A friend of mine has been in the process building a new computer. He has been blogging the steps that he has taken. He has also taken photos of the parts and and the relation to where they placed. In order to show you all what I have been talking about, he has given me permission to post excerpts of his blog here and on other sites.

Entry of Feb 11:

Starting on the Computer Project

The Computer case had a hard time finding the house, well, actually UPS couldn't find the house, but yet they marked it as delivered. I called em up to find out exactly where they delivered it. After bout an hour I was informed that it was actually still on the truck and they were not sure why the driver marked it as delivered. ALWAYS track your packages online. It may help keep you from getting ripped off.

The first thing I did was to measure out the sound dampening material. It is basically a layer off light foam rubber.I cut it out to fit the bottom of the case, the door of the case to help cut down on possible noise from that. I even put some around the rear exhaust fans. The material I got was from FrozenCPU.com. I highly recommend these people if you are looking for cooling systems and case. That's where I got this one from. The liquid cooling system, video card, power supply, sound dampening material all arrived on Friday.

Entry of Fed 14

Putting in the Hard drives and DVD burner

The first thing your gonna need to do is to get someone to help you pull the front cover off the case to get to the external 5.25" drive bays. You are also going to want to pull the internal 3.5" drivebay.you are going to want to put the 3.5 inc drives into the removable bay section and put it back into the machine. You will discover this will hinder your mounting of the 5.25 drives. The left side of 5.25 drive bay screws will be covered by the 3.5" removable bay. I learned this on my own, so now you wont have to.

Entry of Feb 16 part 1

Putting the CPU in with water block

Ok, probably the most important thing I can think of here is GROUND yourself first. I left the Motherboard on the anti-static bag it was in and wore latex gloves to keep any oils from hands getting on things.

I first had to find the parts needed to put the water block for the CPU on. An H bracket and gaskets that are mounted on the underside of Motherboard, long mounting screws and top H bracket to hold the water block tight on the chip. I first place the thin stiffer gasket on bracket, self adhesive on it.

Entry of Feb 16 part 2

Installing Motherboard into Case

Now that the motherboard is ready to put into the case we need to make sure the case is ready. I removed the two bottom intake fans from the front just to make sure I had plenty of room.

Then i realized what I had forgotten to do. Mark the holes I needed for the mounting standoffs on the backside of mounting plate. Oh boy. Well I got a small drill bit and started poking holes through the sound dampening material from the backside of the mounting plate. Held motherboard up in the case almost where it was flush with the back end face plate for all the external connections. This greatly aided me in locating the proper holes.

I would suggest that you follow the link and see for yourself what kind of a rig he has been working on