I don't really know what I'm doing!! Play along!!

Chris [BEANS] · 25 Oct 2019 at 19:09

So, I'm putting together a new PC and updating my whole setup...

Going from this:

It was put together christ knows how many years ago. Bullet points are that it's an i5 3570K, a second hand GTX 970, 16 Gb of slow second hand RAM, all wrapped up in a huge and ugly case, with a 24 inc 60Hz screen...

It's also loud, I mean, LOUD.

It's served me really well for donkeys years, but it's time to upgrade.

Now, I've built and upgraded all my computers for the last 15 years, so I'm not completely uselss here, but that's a sum total of three or four computers and as you can tell the last one was probably six or even seven years ago!

So, I'm going to post updates and pics as I go, and any tips and advice people can throw my way would be very gratefully accepted.

Physically assembling it will hopefully be OK, but then setting it up properly, making sure I have the right BIOS settings etc is defineitely something I'll need pointers on.

I think it's going to be a long night!!

Chris [BEANS] · 25 Oct 2019 at 20:18

First off, let's have a butchers inside the old girl...

Feels bad!!

(and yes, that's a CPU fan hanging off because the rubber attachment has aged and fallen apart!!)

So, got rid of everything, and increased the desk space first...

Good start, but I'm starving. Thankfully, the fish and chip van just arrived \o/

EssexBoy · 25 Oct 2019 at 20:20

What a Friday night Beansie

Chris [BEANS] · 25 Oct 2019 at 20:23

Ha!! Living the dream!!

Bounce · 25 Oct 2019 at 20:25

What you get fish and chips delivered, what is this world coming too

MrRockliffe · 25 Oct 2019 at 20:25

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MrRockliffe · 25 Oct 2019 at 20:26

Bounce said:
What you get fish and chips delivered, what is this world coming too

Honestly one of the pinnacle moments of 21st century

Chris [BEANS] · 25 Oct 2019 at 20:27

Bounce said:
What you get fish and chips delivered, what is this world coming too

It's amazing. I don't get them delivered as such, it's like an ice cream van but they have fryers in the back. By awesome fortune, they literally stop outside my gaff!!

Bounce · 25 Oct 2019 at 20:29

Chris [BEANS] said:
It's amazing. I don't get them delivered as such, it's like an ice cream van but they have fryers in the back. By awesome fortune, they literally stop outside my gaff!!

Oh right, sounds good! not so for the waistline though hehe

Chris [BEANS] · 25 Oct 2019 at 20:30

Right, case first??

I'm going case first...

Chris [BEANS] · 25 Oct 2019 at 20:52

Ok, immediately love the case!!

Much smaller and much more subtle than the old one...

Attention to detail is awesome. The case cables are so nicely managed quite literally out of the box.

(don't worry, I won't be too gratuitous with the rest of the pics, but I'm genuinely impressed with the case already...)

Chris [BEANS] · 25 Oct 2019 at 21:21

OK, first stupid question... I can't find the information elsewhere...

Two M.2 slots on here. I've got a 500 Gb drive for the OS, and a 1Tb drive that will effectively be a Steam/game drive.

Is there any specific slot that the OS drive should be used in?

Ta

EssexBoy · 25 Oct 2019 at 21:31

Both should run at full speed.What's the manual state?

snips86x · 25 Oct 2019 at 21:34

I think it'll auto detect the drive the is is installed on, as only one will have an MBR.

StevieP · 25 Oct 2019 at 21:37

EssexBoy said:
Both should run at full speed.What's the manual state?

Manual?? That would be admitting defeat before the battle commences!

Chris [BEANS] · 25 Oct 2019 at 21:39

StevieP said:
Manual?? That would be admitting defeat before the battle commences!

Exactly!! You guys are my manual!!!

I've slung the 'game' drive under the heat spreader as I expect that'll get the hottest... Right??

Just getting to the point where I'll be installing the worlds biggest cooler.

Deleted member 77746 · 25 Oct 2019 at 23:11

You should be completed by now come on where’s the piccies?

Chris [BEANS] · 25 Oct 2019 at 23:13

I’m having a mare!!!

Chris [BEANS] · 25 Oct 2019 at 23:24

So...

Contraversial, I know, but I went with the 'use a gloved finger to spread the kryonaut' method on the CPU...

Then I remembered that no matter which way I'd done it, someone would tell me I'm an idiot and i shoud have done an 'X', or a pea sized blob, or that you should sling loads on, or as little as possible... The E-anxiety brought on one or two of these.

Finally, the board was slung together enough to bung into the case.

After having a complete ball ache getting the motherboard to line up with the case, it's in...

My issue now, is that I have two case fans, and zero clue where to plug the buggers in?!?

Deleted member 77746 · 25 Oct 2019 at 23:28

I dunno weather to laugh or cry at the cost of that hardware and you pull out two cans of red stripe

The cpu fan goes to the cpu fan header and the case fan will go to the case fan header. This is why you read the manual. If you have more than one case fan then you got 2 choices. Disconnect one or get a fan controller kit that allows multiple fans attached. (Unless your board has multiple fan headers of course. Not seen any of these though!

That cpu paste should have been spread out with a card IMO not a blob personally. I just use a debit card (the non chip side) then wash it after works fine. Or something else with a nice edge.