okay guys this will be my installation well rather assembly guide for the
high-speed PC uh XL ATX top deck tech
station that I have for my personal use now or well rather my tech tips use so
I'm going to show you guys step by step what to do the first thing is you will
need a Phillips head screwdriver they recommend a powered one but I don't have
one so I'll be using this one next you should compare all the parts included
with the reference in the instruction manual here to make sure that
everything's included if it's not there email support at highp speed pc.com all
right finally you can get started you
should clear a desk give yourself room
and yeah that's pretty much it okay so
step one assemble the testbench
feet for this step you will use the four rubber feet four stainless washers and
four 1-in screws that look like this you'll position the
feet over the mount over the uh guide
holes right here position the screw and then you
will screw them in until they just barely poke through you're going to
tighten it the rest of the way later on when you attach the upright
post I'm going to show you guys how deep I'm going to
go so just about like that so where you
have a little bit
exposed the next step is pretty straightforward we're going to install
the motherboard uh rubber standoff guys okay
so basically you're going to screw these down tight enough that the rubber
doesn't rotate anymore but not so tight
that the rubber starts to pucker because if you drive down tight enough you can
put the screw right through the Rubber and you may ruin the rubber standof now
for a couple of the holes so invariably
this one up here which is going to be the top of where your motherboard is
mounted and uh all the way through there
we go and then uh sometimes this one
sometimes this one and sometimes this one you're going to put these two nylon
screws and then you're going to hand thread
down a rubber standoff and this is to
hold the board in place cuz the threads
on these guys here hopefully I can get this see the threads on here we'll keep
the board from slipping off okay so just hand tight on there so you put it here
for matx here for ATX and here for uh XL
and
hptx so I'm going to show you guys quickly this is what it looks like if
you overtighten it see how it starts to
flare out at the bottom so I'm just going to untighten that one and put it
back right where it's supposed to be there can't turn the rubber can't do
that okay and finally see these little nuts right here I never ever used them
but in theory after you put a motherboard on you can screw this on to
hold the motherboard in place more permanently next step is to install the
fan bracket so we're going to use these little guys and we are going to do fan
one first please Focus please Focus
there we go so you just flip this guy over put it like that and then drive the
screw into the this is going to be the bottom
of the top deck so you can see the nylon washers poking through here so that is
where the back of the motherboard will be on the other side of this piece and
just like that these ones I do pretty tight just because uh I'm often doing
weird stuff like hanging radiators off them and whatnot uh don't do them super
super tight right now because you're going to want to have a little bit of give when you're installing your fans
and then you can uh crank it a little bit later then you just repeat that
process for fans two and three
respectively for this next step the hard drive stopper you will need the spacer
the stopper right there it goes right there so just to show you guys I have
the fans on now already and you will need the slightly longer screw that
looks like this put that in there and then screw it
in the next step is installing the hard drive rails so my older Tech Stations
don't come with the option for 2 and 1/2 in but the new ones do so regardless you
put in this one so so you can see you use a nylon spacer right here you use a
screw and then you use the plastic rail which is going to hold on to the drives
like this see like so so you'll either put your 2 and 1/2 in drive in there or
you'll put your 3 and 1/2 in drive in there okay hopefully you guys can see
that now it is imperative that you don't overtighten this screw right here like
you see this doesn't move much remember it's not holding up the world it's just
holding up a couple of drives so you make sure it's not moving around but I
can still spin the water in here or the nylon spacer in here freely so don't
like crank it tight I'm going to do mine for 3 and 1/2 in cuz ssds are not much
of a problem to just stuff between your optical drive and your power supply not
to mention that if you drop an SSD while you're moving your TX station it's not a
big deal and if you drop a hard drive it's pretty much dead this next step
seems a little tricky but actually it's quite easy you take this piece right
here which is a threaded bolt you push
it through uh so remember this is where the back of the motherboard is where
these nylon post come through so you're putting it through this very Corner one
here and the Very Corner one here then what you do is you take your shorter of
your two uh types of posts you put the
hole at the top because remember that's where the uh expansion cards are going
to eventually plug into and you thread this one on from the top and then you
take a longer one and you thread it on from the bottom turning at the same time
so you can see here's one that I've partially completed I'm just going to
