Building my first desktop

[Alex]

Yes 250 GB SSD is not enough. As I mentioned above, I have a 2.5 inch 1 TB HDD from my laptop and I have another 500 GB from another older laptop. 1.5 GB in addition to the SSD is good enough for me.

You mean 1.5TB. In any case, bugger that, I have 90GB of music alone. Plus TBs of TV and movies

 

[Pogba4Now]

I'm going from laptops to a desktop, so 1.5 Gb is a massive upgrade! If it's not enough, I'll add another HDD, not a problem. HDDs are cheap. I have a enough empty 5.25 inch bays.

 

[Alex]

I'm going from laptops to a desktop, so 1.5 Gb is a massive upgrade! If it's not enough, I'll add another HDD, not a problem. HDDs are cheap. I have a enough empty 5.25 inch bays.

Again, you mean 1.5TB

 

[Xifio]

building your own PC is the way to go ... 250 GB is PLENTY for your SSD, since all you need from it is to run your OS and programs ... HDDs for storage; if your collection grows exponentially, look into RAID arrays ...

 

[Pogba4Now]

Again, you mean 1.5TB

Yes, 1.5 TB. Thanks.

building your own PC is the way to go ... 250 GB is PLENTY for your SSD, since all you need from it is to run your OS and programs ... HDDs for storage; if your collection grows exponentially, look into RAID arrays ...

I chose 250 for my SSD because games nowadays take up 5 Gb space each. Future games may take up more. Yes, RAID is an option for the future.

 

[Alex]

building your own PC is the way to go ... 250 GB is PLENTY for your SSD, since all you need from it is to run your OS and programs ... HDDs for storage; if your collection grows exponentially, look into RAID arrays ...

Yes, 250GB is plenty for SSD - my point was more about high storage devices for everything else.

 

[Pogba4Now]

That's a noob question, but you can only install games and other softwares on the drive that has the OS, right?

 

[chygry]

Nahh.. You can install them anywhere. I have a 120gb SSD, while the programs i use daily are installed on it, i can also install stuff elsewhere, slower, but works. :P

 

[MaestroZidane]

What chygry said. It's what I did, so if I ever lose my HDD with the OS, I will have my main programs in the other HDDs.

 

[Alex]

What chygry said. It's what I did, so if I ever lose my HDD with the OS, I will have my main programs in the other HDDs.

Your programs generally won't run though, so not much point keeping them? The files can be on a different drive, but the registry entries still go to the system drive.

But to answer the question, you can install programs wherever you like.

 

[Pogba4Now]

Thanks guys. Really appreciate your inputs.

Do you guys think extra cooling for the CPU is required? The i7-4770k I have has a very small fan. Most people told me that the stock fan is good enough. Any thoughts on that? I have tons of space in my case so I should have space for extra fans or liquid cooling system for the future.

My case is arriving tomorrow so probably will start building the desktop tomorrow.

 

[leungtl]

Thanks guys. Really appreciate your inputs.

Do you guys think extra cooling for the CPU is required? The i7-4770k I have has a very small fan. Most people told me that the stock fan is good enough. Any thoughts on that? I have tons of space in my case so I should have space for extra fans or liquid cooling system for the future.

My case is arriving tomorrow so probably will start building the desktop tomorrow.

Stock fan is fine out of the box, but if you shelled out the extra ~$50 for the K, you might as well overclock it properly...

Anyway, this PC looks pretty nice... Two GTX 780 Ti's too!

(http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=1132057)

 

[Pogba4Now]

Stock fan is fine out of the box, but if you shelled out the extra ~$50 for the K, you might as well overclock it properly...

Anyway, this PC looks pretty nice... Two GTX 780 Ti's too!

(http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=1132057)

Thanks for your suggestion.

I have finally built my desktop. Did it completely on my own without any problems. It is not difficult to build but you need time. It took me days to weeks to decide on what parts to buy and where. I bought all of them from bestbuy.ca and amazon.ca because both these websites shipped for free anywhere in Canada. Pictures will follow in the next few posts.

 

[Pogba4Now]

This one is a picture of all the PC parts. The monitor and keyboard are missing from the picture.

Almost finishing installing the internal components:

First boot! Was so relieved that it booted! The only problem I had when I booted was that my mobo did not recognize my SSD drive and optical drive. Then I figured out that I did not connect my SATA cables tight enough.

 

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[yoyo913]

Played any games yet?

 

[Back Door Skip]

Looks good.

 

[Pogba4Now]

Played any games yet?

Not yet. Downloading FIFA 14 now but it's taking forever to download. My internet is misbehaving.

Looks good.

Thanks