Computer Building

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qwxor

I got myself banned.
Anybody else build their own computers?

I just ordered all the parts tonight, 500 bucks, so excited this computers gonna be so good. I have a friend who's a network technician in the airforce so he helped me pick out the parts :)

parts:

Processor - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116072
GPU (Video Card) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102820
HDD - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136113
Power Supply - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151055
Mobo - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130217
RAM - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231121
CD/DVD Burner - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136167
Case - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133069
Monitor - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824254005
Keyboard - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126013
 
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domd

Dom_Dalbert
hes right. id buy 3 cause thats how much it looks like it can hold. as in the whole system. be reallllly carefull with your hddbe sure to put it in , in the cleanest room in your house cause if to much stuff gets on the disk your done. and its fun to do me and my friend trace did it with his computer.
 
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Brian Boston

I got myself banned.
Devin Hohlbein said:
thats not gonna be enough ram for that video card
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Video cards have their own ram. Personally i would buy 4 gigs of RAM, but the video card has nothing to do with the computers RAM.

Dom_Dalbert said:
hes right. id buy 3 cause thats how much it looks like it can hold. as in the whole system. be reallllly carefull with your hddbe sure to put it in , in the cleanest room in your house cause if to much stuff gets on the disk your done. and its fun to do me and my friend trace did it with his computer.
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Harddrives are sealed, nothing can get inside of them unless you tampered with it. I leave hard drives laying out all of the time and they work find. Shit, the computer in my room has no cover on the tower and my house is a dust magnet, never had HDD problems because of 'too much stuff' getting on it.
 
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briflip

Member
Chris Bendel said:
Anybody else build their own computers?

I just ordered all the parts tonight, 500 bucks, so excited this computers gonna be so good. I have a friend who's a network technician in the airforce so he helped me pick out the parts :)

parts:

Processor - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116072
GPU (Video Card) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102820
HDD - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136113
Power Supply - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151055
Mobo - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130217
RAM - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231121
CD/DVD Burner - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136167
Case - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133069
Monitor - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824254005
Keyboard - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126013
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yo i love building computers in fact its what im going to school for

a few suggestions for you:
....if you want to shell out a few more buck i7 chips are the new shit i would look into one of those also if you go down that rhoute then you will have to find and i7 mobo just so you know
....im not personally a fan of msi boards because they are made pretty cheaply but if you dont think it will be a problem then no worries
.... good choice on an ssd
....good choice to go with HD gpu
....dont for get a mouse if you dont already have one and wireless are good ones
....make sure your mobo OR gpu doesnt require a 500 watt power supply because ive never built with a 300 watt and the HD gpu might need a lil more juice
.... also for a little more money you could get some flash ram which just makes things a little bit faster

for the ram this is important if your going to run like windows vista x86 then you can only run 4G of ram but x64 can run more
 
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qwxor

I got myself banned.
I'm fine on RAM, few computers ever rarely need the 3rd gig of ram.
I ran a Wattage test on what my max wattage will be for this computer, and it's anywhere from 180-210 Watts. I should be fine for the power supply.
I already have a mouse.

And btw, i already bought all this stuff, so don't tell me to buy new shiit haha.

Flash RAM? explain?
 
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radiumeyes

Member
using mine right now.

660ish...

MoBo- some ASRock one
Processor- AMD Athlon II X2 3.0ghz
RAM- 8GB G-Skill DDR3 1333mhz
Video Card- ATI Radeon HD 4850 512mb
Power Supply- some 600w power supply...
optical drive- 22x samsung/hitachi
hdd- WD 500gb 7200 rpm sata
monitor- dell sx2210 full hd
random keyboard that glows
and a nice microsoft mouse.
windows 7 RC build 7229

runs crysis on high.
 
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briflip

Member
Chris Bendel said:
I'm fine on RAM, few computers ever rarely need the 3rd gig of ram.
I ran a Wattage test on what my max wattage will be for this computer, and it's anywhere from 180-210 Watts. I should be fine for the power supply.
I already have a mouse.

And btw, i already bought all this stuff, so don't tell me to buy new shiit haha.

Flash RAM? explain?
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instead or clearing when you turn of your computer like regular ram does it stores info so that it can make shortcuts
 
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Brian Boston

I got myself banned.
nickr said:
for the ram this is important if your going to run like windows vista x86 then you can only run 4G of ram but x64 can run more
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Yuck. If your building your own computer i hope to god your not putting Vista on it. My new laptop just came today, im on Vista right now and i can't stand it. Gonna put XP on it over the weekend. My dumbass forgot to see if the laptop had firewire, and it doesn't, now im gonna have to buy one of those stupid cards blahhh.
 
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briflip

Member
yeah i wouldnt even bother even trying to start up a new computer with vista.... i would just boot and clear that partition and install xp
 
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radiumeyes

Member
Thomas Kananen said:
isn't it hard to build a computer??
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no, you just need to know where things go and what wires go where. it's not too complex. i was gonna have a friend build mine but it turned out the mobo was faulty so i had to build it myself while he's in china and it only took like an hour and a half forgetting most of what he did
 
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qwxor

I got myself banned.
GOOD FUCKING CHRIST THIS MONITOR IS SO BIG I LOVE IT
Imagine stepping up from a dell HP laptop to this monitor OMG

I got about 7 of the parts today since they shipped from edison new jersey, but the rest are shipping from cali so i gotta wait till monday to put the actual computer together
i just hooked this monitor up to my laptop:) :) :)

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