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Subject: Re: question for people who build their own computer

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:57:14 05/23/04

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On May 23, 2004 at 11:43:14, Vasik Rajlich wrote:

>On May 23, 2004 at 07:40:32, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>Did you get help from somebody in doing this task and I am not talking about
>>help in advise in the internet but about help in meeting persons who have some
>>experience in it or learning some special course that help you to do it?
>>
>>People that I talk with them are against the idea of buying the parts unless I
>>learn first how to do it or find somebody to help me with it before doing it.
>>
>>Uri
>
>It's not hard - but be prepared to spend a little bit of time.
>
>I built my first computer about a year ago, without any previous hardware
>experience. I'd guess it took around 10 hours of reading & internet research
>(some of it to try to understand the performance issues), and 5 hours or so of
>manual work.
>
>Repeating the procedure recently - not more than 5 hours total, for two
>computers.
>
>Vas

I do not like to do something against all the people around me so I decided that
at this point that I am not going to spend a lot of money about hardware.

I thought first to build a cheap computer for less than 200$ and only later
continue to build more expensive computer but the person who I talked with him
suggest that first thing I try to build some old computer that he already has
when I get the parts of it and if I can do it I will continue to the next step.

I said that I will think about it and I suspect that it is possible that it may
be harder because when I choose relevant parts of the computer that I plan to
buy I already can choose them in a way that it is easier to build it.

Another problem is that it is possible that there are better instructions for
the parts that people here can suggest me to buy than the instructions for parts
of some old computer so the task may be harder inspite of the advantage of being
able to see the process of getting the parts from the original old computer.

Uri



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