Got everything up and running. Every piece I ordered came in last Friday but one that came Monday so I couldn't build over the weekend.
Freshly unpacked:
I only do builds rarely (last one was 4+ years ago) so it did take me a little bit of time to get things together. Lots of manual reading. But after a couple hours things looked good.
I do like that cooler but man it is ginormous. It fit in the case ok. Video card clearance is tight. RAM is the bigger challenge. I don't think 4 sticks would fit, I don't see how you could get one in slot 1. It took some work and a bit more muscle than a person loves to push on computer parts but I got it into slot 2. Slots 3&4 are no problem. My advice: put the RAM in before the cooler unlike me.
Here's the finished product in place.
Zloth, I think that case is one of the ones I was considering. It was just too blingy for me, I like a plain case. Even the case I got is pushing my tastes a bit but the look is growing on me.
Thief is probably the only game currently on my computer that would push my old system a little running at 1920x1080 and not many features on. GeForce Experience has it now optimized at 2715x1527 with everything at max and it is running supper smooth. Looking forward to using it more (come on Withcer 3 sale!)
Thanks again for all the help!
All in all a really good 4 day stretch of hobbies. Limit of ducks in the morning, 18 holes of golf in the afternoon Saturday. Limit of ducks in the morning, 18 holes of golf in the afternoon Sunday. Built a new computer system after work Monday. Limit of ducks in the morning, 18 holes of golf in the afternoon Tuesday.