15 steps to assemble a pc

Anna Ikoki
1 min readAug 14, 2022

Steps are In-order

  1. Earthing: Touch unpowered plugged computer case.
  2. Motherboard: screw-in
  3. CPU: attach directly to the motherboard socket
  4. Heatsink: lay on top of CPU with thermal paste to facilitate heat transfer
  5. CPU fan:
  6. RAM sticks (4): connect to the DIMM slots on the motherboard. It's near the CPU sockets
  7. Hard Disk Drive (HDD): slide-in SSD SATA or HDD connect the cable to the motherboard
  8. SATA cable: connect SDD to the SATA power plug
  9. Case Fan: connect to the motherboard rear fan slot and the Molex. Ventilation cut-outs in the case
  10. Power Supply Unit (PSU): screw-in with a screwdriver. Adjacent to a large opening in the case
  11. Connectors: power motherboard using speed-pin cable, SATA power connectors (A pin Molex) to power CPU, cable for case buttons and for lights. Secure by fastening cables to the case
  12. Graphics Card: plug it into PCI-Express in the motherboard slot. The card is used to upload videos to monitor.
  13. Mouse, Keyboard, Monitor USB cables to the desktop USB port.
  14. Display port cable: connect to the desktop and into the monitor
  15. Power on

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