My first build - Black / Orange Corsair 300r

[Heavenkiss]

Hi Guys,

Thanks to my thread in general hardware: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18579430

I've now purchased my parts and OCUK have just sent me an e-mail dispatch note Just posting this thread now so it's ready for tomorrow when I start the build.

This is my first build and will be documenting it with images hopefully as I go, to help other people with their first build too. Hopefully it goes straight forward and I don't have too many issues.

My build will consist of initially:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11227-03-40G) £349.99
1 x Asus VN248H 24"Widescreen Super Narrow Bezel LED Monitor - Black £179.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-OC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £157.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 64-Bit DVD - OEM (FQC-06949) £109.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £99.95
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Windowed Case - Black (CC-9011017-WW) £78.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £71.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2133HC11ADC01) £67.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £17.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.95
Total : £1,448.87 (includes shipping : £20.10).



At a later date I plan to upgrade fans to corsairs for the colored rings (spray paint rings orange), add orange cables and maybe get some white led's to make the window pop. For now though, focusing on the parts

Will hopefully update you all tommorow when the parcel arrives guys.

 

[Space Monkey]

Looking forward to this, should be a nice little setup

 

[Danny75]

Subbed. Good luck.

 

[WalderX]

Nice kit - subbed. As you know we are all here to help if you get stuck with fitting something!

 

[Heavenkiss]

Thanks guys, looking forward to it Luckilly have a laptop should anything go wrong mid build ha.

 

[Bart_Hunt]

Very nice choices
Looking forward to see what you can do

 

[hawkhench]

Nothing like waiting in for a new PC, hope the build goes well. Looking forward to seeing some pics

 

[Heavenkiss]

Just received delivery

So I just received delivery guys. Sneak peak before I start the build:


image upload with preview (hopefully the image has resized and shows ok, first free host I found!)

Wish me luck and will keep you all updated

 

[Aneskimo]

Nothing better than a delivery of pc parts, good luck : )

 

[Heavenkiss]

First hiccup... no stand offs for the motherboard :/ checked case and motherboard boxes and nout :/

 

[WalderX]

First hiccup... no stand offs for the motherboard :/ checked case and motherboard boxes and nout :/

You should have a box of screws and other bits inside the PC case? Don't think the mobo will come with any.

Plus I noticed something missing in the pic of your delivery...where dem Haribos?



EDIT: Looking at the pictures of your case you don't need standoffs, the mounting points are already raised off the tray

 

[Heavenkiss]

Thanks mate i googled it and 300r doesnt need standoffs paniced for a second there

No haribo unfortunately!

 

[WalderX]

Yeah all good - I did take a look at the pics and edited my comment just after posting it!

WOT NO HARIBO? Send the lot back mate! The taste of Haribo Tangfastics is now synonymous with building computers for me

hehe

 

[Canary Wundaboy]

No Haribo?! Disgraceful customer service....
Subbed, GL with the build.

Also, the boxart for the Sapphire cards is always so awesome.

 

[WalderX]

(hopefully the image has resized and shows ok, first free host I found!)

The best free image hoster I found is http://imgur.com/

You can sign in with facebook or whatever and then just drag and drop images to their website to upload them. It then gives you all the links you need and also links to smaller res versions automatically. easy peasy

 

[Heavenkiss]

Ok guys so pretty much finished with the build now (Plenty of pics dont worry)

Last step practically now and i'm connecting everything to PSU. I then discovered this...


screenshot windows 7

At first I thought it was weird the manuals first langauge wasn't English but now i'm greeted with this!? Looks like I can't test my PC tonight.

Why is OCUK selling to the UK market PSU supplies that don't even have native plugs? Unless i'm being stupid... i see no converter.

 

[Heavenkiss]

I've found a convertor in Argos I can pick up. But it states 13Amp... no idea if that will be ok for PSU or not. Advice would be appreciated.

 

[WalderX]

I've found a convertor in Argos I can pick up. But it states 13Amp... no idea if that will be ok for PSU or not. Advice would be appreciated.

Yep will be fine, 13 amp is max for a standard UK mains socket. Would be better just to get the whole lead though? You should have one in your house somewhere - eg TV, kettle etc... They are all standard leads

Ocuk usually send an additional UK one with superflower psu's so raise a webnote and they will post you one for sure

EDIT: The official name for the cable you need is 3-pin IEC C13, more commonly known as 'kettle' leads

 

[Heavenkiss]

If thats the case and I can use any 'similar' cable then ill pull the one off my existing Dell for now. Thanks mate. Hopefully it works. Was about to headplant a wall then as pretty much finished ha.

 

[hawkhench]

I've got a feeling my last bag of Haribo wasn't tangfastics, but starmix. The free components they threw in with it made up for it though.

Impressive looking collection of parts anyway, looking forward to seeing the pics, hope all is going well