My budget PC build Pt.1

Warning this post contains Geek Speak that some non geeks may find incredibly boring. 

Everyone would love to have a £2000 - £3000 PC budget but most of us are not that mental to fork out that kind of money for a luxury item. So I decided to try and build a mid to high end gaming PC for as little money as possible. The first part of this project I choose a graphics card, partly because I was desperate for one as old faithful was a bit dated and didn't support DirectX 11, so was not capable of running any graphically half decent games from the past couple of years.

As this is a budget build money isn't on tap so saving for each part is the only way to do this. Choosing a new graphics card was a bit of a task, specs and price being the main factor. I came to the decision to save for an AsusGeForce GTX 750 Ti OC 2GB priced at £115.44, this was a good mid ranged card and suitable for what I needed so I set about saving for the card.

About a month ago Id saved enough to buy my new card but seen a much better one that was out of my price range originally but had been reduced from £219.98 down to £159.99 knew this was a better buy altogether so saved a little more and bought it. The card was an Asus GeForceGTX 960 Strix DCII OC 4GB GDDR5 bought from ebuyer.com.

Delivery day and the arrival of my new card I awed in the awesomeness of it, its still in the box by the way. Opened the box removed it only to find another box a very nice black box with gold ASUS logo on front which I kept, this was feeling like pass the parcel opened that box and there it was a vision of fan turning wonder, in a moulded foam frame and anti-static bag like i said pass the parcel, removed it and have to say its a pretty good looking card 'tech porn'.

Now for the installation, I opened the case side panel and removed the old card from the motherboard, then fitted the new card which is wider than my old card taking up two bays in the case something I checked before buying it not a fool. The swapping out of the cards took all of 5 mins give or take dropping the screws numerous times. New card fitted side panel back on power up time normally this is when things go wrong and I begin raging, pressed the power button so weird the silence and not seeing the fan blades turning this is the strix part of the card explained later, boot screen showing always a good sign windows logo and into the logon screen entered the pin and wow it all went smoothly, I have graphics but no graphics driver so swiftly onto Nvidia's website selected the correct card and operating system and downloaded the driver, after it was downloaded I installed the the driver and voila one new graphics cards ready to be used to the max.