Hey, I'm plannin gon building my own computer, kinda new at it so i was
wondering if there were people out there who have built computers please some
advice or a list of parts of past comps you've made
i built one a while ago, I used a mini-itx 933 mhz mobo, an 80GB maxtor drive
(total crap, never EVER buy maxtor, all 3 replacements failed.) 512 MB of
generic ram, an nvidia pci mx 420 grapics card, and a plextor combo dvdrom CDRW
drive. It all worked just fine.
Really? you had trouble with a Maxtor hard drive? I had one and was very pleased
with it, oh well. If your gonna build a comp, do dual mother boards, its the
sweetest sh*t ever. You wont have to upgrade for a long time.
Maxtor hard drives isn't the best, my dad had to replace his 3 times or so ; and
one of my friends just crashed his extern maxtor...
Western Digital run fine for me, all my 4 hard drives are WD and i never had any
problems with them...
Personally, I've used Hitachi, Western Digital, and Seagate. I've not had
problems with any of them.
As for advice on building computers. I'd suggest you do quite a bit of research
on this topic. I would refer you to www.anandtech.com Every month they put out
a list of components they sugest for three budgets (you're a smart kid, you can
figure the budgets of them out). They list all the components to build on.
Keep in mind that with building a computer you must always have the budget and
intended use of the computer in mind when selecting components.
Good luck with building your computer. I started building computers and getting
really into the hardware aspect of computers a little before getting into anime,
and let me tell you, both are very draining hobbies, both financially and
time-wise, so be careful.
i have 6 maxtor drives and none of them have failed (my system drive is 6 six
years old). if anything it's the luck of the draw when it comes to computer
parts. just make sure that the parts you buy have some sort of warranty or
something.
a good place to start learning how to build your own computer is to follow the
instructions that come with the motherboard and the other parts you buy. make
sure you have plenty of work space and keep it tidy as you're working. get 2
descent medium sized screwdrivers (both phillips and flat head and make sure
that they do not have a magnetic tip). just take your time and keep in mind that
this stuff can break fairly easily and you'll be fine.
The most important thing about building a computer is to chose the form factor
and chipset. The rest usually follow from there. The form factor usually means
deciding what type of case to buy. Pretty much every tower is ATX. The hot
thing right how is miniature cases, popularized by Shuttle. www.shuttle.com. These cases have as much
functionality as the large towers, but take much much less space. Once you've
decided on the case, then you have to decide whether to do intel or AMD. Either
is good. I prefer Intel for games. AMD has 64-bit instructions, but you need
an OS that supposes 64-bits to take advantage of it. In chip speeds, the Mhz
aren't comparable between AMD and Intel, because AMD accomplishes more per clock
cycle. Once you pick the processor, you need a motherboard that put it in.
This is where the chipset comes into play. You want one that supports USB 2.0,
IEEE 1394, Serial ATA, and PCI express, which are the newest standards. The
motherboard should tell you what kind of ram you need. www.newegg.com has pretty good prices and
product descriptions. Good luck.
Quote by icom158The hot thing right how
is miniature cases, popularized
by Shuttle. www.shuttle.com. These cases
have as much functionality as
the large towers, but take much much less space.
While they may hae the same chipset and the same number of ports, I wouldn't go
so far as to say that they retain the same functionality.
I had one of the shuttle cases last year and was pleased with it's performance,
but drastically dissapointed with it's upgradability. if you wanted to go,
seriously, into gaming, you'd find yourself drastically hindered by its size as
most newer video cards (namely those by nVidia) require an extra slot of space,
which most small form factors don't have (tho' some do, those are far and few
inbetween). Not to mention, the higher end cards require another power
connection which can betight in a smaller case as they tend to have smaller and
lower wattage power supplies.
The other issue I had with a Shuttle was the lack of slots for drives. Mine had
one 5.25 inch drive and two 3.5 inch drives. That's only one dvd-rw drive, a
floppy, and a HDD (maybe two if you forgo the floppy). Right now, since I've
got so much anime, I'd never be able to keep on trucking with one HDD and when
you put two hdd's in there, I was kinda afraid of heat as there's only one fan
cooling the whole thing and what with the drives being back-to-back and the CPU
and PSU being mere inches away.
But if you're looking to save space and require a small degree of upgradability,
then a SFF (small form factor) would be a good option. Tho' do keep in mind
that they tend to be much more expensive than a normal ATX option.
Quote by icom158
I prefer Intel for games. AMD has 64-bit instructions, but you
need an OS that supposes 64-bits to take advantage of it. In chip
speeds, the Mhz aren't comparable between AMD and Intel, because AMD
accomplishes more per clock cycle.
Actually, AMD has been proven to be the better option for gaming. And with the
upcoming option of SLI, AMD's capability for gaming will far surpass Intel's
should you spend the money for the option. Actually, you don't really need a
64-bit OS to take advantage of the AMD's. Right now they're fully competing
with Intel's 32-bit processors.
