April 25th, 2012: I placed my order on [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] and purchased my items. Compiled below is a list of all the parts that were purchased along with their respective links as well as the total of the entire purchase.

DVD Drive:
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CPU Heatsink:
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Processor:
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RAM:
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Computer Case:
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Motherboard:
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Graphics Card:
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Solid State Drive:
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Hard Drive:
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Power Supply:
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Monitor:
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Total Price: $1,798.35


May 2nd, 2012: All parts have made it to my house. I remember coming home from work seeing all my computer parts waiting for me. I sat on my phone the whole time anticipating the actual delivery. Sadly, I was too tired to build everything that evening, but I did start the next day.

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May 3rd, 2012: Finally home from work after a long day and I'm excited to finally start building this lovely machine. I waited for a week to finally receive everything and the time came to finally put it all together. It was my first time so I was really nervous, but this was my "time to shine" and I started to take the parts out, one by one and start to assemble them. I made sure to print a couple forum posts, blog articles, and keep some websites open on my laptop while I was working so I would feel safe if I ran into problems and some key pointers on building.

Motherboard:
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CPU and RAM:
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First Boot Test:
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Final Assembly:
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Setup:
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Speccy:
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June 3rd, 2013: This is more of a documentation. These were my temperatures as of this day. Never cleaned the computer out and it was still running amazingly.
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August 23rd, 2013: Still loving my computer and enjoying how amazing this thing really is. By far my best investment and I was finally able to play great computer games and start toying with the whole "overclocking" thing. However, this was the death of my graphics card. Randomly stopped working and diagnosed the issue as an HDMI port malfunction. I contacted the RMA Department (Lexy Pacific) and shipped out my baby in hopes to get a new one.


September 18th, 2013: Since I was still waiting for my graphics card and I had some free time on my hands, I decided to take the whole computer apart and give it a well deserved clean. Boy, let me tell you how bad it really was. If anyone saw my thread about keeping a tower clean, this is why I asked you. Upon opening this computer up, I immediately saw that it needed cleaning. I could tell from the start that the fans were getting dusty, but it was a mess.

Open Side:
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Heat Sink:
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Rear Exhaust Fan:
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Now this is where things start to shape up.

Complete Teardown:
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Rebuild and Rewire:
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New Setup:
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October 4th, 2013: I decided that not only was I sick of waiting for my RMA to come, I decided I was going to dual monitor my computer finally. So when my RMA comes in, I will have another card to pair next to it, which I'm very excited about. I also ordered 2 LED cathodes to dress up my computer a little bit. Really excited about this addition to my computer since this was pretty much a rough week at work. I decided to actually give myself something. I also relocated my tower today since I needed access to the back to use an extra power supply slot to power 2.5" drives to use HDDHackr on (Xbox 360 program).

Semi-Finished Setup:
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