Hey Team,

I'm looking at building a new computer myself and was hoping some of you have some tips on some good sites to buy components and computer parts.

Thanks

Matt

Try newegg.com. Good site for that kind of thing.

nothing to add, other than great username

pricewatch.com is probably the best computer parts search engine on the net.

just make sure to research the product before you settle on the price.

building a computer is fun as fuck. i'm waiting until PCI-express 2 is available on motherboards.

as far as processor goes, I'd go with an intel core 2 duo.

yup, i just got that a couple of months ago, works like magic.

Anyone have opinions on TigerDirect?

personally i haven't used them yet, but my boss always orders stuff from there. He loves that place.

tigerdirect's good. i think newegg is a bit cheaper, though.

My father-in-law built my current machine (as well as his own, his son's, his brother's...) from TigerDirect parts. Made a pretty robust machine for about $550. I've been happy with it.

i might be looking to take the processor and graphics card out of one of my computers and put it into another (while taking out the second computer's graphics card and processor as well)

anyone feel like giving me some instructions?

Rub your feet back and forth on the carpet and then rub some balloons on your head. After that's done, open up your computer and touch the insides.

oh man i've been there.

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/build-a-computer.htm

thanks, dick



thanks sunny

Why? The 8.0Gbps of bandwidth that still isn't being fully utilized by graphics cards today isn't enough for you?

Key word: today. I'm building a computer to last another 5 years. Who knows what graphics cards will do a few years from now.

So then, when PCIe 2.0 is finally out, what new technology will you be putting your upgrade off further for?

You have to draw a line and I think waiting for PCIe 2.0 is probably the worst line possible. It'd be one thing if this were 6 or so months ago and you were looking to get an AMD processor but wanted to wait for the AM2 line to come out so you'd have DDR2 support and, in theory, a much better upgrade path, but PCIe 2.0? No way. NO WAY.

Unless you're gaming on a 30" LCD (like I am ) @ 2560x1600 w/16xAA and 16xAF on your SLI 8800GTXs...you don't even have to begin to consider that cap. PCIe is nowhere near maxing out in real world performance.

If you really are going to wait, wait until AMD's K8L comes out to see what sort of performance that brings and/or to see when both Intel and AMD announce DDR3 support.

*scratches chin*
hmm...well I'm not in a hurry or anything. DDR3 ram sounds pretty delish.

It's what's powering most midrange and upper-level graphics cards now with speeds getting up to 2.0GHz...it's fast and it runs pretty damn cool.

Considering how bandwidth hungry Intel processors are, the fact that Intel is looking to move to the HyperTransport 2.0 technology sometime this year (the next version of what all of the Athlon 64 and X2 chips use instead of the front-side bus) which offers, I believe, either a 3.0Gbps or 4.0Gbps interconnect between the CPU and the both the northbridge and southbridge...desktop computing is only going to get better.

Plus, on the chips that are rumored to be DDR3-capable, it is said Intel is going to be including the memory controller on-die (just like AMD does) rather than on the northbridge as they do currently. This allows for the RAM to talk directly to the CPU, increasing speed/response times.

It's only going to get better.

And to be perfectly honest...I haven't heard a single thing about PCIe 2.0.