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jewing out on a PSU.

shitty installment of my cpu cooler
bad case choice

heatsink didnt fit on mobo (heatsink for chipset got in the way). had to return it and then get a Big Typhoon

I thought the case risers were necessary.

cable management

used stock thermal paste? its the only thing i can think of

>>5537534

Yours, basically.
Pretty much the only mistake I made on my first build. The only other thing I couldnt get to work was the front USB but that was excused because I had to wire it myself (it didnt come in one neat "USB" plug block)

cable management... seriously as important as the cpu...

I don't have a "first build" per se, as I have learned from swapping parts (as opposed to a head-on method of buying everything at once). But still... here they are:
-Rosewill PSU (lol 65% efficiency)
-Shitty $10 Thermaltake heatsink (loud as fuck, and if I made the fan run any slower, the computer overheats and shuts down)
-Celeron D
-Sticking with AGP when it was being phased out
-VIA chipset for socket 478

Yeah. Fun times.

>>5537544
>>5537577

Hey, I'm about to make my first one, what advice do you have about cable management? I would think tucking the extra wires behind the case panel would pretty much do it.

i actually still need to fix some cable management on my system fans. Velcro is the best management if you ever have a problem

I connected all the antec 900's fans to the four pin molex and connected the little small end into the mobo's system fan pin

>>5537621
this
>>5537623
use extra drive bay space to make room

Wtf are risers for?

Samsung HDD (died after 6 months).
My WD 1200JB which I bought after that (2002) still works fine, SMART status is good.

When I upgraded the system in 2006, I chose a cheap-ass PSU which almost fried me one day. Got an Enermax Liberty 400W since then, working fine on my current quad core build.

>>5537623

Velcro, zip ties, tuck shit behind case elements, remove everything you aren't using, make IDE drives external (just so you don't have to deal with HUEG cables.

Didn't sellotape/twist two wires very well.
Molex > '3'pin fan connector wire came off, shorted on my 320GB HDD that was 2 weeks old and fucking fried the cunt.
I cried, and cried.

>>5537534

same same

>>5537695

wait, IDE drives becoming external?

I'd ask you how but I'll google it first before hand.

>>5537743
good you didn't go TB huh

>>5537676
Er, they are for rising motherboards off the back plate of case where you mount it on, preventing short circuits and other fun things.
>>5537621
Stash the cables away wherever you can.
Behind the plate, behind the motherboard (works well with fan cables, depending on the pin location), inside the empty drive bay, etc.

Of course, you should also get a motherboard that allows good cable management... pic is an example of bad pin socket location.

>>5537695
Bitches dont know `bout my PATA origami

>>5537534
This. Finally payed for a decent one and my system was more solid and stable than a buisnessman on viagra.

Putting it together on the carpet with socks on. Either I fried my first motherboard or it was DOA. Newegg replaced it anyway.

>>5537777
Luckily I had some dorrah left in the bank and splashed out on a 640 WD.
My hard drives now have a sheet of paper sellotaped to the bottom now.

>>5537780
Oh. I think my backplate already has large indentations for the mobo to screw onto anyway. That explains things.

>>5537761

I meant external cases, the only thing I run IDE nowadays is DVD drives, and those are all in external cases (which can be also placed on the desk so you don't have to bend down to swap discs.)

I bought a great case for cable management, and I didn't try very hard with the cable management, so i can barely get the left side panel (the one behind the mobo tray) on.

Also, I don't think I put enough thermal paste on, I should check it sometime (build has been running 2 months no problems yet otherwise)

>>5537855
Is there a reason to run dvd drives IDE over sata? I fucking hate IDE ribbons

>>5537676
they keep your mobo from shorting out.

only getting 8gb of ram verses 16gb, cuz bitches don't know about my home server needs.

>>5537899
No reason whatsovever, get a good SATA drive

>>5537889
You'd know immediately if there wasn't enough. Shit wouldn't run for two months.

