Baby Wizards Computer Builders PC People...

cosmicB · Last edited by cosmicB on Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:15 pm; edited 1 time in total

Computer Wizards, in training..

Howzabout a thread where you tells how you built your computer from bits from here, there, and everywhere... Tells us like you are talkin'it right to our faces.. Tell it like to friends...

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"Baby Wizards" seems a good theme to push it on...

"Computer Builders" pulls more traffic from the realm...

"PC People" has a nice ring to it...

I can't decide... Umm.. I'll call it "Baby Wizards Computer Builders PC People", for now.. till someone has the moxy to push that whole thing into one-word which accurately suits it... But that one hant been born yet...
Sure is a weird-feeling knowing your master hasn't been born yet...
I kinda makes one feel so alone that it can't get anymore solo...

Lets hear how the world's novice computer geniuses built their computers.. spoken like they were telling it around a very high campfire... so far, that friendly fuzzy forest squirrels are resting on Fred and Fran's shoulders, preening and combing tails, whilst exotic female dancers strut for us in fire's light... while the little gray-one is letting Fran comb its tail with a soft brush... frannie makes me feel home...

I've seen enough stuff on the computer-market, to know that the only way I can get a good computer, is to build it myself... and load it with Apple, PC, OpenSource, and Linux... and play at the keyboards, till I've got the software that establishes a 5th stage hologram, "pulling down my zipper"...
to inverse the package, to force reverse feedback, in establishing biolinks, which obsolete and replace mouse and keyboard...

[Me thinks if I gets financed by some one who reads me here at FFF, as soon as I was financially fluent, I will double FFF from what it is, with a forgivable loan...]

minigirl

cosmicB · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject:

OK.. You've got it... You are spared... Now what?..

boingo · Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:53 am Post subject:

I built my computer from components, but I'm not telling how I did it. Na Na Na

cosmicB · Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject:

That's nice... Not expected from a classy Aussi-dude like you, but cute... Seems the biches have pulled you down into their bucket... Don't forget to wipe, and wash your hands before you eat...

Obvious this isn't the place for this type of computer-theme...

Maybe Zia, double Moyron, Bumpies, and Marbles, could all enter this thread and mess it up some for some harmless fun... It needs their destructive touch...

boingo · Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject:

It takes too long to describe how I went about choosing all the parts and putting it together.
The basic thing I did was researching good brands for parts, then I chose a good motherboard and made sure everything else would work with it.
I had to make sure I had the right expansion slots for the cards I was planning to transfer from my old PC and enough to expand later if I want.
I checked how many watts I'd need to run my planned system, so I'd get a transformer that would work.
Then I chose a case that would be compatible with my mother board size and luckily it also came with a 450Watt power supply and a crap load of power cables with various plugs. Way more than I'll ever need.
I went with an Intel Celeron 2.8GHz chip because it was cheap and I was on a tight budget. The mother board supports all available chips well into the future, including quad core and hyper threading, so I'll be set for the future. The mother board is the hardest component to swap out, so it's best not to be too stingy when choosing one. It needs to last for at least a couple of years.
I went with ASUS because it's cheap and I've never heard of any problems with the brand.

Because I used some old components, such as old hard drives, CD/DVD drives, keyboard, mouse and monitor, I saved a bit. In all it cost me about $600 to build. It would have cost about that in labour to get a pre-built system.
Everything's plug 'n' play these days, so that really makes things easy. With exception to changing the boot sequence to Floppy Disk, CD/DVD then Hard Drive, I didn't bother with any other tweaking except for automated ones.

jinjin · FemaleFirst Guru Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 85555

I want the µcard. Although there was talk about a 2 TB µcard many years back, they have yet to start mass producing it. If they do then I would surely buy it and build a fairly large capacity disk-less computer.