So I finally got my PC parts in the mail today! Now I just need to staple it all together! I've got a webcam and all that shiz, so I was wondering how I should got about getting assistance for the assembly. I have 2 option as far as I can tell:

1. http://www.livestream.com/
Pros: Can interact with an unlimited amount of people
Cons: I can only see text from others

2. AIM/MSN video chat
Pros: Can see/hear each other
Cons: Can only be 1-on-1

Oh yeah, This will be anytime saturday morning or afternoon. w/e works for Ex/rox/lath

You should stick to a tutorial.

I'm imagining something. It's not good.

Her computer got my attention, then I was like Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-

Never again will I trust sen

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What happened? D:

Wish I would've seen this earlier. I work nights on the weekends thus I'm asleep all day. I'm free Sunday after 2pm EST.

Alright.
So far I've got everything mounted, it's just the wiring that's hard. I've got about 3 plugs done that I don't think I screwed up.

Also, the case and the motherboard were a terrible match. There is no hope to fit in the back peripherals face plate.

Then you're doing it wrong. They have to fit, the form factor is standardized.

Problem:
The case comes with 2 system fans, each 3 pin.
The mobo has a 3 pin sys_fan1, and a 4 pin sys_fan2

So now I can't use all my case fans?

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Then you're doing it wrong. They have to fit, the form factor is standardized.

Seconded, but I actually go to college about this shit.

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Problem:
The case comes with 2 system fans, each 3 pin.
The mobo has a 3 pin sys_fan1, and a 4 pin sys_fan2

So now I can't use all my case fans?

You can plug a 3-pin female onto a 4-pin male. If I remember my mobo correctly, the only 4-pin I saw was my CPU fan, though, and the rest were 3-pin. Did you already find the plug for your CPU fan (if you have a fan on your heatsink, which I assume you would)?

4-pin fans require 4-pin mobo connectors. But 3-pin fans will work just fine on 4-pin mobo connectors.

4-pin fans have extra cleverness in them that lets them alter speed dynamically. 3-pin fans can alter speed, but not automatically (eg you need to set it manually, or install software that will automatically do it for you). CPU fans of all recent intel processors will use 4 pin connectors, and therefore all motherboards made to support those CPU will have 4-pin CPU fan connectors on the mobo. After that, any additional 4-pin connectors you get are a bonus.

Yeah, I was out of town on saturday...

The back plate you sometimes have to force in.

I'm just gonna leave it off. The mouse peripheral simply can not fit through the hole unless I take a saw to it.

Anyways I'm off to a local computer store. I knew this thing wouldn't come with all the wires I needed. I need an extra sata-hdd wire for my HDD, a power cord that never came with the psu and a something to plug my cdrom into the cd_in

First off, while they are indeed peripherals, each has its own name:
Here's the ps/2 ports:

The green one is usually for the mouse, and the purple one is usually for the keyboard. The keyboard male connector has a notch cut on the metal part of the plug, as shown in the picture. Mice don't have that part. Do not unplug and replug these in while the computer is on (it can damage the motherboard). It is mostly outdated, and both my mouse and keyboard are USB (USB isn't actually as fast as ps/2, but it doesn't need to be). USB is hot-swappable.

What's the problem with the back plate anyway? Did you take the one that came with the case out, and put the one that came with the motherboard in? I know I nearly bent one of my cases when I took out the default back blate, since it had be jammed in there by the manufacturer (and my motherboard is a stupidly "unique" motherboard in its component placement, so I couldn't use the default one).


Sorry we didn't catch that the motherboard only had 2 SATA cords and you needed 3, or that the psu didn't come with a power cord (both are mentioned in the specs). Such is life. My motherboard came with 4 or 6, and I have a few extras lying around from some hard drives, and more than a few power cords. The reason a lot of companies don't send you a lot of this stuff is because people like me already have it all. That's why the OEM and bare drives are the only ones you can find anymore.

I'm gonna have lunch, and then start posting video of what I've done so far.

What's the really smooth, wide, and skinny IDE wire for? It looks important, but I don't see anywhere on my cdrom to plug it in.

CAFG is a girl?

gotcha hesa him

That's why I laugh when Ex says that building a computer is easy as making something with legos.

Or wait.... It's probably got to do with my monitor. I'm thinking that I'll be plugging into my grafix card though.

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That's why I laugh when Ex says that building a computer is easy as making something with legos.

It really is, though. I built my current computer without any help or experience, and it turned out fine. The Lego analogy works if you consider that you have to get pieces that fit together (i.e. an ATX mobo that fits in a case that allows an ATX mobo, some DDR3 RAM that the ATX mobo can process, etc.).