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| Thread ID: 22018 | 2002-07-10 01:22:00 | Home built computer... | Mr. Insanity (957) | Press F1 |
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| 61183 | 2002-07-10 07:17:00 | I looked at that a while back.... I've been picking parts and bargain hunting for ~3 months now, Here are the prices for the components if your wondering: Case: $182.12 CPU: $395 M/B: $237.72 Graphics Card: $423 CD-RW: $230.10 HDD: $250.00 Sound Card: $265 Ram: $238 OS: $409.50 FDD: $30.00 Some parts I can get a couple bucks cheaper elseware, but I want to keep to only 2 suppliers. |
Mr. Insanity (957) | ||
| 61184 | 2002-07-10 07:36:00 | monitor?? don't forget the small things like screws and cables. not all cases/drives/etc come with screws etc. heatsink? case fans? keyboard? mouse? speakers? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 61185 | 2002-07-10 07:37:00 | Check out Computer Links (liquid2k.com) You may find a useful link to help you with building your computer. |
Sam H (525) | ||
| 61186 | 2002-07-10 09:02:00 | > not all cases come with screws etc. er, they wouldn't happen to be screwless cases by any chance? :^O |
Elwin Way (229) | ||
| 61187 | 2002-07-10 09:09:00 | lolololololol ;-) just cheapo's |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 61188 | 2002-07-10 09:16:00 | jeez whats wrong with me today... Going to use the monitor I am using now (17" CRT) the computer I am using now is going to become a business computer and a 15" CRT that I have lying round will be used with it. Same with the Speakers, I got some older speakers that will be fine for business use. I have spare Keyboard,mouse etc. As I said in my opening post I already have the case, it comes with 2 case fans and HEAPS of screws. Only 4 thumb screws are actully needed for opening the case so I am guessing the others I got are for the m/b etc. heatsink....well I dunno, I was considering on getting a Volcanno 7 Fan+Heatsink. But the Athlon comes with a fan (admittingly not as good) but I don't plan on overclocking it. I'm a couple hundread under budget, so I might just get a Volcano 7 in the end. |
Mr. Insanity (957) | ||
| 61189 | 2002-07-10 10:21:00 | Hi Mr Insanity - Good idea to get the Volcano 7. I found it far better than the standard HS & fan that came with the Athlon CPU. | Bazza (407) | ||
| 61190 | 2002-07-10 11:06:00 | www.stylespc.co.nz www.starlyte.co.nz ascent would be abit expensive for some parts.. or most parts. I'd suggest you stay away from ascent. You could build that computer cheaper. www.pricespy.co.nz <- this is a very good source. |
boom23 (176) | ||
| 61191 | 2002-07-13 23:36:00 | That looks a pretty fine system ,there Mr Insanity. Good on you for building it yourself. The Gigabyte m/b should be fine if you don,t plan on overclocking,but bear in mind that gigabyte m/b,s only come with a 12 month warranty. I tend to stay away from G/B m/b because of there AMI bioses,but thats just a personal thing. A floppy drive is a essentual,when all else fails, the floppy drive won,t. Think about changing ram brand as I have had trouble with Memtek. the speed is ok as there is almost no point going pc2700 when you don,t overclock the fsb on the cpu. I would stick with Ascent & Paradigm,at least you know they will be around if you have any warrant issues. I would think about installing win98se ,I know XP,s all the rage and it is a very stable os ,but it has alot of bugs and compatibility issues,especially with games,I had so many games that would not work on the kidds pc that I put win98 back on. Duel boot would be Ideal,my pc has XP,win98 and Linux on it and a program called Systems Commander controling them ( this program manages to swap and hide partions so that each os thinks it is booting from the C: drive ) At the end of the day Win98 will run every program,game and piece of hardware ever made. Good luck. |
tech_mister (433) | ||
| 61192 | 2002-07-14 00:24:00 | thanks for you comments tech_mister. I probably won't get Memtek RAM anyway, I just found the cheapest RAM I could, but RAM prices are changing all the time so it really depends on what Ascent or Paradigm are selling at the time I buy the RAM. (I am buying things seperate, I just ordered my CPU a couple nights ago, Motherboard will be ordered in a week or 2) About the OS: I'm going to stick with XP, my current computer has never crashed with XP Pro. A couple programs hanged a few times, but XP seems good at recovering and getting the Task Manager up so I can close the program (98 and ME both and trouble and I had to turn off,turn on the box) anyway, arn't MS going to cut support for 98 in a couple months? |
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