I'M GONNA BUILD MY OWN COMPUTER (24)
tainogirl: Thanks. It'll be a great learning experience. Just got to locate one of them Static Bracelet thingy, if I destroy anything like the new hard drive you'll probably hear the screaming and bawling from where you are.
Yeppers that is a must. You should be able to order it if you do not have a RadioShack equivalent where you are.
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tainogirl: Thanks. It'll be a great learning experience. Just got to locate one of them Static Bracelet thingy, if I destroy anything like the new hard drive you'll probably hear the screaming and bawling from where you are.
Discharge any static by touching bare metal on the case before touching the motherboard etc. Then just rest your arm on the case as you work.As long as are not standing on a carpet as you work all should be A-OK.
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hi it can be quite an experience to build your first computer , I built my first computer last year ,it has taken some time to get just right for me but I am happy now ,I got a gigabyte X48 DS5 motherboard and a 800watt power surply to feed the video card when playing games an ati radeon 4870x2 vid card the motherboard can take 2 of these but 1 works fine ,an intel Q9450 socket 775 cpu it runs at 3500mhz with a 500 gigabyte 32mb harddrive and 8 gig of ddr2-1100 gskill ram...now solid state harddrives are now avilable with 128 gb of hd space ...now you will need vista ultimate to use the larger ram ...good luck and get yourself a good monitor ,22inch or better look around ...
look around some stuff can be lots of $$$$$
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A little advice though. Do the research on the parts before you buy them. Some motherboards and hard drives are more prone to trouble than others.
Avoid buying grey market. There is a very good reason it is second string almost every time. I'd buy used first.
Don't try to save money on the CPU and case fans. Cooking an expensive CPU or motherboard negates the $10 you saved on the fan and more.
Likewise don't skimp on RAM. Buy a good brand from a trustworthy seller. Much of the cheap stuff is trash.
Freeware and shareware are the way to fly on aplications. Give me a yell with what you need and I will send download links.
Have fun.[/quote]
I have had many come to me b/c they upgraded and their power supply was not able to handle the load.
You will do fine Tanio!!!!