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March 27, 2013 11:58:31 AM

I just finished putting everything together on my first build, it's going to be a gaming PC, here are the specs:

CASE - Antec Full Tower Gaming Case 1200 V3
MOTHERBOARD - ASRock Z77 Extreme 4
CPU - Intel Core i5-3570K 1155 77W
GPU - Radeon HD 7970
PSU - Inland 750W
OPTICAL DRIVE - LG 24x Super Multi Internal SATA
SSD - Samsung 840 Series 120GB
HDD -Western Digital Red 2TB 6Gb/s - Bare drive
RAM - Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 - 2133
FAN CONTROLLER - Logisys FP600BK 6-Channel controller
OS - Windows 7 64bit Home Premium

So I've got everything all put together (correctly I hope), but what I'm not sure about is the first startup, installing drivers and the operating system and all that.
I am an extreme newbie, all I've learned so far is from the product manuals and the internet, and I would really appreciate any advice. A walkthrough of the first startup would be really helpful if that exists anywhere on the internet. I know every build is a little different, but like I said, at the moment I don't really have anything to go on.
Thanks for taking the time to read my post, and thanks in advance for any help that is given.

P.S.
I just thought of one more quick question. I'm going to be using my 24" HDTV as the monitor, do I plug it into the HDMI on the motherboard i/o panel, or the graphics card?

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March 27, 2013 12:11:21 PM

Stick the Windows 7 disc in the optical drive, and follow the instructions, it is very hard to mess the installation up. You wan't your TV connected to the graphics card (if you don't get a display doing this, then connect it to the motherboard for the time being).

Once you have installed Windows 7, download the AMD Catalyst Drivers from here for your GPU: http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/amd-catalys...

I don't think you'll need many other drivers. If your HDTV came with it's own driver CD like mine, put that in after installing Windows and hopefully it'll come with instructions. Hope this helps :) 
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March 27, 2013 12:12:15 PM

Plug your HDMI cable to your monitor and then to your graphics card. I dont know if there is any performance decrease but I would recomment you plugging it to the graphics card
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March 27, 2013 12:15:27 PM

You can also watch the Newegg build video part 3 if you want a visual example, which goes over post-assembly, i.e. drivers, windows, etc....
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March 27, 2013 12:22:24 PM

Get all of the motherboard's drivers from the motherboard web site (should be chipset/usb/audio/lan/) and put them on a USB stick in appropriately-named folders. Do not use the disk that came with the motherboard because it probably has outdated drivers on it. Get the latest catalyst control center/video card drivers from the AMD web site and put them in a folder called 'video' on the USB stick.

Get the latest BIOS update for your motherboard. If possible and available, update the BIOS using the BIOS's update utility. Otherwise, you can use a Windows-based update after Windows is installed.

Go into your motherboards BIOS and set the disk mode for your disk controllers to AHCI (this may or may not be the default).

Install the OS. Once the Windows install is completed, and you start to Windows, install the motherboard's chipset, sound, usb, graphics, and other controller's drivers. Reboot as prompted. Then install video drivers. Reboot even if not prompted. You should be good to go at that point.
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March 28, 2013 9:01:39 AM

chugot9218 said:
You can also watch the Newegg build video part 3 if you want a visual example, which goes over post-assembly, i.e. drivers, windows, etc....


This was really helpful as well, thank you!
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