Website for building pcs?

[GoodToGo]

I am looking for a website that can explain how to build a PC by putting different components together. I am a newbie to all of this so some sort of introduction to it might help a lot.

 

[AFB]

A little old, but here. Also, if you have problems, the people in the general hardware forum are nice. Before you do any thing, read your motherboard manual front to back. Do you have a budget ?

Link#2

 

[nick1985]

anandtech general hardware forums are quite good i hear 😉

 

[GoodToGo]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy
A little old, but here. Also, if you have problems, the people in the general hardware forum are nice. Before you do any thing, read your motherboard manual front to back. Do you have a budget ?

Link#2

Oops didnt see the General Hardware forum😱

Working on a $1000 budget or lesser.

 

[GoodToGo]

Originally posted by: nick1985
anandtech general hardware forums are quite good i hear 😉

😱:beer:

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I reccomend asking someone else who has already built some to come and help you your first time through

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: GoodToGo

Originally posted by: amdfanboy
A little old, but here. Also, if you have problems, the people in the general hardware forum are nice. Before you do any thing, read your motherboard manual front to back. Do you have a budget ?

Link#2

Oops didnt see the General Hardware forum😱

Working on a $1000 budget or lesser.

I think you could go AMD64 for that price. 🙂

 

[nick1985]

well you should have posted this in general hardware, but since its already here...😉

what do you plan on using the PC for?

 

[Tab]

This is all your really need to know. If it doesn't fit, dont push it in. 🙂

 

[jfall]

If you can put together lego you can build a PC

 

[bmacd]

what about those Dell computers that are ~$500 ? Those looked like nice machines.

-=bmacd=-

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: bmacd
what about those Dell computers that are ~$500 ? Those looked like nice machines.

-=bmacd=-

yeah except they suck. do you like AGP slots? FORGET IT. do you like intel extreme graphics? do you like little to no RAM? they screw you over so badly its not even funny...

 

[GoodToGo]

Originally posted by: nick1985

Originally posted by: bmacd
what about those Dell computers that are ~$500 ? Those looked like nice machines.

-=bmacd=-

yeah except they suck. do you like AGP slots? FORGET IT. do you like intel extreme graphics? do you like little to no RAM? they screw you over so badly its not even funny...

Exactly, I want to make a PC that I can expand according to my needs. Right now I have a Dimension whoich is very good but I can only mount two hard drive and two Cd/DVD drives. ALso there are only 2 RAM slots which is way too less. In addition, the PC needs to get a lot faster than it is right now.

The AMD 64 is a great idea but I dont know which applications specifically make use of it. This will be my fun machine, games. movies, surfing etc etc. I have a fairly good idea of which graphics card, hard drive, DVD drives etc to use but when it comes to mother boards and cases I am a complete newbie. So right now I am looking at cases and compatible chips for it.

 

[TitanDiddly]

PCGamer mag had a special on how to do it. November 2002, if you can find a backissue.