Simviation Forum - Want advice on Building a computer.

Dec 29^th, 2004 at 10:55am

Saitek Offline
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Can anyone give general advice (this is for my Dad) as he wants to build our first computer. Perhaps you know of some good sites (we live in the UK) that are recommendable for parts. (Maybe ebay).
Which parts are best bought new, which are ok second hand etc. He is a lot better on computers than me Wink

but we'd like to do it - it's just that we haven't done anything like it before apart from the usual fittings on upgrades.
Maybe someone could match up a selection of bits from a British site that we need. Price tag is roughly £300-£400. We have a graphics card, although its only a Geforce FX 5200, Dad won't want another.

Look forward to replies.

Thanks

Ben

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Reply #1 - Dec 29^th, 2004 at 2:24pm

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www.overclockers.co.uk

I buy nearly all my bits from here and there is a great forum for help too!

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Reply #2 - Dec 29^th, 2004 at 3:56pm

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You should be able to build a decent system out of 500 Euros...especially f you ave a gfx card aleady... You want to by your CPU and I would say mobo new...the rest you can prolly get seckond hand but thats alwaqys a gamble.. 8)

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Reply #3 - Dec 29^th, 2004 at 6:29pm

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Thanks guys.. we'll be looking at that site. My dad is just looking at a manual for building them. I'm really looking forward to it. It looks really fun!

Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 2GHz
GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35
Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2) DDR2 6400C4 800Mhz
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
2 x 22" monitors
200GB Sata
Be Quiet! Straight Power 650W

Flying FSX with Saitek's pro flight range:
Radio
Switch panel
Auto-pilot
Yoke and throttle quad
Pedals

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Reply #4 - Dec 30^th, 2004 at 3:01pm

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Hi try www.dabs.com/uk look at some of their offers. I recomend them the service is very good. I built my computer, I got parts from E-bay and dabs, there are some bargins out there! Good luck, people here will always help with advice. Regards Chris

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Reply #5 - Dec 30^th, 2004 at 8:51pm

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if you want to see the worst case scenerio as a result of building your own, look at my thread "building new PC". I second GunnerMans advice: buy the CPU and MoBo new. because as I recently found out, a bad AMD chip can ruin a good MoBo, or vice versa.

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