ABS Ultimate V2 36... worth buying?

[S!X]

Temporarily at least, beware of ABIT.
They are in severe financial trouble and who knows what might happen.
I have no knowledge of product quality declining, but the lack of future BIOS revisions could turn into a real problem.

should I take that FATAL1TY board outta the picture and look elsewhere?

[lynx]

I know how to put in RAM, HDDs, video cards and stuff.

Well that's 90% of it to start with. If you are confident about doing that much the rest is really very much the same, but with a few more screws.

There's no reason why a system with Socket 939 and pci-e should be much more expensive, the only difference is the motherboard (maybe $20 more), the graphics card (maybe $20 less) and the cpu (difference depends on which one you go for).

Maybe you should look at other suppliers, newegg isn't the only source. I could beat most of those prices for prebuilt systems in the UK, and our prices are generally quite a bit higher.

[clocker]

But its so much more, damn my budget.

Oh, you poor, poor consumer...I feel your pain.

Decide what you MUST have ("x" framerate in Doom3, etc) and then go from there.
Now that you've settled on a platform (socket939) you get to pick a chipset.
I'd recommend nVidia nForce4.

Go big on the motherboard, you can upgrade peripherals easily (add more RAM, even upgrade the CPU), but it's better to start with good underpinnings and work up.

Don't neglect the power supply.
It is increasingly important to today's systems ( which are sucking up watts at an ever rising rate) and is frequently ignored, much to the dismay of trouble-prone owners.

[Rip The Jacker]

Damn.

- I can't buy the parts online and build it because... well I just can't.
- I can't buy a PC from a store, because they overprice the shit out of everything.
- I no longer want to buy the PC online, because I read a bunch of horror stories at resellerratings.com, and if anything goes wrong, returning the PC will be a bitch.

What do I do?

[S!X]

Theres always newegg.com if you need to find parts

[Rip The Jacker]

True, but who's going to build it? :S

[S!X]

True, but who's going to build it? :S

You got any buddy's who can do it for you?

[Rip The Jacker]

Well yeah, I have a friend who suggested building one, and offered to do it for me. The thing is, I've never seen him build a computer, I don't know if he can do it for sure, or if he can fix any problems that arise.

:-/

[S!X]

Well yeah, I have a friend who suggested building one, and offered to do it for me. The thing is, I've never seen him build a computer, I don't know if he can do it for sure, or if he can fix any problems that arise.

:-/

Heh, I dont think I can fix any problems that arise with this thing I wanna put together but im gonna try my best and if anything happens I'll ask on here Im sure clocker would be a good helper. Ask the dude if hes good with that stuff and if he fucks somethin up kick his ass

[Rip The Jacker]

Kicking his ass won't give me my $1,000+ back.

It's just too much work, I know for a fact that more than one problem will come up. After all, computers die for no reason. And asking for help at a forum is too much trouble.

Gah this sucks.