Simviation Forum - Build a pc

	Search the archive:

Simviation Main Site | Site Search | Upload Images

Simviation Forum › Computer Hardware & Software Forum › Hardware › Build a pc

(Moderators: Mitch., Fly2e, ozzy72, beaky, Clipper, JBaymore, Bob70, BigTruck)

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

Pages: 1

Build a pc (Read 331 times)

Sep 26^th, 2003 at 9:32pm

cessna519NH Offline
Colonel
Captian to co-pilot"Why
are we turning"

Gender:
Posts: 36

Hey all simple question for all you who build pc's for a living. i am building my pc from week to week i bought the case this week next will be the mother board, then 2 12o GiG hard drives, AMD Processer, video card, finally cd-rw. am i forgetting everthing? if i never built a pc in my life couldi put this together in two day's time? please tell me your thoughts

IP Logged

Reply #1 - Sep 27^th, 2003 at 12:55am

Rifleman Offline
Colonel
" Full size A/C are just
overgrown models ! "
Tropical island in the Pacific

Posts: 6622

If you have all the parts you can get it all together and installing the O/S in a couple of hours if you can follow directions given in the M/B manual,... if its a paper one, that is....
Stormy and I put ours together in one evening and got the O/S in so we were both up and running before we went to bed.....we started after dinner.

On board sound ?...if not, add the sound card to your list.....
On board LAN card ?.....gotta connect to the net somehow?.......
.......make sure you get twin connectors on your cables for the IDE devices and if you are running SCSI instead, get a card for that too.......you may need a floppy drive, but with a bootable XP O/S CD you might get away without it....

IP Logged

Reply #2 - Sep 28^th, 2003 at 5:38pm

swanny338 Offline
Colonel
Switched from PC to Mac
and loving it
Houston, Texas

Gender:
Posts: 1140

Dont forget a Power Supply. and make sure everything is compatable...

Still have a nice PC but I just switched to a hella nice mac

IP Logged

Reply #3 - Sep 28^th, 2003 at 5:57pm

Brett_Henderson Ex Member
EVERY OUTER MARKER SHOULD
BE AN NDB

Gender:

Random Access Memory ? Wink

512 MB minimum... preferably PC2700 or faster (make sure board supports it)

IP Logged

Reply #4 - Sep 28^th, 2003 at 8:31pm

swanny338 Offline
Colonel
Switched from PC to Mac
and loving it
Houston, Texas

Gender:
Posts: 1140

if ur going AMD i wouldnt recommend going higher than PC3200, anything above that doesnt get used unless ur overclocking...

btw, the new AMD 64s are out, its only 700 dollars for one..... u should get one o them :-P

Still have a nice PC but I just switched to a hella nice mac

IP Logged

Reply #5 - Oct 1^st, 2003 at 10:44am

Jared Offline
Colonel
I'd rather be flying...
Uniontown, Ohio

Gender:
Posts: 12621

You better add a floppy, and/or zip drive to the list just in case you ever need them...

I have a zip250 which I just carry the disk back and forth between school where I get good downloads, sicne they don't have CD-RW drives at school this is a good compromise. And of course I back them all up on CD when I get home...

Jared

IP Logged

Reply #6 - Oct 1^st, 2003 at 12:35pm

cessna519NH Offline
Colonel
Captian to co-pilot"Why
are we turning"

Gender:
Posts: 36

What about all the wiring. in the case theres tied up wire everywhere. but do the burners hardrives and mother board, procceser come with all the wireing?

IP Logged

Pages: 1

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

« Home

‹ Board

Top of this page