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Thanks, busy installing driver right now, everything seems fine, only issue I've got is that one of the fans seems to be pretty noisy, possibly the case fan. But its probably because I've been used to a near silent laptop

Cool well windows is installing so I'll get back to you if it goes successfully and find out anything I should look out for or check. Thanks

OK its on, what should I be looking for with the CPU temperature? Its been on for about 5 minutes and seems to be rising ( not good?), currently at 36C.

Thank you, I can look out an old fashioned mouse and keyboard,lol. The fan has an adapter, so it has the fitting to be plugged into the motherboard but an adapter so it plugs into the 4 pin connection in the PSU, I'm guessing either is fine.

Thanks, I think everything is connected as it should be so a few hopefully intelligent questions. The fitted case fan has a connector so it runs directly from the PSU, I presume this means it will run the whole time, should I plug it into the mainboard instead which from my understanding means it will only come on when needed? Or does it matter. For intial testing would it be better to fit the monitor to the onboard graphics rather than through the graphics card? Or again does it not matter. And finally my audio cable runnig from the front of the machine has two connectors on the end, the first has "HD audio" on it and the cables then run to one with "AC'97" at present I have done the obvious thing and connected the one marked "HD audio" to the board but wanted to confirm this was correct. And thank you so much for all the help you've given so far.

I don't think there is, but took this picture. Maybe it will help http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm67/D_Hunter315/BILD0081.jpg

This one :D

The main board has 24 pins and I'm not sure about the other question sorry.

There's no voltages on them but they are all labelled with letters and numbers. I've connected the rest as you said. l

OK, I think that's everything that's supposed to be fitted, fitted.

Thanks, I don't have a graphics card cooler, that's something I might add as time goes on, but pretty sure it isn't vital. The graphics card does have its own fan though.

cool, I think I'm ready for the next steps, the power supply was already fitted.

OK, I don't have any so it can go together without. Next time I might manage to order everything I missed this time round

Thanks. that brings us nicely on to problem number 2, I have both stand offs ands screws which were supplied with the case but there aren't any rubber washers, which I'm guessing is a problem.

yeah both sides of the case are off but the back panel seems to permanent.

OK first question, my back plate doesn't seem to be removable, is this likely to be the case or I just being daft. It seems to be kind of riveted on.

Thanks, I'll get started once I clear some space.

OK, I'm back and now have all my parts http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm67/D_Hunter315/BILD0079.jpg So about to start putting them together. Obviously I've been inside a PC before and have an idea how it all fits together, and will read through all the manuals as I go along and look at the topic pinned in this section. But any advice particularly on the order to do things and anything I should watch out for would be great. Will keep you updated.

Thanks, I really do appreciate all the help. Even if I was initially going to spend £350 and have now spent close to £500 ;) I'll keep you updated when the parts arrive, should I continue to post in this thread or start a new thread in the building subsection?

Gave up waiting on a reply to the useless enote system and took a chance and ordered through google checkout, they've charged me for the amount without postage costs so hopefully it will go through fine.

OK well order isn't placed yet, currently in argument with Ebuyer over the fact they want to charge me £9.09 for shipping. I know it isn't much but it all adds to the cost and the Scottish Borders is hardly out of the way. Plus I've received plenty of orders from them before and my address has never not qualified for free shipping.

Cheers, right think I'm just going to order it know, everything seems to be in order. Sure I'll be back once all the parts arrive though and it doesn't work.

Well just to continue with the ever increasing total I figured I might as well add an extra £10 to the monitor cost and get this one Samsung T220 22" TFT Monitor 1680x1050 20,000:1 2ms VGA/DVI Rose Black 3 Years Warranty - Ebuyer I'll leave out the fan just now and that brings the total to £488, so this had better be a really good computer.

Thanks, i've been trying to research monitor and just got completely confused. This is the one I currently have in my basket 20" samsung with DVI input. Samsung SM2033SW 20"TFT Monitor 1600x900 15000:1 300cd/m2 5ms DVI/VGA Wall Mountable Glossy Black 3 Years Warranty - Ebuyer Compared to the one you linked to which is larger but only got VGA input ( at least that is my new understanding), then you'd choose the larger screen over the digital input? If that's the case then I might just go with the budget one, yes I'm very undecided but some of the parts in my basket now have under 10 left on Ebuyer so I'm under a bit of pressure. Don't want to make a rushed choice on the moniter and then regret it though. Guess I could order everything else and take a little bit longer to think about the monitor. It wouldn't cost me any more. I'll see if I can find a fan cheap then, for £3, shouldn't hurt too much.

Thanks, I won't purchase any extra fans then. Llast question I promise, I've been trying to find a cheaper monitor and found this one from Cdiscount. Discount Samsung Samsung SyncMaster 923NW Samsung Monitors from Cdiscount.co.uk Problem is it is VGA input only, and most of the cheaper ones are. Under the graphics cards specs it has this 2 x DVI-I (dual link) - 29 pin combined DVI ¦ 1 x HDTV output ¦ 1 x VGA - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15) ( with adapter ) Which I presume means I can attach a VGA monitor without any problem, but is there any quality lost, is it worth paying £120 for the 22" Samsung monitor off Ebuyer which does have DVI input. My total cost just seems to keep increasing.