First time build - Advice welcomed!

Update:

Parts came at 12.30 today so started the build at 1pm today! Pics will follow when I can get them up.

Have a couple of concerns that I just want to run past people first:

I seem to have a lot of cables left from my PSU which I've had to curl up at the bottom of the stack - I have x2 Molex 4 pin cables (bout 4 heads on each cable) and x1 SATA cable free (again with 4 heads on each) the other SATA cable is used to connect the PSU to the HDD & DVDRW - that right ? I've also nicknamed the psu the 'hydra' as it's got so many heads/connections coming off of it.

2. From the ASUS MOBO booklet it says that there should be a 'system warning speaker', a 4 pin connector, to connect from my case (a CM Dominator 690 II) but I cannot find this connector from the case, the closest I have found is a connector stating 'HD Audio' with a separate head 'ac 97' which is not mentioned in the booklet. I have attached the HD Audio plug to a digital audio connector thinking that this will fufill the same job; am I correct???

Other then that I think I'm going to spend some time cable tidying and try powering/booting it up in the next hour or 2 - but if anyone can help me with the cable issues before hand I would be grateful!
 
You should have got a Modular PSU, so much tidier :P.

As for your other questions ive never actually done a build from scratch so cant help you there but im listening with interest cause ill be going through the same thing myself in a couple of months (cant wait!). Good luck m8y im sure some folks here will help ya out, once you have the mobo wired up to the case and PSU its easy sailing from there on.
 
Ok It's 11.30pm and I am calling it quits for the night; the progress is the system is that it's up and working; Win 7 is loaded as is Afterburner. After that I hit an issue with getting onto my home network, my old systems network adapter does not seem to work with Win 7 so haven't got much futher then that. think I'm going to have to order a new network adapter...

There also appears to a slight boot up issue where it doesn't like where I've linked one of the 6gb SATA ports up (I think it might be the dvd player) so will switch that over to a
standard sata port and see if that works, but seems to work so am just putting it down to a niggle.

Other then that I haven't melted the motherboard or fused any wiring so it's so far so good!
It went together quicker then I imagined so you should be fine Gantoris.
 
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