Building my first PC

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: Ranik
Wait a few weeks and save a little more money and buy an ATI X800 or X800XT!

You're so right. Why didn't I think of it before? And all this from your first post! WOW!

Ranik for Elite!

:roll:

 

[DyslexicHobo]

Well see... I'm getting this computer as a birthday+Christmas gift, and I only make about $120 a week (on a good week), and $20 goes to my cell phone, $50 goes to the bank.

It'd take more than a couple weeks to save up enough for an X800. >.<


Thanks a lot mech, that guide looks really useful. I was hoping I could find a good guide, since my friend who just tried to build his first PC fried his mobo somehow, lol. :/

 

[alexquick]

that sucks (bout the mobo).

but really, its not as hard as you'd think to build a computer. and the process of physical putting the stuff together is the easy part, its troubleshooting drivers and stuff later that gets hard. just use common sense i guess.

 

[Delorian]

Originally posted by: alexquick
but really, its not as hard as you'd think to build a computer. and the process of physical putting the stuff together is the easy part, its troubleshooting drivers and stuff later that gets hard. just use common sense i guess.

There is not much physical stress, but plenty of mental stress outta all the troubleshooting. I'd say about 99%/1%

With that kinda cash, I'd definitely go new-generation video, most any choice in the new-gen is worth the price paid.

 

[jpeyton]

But troubleshooting is worth the mental stress, because once you get everything hammered out, you won't be making many tech support calls in the future.

 

[DyslexicHobo]

Yeah, I'm hoping I'll learn a lot from going through all this... I didn't even think about all the trouble it's going to be to install all of the drivers and crap too, but my dad's a computer tech, and so is my best friend's mom.