Built my first computer!

[Ketchup]

Took like 8 hours...I even read instructions!

It's an E6600 with a EVGA motherboard

I still need to get some 2g ddr2 memory but i don't know what is good. Right now it's running off some HP ddr2 512x2 and I need to put in the 8800gt

And I still can't quite grasp what is RAID like if one drive gets coruppted then because they are all in series they all get coruuppted??



Anyhoo it was a good experience here is a picture of the inside ....some of the topics on here were very helpful thanks!

[Jimmy Rock]

Good job, you save alot of money that way, I would stay away from raid on your system

[edgeprod]

Congrats!

If you can do without the service of a major company, building it is definitely the way to go. I need "instant" replacement of faulty parts, so this isn't, unfortunately, an option for my "work" machine.

[Ketchup]

Good job, you save alot of money that way, I would stay away from raid on your system

Thanks Jimmy and edgepro ! I did save money so it was good....I mean i was scared that I was going to burn it up but after I got the motherboard in it was more relaxing . ...actually a fun time


You guys think I should stay awy from the RAID....ok

[tranza]

Looks good.... Is it working??

[Scott McD]

Better off building your own rather than dealing with those assholes from Dell...

[ungratefulninja]

Unless you're overclocking it, stick with stock speed DDR2. You'll get no benefit out of faster ram if you're not going to run it at the rated speeds. I've got 2 gigs (2x1gig) of G.SKILL so I could run dual channel. Ram prices are way better right now than 6 months ago. I just bought 2 gigs for what I spent on 1 gig in the fall.

[Ketchup]

Yes tranza it's started of just fine and is runng good...I'm gonna give it a week before I put anything important on it yet just to make sure it doesn't decide to fall apart or whatever


Oh really Scott ...cause I was looking to buy a dell last week before I went and got the parts

[Ketchup]

Unless you're overclocking it, stick with stock speed DDR2. You'll get no benefit out of faster ram if you're not going to run it at the rated speeds. I've got 2 gigs (2x1gig) of G.SKILL so I could run dual channel. Ram prices are way better right now than 6 months ago. I just bought 2 gigs for what I spent on 1 gig in the fall.

Ok so would that be your recomendation... the G skill? I guess you mean this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231065

I might overclock it later when I figure out all that but for now I'll leave it as it is.

Thanks ungratefulninja

[edgeprod]

You guys think I should stay awy from the RAID....ok

I didn't say that.

I have RAID in mine, with over 1TB of storage.

[Ketchup]

I didn't say that.

I have RAID in mine, with over 1TB of storage.

ahh ok sorry so you can just keep adding these hard drives for more storage? Is that all it is more storage. but if one fails does that mean you loose your data?

Sorry i leanered alot this weekend but still don't know so much but I'm working on it

[tomud]

too many coolers

Tomud

[edgeprod]

ahh ok sorry so you can just keep adding these hard drives for more storage? Is that all it is more storage. but if one fails does that mean you loose your data?

Sorry i leanered alot this weekend but still don't know so much but I'm working on it

Depends on the type of RAID. Wikipedia it.

[Sosa]

congrats. I remember my first machine I built. Back when you actualy had fucking switches on the motheboards to set the correct cpu info. Damn thats been a while

[just a punk]

Congrats! I've made my first computer in 1991. It was a clone of Sinclair ZX-Spectrum 48K as far as I remember

[bigalownz]

Better off building your own rather than dealing with those assholes from Dell...

true that

i made my own last year and saved over 1K and and use way better parts
and used software and hardware that i realy wanted

once you made your own pc you never go back to buying a brand name PC