Computer goodies (now with pictures of the swag)

[JayM]

I can take a picture of the bag of machine screws for ya, Paul. :)

[Paul..]

[Eadwine Rose]

I would love that..

[JayM]

My new case arrived this morning. Pictures taken this afternoon when I finally had time to unbox it. I haven't taken the side panels off and looked inside yet, just peeped through the PSU opening on the back. Sorry about the washout from the sunlight. I'll try to take better ones sometime. I was kind of in a hurry as I had to go somewhere. (The towel it's sitting on is my cat Butch's bed.)






The dust filter is shipping from China and is delayed due to a severe tropical storm followed by a typhoon in the northern Luzon Island area that's affecting flights in and out of Manila.
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No flights are going to get through that! And there's another one following it too: https://weatherph.org/weatherphilippine ... r-20-2019/
So the filter's going to be delayed around a week. No great hurry though.

[JayM]

Pics of nuts and bolts as requested:

Case side showing two 12cm fan grills. I'll have to find a way to cover the lower one as I plan to mount an exhaust fan up above it and want to make sure exhaust air gets blown out by the fans and that dust doesn't get inside through it. I'm planning to cut a piece of plastic to the same size as a 12cm fan, drill holes for screws, paint it black then screw it into place if the plastic will hold the screws. Otherwise it will have to be black gorilla tape, I guess.


Case front.


There's a slight dent near the top of the back-of-the-motherboard side of the case. I kind of pounded it out a bit so now there's just a small dimple. I'll see if I can find a small hammer and a couple of scraps of wood to do a better job, but I'm not going to return the case for this and have to wait another month. It's OK if i can't make it look perfect: that's how I'll know that it's my computer.


Case floor. I was hoping there would be another fan grill at the front.






Front of case with the panel removed showing two 12cm fan grills.


Rear of front panel showing wiring and a little bag containing screws, extra thumbscrews for the case sides, and three small zip ties that were included,


Front of panel. The two red LEDs for power and HDD activity mount behind that amber plastic strip and shine through it. I guess they'll probably look orange? Brown?


The screws and things that came with the case.


Video card.


Motherboard.


CPU cooler.


RAM


RAM


PSU. I bought this thinking the PSU on my old PC had died but it turned out to be the motherboard, so this PSU has never actually been used. I'd like to get an 80+ bronze or higher rated one, possibly modular, but that will have to be later. Meanwhile this is OK. It can run 585W continuously and per a wattage calculator the computer will only draw around 286W under load, so I'm close to the top of the efficiency curve at close to 50% power utilization, though probably a bit less efficient when I'm not loading it down very much.


Back of PSU. 8cm rear fan.


SSDs. The Gigabyte is from my old desktop. I bought it earlier this year.


1TB 3.5" HDD from my old computer, bought new in 2017.


Three 12cm case fans. I already had the top one.


Three 8cm case fans. I already had the middle one.


Zip ties, the Noctua thermal grease I was given, and the rear panel piece for the motherboard/case that goes around all of the rear sockets and connectors.


Assorted power cables and screws.


Two heavy-duty power cables and a splitter. Some are molex to molex, some molex to SATA.


Looks like a couple of SATA data cables.


Some SATA data cables I already had.


12cm by 24cm dust filter with magnetic edges that I bought for the old PC.


Two 2.5" to 3.5" drive adapters, for mounting two SSDs in the 3.5" drive bays. I already had these.

I'll have to wait and see but I think I'm going to need to order a packet of case fan screws, and possibly some molex power extensions or splitters. I won't know for sure if I need the latter until I start the build and start routing the cables, and when I unpackage all of my swag and see what I already have. I may need a couple of case fan 3 or 4 pin power connector to molex adapters too. We'll see.

[junoluna]

nightmare

would take me at least 3 months to put that lot together then it would explode on me

last christmas, i failed to help my daughter build a lego rapunzel castle ... was proper hard

[JayM]

The hard parts for me will be screwing the motherboard in place and attaching the front panel connectors to the tiny pins for the power and reset buttons and the two LEDs and headphone/mic jacks. I don't see as well as I used to. But I'll do it somehow. Everything else will be fairly easy.

[Eadwine Rose]

Indeed.. building isn't too hard. :) Just make sure you don't get the shield tabs (those little sticking out doohickeys next to the holes) into any connectors on the mobo like I did


Looking good there JayM!

[JayM]

My second dust filter finally made it to the Phils. It may be delivered sometime this weekend, or Monday. Unless when doing the build I find that I'm lacking any screws or cables I should then have everything I need to put this system together.

(Of course I probably won't have time until after SWMBO leaves as we have a lot of other things to take care of while she's here.)

[JayM]

My fan filter was delivered lat night at around 6:30PM. I have almost everything I need.

I found a plastic cracker (biscuit) box and traced around a 12cm fan on its lid and cut it out with an Xacto knife. I have to get a can of flat black acrylic spray paint and paint it then drill holes for the screws. This will be used to block the unused fan grill on the side of my case and keep dust out, and also (so I've read) make cooling more efficient as all of the hot air in the case will be exhausted by my two exhaust fans rather than just letting it escape on its own and helping to create positive pressure in the case as I plan to install three intake fans.

I may have to do another hardware store run (it's just up the street, maybe a city block away) for screws for the case fans. If they don't have black ones I'll need to paint their heads too. All that has to wait until after next Wednesday (payday) which is also when the Mrs. is heading back to work. Things should hopefully be calmer and less busy here after that so I can concentrate on building the computer. Hopefully next weekend, unless people start setting off premature firecrackers (Christmas is near) and scaring our dogs. :( Then I'd be too busy dealing with calming them down. Too many interruptions and distractions.

I found a couple of scrap pieces wood to aid in smoothing out that little dent too.