Building Your Own Computer

Bond · 04-04-2002, 05:44 PM

I know a lot of these threads have already been made, but for the mindless and clueless... Have any of you built your own computer and if so was there a website you followed directions from or a book?

Happydude · 04-04-2002, 06:01 PM

yes, no, and no...

Revival · 04-04-2002, 06:49 PM

There already was a topic made on this: http://www.gametavern.net/forums/sho...&threadid=1102

MasterMind · 04-09-2002, 01:35 PM

I just built my computer about a month ago and I used mainly websites. Try www.pcmech.com. Its a very good site. Just make sure to do your research on what you actually want first.

The_Dunadan · 04-09-2002, 08:59 PM

i'm building my own pc this summer if i get enough money. my friends have and will help me. i'm too scared i'll mess up the new family pc and i'm sick of fighting over it with my siblings.

Joeiss · 04-09-2002, 09:40 PM

If I ever built my own PC, I am pretty sure that it would end up exploding me house.

Cyrax9 · 04-09-2002, 11:16 PM

Yes I've Built one, No I didn't use a book, and No I didn't use a website, I had help at a Computer Camp, but I'll be doing it again this summer, with fresh-from-the-factory parts, instead of salvaged parts.

The_Dunadan · 04-10-2002, 08:47 PM

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Originally posted by Cyrax9
Yes I've Built one, No I didn't use a book, and No I didn't use a website, I had help at a Computer Camp, but I'll be doing it again this summer, with fresh-from-the-factory parts, instead of salvaged parts.

where is this camp? what is it called?

Joeiss · 04-10-2002, 09:09 PM

It is called Joeiss' Camp for the Computer Illiterate. Please send your 1000 dblns fee to me! MUAHAHAHAHA.

back on track, this camp sounds cool. It probably isn't in Canada, though.

Night Stormer · 04-10-2002, 11:14 PM

When i've built my comp i went to www.falcon-nw.com. their comps are really great, if a bit expensive, but i just built it on their builder and got a local computer dude whos a friend of my dads build it and a $5000 US comp went down to 3500 cdn

so i wuz quite happy bout that, but falcons comps are mainly gaming comps and are rated very highly.

Cyrax9 · 04-12-2002, 01:55 AM

The Camp is Called "Computers & Kids" and is located in Pennigton New Jersey in the USA, it's a small place, and the fee is high, but it's a vey nice camp, and after getting a job their this year, and goign their for 10 years, I can safely say that almost everyone enjoys it, and their are some special events we have, such as visitors from the SETI (Search for extrateresrtrial inteeligance) leage, and we had the head of K'Nex come down from Canada last year, the Camp Owner's son works for the Toronto blue Jays, and created PockectDBA, a PDA with some cool feautres, I'm not sure what her other sone does, and her daughter is in the theatre. I can tell you this though, we still use aklot of DOS programming to teach begginers, and the yea we wanted to remove the TRS-80 computers, the kids went insane, so we still have them for games. The languages taught at the camp are QBasic, Visual Basic, Logo, and HTML, but we do spreadsheets and games as well.

The_Dunadan · 04-12-2002, 07:29 PM

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Originally posted by Cyrax9
The Camp is Called "Computers & Kids" and is located in Pennigton New Jersey in the USA, it's a small place, and the fee is high, but it's a vey nice camp, and after getting a job their this year, and goign their for 10 years, I can safely say that almost everyone enjoys it, and their are some special events we have, such as visitors from the SETI (Search for extrateresrtrial inteeligance) leage, and we had the head of K'Nex come down from Canada last year, the Camp Owner's son works for the Toronto blue Jays, and created PockectDBA, a PDA with some cool feautres, I'm not sure what her other sone does, and her daughter is in the theatre. I can tell you this though, we still use aklot of DOS programming to teach begginers, and the yea we wanted to remove the TRS-80 computers, the kids went insane, so we still have them for games. The languages taught at the camp are QBasic, Visual Basic, Logo, and HTML, but we do spreadsheets and games as well.

i live in ohio

oh, well. i'll build my own either way.

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Cyrax9 · 04-13-2002, 12:29 AM

That's the downside Dunadan, the camp is a pretty local place, I met one person though, who went for a week and stayed with a family member. It's a nice place, I think we migfht finally get a Mac this year, We had one 8 years ago, but it was starting to die. If we get a Mac, I'll be happy as a clam.

My brother actually had his picture on a coupon for the camp in a local newspaper, I still have a copy from a few years ago. If we ever have something as interesting as the head of the SETI league come down from canada again, 'll be sure to telll yu guys about it.

sdtPikachu · 04-17-2002, 09:19 AM

Building your own computer isn't half as difficult as the OEM FUD will tell you, and it means that you get to avoid all the tedious crap the OEM's put on your comp before they ship it to you.

Anyone who's had the misfortune to use a craputer will know what I'm on about (ie cheap but well specced PC's such as from Compaq etc) that come bundled with all sorts of **** software (like ppp dialers that will only let you connect to certain ISP's instead of giving you a choice). All in all, you will have a much better idea of what your system is doing, it will save you money and you can build it you your exact specifications AND make it easily upgradable just by picking good core components.

I and my flatmate both want to make oursleves some nice computers. We both want a dual Athlon mobo with RAID support, some nice fast HD's and a bucketload of memory. Neither of us are concerned that much about graphics cards, so that'll be a big saving. I am also planning on making a low-spec computer (something like a 400 Mhz P2 or similar) to run as a dedicated Linux server box/firewall (ie it'll just be a box sitting in the bottom of a cupboard - no CRT or input devices needed) for the home network which will entail ethernet cables all over the place. Wahoo! Ah, I think I might be turning into an incurable geek.

Seriously though - if you can, build your own computer. All it really involves is screwing a few screws and connecting a few cables the right way, and loading your OS of choice (which you'll need to acquire CD's for - if you don't have say the WinXP - ugh - install disc [NOT the upgrade disc - this won't work unless you first install say Win98 an upgrade from that. I prefer clean installs myself] then you'll need something else.

Obviously, it's illegal to get the Win98 disc you got with your other computer and install it on a new one. So either break the law or run Linux

quiet mike · 04-20-2002, 10:12 PM

Well the upgrade disk is also a clean instalation. All you have to do is insert the XP with a clean drive, and it will ask you to put the 98 in just to see if you have a copy of the previous windows. I know people that did that and said that they had no problems with activation key or anything. I will have to do the same thing later this year.

By the way sdtPikachu, where cna I find a free linux OS to try it out. I am starting to know the Mac OS 9.2 at my school helping a teacher, but I want to see how Linux works. I have no programing experience. I'm looking into a new PC and I heard that a SCSI HDD operated by Linux is much better than IDE.