Advice on Buying a Computer!!!

[gekko]

Originally posted by yes_yes i am
dont try to put 1 together unless ur 100 percent positive u know wut ur doing.

I second this comment. The Windows world is full of compatability issues. If you get the wrong DVD drive, you may not be watching DVDs on it. It's like that with a lot of stuff. I have a turtle Beach sound card, and I get no sound when playing TacOps.

Unless you're familiar with buying heatsinks, motherboards, powersupplys, cooling systems, etc. don't build. Also, the whole build your own PC and save money is a bit misleading. Most of the people saving big time cash are the ones who use a ton of parts from their old PC, and the ones who buy cheapo P4 cards like the 1.6a which have the potential to be overclocked to 2.4ghz.

Look at my computer, if i were to build it, i'd be saving at most $200, but probably less than that. Why? I got all new parts. Now if I kept a monitor, bought a 1.6a P4 and overclocked it instead of the 2.53ghz, etc., I could've saved thousands.

Don't build unless you know what you're doing, and have a good reason to build.