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Building your own PC

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03-21-2007, 12:03 PM
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I was considering of buylding my pc. As ive seen a bunch of crap being offered by companys that think costumers dont know squat. I have no prior experiance building pcs and so on and so on. I know about the main parts but all of the other technical stuff like power cources and other bits and bobs relating to that would throw me off.

Or i was considering buying a crapy pc and upgrading it. Good or bad idea.

How hard is it to unstall a new procesor and would there be any problems if i jacked up a poor pc with a new intel core 2 procesor about 1-2 gb of ram and 160-250gb of hard drive and a new graphics card. Would there be any issues if i done that?

Any bad experiances from building an own pc and is there any good places to buy parts online.

03-21-2007, 02:04 PM
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Better off building your own best way to go and cheaper.

03-21-2007, 03:27 PM
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Go with building your own, why would you buy crappy parts just to replace them? it isn't that hard, read the manual and you should be fine.

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Building your own PC is definitely the way to go. Not only will you save more money but you'll also get a lot more out of your system.

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Just make sure that the parts work together (look at the specs of each part), then buy a copy of MaximumPC which describes how to install everything, and you're good to go.

Oh, and buying your own parts and starting from scratch is the only way to go.

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Building a computer yourself is the best in comparison to buying a rubbish one and upgrading. Firstly, usually building yourself is cheaper, and secondly, it's the best feeling to drag someone into your room and say "Ah made it!"
Make sure to revise on it though ;P

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Building FTW.

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If you have the money build your own. I bought an old emachines, and ive been upgrading it as i get spare money. I've put in a new gfx card and sound so far.

03-21-2007, 08:03 PM
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I built my computer for the first time when I was 11 not sure if it would work or not and I am 14 and it's still running fast today.. I obviously did something right:
Intel celerdon D - 2.8Ghz @ 3.4Ghz
512 Kingston ram
80gb Segate H/D
DVD +-RW
Radeon 9250

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If you have any troubles alot of shops will go through which parts you can order then build it for you. Thats more like getting a custom computer though.

Thanks

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