new pc building

[polarstar]

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All the parts received now and i have started building the pc and my first question i want to ask is: there ar 4 ram slots on this board Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus,
and i'm installing 2x 1gb ram do i put them slots A1 and A2 or B1 and B2 or one in each A1 and B1.

[Van Nugent]

Put them in the slots that have same color to run dual channel mode. This will improve the data transfer rate remarkably.

Congrats on your new PC. :beer:

[polarstar]

any of the 2 colour slots which are blue and white.

[Van Nugent]

Yep! Either 2 blue's or 2 white's.

[polarstar]

Thanks again Van Nugent now back to the pc.

[polarstar]

I have another question for you m8 but it's the graphics card this time and i'm not sure which pci express slot to use on the Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus,

the graphics card is: Leadtek GeForce 7900 GT Extreme 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail.

[Van Nugent]

I just had a quick look in the manual (http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5N32-E%20SLI/e2979P5N32-ESLIPlus.pdf). There are 2 PCI-E x16 slots (blue) for you to connect up to 2 video cards in SLI mode. If you have only 1 card, use the one closest to the CPU socket.

Edit: You can check for latest nVIDIA drivers here (http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp).

[polarstar]

Thanks again Van Nugent the building is completed (i hope) will know tomorrow when i fire it up and install windows xp.

[Van Nugent]

:tup:

[polarstar]

Todays 1st problem can't get the pc to load from the windows xp pro disc.

sorted now i had both dvd rom set on master on one ide cable.

[Van Nugent]

Yup, sometimes I forgot about that little jumper, too. :)

[PhilEnfield]

:laugh:

I just did exactly the same thing. Was fitting a 111D into a box and in my wisdom moved the jumper to what I thought was pin 1 (Master) from Pin 5 (Reserve) ... turns out PIoneer shipped it as Master, but in THEIR wisdom decided to reverse the ****ing pins !

[Van Nugent]

http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/r/biggrinclarifils.gif

[polarstar]

Pc all finished now just have a few software programs left to load,
and wow it is really fast and worth all that money i spent on it.

and a big thankyou to Van Nugent for all your help making this pc possible.

[Van Nugent]

I'm so glad to hear that the system is up and running very fast now. Must say that you're a good system builder - Putting together such a big system from scratch without a hiccup! :tup: