First PC Build - Warning, thread will have blunders.

NathanL · 28 Apr 2018 at 11:16

Found it!
Thanks again guys for all of your help. It's been very valuable!

One last question before I stop bothering everyone! I've got my windows set up on the SSD, is it possible though to have 'my documents' 'my pcitrues' etc to be on my HDD?

orbitalwalsh · 28 Apr 2018 at 11:22

Yep . Win10 doesn't detect it straight away , got to go to disk management and format I

NathanL · 28 Apr 2018 at 11:24

It's all good. It's discovered both of my drives. Just need to find the way of mapping ''my docs' to the secondary drive

NathanL · 28 Apr 2018 at 11:26

Found that as well don't worry haha

Plec · 28 Apr 2018 at 11:33

Glad to see things are going smoothly to date (idle/slight load temps are good within BIOS so hopefully no paste issues) - you know you're going to have to gratify @orbitalwalsh's fetish for pics as payment.

orbitalwalsh · 28 Apr 2018 at 12:32

More pics.. hahaha

Key thing is it's running . Once you've installed programs and drivers, and let Gigabyte app center update its apps. Then you can go onto bios and enable XMP etc

NathanL · 28 Apr 2018 at 12:35

Ah yes I need to install the gigabyte app centre.

Sorry remind me what xmp is again?

NathanL · 28 Apr 2018 at 12:36

Also, just anning to install steam, where should I aim to install all my programs? On the SSD or on the HDD?

orbitalwalsh · 28 Apr 2018 at 12:44

Nathan Long said:
Also, just anning to install steam, where should I aim to install all my programs? On the SSD or on the HDD?

XMP enables your speed to run at manufactures setting and not basic slow default speed

How big was your SSD again ? You can also move game stores on steam now . Have program and few games on SSD, then install larger less popular games on hdd

NathanL · 28 Apr 2018 at 12:47

Oh right okay, do I literally just go into bios and click enabled? Simple as that?

500gb. So all program files should go on SSD and most played games, gotcha

orbitalwalsh · 28 Apr 2018 at 12:51

I tend to have office and stuff on their , but I tunes and the music files on hdd. Everyone's different really

NathanL · 28 Apr 2018 at 12:57

Ah okay, ill try and keep on top of my disc space management :eek:

NathanL · 28 Apr 2018 at 14:28

Nathan Long said:
Oh right okay, do I literally just go into bios and click enabled? Simple as that?

Sorry to bug again! Is this all I need to do for XMP? Literally just enable it in BIOS?

I've downloaded the motherboard drivers so that should all be good now, app centre is downloaded but I'm not quite sure what on there will benefit me!

Is there anything else you'd suggest to do before all is good? What is that program which measures temps, is it CPU-Z? Can't remember the exact name

orbitalwalsh · 28 Apr 2018 at 14:41

Nathan Long said:
Sorry to bug again! Is this all I need to do for XMP? Literally just enable it in BIOS?

I've downloaded the motherboard drivers so that should all be good now, app centre is downloaded but I'm not quite sure what on there will benefit me!

Is there anything else you'd suggest to do before all is good? What is that program which measures temps, is it CPU-Z? Can't remember the exact name

Cpuz , gpuz, hwmonitor

Go into BIOS and enable XMP then exit .

App center should update all its apps for you which is nice. Half are junk so can always delete them afterwards

NathanL · 28 Apr 2018 at 14:47

Okay, XMP has been enabled. Bit off it starts off, why is that?

I will download those, thank you!

orbitalwalsh · 28 Apr 2018 at 14:48

Nathan Long said:
Okay, XMP has been enabled. Bit off it starts off, why is that?

I will download those, thank you!

Bit off as it starts, is that what you meant ?

Or why is it off to start with ?

NathanL · 28 Apr 2018 at 14:51

Sorry, meant bit odd that it starts disabled.

It was on 2100mhz, selected profile 1 and it jumped to 3200

NathanL · 28 Apr 2018 at 14:54

In CPU-Z, DRAM freq is showing as 1599mhz. Is ram something that jumps up when it needs to?

NathanL · 28 Apr 2018 at 14:58

And HWMonitor is showing CPU temp at 36. Only things that are happening are lots of downloading at the moment. Seems a bit high

orbitalwalsh · 28 Apr 2018 at 15:04

Nathan Long said:
In CPU-Z, DRAM freq is showing as 1599mhz. Is ram something that jumps up when it needs to?

DDR stands for double data , so you just times that speed by two

Nathan Long said:
And HWMonitor is showing CPU temp at 36. Only things that are happening are lots of downloading at the moment. Seems a bit high

Idle maybe a bit high but it's seen the temp when it's stressed is the key to seeing if mount is good