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Jamescorsa97

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Registered: 19th Aug 04
Location: Middlesbrough Drives: Cliosport 182
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17th May 05 at 17:26

I am looking to build my first Pc next week.

Who has built their own and what spec have u got?

lewie

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Registered: 21st Feb 05
Location: Home: Orkney Uni: Edinburgh
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17th May 05 at 17:28

haven't done it but not too hard dnt think

AY51MEE

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Registered: 16th May 05
Location: chesterfield
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17th May 05 at 17:30

i have, well my bro has, we have one real one and one made one.. its wierd i have 2 hard drives on this one, one 8 and one 80 lol ...it works faster than the one we bought.. defo bulding ur own is cheaper and u know what ur putting in .

DAYZEE

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Registered: 13th Nov 00
Location: Stevenage, MR2 Turbo, 328i Coupe, CBR600F
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17th May 05 at 17:30

If it your first one be careful and don't rush it, make sure you don't short any of the boards out on the case, especially the motherboard. Everything else is fairly straight forward.

Dan B

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17th May 05 at 17:32

3 of them...

1st PC (1996):

32MB P233MMX with 2MB S3 Virge graphics
3.2GB Maxtor hard-drive
SB16 sound-card
15" Daewoo monitor

2nd PC (1999-ish):

512MB Duron 850MHz with 16MB nVidia RivaTNT graphics
40GB IBM/HGST hard-drive
AWE32 sound-card
17" AOC Monitor

3rd (current) PC (early 2004):

1GB Athlon XP2600+ (2.1GHz) with 256MB nVidia GeForce 6800GT graphics
Audigy2 sound-card
Maxtor 250GB (16MB cache, 7200rpm) & Maxtor 120GB (8MB cache, 7200rpm)
19" iiyama monitor

The Duron machine, listed as machine #2, is currently being set up with debian-sarge as a web-server/mail-server; the current PC is my gaming machine.

[Edited on 17-05-2005 by Dan B]

gooner_47

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Registered: 20th Jul 04
Location: Bexhill/Croydon
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17th May 05 at 17:33

i have, over a year ago now so spec is relatively low. it's easy, you'll have no problems.

Leighton

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Registered: 21st Feb 01
Location: Liverpool
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17th May 05 at 17:37

to meany to count

N90ATH

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Registered: 10th Sep 03
Location: Boreham, Essex
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17th May 05 at 17:37

i'm currently building my 11th and 12th machines to bring and i still use all of them lol

Jamescorsa97

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Registered: 19th Aug 04
Location: Middlesbrough Drives: Cliosport 182
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17th May 05 at 17:38

I have a good idea what i am doing. I hope i don't short any of the parts as i am spending a thousand pound!!
I'm trying to make a great gaming pc but apparently I need some good cooling parts

Skipz

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Registered: 23rd Aug 03
Location: Falkirk: Drives:nothing but gettin another Corsa
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17th May 05 at 17:38

we have 3 pcs in the house all built by my dad dont know the spec of them though!

richard_syko

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17th May 05 at 17:40

Yeah damn right save loads.
Plus, you can upgrade as you go along.
And choose what suits you, i.e. if you listen to music all the time get a top sound card.

Play games, loads of RAM and a Fat Graphics card.

DAYZEE

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Location: Stevenage, MR2 Turbo, 328i Coupe, CBR600F
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17th May 05 at 17:47

quote:
Originally posted by Jamescorsa97
I have a good idea what i am doing. I hope i don't short any of the parts as i am spending a thousand pound!!
I'm trying to make a great gaming pc but apparently I need some good cooling parts

As long as your not overclocking and you don't rag it to the edge every minute of the day you should be ok with standard sort of heat sink/fan arrangement. Although you might want to consider some non standard stuff, overclockers have a lot of the more popular stuff.
I put water cooling into my brothers PC earlier this year, its very impressive, but a bit too extreme for most people I think.

Jamescorsa97

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17th May 05 at 17:53

quote:
Originally posted by DAYZEE

quote:
Originally posted by Jamescorsa97
I have a good idea what i am doing. I hope i don't short any of the parts as i am spending a thousand pound!!
I'm trying to make a great gaming pc but apparently I need some good cooling parts

As long as your not overclocking and you don't rag it to the edge every minute of the day you should be ok with standard sort of heat sink/fan arrangement. Although you might want to consider some non standard stuff, overclockers have a lot of the more popular stuff.
I put water cooling into my brothers PC earlier this year, its very impressive, but a bit too extreme for most people I think.

The PC's going to be used quite alot and i will need some impressive cooling as the gaming will demand alot from it. Water Cooling easy to install? Juts visited overclockers.com but all the jargon flies over my head!

PainZ

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Registered: 28th Jun 02
Location: Camberley, Surrey - Drives a Black Vectra VXR Esta
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17th May 05 at 18:11

I always build my own,

Current

AMD 64 3200+
1GB DDR Corsair Ram
72gb Raptor
256 9800xt
ASUS K8V Delux

chris_uk

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Registered: 8th Jul 03
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17th May 05 at 18:18

ive built my own since i was 13

i must have built well over 200 machines on my own now,

my current is

AMD64 3200
Abit AV8
512 mb ram
9000 Ati
80 GB IBM HDD

(i reccomend IBM HDD)

someone

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Registered: 13th Aug 02
Location: Surrey
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17th May 05 at 18:21

yes have built all my pcs alot cheaper and you get what you want from it.

my first one had a 20mb hard drive :-o

currently running
xp2500
1gig ram
200gig drive etc
winxp

and thunderbird 800
512mb 30gigdrive
geforce2 gts
debian

yes i need to upgrade but spent to much racing so cant afford to

PainZ

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17th May 05 at 18:25

would not touch IBM hard drives after I had to go faulty,

There was a huge design fault with them and 1000s went wrong

Jamescorsa97

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Registered: 19th Aug 04
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17th May 05 at 18:28

Has anyone built a top gaming Pc?

Twiggy

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Registered: 15th Oct 04
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17th May 05 at 18:31

Call dell and they send it to ya door saves hassle!

Jamescorsa97

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17th May 05 at 18:32

dell overcharge bud. Building you can have your own spec and cheaper!!!

Twiggy

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17th May 05 at 18:35

I aint complaining for £400!! its fast as fuck! I.M.O.

I was looking into building one as i thought i knew how but looking for bits and making sure all compatible bored me!!

"Hi dell send me a computer"
"Ok, be with you 3days!"
"Thanks"

Jamescorsa97

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17th May 05 at 18:41

lmao!!! Yeah if your lazy