- Jan 2, 2008
- 39
- 0
- 0
Hello, I'm a quite fresh member and I am very close to building my first PC. I have read the sticky about building pc's, but I have also read some other guides. I still have some questions though.
First of all, the static electricity. Will wearing shoes with rubber soles help from getting static load on yourself? Almost our entire house is filled with a carpet-floor cover, I assume this is quite a big problem. Would putting everything on a wooden table, touching a metal grounded surface and not touching any carpet do the trick?
Also, something that kind of bothered me, is that I couldn't find the assemblage of casefans in any of the guides. It might not be a surprise, but I don't know anything about this either. Will having a sane mind fix this? Also, if so, at which step should I assemble these?
Something else that *scared* me, was this section of MechBgon's guide.
The picture below shows a special Fan-Only cable, which is a feature of Antec's TruePower models, and perhaps other brands of power supplies such as Corsair and Seasonic. On these plugs, the 12-volt wire gets a variable voltage depending on the temperature that the power supply itself is experiencing. The idea is that it will reduce the speed, and therefore the noise level, of the case fans when the system is running cool. Do not power anything but fans from the Fan-Only line, do not put self-regulating or manually-adjustable fans on the Fan-Only line (because two layers of voltage regulation may stall your fan), and do not make the Fan-Only connectors power more than three fans total.
How do I know if the fan is self regulating or manually adjustable?
1 last thing. I've checked out the Intel LGA775 pinless Pentium4, Pentium D and Celeron D installation on youtube, which was linked to in Mech's guide. What I noticed was that they didn't use any thermal paste. How come? Also, does thermal paste come with the CPU/CPU cooler, or should I buy it separately? I am not planning on assembling an army of computers, so buying a whole new tube would be a waste, I guess.
Thanks in advance.
First of all, the static electricity. Will wearing shoes with rubber soles help from getting static load on yourself? Almost our entire house is filled with a carpet-floor cover, I assume this is quite a big problem. Would putting everything on a wooden table, touching a metal grounded surface and not touching any carpet do the trick?
Also, something that kind of bothered me, is that I couldn't find the assemblage of casefans in any of the guides. It might not be a surprise, but I don't know anything about this either. Will having a sane mind fix this? Also, if so, at which step should I assemble these?
Something else that *scared* me, was this section of MechBgon's guide.
The picture below shows a special Fan-Only cable, which is a feature of Antec's TruePower models, and perhaps other brands of power supplies such as Corsair and Seasonic. On these plugs, the 12-volt wire gets a variable voltage depending on the temperature that the power supply itself is experiencing. The idea is that it will reduce the speed, and therefore the noise level, of the case fans when the system is running cool. Do not power anything but fans from the Fan-Only line, do not put self-regulating or manually-adjustable fans on the Fan-Only line (because two layers of voltage regulation may stall your fan), and do not make the Fan-Only connectors power more than three fans total.
How do I know if the fan is self regulating or manually adjustable?
1 last thing. I've checked out the Intel LGA775 pinless Pentium4, Pentium D and Celeron D installation on youtube, which was linked to in Mech's guide. What I noticed was that they didn't use any thermal paste. How come? Also, does thermal paste come with the CPU/CPU cooler, or should I buy it separately? I am not planning on assembling an army of computers, so buying a whole new tube would be a waste, I guess.
Thanks in advance.