There were a couple things in my way to a 100% successful build that I'm going to recount here.
I discovered a scratch on the face of my case at the bottom under the antec logo. In taking off the face plate, a plastic part broke off.
My motherboard had bios F1 which worked but wasn't identifying my processor. Thank gigabyte for their bios update from windows. I downloaded the update from my laptop and put it on my usb flash drive. I didn't put a floppy drive in this new build on purpose. However downloading the latest version of the gigabyte utilities proved difficult as whenever I put my usb wifi adapter in the machine blue screened. Off to get the latest driver for that. Once that was installed, no problems in getting the bios update utility and updating the bios. Now I have a proper windows task manager with two cpus.
The firewire header from the case doesn't fit my motherboard and it is not separate connectors but one block. So my front firewire won't work. There is a note in the manual about contacting antec for an adapter. The scsi cable was a bit stiff and difficult to route properly.
I had to do my first mod so to speak. I bought the nexus fans but the screw hole goes all the way through instead of just two holes separated by air. A picture would be good but I haven't got to uploading them just yet. The reason they need to be separated is the rubber mounting things antec provided. And the fact that they only provided one set of case mounting screws. So first I took a saw, because I don't have a dremel, and hacked away at that cylinder. A little blood and lots of plastic later and I have my holes but not enough clearance to fish the rubber thing through (only a saw width was cut out after all. So then I had the bright idea of drilling from the other side (non-mounting side). That worked great. I should have done that in the first place.
I think I'm going to have to move my BENQ flush with the face plate instead of recessed like it is now. The facade thing for the cd-rom stops the drawer from retracting so I have to hold it down while the drive retracts. But then I hardly use the cd-rom that much so maybe I'll leave it.
I was pulling the mwave stickers off my memory so it would cool better I guess (but not the crucial stickers so I could keep my warranty), when I saw this little thing on the back of the sticker. On closer look, it is one of those tiny rectangular things on the ram. Comparing the sticks (I have two of the same), I see that one of those things is missing from one of the sticks of ram. But the computer is working so I'm not sure how important it is. And it was missing from somewhere not even under the sticker so how it got there is anyone's guess. I think I'm going to follow up with crucial anyway but it is working. Maybe I'll leave it running overnight with a memory test or something.
This thing is fast. Explore disk access is like instantaneous. Opening my computer is the same. And quiet too. Not too hot either. The temp probes in the case say 86F and 81F. One is on top of the cpu fan and the other is on top of the scsi hard drive. The cpu temp was listed as 32C in the bios.
I didn't bother connecting the front audio, as I don't think I'll use it.
Now begins the long process of downloading drivers and installing software. Once setup then I'll move the hard drive from my old computer and the modem (so I get callerid info on the screen and for the occasional use of dialing into a client).
Still waiting for the Dell 2001FP to drop to like 450. It is/was 500 which isn't too bad but that is 531 with tax.