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Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.
Rob wrote:
I'm in the planning phase of building my own PC from scratch. First I would greatly appreciate some advice on where to begin online shopping for my components. The right choices for my purchases can mean a great deal of saved money. Secondly, if anyone has ANY ideas, direction and advice of any kind....I would greatly appreciate it if you would share it with me. I know there are a lot of folks on this NG that can speak from experience and they can give me heads up on issues to look out for, before I find myself with my foot in my mouth ... Many thanks in advance, Rob. Wrong group. This group is for people who are having hardware issues under XP. Suggest you post to a general hardware group such as alt.comp.hardware which will be carried by your ISP's server. |
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Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.
Hello Rob
Here is a good site to check out on the going prices of computer components. Also here is another good site to check out product, it's in Houston, Tx, my choice of mothers boards to go with Asus www.pricwatch.com www.directron.com Alvin Rob wrote: I'm in the planning phase of building my own PC from scratch. First I would greatly appreciate some advice on where to begin online shopping for my components. The right choices for my purchases can mean a great deal of saved money. Secondly, if anyone has ANY ideas, direction and advice of any kind....I would greatly appreciate it if you would share it with me. I know there are a lot of folks on this NG that can speak from experience and they can give me heads up on issues to look out for, before I find myself with my foot in my mouth ... Many thanks in advance, Rob. |
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Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.
Shut up.
"Miss Perspicacia Tick" wrote in message ... Rob wrote: I'm in the planning phase of building my own PC from scratch. First I would greatly appreciate some advice on where to begin online shopping for my components. The right choices for my purchases can mean a great deal of saved money. Secondly, if anyone has ANY ideas, direction and advice of any kind....I would greatly appreciate it if you would share it with me. I know there are a lot of folks on this NG that can speak from experience and they can give me heads up on issues to look out for, before I find myself with my foot in my mouth ... Many thanks in advance, Rob. Wrong group. This group is for people who are having hardware issues under XP. Suggest you post to a general hardware group such as alt.comp.hardware which will be carried by your ISP's server. |
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Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.
My advice would be to wait another sixty days or so. Right now the industry is in flux. The new 775 T chips are shipping and the prices are still high. There are only a few motherboards available that support the new chip sockets and they are expensive. Th
ere are several graphic cards available using the new PCI express standard but they are high. Also, memory is going to DDR2 and is almost impossible to find. Prices will drop in a few months and availablity will increase. Why build with obsolete stuff? "Bob Day" wrote: "Rob" wrote in message ... I'm in the planning phase of building my own PC from scratch. First I would greatly appreciate some advice on where to begin online shopping for my components. The right choices for my purchases can mean a great deal of saved money. www.newegg.com www.mwave.com -- Bob Day |
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Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.
What do you want to do with it? games? Video? photos?
Rob wrote: I'm in the planning phase of building my own PC from scratch. First I would greatly appreciate some advice on where to begin online shopping for my components. The right choices for my purchases can mean a great deal of saved money. Secondly, if anyone has ANY ideas, direction and advice of any kind....I would greatly appreciate it if you would share it with me. I know there are a lot of folks on this NG that can speak from experience and they can give me heads up on issues to look out for, before I find myself with my foot in my mouth ... Many thanks in advance, Rob. |
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Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.
for newsgroups, try alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt and
alt comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:07:20 -0300, "Woody" wrote: Shut up. "Miss Perspicacia Tick" wrote in message ... Rob wrote: I'm in the planning phase of building my own PC from scratch. First I would greatly appreciate some advice on where to begin online shopping for my components. The right choices for my purchases can mean a great deal of saved money. Secondly, if anyone has ANY ideas, direction and advice of any kind....I would greatly appreciate it if you would share it with me. I know there are a lot of folks on this NG that can speak from experience and they can give me heads up on issues to look out for, before I find myself with my foot in my mouth ... Many thanks in advance, Rob. Wrong group. This group is for people who are having hardware issues under XP. Suggest you post to a general hardware group such as alt.comp.hardware which will be carried by your ISP's server. Anti-Spam: Change shellyfnospam to shellyf to respond. Thanx, y'all have a nice day! Retired to Cyberspace from Green Valley, AZ. |
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Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.
