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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:19:30 05/23/04

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On May 23, 2004 at 12:57:14, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

I will probably try first with some old computer and I plan to try tomorrow.

The person that I talk with him tells me that seeing how the computer is built
is better than every instruction that I can get and I can write everything
before I do it and that the old computers are not more complicated then new
computer that I can choose and only the opposite can be correct.

Uri



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