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 Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 10:31 am Post subject: Help me find a Laptop or Desktop |
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As desktop without the monitor or the keyboard/mouse. Laptops and desktop should be around 500-700 and no more than that. As I'm writing this, I'm looking too loll. Reason why because I'm getting rid of my old laptop and reselling it for half price and its time for an upgrade. My dad wants me to find a Laptop/desktop @ www.outpost.com =\ but newegg is fine with me if you guys go there too. I would prefer the laptop screen to be 16''-17'' at least but not 15.6'', too small 
I'm just wondering if you buy all the "necessary" parts for building a PC, can you pay somebody to build it for you by the hour ? Lol |
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I would recommend building it yourself (Desktop) because of the fun you will have and good feeling you will get when you are done.
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| THE PIRATE wrote: | | I would recommend building it yourself (Desktop) because of the fun you will have and good feeling you will get when you are done. |
What exactly do you have to do right after the computer has been built? run tests, etc? |
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| b004u wrote: | | THE PIRATE wrote: | | I would recommend building it yourself (Desktop) because of the fun you will have and good feeling you will get when you are done. |
What exactly do you have to do right after the computer has been built? run tests, etc? |
Just install an OS, after that install drivers for all your devices. |
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| THE PIRATE wrote: | | I would recommend building it yourself (Desktop) because of the fun you will have and good feeling you will get when you are done. |
Not to mention the knowledge gained from building your own system, not that you are soldering anything but still you will know more about how your hardware works.
Also when you go to upgrade instead of the $600 cost, you may end up paying say $200 for a video card upgrade or a ram upgrade.
If you go the desktop route I'd suggest getting one with a motherboard that will support a higher rated CPU than you actually install. This will give you a bit of room to grow in it.
Coming from laptop only though, you may have a hard time getting a desktop around $600.
You will need a case, a power supply (one that can handle SLI, SLI Triple mode just in case), new hard drives, motherboard, CPU, ram, and a DVD rom.
The motherboard CPU and ram you could easily get for under 600, but the rest maybe not. Video card about 200, psu about 100 for a decent one, ram about 200 - 300 depending on the memory type. I think I got 2 sticks last year and paid 150 but its DDR2 my board won't support DDR3 I need to upgrade, and if I do that I'm going core i7 can't afford that right now.
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I was told that you had to do a whole bunch of shit after building your desktop. i know it may sound easy for you guys but when I think about it,
it goes like this " 1. build PC 2. Install OS 3. done? ". I'm still learning all this before I actually attempt to build it thou |
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That's exactly how it goes. There are some other tweaks you can do to the system once it's built and broken in, like cranking up the voltage on the CPU to overclock, with current CPU's why bother, back in the days when I used a 333 megahert cpu yeah 333 megahert, overclocking was very common and in some cases needed but with most CPU's clocking in at 2.5 gigahertz and up why bother overclocking?
The worst thing and what you may need help with because it has to be perfect is seating the heat sink onto the CPU. You must use just the right about of thermal compound, too little you could burn up your CPU, too much you could burn up your CPU.
I built mine about a year ago, been running stable and fine ever since.
I've been building my own since 1996.
In stores you pay for the name, you don't even pay for decent support these days. And most warrantys are "send it in".
Step 1 buy parts
Step 2 assemble parts
Step 3 install OS
Step 4 enjoy your work!
Also the difference between Laptop and Desktop it's much easier to replace a bad Desktop component than to either buy a new laptop, or send it in for up to 4 weeks to get it repaired.
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| Yea, where will be put that ddr3 ram though? He should stick with it and get the 2.9 instead or something similar. |
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Didn't bother to check what type of ram that Asus board uses.
And replacing with the 2.9 will bring it up to $691.28
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