my pc pics.

[myles363]

here is a few pics from my first build a couple weeks ago....lil messy but first time i wasnt so worried about that, more about making it start up for the first time. and it did

-Antec 300 mid tower w/ 650w cooler master power supply
-Msi 750a sli platinum motherboard
-Amd athlon 64 x2 5400 @ 2.8ghz stock black edition w/ Xigatek HTD- 120mm rifle cooler heatsink
-Ocz reaper 4gigs ram
-Wd 500gb hard drive
-2 Bfg 9800gt oc edition in sli
-asus cd/dvd burner

http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp157/myles363/DSC02028.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp157/myles363/DSC02029.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp157/myles363/DSC02033.jpg

 

[esa193]

 

[LukaszR1]

looks nice!

 

[bullzi]

Looks great man! One thing I noticed is that the ram needs to be in the same colored slots for dual channel to be enabled..

Otherwise, great build.

 

[_-..zKiLLA..-_]

The fin on ur xigmatek is backwards. other then that sweet rig just work on the wire management and itll look sik

 

[Atomic Rooster]

Nice rig you have there.

The deflector on the Xigmatek is attached properly. It's supposed to point down to help cool any capacitors and such. Unfortunately, when the HDT-S1283 is mounted in an AMD based rig, the fan points up instead of to the back of the case, neglecting any added cooling afforded by the deflector. It's really not needed in an AMD setup.

I think he has the memory right too. The manual is a bit confusing as the illustration and the text don't match up.

In Dual-Channel mode, make sure that you install memory modules of the same type and density in different channel DIMM slots.

 

[Cabbs]

Teh wires, they are everywhere!

I remember my first build, it's pretty exciting when it fires up for the first time.

 

[David Lindon]

Looks good - alot neater than my first build ever was.

Thats a cool concept having the psu on the floor, I guess that helps cooling having the fan at the top

 

[myles363]

yeah it took my a while to get the heatsink all situated and such...it was quite confusing. and i know about the ram too, and idk if u can see but the heatsink was much larger than i expected...and it slightly covers the first DIMM slot closest to the heatsink. i also thought it needed to be the same color, but it wouldnt fit so i put it into the 2 different colors. should i put them both into the orange slots. i first thought it was supposed to be orange green orange green. so would it be better to put them into the orange closer together?? and like i said, i wasnt worried about really the cabling as much as getting it set up properly for my first time...but yah i know it need some management. thnx if you like it

 

[Atomic Rooster]

From what I read in the manual, there should be one in the orange slot and one in the green slot. When you boot the computer, it will say if your ram is in dual channel on the first post screen.