Building your own PC

Only problem when upgrading a name brand computer is that when you change out the processor the motherboard has to compatable which is hard to find when your using name brand computers once they put weird things inside so the best bet for your money is to build all your own computer pick up a barebone kit and start from there.

how hard is it for a complete newbie to PC building to build one? are there any really good guides on the net somewhere?

Originally Posted by reflekt how hard is it for a complete newbie to PC building to build one? are there any really good guides on the net somewhere?

yup same question as me.
Could i go to a big pc store (not mentioning names)
ask a technition there, tell him what i want to do, give him the main spec parts i want in it, him helping me out writing down the parts and so on and taking in the guidence. Going home ordering parts online and so on.

Totaly building my own ive read so much about it and its totaly worth it. Budget about 500 english pounds, thats 1k dollars. Anyways i will get some help from experts but evrything else is done by me.

if you hesitant about how hard it will be... dont be
its so easy, anyone could do it
i built my first pc when i was ~10
all you have to do is screw in the motherboard, everything else just plugs right in, and a bit more screws to hold in the gfx card, harddrive, cd, ect...

cool im fine now.

I was really worried about breaking parts and stuff like that if I built it myself, but it's really easy, but you do need to be quite forceful to get certain parts in.

i just dont want to break anything

I build mine for about 1400 Singapore Dollars (around 900 US Dollars). Running on Intel Dual Core processor, Asus EN7600GT PCI-E Graphic Card, Asus P5L-VM Motherboard, 1GB RAM, a BenQ DVD writer and a 19" Acer Widescreen.

I was thinking of intel core duo 2, 1-2gb ram, 180-300gb hard drive, 17 inch flat screen. Gforce graphics card and other good peaces i will jsut need to find out the good ones first.