the new tower

[mikev]

 ahhhhhhhhh the big $$$ item has arrived


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[JimmyD3]

Very Nice!!

[mikev]

 ha a bonus when i ordered my 16 gigs of ram Newegg was out of stock on my order from them but for some reason they shipped it as well . guess i will have 32 gigs of ram now

[MrRiplEy[H]]

ha a bonus when i ordered my 16 gigs of ram Newegg was out of stock on my order from them but for some reason they shipped it as well . guess i will have 32 gigs of ram now

Was it for free? If not, consider returning the second set because going from 16 gigs to 32 is not going to yield you much speed gains, if any in gaming use. You might actually experience stability problems if 32 gigs is already the max amount of supported ram for your motherboard.

Then again if you do rendering the ram won't hurt.

[mikev]

unbelievable how weird this has been going.. i ordered 2 parts from tiger direct. 1 was shipped late the motherboard took a week and 1/2  i canceled that order but they shipped it anyways even after receiving my request for cancel and confirming it . which leaves me 2 choices 1 return it or refuse shipment or 2 keep it and use it as a in case backup if something is wrong with the other, then if not sell it.i may make a deal here with the 2 extra 16 gigs of ram if anybody is looking to build soon.

[mikev]

 OK ALL THE PARTS ARE HERE YEA!!!  now time for assemble 

[JimmyD3]

Good Luck.

[mikev]

Good Luck.

hope i dont need luck  ha ha .
 day 1 of assemble went pretty easy . mounted the psu ,front fans, both storage  drives  and the optical drive. hooked up the power supply to all the drives  .routed the cpu and 24 pin cables.  finding out 1 nice thing about this case is i can hook up all these components and still have plenty of room for the MB install.
   1 question is my case has standoffs for the MB  will i need to expand on them or use the 1 s i have?

[Bizman]

Use the standoffs that came with your case because they should be of right height. If not, it'd be a warranty issue. Their purpose is to align the back plate with the motherboard. And of course provide some airflow under the motherboard alongside of keeping the solder joints off the metal of the case.

[mikev]

 the wires look a mess but this is only the beginning .will be getting some hospital powder free gloves to handle installing the cpu.

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[MrRiplEy[H]]

the wires look a mess but this is only the beginning .will be getting some hospital powder free gloves to handle installing the cpu.

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You don't need gloves, just hold it from the edges lol. You're not supposed to touch the contact sides at all.

[JimmyD3]

Looking good!!!!

[Bizman]

You don't need gloves, just hold it from the edges lol. You're not supposed to touch the contact sides at all.

Actually using rubber gloves while installing the electrostatic sensitive components might even zap your build! The rule is to ground yourself at least to the case to even the potentials, either with a conductive wrist band or a sweaty hand. Rubber is well known to be an isolating material so you wouldn't be grounded if you used gloves.

Although sweat is a relatively good conductor because it's salty, it is also somewhat corrosive. So do as Rip said, hold stuff only by the edges to avoid poor contact due to corroded contact surfaces.

[mikev]

a big thanks for the glove advice . i will use the the wrist strap i got .
  next question that i been thinking about is drivers. wont i need to install the driver for the ssd prior to installing windows ? or should i install windows on the other 1 t drive ?

[Bizman]

You should install Windows on the SSD, otherwise you won't gain anything.

As for drivers for the SSD, you can't install anything before you have some kind of an operating system running. The first time to install any drivers would be during the Windows installation but I don't believe you'd have to do anything a this point. This advice should apply to any brand: http://ocz.com/consumer/ssd-guide/how-to-install-ssd