System Build Guide from Corsair

Memory Manufacturer Corsair released a detail system building guide that goes into great detail and covers many aspects. The guide starts with the component selection for an high end system: Athlon 64 4200+ X2, A8N-SLI Premium motherboard, Zalman CNPS7000B-CU LED cooler, 2 GB TWINX2048-3500LLPRO memory, two eVGA GeForce 7800GTX PCI-Express video cards , Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic , Western Digital Raptor 36GB 10,000 RPM SATA Hard Drive , Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 300GB SATA Hard Drive, Antec NeoPower 480W Modular Power Supply, NEC-3540 DVD+/-RW , Sony DVD DDU1615 and finally the Lian-Li V1000B-W Aluminum Case.

A great selection that has its price, nevertheless the components that are used can be replaced by others and the steps to build the personal computer remain the same. Everything is explained in detail with lots of screenshots to aid the explanation. The next five steps guide you through the intital preperation process: Preparing the Case, installing power supply, cpu, memory, motherboard and heat sink. Those are the most difficult steps for inexperienced users. Can be tricky but the guide is excellent and should be sufficient for everyone.

After the first phase the guide explains who to assemble the motherboard into the case and to install the sound card, optical drives, hard drives and overall cable management for better airflow. The final phase guides you through bios configuration, loading and configuring windows and installing drivers for the components.

Take a look if you plan to build your next pc.

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