How do people feel about the liquid cooler on the gpu? Is it worth it?
A liquid cooler specifically for the GPU (not the CPU)? That seems generally unnecessary, especially in your case since you aren't doing any overclocking.
With liquid coolers, how can you tell if the case is compatible?
I think the main thing is it depends on the size of your case. For instance, my case has room for three fans at the top, so if I really wanted to, I could have bought this liquid cooler with three fans and just screwed it in there. It would have been well out of the way for everything else and can still reach the motherboard easily. Since it looks like your case only has room for 2 fans on the top, you probably can't fit that specific cooler into your case. So your main considerations are stuff like that. (Can this fit in my case? Where will it go? Is it going to block anything else?)
Is there anything that's nice to have while building the computer besides thermos glue and screw drivers?
I built my computer from scratch so I had to get everything: CPU, GPU, RAM, power supply, hard drives, Blu-Ray drive, etc. I was shocked to find that the hard drives and Blu-Ray drive didn't come with any SATA connectors. That said, my case and power supply did come with a lot of the random cables and screws I needed, but I was still surprised to find myself with a 95% completed computer with one SATA connector short. Since you are recycling some of those miscellaneous parts, you should have all of those parts anyways.
It may also be a good idea to have an electrostatic wrist strap. Not that you absolutely need it, but it's cheap and it's part of those better be safe than sorry precautions.
Do I need more than 16gb of RAM?
Do you "need" more than 16 gbs of RAM? Probably not. That said, RAM isn't that expensive. Comparing your build with mine, I have 64 gbs and it cost me three times more (as opposed to four or more times, or something crazy like that). It might be worth looking into how much 32 gbs of RAM costs and see if that's an expense you want to pay. Just doing a search on Amazon, you could double your RAM for about $70, which doesn't seem to bad to me.
Finally, would you change anything and why?
Not really.
Just a FYI, that CPU cooler is pretty damn big. It's one of those things where you read how big something is, but don't necessarily process it as something you need to work with. Just eye balling the measurements, that cooler should fit in your case, but it may be tight. It might be worth looking on PC Part Picker for other builds featuring that case and see what people were able to fit inside. If that CPU cooler or one really similar to it can fit in someone else's build, you're good to go. (Note: This is coming from somebody who bought a big ass case on purpose solely so he didn't run out of space, so take that with a grain a salt)
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