Thanks for all your help! Here's the system I successfuly, built

Subressor

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Just wanted to say a big thank you to all of the Tom's Hardware community that helped me out with my new gaming/editing system! Thanks to your stellar tips and advice - I've successfully built my FIRST new PC and I'm loving it! Here are the specs:

Case: Lian Li PC-O8S WX

CPU: Intel i7-5820K @3.3GHz

Graphics Card: Radeon HD 7870 OC Edition by MSI

Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer/3.1

CPU Cooler: Raijintek Triton 360

PSU: EVGA 850W G2 Fully Modular 80+ Gold Certified Power Supply

RAM: Avexir 16GB (2x 8GB) DDR4 at 2133MHz

Fans: 5x Corsair AF120 (Red LED version)

Cables: 1x Akasa 5 way 4 pin PWN fan splitter cable

Cables: 2x Akasa 2 way 3 pin fan splitter cable

Thermal paste: Arctic Cooling MX-4

I even made a video on assembling it and saying why I chose the parts over all the other ones... Down to this communities answers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IB3oW8eZkw

I hope all the future system builders out there get as much enjoyment out of it as I did!
 

Zerk2012

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Just for future reference when using compressed air like that the can should be tilted up not down when spraying and Hold the fans still when spraying them or you can burn up the bearing/sleeve.
But for your first build good job!!!!!!!!!
 

Subressor

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Not a pretty penny... Around ~£1300

But fingers crossed all of the parts should last just as long as my previous PC minus the graphics card. (7 years!)

@Zerk thanks for the advice, Why should you tilt the can up? What do you mean by burning up the bearing/sleeve? Funny enough one of the fans in the GPU doesn't work anymore haha, do you think I damaged anything?
 

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You tilt the can up so just air comes out and no liquid.
For the fan you can spin the blades much faster than their designed to go thus damaging the bearing/sleeve.