Posted January 16, 2020 Hello.I'm building my first gaming PC and I've ordered all my parts and waiting for them to be delivered. I would just like to know if there's any extra components and/or cables I need to buy for my PSU or anything like zip ties, splitters, extensions, sleeves, Velcro ties etc that I need to buy because of my sound card and all the RGB stuff and fans in my build because I don't know if my PSU or the things I've bought will come with all the cables and stuff that I am going to need or if my motherboard/psu has enough slots/headers etc to power and control everything correctly without needing extra things and also to keep everything nicely organized and tidy hidden away.I'd like to have all my RGB stuff linked up so I can control all the lighting effects either off my motherboards software or a controller thing, whichever is the best way to do it and to be able to control my fans etc whichever is the best way to do them both...?I also still need to buy some thermal paste for the CPU but not sure what the best one to get is?I also need to buy the tools to build my PC but not sure what tools I need apart from a screwdriver that is magnetized?Thanks for taking the time to read through this and help me and sorry for so many questions and all the help I'm asking for it's just because this is going to be my first time building so just want to make sure I've got everything I need ready when I start putting it all together. I really do appreciate it allot! Here's all my components:PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor (Purchased For £169.98) Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard (Purchased For £237.99) Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory (Purchased For £173.95) Storage: Intel 660p Series 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (Purchased For £62.99) Storage: Intel 660p Series 1.02 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (Purchased For £89.98) Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB DUAL OC Video Card (Purchased For £0.00) Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For £95.83) Power Supply: Corsair RM (2019) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For £92.99) Sound Card: Asus STRIX RAID PRO 24-bit 192 kHz Sound Card (Purchased For £0.00) Case Fan: Deepcool RF 120 (3 in 1) 56.5 CFM 120 mm Fans (£32.47 @ Scan.co.uk) Case Fan: Deepcool RF 140 (2-pack) 64.13 CFM 140 mm Fan (£24.98 @ Amazon UK) Custom: DEEPCOOL RGB CPU Cooler 4 Heat pipes 120mm RGB Fan Universal Socket Solution (GAMMAXX GT BK) (£36.99 @ Amazon UK) Total: £1018.15Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when availableGenerated by PCPartPicker 2020-01-16 12:36 GMT+0000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 16, 2020 you don't need to buy thermal paste, the cooler comes with it pre-installed. corsair psu's are pretty good with giving you all the cables you need and even zip ties. not sure about rgb. you shouldn't need more than a screwdriver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 16, 2020 Author So I don't need to buy any fan spliiters or some sort of fan hub or rgb splitters or another pcie or pci cable for my sound card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 16, 2020 the fan pack seems to come with their own controller. not sure about the sound card, i guess it should ship with everything it needs. why are you getting a sound card, anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 16, 2020 Author Yeah it comes with a controller but that's just for controlling the lighting effects I think. What I mean is my mobo has 2 system fan headers not including the cpu one but I will be using 5 fans which are all PWM fans so i'm not sure how i can connect them all up properly? I don't want all my parts to come, i start putting it all together noly to find out I don't have enough cables for stuff that's why i'm asking for help on here beforehand to find out if there are any extra cables etc I am going to need Because I have Razier Tiamat 7.1v2 Headset which apparently works best with a dedicated soundcard because of all the jacks on it. However I got a dac amp box that came with it too but i've left that in the box because it only has a mic in and headphone in hole on it. Confused as to wether I should be plugging all my jacks into my soundcard or just plugging the headphone and mic jack into the dac box and leaving the others or if my onbard sound on my motherboard is better than my sound cards?Here's my motherboard specs if it can help anyone to help me with my original creating post please then obviously the psu, fans, cpu cooler and soundcard all have links above 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector 1 x 4-pin ATX 12V power connector 1 x CPU fan header 1 x water cooling CPU fan header 3 x system fan headers 2 x system fan/water cooling pump headers 2 x addressable LED