Assembling a PC

My PC was assembled by me at the start of this year, and now it is smooth as a snail, but not as slow as it ! In this article I will to share my experience while assembling this PC. If you want to ignore the situation in which I started building this PC then skip the next paragraph and jump right ahead to the specifications part.

My dad always insisted me to build a new PC for a long time, suddenly by the end of December, I got this urge myself. I referred the net and noted down some of the specifications that would fit into the budget that I fixed and mailed it to dad ( He resides abroad and comes home for the holidays ). All of the parts that I wanted were available at the shop except the graphics card. Thus I had to stick with the card that was available at the shop. To make sure that I would be happy with the card that dad purchased, I began surfing up and down youtube for the performance of the card before dad brought the card to home.

SPECIFICATIONS :

1. Processor : Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 , 2.4 GHz
2. Motherboard : Intel DB33GU motherboard
3. RAM: 4 GB Kingston RAM, 800 Mhz, DDR 2
4. Graphics Card : Zotac Geforece GTS250, with 1GB DDR 3 memory
5. Power supply :  Phoenix 650 Watt
6. Optical Drive : LG

The overall cost came below Rs. 50,000/-, which included the cabinet and the Operating System CD (Windows 7)

ASSEMBLY

STEP 1: Fixing the Power Supply unit in the cabinet. ( Not a big deal )

STEP 2: Assembling the Motherboard. This is where the processor , processor's fan, RAM are all fixed on the motherboard and the board is placed inside the cabinet.

STEP 3: Fixing the Graphics card and the hard drives

STEP 4: Completing all the connections, which include:

• Hard drive - motherboard
• Graphics card - motherboard
• Cabinet START and RESTART buttons - motherboard
• External USB - motherboard
• Cooling fans - motherboard
• optical drive - motherboard
• PSU ( Power Supply Unit ) - hard drive, graphics card, optical drive, motherboard etc.

After this , the cabinet was closed and the operating system (Windows 7) was loaded and the necessary drivers for all the hardware were installed and VOLA! IT IS ALIVE!!!!!!!!

DIFFICULTIES

The only problem was that the CPU cooling fan wasnt placed properly and hence whenever the system was switched ON, it would switch OFF itself after few seconds. This problem was identified by the error message that was displayed whenever the system was restarted. The fan was adjusted and fixed tight on the board and the problem was solved.

PRECAUTIONS

The most necessary precaution is to make sure that your body is static electricity free. This is usually present in your body when you wear shoes or wear woolen cloths. We can drain this static electricity from our body by grounding our self. This can be done by touching the inner surface of the cabinet when it is connected to a switched OFF plug point.