Be honest, how easy is it too....
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For my first build, read through a few of the components manuals.
Youtube is great for videos of people building their new comps and give rough ideas how things work.
But the best thing i have seen or read is this guide.
http://static.tigerdirect.com/html/PCbuildingTips.html
^^i wish i had this for my first build, and even reading it back now it it is a good check list.
And main thing do it on a large table with plenty of space or on the floor so you dont drop anything or break.
Also i personally i think the anti static wrist band is abit excessive, i just touch a radiator that is close by when i build as all/most radiators are earthed, just touch it every time i move too and from.
~Slash
Youtube is great for videos of people building their new comps and give rough ideas how things work.
But the best thing i have seen or read is this guide.
http://static.tigerdirect.com/html/PCbuildingTips.html
^^i wish i had this for my first build, and even reading it back now it it is a good check list.
And main thing do it on a large table with plenty of space or on the floor so you dont drop anything or break.
Also i personally i think the anti static wrist band is abit excessive, i just touch a radiator that is close by when i build as all/most radiators are earthed, just touch it every time i move too and from.
~Slash
It's very easy if you take your time and go through it step by step one thing at a time. Remember, if there's anything you get stuck on or anything that won't work for whatever reason there's always these forums. Nobody here will give you bad advice, if they do they will be executed on the spot.
Good luck and hope all goes well!
Good luck and hope all goes well!
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was round a mates today. His dog had gone mad and taken the cables out the back of his mums PC, destroyign the mobo with it. Basically, hed bought a new mobo and seen as the old one was an OEM with custom internals and case etc needed to stick everything into a new case.
Removing RAM, CPU, PCI Cards, HDD, Optical drives and PSU from old case, fitting new mobo, new cooler and all stuff from old case into new, turn on and boot to the "Reactivate Vista" screen took just over an hour, including going to the shop to get superglue to allow us to bodge in the OEM card reader. Once you know where eveything goes it really is just a case of plug it all in.
The thing that daunts most people is "what if I plug something in wrong and it blows up". This is nothing to worry about. its practically impossible to plug anything in wrong, and if you do make a mistake modern components are clever enough to know and either warn you or just not work.
Thinking about it, the only thing that is easy to get wrong is either forgetting to plug power into something, or putting the case swtich and light wires on the wrong way round, and both of these just mean the pc doesnt turn on, thats all.
Removing RAM, CPU, PCI Cards, HDD, Optical drives and PSU from old case, fitting new mobo, new cooler and all stuff from old case into new, turn on and boot to the "Reactivate Vista" screen took just over an hour, including going to the shop to get superglue to allow us to bodge in the OEM card reader. Once you know where eveything goes it really is just a case of plug it all in.
The thing that daunts most people is "what if I plug something in wrong and it blows up". This is nothing to worry about. its practically impossible to plug anything in wrong, and if you do make a mistake modern components are clever enough to know and either warn you or just not work.
Thinking about it, the only thing that is easy to get wrong is either forgetting to plug power into something, or putting the case swtich and light wires on the wrong way round, and both of these just mean the pc doesnt turn on, thats all.
The worst bit is pressing the power button for the first time, and absolutely nothing happens.I've been there many times.
Thats what im worried about it
Simple, turn power supply ON, and retry.
Download either the Vista or XP guide here:
http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html
Pretty sure that it contains step by step guides to how to build a pc from scratch in an easy to follow fashion.
http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html
Pretty sure that it contains step by step guides to how to build a pc from scratch in an easy to follow fashion.
I know exactly what you mean, also those tiny mobo headers a real pain. Whats worse is then discovering that new mobo is faulty and you're going to have take everything out again wait another day and rebuildFor me the best bit of building a PC completely from scratch is seeing all the boxes sitting on your desk waiting to be opened.
The worst bit is pressing the power button for the first time, and absolutely nothing happens.
(happened to me last summer).Simple, turn power supply ON, and retry.
Done that many a time
"OH NOES, Ive borked it! Aghhhh, what could be wrong! All I did was change the RAM, aghhh................. oh no wait, *click*, there we go"
I would say connecting the headers to the motherboard is the hardest bit. For my first build, i got the front USB ones attached the wrong way. I booted up the computer, everything worked fine and installed windows. Later on when i plugged in a flash drive, it didnt work. I wasn't sure what was wrong so i tried plugging in a gamepad, which promptly started shaking like mad and wouldnt stop. I then figured out that i had put the USB header the wrong way round. That lesson cost me £35 worth of damage in total
i did that and set a pen drive on fire!
Impressive although not as good as my first pc, I didn't realise that I needed to apply TIM.
Built pc turned it on, it turned off strait away then I decided to hold down power button to try to get it to stay on...
mistake. smoke from cpu and dead mobo/cpu
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Was very easy for me. Built my first last month. Only problem I had was the power button on the case was faulty.
Impressive although not as good as my first pc, I didn't realise that I needed to apply TIM.
Built pc turned it on, it turned off strait away then I decided to hold down power button to try to get it to stay on...
mistake. smoke from cpu and dead mobo/cpu
Lol, how much did that set you back?
- that was for another Athlon 2400+ and Asus 600-x (I think).
It's easy. Just make sure the parts you buy are compatible with each other (no buying AMD CPUs with an Intel motherboard, for example) and away you go.
When I put my first computer together, I bought a Haynes manual about it. There really was nothing to it - a very thin book indeed!
It's like putting Lego together. And there's very little opportunity to make mistakes. If you can put a component into a given slot, than THAT'S WHERE IT GOES.
When I put my first computer together, I bought a Haynes manual about it. There really was nothing to it - a very thin book indeed!
It's like putting Lego together. And there's very little opportunity to make mistakes. If you can put a component into a given slot, than THAT'S WHERE IT GOES.