strip headers 2 x RGB LED strip headers 1 x CPU cooler LED strip/RGB LED strip header 2 x M.2 Socket 3 connectors 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors 1 x front panel header 1 x front panel audio header 1 x USB Type-C™ port, with USB 3.2 Gen 2 support 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 headers 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers 1 x Trusted Platform Module (TPM) header (2x6 pin, for the GC-TPM2.0_S module only) 1 x Clear CMOS jumper 2 x temperature sensor headers 1 x Q-Flash Plus button 1 x Thunderbolt™ add-in card connector (Only rev1.1 available) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 16, 2020 26 minutes ago, MaGillio said: So I don't need to buy any fan spliiters or some sort of fan hub or rgb splitters or another pcie or pci cable for my sound card? In my personal experience, a $6 fan splitter makes cable management so much easier when you've got 3+ fans you're connecting individually. Mine isn't technically necessary, since my cords all fit and have places to be plugged in, but with the splitter I have one small visible cord on the front side of the PC, and I can manage the 3 fans' individual connections on the back side of the case, where a bunch of cords are SUPPOSED to be lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 16, 2020 Author How will i connect all 5 of my pwm fans properly and the rgb of them along with my pwm cpu cooler when my motherboard only has these connectors? And is that all I need then don't I need another pcie or pci connector for my sound card or anything? 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector 1 x 4-pin ATX 12V power connector 1 x CPU fan header 1 x water cooling CPU fan header 3 x system fan headers 2 x system fan/water cooling pump headers 2 x addressable LED strip headers 2 x RGB LED strip headers 1 x CPU cooler LED strip/RGB LED strip header 2 x M.2 Socket 3 connectors 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors 1 x front panel header 1 x front panel audio header 1 x USB Type-C™ port, with USB 3.2 Gen 2 support 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 headers 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers 1 x Trusted Platform Module (TPM) header (2x6 pin, for the GC-TPM2.0_S module only) 1 x Clear CMOS jumper 2 x temperature sensor headers 1 x Q-Flash Plus button 1 x Thunderbolt™ add-in card connector (Only rev1.1 available) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 Author Ok change of plan, scrapping the RGB route it seems to complicated and finnicky for me i'll just get some white led strips and put them in my case instead. I'm going with an ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO CPU Cooler & 2 ARCTIC BioniX 104 CFM F140 mm Fans & 2 ARCTIC BioniX F120 69 CFM 120 mm Fans. How do I connect all of these up to take advantage of the PWM PST Sharing Technology? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 5 hours ago, MaGillio said: Ok change of plan, scrapping the RGB route it seems to complicated and finnicky for me i'll just get some white led strips and put them in my case instead. I'm going with an ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO CPU Cooler & 2 ARCTIC BioniX 104 CFM F140 mm Fans & 2 ARCTIC BioniX F120 69 CFM 120 mm Fans. How do I connect all of these up to take advantage of the PWM PST Sharing Technology? you just daisy chain them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 Author What do I diasy chain, all the case fans into one system fan header or all the case fans into the cpu fan then the cpu fan into the cpu fan header? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 23 minutes ago, MaGillio said: What do I diasy chain, all the case fans into one system fan header or all the case fans into the cpu fan then the cpu fan into the cpu fan header? all case fans into one fan header. keep the cpu one in the cpu fan header. you can then go into bios and set the case fans to follow the same curve as the cpu fan so they all work in tandem. if you have multiple case fan headers, you can daisy chain them 2 by 2 instead. if you set the same profile for them in bios, they will work at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 Author 1 minute ago, boggy77 said: all case fans into one fan header. keep the cpu one in the cpu fan header. you can then go into bios and set the case fans to follow the same curve as the cpu fan so they all work in tandem. if you have multiple case fan headers, you can daisy chain them 2 by 2 instead. if you set the same profile for them in bios, they will work at the same time. Ooooh ok thanks a lot for that! Does my motherboard have enough system fan headers for the 4 case fans to be each be plugged in by themselves then instead because wouldn't that be better so each fan can pick up an rpm signal individually? I know that it says that I have 3 x system fan