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Do all the images work right?

not on this page: http://www.crossfire.nu/?x=article&mode=item&id=211&p=1

there i would have to login to a webserver for the picture to be displayed.

this: ftp://ar3.dk/CFIntelArticle/Components.jpg

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CPU: Intel Core i7 870
Video Cards: Dual 9800 GTs 1 Gig Ram SLI

at least get more average products -_- not things just 5% here owns

e: and i need some kind of login or smth

rest is nice :)

fortunately they all slot in pretty much the same :)

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thought that mobo only fit for the i7, my bad, and why would i wna know how to put in a dual gfx?

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these tutorials are not directed at anyone personally, showing someone how to do dual shows people how to put just one in aswell ;)

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ye LGA 1366 and LGA1156 are suited for a bunch of different processors

EDIT: My bad, apparently 1366 only fits i7s and Xeons :(

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nice work - asking me to auth on first page.

would be nice for someone to do a water cooling walkthrough, I am the newb and want to learn that stuffs :)

They are pretty easy to fit. I worked in a PC tech shop for a while when I was at uni and I fitted a few systems in my time.

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my main issue is the system itself - do you know of any good guides online or books?

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Tom's Hardware always had decent articles in past years, so check out this one and see what you think.

To be honest, water cooling systems aren't that complex. Once you've decided the type you want (See that article I linked for more information) just find one that's good value for money and a good make. I have always found Coolermaster for example to be good value for money in terms of performance to cash ratio.

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ta =]

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If you do a bit of googling you can find tutorials that tell you how real men water cool their PCs using bits of garden hose and heat sinks from VS Polos!

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overclockers.co.uk

They have a watercooling forum, they could answer any question you could possibly have about it.

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http://www.xtremesystems.org the best out there.

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Don't listen to this boys Tosspot will kill your computers in no time!

:D

QuoteThe idea behind this article is to give anyone who hasn’t built a PC or isn’t familiar with PC building an insight into how to do it from a newbies perspective. ADVERTISE INTEL MOREEE

no that's harsh, good jobbbbbbbbb keep it uppppppppppp

Quote...Once confident you can screw the motherboard down as pictured, this is quite simple just screw through the holes on the board onto the backboard of the case.

Most cases nowadays come with different formats though, ATX, uATX etc., so they just have a massive amount of holes in the motherboard holding plate. You gotta find out what format your board has or just check the holes of it, in order to get the screw holding screws (wtf) in those holes.
image: scews

And still, after all those years I can't believe they haven't found a better way to control the LEDs, powerswitches etc than just those ridiculously tiny wire things.
image: figure10

Asus (am I allowed to say that name here?) managed to deliver some sort of dockingstation with their boards that allows you to insert the wires on that instead of the pins directly. Atleast a tad more comfortable.
image: q-connector

Edit: Oh, and I think the most difficult part is actually getting the right parts together. Like the right mainboard for the right socket/CPU, PCI or PCI-E, Sata or IDE, DDR 1,2,3 what speed, etc etc. That might be even harder for most.
You gotta have a special look at the power supplies nowadays as well, not only for enough power, but for enough connectors, as the new graphicscard need some special PCI-E connectors, with either 4,6 or 8 (or whatever) pins. Ofc you could get some extensions and Y-adapters, but that's not too nice :-P

Ehm, and actually buy or check out the graphicscard size before you buy the case. Had this problem a few weeks ago when I ordered a GTX260 for a friend of mine for his old and standard midi tower. Simply didn't fit in, didn't expect a gfxcard to be that long.

agree bout the power switches thing :D, freaking small pins

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Those power switches are the worst part idd...the positioning is so hard too even with my small hands!

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indeed, and make sure you put in the right screws in the copper holes o.O ... i have had that experience a few times, using the wrong screws and then trying to get them out, quite aggravating.

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got mine in color!, tho when i read manual the color red and black is supposed to be on the green one! how about that and one!

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Haha, that's like putting a car radio in a Renault :D.

In the door the speaker wire is green, when it arrives in the middle console it's yellow.

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didn't know dell was french

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+1 @ the grapic card part =D Bought a 4890 and I had to rearrange some things in my case before I was able to place it :s

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They are called stand offs in English just FYI ;)

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I would also add that you should have an antistatic wristband and mat.

If not hf buying new components.

Although I'd go with you on this one, I've been lucky enough to not have anything fuck up on me when doing this : )

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that's something you should have whilst building a pc indeed, but in case one doesn't have them you can also ground yourself by touching the metal part of the casing

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What if your standing on carpet?

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set it on fire

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As long as you don't go rolling around charging yourself like pikachu touching the case before you start is more than enough to be on the safe side.

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lol :D

Just ground yourself first

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I've built about 20 PCs without any of that stuff and never needed to buy something new

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But you still did anyway :(

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but it wasn't because the components would have gone broken due to electro statics :O

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wtf x58 one doesnt support triple ram channel..

