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Hey there,
Ordered my bits last week and they have arrived!
This is my spec:
I'm ridiculously excited. Total amateur when it comes to computer building, so im likely to need a fair bit of help, but *fingers crossed*, should be ok.
I will be referring too the guide below for the build:
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/other/144
as well as the thread created by 'benenhausen', which became a bit of an epic, and shows his struggles on a first build:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18001852
Here are a few pictures of the kit - all on camera phone im afraid (Bit of a ****-up on my part means the RAM will not be delivered until tomorrow lol):
The Monitor (Red is a reflection of my top)
All the stuff:
Anyhoo, might do a little bit of work to the case tonight, but main work will probably start tomorrow.
First Question:
Both my DVD Drive and HD are OEM, which i did know before hand but am not totally prepared for. Could someone please tell me EXACTLY what wires i need to buy, and if i can get them from OCUK (relatively cheaply
) . Thank you. Ill take a few pics of the connections:
Disc Drive:
HD:
Cheers Guys
Ordered my bits last week and they have arrived!
This is my spec:
- AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition
- Asus ATI Radeon HD 4870 Glaciator+ 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P AMD 770 (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
- Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache
- OCZ ModXStream Pro 500w Silent SLI Ready Modular Power Supply
- Titan TTC-NK85TZ Fenrir CPU Cooler
- Coolermaster Elite 335 Case
- Sony Optiarc AD-7241S 24x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe Optical Drive
- OCZ Gold Edition 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 Dual Channel
- Dell 24" 2409W Monitor
I'm ridiculously excited. Total amateur when it comes to computer building, so im likely to need a fair bit of help, but *fingers crossed*, should be ok.
I will be referring too the guide below for the build:
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/other/144
as well as the thread created by 'benenhausen', which became a bit of an epic, and shows his struggles on a first build:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18001852
Here are a few pictures of the kit - all on camera phone im afraid (Bit of a ****-up on my part means the RAM will not be delivered until tomorrow lol):
The Monitor (Red is a reflection of my top)
All the stuff:
Anyhoo, might do a little bit of work to the case tonight, but main work will probably start tomorrow.
First Question:
Both my DVD Drive and HD are OEM, which i did know before hand but am not totally prepared for. Could someone please tell me EXACTLY what wires i need to buy, and if i can get them from OCUK (relatively cheaply
) . Thank you. Ill take a few pics of the connections:Disc Drive:
HD:
Cheers Guys
Should have gone for any of 
posted it now. Anyhoo, a bit down-hearted now but will power on never-the-less. I will start looking through the guide mentioned in the first post, see what i can do now.