Build your own PC

No but i'll work on it.

 

Make sure whatever you guys build...OVERCLOCK it! Goes hand in hand with modding the Taco!

I have a 3ghz E8400 overclocked to 4.1GHZ...It rocks.

 

Specifically why I built what I did but have yet to venture down the OC road. I need to educate myself more on it.

 

Anyone use liquid cooling? I have a desktop that doesn't run too hot but I wouldn't mind doing the liquid because, well it basically looks kickass. Zalman I see has a few?

 

Are you going to OC? If not I don't think you'll really need it. Good fans properly placed (intake vs exhaust) and good wire management will increase air flow thus reducing the case's ambient temperature.

I was all about wanting to hook up a liquid cooling system. I researched the holy hell out of it and had a LCS all picked out. And then I decided it was too much of a pain in the ass for me. The guys who like it will say I'm wrong and that it's easy once it's going. Maybe it is.

I ended up getting a CPU heatsink. The Vigor Monsoon III. I haven't really tested it yet since I haven't OC'd but it's keeping stock super icey.

My $.02

 

Nah, I don't overclock. I don't need to overclock . Yeah I am just using regular 80mm fans with a 120mm in my case, I believe I have 10 excluding a system blower one slot below the video card. It plays HL2 and CSS very well with frames in 115+ so its fine. Case stays cool with the wall of lower front fans pushing air across the south bridge, a 120mm with bracket blowing at ram and cpu. Side panel, back, and top all blow out. I have actually gotten away from building computers and just repair the crap people purchase. Although I shouldn't say that because 90% of the time its the user.

 

I used to build and sell them! im still running the Comp I built back in Collage. 5yrs ago.

 

Good website Neotrail!!! I'm glad to see more people builing their own PCs, it's fun shit!

I built my current home PC about 5 years ago now, and it will still run with the over-the-counter pre-builts from Dell, Lenovo, ect. Not kidding! I can get a business class desktop for around $500, but it's not as fun and you won't see it compete in years to come.

BTW - ASUS and AMD RULE!!!

 

Newegg rules too!!!

 

yea i just finished up mine about a month ago... got the nice black edition AMD... forget the model # but its 2.7ghz... and 4 gb of ram.. its nothing fancy but it sure does run the hell outta quick books compared to the old 1.3 ghz i had before.... plus it was fun building it and getting to learn about new stuff..

 

Having the ability to Overclock would be the only reason I would build a new rig. I don't play games, so it's not a big deal.

 

Nice build there. I used newegg for mine also, they are great

Start:


Finish:

 

x2 you gotta overclock!

1.8GHz to 3.5GHz


The 3.5GHz was too much so I settled on this:

 

Did mine for $1400 from Newegg in early 2005. Still have it today, with only an additional $280 put into it to upgrade the graphics card and processor. Socket 939 still, if you'd believe it...

Now I just need to get as comfortable working on my truck as I am on my PC...

 

This was in 05:

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (first "new gen" SLI motherboard)
Athlon 64 3000+ OC'd to 3500+
Nvidia 6600GT
2GB DDR400
Audigy 2
160GB HDD
Coolermaster Centurion 5 case
Enermax 460W PSU
Hi-perf Silverstone cooling fans with fan controller
17" Dell UltraSharp LCD monitor
Logitech keyboard, mouse, speakers


Since then I've turned the 6600GT into an 8800GT and popped in an Athlon 64 x2 4200+, OC'd to 4800+

Runs everything I need it to run, although it'll probably age to the point in the next year where I need to do a ground-up rebuild on a new platform (intel's platforms are well ahead of AMD's these days in cost/performance).

 

IMO AMD > Intel.. I am stubborn, I use intel in laptops but amd for desktops. don't ask..

 

I went through www.cyberpowerpc.com to build mine. You pick the components and they build it and test it. The setup only cost me $933 shipped. Good price for all the stuff I upgraded.

*BASE_PRICE: [+539]
CAS: ($20 off Mail-in Rebate) Apevia X-SniperG Mid-Tower 420W Case [-11] (Black Color)
CS_FAN: Default case fans
CPU: AMD Phenom(TM) X4 9950 Black Edition Quad-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology [+96]
CD: (Special Price) LG 22X DVD+/-R/+/-RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (Black Color)
FLASHMEDIA: INTERNAL 12in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer (BLACK COLOR)
FAN: XtremeGear Ultra Heatpipe Cool Copper Heatsink CPU Cooling Fan (Extreme Silent at 20dBA & Overclock Proof) [+8]
FREEBIE_RM: FREE! 4GB USB Pen Drive
FLOPPY: 1.44 MB FLOPPY DRIVE (BLACK COLOR)
FREEBIE_OS: FREE! (Halo 2) Game
HDD: Single Hard Drive (1TB (1TBx1) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD [+59])
MULTIVIEW: Xtreme Performance in SLI/CrossFireX Gaming Mode Supports Single Monitor
MOTHERBOARD: Asus M3N72-D AMD 750a SLI Chipset DDR2/1066 SATA PCI-Express MBoard w/Video,GbLAN,USB2.0,&7.1Audio [+65]
MEMORY: 8GB (2GBx4) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (Kingston HyperX
NETWORK: Intel Pro Gigabite 10/100/1000 Network Card [+34]
OS: Microsoft(R) Windows Vista(TM) Home Premium w/ Service Pack 1 [+104] (64-bit Edition)
POWERSUPPLY: 580 Watts Power Supplies (SLI Ready Power Supply)
RUSH: NO; READY TO SHIP IN 5~10 BUSINESS DAYS
SERVICE: STANDARD WARRANTY: 3-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY PLUS LIFE-TIME TECHNICAL SUPPORT
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
TEMP: Built-in
USB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 1GB 16X PCI Express [-44] (EVGA Powered by NVIDIA [+5])
_PRICE: (+884)
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Really depends which application you're running, but honestly both will do what 99.9% of computer users need them to do.

 

I forgot to post pics of my rig.