Well. Just spent 3 hours putting it together. What a chore...lol.
The directions were pretty confusing at times (in regards to plugging in case fans, mounting the SSD and motherboard since the types of screws to use weren't clear...) I got everything working, it seems. But I need an HDMI cable and another SATA cable.
Can I just plug my ODD, HDD, and SSD into the SATA3 ports? Or am I better suited in another configuration?
Cable management was a bitch. I'm gonna unplug everything and redo that.
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Just plug them in. Plug the faster stuff in the SATA 3 ports. Yeah IDGAF about cable management. When I put my H100i in I will have to pop the MOBO up, you maybe I will route as many under there as possible...
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Edited by Velocithon: 2/7/2013 9:27:27 PMOk thanks. I have 4 SATA3 ports, and 3 things that need to get plugged in so I'm just gonna put them all into the SATA3 lol. Another question (lol). I am installing drivers right now onto my SSD because I'm missing a SATA cable for my HDD (in the mail). Can I transfer the drivers to the HDD later? Click and drag? :/ i just wanna save as much SSD space as possible. Probably should've waited but I couldn't. >.> ALSO! My CPU is hovering between 40-45 doing nothing but installing Windows Updates. Normal? I know I asked before but I'm super paranoid lol. Seems some people are so obsessed with cooling that anything over 40 is like danger zone. I just have stock coolers and case fans.
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Any drivers and stuff that is critical to the OS and hardware I would stick on the SSD, but if you really don't have much space you should be able to drag them to the HDD, but IDK. you have a 120GB SSD! Come on man! I still got 123GB free on my 240GB! With a few games and all programs and shit installed. All I put on the HDD is videos. For installing updates that sound a little high. First search what others are getting with that CPU and cooler. It might be partly your case, do you have fans running all the time? Do they more a good bit of air? If so make sure your cooler is seated correctly, then let is idle for 5 min, and post what the temp is, then run Prime95 for 5 min and post what the temp is. Really my 3770K is nearly that hot. Right now the average using Coretemp is 38C. And I have a HAF X, although I do have the fans controlled with the MOBO so I'm only running them at 50%. 40C is fine, but I would put is under load a bit and see what temps you get.
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Edited by Velocithon: 2/8/2013 11:00:29 PMLol. Gotcha on the SSD part. I just wanna save as much space now as I can! As for my temps, I can't open the ASRock OCTuner (which gives temperature readings) during games, but I played like the opening cutscene in Fallout 3 on max settings and quickly quit and took a reading; it was in the 35-45 range. Too bad I can't get readings during games, because Steam doesn't let me minimize it.... :/ edit: My heatsink might've been a little loose. The tacks popped out kind of easily, so I removed it, put it back in, and screwed the tacks properly this time. Feels nice and tight and it looks as if they all went through on the other side of the mono correctly. We'll see if that makes a difference. That shouldn't matter that I took it off, right (thermal paste and all)?
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Nah shouldn't matter.