After a bit of procrastination (read: 3 weeks), I've finally decided to price the computer I'd consider building. He's what I ended up with:
My final pricings
Since I couldn't fit it on the screen when I took that picture, here's my total price: 1,221.96
Yeah. Pretty high, but hell, it's a new computer. Anyway, I really didn't know what I was looking for. I basically just went through each section and took the most expensive thing with the highest rating and moved on. Mind you that my motherboard and CPU do go together, I'm not that stupid.
I probably could drop the HD size from 100 to 80 or even 60, because I intend on keeping my current hard drive for music storage. It's 60 gigs.
But my main questions to help me understand these things are the little ones, like:
Why do video cards have mb measurements? is that how much space they use for rendering visuals?
How fast of an RPM do usual hard drives have?
What's the best kind of RAM? DDR?
What 's with the socket... Things? Like, socket A? What is that?
Why arte some things 32 and others 64? What does this have to do with a timestamp? I heard about this before, and it being bad, but.... Erm, why does it matter?
Why haven't I heard of a heatsink until just now?
The list goes on and on... If I remember more questions, I'll either post them here or search. I didn't do it this time.... But that's only because I wanted to ask of you how you think I did pricing parts for a computer, so I just threw them in here.
My final pricings
Since I couldn't fit it on the screen when I took that picture, here's my total price: 1,221.96
Yeah. Pretty high, but hell, it's a new computer. Anyway, I really didn't know what I was looking for. I basically just went through each section and took the most expensive thing with the highest rating and moved on. Mind you that my motherboard and CPU do go together, I'm not that stupid.
I probably could drop the HD size from 100 to 80 or even 60, because I intend on keeping my current hard drive for music storage. It's 60 gigs.
But my main questions to help me understand these things are the little ones, like:
Why do video cards have mb measurements? is that how much space they use for rendering visuals?
How fast of an RPM do usual hard drives have?
What's the best kind of RAM? DDR?
What 's with the socket... Things? Like, socket A? What is that?
Why arte some things 32 and others 64? What does this have to do with a timestamp? I heard about this before, and it being bad, but.... Erm, why does it matter?
Why haven't I heard of a heatsink until just now?
The list goes on and on... If I remember more questions, I'll either post them here or search. I didn't do it this time.... But that's only because I wanted to ask of you how you think I did pricing parts for a computer, so I just threw them in here.