Successful build

Craigus

Craigus

Craigus

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Didn't feel this was worthy of a project thread as I won't be doing anything else to it for a while.


Just wanted to thank everyone for the bits of advice and helping me choose the spec, managed to avoid quite a few pitfalls, spec can be seen in my sig if anyone is interested. I started at about 12.00 today and fired it up at about 5.00. Just finished installing and transferring bits across from the other computer.

The only slight issue I came across was a standoff/hole for the standoff that was slightly bent, meaning I had to take the motherboard out and persuade it to bend the right way. Set me back about 30 mins, so could have been much worse!

Thanks Again.
 
Idleman said:
Glad to see everything went OK. :D

How do you like the case?
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Case is quite good actually, not especially sturdy but it doesn't need to be really. Some of the machining on it isn't wonderful but it was only circa £35 so can't really complain.

[TW]Sponge;22823127 said:
Well done fella:)

Also pics required.
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Taken some pics on my iPhone, will see if I can get them uploaded tonight.

IC3 said:
Is the air flow good in that case?
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Airflow seems fairly decent. It's not particularly cramped either at the moment, and I have added another side fan, all seems good.
 
Haha, not but seriously I will. I need to tidy it up a bit too as I just plugged it all in fairly quickly not cable managed. So will get it open tonight, I also need to check my PSU will support a few other little upgrades I am planning. Might have a couple of questions later.
 
Craigus said:
Case is quite good actually, not especially sturdy but it doesn't need to be really. Some of the machining on it isn't wonderful but it was only circa £35 so can't really complain.



Taken some pics on my iPhone, will see if I can get them uploaded tonight.



Airflow seems fairly decent. It's not particularly cramped either at the moment, and I have added another side fan, all seems good.
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Nice to know, i would love to see the pictures! :D
 
Here are some pics, not very tidy as you can see.

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Future plans are:

- Get a tray adapter thingy for my spare 2.5" drive from my old laptop that I'll use as a backup.
- Purchase a couple more fans and a fan controller.
- May upgrade the CPU cooler at some point, but the airflow seems quite good at the moment, and the CPU temps are nice and low so unless there is a great deal on that will wait for a while.
- Eventually get an SSD and transfer my OS and reinstall heavy duty software onto that.
 
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