Intel still retains the lead with digital media creation so basically if money's
not a concern it boils down to Intel for digital content creation and AMD for
everything else.
As for a basic list of what you'll need:
CPU
Motherboard
RAM
Hard Drive Disk (HDD)
Video card (your motherboard may have an onboard video option)
Optical Drive (CD / DVD drive)
I would first look at the current and just past generations of Intel and AMD
CPU's and make a choice. This will make a definite impact on your budget, but
more importantly, your future upgradability. From there, a motherboard and then
a video card. RAM, HDD's, and optical drives right now are all standard so
there's no real difficulty there in the least.
The two are different factors. AGP is acellerated Grapics port. it is the
current standard for videocards. it is an extremly fast interface that can
support the amount of information needed to the videocard. PCI is the old
standard. it is cheaper however, yet lacks compltly in performace since it is a
slower slot and it cannot support the nessasary ibformation flow to the
videocard. However theerre is a newer standard out there, PCIxpress. It is too
new for me to comment on however.
Right now, AGP is the standard as most mobo's out there support it. It has been
for the past several years. PCI cards are now only the very low end a for some
reason tend to be a little more expensive.
PCI-Express is where it's going right now. I believe that the newer AMD boards
only support pci-e boards and it seems that the computer industry is trying to
not-so-subtly shift away from AGP. I mean, look at the latest graphics card
releases. They first release the pci-e version, even thought there are few
people who own computers that support such a card, and then after a time release
the AGP version.
a definite advantage of pci-e is the option for SLI mode on the upcoming nForce4
mobos. This will allow you to use two cards simultaneously to produce a single
image. Basically, use two cards in tandem for better performance, but this is
kinda costly as only the higher end cards are capable of this, but there's one
mid-range card that has this capability, so it's an interesting upgrade pathway.
hmm well i'll give u my last pc that i've built... a few months ago... here the
list...
* AMD Athlon-XP 1800+ T-Bred Core
* EPoX Ep-8RDA
* 2 x 256mb pc3200 ddr-sdram
* HDD Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80gb
* HIS ATI Radeon 9600xt
* Creative SBLive! 5.1
well some component maybe a little bit old in technology,,, but everything
worked fine... ah yes a little suggestion... it'll be better if u buy a mobo
that hav support for PCI-Ex card (but still hav AGP slot) since PCI-Ex will
become a replacement for AGP in the future... (agree with Absentmindederic's
opinion)
Hey, I'm plannin gon building my own computer, kinda new at it so i was wondering if there were people out there who have built computers please some advice or a list of parts of past comps you've made
i built one a while ago, I used a mini-itx 933 mhz mobo, an 80GB maxtor drive (total crap, never EVER buy maxtor, all 3 replacements failed.) 512 MB of generic ram, an nvidia pci mx 420 grapics card, and a plextor combo dvdrom CDRW drive. It all worked just fine.
i have build ALOT of computers
, its
not very hard actually, every cable and "item" can only fit one place
=P
Really? you had trouble with a Maxtor hard drive? I had one and was very pleased with it, oh well. If your gonna build a comp, do dual mother boards, its the sweetest sh*t ever. You wont have to upgrade for a long time.
Maxtor hard drives isn't the best, my dad had to replace his 3 times or so
; and
one of my friends just crashed his extern maxtor... 
Western Digital run fine for me, all my 4 hard drives are WD and i never had any problems with them...
Personally, I've used Hitachi, Western Digital, and Seagate. I've not had problems with any of them.
As for advice on building computers. I'd suggest you do quite a bit of research on this topic. I would refer you to www.anandtech.com Every month they put out a list of components they sugest for three budgets (you're a smart kid, you can figure the budgets of them out). They list all the components to build on.
Keep in mind that with building a computer you must always have the budget and intended use of the computer in mind when selecting components.
Good luck with building your computer. I started building computers and getting really into the hardware aspect of computers a little before getting into anime, and let me tell you, both are very draining hobbies, both financially and time-wise, so be careful.
Best of luck
i have 6 maxtor drives and none of them have failed (my system drive is 6 six years old). if anything it's the luck of the draw when it comes to computer parts. just make sure that the parts you buy have some sort of warranty or something.
a good place to start learning how to build your own computer is to follow the instructions that come with the motherboard and the other parts you buy. make sure you have plenty of work space and keep it tidy as you're working. get 2 descent medium sized screwdrivers (both phillips and flat head and make sure that they do not have a magnetic tip). just take your time and keep in mind that this stuff can break fairly easily and you'll be fine.