adjust my chest cam here so I can show you guys what I'm doing and I am
twisting them both at the same time now high-speed PC mentions that it's a
little bit tricky to ensure that this hole stays facing outward and that's
very important so you want to tighten this one in all the way then hold it
outward and tighten in the bottom one the rest of the way to make sure that it
faces the right way because you want a nice snug fit between these otherwise
your tech station is going to be loose when you pick it up for this next step
all you need is the remaining two support posts and what we're going to be doing is
we're going to be taking those screws that we threaded ever so slightly
through the bottom platform and we are
going to be screwing them into the support post so it's quite important
while you're doing this to hold the post
very snugly against the tech station
please Focus Mr camera oh come on all
right so here what I what I did was I held it between my
legs focus
focus thank you okay held it between my legs like this and then I use a
screwdriver from one side holding it snugly and just screw that in like that
you go until the foot compresses a little bit and then once that happens
you want to do about a half turn so I think we're pretty much there holding
the screw in place do about a half turn or even a quarter turn with the uh
support stand itself to make sure that you've got a nice snug fit against the
base it's starting to look pretty complete compl I have taken my bottom
portion and I have put it down on top of the top portion just like this I'm
lining up these screws that are poking through a little bit with the
holes right there and then I'm going to tighten them down in much the same
manner being careful not to overtighten through the feet so that the washer pops
out you see the washer that's uh that's in there all right until I have a nice
snug fit and then it's pretty much put
together and all we're really left with is a couple finishing
touches now I flip around the tech station one more time I put together
this assembly where I have the final silver screws we don't really have any
silver screws left a washer and a little cap to go over it and I'm threading
those in well screwing those in to the
final part of the two platforms that needs to be supported so I'm just going
to go till I can see it sticking through a little bit line that up with the hole
there you can see what I'm doing here okay and then I'm going to hold it snug
and screw those in and it's pretty much structurally complete at that point so
I'm just going to put some pressure here I'll do this on camera since I want to
show you guys one of these finishing pouch
steps all right so that's nice and snug then I just close up that little cap
keeps that metal screw from being exposed and shorting anything out all right so now we're going to put that PCI
support bracket on at the uh back where so here so you can
see here's where the io of the motherboard is so this is where the
expansion cards go please note that these holes are going to be closer to
the motherboard rather than further away from it or the brackets on your PCI
cards will not line up you're going to use two different screws for this one
you're going to use a sharp one that goes into this post and then you're
going to use a blunted
one come on let's see focus focus
whatever you're going to use a blunted one that goes up into this this nylon
piece here so you're just going to use an L bracket position it right there and
then screw them in completely so that it's nice and tight like I've done on
this side here oh and last but not least for this
piece going to put a little cap on there so it looks nice and finished you
know there so I'm mounting my fans I'm
putting my neoprene nonslip pad into the
bottom of the tech station here so that's where I'll put my power supply
all that good stuff so it doesn't move around once I put it down I'm also
screwing in the fans so fans go in just like this now I
person they provide a suggestion for how to mount the fans I believe fan mounting
is very personal so you know maybe I want to take hot air away from the CPU
area maybe I have a tower heat sink here blowing air that way and then maybe my
graphics cards are installed in the lower slot so maybe I want to push coal
there towards them whatever the case may be you can install the fans however
suits your personal needs um the rest of the stuff I consider optional uh so
these guys I mentioned before are for securing the motherboard down which I
consider highly optional I'll just throw these away um also we have plastic thumb
screws which there's no way I'll use I have my own thumb screws that I prefer
that are a little bit easier to work with cuz the um I don't know they just
cooperate with the threads better see these ones I have a little bit of trouble with I don't really like those
um and then obviously we've got fan screws uh this is another thing that I
probably won't do but if you have curious pets or children then it's
definitely a good idea to install these fangu guards just like that okay so just
screw those in from the other side just two screws is good enough to secure a
fangu in place and have it not vibrate so I would just do it like that remember
the whole point of this is efficiency and quick Hardware testing so there it
is that is my assembly guide for the high-speed PC top deck tech station I
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