Thermaltake WingRS 100 Piano-Black Mid-Tower ATX Case
with Front USB and Audio ports
My good friend Chris Donlin came over yesterday and after hanging out for a few hours, in the middle of the third episode of, "Clerks The Animated Series", he got a phone call; Keith Gannon had just bought a new computer...well, all the pieces for a new computer. After leaving CompUSA he came over to my house and we began building.
The two of them really worked on this project, I helped here and there, But three people inside a computer case is a little much. They started off with the Motherboard; EVGA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard - T1 Version, NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI, Socket 775, ATX, Audio, PCI Express, SLI, Dual Gigabit LAN, S/PDIF, USB 2.0 & Firewire, Serial ATA,RAID.
They needed to check here and there to make sure that the pieces would fit. Moving on to the power supply and then the processor; Ultra LSP750 750-Watt Power Supply - ATX, SATA-Ready, SLI-Ready, 135mm Fan.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 Processor HH80562PH0678MK - 2.66GHz, 8MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB, Kentsfield, Quad-Core, OEM, Socket 775, Processor.
The Video Card looked awesome as soon as we opened the package;
After getting the processor in the heatsink fan came next....an hour & a half, we moved on. The directions for this fan were, well, somewhat hard to understand...even for me :) The were several ways illustrated to install the fan, but that's not really what people like us were interested in, just tell us straight up what to do.
Finally that issue was solved. the fan went in....and it was the width of a thumb nail to large. However not wanting to screw the fan down to the motherboard to the point where the board could possibly break, we did manage to get it down just enough to where the fan didn't touch. No metal on metal anymore, But to do it over? No! not that fan with that board....They are both pretty cool though.
The RAM went in just before we went ahead, plugged it in, and turned it on.
Oh, and then we remembered that the, "Power" button needed to be plugged in
I always, always hate how the directions for these pins are written up.
Ok, Now we plugged it in and turned everything on...Great! everything seems fine....Now the whole Software part. We used the monitor, mouse, and keyboard from my computer to check everything out.
And Not only does Keith have a new computer,....Though it wasn't a whole running computer until about 4am. But, this morning he decided he wanted to install more RAM, so we might have a project tonight.
later
~Damian
