Building a P.C

**katzdvd** · 6 May 2007, 07:26 AM

Easy? Hmmm...sure!

The nice thing about assembling your own is you know exactly what is in there, & you get to chose the components best suited to your needs & budget, getting more bang for your $$$, than you would if you purchase a "store brand". I believe they are easier now than in the past, esp. with "soft menu" & auto BIOS settings, OS is simpler? to install.

Read up on the assembly process, & if you have any questions along the way, there are a great bunch of guys on here that can give you guidance when/if needed.

**ragingfear** · 7 May 2007, 03:04 AM

Thanks

**Mister MF** · 7 May 2007, 06:55 AM

Building your Own PC

It's true it is easy to build your own PC...but there are some proceedures you have to fallow in order to ensure you get it working properly but apart from that i always suggest to go Custom, like the previous member stated you know exactly what you get in it,
Best bang for the buck, that's for sure

build my own about 4 years ago

2.40 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
ASUSTeK Computer INC. P4S8X
about 2GB of DDR RAM
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X

still working really good

**Chewy** · 7 May 2007, 07:46 AM

I researched my last build 18 months ago for a couple of weeks finding the right combination of motherboard and cpu to get the best bang for the buck,
bought a refurb mobo for 48$ that had gone for 150$ 6 months earlier.

It took a couple of weeks and a couple of loads before I got it happy at 40%
overclock and a 1400Mghz hypertransport, ended up testing 3 sets of ram before I was happy.

Running it now at stock ht and ram and cpu at 250fsb

Read, read, and then read some more, it's a steep damn mountain, and have a backup plan, some good beer and a buddy who's done it before.