The most important thing about building a computer is to chose the form factor and chipset. The rest usually follow from there. The form factor usually means deciding what type of case to buy. Pretty much every tower is ATX. The hot thing right how is miniature cases, popularized by Shuttle. www.shuttle.com. These cases have as much functionality as the large towers, but take much much less space. Once you've decided on the case, then you have to decide whether to do intel or AMD. Either is good. I prefer Intel for games. AMD has 64-bit instructions, but you need an OS that supposes 64-bits to take advantage of it. In chip speeds, the Mhz aren't comparable between AMD and Intel, because AMD accomplishes more per clock cycle. Once you pick the processor, you need a motherboard that put it in. This is where the chipset comes into play. You want one that supports USB 2.0, IEEE 1394, Serial ATA, and PCI express, which are the newest standards. The motherboard should tell you what kind of ram you need. www.newegg.com has pretty good prices and product descriptions. Good luck.
While they may hae the same chipset and the same number of ports, I wouldn't go so far as to say that they retain the same functionality.
I had one of the shuttle cases last year and was pleased with it's performance, but drastically dissapointed with it's upgradability. if you wanted to go, seriously, into gaming, you'd find yourself drastically hindered by its size as most newer video cards (namely those by nVidia) require an extra slot of space, which most small form factors don't have (tho' some do, those are far and few inbetween). Not to mention, the higher end cards require another power connection which can betight in a smaller case as they tend to have smaller and lower wattage power supplies.
The other issue I had with a Shuttle was the lack of slots for drives. Mine had one 5.25 inch drive and two 3.5 inch drives. That's only one dvd-rw drive, a floppy, and a HDD (maybe two if you forgo the floppy). Right now, since I've got so much anime, I'd never be able to keep on trucking with one HDD and when you put two hdd's in there, I was kinda afraid of heat as there's only one fan cooling the whole thing and what with the drives being back-to-back and the CPU and PSU being mere inches away.
But if you're looking to save space and require a small degree of upgradability, then a SFF (small form factor) would be a good option. Tho' do keep in mind that they tend to be much more expensive than a normal ATX option.
Actually, AMD has been proven to be the better option for gaming. And with the upcoming option of SLI, AMD's capability for gaming will far surpass Intel's should you spend the money for the option. Actually, you don't really need a 64-bit OS to take advantage of the AMD's. Right now they're fully competing with Intel's 32-bit processors.
Intel still retains the lead with digital media creation so basically if money's not a concern it boils down to Intel for digital content creation and AMD for everything else.
As for a basic list of what you'll need:
CPU
Motherboard
RAM
Hard Drive Disk (HDD)
Video card (your motherboard may have an onboard video option)
Optical Drive (CD / DVD drive)
I would first look at the current and just past generations of Intel and AMD CPU's and make a choice. This will make a definite impact on your budget, but more importantly, your future upgradability. From there, a motherboard and then a video card. RAM, HDD's, and optical drives right now are all standard so there's no real difficulty there in the least.
i have a question whats the difference between a PCI graphics card and a AGP graphics card?
The two are different factors. AGP is acellerated Grapics port. it is the current standard for videocards. it is an extremly fast interface that can support the amount of information needed to the videocard. PCI is the old standard. it is cheaper however, yet lacks compltly in performace since it is a slower slot and it cannot support the nessasary ibformation flow to the videocard. However theerre is a newer standard out there, PCIxpress. It is too new for me to comment on however.
Right now, AGP is the standard as most mobo's out there support it. It has been for the past several years. PCI cards are now only the very low end a for some reason tend to be a little more expensive.
PCI-Express is where it's going right now. I believe that the newer AMD boards only support pci-e boards and it seems that the computer industry is trying to not-so-subtly shift away from AGP. I mean, look at the latest graphics card releases. They first release the pci-e version, even thought there are few people who own computers that support such a card, and then after a time release the AGP version.
a definite advantage of pci-e is the option for SLI mode on the upcoming nForce4 mobos. This will allow you to use two cards simultaneously to produce a single image. Basically, use two cards in tandem for better performance, but this is kinda costly as only the higher end cards are capable of this, but there's one mid-range card that has this capability, so it's an interesting upgrade pathway.
hmm well i'll give u my last pc that i've built... a few months ago... here the list...
* AMD Athlon-XP 1800+ T-Bred Core
* EPoX Ep-8RDA
* 2 x 256mb pc3200 ddr-sdram
* HDD Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80gb
* HIS ATI Radeon 9600xt
* Creative SBLive! 5.1
well some component maybe a little bit old in technology,,, but everything worked fine... ah yes a little suggestion... it'll be better if u buy a mobo that hav support for PCI-Ex card (but still hav AGP slot) since PCI-Ex will become a replacement for AGP in the future... (agree with Absentmindederic's opinion)
If you like want a very2x nice computer buy all of the most popular computer drives card and etc.. like zeon processor, most expensive LCD and etc...
o thats great, but how can you tell if the memory is right for the mobo? srry for the many questions, I;m just confused now.