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Thank you both for the fast responses and great advice! I am not to familiar with the more recent AMD chipsets so really appreciate the insight - I know I will get more bang for my buck going that route. Also, the Black Friday tip is a great one, not sure why I hadn't thought of that. I chose...

I’m looking to build a machine for my daughter as a birthday present, which is in December. I intended to start ordering parts sooner rather than later however and am going to do the build at work. My intention is to keep the PC fairly basic with a mind for easy upgradability as I figure out how...

I just breadboxed the Motherboard. Hooked up with 20 pin and cpu power with one 4gb stick of ram the system posted; so I'm hoping it was a bad connection or short. I'm going to reset the system clock and give it another shot inside the case; I'll post back an update either way.

PSU fan spins when shorted out so it seems like it's probably not a problem with the PSU. More and more I'm think something had to have gone wrong with the motherboard.

Yes, in the other outlet I knew to be working. Sorry, I'm on the east coast and had to hit the hay last night. Before I went to sleep I pulled the battery to reset the CMOS; still no power.

There's power, it's running through a UPS. The laptop and external monitor I'm using now are plugged in to it as well. I tried it in another outlet that I knew to be working as well.

Yes. I get no spark from the machine at all.

Completed my first build and loaded the OS and various drivers. I powered the machine down to hook up my other HDD's and hook up the 2 6 pin power connectors onto my video card - I hadn't been able to find them and was using the onboard graphics. There are 4 more HDD's that I set up, two 1tb's...

Thanks for all the responses, they've been very helpful!

All, Looking at building my first ever machine and wanted some advice on the parts I picked out. The build I'm looking at is http://. I had a few questions as well, the firs t being about the cpu. I went with the 3570k but was considering the i5 4670k as an alternative. Is it worth the added...

Hello all I'm looking for a little advice/guidance on a new PC build I plan to undertake. Approximate Purchase Date: I hope to have the machine built by the end of August but some recent unexpected Auto expenses may push that date a bit further back. Budget Range: I’d like to build the base...