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Pretty much, yes.
If you buy a motherboard, it will have (it'd better have) a schematic of what pins on the board do what. Then you know what to plug where. Often, the board has written ON it, what is what.
You are going to need to know where, and how, the IDE cables plug in. There's a little bit to that, to ensure best possible performance; but, it's not too bad.
I suppose if you know nothing about computers, this is not a very good idea.
If you have some idea what's going on, and you can read directions, you might pull it off. Despite what many people believe, it's not rocket sceince.
When building your own box, yhere are lots of places you can make mistakes, lots of them. Mistakes can be very expensive.
I suppose the short answer to your question is: "No." The parts may be marked, but you have to know what you're looking at first.
If you don't know the answer to the question you asked, I'd have to say it might not be the best idea for you to build a box yet. Do some reading first.
tomshardware.com is a very good resource for "how to" type stuff.
Go and learn, it's easy after that.
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