PC Building!

:3 Don't be afraid - PC's are your friend

After test driving it for the day, I'm happy. Busy installing sacred as we speak, so will look forward to testing it in a bit (just have to install ice and blood).

Steve, what do you think of the board. Worth upgrading at a later stage? or should I just look for a better board in a gigabyte or something?

All of these components are the best to make a good PC. You have to make it and use it for anything like development as well as entertainment.

Hmmm I wouldn't say good. Its still seriously entry level, the only added advantage is that I have the 64 bit architecture from the motherboard and the CPU chip. That with the DDR3 Ram makes it fast, but still not entirely fast enough. I have a dream rig I have been thinking of saving for, but it will probably need enough fans or a water cooling system powerful enough to cool a small country.

Which is why I asked about the gigabyte boards. I had a 32 bit board in one of my test subjects in my lab and fell in love with the boards from there. They are really good boards that can take quite a bit of abuse. If I could get a 64 bit board that can take about 16 GB RAM, I would be halfway to my dream rig.

DIY a PC isn't cheaper than buying a new one, I can't see the reason except for hobby.

Sometimes, depending on the specifications I guess. Its just not really a hobby for me. lol. I am a PC Support Tech (Or was trained to be one).

The way I see it, you can go out to a store and get a store bought PC, with good specs, and pay (well in this neck of the woods) a good few thousand for it, Or build it yourself, and make it better than the ones you get in a store. Depending on your supplier, you might be able to buy the parts cheaper. Thing is, when you look at most store bought PC's (Once again, around here), you get the basics. Dual core/quad core chip (and quad core is rare here where I live without importing it from another bigger town), at the most 2GHz RAM, and a graphics card (sometimes, most times you're left with onboard graphics), and that's about it. With the supplier I use I can build a complete rig, complete with its screen for roughly the same price as a store bought PC. Which means I get a little more bang for buck, and a few better peripherals to play with I guess in the end it would really depend on the person. If you're not good at building PC's, then you'd have to buy a store bought one, or pay a techy to build you one. I just prefer playing with the nuts, bolts and peripherals

Thanks for reply. For example, a motherboard along costs over