Started to build my new PC!

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Thanks to a lot of you guys for helping me spec last month or so, I got my parts in today and started to build a PC from scratch for the first time;


YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560Ti OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £182.39
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £173.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £159.98
1 x Corsair HX 850W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-850HXUK) £146.98
1 x Corsair Graphite 600T Midi Tower Case - Black £129.98
1 x Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD2002FAEX) £112.99
2 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £59.99 (£119.98)
1 x Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3) £50.99
Total : £1,263.77 (includes shipping : £13.75).




Those are the specs, I might be able to get some pics up later if people are interested. I've been following a few YouTube guides to help me connect all the wires in the right place. But for the life of me I can't seem to figure out where the case fans are supposed to be plugged into so that I can also use my fan controller.

Here is the video I've been using to guide me through it, the case is quite similar to mine and I don't really get where he's plugging them into.

Any help appreciated as I'm almost there :D!
 
The case fans go into the fan controller, there are a few 3pin connectors to plug them into, then just give the fan controller some power with a 4pin molex from the PSU.
 
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I figured out that the case fan connectors had a protective thing over them and that's what was confusing me! All makes sense now :P
 
OK, update. Tried my first boot and everything seemed fine went into BIOS, didn't detect any SATA drives. So I had a look and noticed one of the SATA power cables must have fell out as I was moving my case, anyway plugged it back in, and now the case fan lights flashed and didn't boot I didn't want to try too many times, only tried twice as I don't want to risk anything. But I swear these SATA power cables aren't in properly. They don't 'click' or anything no matter how hard I try to push them in. Should I feel a click or what?
 
has each drive got a SATA cable from the board to the drive and a power cable from the PSU to the drive?
 
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Not sure if it makes a difference but I plugged my plugged my HHD and DVD drive into the Grey 6Gbps SATA 3 port and the ASRock board didn't detect them so i moved them to the SATA 2 port and if was fine.

SSD was plugged into SATA 3 though

EDIT: I have the same board and only built mine yesterday
 
Good shout mate, that's what I did as well. Put them into SATA2 and everything's fine. My molex -> SATA cable didn't seem to want to do anything either, had to run 2 seperate SATA power cables since the first one didn't reach my optical drive. Did you have any problems with this awinchurch?

Will try to get some pictures up tomorrow, just installing Windows 7 now + Need to sort out the cables badly
 
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