I desire to know more!

[BillyBlaze]

Necessity is the mother of invention. Take up a hobby that involves computers. You'll learn because if you want to take it up, you have no choice.

Four simple popular ones:

1. Making mods for games. You'll learn basic scripting, modeling, and the inner workings of 3D engines.

2. Making anime music videos. You'll learn video editing, and video encoding.

The next two are dangerous.

3. Overclocking. You can streamline your system to make it faster than it was before and learn some basics on what hardware you have and how it works. But if you screw up, you'll destroy your system.

4. Hacking. You'll learn about networking. As long as you don't do anything incredibly stupid you should be ok.

That being said, here are some links should you choose to take interest in one of them

http://www.animemusicvideos.org for all your AMV needs.

http://sv3.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/uunr_vtmlist.php?c=13 for modding UT2K3 with some REALLY nifty video tutorials.

and http://www.overclockers.com for overclocking and news on what's currently going on in the hardware world.

As far as hacking goes, you're on your own there.

[Hard Hat]

um, maybe i'm blind, but aren't y'all missing memory in the parts list?

[BillyBlaze]

what parts?

[Submiqent]

goto the futuremark forums, just read what they have to say about stuff.

[Nekra]

my advice is to put the processor and cooling system on before mounting in the case, some of the cooling system need a lot pressure to put on, and personnally i would rather have that pressure spread out over a larger area then the 5 or 6 mount posts.

you will also get some thermal compound, try and spread that as thin and evenly over the core, that will let you get maximum amount of heat transferrence from the chip.

and in vest in a good case, it might not seem like much, but that little extra on a case can make life so much easier, everything in my case is quick release, which makes life so much easier if you need to change stuff or add a hardrive or a diskdrive.

make sure you have plenty of fans, if your going with air cooling which you will unless your rich or seriously considering overclocking, then you need to insure good air circulation.

oh and finnally be sure your cooling system will fit in your case, my coolermaster jet that i brought for my new computer wont fit in my midi tower case, so i had to go out and buy a big noisy fan unit instead.