they are extra features for more advanced hardware , you dont have to worry about them just use your fans off the 4 pin connectors off your PSU and your case will be nice and cool, if you want a detailed explanation , try google for ASUS fan connectors or something
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Cheers Dylan, will do and thanks for your interest.
All the best...

and more luck to you

IF YOU ARE UNSURE ABOUT ANYTHING ask here first, if we cant help you go to a pc shop and let a pro do it , no sense wasting lots of money on a mistake

Thanks Dylan, but at the end of the day, I have purchased all the components, installed some as you can see. The CPU Heatsink and Fan, Memory, sorted out cables, optical drive and 2 hard drives in the case - so the way I feel is to just press on and take the rough with the smooth!

The rough I have just had a little while ago. Installing SATA power cables on to the hard drives and pushing back the portable carrying cage containing the 2 drives, I got the cables caught against the side of a fan which is situated just in front of the cage. The pressure was enough to break the SATA power connector on one side. Result new SATA connector! I think it is important at forums like this to point out to other members my shortcomings, so that if they are inexperienced like myself and read this posting, they may just recall it when carrying out a very similar operation during their building process, and avoid doing what I did. It was a little difficult even the second time, but I just had to exercise more care that was all. This fan is the one at the bottom and middle of the bottom chamber of the case.

My own feelings on the various separate compartments which are on this case are twofold. Eventually I will enjoy all the benefits when the computer is up and running. Such as separate HDD cage at bottom of case away from heat. The separated PSU at the bottom of the cage also, with the other fan facing it, and so on in this respect.

However, I feel the other side of the coin from my own experience (or lack of it!) is by definition a little less space to work with cables, than if for example the drives were where they were but the fan was not just in front of them. Nevertheless, one day I will appreciate it I am sure. And, also I have got to be just better at building and gain the skills to avoid doing what I did.

Hopefully I will win through with the help from this and other forums. No pain, no gain...! To actually succeed properly at this I just have to take a chance and learn - if necessary by my mistakes - but in the end learn how to build a computer properly. Let's see how I get on.

I will be back again soon I feel with more questions. Until then thanks for your help and the interest shown by many others here in my project.

Hi guys - where I am up to...! slowest builder in the world that's me.....but suits me I suppose. Here we go.
Switched on – into BIOS OK – where to now please?

Components

Monitor Belinea 1745 S1 17 inch TFT 11-17-58
Case Antec Performance P180B Mid Tower
PSU Antec NeoHE 500W ATX with 15 output connectors
Motherboard Asus P5B-E ATX LGA775 (HD Audio – 8ch onboard audio)
Memory Crucial 2 x 1GB Kit DDR2 PC2-5300
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 GHz LGA775 4MB Heatsink and Fan
Graphics card GeForce 7300 LE - PALIT
Hard Drive Hitachi Deskstar (SATA2) 7200 RPM 16MB – 320 GB
Hard Drive Hitachi Deskstar (SATA2) 7200 RPM 16MB – 400 GB
Floppy Drive Sony 1.44MB Black 3.5
DVD-RW Plextor PX-800A/T3KB DVD ReWriter Internal
Sound Card E-MU 0404
Operating System Vista Home Premium 64 bit OEM License
Belkin Surge Protector 8W4M

Assembled components have switched on and pressed the DEL key to enter BIOS which was OK. Alongside the case I have a number of instruction manuals and discs holding drivers and other items.

But from a practical point of view would you mind (from experience) giving me some tips please. Tips on the ORDER of approaching putting on various softwares such as O/S, Graphics Card, Sound Card and so on. Also any help on something called ACTIVATION of the O/S.

What I have done so far:

Only connected ONE SATA hard drive to the motherboard, the 320GB so as to not do what I did a year or so back and that was get it ALL wrong! I had a card reader and a number of hard drives all connected up right at the outset. Result was I had no C drive and what should have been the C drive ended up as F. What is referred to now on that computer as C drive is a REMOVABLE DISK!

So I have tried to begin “simply” this time, and in addition the E-MU sound card will not be attempted in any fashion (other than being plugged in). I will attend to that after all is hopefully working well and the second hard drive has been installed correctly. In any event to work with VISTA the sound card has to have new drivers which I have downloaded from the E-MU website and installed on a DVD for use later.

I did go into the BIOS and make sure that the BOOT order had the PLEXTOR DVD as the first in line for booting up. Left onboard audio as enabled as already indicated to be dealt with some other time. By the way on that point – is it necessary to disable that onboard audio to work with my E-MU sound card please? Later I have 2 of my old speakers to use with the system. Yamaha MSP5A.

Two areas I found hard to work with in my assembly

You will see that I have attached a small image of where I have got to with all my components, particularly with regard to the cables!! That power cable in front of the 2 hard drives looks in the picture as if it is nearly touching the fan in front of them, but in fact there is a slight recess and they are about half and inch away from the blades. Forgive me but I am a beginner and have much to learn, so the spaghetti like cables are for the moment the best I can do. Although this Antec case is a good case most people would probably agree when finally assembled, I did find difficulty in manipulating the cabling because of the various sections. I felt they restricted space by definition. With good reason of course as I have read in their advertising material. This is where experience outshines enthusiasm (like my enthusiasm!) I suppose.

Next is the small system panel connector. Whilst the instruction manual and the provided Q- connector are very clear, it is WHERE they are connected that I found to be a problem. Particularly when the cabling is in place, and you need to access them because they have become disconnected, or if you had put something in wrongly. Getting to them I found to be a real problem. Here again, maybe I have just got to learn more, have patience and realise it is only experience that will get me over this hurdle. I suppose this is just a newbie point, but I wondered if when these boards are designed, knowing the importance of that connector, it could be located say near the memory slots or some other place where cabling does not seem so much in evidence.

There it is guys, and please correct a lot of my thinking and cabling runs, as I am one of those chaps who realise you have to take criticism on board to learn and progress. I will not attempt anything until I have read your advice and understood it. I am a very very SLOW builder – this just suits me for the time being! Thanks for your help on all this.