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I think this deserves a bump resurecting it from 27th page obscurity....


nice to sometimes check the old thread I only wish I could update the assembly guide to show now how to install SATA harddrives and new fangled heatsinks as well as to show how to install LED lights, and how to hide all your wires.

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Being the great gaia-C&T-contributor I am, I skimmed it, yeah looks good, but there's a few things to note:

1. In many cases, the drive bays aren't slide-in bays, and of course you don't usually have to mount an HD on it's carrier like that. Really depends, either way it's just a matter of putting screws in holes smile

2. I would usually NOT recommend having one of those motherboard tray gimmicks if your tray happens to not be 'deep enough' for your heatsink, and granted all the big a** heatsinks for "low noise cooling" that have come out recently, you get the idea.

I don't really have anything else to point out, and I have a feeling this stuff was discussed already. Personally ,I think it looks corny when people start their CD drives from the bottom up, so get some long IDE cables you cheapass *(@#@#$ers.

I guess I'll top off the "don't use low noise fans" with a little more specific approach -- don't use low noise fans unless you know what you're doing with them! Low noise means low RPM, and if I were going to go for fan speed control, I wouldn't be doing it with automatic fans, but with manual, high power fans (evercool fans are GREAT), and a baybus that does automatic fan control like a digital doc would. Stick the temperature probes in smart places (on heatsink surface, on system northbridge (or heatsink), drive bays, etc. Having additional thermometers (even if only temporary) is a GREAT way of making sure that your new method is either the same temperature, or COOLER.

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Being the great gaia-C&T-contributor I am, I skimmed it, yeah looks good, but there's a few things to note:

1. In many cases, the drive bays aren't slide-in bays, and of course you don't usually have to mount an HD on it's carrier like that. Really depends, either way it's just a matter of putting screws in holes smile

2. I would usually NOT recommend having one of those motherboard tray gimmicks if your tray happens to not be 'deep enough' for your heatsink, and granted all the big a** heatsinks for "low noise cooling" that have come out recently, you get the idea.



1. I admitted my computer case wasn't exactly the same ,(the standard atx I was gonna use I had recently sold to my neighbors and assembled their pc inside. so it was the only one I had laying around) but most computers are slide and screw in to the max.

2. Most ATX cases have detachable motherboard trays, and they are all deep enough for heatsinks. Take it from a person who slapped a huge a** gigabyte 3d cooler Ultra in place of his factory socket 478 cooler. as long as you have used a correct offset spacer layout, or applied bumpers (small plastic pieces that mount to your mobo tray to prevent contact or flexing) things are usually just fine.

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why do you insist on calling it an a-drive?
its a 3.5 inch floppy drive
windows/dos is the only OS to call it a:

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why do you insist on calling it an a-drive?
its a 3.5 inch floppy drive
windows/dos is the only OS to call it a:


cause its what most computer illiterate people would know it as?

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why do you insist on calling it an a-drive?
its a 3.5 inch floppy drive
windows/dos is the only OS to call it a:


cause its what most computer illiterate people would know it as?

if they don't know what a floppy drive is then they shouldn't be building a computer

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why do you insist on calling it an a-drive?
its a 3.5 inch floppy drive
windows/dos is the only OS to call it a:


cause its what most computer illiterate people would know it as?

if they don't know what a floppy drive is then they shouldn't be building a computer


this guide was made by me to help computer illiterate people maybe know how to assemble one.

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People still use floppies? eek

Geez, I found those worthless when I had my 486.

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People still use floppies? eek

Geez, I found those worthless when I had my 486.

yeah well, try flashing a BIOS without one

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Where has the guide gone?

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It looks like either the first page is missing or the first post. eek sweatdrop

We should just make a Luddite's guide to building a computer:

Step 1: Go to Wal-Mart

Step 2: Pick up cheapest machine

Step 3: Plug blue wire into blue plug, green wire into green plug, purple wire into purple plug, and that funky black one you should be able to figure out yourself.

Step 4: turn on

Step 5: Browse the intarweb with Microsoft® Internet Explorer™

Step 6: Download lots of eek rofl

Step 7: Complain madly on Gaia that your computer is slow, threaten manufacturer and swear never to buy a computer from them again

Step 8: Call ISP, threaten them about crapware

Step 9: Call computer manufacturer, threaten them about the ISP

Step 10: Call Microsoft, threaten them about all of the above and find out your copy of Windows XP might possibly be illegal (due to crapware caused by Step 6 ripping off your serial and spreading it all over the internet)

Step 11: Bump thread created in Step 7 many, many times.

Step 12: Threaten Wal-Mart.

Step 13: Give up with the manager and buy another computer under a different moniker but still made by the same brand, running the same OS, the same browser, and will soon be running the same crapware due to the user being a luddite.

It's mean, but funny. And no, I'm not criticizing the average user, even I know that if they all bought OS X-based computers, the same thing would happen at some point in time or another. lol

Next week: How to build a gunrack in the back of your Chevy pickup
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