Finally pulled the trigger on the new build

The eagle has landed!!! Its almost 6 so I dont think Ill get to involved with this tonight. Just unpack a few things and do some reading.



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Well there are no brass standoffs or screws included with the case, so needless to say the motherboard wont be going into the case tonight. I hope i can find some locally tomorrow or this build is put on hold for a few days til i can get some shipped here

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if nothing else, there is mountainmods.com, i know they sell standoffs, seems to me that mcmaster.com also sells them(good luck finding those, though)
 
Well i decided to do what I could without actually installing the MB yet. So I added the CPU and Zalman HS/Fan to the motherboard. Also added the memory.


 
Then added the DVD drive, Hard drive and hooked up their cables. I realize I might have to disconect the cables to put the MB in but I just want to get everything "there" for now. I aslo installed the Power supply








I also removed the lower cage and installed another 120mm fan up front







 
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Success!!!!!! I found some brass standoffs at a local computer shop. Put the Motherboard in and hooked everything up. Pressed the power button while holding my breath and it fired up!!!!. Its loading Vista right now. For anyone considering this it really wasnt that hard. Just followed the instructions that came with my Gigabyte motherboard and it works!!! Feels good.
 
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Well all drivers are loaded and everthing is fine. The only issue I thought I might have is how to get audio to my home theater surround sound speakers. But it turns out the Sapphire 4870 has an onboard audio chip. I simply used the DVI to HDMI adapter supplied with the card and then changed the audio source in the sound properties. Now both video and sound are sent via the one HDMI cable. So now i have my computer hooked up to my 60" Hdtv with with total surround and audio reciever. Performance is rated at 5.9 across the board except for my crapppy C2D 3.0 Ghz is dragging the score down to 5.6 for computations per minute :)
 
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