RE: Making my own computer, i needz help !
June 17, 2011 at 8:54 am
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2011 at 9:18 am by The Magic Pudding.)
I build my own systems.
You can go for either an AMD or Intel processor based system, both have their followers.
When you decide on processor you find a motherboard that supports it and then memory that the motherboard supports.
As you want it for gaming you'll want a video card, I like to have motherboards that have on board video as a fall back in case the video card fails.
Computer part retailers usually list parts to either suit AMD or Intel.
There are newish solid state hard drives (SSDs) which are very fast, small capacity and expensive.
For hard drives don't get a green one for your operating system, they're painfully slow, a 7200 RPM or faster one is best.
The case and power supply require some attention.
ESata and USB3 are cool.
This thread and other threads on this site may help, there are other threads based on different budgets.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-rep...?t=1719006
If you get confused about video cards this may help
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2011-...,2673.html
You can go for either an AMD or Intel processor based system, both have their followers.
When you decide on processor you find a motherboard that supports it and then memory that the motherboard supports.
As you want it for gaming you'll want a video card, I like to have motherboards that have on board video as a fall back in case the video card fails.
Computer part retailers usually list parts to either suit AMD or Intel.
There are newish solid state hard drives (SSDs) which are very fast, small capacity and expensive.
For hard drives don't get a green one for your operating system, they're painfully slow, a 7200 RPM or faster one is best.
The case and power supply require some attention.
ESata and USB3 are cool.
This thread and other threads on this site may help, there are other threads based on different budgets.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-rep...?t=1719006
If you get confused about video cards this may help
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2011-...,2673.html
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