"Billy" wrote in message ... My advice would be to wait another sixty days or so. Right now the industry is in flux. The new 775 T chips are shipping and the prices are still high. There are only a few motherboards available that support the new chip sockets and they are expensive. There are several graphic cards available using the new PCI express standard but they are high. Also, memory is going to DDR2 and is almost impossible to find. Prices will drop in a few months and availablity will increase. Why build with obsolete stuff? Yes. A computer you build now will not likely be very upgradeable in the future. There are a whole lot of new technologies in flux right now (is BTX dead or alive??). If the OP can afford to wait, he might consider waiting a while. I'm waiting till next year. -- Bob Day -- "Bob Day" wrote: "Rob" wrote in message ... I'm in the planning phase of building my own PC from scratch. First I would greatly appreciate some advice on where to begin online shopping for my components. The right choices for my purchases can mean a great deal of saved money. www.newegg.com www.mwave.com -- Bob Day |
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Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.
Rob wrote:
I'm in the planning phase of building my own PC from scratch. First I would greatly appreciate some advice on where to begin online shopping for my components. The right choices for my purchases can mean a great deal of saved money. Secondly, if anyone has ANY ideas, direction and advice of any kind....I would greatly appreciate it if you would share it with me. I know there are a lot of folks on this NG that can speak from experience and they can give me heads up on issues to look out for, before I find myself with my foot in my mouth ... Many thanks in advance, Rob. Don't skimp on the case or the PSU. I always use Thermaltake cases and Antec PSUs and have never had any trouble. And get lots of case fans...the more the better. Get the BEST CPU cooler you can get! There IS A big difference between the off-the-shelf fans and REAL CPU fans. You get what you pay for. -- Servo "Go, Dustmites!" tservo100 at ameritech dot net Slow, fiery death to all spammers!!! |
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Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.
I would highly suggest waiting until PCI Express has made a little more
ground and support as well as DDR2. Waiting even six months will help a ton as most of the next generation products are being released around Q4 2004. What you want to keep your eyes open for is Dual Core CPU's from both Intel and AMD (AMD will be sooner than Intel) and you will want to make sure you end up with a PCI Express based motherboard. The reason is you will have more bandwidth on the PCI Bus, less electricity required, less heat as a result, and a more stable platform. As for 64bit processing. Intel's next Dual Core Processor is supposed to have a 64bit varient that will compete with the AMD 64. This is all going to be similar to the DVD-R vs. DVD+R as AMD already has a designed 64bit platform (different than IA64) and Intel either has to conform to AMD's platform or create their own. We'll have to wait and see if they both end up designing these new dual core CPU's with the same platform (the architectures/cores can still be different). All of this is going to happen fairly soon and will be somewhat expensive when it is released as is most new technology, but come after Christmas season, prices will most likely start falling Nathan McNulty Bob Day wrote: "Billy" wrote in message ... My advice would be to wait another sixty days or so. Right now the industry is in flux. The new 775 T chips are shipping and the prices are still high. There are only a few motherboards available that support the new chip sockets and they are expensive. There are several graphic cards available using the new PCI express standard but they are high. Also, memory is going to DDR2 and is almost impossible to find. Prices will drop in a few months and availablity will increase. Why build with obsolete stuff? Yes. A computer you build now will not likely be very upgradeable in the future. There are a whole lot of new technologies in flux right now (is BTX dead or alive??). If the OP can afford to wait, he might consider waiting a while. I'm waiting till next year. -- Bob Day |
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Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.
Rob wrote:
I'm in the planning phase of building my own PC from scratch. First I would greatly appreciate some advice on where to begin online shopping for my components. The right choices for my purchases can mean a great deal of saved money. Secondly, if anyone has ANY ideas, direction and advice of any kind....I would greatly appreciate it if you would share it with me. I know there are a lot of folks on this NG that can speak from experience and they can give me heads up on issues to look out for, before I find myself with my foot in my mouth ... Many thanks in advance, Rob. Wrong group. This group is for people who are having hardware issues under XP. Suggest you post to a general hardware group such as alt.comp.hardware which will be carried by your ISP's server. |
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Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.
