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That's not a bad combo, though it's probably not what I wouldn't picked. The cae is pretty expensive to begin with, so that takes some of the "value" off. I'd pick a Samsung F3 or WD Caviar Black over the Seagate hard drive as well. My biggest issue is that the PSU isn't exactly the highest...

Wait, what? The Phantom has awesome airflow. It has a 200mm on top, two 120's in the side, a 120 in the front and back, and the option to add another 200 to both the top and side. It also has an integrated fan controller.

You've got it in the right spot. :good: What's going on with that connector is that it's actually two in one. The pinout on an ATX12V connector(4-pin) is the same as half of an EPS12V(8-pin) connector, but they're physically a bit different. I believe that half is the one that goes in when you...

Don't worry man. I told you something dumb would happen, right? Well here it is. It'll all be sorted before too long. :good: :) Yeah, those extra fan plugs are unnecessary for now, since you have nothing to plug into them. The green light on the mobo is still on, right?

If it faces down, the PSU pulls cold air from underneath the case, rather than warm air from inside. The feet on the case leave enough room for airflow. You can mount if fan-up if you want to, though...it won't hurt anything. There won't be a lot of heat in there anyway. :good: Most everything...

There aren't any black edition Athlon II's...only Phenom II's. Phenom II x3's are rare since they aren't produced anymore...BE models are even more so. Plus, they're all C2. There is a non-BE Phenom II x4 (C3) for $125, though: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103916...

What motherboard does he have?

Actually, ASRock has an 870 board that can go x8/x8.

I know you've got a copy that came with your computer, but they only give you an OEM license, which is locked to the first motherboard that it's installed on. Change the motherboard, and it un-activates itself. (The OS being "activated" refers to having an active, verified security key.) You...

Hale90 PSU's are good, no worries there. Built on Superflower's Golden Green platform, with all Nippon Chemi-Con capacitors. :good:

The 400W Neo ECO will be fine. It should even support a fairly beefy GPU.

If you get another motherboard you'll have to buy an new OS as well, unless: 1- You've already bought a retail copy of windows. 2- You can manage to call Microsoft and play dumb by telling them your motherboard died and you replaced it and now windows doesn't work. Sometimes they'll...

Now that I think about it, the fans should already be hooked up to the controller in the top panel. Those female connectors you're looking at are for adding more fans. (There's a spot for adding a 200mm fan on the side and top) If you follow the wires from the existing fans, you should see them...

There's no wrong spot with SATA...as long as one end is in the drive and the other is in the right spot on the mobo, you're good. You got it to POST when it was out of the case, right?

Ah, alrighty :) I noticed you said something about hooking the fans up? If you look, there are little tags on the cables coming from the case that match the little pictures on the sliders up top. Those are looking at the case from a "top down" view. Just match the fans locations up with the...

The UCC thing isn't necessary on 7xx chipsets. The SB710/SB750 southbridge chips have unlocking capabilities built into them as a result of ACC. The 8xx boards don't have it, which is why they have those fancy unlocking tools. This is one of the reasons that AMD released the 8xx boards...it was...

^ +1, not worth it

You could do a lot better for the price, yeah. I imagine the 12GB of RAM and windows 7 ultimate drove the price up quite a bit though...why bother with either?

That's a molex...there's one that goes to the fan controller on top. It powers your fans, obviously. :P Just a thought; That case has amazing cable management. Why not use it?

^ He's looking at iBuypower...you can pick your own parts there. I would recommend at least a Radeon HD 5770. Rule of thumb for the 5xxx/6xxx radeons: 5670<5750<5770<5830<6850<5850<6870<5870<6950<6970 However, the 6xxx series has an improved feature set, so I'd pick the 6850 over 5850 and 6870...