Need some help?

BlueAngel

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Hi there, I'm new to this forum so please don't flame..err..insult me.

Actually, I'm 13, and I want to build my own pc..
Well, I have the choice of buying one..but i really want to build it myself, so its easier to upgrade and stuff, BUT my mom won't let me, she said she doesn't trust me to build one, and if it would work or not, so she doesnt want me to waste like 2000 dollars if the computer doesn't work and i screw it up or something...
so, i was wondering if you guys can help me, IF youhave any spare parts that you dont want or just lying around, and you dont know what to do with it? send it to me! it can be a motherboard,soundcard, cd drive, hardrive, anything would help, it can be as slow as a 75mhz or 4 mb ram, or a 1ghz hardrive, i dont care, i jsut need some parts and then when i get enough, ill like buy some cheap weak stuff to build a computer, and if i actually do make it work, my mom would give me ...err..i dont wanna tell ya how much cuz you might try to ripe me off by selling me stuff for a lot more then it cost, to pay for my dream machine.../me drools..anything u got is fine...

Also, for a beginner builder like me, what kind of motherboard should i get? i thought the abt kt7 was good, but then i saw a post saying its hard to use or something, so...any easy boards to work with...

another question is there any booooks or websites you guys reocmmend to help me build a comptuer...


Im posting this topic to all the forum places...like hardware, motherboard, all of them cuz i dont know exactly where this fits...so dont yell at me or something, just delete it if u want....

Well if you actually read all this, i say thank you because this was kinda long...thanks for taking your time out of your life and into mine =)!!
 

BigToque

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I dont think your gonna find too many people willing to just give you parts, but I'm sure if you go to the for sale/trade forum you could pick up the parts you need for very little $$.

at case
486 mobo
33mhz cpu
8mb ram
500mb hard drive
1mb vid card

thats about you need to get a crappy system running. you dont need a modem/sound card/etc
 

BigToque

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lol... oh :)

Just hang around these forums (well general hardware atleast - I dont think you learn much in OT :)), and you will learn many many things about computers.
 

BlueAngel

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Hey some people in this forum suggested i take A+ course? well i think thats a lil too expensive so could i just get the book and take the test somewhere...oh yeah what books do you guys suggest...and if you guys have the book and dont need it, send it to me? or if your rich buy me one!!!! =)