What else do i need

[grayson]

Im building my first PC Ive ordered the following

AmD 64 3200 Fan case and motherboard.

1 x Seagate ST3120026AS 120gb 7200rpm Barracuda 7200.7 SATA - Hard drive OEM
1 x XFX GeForce 6800 GT 256MB DDR3 Dual DVI/TV-Out Retail Box
2 x Kingston 512 DDR400 PC3200 Cl3 Memory module
1 x Liteon 16x48 IDE DVD-ROM Drive - Retail Box
1 x NEC Double Layer 8x DVD Dual R/RW DVD Writer - OEM

What else do i need ie cables ect

Do the boxed versons come with the relavant cables and OEM without

They all ship on monday so if someone could find out before then I will be very happy. Thanks

[Whyzman]

A lot of software still comes on CD...are one of the optical drives you mention capable of CD?? Sorry, I'm being too lazy this morning to check on the specs of the drives you mention...:rolleyes:

You might want to consider round IDE cables for your optical drives...

Although the trend seems to be dumping a floppy drive, I find these to be little guys to be indispensable for getting in under Windows to troubleshoot...

I would also suggest my canned spiel for initial building:

For new systems it would be wise to barebones boot the system initially. This is best done on a non-conductive surface such as a piece of cardboard on a table.

Connections from the case/power to the motherboard are accomplished outside of the case on the table.

Barebones is only the RAM, Video Card, Monitor, P/S 2 Keyboard...and of course the CPU>Heatsink>Fan...

See if you can make it through POST with this barebones approach...

Reboot, setting the BIOS to boot from floppy first...usually, the (0) choice, save and exit...shutdown.

If this worked add the floppy drive.

If the system booted again successfully, shutdown and reboot using a RAM tester such as: http://www.memtest86.com...these are self booting.

If all is well, shut down and add the harddrive. If the reboot is successful recognizing the harddrive, I then shutdown and reboot using a floppy with the Harddrive's diagnostics (downloaded from the manufacturer's site)...these are also self booting...

If all systems are go, proceed to add an optical drive capable of loading your operating system...

The concept is to load one hardware device at a time which provides for troubleshooting as well as assembly of the computer.

[grayson]

what cables will i need for the harddrive i hear you can use another cable instead of IDE ata or something My optical drives can use CD.


Its evening here in the UK im drinking beer at the minute, I suppose your digging into your fruit loops

[pave_spectre]

The hard drive you has is an SATA drive so you wouldn't use the normal ATA ribbon type cable. SATA cables are noticeably smaller, maybe a quarter-inch wide. I would make sure your selected motherboard supports SATA, though since it's for an AMD64 I suspect it should. In which case it would normally also come with appropriate cables.