anyone wanna help a girl out

anyone build pc's..................
im am all psyced to try it out ....i have ordered the new maximum pc guide to building and am planning on learning all there is to know on my own .......any reccomendations for books, manuals, guides, parts, and total price......

i think i can , i think i can ,i know i can , i know i can ..........

thanks,
annamarie

 

About the best places to go for hardware are Pricewatch.com and Tigerdirect. I'd shoot for a barebones kit, as those tend to take alot of the hassle out of it.

 

i know another forum called http://forum.hackinthebox.org/ it is specialised in all computing topics any problems about building your pc go there

 

I learned everything I know from trial and error, and the occasional glance at forums. The way parts are constructed now its hard to really mess somthing up. If you have any specific questions feel free to post here or PM me

 

Going for anything in particular, or just doing it for the sake of building you own PC? Personally, as soon as I have the $$ for it I plan on building my own gaming machine, there's a somewhat outdated but still reliable guide for thathere. If that's what you're going for at least. Any idea on the system specs right now?

 

Not to sound demeaning or anything, but building a computer is like working with an erector set. It's really gotten that easy. Read alot about it to make sure when you go in there you won't fuck anything up. There's alot of common sense shit people forget about that I'm sure you will too. Get a ground lead. It's a bracelet with a wire attached you ground yourself with, so you can handle parts more freely. Keeping your forearms on the case works, but if something happens that pulls your hands away from the frame, the static could cause some serious harm to the parts. Remember your fans, have two blowing in and two blowing out. Alot of noobs get this confused, as simple as it is. Your pc will overheat if you don't have you fans right. Speaking of overheating, try to get rounded cables, they allow more airflow. Really think about everything you do for your first pc. Don't go in touching things and poking around when you don't need to. I help a teacher at my school with his computer class. You'd be suprised how many people fuck up a really simple project. As long as you double think about everything and don't go rushing in, you should be ok. Go to newegg.com (i think thats the site). They're pretty cheap, they have user submitted reviews for most of their products. Go to colorcases.com for your case. I got the case for my last pc there, it was only like fifty bucks, really well build. Get a full size case for your first pc. It'll make it so much easier working inside of it.

 

The hardest part about building a PC is knowing how much pressure you can safely apply to particular components when connected them, and this can only really be learned through experience. For example, the first time you clamp a heat sink onto a processor, you'll probably be thinking "fuck, this can't be good! Surely it shouldn't be this tight? I'm gonna break the mobo!!!". Try and have someone around who can answer questions the first time you build.

 

Watch for loose screws. I had a friend who was building a pc and made the stupid mistake of letting a screw fall without noticing it...moron. Also, I don't suggest using magnetic screwdrivers as some motherboards will be damaged by them...I say some as sometimes you can get a way with it since the magnets aren't that strong...but either way I do not recommend them. Take picture of the project also...if you do I could post them to my site for anyone to look at in the future.


Cody

 

if you're in the springfield, mo area, me or one of my tech nerd friends could probably help out

 

What people have said here is primarily true.

Particularly, check out pricewatch.com for things.

Remember to get the latest drivers. =P

But, MOST IMPORTANTLY, once you know what you want to get, MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS COMPATIBLE by researching them!

I bought an ASUS A7V600 motherboard, and the AGP 8x drivers aren't compatible with my ATI Radeon 9600+ XT card!

The problem is only with the 9600 and 9800 cards, but apparently, other ASUS boards that use the Hyperion driver set have this same problem.

Which means that, at least temporarily, I'm running my card as a PCI slot, which makes it go a decent amount slower.

So don't be me! =P Research compatibility!