>>5537923
>8gb on a server
lol

>>5537899
no, IDE is old, and dying, go sata.

>>5537855

Well I will say that a good alternative (because with my setup I need at least one of my IDE drives within the computer) is to just buy round IDE cables. Even though they are bulky they are better than dealing with ribbons

Forgot to get an adapter
Fried hard drive (its k though, it was a 250 and i replaced it with a 500)

>>5537923

You must enjoy your porn a lot, not that I blame you.

Cable management.

Other than that, nothing, because I actually read the manuals before ruining a $200+ part.

>>5538030

Buy a decent modular power supply: problem mostly solved.

I had some dip switchs wrong on the motherboard and stuff so I recall. Nothing fired just tearing my hair out till I got it working. I sort of remember buying a part for a different form factor case way back, but I think I made it fit

i didnt have a mistake on my first build actually.
just alot of mistakes trying to overclock the cpu and such which i finnaly got :)

oh yeah, buying wrong ram, mismatched ram, ram pairings that didn't work with particular motherboards. So dumb when I was 16 years old, 12 years ago

>>5537943
seems like alot

Didn't have this problem but if you get a dead part on your first build it would really suck ass. If you have known good parts laying around you can switch every part until you find the dead one, but your first build means that you have no other parts besides the ones you bought.

Off brands suck, pay the extra $10 and you will eliminate sooo much headache.

Had all of my fans pointing inwards. not because I didn't know about front to back airflow, I just got it wrong because I was in such a hurry to get the thing up and running.
Didn't have any problems till summer rolled around...

generic case and shitty included power supply. also, terrible video card.

the best thing if you don't have a friend to guide you is to follow a detailed step by step guide the first time. Lots of people in 1999-2003 didn't know newer CPU's of the time would burn out within 45 seconds without a heatsink and tried to bench test builds without putting the heatsink on first, opps!

Futureproofed with Quad-CPU motherboard.

>>5538353
lol

>>5538237
server's usually need as much memory as you can get, more ram = way better hosting. which is very good for hosting gayman servers

Got led fans, forgot risers, didn't install Windows XP properly, only had the 1 hard drive.

Cooler Master PSU. Fan died after about 4 months, shit sucked. Also finding out that having both IDE drives and SATA drives was a stupid fucking idea.

Speaking of which, using an IDE DVD drive, and having a HDD on the same cable is also fucking stupid. Spend the extra money for a SATA, it makes shit a lot easier in the long run.

Yes, I was cheap the first time.

I bought an Antec 900 case.
Heavy Ricer case is heavy.

>>5538574
Have the same case and love it. Wonder how much a 1200 would weigh..

My first build went flawlessly. Pushing with full force with a screwdriver for a Socket A mobo/HSF combo was stressful though, I felt like shit was going to break.

>>5538161

I'm seventeen and you're an idiot.

Also, the only mistake I made was forgetting the risers also... Luckily I posted on /g/ - Tech Support and got my problem fixed right away.

Used a thermaltake butterfly cooler (not a bad cooler, but fuck I want Zalman)
Went with a brand called PowerUp! for the PSU (funny story, it died, I called them up to replace it under a warranty even though it was over 1.5 years, and they said they didnt have it anymore. Seemed very unprofessional on the phone. Then they were like how about we just send you a competitors PSU with the same power as that one? IM like sure send me anything Corsair. I was joking. They sent me a Corsair TX850)
Only two real regrets

My first build was essentially perfect. The only thing that really was a mistake was buying an open box motherboard which didn't come with a backplate.

Lapping which resulted in a broken pin.

Buying an Antec over a Coolermaster.

A cable got caught in the CPU fan after a few days. Oops.

Getting an ASUS motherboard that couldn't handle 4gb of ram without a 1000 vista updates.

Never use any other thermal paste other than arctic silver.

>>5539144
I lie.

Adding on and modding an out-dated, prefab Compaq computer until nearly every component, except the HDD and optical drive, was replaced with another. One big money sinkhole mistake.

