Installing a motherboard; building new computer

[TonyBalony]

I have purchased all of the goodies to build a new PC as follows:

ASUS A7V8X-X [mother board]

AMD Athlon XP 2800+ [processor]

Samsung DDR 400MHz 512MB (PC3200) Non ECC [Memory]

Generic 210B 420W Blue P4 Case W/ USB and Neon Light (XT)

Asylum GeForce FX 5200 (128MB AGP 8X) [Graphics card]

Western Digital 80GB 7200rpm [Hard Drive]

Pacific Digital Mach52 Internal IDE [CD-RW]

Alps 1.44 [3.5" Floppy drive]


Although I have replaced components on many PC's, this is my first attempt to "build from scratch." For those of you who have purchased products from ASUS, maybe your experience has been better than mine, I'd like to hear your comments. I've found the documentation provided by ASUS to be far less than adequate.

I can pretty much install all of the components with out any support. The one exception, thanks to the vague information provded by ASUS, I have no clue about mounting the mother board to the case. I have lots of screws and washers, but I know enough about electronics to know there is a right way and a wrong way. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[jmebonner]

Just position the board over the case wher it will be installed and mark the holes on the case. Pull the board back out and put stand-offs in the places marked. Some computers have golden stand offs that a screw goes into, some have plastics that a pointed screw goes into along with a couple of the other kind, etc. Then, simply insert the screws where the stand-offs are and start hooking up everything.
G/L!
If you need anything wlse, post it!

[TonyBalony]

Thanks JB!

I appreciate the feedback!

L8r!

[coldfusion22]

Yep, that's what I did 2 days ago. I just built a computer for my dad. Although I think it's my 4th pc I built from the ground up. I know my dad is alot happier that he got rid of his compaq. I got the same kind of specs like you do ..the pc I built for my dad

ASUS A7N8X Deluxe (Nforce2 chipset)
AMD 2800+ Barton with Vantec AeroFlow
512 MB PC2700 memory
120GB Hard Drive
Gainward Geforce 5600 FX

I'm impressed with the temps, it idles at 38 C not usre about full load but it's rock solid stable.

If you have questions or need help feel free to post them.

If you can, or havn't yet, purchase round ide and floppy cables, they really do help a bit in cooling of the case. And always, always get Artic Silver 3 or Artic Silver Ceramique. Both are great thermal compound for the Athlon.