Hoo boy, the first time I hit the power button on my first build from scratch after 7 hours of carefully piecing things together was very suspenseful. Had a hard drive failure one month later haha. Then I built my friend's from scratch in an hour and a half because I knew this thing inside and out after how slowly I took mine.

Handling CPUs for the first time is the worst. Especially when applying thermal paste.

Ooooh yes... That is very true! I spent around 5 hours building it up and trying to carefully protect it... Cable management was a mess at the time, but I didn't care since the case is without a window pane. When it didn't start I decided to take a few things apart, try again (just in case something wasn't connected) and only then tested the power supply XD. Needless to say cable management now is MUCH better and once my new power supply comes I'll take it apart again and... tinker some more >.>

Luckily I didn't have to apply any thermal paste as I got a water cooling system which had thermal paste already applied. Just had to stick it in there~