
Power supply is a nice and simple EVGA 430W unit, which isn't modular but suits this build fine.

Simple 120mm exhaust fan, and a bundle of cables exiting the chassis. Note that this PSU only contains a single 4+4 CPU plug and a single 6+2 PCI-E plug, which is more than sufficient for this build but it may not be with older cards.

Motherboard is a uATX MSI H110M Gaming

Smart looking board, blacked out pcb and red sockets give it striking visuals

Brains of this build is the Skylake Core i3-6100. Hyperthreaded dual-core 3.7GHz is sufficient for 1080p gaming.

Here is the LGA1151 socket on the motherboard, protected by a plastic cover.

Installing the i3-6100.

Installing the stock Intel "thermal solution" (heatsink-fan). It's around the same size as an LGA1155 i5 heatsink-fan that I had laying around, which hopefully means that this one has a little overhead for some minor overclocking?

As it happens, the GTX 1060 I went with was also from MSI

Similar but not the same color scheme as the motherboard

Skeleteon testbench setup to make sure the system POSTs with no drives connected. Success!

Pulling out my Blast from the Past uATX build from the case I was going to use. This one will go into another, similar, HP case.

Dropping in the motherboard, you can see the single stick of Corsair Vengeance LPX RAM ([email protected])

Two drives going in, a Plextor 120GB SSD for boot/games and a WD 500GB Green HDD for storage.

Everything installed inside the HP case, ready to have the OS installed. Win10 Home disc will be arriving tomorrow, and hopefully at that time the build should be finished.