TosspoT writing a guide about building a PC.... armageddon is upon us! :(

True! I had to disassemble my whole PC because I forgot those little fuckers (noticed after 1 year) :DD

your motherboard would have shorted out as soon as you turned it on, no?

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nope! Dunno why nothing happened. So there's a short circuit, when the mobo has direct contact with the case? I not only forgot the spacers, I also used the wrong screws (longer ones) and didn't really screw them down, because the mobo started to deform. Fortune favours fools I guess ^^

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just my opinion but that set of components doesn't make much sense

ye i agree

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oh plz

i don't think that's the best order to put a system together but otherwise nice article good job

make a how-to vid instead!

ps just bought myself a new pc (quad core), but 64 bit gave me more pain in the ass than I originally thought....

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next time i build one i will record it but basically the idea being to put components like cpu, ram and cooler onto the mobo first then into the case before ever worrying about things like the hard drive dvd drives, graphics cards power supplies etc

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I always put the CPU on the mobo first before installing the mobo into the case. Nevertheless, nice article :)

yeah not PC World. I told them to replace my graphics card and power supply cos Im noob in that area, and they said I have to pay £30 plus the price of the power supply (£65) & graphics card (£70). Told them to suck themselves and did it by myselfffffff

No you didn't. You probably said "I'll let you know" and then heroicly never did.

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Nice burn Hkrep.

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Thanks.

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Hardware:

CPU: Intel Core i7 920 Box SLBEJ D0
MotherBoard: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 Sk1366
HD: Western Digital 1TB SATA II, SATA 500GB, ATA 250GB
Monitor: LG 22 inch
Keyboard: Lifetech Quicknet Slim (Offer from the store) :D
Mouse: Logitech MX518
Mousepad: 5L SteeL
Sound: Integrated
Graphics: Sapphire ATI HD5850 1GB DDR5 PCI-e
Memory: G-Skill DDR3-17066 2133MHz PS CL9 (3x2GB)
O/S: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 PT-PT Edition
Headset: Logitech
Connection: 20Mbs

first put cpu memory + cooler on motherboard and than put it in the case. Because than you have more working space. Thats better order.

And for the people that want to more about watercooling, look at www.xtremesystems.org.
If you want to see my watercooling look here. http://www.highflow.nl/forum/f34/edwins-stacker-2932/

Nice but try a website in English. (nice photos anyway :P)

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I was so proud when I finally managed to get mine working perfectly!
This will spoil the fun!

if u never done this before and dont have any knowledge about this type of stuff,just let it be,this article wont help u and ull probably gonna screw something up/or it just wont work

building a pc is easy stuff to do :)

just rtfm and learn it while doin it

thats more bullshit than tosspots article :D

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lol why? :D

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you can fuck up so much with building up a PC, and if you fuck up something its mostly pretty expensive ^^

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that's why i wrote you should READ THE FUCKIN MANUAL while building a pc together.
there are manuals for everything. the tower, the motherboard, the psu, the graphicscard,
the soundcard, even for the freaking ram ..

that's almost "idioten sicher" :D

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ye ur so right. People are just lazy.

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Nice, I have two computers I've probably ruined by changing hardware etc !
My friend builded the last one=)

I'll probably rebuild my old computers and follow this guide and hope for a better result!

The small pins are the big fucking problem, after touching those pins I wasn't able to start the computer at all :@

always buy components which actually fit together ..

don't buy amd cpu/motherboard and intel ram or so :D

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Ye but the computers I managed to ruin was computers which already was built when I bought them.

The last one I bought a week ago was components some friends helped me to order to make sure it fit together :)

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that's ofcourse not so good :D ..

always read about it or get help if you aren't really aware of what to do :)

you can't put diesel in a benzine car .. :D

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Ye but I thought I was good enough.

Haha funny mentioned that, my father took benzine in a diesel-car :D
But only because he usually has a benzine-car except when he drives with the job-car.

I guess it's in the genes :)

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lol :D:D

the car still ok or is the motor wrecked now? =D

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Nah he was lucky, they only had to change the filters etc.

I think it's worse if you put diesel in a benzine-car than the opposite like my father did.

And even though he tried to start the car for a while the motor was still OK :D
But i bet it was embarrasing to call them and tell what happened :)

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ye you can get a new motor if u use diesel in a gasoline motor ;)
ye i can imagine how embarrasing it might have been :D

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You're not going to wreck benzine engine if you put diesel in it, there will be a lot of smoke, and that's it. But if you put benzine in a diesel engine, then you're going to wreck it.

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"benzine" engines won't wreck if you run it with diesel, it wont give as much horsepower as it would give with the gasoline it's ment to be driven with...

and it won't start (most won't), so you got to get your car running with regular fuel and then add some diesel.

also you could make a mix; put 40% 95 or 98 and rest diesel.. it wont start as well as it should and it might be a bit too stressing for starter/ ignition system, but atleast you would be able to drive like that.

altho diesel in newish cars could ruin those fancy exhaustcatalyte-thingies, lambda's and so on..

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9800GT is boring,boring

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