Building my first PC in screenshots

otemu said:
I see what you mean good idea, well I powered it on no beeps or funny noises nice breeze from the fans. Can't connect the graphics card to the monitor I need a converter
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What do you need? is it a DVI->VGA that you need? didn't your gfx card come with one? I think all the cards that I've ever bought with a DVI output has had a DVI->VGA adaptor.
 
R.C.Anderson said:
What do you need? is it a DVI->VGA that you need? didn't your gfx card come with one? I think all the cards that I've ever bought with a DVI output has had a DVI->VGA adaptor.
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Yes that what I mean DVI > VGA I was surprised that it wasn't in the box myself, unless one of my kids did stealth manoeuvres on me
 
otemu said:
Yes that what I mean DVI > VGA I was surprised that it wasn't in the box myself, unless one of my kids did stealth manoeuvres on me
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you would be surprised how ninja like kids are... happens with my nephews all the time. I am glad i'm only 19 and kids won't be happening for another 10 years :D

oh and the build is looking sweet, the venom cooler looks beast!
Noticed you are from London, where abouts?
 
ellingham said:
you would be surprised how ninja like kids are... happens with my nephews all the time. I am glad i'm only 19 and kids won't be happening for another 10 years :D

oh and the build is looking sweet, the venom cooler looks beast!
Noticed you are from London, where abouts?
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No luck on the converter, I don't think it was included. I am going to give OC a call and find out what happened to the keyboard (After checking my order confrimation the keyboard wasn't even added so another mistake on my part).

I live in Greenwich, where abouts are you? come and do the cable management hahah
 
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infernox said:
correct me if im wrong doesn't the monitor come with a dvi cable so you can hook it straight into the graphics card ?
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Actually you are kind of right, although the Benq only comes with a VGA cable, obviously you can plug a DVI cable into it, so I don't need a converter, I just need a DVI cable, thanks for that spot man ;)
 
Put the hard drives in the other way round so the cables can make use of the cable management in that case :)

Run the cables through the back with the plugs on the HDD's facing backwards if possible so all the cables are hidden ^^

/Johnathan
 
otemu said:
Actually you are kind of right, although the Benq only comes with a VGA cable, obviously you can plug a DVI cable into it, so I don't need a converter, I just need a DVI cable, thanks for that spot man ;)
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I do my best to help :)

edit if you lived near i could drop you off one. working at a school we got 150 new machines all came with dvi cables and we use vga so . we just binned them all
 
otemu said:
No luck on the converter, I don't think it was included. I am going to give OC a call and find out what happened to the keyboard (After checking my order confrimation the keyboard wasn't even added so another mistake on my part).

I live in Greenwich, where abouts are you? come and do the cable management hahah
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Archway, North London.
I haven't even done my first build yet, dont think i can offer much help :o
 
After having the PSU and mobo installed it's all a matter of plugging things in and you're away. The next pain will be installing all the software.
 
Well doesn't look like I get to go shop today, I have tided up most of the cables and i have to say looks more tidy, I am now receiving the DRAM_LED lights continuously, tried swapping the memory sticks round and reinstalling the cpu but no change, any ideas anyone?

4 pin speaker makes no warning beeps when I remove the RAM, so not sure what it could be.
 
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Bergkamp said:
Why is the PSU fan side down in that case? Is it designed like that? Is there something to compensate for it?
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Yes it’s designed like that, there is a filter to compensate this, in the beginning I put the PSU the wrong way round.

infernox said:
do you have the 8 pin cpu connector pluged into your mobo ? around where the cpu is.

that could be a cause .
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I went through toms hardware troubleshooting guide, spoken to OC support and we have come to the conclusion that it could be the motherboard, so I have my RMA confirmation and will post the motherboard today.

lukefinch said:
No updates today? :(
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My weekend was real busy so didn't really get time to work on it, the latest however is that the PC didn't post, I bread-boarded the PC, just connecting PSU, CPU and motherboard, using the 4pin speaker produces no beeps, so I am sending back the motherboard. Not all gloom and doom for you though, here is some images that I didn't get time to upload before to tide you over, I should have taken a image with all the lights and fans on, I guess I upload that when it finally is up and running whenever that be.

A motherboard like you never seen that before

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Let’s put the motherboard in

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Now that a big graphics card

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Graphic card Just about fits in

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Before cable management.... whoa a mess

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After some cable management

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