How Easy Is It To Build Your Own Computer?

[RGX]

Relativley easy as long as you know what goes where and basic anti-static stuff

[ZLOsiris]

its a piece of cake man. i bought most my hardware from ebay ,a nice 2100xp barebones pakage for $159 [ cpu mobo and a stick o 256 ddr] pretty much i bought everything elese on sale and rebates from local stores, lighting cdrw 48x16x48 $20, creative geforce 2 gts pro 64 mb $25 {ebay] , lighton dvd r $90, 80 gig westerdigital $20 ( thats right after rebates ), a nice clear acrylic case $89. few other odds and ends but my total cost was less than $500. If this woulda been store bought geez ur looking at $800- $900, with all the custom work and what not.

[Marius24]

yes alot of money can be saved building your own PC. And you can have your own specs so it is greatly advised

[DJ X]

If I'm installing a brand new CPU/heatsink will I need to apply any thermal paste or will it already be on it?

[bigdawgfoxx]

If you buy the retail heatsink, it will come with a pad on it. Thermal paste is recommended though.

[Virtualbody1234]

Originally posted by DJ X@7 March 2004 - 17:43
If I'm installing a brand new CPU/heatsink will I need to apply any thermal paste or will it already be on it?

The retail cooler has a pad like this:



Which can be used the first time but if you ever remove the cooler then you need to remove the pad completely and use some paste.


I prefer to remove the pad and use paste.




While looking for some images for this post...
I came across this INCORRECT way to apply arctic silver. Click to see.

[tesco]

Originally posted by Virtualbody1234@7 March 2004 - 20:14
While looking for some images for this post...
I came across this INCORRECT way to apply arctic silver.     Click to see.     

everywhere except for where its supposed to be

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[clocker]

Wow!
That fan must be much more powerful than it looks.

[RGX]

Heh, sems if all else fails and you know bugger all about cooling just pour the stuff on in litres, after all, more is better right?




My current project is modding an AMD heatsink onto an MX440, already have it at 310 clock, stock cooling, wonder how far before it artifacts?

[tesco]

Originally posted by RGX@8 March 2004 - 07:08
Heh, sems if all else fails and you know bugger all about cooling just pour the stuff on in litres, after all, more is better right?




My current project is modding an AMD heatsink onto an MX440, already have it at 310 clock, stock cooling, wonder how far before it artifacts?

my video card used to go foever overclocking never could get artifacts only when i do teh memory, but then i put too much arctic silver on and it wont go far anymore.