Good guide for 1st build???

[Mav007]

Well all the parts have finally arrived, here's what I went with:

Antec P160WF case - (NewEgg)
OCZ 520 Powerstream PSU - (Directron)
Asus A8V Delux (ver 2) MB - (ZipZoomFly)
AMD 3500+ 939 soket,90nm processor - ZipZoomFly)
Kingston HypterX 3200AK2/1G memory - (newegg)
Western Digital Raptor 78 gig boot drive - Newegg)
ATI 9600XT VC - for now - (BB-sale)
NEC 3500A , black - (Newegg)

Since it's my first build, I'm looking for a good step by step. Any one have suggestions and links??

thanks

 

[Frew]

Here
All basically there. Use the manual that came with cpu/motherboard for installation of the CPU though.

Edit: Thanks to MechBgon! For good guide!

 

[LordPhoenix]

Oh yeah. Mechbgon's guide.

 

[mechBgon]

That'll be a nice rig!

I have these added suggestions: raise the memory voltage to 2.7 volts in the motherboard's BIOS menus, put the RAM in the blue slots like Asus says in the manual, and I just hope your SATA drive cooperates for Windows installation purposes If you have any additional PATA storage drives that'll be going in there, wait until after installing Windows on SATA before you hook them up or they'll heist drive letter C:.

 

[Azndude51]

i glanced over the guide, nice work man, but does it include instructions on newer stuff like pci-express and i didnt see anything about installing amd64s, are those any different?

 

[Mrvile]

I think the best guides are the instruction manuals that are right in front of you

I recently built my first system (recently as in yesterday) and it took, well, a long time. Around 7 hours of messing up and trying to figure out where things go, not to mention trying to get used to my BTX case. But a nice reference guide I used a bit was http://www.mysuperpc.com/build/pc_parts_list.shtml. A bit old school, but very complete.

Expect to mess up, plug things in wrong, read over your manuals over and over, repeatedly ask people in these forums while wringing your hands waiting for a reply, getting lost in the cables, but in the long run you're computer ends up looking great. And best of all, have fun and good luck!

P.S. - installing AMD64s are no different. The motherboard should still have the little lever that you throw to clamp the CPU down. For things like PCI-express, read your video card manual, it should have everything you need.

 

[Azndude51]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
I think the best guides are the instruction manuals that are right in front of you

the problem is that OEM parts don't come with manuals and some manuals are really poorly written. for my build, i'm gonna probably follow the Maximum PC Guide to Building a Dream PC book i borrowed from the library, but i'll read through other online guides just in case they have other insights. the maximum pc book will be easier to follow since i dont have to be by a computer to look through it.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: LeadFrog
Here
All basically there. Use the manual that came with cpu/motherboard for installation of the CPU though.

Edit: Thanks to MechBgon! For good guide!

:lips: MechBgon!

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Azndude51
i glanced over the guide, nice work man, but does it include instructions on newer stuff like pci-express and i didnt see anything about installing amd64s, are those any different?

I think you'll be ok. I regret not having an Athlon64 or Socket775-Intel page, but I can't take photos of stuff I don't have on hand. I do have an A64 but it's not running the latch-down type of heatsink, it's got an Alpha.