Hello Rob
Here is a good site to check out on the going prices of computer components. Also here is another good site to check out product, it's in Houston, Tx, my choice of mothers boards to go with Asus www.pricwatch.com www.directron.com Alvin Rob wrote: I'm in the planning phase of building my own PC from scratch. First I would greatly appreciate some advice on where to begin online shopping for my components. The right choices for my purchases can mean a great deal of saved money. Secondly, if anyone has ANY ideas, direction and advice of any kind....I would greatly appreciate it if you would share it with me. I know there are a lot of folks on this NG that can speak from experience and they can give me heads up on issues to look out for, before I find myself with my foot in my mouth ... Many thanks in advance, Rob. |
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Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.
Rob, check a few of the hardware sites. www.anandtech.com always has
good advice. Also, try www.sharkyextreme.com www.hardocp.com and even www.tomshardware.com and www.firingsquad.com "Rick" wrote in message ... What do you want to do with it? games? Video? photos? Rob wrote: I'm in the planning phase of building my own PC from scratch. First I would greatly appreciate some advice on where to begin online shopping for my components. The right choices for my purchases can mean a great deal of saved money. Secondly, if anyone has ANY ideas, direction and advice of any kind....I would greatly appreciate it if you would share it with me. I know there are a lot of folks on this NG that can speak from experience and they can give me heads up on issues to look out for, before I find myself with my foot in my mouth ... Many thanks in advance, Rob. |
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Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.
Miss Perspicacia....
I think you're in the wrong group. You need to go to the "I'm not actually here to help anybody, I just want to seem important" group. You waste more time telling people to go away than you do answering the actual questions. The guy is building a computer. It is DIRECTLY hardware related. It's amazing. All I do is see your name under any post, and I know it will be telling people to basically go away. So, YOU stop posting here, or in any other group. These people want help and advice, not "Get out of this group and go to another." |
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Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.
I will have to agree with waiting just a bit longer to
build your own PC from scratch. There are a LOT of new technologies coming out in a very short amount of time. Unfortunately, this is the way of personal computing. You'll never build a the perfect system and not have it out-dated in a matter of a year or two. From what I understand though, BTX is to completely phase out ATX eventually. Naturally they can't just eliminate ATX immediately, but as I understand it will happen over time. If you need a computer immediately, I'd recommend maybe just getting the base model Dell that's selling for what...400 bucks or so after a nice rebate? Dell's sell well too. Use the Dell temporarily, build your dream PC, whether it be a powerhouse or not, and then just sell the Dell to somebody who might only need it for web browsing and stuff. -----Original Message----- Miss Perspicacia.... I think you're in the wrong group. You need to go to the "I'm not actually here to help anybody, I just want to seem important" group. You waste more time telling people to go away than you do answering the actual questions. The guy is building a computer. It is DIRECTLY hardware related. It's amazing. All I do is see your name under any post, and I know it will be telling people to basically go away. So, YOU stop posting here, or in any other group. These people want help and advice, not "Get out of this group and go to another." . |
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Building my own PC ... your advice will be invaluable.
Shut up.
"Miss Perspicacia Tick" wrote in message ... Rob wrote: I'm in the planning phase of building my own PC from scratch. First I would greatly appreciate some advice on where to begin online shopping for my components. The right choices for my purchases can mean a great deal of saved money. Secondly, if anyone has ANY ideas, direction and advice of any kind....I would greatly appreciate it if you would share it with me. I know there are a lot of folks on this NG that can speak from experience and they can give me heads up on issues to look out for, before I find myself with my foot in my mouth ... Many thanks in advance, Rob. Wrong group. This group is for people who are having hardware issues under XP. Suggest you post to a general hardware group such as alt.comp.hardware which will be carried by your ISP's server. |
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