How many of you made ur computer?

[swiss]

Just wondering if any people actually put together their computer themselves.
I myself did, i saw an article in a PC mag on how to make a computer for HL2, with just £500.
In the end i spent about 600 quid, though it did not work for a while, and I had to see a shop that told me what was wrong.
Still though i think its worth it; for what I spent I got AMD 64. 3000, 1gb Ram, 80gb HD, and 128mb Rad 9600xt.
The same computer by dell would cost you about £1000-1500.
If u want to, then for UK, a very good site is www.microdirect.co.uk

Of course u dont get any customer support, so it is a risk, but for me it paid off.

 

[J_Tweedy]

I used what seems to be a popular option- select the parts, and pay retail price for each part, then have the place you ordered from build it for you. The site i did it from built it for free, i guess cos i bought EVERYTHING from them.

 

[CyberPitz]

bought my own parts, built my own. Less junk on it...stupid HP and shit filling the harddrives with crappy advertisements.
everyone knows bout www.newegg.com so this is my slight plug for it.

go newegg!

 

[Raxxman]

I shopped around for parts and a case, got most of my stuff in one place, but got a cracking deal for a graphics card in another place, and a cheaper cpu by £30 in a final place.

Building PC's is easy. Trick is to keep all the wires clean and tidy, Black tape works for me.

 

[bvasgm]

Bought everything from newegg. After it got here, I put it together.

Edit: Where's the poll?

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I built mine, the specs are
AMD64 3000+
120Gb + 40Gb HardDrive space
Elitegroup Kv1 Photon MotherBoard
DVD RW +/-
Radeon 9800SE

 

[Raxxman]

AMD64 3800+
200 GB HD (SATA)
2 GB Corsair Ram
X800XT (priced like an XL!)
Asus PCIe mb
DVD RW +/-
19 Inch LCD screen monitor
5.1 Surround sound speakers with mic
Case with 2 inbuilt fans

All under a grand, bout £800, think I did pritty well, just waiting on the CPU to turn up before I fire the bad boy up for the first time

*edit* I'm taking the Soundcard out my old Comp, but it's CD and floppies died

Still it has a 250 gb external HD which I'll be using.

I have still to get a decent mouse and keyboard.

 

[lister]

thats really well paid there Raxxman, this is a really good site which i use to get my computer parts from ( UK only)
www.cclonline.com

 

[huntingbear]

AMD64 3800+
200 GB HD (SATA)
2 GB Corsair Ram
X800XT (priced like an XL!)
Asus PCIe mb
DVD RW +/-
19 Inch LCD screen monitor
5.1 Surround sound speakers with mic
Case with 2 inbuilt fans

All under a grand, bout £800, think I did pritty well, just waiting on the CPU to turn up before I fire the bad boy up for the first time

*edit* I'm taking the Soundcard out my old Comp, but it's CD and floppies died

Still it has a 250 gb external HD which I'll be using.

I have still to get a decent mouse and keyboard.

What is this "SATA"?

also...built mine almost entirely from newegg.com....maybe an ebay.com part here or there

AMD 64 3200+
nVidia 5700 Ultra
120 GB WesternDigital
1024 MB RAM
Soundblaster AudigyLS
KV8 mobo
some crappy cd-rom/r/rw/dvd-rom
Motorola wireless PCI card

 

[Raxxman]

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

 

[satch919]

I built mine from parts ordered from newegg.com. Great site!

All it takes is just some research and some common sense and BAM!, you've got yourself a custom computer.

 

[Fishlore]

I spent a few weeks buying and having shipped the least expensive components I could find, using newegg and pricewatch. The parts slowly trickled in over time. Once everything arrived I put it together myself. I've always put my own machines together. My roomate thought he'd try the same thing, long story short, I ended up building his too.

 

[h00dlum]

I buildt my comp myself....

 

[Gorgon]

I made mine, Look at specs in the sig

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I built mine, the specs are
AMD64 3000+
120Gb + 40Gb HardDrive space
Elitegroup Kv1 Photon MotherBoard
DVD RW +/-
Radeon 9800SE

I knew I'd forgotton something,

1024Mb PC3200 Ram

 

[Glirk Dient]

I built mine. Mostly from newegg and a few parts from frozencpu. Totalled around $3000 when I built it last october.

AMD 3500+
MSI Neo2 Platinum
BFG 6800GT(overclocked with a warranty )
2gb Kingston low latency RAM(4x512)
2x 74gb WD raptor drives in raid-0
500W Enermax PSU(sleeved with orange UV)
Lite on combo drive(52x cd-rw)
Audigy 2 ZS Gamer
Klipsh 5.1 promedia speakers
Samsung 710t LCD
MX1000 pwnager mouse
Logitech elite wireless keyboard
Aspire X dreamer2 case

That pretty much sums it up, I also have a HUGE passive heatsink(120mm) that I had to bend a capacitor just to fit on. I also mounted a 120mm fan on top of that passive heatsink...yeah it cools dang well! I also have 4 60mm fans in my case as well as another 120mm on the back. All blue LED and I have 2 UV cold cathodes so my sleeved wires glow orange. It looks awsome!

 

[craig]

Yep, I've been building my own PC's for the last 10 years and would probably never buy a pre-built PC because of the experiences my friends have had with them.

In total I've probably build somewhere in the region of 15 - 20 PCs and my current one is in my sig

 

[Danimal]

Moved!

 

[Shamrock]

I did cause I am sweet..

