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To: Mike McFarland who wrote (75246)	5/2/2011 8:35:03 PM
From: shadowman	Respond to of 110652

A cheapo case (after the rebate)..with some negative comments concerning the included power supply. Mixed reviews. newegg.com

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (75246)	5/2/2011 8:41:05 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

This case is dirt cheap, by quality standards, Lian Li are top rated cases. It will last many years and may upgrades. newegg.com

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (75246)	5/12/2011 6:10:47 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

So turns out, assembling a PC is pretty easy--I made a couple of mistakes, but they didn't cost me anything. I thought I would put the cpu fan on before putting the motherboard in the case--not a good idea, you can't smoosh down the pins without flexing the board, very awkward. After I got it in the case, then I went back and got those pins locked down. I never did use my voltmeter to test the power, figured I had a better chance of frying something poking around than finding anything wrong. The extra four pin cpu power I ignored, I guess there are setups that use two sets of the four pins. I wondered about that for a day or two, and I guess the PSU manufacturer bundled them together for dual cpu, but I would guess very few if any customers of that PSU need it. Speaking of the PSU, I had an awful lot of superfluous cords coming out of that--I ended up bundling them all up and putting them in a plastic bag. I noticed that it would not be all that hard for some metal protruding bit of case to make contact with a lead. Seemed like a good idea to bag all those extras, rubberband them all up, and stuff them in an extra 5" bay. I don't have everything working, for whatever reason my Ethernet controller driver did not install, so now I've found the latest driver for my chip (which happens to be a Realtek RTL8111E) and will try again. There is a funny story behind getting the chipset drivers and such installed: I installed Windows, and after I was up and running I could not get an internet connection. I ran one of those diagnostics and that showed a handful of missing drivers. Ha! Then I realized I'd forgotten the CD that came with the motherboard. Well, I have had a terrible head cold and I blame the decongestants and such <g>. I don't know why the motherboard CD installation did not install the ethernet drivers, it did get four out out five things done. Other things to do include exploring the bios--my case fan runs like a bat out of hell so I have to throttle that way back. Little things like that will be fun to do.