Help, Building my first comp right now, need help with power/wires

[Twistedream]

My first build and ive done everything pretty wll so far. But im trying to connect all the power cords and im lost, is there a walk through or vid

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

The big fat cable with a really long plug goes on the right-hand side of the motherboard.


The long cable with 8 pins goes in the plug at the top left of the motherboard.


Cables with 6 pins in two rows of three go in the graphics card


The SATA power connector looks like this, and attaches here:



Does that help?

[Libram]

Also if you get a little confused with plugging in your case power/reset buttons, power led, and front sound ports you can look in the front few pages of your motherboards manual to get a look at where those go into. Often the names of those tiny connectors are abbreviated PLED (Power button led), PWBTN (power button), and HDLED (Hard drive led) and should even have them labeled.

[Hethor]

Thanks Butler, i'll use this as a reference when my parts arrive.

[protput]

There should be a stickie for this imo. Adding things like molex, sata cables, front panel connections etc etc.

[Twistedream]

thank you very much this all helped alot and as of fight now im instaling my OS so were good

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

thank you very much this all helped alot and as of fight now im instaling my OS so were good

Awesome, remember to take some pictures and post them in the Post your build thread

[SolaronTich]

Also if you get a little confused with plugging in your case power/reset buttons, power led, and front sound ports you can look in the front few pages of your motherboards manual to get a look at where those go into. Often the names of those tiny connectors are abbreviated PLED (Power button led), PWBTN (power button), and HDLED (Hard drive led) and should even have them labeled.

When I was putting my computer together, I was surprised at how much information I found in the manuals for the various parts, specifically the motherboard and power supply. If you aren't sure of how a certain component gets connected, it's manual and the manual of the component you're connecting it to probably have at least diagrams showing you how. Good luck!

[FearXI]

After building them for so long it starts to feel like a bunch of legos.
Gets much much easier and more fun.