building my new system - giz a hand!

[SooTyLaD]

hey peeps

i'm just building up my new shiny pc and havn't built a new setup for over 3 years... got a couple of questions if you dont mind (i've no doubt more are on their way too )

1) on my hard drives (one raptor one caviar) there are no jumpers at the back... whats the deal with that have i got to get hold of some myself

2) never done any sata stuff before... i have 4 bright yellow cables that came with the mobo (ds3p) - on the back of the hard drives there is space for one of these yellow cables, then a much bigger (but similar looking version) of which i dont have any cables... so am i just doing the yellow small one and the power and thats it?

3) forgot to buy some AS5 - will it be ok with the stuff that came with my noctua? (and btw: my GOD its big!)

any help appreciated so i can get on with my build

 

[Dingleberry88]

1. SATA drives have their own channel so don't need jumpers.

2. Uhh...

3. Should be fine (That's what she said!).

Edit: OK, re-reading that, I think the yellow cables you have are the SATA cables. The bigger things are the power connectors.

Edit 2: Found this:

The smaller connector is SATA. The bigger connector is power. That's all you need.

 

[steve258]

on the back of the hard drives there is space for one of these yellow cables, then a much bigger (but similar looking version) of which i dont have any cables... so am i just doing the yellow small one and the power and thats it?

As said the longer connector is the SATA power, so make sure you either connect the SATA power or the normal 4-pin power, NOT BOTH.