Building my new rig

[SteelCurtain]

Nothing, right now. I want to make sure I have enough power for anything I'd like to do in the next 5 years or so.

Also, I don't currently own a desktop. I've been using laptops since I graduated from college in 2008.

I wanted a desktop, and if I'm going to spend $700 on a decent desktop prebuilt with bloatware and not exactly how I want it, I'll happily spend the extra $300 for one that I get to build myself, exactly how I want.

The m.2 drive is key for me. You can't get that in a Dell. This thing will boot in 3-5 seconds.


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[SteelCurtain]

No water cooling! Not cool!

If I ever try to overclock it, I'll get water cooling. I will not need the extra speed right now, and the stock cooler will do.

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[Brian37]

All computer language is nothing but 0s and 1s, and when you see MB OR GB OR TB, those are terms for the amount of information that chip or drive holds.

A "bit" is a 0 or 1. A "byte", is 8 of those either or in a group of 8. Each 8 are assigned to represent computer code that ends up becoming everything you see on your screen.

MB=Megabytes= roughly 1 million groups of 8.
GB=Gigabytes= roughly 1 billion groups of 8.
TB=Terabytes= roughly 1 trillion groups of 8.

For laypeople, it just means big, really really big, and HOLY FUCKING SHIT BIG, as far as the amount of information the chip or drive deals with.

CPU is the brain chip, the most important chip in the computer. It stands for Central Processing Unit. The number after "Intel" in this case is a model number. and "4.0" is just a newer version. Just like software Windows goes from Vista, to Windows 10. You can think of a CPU like a CEO of a company or a store manager, the top thinker of the computer, the coach of the team, the general of the army.

RAM, stands for "Random access memory" it is a helper chip.  It helps the CPU run whatever program you have open at the time, like a secretary helps a boss.

HDD is the Hard Drive, much like you write things on paper and keep it in a notebook binder.

SSD is simply another type of drive, accept it connects from the outside of your computer to a port.

"Hardware" are the physical parts of your computer. Software are the operating systems and programs, the 0s and 1s the hardware moves around and manages and holds. Just like your telephone poll is the hardware and the electricity and phone and cable signals are the "software".

[SteelCurtain]

CPU is the brain chip, the most important chip in the computer. It stands for Central Processing Unit. The number after "Intel" in this case is a model number. and "4.0" is just a newer version. Just like software Windows goes from Vista, to Windows 10. You can think of a CPU like a CEO of a company or a store manager, the top thinker of the computer, the coach of the team, the general of the army.

The 4.0 in this case is actually the speed of the processor in teterms of how many decisions or tasks it can cycle per second. This processor has 4 cores (quad core), each running at 4 GigaHertz, or billion cycles per second.

HDD is the Hard Drive, much like you write things on paper and keep it in a notebook binder.

SSD is simply another type of drive, accept it connects from the outside of your computer to a port.

Almost right. HDD stands for Hard Disk Drive, which is essentially a at stack of spinning metal disks sandwiched together, which store non volatile memory, stuff like documents and images that need to be stored and retrieved at will.

SSD is a solid state drive. It serves the exact same function, non volatile memory, except it uses flash memory, (like a USB stick) no spinning disks. It can be external, yes, but it can also be internal. In this case, this SSD is inside the computer case, connected directly to the motherboard. It is called m.2, and it uses a lightning fast connector which makes it good for installing your Operating System(s) on it, and leaving the HDD for all if your files. This way, your computer will boot in seconds rather than minutes, and grabbing system files uses very little RAM and no disk power.

[Brian37]

CPU is the brain chip, the most important chip in the computer. It stands for Central Processing Unit. The number after "Intel" in this case is a model number. and "4.0" is just a newer version. Just like software Windows goes from Vista, to Windows 10. You can think of a CPU like a CEO of a company or a store manager, the top thinker of the computer, the coach of the team, the general of the army.

The 4.0 in this case is actually the speed of the processor in teterms of how many decisions or tasks it can cycle per second. This processor has 4 cores (quad core), each running at 4 GigaHertz, or billion cycles per second.

HDD is the Hard Drive, much like you write things on paper and keep it in a notebook binder.

SSD is simply another type of drive, accept it connects from the outside of your computer to a port.

Almost right. HDD stands for Hard Disk Drive, which is essentially a at stack of spinning metal disks sandwiched together, which store non volatile memory, stuff like documents and images that need to be stored and retrieved at will.

SSD is a solid state drive. It serves the exact same function, non volatile memory, except it uses flash memory, (like a USB stick) no spinning disks. It can be external, yes, but it can also be internal. In this case, this SSD is inside the computer case, connected directly to the motherboard. It is called m.2, and it uses a lightning fast connector which makes it good for installing your Operating System(s) on it, and leaving the HDD for all if your files. This way, your computer will boot in seconds rather than minutes, and grabbing system files uses very little RAM and no disk power.

Ok but the point of my post was to let people know terms of ANYTHING, not just computers, don't have to be intimidating. 

Especially today. If you don't know what a word is, or part is, google is fucking awesome. It was more understandable back when there was no internet. Don't swamp them with the entire sink all at once. That is one thing I hated about school growing up, kids learn differently and some jump in and others have to slow down and take longer to understand. My only point is even if you never become an expert in something, the ideas can be simplified to a basic understanding.

Same with words in human language, they can sound fancy, but if you look them up, there really isn't anything that cant be broken down to a laypersons view.

[SteelCurtain]

Sure, I was just expanding and clarifying.

[Brian37]

Sure, I was just expanding and clarifying.

I was a bit off, but still a majority in the ballpark.

Point was that it is really easy to look something up now if you don't know what it is or means.

[SteelCurtain]

Absolutely. There's so much information available, there's really only one excuse: some people just aren't interested. And that's okay, I think.

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[Excited Penguin]

You can't really hold it against someone that he doesn't want to learn about computers. That's ridiculous. It would be like me telling you go google how to build a toilet in a factory, you can do it, so why don't you?

[Angrboda]

It sounds like a nice rig. I started building a new rig a few years back and just lost interest. It sits on the floor taking up space. I built my own computers for fifteen years, but I've just lost interest in the subject. My old core 2 duo e7400 is plenty good for web and email.