Not really sure but I must have fucked something up because I had to RMA my motherboard, cpu and gpu. I thought I was careful to discharge static, etc... but I guess not. Also in my second build I tried to use my old HD without doing a clean install and it didn't work so much a mistake as something I thought was worth a shot.

Xion case with a xion psu.
Blew out in a month.
Then I got another xion psu...
Sigh I'm so stupid.

Also stock cpu cooling.

>>5539323

This actually works.

Buying a bottom-mounted case without considering that 90% of computer mobos are designed for top mounted psu computers......

PSU was way too low wattage

wow you are retarded op. I bought a shitty $80 apevia case for the lolLEDS

>>5538969

underage b&

>ITT: Mistakes you made on your first build.

None. I had chassis, motherboard, expansion card and peripheral manuals.

>>5537527
Back when men were men and cases were sharp, I cut myself pretty badly, didn't notice, and bled all over the motherboard.

Sure are a lot of fags in here who have admitted to cheaping out on PSUs. I find this behavior to be abnormally high on /g/, it's not just in this thread but in other "help choose my build" threads, there always seem to be a proliferation of people saying you can get by with a lower wattage PSU, like 350W for a gaming build.

I wonder what the cause of this jewfaggotry is. Does the blood of the jewish pig run in your veins?

>>5539856

80% of /g/ is underage b& and unable to afford the good shit

>>5539769

It is NOT fun cleaning blood out of heat sinks.

>>5539895

Semen is worse,

>>5539856
You only need 500-600 watts, unless you do a shitty LOL 3 VIDEOCARD SLI GTX295 build. Just make sure the power supply delivers enough amperage over the 12v rail(s).

>>5539856
They ask /g/ for advice. What makes you think they actually know technology?

>>5539935
Yeah, I mean, these systems were obviously ones where you wanted 550-650W, and yet there would be fags saying "it's all lies, manufacturers overrate how much wattage the components actually use, etc." without realizing you don't to be running your PSU over 80% capacity anyway. Fucking retards.

>>5539856
>I wonder what the cause of this jewfaggotry is. Does the blood of the jewish pig run in your veins?

MSY is the problem. They sell 'SHAW' PSU's which are like 750 W but have like 18amps on the 12v rail or something ridiculous. MSY is the only place to go for computer in Australia and its even on that build.png

was only 15 when i built my first computer..
i didn't install the CPU cooler properly.. temps got to 67+ degrees until i re-sat it and fixed it LOL
also bad case choice [silver soprano Dx] its really gay... 16 now and cant wait for my next build..

>>5540097

>>5540098
>Dx
>LOL
Are you seriously 16?

I knew nothing about cases and power supplies. So I bought an A-Power C-806 with a 650w power supply. Goddamn it was awful. I had to physically put holes in the hard drive bays so I could screw the cunts in, because the holes were in the WRONG SPOT. There was no room, no airflow, and the PSU was shit on a whole new level. Only ONE SATA power cable. ONE. It was a hunk of shite.

Also, I bought a Phenom 9950 like a fucking week before the Phenom II's came out.

>>5540116
ye.. i am.. been banned many times bro..

>>5540098
Im sure mummy and daddy love paying for your shit

>>5540147
Type properly and refrain from using ECKS DEE, LORRRRLS and shit.
Stop bragging about being banned, noone actually cares.

Refurbished hard drive

>>5540139
wow. just wow.

5000 RPM fans. WELL MY SHIT STAYED COOL LIKE I THOUGHT IT WOULD!

>>5540174
well i didn't break any thing... but other-whys yes..
>>5540193
sorry.. also the Dx in my other post was part of the product name... not some gay smiley

I burnt the CPU because I turned it on for shits and giggles. That was 10 minutes ago.

>>5539856
>Sure are a lot of fags in here who have admitted to cheaping out on PSUs. I find this behavior to be abnormally high on /g/
This is a thread about first times. What, were you born all knowing? Dumbass.

