Hello can anyone here tell me what kind of power supply this is in the this picture with the blue LED light. And what are the other components with blue led lights, I am building a computer I want mine to look like this inner working.
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VirtualLarry
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SO that big blue led fan is a heatsink??? and the 2 other blue leds is a ram cooler???
It looks that way. If you still aren't sure, check the manual for your motherboard. It should have a pic of the parts layout.
The PSU is the bigger box on the inside of where the power cord and power switch are. If it means enough to you, you can probably buy a fan with a blue LED that will fit in place of the one in the PSU. I don't know that it's worth all the work to disassemble it and install another fan, and doing it would probably void the warranty.
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Hi Harvey I haven't ordered my gaming pc yet I am still putting it together before I order so I know what I need. Im just trying to get info on these pieces so I know what to order.
No offense intended, but that's about as weird a question as I could imagine.
Whether it's on a CPU, RAM or any other chip on your motherboard or vid card, a heatsink consists of a chunk of metal with a means to remove localized heat from a chip that runs hot and get it into free air and out of the box. Older heatsinks use extruded aluminum with fins and, when necessary, a fan. Newer heatsinks use copper tubes called heat pipes to remove the heat to a larger heat spreader and fan. If you want to go bat sh8 crazy, there are even water cooled systems, as well.
A case fan removes heat from the inside of the case to the outside world.
When it comes to your PSU, by all means, put quality ahead of looks. You can add LED's and/or a different fan to a good PSU, but a cheap PSU with blue LED's that someone added to make it sell is still a cheap PSU.
Don't know the brand of the ram cooler but there are several others on Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Memory-Chipset...ategory/ID-572. They are mostly for looks because even when overclocked ram doesn't get very hot.
HSF is Intel DBX-B which was bundled with i7 980X but also sold separately. Not sure where or for how much, but get something else because it's not very good. There are several other coolers with blue lighting or you can buy a separate blue led fan.
You're on the right track building a pc yourself but I think you really should watch some 'how to build a pc' videos on youtube if you have to ask these kind of basic questions.
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Yes. Not to make the OP feel bad, but if he doesn't know the difference between a power supply, a heatsink, and a case fan, then he should study more before building a PC, or get someone more knowledgeable to help.
He won't feel as bad as he would if he got the wrong stuff or didn't know how to put it together. Props to him for asking. I think he may need a little more info than he may have thought he did, but he's come to a good place to ask, and here we are helping him.
Here is a videos to help understand how to assemble a pc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIJx6Y3tofg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIJx6Y3tofg
He won't feel as bad as he would if he got the wrong stuff or didn't know how to put it together. Props to him for asking. I think he may need a little more info than he may have thought he did, but he's come to a good place to ask, and here we are helping him.
Thanks for the help guys .I have been researching gaming pcs for a couple weeks now and settled on most of the choices I made. Im going with an i5 intell instead of an i7 cuz i heard games dont use i7 with hyper threading. Im going with an asus sabretooth z77 motherboard. 500 gigs. 16 gigs of ram with. Gtx680. A cooler master case with windows 7 64bit Just needed a little more info before I start to order it.
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If you have room in your budget you could get a ssd as your main os drive and use the 500gb hard disk drive for storing photos and installing games, apps ect.
I dont know if you live in usa but here is a link for a samsung 840 pro 128gb ssd
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820147192
what power supply do you plan to get?
I dont know if you live in usa but here is a link for a samsung 840 pro 128gb ssd
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820147192
what power supply do you plan to get?
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An SSD is a Solid State Disk. In other words, it's a Hard Drive, but with no moving parts. Therefore, it can be much faster for random-access, because it no longer has to mechanically seek a head across a magnetic platter.
OK so I need an ssd for my main drive and a regular hard drive for my 2nd drive?????
An SSD will give you much faster boot times and otherwise speed up your machine for all calls to the OS and whatever else you store on it. Everything else stored on a conventional HD will respond at the speed allowed by that drive. SSD's are also MUCH more expensive than conventional HD's.
WARNING! There's a lot to learn about brands of SSD's and how to set them up and maintain them, and they cost a LOT more than a conventional drive of any given size. As others have noted, your posts suggest you have a lot to learn about more basic issues before you start buying parts and building. Unless you're reallly intent on getting the extra speed, now, I would suggest building your system with a good conventional drive. You can gain a little speed by buying one with larger than minimum cache (aka buffer) than found in the cheapest ones.
Please take some time to read various forums about which parts of any given type (CPU, motherboard, drives, video card, other peripherals) have the best performance the fewest problems and lowest failure rates. If you have any local friends with more experience, ask them for help.
If you decide you want an SSD, take some serious extra time to learn about them, as well. They can give you a big performance boost IF you choose the right one and install and maintain it correctly.
One more thought - You can build your system on a conventional drive and, once you have everything installed and running well, transfer the OS to an SSD, later. How to do that is another subject, but you have so much to learn that really need to get grounded in how to build a basic working system, first.
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I dont think SSDs are all that "black boxy" anymore. Just buy a 90-128GB intel/samsung/crucial, one that has lots of newegg reviews and a high rating. I would definitely recommend buying one before spending $300 on a motherboard. Motherboard + SSD should not cost more than $300. Is there any reason a ASRock Extreme4 Z77 Motherboard cannot work for you? It's $100 less, or the price of a decent SSD. ASRock Extreme4 Linky
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He won't feel as bad as he would if he got the wrong stuff or didn't know how to put it together. Props to him for asking. I think he may need a little more info than he may have thought he did, but he's come to a good place to ask, and here we are helping him.
For some reason I am picturing him picking up the mouse and saying "Hello Computer". Anyways, not too long ago I helped my cousin build his first PC that he paid for with his own money. Building your first PC has come to be a rite of passage. I want to say you will always remember it, but I dont remember mine.
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This one's better, and always will be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eevsYYu5H5A
I think AsRock was still an ASUS subsidiary when they made that.
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For some reason I am picturing him picking up the mouse and saying "Hello Computer". Anyways, not too long ago I helped my cousin build his first PC that he paid for with his own money. Building your first PC has come to be a rite of passage. I want to say you will always remember it, but I dont remember mine.
I've been drunk and bought stuff on Amazon.
And I've been drunk and started putzing with my computer.
But I've never been so drunk for so long that I forgot buying the things, was blackout drunk for two days, and then forgot assembling the stuff I bought.
That'd be weird. Like, "hey, honey, where'd this computer come from?"
That was at least 15 years ago. I have a tray of CPUs from the 486/Pentium era (Cyrix, IBM, AMD, Intel) that I might have used in building a new PC, or I may have simply bought the CPUs and replaced whatever it was I had in an existing bought system. I remember the first two machines I bought, but dont quite know when I starting building them from scratch. The only clear memory I have of the earliest PC I built was a Celeron 300A, and that was because I remember the OC to 450. If I didnt knock over this tray from time to time I would have forgotten about them completely.
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