Delivery and assembly

Arrived with next day delivery -- not bad from a 2pm order, and not much extra to pay for postage (£8 I think).

Started on assembly immediately and all farily straight forward. Only thing I dont like about the case is that it only came with 6 riser screws for the motherboard ... could have done with a few more, but apart from that no problems.

I'd note the following:
- put the backpanel cover in the case before screwing in the motherboard
- put the cpu and memory in the motherboard, again before screwing into the case
- check which dimm slots to use ...6 on this mobo and 3 were blue, 3 were white. I picked white but then read instruction booklet and this was bank 2 and it recommends bank 1 when only half populated

Then disaster ...no graphics card! I'd just assumed I had one spare and indeed I have plenty of spare cards, however they are all AGP and this mobo is PCIe. So quick trip to pcworld and bought an PNY 9200GT ...not the cheapest at £45, but nearly (the cheapest) and it does support dual screens and directx 10 (which some even cheaper cards do not).

Back home, insert the card and power up. Amazingly it works first time ... although no OS or anything but the bios has got a lot of stuff to look at!