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Did you build your current computer? Or did you buy it off of one of the many providers? (ex. Gateway, Dell, Hewlitt Packard)


I only ask because I just went out last night and bought all of the pieces to build a computer and it's my first one. I've put in sound cards, memory, ethernet cards, and a rewriteable DVD drive before, so I thought putting together a whole PC wouldn't be extremely difficult. I have run into a few speed bumps, but all together, I'm doing pretty well for myself.

Also I created this thread in case I get stuck later today when I'm putting it together...hopefully someone will be able to help me out a bit.

My dad put together the comp i'm using now. It seems to be working fine. Faster than our pre-built one.

same here

i help put mine together but my friend did most of the work he enjoyed it what a nerd

I think building a computer would put you more on the intellect side...

if you know what happened in episode 123 of Star Trek...then you are officially a nerd.

what happened in 123 episode?

i think i watched one or two....

i built my computer from scrap , i named it windows 3000, i put in cd rewriter's, dvd players and recorders andit puts broadband to shame

what are the specs on yours? I coulda spent more on mine but right now i'm only about $1100 in the hole.

well...i spent $500 on a base system (Atlon XP 2000+ w/a cd-rw n a 17" monitor n a 40 GB hd) n i dropped in, lets see a 128 mb graphics card, a dvd-rom, a 160 gb hd, i spent $30 cutting a window n putting in internal lighting and another fan...i have grill lighting...uh..yeah...so its resale value is around $1500 now...but im not gonna sell it anyway...
im gonna buy a new motherboard, CPU and case, and transfer all the rest over into it, n have a kick @$$ supercomputer.

i bought mine, well actually my parents did

I didn't build mine myself, it was built buy a mate of my brothers

i got my comp from ebay. its an amd athlon 3200.

great comp but i gotta get a new hardrive.

I built mine and the one before it... this new one took me about half an hour. It cost ne $1500 - Radeon 9800 Pro, 17" LCD Sony Monitor, 100 GB Harddrive, 1GB RAM, Powerful Speakers and Subwoofer, CDRW Ultra Speed, and 3.06 GHz!

Me? Build something?

I used to botch Lego jobs back in the day

i had to build this computer from leaves, some mud, and a used-up toothpaste holder

works just fine though

I bought it. LOL i remember this thread on another forum on how to build a computer lol.
http://www.blizzforums.com/showthread.php?t=38548&highlight=build+computer+LOL

man i'm sooo stuck. I got the 4 pin and 20 pin connectors going to the mother board...i'm pretty sure i have everything connected correctly except i have these controls to adjust the speed of the cooling fans that i can't understand how to hook up, and when i plug it in, no power is running throught the system...it sucks!

Not good.

u sure the power supply is plugged in? as for the fan controllers, use a four pin connector from the power supply to power that, n then plug the fans into it...

recheck the connections on EVERYTHING if u dont have power...cuz u might, n not jsu have one thing plugged in preventing the circuit to be incomplete.

yeah i know that much....i don't think the 12 pronged plug has any practical use for normal computer usage.

It'd be a lot nicer if the Comp Case came with decent instructions for all of the connections but instead it says to refer to the mother boards instructions.

I have 6 of those 4 pinned power supply cords. i need one for the cd-rom, 1 for the hard drive, and one for the floppy. oh and one for the graphics card.

That leaves me with 2 for 6...maybe...7 fans, but i have connectors on each fan. So will one 4 pinned power cord be able to route the power to all 6/7 fans?

of course you have to build your own pc, those you get in the shop are just awfully bad

this is my PC...as you can see...it doesnt look like a factory built anymore...cuz i dont consider it one anymore...

thats the darkness pic...

n the front grill

My brother built my computer. He's an engineer or something like that

ok now i need different help.

this weekend i got my OS installed and all of my drivers are installed too, but for some reason i can't connect to the internet and i don't have sound.

It's really starting to piss me off...

The mind boggles..........

sure your sound is set for the OS? my friend didn't bother to check and got stuck with that problem

and net ... can be a lot of things

yup i built my piece of shit computer on my own
oh i hate this thing