Also, lower wattage ≠ cheap

>>5540274
This was my first PSU.
I red the reviews on it, AFTER purchasing.

I flicked that fucker off for $5 more than I bought it for, thank god.
1 month later, Newegg was giving them away for literally $1. ACTUALLY $1.

>>5540326
Oh... wow.

>>5540326
Ive been using one for over a year now,. feels good.

>>5540438
What does, your burning corneas?

I fucked up with the Front connector things (you know, HDD light, power button, those tiny little shitty things)
Took me two hours to figure it out with the mobo manual. Shit was not cash man.

i once ROASTED my entire mainboard and gra-card because i put a powercable into some port for a modem.

>>5540147

Wow, by 16 you haven't even learned proper grammar. You are going to fail at life! I started coding perl at age 12.

getting a pentium d, lol.

>>5540326
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16817163033
Holy shit , I just read the reviews, how is it possible to design , test and then actually manufacture something so , so ,sooo crappy.

anyone else interested in archiving this thread?

>>5540931

Verily.

>>5540326
I remember opening up a "650W" PSU that had a "200W QC OK" sticker on the main transformer.

>>5540914
They take the design for a low-wattage PSU and up the limit on the overload protection circuitry.

Noname 350W PSU in a PC with a G80 8800GTS. Loud like a plane, died after a year. At least is was free.

Just posted an archival request.

Bought an AM2+ CPU with an AM3 MB. Only two weeks ago.

THE 940 IS THE ONLY FUCKING AM2+ PHENOM II WHAT IS THIS.

Tryna sell it now for $20 less than i bought it for.

Forgot the 2nd motherboard power connector.

After that it started it started bluescreening so I rma'd everything under the sun until I found out the ram was faulty.

Bad CPU choice.
Epic GPU choice though.

Im still currently using my first build, but i made so many mistakes i've had to spend loads of money upgrading it and know i want to start over when i get some money in october.
1. Used a shitty Geforce 7100gs beacause it had 512MB RAM
2. Cheap Asrock motherboard
3. Cheap PSU
4. £5 case
5. Scavange numerous parts of a much older Gateway PC

Bad cable management. i got cables everywhere. but im too lazy to go through it and organize them. had the comp for about 2-3 years now and all ive replaced is video card and ram. should have replaced harddrive but i just got a external harddrive and detatched the internal one.

>>5541302
Also hows this for a budget build? Id probably go for more memory then this and possibly a Radeon 4850 instead.

>>5541395
GTS250 is a re-stickered 9800 GTX+ which is a restickered 8800 GT

Buy a HD4850 or something.
800MHz RAM is all that is needed.

>>5541395
you dont need that PSU in that build, no way.

>>5541474
i dont think you know what restickered means

>>5542044
Yeah, i was thinking i'd go for a cheaper 500W PSU

>>5542190
400W is more than enough, unless you plan to get a real mans processor like an i7, which if i were you i would wait and save up to buy, because it makes a massive difference.

>>5541395
Also anything less than 4GB of RAM nowadays is a joke.

I bought this:

Pentium D
Nvidia 7300LE.

Antec Sonata III.

>>5542220
no one needs 4GB, even on a gaming pc

>>5542380
I need 4GB. Yeah, really.

>>5542380
I smell a single-core.

>>5542380
Are you serious? Most games require more than 2GB nowadays, you try playing COD4 at max resolution on 2GB and enjoy watching the bullets fly past you at one frame per second.

Oh wait you probably play minesweeper.

>>5537535
>shitty installment of my cpu cooler
Second, I screwed in one part of the mount on the wrong side of another part, leaving the contact point about a quarter of an inch above the actual CPU.

>>5542380
Seconded
>>5537527
What's that cooler called?

>>5542652
If you're failing at that, you're probably bloating the shit out of your OS and leaving stuff running in the background whilst you play.

