【My Study Note】Building your computer
Building your computer
Contents
- Things we should be careful about
- Step1: Motherboard
- Step2: CPU
- Step3: Heat Sink
- Step4: RAM
- Step5: Hard Drive
- Step6: Case Fan
- Step7: Power supply
- Step8: Graphics Card
- Step9: Covering up your computer
Things we should be careful about
We should think about electrostatic discharge and prevent unwanted static from harming our expensive components.
There’s 2 ways to do this.
Option 1
We can touch our electric device that’s plugged in but not powered on. But FYI, you should do this every couple of minutes when assembling a new computer.
Option 2
We can wear an anti-static wristband. You connect the end of the clip to a non-painted metal surface at your computer. And then you strap on to your hands.
Also, when you buy computer parts, they’ll come in anti-static bags to prevent accidental static electricity. Be sure to keep them inside the bags until you need to install them on your computer.
Step1: Motherboard
Remember, there are lots of different form factors for motherboards and you want to make sure the one you purchase fits your computer case.
On the motherboard, there are a lot of screw holes that coincide with the holes in the desktop case too. You want to match up the holes on the motherboard to the holes on the desktop. After figuring out which holes to use screw in standoffs, you can start putting it in the desktop case.
Step2: CPU
First, take the CPU out of our anti-static bag. Once we’ve taken out the bag, let’s line up the CPU with the motherboard’s socket.
Also, don’t forget to make sure you get a compatible CPU that fit your motherboard. For example, if you got an LGA-compatible motherboard socket, you should have an LGA CPU.
When you put the CPU in and secure it, the easy part is putting the CPU in. The fun part is securing this, just note that when you secure the CPU in the socket you do need to use a bit of force so it’s tightly secured in.
Step3: Heat Sink
Source: Wikipedia
Now that our CPU is in place we need to add our heat sink on top of it. The heat sink is used to dissipate heat from our CPU.
Source: Intel
Before we attach the heat sink, we need to apply an even amount of thermal paste. Thermal paste is used to better connect our CPU and heat sink. So the heat transfers from one to the other better.
To get started, apply a dab of thermal paste and spread evenly with a flat object.
After that, you’re going to press the heat sink against the CPU. Once you have all four sockets aligned, go ahead and get your screwdriver and then tighten down the sockets.
So one thing to do is to make sure that you screw the opposite sides first so you know that the heat sink is attached securely.
After our screws are tightly on in our heat sink secured to the CPU, You have to plug the Molex into the motherboard. This is important because this is what controls the fan speed via the motherboard.
Step4: RAM
When you put the ram, line up the pins correctly and push in the RAM until you hear it click. You’ll know it’s secure when both sides of the RAMs are locked in place. Also, there are 2 types of slot colors. Black and white. Generally, the manual for the motherboard is saying which color you should use at first.
Step5: Hard Drive
After you assign the hard drive to the motherboard, you usually will hear a sound “click”. Once that’s in, we just need to use one SATA cable to connect our SSD to our motherboard. Also, make sure you connect the SATA power plug to the SSD.
Step6: Case Fan
コードの先の方についている白いやつをMolexに差し込むことも忘れずに。
Step7: Power supply
Secure your power supply to your case, but be careful not to damage the motherboard when you install it.
And just another note, you can also install the power supply before adding it to the motherboard, depending on how your case is laid out.
For cables, the big one is the one that powers our motherboard. And using this, power the motherboard, and after that, with using a pin Molex, you would power the CPU.
Also, take care of other codes that you don’t use so they’re gonna be organized.
Step8: Graphics Card
You’ll need that so that you can upload videos to your monitor. You’re going to plug this graphics card into your PCI-Express slot on your motherboard.
Just like the RAM, you are going to put a little bit of pressure when you insert this in. So don’t feel bad about putting a little bit of pressure and you’ll hear a click like this.
Step9: Covering up your computer
Also, after covering up your computer, connect to the monitor to see if it would work.
If you’re having issues with your computer not starting up, check that your power supply can supply the correct wattage or ensure your connectors are in the right place.