On Friday I ordered the following:
Power Supply
Seasonic S12 Energy +550W ATX12V V2.2 20/24 PIN Active PFC Power Supply
Mobo
Gigagbyte GA-965P-S3 ATX LGA775 Conroe P965 DDR2 PCI-E16 3PCI-E1 3PCI SATA2 GBLAN
CPU
Intel Core 2 DUO E4300 Dual Core Processo LGA775 1.8ghz 800fsb
Video Card
EVGA E-Geforce 8800 GTS 500MHZ 320MB 1.6GHZ GDDR3 PCI-E Dual DVI-I HDTV HDCP DirectX10
Ram
G.SKill F2-6400CL5D-2GBNQ PC2-6400 2GB 2X1gb DDR2-800 CL5-5-5-15 240PIN Dual Channel
HDD
WD1200BB/JB 7200 RPM (I had this HDD from my old computer) It is already formatted.
Case
Cooler Master CAC-T05 Centurion 5 Aluminum ATX Tower Case 5x5.25 1X3.5 4X3.5 INT Silver-Black
All ordered from NCIX.Com
My computer will arrive sometime between Tuesday and Friday.
What I would like to know is, what are the top 10 mistakes noobs make when putting together a computer for the first time.
I want everything that I might do wrong lingering in the back of my mind when I put this thing together.
Power Supply
Seasonic S12 Energy +550W ATX12V V2.2 20/24 PIN Active PFC Power Supply
Mobo
Gigagbyte GA-965P-S3 ATX LGA775 Conroe P965 DDR2 PCI-E16 3PCI-E1 3PCI SATA2 GBLAN
CPU
Intel Core 2 DUO E4300 Dual Core Processo LGA775 1.8ghz 800fsb
Video Card
EVGA E-Geforce 8800 GTS 500MHZ 320MB 1.6GHZ GDDR3 PCI-E Dual DVI-I HDTV HDCP DirectX10
Ram
G.SKill F2-6400CL5D-2GBNQ PC2-6400 2GB 2X1gb DDR2-800 CL5-5-5-15 240PIN Dual Channel
HDD
WD1200BB/JB 7200 RPM (I had this HDD from my old computer) It is already formatted.
Case
Cooler Master CAC-T05 Centurion 5 Aluminum ATX Tower Case 5x5.25 1X3.5 4X3.5 INT Silver-Black
All ordered from NCIX.Com
My computer will arrive sometime between Tuesday and Friday.
What I would like to know is, what are the top 10 mistakes noobs make when putting together a computer for the first time.
I want everything that I might do wrong lingering in the back of my mind when I put this thing together.