>>5542681

>>5542725
No, its called enjoying my games in 1080p, 2GB is a tiny amount of RAM, I had that like wayyy back in 2004

>>5542751
You have no idea how RAM relates to the vidya, do you?

>>5542829
Im sorry, enjoy your Windows 3.1

spending $300 on the cpu and pairing it with an $150 mobo for my $600 GAMING build. nforce 1 graphics ftl.

Didn't fuck up anything on my first build.
On my current build I should've bought the boltmod kit for the xigmatek s1283 heatsink from the get go, because the stock install method is complete and utter shit.

Wow, why all the negativity about only having 2GB of RAM? Are you all so sad that you get upset when someone makes a simple misjudgement about how much RAM they buy?

>>5543135
In the current day and age, programs are becoming more or less RAM greedy. Sooner or later, it will become a hindrance to the average/slightly demanding user.

>>5543150
THEN I'LL BUY SOME MORE LATER JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. ANYWAY I SAID I'D GET MORE THAN 2GB EARLIER SO THIS ARGUEMENT IS POINTLESS.

>>5543173
Lol, settle, petal.
YOu can do whatever you want.
/g/ = Opinionative people.
That's all /g/ is.

>>5543173
bought a new pc 6 months ago. 2 GB RAM. never maxed them out yet. noral web browsing and video/media consuming. no gaming. if the day comes when I need more for the tasks I do, I'll get more. for now I'm fine

>>5543202
>>5543173
>Sooner or later
I didn't say now.

However, in your defence, by the time one would feel the need for more RAM to breathe, DDR2 (Or your current type) would probably not be as popular.

Cable management
Stock cooler
Stock thermal paste

BUYING A FUCKING ABIT MOTHERBOARD

FUCK THAT SHIT SERIOUSLY

I RMA'd the AN8 4 fucking times in 1 year. Than ran out of warrenty still 9.0ing.

first problem for me was probably the connectors for the front panel. the hdd switch/LED's/reset e.t.c the motherboard i was replacing my old one with was a spare i got from a friend who overhauls his system yearly, he threw away the manual. i ended up spending about 20-30 minutes figuring out the right ones before i googled the manual.

other than that would probablhy be buying a shitty case and using the stock psu that came with it.

Spending money on cold cathode lights and PIMPING THE SHIT OUT OF THAT MOTHERFUCKER. I also installed a homemade plexiglass window in the side of the case.

bump for awesome

buying an XBOXHEUG case. I mean jesus this thing is huge.

>>5543482
It's better than buying one way too small.

>>5543559
This I hate small/cramped cases I would rather pay a bit more for a full tower where I can fit all my stuff and still have room to make cable management easy.

socket 754 right as it was going out of style (if it was ever in style). FUCK. still havent upgraded my comp cause i would basically have to build a whole new one.

CCFL tubes

Case window

>>5537534
this

>>5543482
Getting a no name case with some obscure Asian PSU in it. I bought a new Radeon 9500 Pro and... fuck

Not first build, but I did make the mistake of thinking two 8600GTSs was worth the money, rather than a single 8800.
Oh boy, was I wrong.

USING THE PSU INCLUDED WITH THE CASE

NEVER AGAIN

Computer? NES is just fine.

Antec 300.

I taped pennies onto the ram on my video card to dissipate heat.

>>5543482
this.

I'M BUILDING MY FIRST COMPUTER TODAY AND I'M FUCKING TERRIFIED. THANKS, /G/.

Fuck. OP here, my thread is still around. I was gonna make a thread asking for advice on my first build (parts are coming in today), but I worded it like this to avoid being trolled. Shit worked.

>>5542681
Forget the brand, but it's called a SpinQ.

It was a long time ago, but the first PC I hobbled together was a GWbasic workstation I built out of parts I found in dumpsters.

I accidentally overwrote parts of the OS with a program I copied out of a manual that made different tones for different keys of the keyboard pressed. Being 9 I had no idea how to fix it and eventual threw the computer away a few years later.

