/CD Burner with Dual Layer Capability

Total Cost: £2,501

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