All of the parts for my computer arrived and this is only my second build. Does anyone have an tips or an order of operations for installing parts?
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Don't let your wires run free; figure out where your cables are going to go and bundle them all together.
Other than that, motherboard goes in first.
Other than that, motherboard goes in first.
Is it normal that the screws included in the case and the manual don't always lable themselves well? What I thouht were he motherboard screws didn't stay in but what I thought were the SSD screws did. Also, I had to stop before I had the chance to install the my cpu block and radiator. Is that ok provided I close the side panels of the case?
those golden screws that other screws go into are screwed into the case itself, and you set your motherboard on top of it, this helps ground it and keep it safe from static electricity.
Make sure you read the motherboard instructions for getting everything set up, but honestly it's easier than ever to set things up. Just make sure pretty much everything that has a plug that looks like the PSU should plug into, is plugged.
My case had the standoffs preinstalled.
Ground yourself to the case with one of those wrist things. Though pretty much anything that connects your skin to bare metal on the case will work fine if you don't have one.
You can also discharge the power supply by unplugging it and then turning it on with the switch on the case, generally. Keep it unplugged until you want to power it on, and make plugging in power to the components the final thing, with the last being the motherboard.
Though frankly I've been careless as hell and not done this hundreds of times with nothing bad happening. At the very least, especially if it's winter and you're on carpet, though, you should discharge any static you have by touching metal before you do anything, and repeat if you do any walking around or anything else that builds up charge.
Lately I generally just buy a case, motherboard, CPU and memory pre-installed so I don't have to mess with this stuff, so I might have missed something if anything major has changed in the last few years.
You can also discharge the power supply by unplugging it and then turning it on with the switch on the case, generally. Keep it unplugged until you want to power it on, and make plugging in power to the components the final thing, with the last being the motherboard.
Though frankly I've been careless as hell and not done this hundreds of times with nothing bad happening. At the very least, especially if it's winter and you're on carpet, though, you should discharge any static you have by touching metal before you do anything, and repeat if you do any walking around or anything else that builds up charge.
Lately I generally just buy a case, motherboard, CPU and memory pre-installed so I don't have to mess with this stuff, so I might have missed something if anything major has changed in the last few years.
Literally legos dude. Don't force anything, it will fit just fine if it belongs there.
Well, at least that's how it is now. Remember those heatsinks where you had to force down that metal bar so it'd catch on both sides?
Yes. Remember trying to take them off and the entire processor going with it?
those things were the devil's taint
Well, it booted, installed windows, and the gpu is outputting video to my moniter. Can't believe I didn't fry the thing. My reset button seems to be my power switch and vice-versa, but whatever.
Also, my hope for this thread was that people would talk shop about how building these used to be worse. I'm too young to remember it being harder and I like to hear horror stories.
Also, my hope for this thread was that people would talk shop about how building these used to be worse. I'm too young to remember it being harder and I like to hear horror stories.
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Simple. Just find where the motherboard has its reset button and power button, then swap the two.
Also,
Best tip in the business.
Assemble your PC in the nude, so as to avoid all possible causes of static electricity.
Also, make sure case fans are all flowing as intended instead of every single one as an intake and then having so many light tunes that your power supply can't handle it. Gotta love the mistakes that friends made back in the day.
Assemble your PC in the nude, so as to avoid all possible causes of static electricity.
Also, make sure case fans are all flowing as intended instead of every single one as an intake and then having so many light tunes that your power supply can't handle it. Gotta love the mistakes that friends made back in the day.
Remember when some dumbass skimped on the power supply and wondered why his computer isn't working?
Also,
>Not Buying Antec
I actually have a Rosewill power supply. However, the one I have is actually good.
I went with an 80+ gold from evga.
Remember when Antec had shitty capacitors in their power supplies that when they failed, made the power supply feed awful voltages to your parts?
Good. Was it an EVGA G2?
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