The (new) Official PC building thread!

Oh, so you're saying that the sound and network are built into the motherboards? oh so i have nothing to worry about.

In the actual installation part of the WikiBooks book on 'how to build a computer' they made a list of things i need to build the computer. Soldering iron was not on that list. Do i need to do any soldering?

 

Not unless you break something!

Nah, I've never had to take a soldering iron to a PC.

 

i just looked at that. i think that 12 months is for circuit city to replace it and after that it is on seagate for any thing else. when i bought my 250gb seagate from best buy they told me after the year is up to send my registration into segate then so i would actually get 6 years of warranty.. the 1 year from best buy then 5 from seagate

 

That is usually how it works.

 

Can you build laptops?

 

I can't, but a professional might be able to. It's very difficult compared to building desktops.

 

rick5446,

The warranty goes by the date on the hard drive and seagate will honor it for the full 5 years. Same with all the other major drive manufacturers. I've even had the replacement be larger than the one I sent in because they didn't make a certain model anymore! I got my first Maxtor Diamond Plus that way. I sent in a 40GB and got back an 80GB. Still runs fine after 4 years!

Clock On,
theone :>}

 

I don't even know if you can get laptop cases.

 

I see your luck runs better than mine Russ, I RMAed a faulty 500GB WD and had it replaced with another faulty 500GB. Not the same drive, because I didn't even send that one back!

 

I wouldn't bother, put it that way.

 

sammorris,

I'm always checking the date on any hard drives I come across when I do a replacement for a customer. I recently came across a 40GB WD that was almost 4 years old and WD gave me a brand new one for it. I didn't even have to show proof of purchase. All they were interested in was the date!

I run into a lot of small drives when I'm doing repairs, as low as 1 or 2 GB, and upgrade them to a 40 or 80 GB for a small fee. People are happy to pay $30-40 for them. It's found money and they are brand new drives! LOL!!

Clock On,
theone

 

Definitely!

 

@OmriSama

Yes...The ASUS Laptops that you were talking about are made by "Clevo"...and you can buy them as Barebones through "Clevo"...then you assemble them yourself...They are called desktop replacements...You can get them with SLI...They use to offer Dual 7950 GPU's...I believe they offer Dual 8800 GPU's now...These are full on gaming laptops...These are the same Laptops as offered by Falcon Northwest..Voodoo...and other Extreme System Builders...

 

Ok i got a question about PSUs and RAMs.

In PSU, should i get a 1000W PSU? or a 700W one will do?

In RAM, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145034 Is this suppose to be RAM and is there something better?

 

OmriSama,

You could always move up to something like this that PC/8000 that runs at 1000Mhz. It's cas4. makes it a bit easier to get good memory speed when overclocking. They make higher speed memory in DDR2 but the latency is a bit higher.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231077

There's also DDR3 which is slot compatible with DDR2, but it's very expensive and very slow in it's timings at the present time. Should improve over time, say 6 months or so!

Clock On,
theone :>)

 

Agreed, the Corsair is hardly any slower performing and half the price, before the rebate.

Omri: 1000W PSUs are excessive, most PCs except for the very most powerful ones can run off Corsair's 520W PSU. I'm pretty sure mine could, see the specs in my signature.

 

sammorris,

The biggest advantage is the ability to get the memory to run at or close to it's rated speed at 1:1. That memory in mine would allow a better memory multiplier and still run at 1000Mhz with the same overclock, but with timings of 4-4-4-12 instead of 5-4-4-12, and it would be 110Mhz faster than mine to boot with having to overclock it! Mort81 just pointed that out to someone a couple of days ago! Makes for a fatter memory bandwith and better throughput!

Clock On,
theone :>}

 

So let me get this straight, that's RAM right? Ok. Is it 2GB?

 

They both are.

 

2 quick questions: 1 - Is it hard to replace a harddrive in a laptop? 2 - The modem I got from sbc is crap and needs replacing. I have no idea what I need but I have two desktops on different levels of my house so I would need a strong signal. Thanx