 

[FictiousWill]

last 4 comps I built.

thread needs a poll

 

[[w0f]Oblivion]

built mine, Spec's = sig

 

[NonStopableForce]

Built mine, built my cousins, building one in about a week, built a bounch for school. : p

-NSF

 

[holydeadpenguins]

I built mine for about 580 dollars and a little under 2 years ago.

Athlon xp 2800
1 gb corsair value select
Geforce fx 5700
120gb hdd
Audigy 2 zs gamer
soundblaster 32 :-D

Nothing else matters

 

[baron insig]

bought everything from ebuyer, assembled it with the help of my dad now know how to do everything

 

[NickS]

i built my own pc of course

 

[chu]

Built my own as well. Looking forward to building another down the road sometime.

 

[Asus]

Aye, building your own is fun. I will probably build another PC before fall and give this one to my bro. He's got a Athlon XP 2000+ and a GF4 4200.

 

[bosox188]

Mine was originally a Dell Dimension 2350 that I bought but I did so much upgrading once there were some games I wanted to play with good graphics I might as well have built it myself it's come so far. And I've learned a ton about computers in the process. Here's what the original specs of the Dimension were:

2.2ghz P4
256mb pc2100 RAM
30gb HDD
Intel Integrated "Extreme 3D" "Graphics" (no AGP slot)
That ugly crappy Dell case

Now check my sig to see how much I've done to it, note that before the 9800 I had a Geforce FX 5200 PCI.

 

[Jack_Karverboy]

My dad built mine but I helped a little

 

[Stigmata]

I took a Compaq PC and then, over the period of three years, upgraded it with (mostly) secondhand parts.

AthlonXP 1800+
KV[something] Socket-A motherboard
512MB PC1700 DDR RAM
20GB Maxtor hard drive
20GB Seagate hard drive (original)
ATI Radeon 8500LE (store-bought)
52x <can't remember manufacturer> CD drive

 

[Illegal Amigo]

I made mine!

Asus Mobo
AMD 64 3000+
1 gb ram
ati 9800 pro 128mb
530 gbs of hard drive space added all together

 

[duffers20]

I also made mine, started out with a Athlon XP 2600+, 512mb of ddr2700 ram, a chaintech mobo and a Ti4200 128mb card, and I have slowely upgraded to whats in my sig! Its so cool building your own pc, get a real sence of satisfaction from it when its all up and running!

 

[sinkoman]

Made mine. I must say, if you can, do it. It's a good experience.

Today, after a HELL of a lot of computer issues, I realised how much more you appreciate a pc you built yourself, over one you bought premade. I thought I got a DOA mobo, and was so furious, damn, I thought I was going to cry! Hell, I almost did. After all the time and effort, and already having to reformat twice in the same week.

I started flipping through my mobo manuel to find something, and in the troubleshooting section, I found out that with the mobo I have, it's not uncommon to have MAJOR stability issues after reflashing the bios. Even with a correct flash. Fix, just a simple cmos short, which actually turned out to be more difficult than needed, since I couldn't find my spare short (those damn things are so easy to lose) and I had cut my fingernails just the day before, which made pulling the short out of my primary hdd a bit of a task.

Oh yeah:

A64 3500+ Venice @ stock on an XP-90
GA-K8N Ultra-9
Gigabyte 6800gt @ stock
2x512 OCZ Value (unbinned VX chips) @ stock timings(was at 2-2-2-6 just the other day) DDR400
Lian-Li pc-65b (damn this case is one fine muva, not to mention I was blessed with black drives)

Drives:
Western Digital 36gig 10k rpm Raptor @ jbod
Western Digital 74gig (took this out of an old HP of mine) IDE

EDIT: Yeah and knowing how everything is working in YOUR box, and how pc components work in general can help loads when trouble shooting.

 

[Vorac1ous]

Ordered my stuff from Newegg, then built it myself. The specs are:

BFGTech 6800Ultra Overclocked ------ Video Card
AMD 64-bit 3400+ 2.4ghz ------------ Processor
1G Corsair XMS PC3200 -------------- Memory
MSI K8T Neo Nf2 -------------------- Motherboard
Gigabyte 3d cooling ----------------- Fan
Western Digital 160GB Caviar -------- Hard Drive
Asus 16X --------------------------- DVD Drive
Rosewill 500W ---------------------- Power supply(I know my sig says different btw)
AtlanticWare forgot the model name - Liquid Cooling System
Chiftec forgot the model name ------- Case
Logisys 19" CRT --------------------- Monitor
Logitech MX510 --------------------- Mouse
Crappy Logitech 4.1 speakers -------- Speakers

Sorry about the bragging. Anyway, granted it cost a pretty penny but it was definately worth it.

 

[Murray]

This last one I built together.
And it works better than any computer I've ever used.

Connect3D X800XT Platinum Edition graphics card
AMD 64-bit 3500+ 2.2GHz CPU
1GB Corsair PC3200 memory
MSI K8T Neo2 mother board
Seagate 60GB IDE harddrive
Western Digital 160GB SATA harddrive
Maxtor 200GB SATA harddrive
16x DVD drive
Antec Case with 360W PSU
Logitech UltraX flat keyboard
Logitech MX510 mouse

I'd suggest that if you know how to put one together, do it! That's the best way of making sure you get a good computer.

 

[gweedodogg69]

I built mine, and on the Alienware website I ran their test against mine and supposedly their system is just a LITTLE bit better.