>>5543926
You'll be fine so long as you don't physically damage anything you can always rma anything you fuck up.

>>5538980
>but fuck I want Zalman
wat

>>5544011
he wants to fuck Stallman

fried a couple of motherboards and hard drives by plugging in shit without turning off the computer....also punched a hole through an LCD screen with a knife when i tried to get crust off the screen after i smoked some weed

I had a failing PSU, it would turn on and off, on and off, on and off... I decided to feel my cpu... see if it was overheating, the fucker turned on and sliced like a 2 mm layer of flesh off my finger. Shit sucked.

>>5544057
Who doesn't?

>>5544086

Oh that is when I stopped buying metal fans.

>>5544081
wow

>>5538789
with all my components inside it, it weights about 55 lbs. Not much by my standards but if your a mid tower computer user, it is.

>>5537932
Yeah but sometimes I wonder if I put on too much also, so that it doesn't work as well.

Oh well, I've got decent temps (I think)

I didn't have any real problems with my first build. But i recently built a second computer for my mom and the cpu heatsink literally would not latch down on to the motherboard. So i was able to get one end of the metal bar on the plastic surrounding the cpu and tied a wire tie around the other end of the bar and the plastic below it. When i turned the latch it seemed to fit into place and doesn't really move. It just makes me nervous.

>>5544086
>I decided to feel my cpu...
facepalm.psd

When I was putting in my processor (an intel), when I would close the cover I had to put force into it, I felt like I was going to crack the processor (at one point there was a loud crack or pop sound but I checked the processor and saw no damage).
Shit scared me to death.

Otherwise, no problems.

Oh and if you have an i7 and a large case, I recommend the Noctua cooler for i7 (there is only one from Noctua for i7).

Shit fucking rocks. Better reviews than any other air cooler I could find, and the Noctua is not too expensive.

>>5544187

Well, if a system is shutting on an off, and you cant get to the temp readings, what is the obvious solution if you need to find out if your system is running too hot?
Feel the heatsink on the cpu.

>>5544228
Is there a problem with touching the heatsink if the system is plugged in? I assumed if you discharge the static from your hands by touching the case or wearing the wrist thing, shit was fine.

Components were well selected even though I had basically no clue what I was doing.

Broke the mobo during building. 100 bucks down the drain. Oh me.

>>5544240
>Wrist thing
LOL gimmicks.

Somehow managed to get a cpu heat sink that wouldn't fit on my motherboard because the north bridge heat sink was too large. Fixed with a dremmel.

God bless dremmels.

>>5537534
On my parents machine. Lasted a weekend.

>>5537527
allan, you are in fact an idiot

Mine was... well, I wanted to swap the leds for power and HDD activity (case had one blue led+reflector and two red led+reflector for power and HDD activity)
I found out
1) yellow lines in a computer are +12V
2) Connecting said +12V line to the red part of the HDD led header... not a good idea
I guess it didn't like that....

Ricer case.

1. ECS Motherboard
2. AMD socket 939 processor

>>5543888

Is a good case. I'm using one at the moment and I've had no problems with it. Only problem I had with my first build was that I didn't plug the PSU into the CPU slot, stumped me for a couple of hours. Apart from that, everything went well enough, spent about 4-5 hours on it, readan manuals and guides.

>>5537527
None.

forgot to flick the power switch on the psu to on, had me stumped for hours because the computer I had previously was a prebuilt emachines and didn't even have one.

>>5544193

Heh, me too. Had to apply so much force to it, I was reluctant to do it at first, took ages trying to see if I'd slotted it in correctly.

I considered buying a Thermaltake ARMOR + and a Thermaltake EVO_Blue 750w.

Then I realised that they were overpriced, shitty and ricer.

>>5544572
close call, bro

>>5542341
whats wrong with an antec sonata III

I got the cheapest case on newegg. I would of been better off with a cardboard box.

buying artic thermal compound without realising stock heatsinks come with compound already on them.

fucked up a bios flash [spoiler];_;[/spoiler]

>>5544378
I got a 939 on my second build, I've regretted it ever since.

