urgent help on 1st build!

not yet, will get around to it.

say, what's the best way to remove the dried up thermal paste from my cpu?

I don't have any special materials, will an alchoholic wet wipe do?
 
I had some medical isopropyl wipes, and that rid the worst of it.

installing the cpu cooler is a pain lol, the middle bracket was too short, luckily they sent me a spare which fit. Now trying to figure out how to mount the fan clips lol.

any ideas where to get a cheap speaker from?
 
brilliant! Hubby you've got a cool site there mate, will defo try this out =)

btw, how long does royal mail second class take?
 
well I do like to juggle water bombs often...lol, joking. I'm just hoping to get this sorted ASAP so I can start enjoying my summer holidays lol.
 
thanks very much andi, and gratz on 1000 posts! yeah, I was actually planning to pop down to that shop, see if there's anything interesting there.
 
called up OcUK again, the guy there didn't think it was the PSU or CPU, so he told me to RMA the motherboard. I think I can probably send it off, and get it back in time for the speaker to arrive lol, and this also would eliminate any doubt, as if they send the motherboard back and they say it's working fine, we'll know it's either the PSU or CPU, and we'll have the speaker to help with that.
 
thanks mate =)

packed up the box and everything, so now I just need to get them sent off (Motherboard and RAM.) Do you think it's possible to send them both in a single box? with two RMA numbers on it...would save a bit on postage lol.
 
I've got a second RMA for the RAM from them though, so as soon as they get that they'll refund the price of that.

the motherboard is part of the new RMA, so i'll send them a webnote and see what they say.
 
I would agree with you lol, weather seems ok so i'll pop down to the shopping centre. Might pick up ArmA II while i'm there.
 
it's a brilliant game in campaign, multiplayer just makes it a little more fun since you can do things co-op. But i'd get it for that price =)
 
I'm pretty sure it does, carry on the story mode but with online friends. Check out a review or description to be sure though.
 
We can only hope, but looking on the bright side of life, if the motherboard is fine, we'll know it's either the PSU or CPU, so we'll be another step closer to finding out what it is.

and the RAM i'm sending is the original set I hadn't sent back, because I like the kingston, and it's confirmed to work with the gigabyte lol, because it would be extremely painful if the motherboard was faulty, I got a new one, and then we find the RAM is actually incompatible lol.
 
lol Thanks Phoenix, but like I put earlier, tried all the ram in all combinations in all the slots.

I Don't think it's a PCI-E lead because when I put my old gfx card in, there's no change.
 
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