my first build

[ctbaars]

I'm building my first and I went with this:
Silverstone SST-TJ08 Black. I'm aware of HD mounting issues. I own a dremmel
Silverstone ST50EF-SC 500w
Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
Crucial ddr2 800mhz 2x2048mb
Vista 64 dvd
Will get E8400
Considering Sony/nec optiarc 9171S
Use floppy from old pc ... if required.
VGA card intalled after initial build.
Sound card installed after initial build.

I believe I paid a little extra but for good quality.
Gaming is Myst, simulation, strategic, low violence/clean language types; Nany Drew for my girls. Goes in the kitchen corner, household gereral use, email, office proffesional. Will play with the bios, UC/OC a little. Tinker.

Will I have any troubles?
Any advice?
Say anything... I can take it ...

Regards
CTB

Edit: Sorry, E8400 not E6400

 

[chuckm]

Why an E6400?

 

[ctbaars]

Why an E6400?

E8400 it is ... thanks.

 

[akhilles]

^^^ That's the way a new build post should be. Tell us what programs you run & we can narrow down to a few choices.

Good quality, are you kidding me? It's a top quality case.

What's your gpu? I'm gonna recommend against the board you picked out if you're going to overclock it. GA-P35-DS3R is an all-around good board.

 

[drysocks]

SST-TJ08 can only hold a mATX pcb.

 

[ctbaars]

Thank you Akhilles.
I haven't pick a gpu yet. Once built, I'll see how it plays, looks and how the 5.1 sound is with the klipsch speakers in determining if I need a gpu card (likely) or a sound card (perhaps)
The pcb you picked is indeed better for oc'ing. But as drysocks indicated the case is a mATX motherboard only case. The G33M got reasonably good reviews too. I won't be too ambitious.
-Hard drive I haven't picked. 160gb WD or Spinpoint is fine. Currently between two computers I have for home and work I only use about 36gb!
Should I go Raptor?

 

[ctbaars]

ok. I thought I would ask here first ...
I got the Siverstone SST-TJ08 case.
But there are three parts the instructions don't refer to.
What are they? Where do they go?

In this picture there is a iron torroid core like thing about one inch in diameter, a bracket with a screw in it and piezoelectric looking device on a 4 pin connector.

 

[akhilles]

The left one is a lock hole that installs from the inside of the rear where there's a rectagular hole & a screw hole.

The bottom right is a speaker that sticks to the mobo speaker out pins.

The ring is unknown to me.

 

[drysocks]

Bracket installs inside, next to the power supply, as akhilles indicates.

I found this on the web.
"... a Ferrite core for HD Audio to the front, ..."
I don't know what it means.

 

[akhilles]

If that's really a ferrite core, then it will reduce RFI (Radio Frequency Interference). It's built in a lot of things like power cords, a/v cables, etc.

 

[ctbaars]

I wrote Silverstone but they have not responded yet.

 

[inspecter71]

the ring believe it or not is for your wire's to keep the organized, its kind of stupid but that what the tech at comp usa told me when i asked about my ring.

 

[ctbaars]

Silverstone has responded ... with a photo.

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg81/ctbaars/silverstonetorroid.jpg

"Thank you very much for purchasing a SilverStone. The Iron core is made to reduce EMI (or radio interference), but you do not have to use it. If you like to, you can route the cables and wirings from the front panel through it."

Thank you SilverStone!

 

[ctbaars]

I have all my parts except the memory (price has dropped a lot!), I'll be getting it now, and the processor (naturally, Monday or so).

 

[ctbaars]

the ring believe it or not is for your wire's to keep the organized, its kind of stupid but that what the tech at comp usa told me when i asked about my ring.

I can see why the CompUSA by me went out of business ...

 

[inspecter71]

yeah our comp usa stores here in south florida only have a couple of weeks left then they are done for good.

 

[ctbaars]

Good news:
Computer is assembled.
Prime95 (2 instances) ran for 24 hrs.
Temps with the Gigabyte utility are 24C system, 29C CPU
no fan on cpu heatsink

e8400 installed flawlessly, had f6 bios, went to f8a.
4 gigs installed from start, flawless.

definitely need an 8800
not sure why i'm not on the internet yet with that computer...

 

[ctbaars]

If that's really a ferrite core, then it will reduce RFI (Radio Frequency Interference). It's built in a lot of things like power cords, a/v cables, etc.

uh yup

 

[imrul]

where did u get an e8400?

 

[ctbaars]

https://www.compsource.com/keywordresult_next.asp?category=P2&sort=relevance&keyword_list=e8400

Says not in stock now, but I was on pre-order.
I thought for sure that I wasn't getting it until later this week.