Just finished my tower

[Boloboy]

Hi everyone! I just put together this tower two nights ago.

COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Black Steel ATX Full Tower Compucase Case with USB 3.0, Black Interior and Four Fans-1x 230mm front RED LED fan, 1x 140mm rear fan, 1x 230mm top fan, and 1x 230mm side fan

Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLHX 150GB 10000 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr III PE/OC GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52500K

COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus RR-B10-212P-G1 "Heatpipe Direct Contact" Long Life Sleeve 120mm CPU Cooler Compatible Intel Core i5 & Intel Core i7

X 2 - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL

PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk II 950W High Performance 80PLUS Silver SLI CrossFire ready Power Supply

ASRock P67 EXTREME4 (B3) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit - OEM

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1 User for System Builders - OEM

Everything went together great. I was planning on using my optical drive from my old pc but it doesnt connect to the new motherboard. I was wondering if I could use my laptop to somehow install windows or if I just need to buy a new optical drive?

Thanks so much and let me know what you think of the build!!

p.s the tower is huge and looks great. Weighs alot though!

 

[SwaggeeR]

Hey there congrats on the new build i shall be building my new rig in a few days. From my knowledge and experience you would need an optical drive or you can format a USB stick and download "DVD to USB" and load windows 7 on via USB which would be faster IMO.

Hope i helped.

http://emea.microsoftstore.com/UK/en-GB/Help/Windows-7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool - for information on the tool.

http://download.cnet.com/Windows-7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool/3000-18513_4-10972600.html - To download the tool.

 

[Boloboy]

Thanks alot. Appreciate the help. I must say it was pretty fun building my own tower. Took me about 3.5 hours. But I was watching a video as I went and being very cautious.

 

[cutebeans]

You can use a usb dvd drive lol.

 

[FinneousPJ]

Post pics

 

[SwaggeeR]

Glad you enjoyed it. It's also going to be my first build however i have tampered and dismantled a few pc's over the years lol. I'm going to be in the same boat as it's cost me close to £1000 so will be very careful and patient .

You could also use a usb dvd drive as cutebeans said however if you have a spare USB about just follow the guide to putting the ISO onto a usb and installing that way. I have tried this method and works perfectly for installing windows 7 without a DVD as my girlfriend laptop DVD drive decided to give up and she needed a reformat.

 

[hillmanant]

LOL I did the exact same thing got it together went to scalp the drive off my old one with no avail. Here this explains the USB Boot very well follow it exactly and your home free. By the way i went to local Radio Shack and tried the USB DVD ROM and no go you cant load the drivers without an OS.
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7vista-from-usb-drive-detailed-100-working-guide/