I have been telling friends that I would build a PC when I get a large sum of money for years now. I always ended up spending the cash on other stuff. Mostly because the thought of actually putting together a computer scared the crap out of me. I was going to buy prebuilt some time ago, but people said it wasn't worth it, so I finally took the plunge and purchased the parts.

I still don't know what the hell I'm going to do when everything arrives and it's time to put it together, but I'm hoping youtube and my cousin will be able to help me get through it. I'm pretty excited though that I'm finally going to be able to play the Total War/Civ/Sims 3/etc now! 

Intel i5-3570K

Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 3GB

Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 RAM

Asus P8Z77-V 

Corsair TX750W PSU

Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD

Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo

Cooler Master HAF 922 Mid Tower Case

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit