Simon
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I've never built one myself but have a good computer understanding and have a few mates that have done it before. I want to build a new one for when I start back at uni in september so am just researching now.
Could anybody provide me a list of everything you need to buy for a computer, not including obvious such as monitor keyboard etc. Just everything in the main box, each component?
thanks
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Rob R
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motherboard
processor
memory
graphics card
sound card
hard drive
cd rom drive
power supply unit
dont forget all neccessary cables like ide leads
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ed
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The cables ought to come with the various parts you buy.
I would advise you to go for a 64 bit mother board. This is the future of computing now.
Obviously a 64 bit CPU - AMD seem to be the best buy at the moment in my opinion.
As for the graphics, the more you spend the better the card, however, if you aren't playing games or doing 3D animation e.t.c... there is no need for an expensive one. Go for a PCI Express card - make sure your mother board is compatable.
Your mother board might come with on board sound, if so no sound card is needed unless you want something specific.
For the hard drives go for SATA II jobs, and makes sure your mother board is compatable again - they are very quick.
CD ROM/DVD whatever. Just buy a DVD writer, they are cheap enough.
The box should come with a PSU already, unless it is specialist box...
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MikeD
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Case
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Simon
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cheers people, the reason I need a new one is because im starting my 3rd year of architecture and my laptop cant hack the drawing, modelling applications so am going to want it pretty high spec to deal with these
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ed
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Same reason I upgraded my computer. It was too slow for the CAD I do...
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MikeD
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Do you know what spec you want?
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Simon
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Yeah ed becomes pretty demanding, especially on an old laptop.
To be honest its been a long time sinse i followed that side of the computing world so i dont know whats about, I think I should have a budget of around £800 which would need to include a flat screen monitor as well, if anybody fancies showing me a spec i could get for that, it would be ace
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drunkenfool
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£800 you could get a bit of a monster, i just built an AMD 3500+, 300GB SATA, 512MB RAM, DVD RW for £420 including 17" TFT, keyboard, mouse, speakers and 1GB Pen drive for someone.
[Edited on 09-07-2006 by drunkenfool]
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quote:
Originally posted by drunkenfool
£800 you could get a bit of a monster, i just built an AMD 3500+, 300GB SATA, 512MB RAM, DVD RW for £420 including 17" TFT, keyboard, mouse, speakers and 1GB Pen drive for someone.
[Edited on 09-07-2006 by drunkenfool]
Buy some more RAM for that spec, should seem some excellent gains!
I've got the 3300+ Athlon 64 with 2gb RAM its quite ermmmm quick
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drunkenfool
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she wanted it on a budget but with decent ish specs, not into hardcore gaming or anything. I got the 4000+ in mine with 1GB of RAM and 1350GB HDD 
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drunkenfool
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If you got £800 to play with, get one of these too. Would love one but cant afford it
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/91991
[Edited on 09-07-2006 by drunkenfool]
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ed
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Huh? He has to still buy screens and stuff £800 wont stretch that far will it? Or maybe my computer is a bit on the excessive side Just the computer cost me about £750
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drunkenfool
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well i built a pretty well specced PC for £420 as i said including 17" TFT and all the other bits and bobs, another £400 on top of that would see a lot of upgrades to the spec i posted.
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drunkenfool
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PS - Cheapest TFTs in the UK at the moment are from aria (same place as the R/C Helicopters :lol @ £93.94 including VAT when the super specials are on.
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quote:
Originally posted by drunkenfool
well i built a pretty well specced PC for £420 as i said including 17" TFT and all the other bits and bobs, another £400 on top of that would see a lot of upgrades to the spec i posted.
I think my system is a bit on the excessive side then Never mind...
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Simon
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Have been having a look about now, everything seems pretty simple apart from getting the motherboard processor and graphics card right, any suggestions? Intel or AMD? decent graphics cards?
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drunkenfool
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Ive gone for AMD every single time, the 4000+ 64 bit has gone down in price quite a bit since i got it and does the job pretty well, unless you actually WANT to spend £800 on your pc theres not much point in going much faster at the moment cos the price increases start getting silly. Ive always used asus or abit motherboards and never had a problem, its def worth spending a few £ more and not getting a cheapo one.
Id get something like this asus one for about £60...
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/101701
This 4000+ AMD processor from aria (about £50 cheaper than ebuyer which is unusual!)
http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductsList.asp?Name=amd+4000
Get the monitor from aria too cos as i said they are the cheapest in the UK 
Graphics is up to you how much you want to spend, all you need is something PCI-E(xpress) compatible. Ive got the ATI Radeon 6600 which is more than good enough for what i use it for, with dual DVI out (one for monitor and one for projector).
The case of the one i built for a mate was only £15 including a PSU so it might be worth spending a bit more on a nicer one, just something you like really. (Obviously its a personal choice but i saw this one the other day which i think stands out as being pretty smart http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=20912 Out of stock at the momnet but should be back in soon apparently) The cheaper cases obviously have cheap PSUs in them too which can have quite noisy fans, if u want something more bearable (or buy a case without a power supply in it) then something like this would be ideal http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=10716
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drunkenfool
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Then id say a gig of RAM (2 if you're being greedy  ) again, dont go for cheap stuff here. Crucial are pretty well known and very reliable.
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/65719/rb/20352977497
Then add DVD RW/HDDs as you please.
Hope that might have helped
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Reedy
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quote:
Graphics is up to you how much you want to spend, all you need is something PCI-E(xpress) compatible. Ive got the ATI Radeon 6600 which is more than good enough for what i use it for, with dual DVI out (one for monitor and one for projector).
There is no such thing as a ATi 6600, there is an NVidia 6600. Are you sure you dont mean an X1600??
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drunkenfool
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Whoops, its the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 
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