Building my first SFF rig tomorrow! Anything I need to know?

[MichaelD]

It's not mine, unfortunately. Guy at work. He's never built a rig before...neophyte. I basically told him what to buy. I've never built a SFF system before. Is there anything special I need to know? I DO plan on RTFM before starting; I know those cases are all freaky and stuff.

Since I'd ask YOU, I'll post the parts! 😉

Shuttle SN85G4
Athlon 64 3200+
512mb stick Corsair PC3200LL
Sapphire 9600XT
WD 120GB SATA drive, 7200K rpm (he picked this out w/o my approval!...I'd have just gotten a regular IDE SE drive)
Plextor 708A

Gonna put W2K on it. How'd I do? 😀 Anything I need to know?

 

[par]

i'd go with xp

other than that, you got it boss!
nothing left to do but plug and play

 

[Psychosylph]

Yep, pretty much RTFM will work for you. Shuttle has a nice little pamphlet (w/ pictures) showing the exact build order, so you should be good to go with just that.

 

[erikistired]

cutting out the back grill for the ice fan has been shown to lower temps, altho it voids the warranty. just an fyi. otherwise it's pretty straight forward.

 

[ericboo]

Besides wanting one for yourself after building it, you will probably want to run the program Speedfan to control the noise of the fan noise but that is about it.

 

[MichaelD]

Thanks for the tip, guys. I was coming back to this thread to report that the dude never called me.

I was doing HIM the favor. :| Screw him now...ah...I work w/the guy.

I'll bet he tried to do it himself...I mean, it's not really all that difficult. I wonder if he got everything loaded up?

I have his number, but why should I call him, right?

And ERICBOO, I want one for myself anyway! 😀 Those things are waaaay cool.

I'm holding back from getting one though, b/c I just went and spent almost $400 on a SCSI setup for my gaming rig. 😱 I love it...but obviously, you can only have one HD in a SFF, and it's gotta be a good size; 18GB ain't gonna cut it. 😉

Thanks much for all the suggestions. If I DO wind up building (heheh, RE-building?) this thing, I'll be well-armed w/knowledge. 🙂

 

[TitanDiddly]

So he doesn't know about computers at all? Don't be surpised if he asks you why the video card wouldn't fit into the PCI slot. 😀

 

[kursplat]

I'm holding back from getting one though, b/c I just went and spent almost $400 on a SCSI setup for my gaming rig. I love it...but obviously, you can only have one HD in a SFF, and it's gotta be a good size; 18GB ain't gonna cut it.

not if you lose the floppy. and about the only thing i think you might of needed was the drivers for the SATA on a floppy to ease the install.
good luck