Building a new PC

[terry4536]

If you have trouble putting it together, let me know and I will talk you through it. Do a search on YouTube for assembling a PC. There are many of videos to choose from or I can suggest some. It takes a lot of the headaches out of process. I think you will enjoy the process.

 

[IvakaS]

You've been VERY helpful, I am grateful for all. I will see but I'm probably getting the 8400 in a few days. Can't wait to start building it and knowing that I have someone willing to help me if I get stuck somewhere is a big relief. Thank you!

 

[terry4536]

You've been VERY helpful, I am grateful for all. I will see but I'm probably getting the 8400 in a few days. Can't wait to start building it and knowing that I have someone willing to help me if I get stuck somewhere is a big relief. Thank you!

You are welcome.

 

[IvakaS]

Currently building it, already connected the cables provided from my case and now connecting the PSU. I got the 24pin done, but now I have to connect one 8pin (upper left corner of the mobo). So my mobo manual calls it 8pin ATX 12V. And my PSU has 2x4pin similar cable, but is named CPU. I connected it, it fits perfectly, but is this the right one to use? All my other PSU cables are 6+2pin, sata and molex.

 

[terry4536]

The CPU Power cable is a 4-pin or 8-pin depending on the motherboard. The 6+2 pin cable is a PCIE cable for your graphics card.

Use a single 4-pin or both 4-pin connectors on the CPU power connector on the motherboard.

 

[IvakaS]

It's all done. Everything is connected, cable management is a mess but I fit the cables somehow. All I gotta do now is try to power it up, go into bios, make it boot fromd DVD and install windows. I am a bit afraid of booting it up tho, I really don't want to burn some part. Hope everything goes well.

 

[terry4536]

It's all done. Everything is connected, cable management is a mess but I fit the cables somehow. All I gotta do now is try to power it up, go into bios, make it boot fromd DVD and install windows. I am a bit afraid of booting it up tho, I really don't want to burn some part. Hope everything goes well.

It is worth the effort of tipping the PC side and give it a little shake. Hopefully any loose screw or similar will rattle to the bottom. But on the other side, there is fault protection circuitry in the power supply that will detect shorts and shut the PSU down in the event of a fault.

 

[IvakaS]

The first breath of the PC felt like a new life was born. Finishing up Windows installation right now. Cheers to you for all the help, man!

 

[terry4536]

You'e Welcome. Have fun with the new system. What was your final component list?

 

[IvakaS]

Mobo: ASRock H370 Pro4
CPU: i5-8400
GPU: GTX 1060 6GB
RAM: Hyper X Fury 8GB 2666MHz (will add one more later)
PSU: !be quiet System Power 8 600W