headers, the other 3 fan headers are for water cooling cpu fan header and water cooling pump headers and I also think the chipset fan on my mother board has to go into one of my system fan headers too?1 x CPU fan header 1 x water cooling CPU fan header 3 x system fan headers 2 x system fan/water cooling pump headers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 3 minutes ago, MaGillio said: Ooooh ok thanks a lot for that! Does my motherboard have enough system fan headers for the 4 case fans to be each be plugged in by themselves then instead because wouldn't that be better so each fan can pick up an rpm signal individually? I know that it says that I have 3 x system fan headers, the other 3 fan headers are for water cooling cpu fan header and water cooling pump headers and I also think the chipset fan on my mother board has to go into one of my system fan headers too?1 x CPU fan header 1 x water cooling CPU fan header 3 x system fan headers 2 x system fan/water cooling pump headers i'd keep the fan at the back separate in 1 header, the 2 at the front daisy chained in one header and the 2 on top daisy chained in one header. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 Author I'm only going to have 2 140mm at the front, 1 120mm at the back and another single 120mm at the top not 2. Can those 2 x system fan/water cooling pump headers or 1 x water cooling CPU fan header be used to plug case fans into and change the way those headers operate in the bios or something oe doesn't it work like that do those headers put out more power than the system fan headers or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 1 minute ago, MaGillio said: I'm only going to have 2 140mm at the front, 1 120mm at the back and another single 120mm at the top not 2. Can those 2 x system fan/water cooling pump headers or 1 x water cooling CPU fan header be used to plug case fans into and change the way those headers operate in the bios or something oe doesn't it work like that do those headers put out more power than the system fan headers or something they probably work as well. from what I understand, you're buying 4 fans. but your case comes with 2 pre-instaleld fans, that's why I mentioned so many. you'll probably end up with 3 at the front as intakes, 2 at the top as exhausts and 1 at the back as exhaust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 Author 2 minutes ago, boggy77 said: they probably work as well. from what I understand, you're buying 4 fans. but your case comes with 2 pre-instaleld fans, that's why I mentioned so many. you'll probably end up with 3 at the front as intakes, 2 at the top as exhausts and 1 at the back as exhaust. I'm not using the pre installed fans i'm taking them out so i can do the setup i mentioned above with my own Arctic Fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 19 minutes ago, MaGillio said: I'm not using the pre installed fans i'm taking them out so i can do the setup i mentioned above with my own Arctic Fans the case can take 6 fans, so why not use them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 Author 8 minutes ago, boggy77 said: the case can take 6 fans, so why not use them? Because if I put a second fan up top it's going to be exhausting air out the top before air even starts hitting my cpu coolers fan. Do you know if I used a fan hub for all my fans instead, do yo know if that effects the power of the fans like the rpm signals etc and if i can still set them up as pwm mode in the bios or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 5 hours ago, boggy77 said: i'd keep the fan at the back separate in 1 header, the 2 at the front daisy chained in one header and the 2 on top daisy chained in one header. I agree. I also don't think the RGB plan you had is any more complicated than normal fans. Either way just daisy chain with a splitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 17, 2020 5 hours ago, MaGillio said: Because if I put a second fan up top it's going to be exhausting air out the top before air even starts hitting my cpu coolers fan. Do you know if I used a fan hub for all my fans instead, do yo know if that effects the power of the fans like the rpm signals etc and if i can still set them up as pwm mode in the bios or not? In a 6 fan setup? 3 up front, 1 rear exhaust and 2 up top? Nah. The middle intake will be supplying GPU air directly. If you're having issues, just adjust your fan curves to blow more in and less out... You could even try weird stuff like the forward-most top mounted fan as intake, the one behind it exhausting. That way you're blowing directly down onto the CPU/GPU cool, heat comes up toward the back, and exhausts back up. Who knows how well that would work, but if you have concerns you can always change the layout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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