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Building a PC

PC

PC tower (screw) ...

(screw driver) ) (plier) (

1. Thermal compound ( 2. 3. Screw compound

cpu cpu

heat sink slot

RAM

power on cpu

( )

(ASUS board slot MB abilities

4. Motherboard user guide 1066 MHz DDR II RAM error 5. Slots power on ) connectors

power

device

( )

tower screw

optical drive

drive

( ) casing power supply power supply

5 casing screw ( ) screw screw

screw motherboard 6mm screw ( washer PCB space support ( ) motherboard motherboard ( motherboard motherboard motherboard board Hex Nut screw 5x6mm motherboard motherboard motherboard

(mini-jumper ) ) insulating )

Round head screw 6.0mm

motherboard

Speaker

motherboard motherboard

motherboard

motherboard

( )

motherboard (

Board motherboard

slot

7 1. ATX power connectors 2. CPU socket 3. CPU and chassis fan connectors 4. RAM slots 5. CPU overclock switch 6. IDE connector for HDD 7. SATA connectors 10. system panel connector 14. USB connectors 16. IDE connector for floppy 18. front panel audio connector 20. Express Gate (now! only ASUS) connectors )

1. cpu

ATX power connectors 4-pin DDR II RAM slot )

power supply (

MB

connectors

24-pin EATXPWR

4-pin ATX12V

2. CPU socket pin

i7 CPU CPU

775

Core 2 Quard CPU

8 3. CPU and chassis fan connectors CPU fan motherboard channel fan 3-pin

3-pin fan 4-pin fan cpu fan -

4. RAM slots

user guide

(PC

) DDR III

5. CPU overclock

switch

CPU overclocking

overclock switch motherboard

user Default setting

guide )

switch Default

volt (

6. IDE connector for HDD connector IDE drive ) HDD

Hard disk motherboard IDE optical drive

IDE

board (IDE

7.

SATA connectors sata

drive

9 Motherboard casing switch user guide

10. system panel connector motherboard speaker power

casing restart

power HDD

14. USB connectors USB ( USB extra card

USB extra card

connector )

16. IDE connector for floppy

motherboard board HDD

floopy IDE

18. front panel audio connector connector casing connector

casing casing

sound

20. Express Gate ASUS player, photo viewer

motherboard

ASUS OS menu

function power buttom

browser, skype, movies and song

mini game

10 skype massenger version skype express gate Install sharing email skype function Google talk, Yahoo, AIM, QQ 500 MB Express gate on/off application http://event.asus.com/mb/expressgate ) hard disk waiting time hardware Express Gate CD drive BIOS (Express gate storage device boot

MSN massenger windows motherboard driver cd

thermal compound cpu

CPU motherboard cpu (thermal compound

cpu

11 ( ) socket

cpu

pin motherboard socket Pin

cpu board

socket cpu socket

12 cpu thermal board compound cpu heat cooler board cooler clooer board

heat sink

board

heat sink

heat sink heat sink user guide

board

Heat sink

motherboard

motherboard motherboard port

13 Board scerw screw motherboard A ( motherboard RAM board cpu channel 1 channel 2 a Motherboard 2 b a b parallel b cpu channel 1 a DIMM board parallel channel Board B ( ) board

14 (channel 1 ) channel ( ) 512MB 512 slot slot motherboard user guide slot 1GB motherboard parallel memory 1GB CPU ( ) a) (channel 2 a) slot (board

RAM

15 RAM VGA card slot RAM VGA slot slot port

Optical drive

eject ( drive ) drive drive

16 HDD drive ( VGA ) CD D rive HDD IDE

Devices power supply dvd Motherboard ) drive VGA Motherboard HDD

data

VGA card motherboard power

(24-pin power

4-pin supply

HDD

DVD

sata power

sata data sata

power sata

17 power

HDD

data DVD

SATA

IDE

IDE

fan channel board cpu fan fan m

CPU fan 3-pin power supply 3-pin

) 4-pin

18 connector board USB con motherboard power supply system panel connector mother board connectors front panel audio front panel audio, USB

Motherboard PW LED ( ( + ) PW motherboard ) MG Power SW power

motherboard

 PW LED RES Speaker HDD Speaker Power SW Restart SW

front panel

monitor

20 mouse