Im 12 and what is ESD?

>>5540098
underage b&

>>5537630

oh lol

my first mistake was the GeForce 5600

Western Digital hard drive

Try to use an old Gateway ATX case that didn't have a removeable backplate.

Solution: Dremel.

Also, I bent the pins, but straightened them with a credit card.

The only mistake I made on my first build was getting my front buttons to work.

Powering on off indefinitely ftw.

The only real mistake I made on my first build was sticking my finger into one of those orange high-RPM Thermaltake fans. Shit cut my finger pretty badly and shattered the fan. That was a really stupid idea.

Also I put wayy too much thermal grease which I actually didn't notice until about 3 weeks ago when I took my heatsink off to reapply thermal paste (I built the computer back in 2003). It was squeezed out by the heatsink and flowed all the way down the CPU.

I didn't install the IO shield plate, and I incorrectly plugged the power supply into the motherboard. I didn't realise what was wrong until some trial and error with a spare PSU and the PSU I wanted to use.
Apart from those problems, everything worked out OK.

I've never made a mistake - and I have a 450w PSU with an 80% efficiency rating because LOL ~90w of waste heat 24/7 is plenty, thanks.

>>5545210
939 didn't suck. Socket 478 sucked. Socket 478 was made only for the Pentium 4, and because Intel couldn't feed enough power into the chip for higher clocks. Shit couldn't even get to 64-bit. At least they didn't fuck up LGA775.

At least AMD sockets make sense:
462: 32 bit single-core
754: 64 bit single-core
939: 64 bit dual-core
AM2: DDR2 RAM
AM2+: a faster AM2

on my third or fourth build i dropped a screw behind the motherboard and forgot about it

shorted the bitch out

jewing on case and mobo - lol asus

>>5544081
>fried a couple of motherboards and hard drives by plugging in shit without turning off the computer
You made this mistake more than once?

Case Risers.

Damn, that was a while ago!

>>5545470

Reminds me of recently when somehow a screw managed to get in my PSU, luckily it was when I was doing my monthly cleaning so I got it out before it shorted.

Ricer case with LED fans and shitty power supply, in the end I mounted the motherfucker on a sheet of acrylic and made a wooden case, as well as getting a thermaltake PSU.

Never regretted building my own case, worth the effort.

>>5544193
is an Antec P183 large enough?

I put together a pretty much perfect build, my only problem was timing. I bought my parts from a few places and ended up getting really sick which screwed up my RMA windows.

Make sure you can RMA shit easily, I had to deal with the manufacturer directly, it was a little annoying. Gigabyte wasn't too bad even though it's run by Asians.

Risers. Thankfully I didn't short the board.

Also, when you are just learning how to do hardware, those tiny leads for the power button and whatnot can be frustrating.

At first, i thought it would be a problem, but building my own case out of cherry was the greatest part of building my first PC. Fucking awesome.

putting in three 1gb sticks of ram cause' of 32bit os when i only had 4 slots available

now when i upgrade to 8gb i'm basically tossing those three sticks

This, plus 2nd fanbus, plus led fans, plus led spotlights.

overweight, over engineered, over priced

>>5545708
Enjoy your ricer case

>>5545708
There's no such thing as overengineered btw. I want shit that will be working in someones Fallout shelter 200 years from now

>>5545650
mine came with this broseph

>>5545708
Already has the board risers installed

AT cable polarisation. FUUUUUU-

>>5545768
fire much?

>>5545708
enjoy your generic case bro

Wish I had spent the extra 20$ and gotten the Mugen2 versus the Ninja Mini, other than that.... maybe a little buyers remorse on the 4890, probably could have gotten by on a 4850. But damn does it feel good man.

>>5545768

Yeah, worthy of FUUUUUUUU-

Forgot to order VGA to DVI and DVI-D to Component cables.