UPDATE: The Build!
So here it was piece by painstaking piece. I have booted up, installed all of my drivers, security software, Steam is installed, Guild Wars 2 is downloading and I have prime 95/heavenly GPU suite to run overnight. Here is the WEM screenshot which gives a rough outline of my capabilities. I've had to use a mixture of uploaded images and imageshack ones as I'm limited in my uploading, so apologies for that.
With the exception of my HDD I'm well over 7, which I'm pretty happy with, considering my budget (just north of 500 pounds.) In the next few days ill get to running fraps on some games for comparison, but I'm thrilled that i could get to this point, knowing nothing about PCs (really) only six or seven months ago. Thanks to everybody who helped or has helped me along the way,Tek Syndicate has been great for getting to grips with all of this. I'm going to post my thoughts for each step in the build process, sorry if they're painstakingly obvious.
Our CPU is in place. This was a pretty stress free process, not too much force was required at all.
Ram was also pretty easy, the MOBO manual clearly shows you which slots to plug into and the sticks popped into place with a little downward pressure.
With the stock cooler's bracket removed I fitted the bridge for the Hyper Evo 212.Metal bases were supplied so I was never directly screwing into the MOBO.
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Here's the cooler screwed on from the top. My friend stepped in and did some clever routing of the CPUFan cable round the brackets of the mounting board. I'm glad he was there as I definitely would have missed something like this. It was also nice whenever in a situation where a little bit of force has to be applied, to get a little bit of reassurance that I'm not about to snap my parts in two. There's also the warranty sticker here, which I later stuck down to the bracket.
This was the thermal paste application. Again I handed this task over to my buddy who had more experience with this, he used a plastic applicator to spread it out nice and evenly.
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Then came the MOBO mounting pins which were well labelled on the case, I also stuck in the back panel for my MOBO and screwed in my PSU.
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One of my headers for the front panel connectors had come loose in transit. A little surgery was applied, and we were good to go.
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The optical drive and HDD were tool-less installations and went in without any trouble.
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Now just for the GPU! I had to remove the PCI slots from the rear, and this, alongside cable management is my main criticism of the Coolermaster 430. I accidentally removed the top two instead of leaving one bracket intact. Unfortunately you cant reinstall these once they have been removed, however i was able to remove the correct one and somewhat wedge it on top to fill the gap, so I can live with this.
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Once both of my SATA cables were installed, front panel/USB was hooked up and with my PSU attached to everything I was ready to power on. As you can tell we left cable management till we had a good startup.
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I had a little bit of a crisis here as with everything finally plugged in, the power button yielded nada. Not a sound. We checked our way back and I had, true to form, incorrectly plugged in the front panel power connector 
With that fixed BOOM - into BIOS. The ASUS software was pretty user friendly and worked with a mouse.
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Finally we used some cable ties to keep everything together as neatly as possible. This case has zero cable management functionality so everything just has to be tied into the bottom corner under your hard drives. This isn't ideal, especially without a modular PSU but for this budget (this is a sub £35 case) I get a decent looking functional housing with good cooling, so inner aesthetics aren't too much of a worry. Here's the side panel on, loading up drivers and waiting to game in all her glory. She has been christened "Lola" by the missus.
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So that's it. Im pretty proud of what I put together, and my understanding of respective parts and their importance has definitely improved. Will I forgo another high end custom pre-assembled rig in the future? I'm not so sure. This was one cheap build, and that's great, as I knew that if anything happened I wasn't dealing with my super expensive gpu/processor or whatever. If i have any problems with Falcor (my main) then I can pick up the phone and have somebody who knows a lot more about this deal with that problem without question as I'm under warranty for three years. I was amazingly lucky with good prices on parts, and I haven't calculated exactly how much I've saved, though I don't think its been earth shatteringly cheaper. There's definitely something to be said for going through the process of bringing a computer to life, and that is unquantifiable
All the best everyone
Blackdog (Underclocker)
