Anyone interested in a build log?

Buchanan0204 · 22 Jan 2011 at 14:50

I'm going to be helping my girlfriend put together her new pc today, she's going to have a go at putting it together herself, and she's determined I don't help her at all.

Going to start to build it in about an hour and a half. All components are still in there boxes.

I noticed another thread asking where to post pics and "Stulid" mentioned to do a build log in this section of the forums.

Well she has never put a pc together before and doesn't have much of a clue, so it should be a laugh.

If anyone's interested in the log with pics, I can post them up on here. I will be taking pics anyway to remember the occasion, it should be pretty funny when she tries to connect the cpu into the pci-e slots.

The components aren't anything amazing as you might imagine.

Buchanan0204 · 22 Jan 2011 at 15:04

haha. No problem, should have them all uploaded later on tonight.

Buchanan0204 · 22 Jan 2011 at 15:26

Come on guys. I'm on a computer hardware forum.

She's obviously going to be ugly as sin!!! No want's to see that haha.

Buchanan0204 · 23 Jan 2011 at 16:28

Here we are. The pics as promised, sorry about the lack of the girlfriend, she wasn't to happy about getting her picture splattered on a forum.

Pics are in chronological order, from start to finish. She has never put together a pc before from scratch, she managed it fine. Except when she threaded one of the standoffs. It all went well. As you can see cable management wasn't her number one priority, in all fairness the PSU's cables weren't exactly long and the case itself is pretty poor for cable management.

It all booted up first time and she was chuffed.

So if you are in doubt whether or not you can build your own pc and think it might be too difficult... if she can do it, anyone can!!!

Buchanan0204 · 23 Jan 2011 at 17:25

stulid said:
oh, and take that Intel sticker off, it isn't even straight.

I actually begged her not to put it on!!! When she insisted, the first thing I said was. "Take your time, make sure you get it in line, you only get one chance"

What does she do. Ripped it off and threw the sticker from half way across the kitchen, unreal!

It is windows 7 and the wifi card is excellent, especially for 8 quid. It was recognised on first boot up, signal strength is pretty decent aswell. Works with WPA-2 encryption.

Buchanan0204 · 23 Jan 2011 at 17:26

EniGmA1981 said:
Cute little mobo

Nice little build, really neat (except cables... teach her the ways of the cable management )

Out of interest, why do Intel stock coolers always look SOOOOoooo bad!?

Tell me about it. It was a mission and a half to get on, the plastic connectors kept coming loose, no matter what method I tried... eventually got it on though 10 minutes later. There so cheap and nasty! Will probably put an aftermarket cooler on next month.

Buchanan0204 · 24 Jan 2011 at 14:00

Bubo said:
You helped her with that bit then.

Did you get Andy Gray's/Richard Keys' permission to let her near a pc btw?

I did indeed help her with that bit, aswell as fixing the standoff she decided to thread into the case. Apart from that, it was all her own doing.

P.S Football jokes are over my head lol... any other sport but football, i'd have got it, haha

Buchanan0204 · 24 Jan 2011 at 14:02

SouthEastBlue said:
Nice little build, and just shows anyone can have a go at building their own PC and in turn saving a few bob while getting some nicer components than a pre built.

People always seem to think building PCs is a really technical thing to do, but all it comes down to is plugging/pushing each device into the right shaped connector.

Exactly. I've always said building them is real easy, anyone can do it, and she's proved it. She really isn't the brightest bulb

It's diagnosing and repairing them that's the difficult part.

Buchanan0204 · 24 Jan 2011 at 14:03

WingZero30 said:
hahaha nice thread OP.

I think without your guidance the pc could have blown up. Hmm modern women always seem to be the weakest link in technical stuff. One thing they do excel in is fashion and clothing stuff

I wonder how the women during WW2 managed to wok in weapon factories producing guns, machine parts etc; now that is highly challenging and technical stuff.

Probably lol, I was the one blowing up watching her trying to screw in the power supply for 20 minutes only to discover it's "righty tighty" not "lefty loosy" Oh dear

Buchanan0204 · 24 Jan 2011 at 14:04

reygjabla said:
If she could'nt sort out the cable mess, I wonder how she keeps the house tidy. You sure, its "she" who asembled it?

She can't do that either unfortunately.