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[Faselei]

Yup, but given the proce of slightly older technology, when we get a spare $30 a half decent graphics card can easily be plonked in

Not too shabby at all for the price actually. The screen was partcularily good value!

[Caseyweederman]

-Ran dmesg
650mH! That's right.
My laptop runs at a smooth 440.

Maybe someday when I'm not a pending student I'll make the upgrade.
Maybe someday when I have a job who's pay is not going straight into school.
Maybe someday when... *whimper*

[knitex]

I can build a pc under 2 hours with scrap parts, lol, and I'm only 15, I really can, I'm help setting up a internet cafe

[Drackir]

If the parts are there I can build it in about 15 minutes max. The only time waster is installing the OS.

[Moose]

dam u show-offs... i could probably build one in less that a year if i could find a manual. otherwise make that 2 years.

[rickoshay818]

what moose said...well...atleast you people can't blow milkshake and even skittles out your nose. Hmmm what other things can I do... Err thats about it...Well at least I'd do better than moose..

[Moose]

sum day ill eat ur cat ricko...

[rickoshay818]

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! MY KITTIES!!!!! NOOOOOOO! Well atleast i'm in...well....in...FAR AWAY! So *sticks tounge out* to you! Well I am planning or my dad is planning for me to be an engineer when I grow up so haha! Well hurricane Ernesto is right over us so i'm panicing my butt off...why do I have to be on where hurricanes hit? Sheesh...

[pokey]

Anyone else built themselves a computer?

Drackir i know this topic is a little old, but I built my compy last year. Intel of course. 3.4ghz oc'ed to 3.8 - 800mhz fsb, only a gig of kingston ram for now (has dual channel DDR2 for up to 4 gigs of ram). 2 - 10,000 RPM SATA HDDs, um x800 pro pci-e, um a spiffy x-alien case and mucho cooling units. I also just got a xpire clear glowy PSU because my old one fried my board.. That's pretty much it...

oh. High def audio with 7.1 surround sound..

[Rytiko]

Hm. I'm a complete n00b when it comes to this kind of thing, but I'm really considering building my own computer myself, if only for the money I'd save as opposed to buying a relatively high performance PC elsewhere.

So, I'm wondering what kind of budget I should build up before beginning to make these purchases. I really don't want to have a useless pile of parts sitting in my room for too long, so I hope to buy everything at once rather than in several installments.

What I'll be using it for? Primarily gaming (MMOs mostly, though games such as Oblivion are on the list of "Things I can't do with my current piece of crap, but am willing to trouble myself for"). So any suggestions for parts and a vague estimate of what a decent PC would cost to build would be greatly appreciated.

[Drackir]

I would say you could easily make a decent gaming PC for around $700-800.

[Kinewa]

The case looks just like the one on my sister's computer. It PWNs. Does it have the little meters on the front?

[Drackir]

Oh yes, 3 of them.

[Rytiko]

I would say you could easily make a decent gaming PC for around $700-800.

Cool, cool. After I finally buy the Wii, I can start saving for it. x_x

[Faselei]

Budget is the most important bit i guess. How much do you have to spend? 700-800 will buy you a NICE pc

Remember to include the extortionately priced Vista into it (pirating is not really an option any more).

Oh just in case anyone cares, i did add a $30 graphics card to my sisters. Performance went up significantly.

[Rytiko]

Budget is the most important bit i guess. How much do you have to spend? 700-800 will buy you a NICE pc

Remember to include the extortionately priced Vista into it (pirating is not really an option any more).

Oh just in case anyone cares, i did add a $30 graphics card to my sisters. Performance went up significantly.

Well currently I have nothing, really. I have $340, but I plan to buy a Wii, Wiimote, and maybe a used game. So my PC budget is currently non existant, unless I wait for my birthday and don't buy a Wii for awhile. But I'll likely only get to a total of $600 from birthday money, and Vista will take about $160-260 (Home Premium - Ultimate) of that.

So my only option appears to be to get a job.... Bleck.

[Megell]

Well currently I have nothing, really. I have $340, but I plan to buy a Wii, Wiimote, and maybe a used game. So my PC budget is currently non existant, unless I wait for my birthday and don't buy a Wii for awhile. But I'll likely only get to a total of $600 from birthday money, and Vista will take about $160-260 (Home Premium - Ultimate) of that.

So my only option appears to be to get a job.... Bleck.

Just make sure you don't end up working some where like macdonalds, thats a crappy job no matter which way you throw the dice.

ALSO @ all of those computer buffs. how do I actual over clock my CPU thinggy so it works faster. Whats a good way to make sure i don't melt my computer again.

[Rytiko]

Well currently I have nothing, really. I have $340, but I plan to buy a Wii, Wiimote, and maybe a used game. So my PC budget is currently non existant, unless I wait for my birthday and don't buy a Wii for awhile. But I'll likely only get to a total of $600 from birthday money, and Vista will take about $160-260 (Home Premium - Ultimate) of that.

So my only option appears to be to get a job.... Bleck.

Just make sure you don't end up working some where like macdonalds, thats a crappy job no matter which way you throw the dice.

ALSO @ all of those computer buffs. how do I actual over clock my CPU thinggy so it works faster. Whats a good way to make sure i don't melt my computer again.

Totally. I just picked up an application from both Barnes & Noble and GameStop, but if worse comes to worst, I'll probably have to settle for Albertson's or Wal-Mart.

[Drackir]

Well currently I have nothing, really. I have $340, but I plan to buy a Wii, Wiimote, and maybe a used game. So my PC budget is currently non existant, unless I wait for my birthday and don't buy a Wii for awhile. But I'll likely only get to a total of $600 from birthday money, and Vista will take about $160-260 (Home Premium - Ultimate) of that.

So my only option appears to be to get a job.... Bleck.

Just make sure you don't end up working some where like macdonalds, thats a crappy job no matter which way you throw the dice.

ALSO @ all of those computer buffs. how do I actual over clock my CPU thinggy so it works faster. Whats a good way to make sure i don't melt my computer again.

You have to be very careful when overclocking. Generally, you can change setting in the BIOS (you can get into it when you boot the computer). If your motherboard is older it might not be able to overclock things through the BIOS so you might need to get software (if it's even possible. The key to overclocking is cooling though. You just have to make sure that your cooling system keeps your parts running at or below their optimal temperatures. Hopefully your mobo has temperature settings that tell you what the temp of the CPU and stuff is. But yeah basically, you just want to tweak things up a little bit, start the comp, check the temps, put a large load on the CPU (run some kinda benchmarking program or something that just takes a lot of the CPU like a new game) see how the temperature is feeling (make sure to check online what the optimal temperature is for your piece of hardware). If it can handle it then reset and up it a bit more. See how that goes and yeah that's about the basics. Just look online there's plenty of info on it.

[Caseyweederman]

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