I built a PC for Cyberpunk 2077 (Pics of Build + Witcher 3 Screenshots included!)

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Cerebralbore101 said:

Pemalite said:

You don't need an anti-static strap, just maintain a hand connection to the case so you are grounded.

Take it slowly.
If it's an nvme drive (I didn't check your components), it's just like installing Ram.

It is! That makes it easy then. Do NVME drives have their own PSU cable, or do they just get their power through the motherboard, like RAM sticks?

Now I'm just wondering how to figure out where to put the mounting brackets for the motherboard. Guess I'll read the case/motherboard manuals when they arrive. 

Sorry I had to head to work earlier, but the M2 drive really only has one place where you can put it, depending on the size you'll just have one screw to put into it to hold it in place and like most things in the case/board there's only going to be one way you can put it in and that's the right way. as Pem said they're pretty much just connect and they're good to go, sometimes (on slightly older boards now I think) you would need to enable the M2 ports on the board and there was some boards where you'll be disabling a SATA port when you enable the M2 drive, so just be aware if there is a mention in the manual about a certain one of the SATA ports being disabled when you're connecting a M2 Drive, that's normal for some boards so don't fret.

And yeah like Pem said and that's why I flinch on seeing mention of that strap, they are a thing which comes up in exams regarding handling of PC hardware, but honestly, how often do you see Linus clip himself onto the PC case which he is working on? once you are comfortable with handling PC hardware you would probably end up doing less damage to parts if you didn't have that dangling wire in the way of what you're trying to install in the machine, just basically when you're handling PC parts don't be touching gold connector edges if you can and be careful when you're putting the CPU into the slot, look for the corner which has the marker on the slot and make sure you have the right corner on the CPU, they only go in 1 way (correctly) and you don't wanna be damaging pins.

Just will say again if you have your old machine, use that as a trial run to take apart and put back together, PC's are like rifles when you watch things like Full Metal Jacket, when you get the hang of putting them together and taking them apart you can do it blind with no fear of damaging a part, but first time... you run the risk of shooting yourself in the $2000 foot. My last build of a Ryzen 2600/16GB ram/240GBSSD/3TBHDD/780TI/650wCosairPSU took around 10 minutes to go from box of parts... to installing windows, and the majority of that time was spent using a pair of plyers to bend back metal so that the 780TI could fit into the old case I was using for it :D (it was a backup gaming machine for my office.... it hasn't been turned on in about 3 months now, feel sorry for it) RIP HDD Caddy 2000 - 2017