Re: Help with my new build.
Posted: 2010-09-27 19:10
Like Bane said, its extremely hard to screw anything up while building even your first rig. 95% of the job is choosing the right parts. Then 4% is the chance of getting a bad part (reduce it to 1% if you go with quality components) and 1% is the actual build.
I built my first rig about 7 years ago, with absolutely no knowledge of nothing else then video cards. After a few weeks of intensive reading, checking out reviews, benchmarks and chatting it up with experts or sellers, I ended up with a rig worth 3000+ $ that never failed me. I paid 1008$ in total.
7-8 yrs later my mother board finally failed it on me but I abused that baby long enough. OCin, moves and moves, lack of care. And I could still just replace the mobo for 15-30$ if I wanted to. But as flashy and kick-*** my P4 2.4 was back then, its outdated now. lol.
The hardest (most stressful) part of building a computer is setting up the CPU, and that takes like 10 mins if you fully read the instructions. Then if youve already changed RAM in your box youve already pretty much got all the experience you need to build a rig. lol.
I remember what took me the most time while building my rig was to place all the small pins from the CASE into the MOBO to get the front panels working, it was a pain in the a** as each pin is like a needle that goes straight unto the board once installed. And I saw that the new MOBOs figured that out, now you got a neat little white extension on which you plug all these comfortably to then later on clamp that extension in 5 seconds. On the ASUS ones atleast. (I wouldnt go nothing else then ASUS when talking mobos)
I built my first rig about 7 years ago, with absolutely no knowledge of nothing else then video cards. After a few weeks of intensive reading, checking out reviews, benchmarks and chatting it up with experts or sellers, I ended up with a rig worth 3000+ $ that never failed me. I paid 1008$ in total.
7-8 yrs later my mother board finally failed it on me but I abused that baby long enough. OCin, moves and moves, lack of care. And I could still just replace the mobo for 15-30$ if I wanted to. But as flashy and kick-*** my P4 2.4 was back then, its outdated now. lol.
The hardest (most stressful) part of building a computer is setting up the CPU, and that takes like 10 mins if you fully read the instructions. Then if youve already changed RAM in your box youve already pretty much got all the experience you need to build a rig. lol.
I remember what took me the most time while building my rig was to place all the small pins from the CASE into the MOBO to get the front panels working, it was a pain in the a** as each pin is like a needle that goes straight unto the board once installed. And I saw that the new MOBOs figured that out, now you got a neat little white extension on which you plug all these comfortably to then later on clamp that extension in 5 seconds. On the ASUS ones atleast. (I wouldnt go nothing else then ASUS when talking mobos)
Theres a nice combo deal on the 89GTD mobo and the CPU right now at newegg.
Its like 215$ and offers really good quality. And dont go cheap on the makers either. Theres a reason why they offer it at smaller prices.
However Ill save on the shipping and eventual shipping troubles if anything isnt right.
ops: Do my HD and SSD need to be the same brand?