Any good PC building guides out there? check out this PC i'm building and offer suggestions!

[unixmandan]

Hey, I've been a PC geek for years, i've installed hardware before, but I'd like to build my own PC and dont really know how. Is there any good tutorials on the net? I looked around on google, but I can only find really outdated ones... Thanks alot!

I've already started looking for parts, so far im thinking of gettn these:

Lian-li case with 350 watt PS
Epox 8k7a motherboard
t-bird 1.33 ghz
256 megs DDR Ram
plain keyboard
plain mouse (yeah i should get USB stuff but getting USB support in BSD can be touchy I hear, so i'll stick with normal stuff for now)

still need:

generic floppy drive
CD drive, possibly DVD drive if i have the cash
generic video card (till i get more cash)
generic NIC

I'm taking the SBlive! gamer, monsoon speakers, and 19" monitor from my parent's computer (dont worry, I have an old 15" i'll give them) so I dont have to spend money on that stuff. Is there anything i'm forgetting?

Would it be worth it to look into SCSI components? I understand you need a SCSI controller, and special hard drives \ CD drives, but that's about all i know of it. Should i stick with IDE\ATAPI?

Thanks fellas!

😎 unixmandan 😎

 

[jcmkk]

It looks like you have a pretty good PC planned there. Just stick with IDE for the hard drive. An IBM 7200RPM 40GB Hard Drive is going for about $100 now. Buy all the parts. The motherboard manual pretty much explains the whole process of putting it together. Mainly the only thing you have to do is mount all your hardware and plug them together. The CPU and Heat Sink installation is probably the hardest part.

 

[jcmkk]

Oh yah, I would go with a cheaper case, and spend the extra cash on a nice video card. The Enlight cases are nice. I would just stick with a plain CD-ROM drive, or mabey a CD-RW. There's no real point to get a DVD drive.

 

[unixmandan]

Great, thanks for the tips man.