Hi all
My "mean machine" arrived today (Intel i7 2600, 8Gb DDR3) barebones and I need to build it. The thing is, I'm seeing a huge bundle of unfamiliar connectors - can anyone help? My main concern is keyboard and mouse - there's only one ps2 on the back of the mobo. I can think of 2 solutions: 1) Buy a ps2 female to usb male and use my ps2 mouse with that. [In fact it'll be connected to my kvm] The only thing I'm worried about here is whether the mouse will be correctly detected. 2) As I'm chucking out the Mac mini I bought 5 years ago and basically never used, it so happens that I have an existing 2 ps2 female to 1 usb male adapter. Is this any better than 1) above. Now onto the really confusing stuff. I'm used to power supplies with: * Mobo power * Fan power (which connects to mobo) * a ton of standard 4 pin power plugs. In this latest board, I have 1 mobo power, seemingly 2 fan connections and no "standard" power plugs, they all seem to be the new SATA variety. Luckily enough, the hdd and dvd I have are both sata, but there seem some other connectors too (I haven't the technology to take a photo at the moment) so could someone tell me what they're likely to be - they look like terminal blocks to me!! Sorry for these basic questions - it's been well over 18 months since I built my last machine. Cheers Rob
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