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Old 12-13-2005, 09:55 PM   #1
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Hello, folks!
Here are the plans for my new rig. How hard do you speculate it will be to build this machine? I have a relatively small amount of experience, but have built some Pentium 3s before for my school.
Here are the parts:


PSU:

Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply 115/230 V UL, TUV, CB, FCC CLASS B, CUL
- 84.99

Keyboard and Mouse:

Microsoft CA9-00001 Black 103 Normal Keys 3 Function Keys PS/2 Wired Standard – Keyboard mouse included (but I will use the mouse listed below) – OEM
- 24.50

Actual Mouse:

DCT Factory 03M-OPT-BCLI 2-Tone 3 Buttons 1x Wheel PS/2 Optical Mouse
- 4.06

Speakers:

PHILIPS MMS430 100 W 2.1 Speaker
- 49.99

Video Card:

BFG Tech BFGR78256GTXCOD2 Geforce 7800GTX 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express x16 Video Card bundled with Call of Duty 2
- 509

Floppy Drive:

ALPS Silver 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Model DF354H168F - OEM
- 8.99

Sound Card:

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS 70SB035000000 8 (7.1) Channels 24-bit 192KHz PCI Interface Sound Card
- 93


HD:

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 300 MB/s Hard Drive – OEM
- 115

Monitor:

AOC LM942 Black 19" 12ms LCD Monitor 250 cd/m2 500:1 0.294mm Pixel Pitch
- 239.99

MoBo:

DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard
- 135

CD/DVD Drive:

LITE-ON Black 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model SOHD-16P9SV
- 19.99

Memory:

CORSAIR ValueSelect 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory
- 180

CPU:

AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice 1Ghz FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3800BPBOX
- 282

Case:

RAIDMAX Scoprio 668WBP Black 1mm Brushed Aluminum Gaming Case Computer Case 420watts PS2 ATX12V Power Supply
- 79.99

OS:

Microsoft Windows XP Home with SP2 - OEM
- 99.99


Total: 1,926.49 (not including tax)
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Old 12-13-2005, 10:44 PM   #2
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Double post.

Why'd you start another thread for this build?

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Old 12-13-2005, 10:49 PM   #3
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Because I wanted to know how HARD it would be to build - not if the parts were compatible or not.
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Old 12-13-2005, 11:53 PM   #4
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builds are usually never hard when everything is compatible and nothing is DOA. Just read the motherboard manually thoroughly, and you'll be fine.
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Old 12-14-2005, 01:10 AM   #5
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Because I wanted to know how HARD it would be to build - not if the parts were compatible or not.
Assembling a modern computer isn't any harder than when you built those PIII computers...in fact, it'll probably be the same if not easier.

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physicly it got easier with the years, but should still know a few things about parts and stuff.
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