Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 15:34:26 05/23/04
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On May 23, 2004 at 13:19:30, Uri Blass wrote: >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 This plan will help you learn how to put a computer together correctly, but it will do little or nothing in helping you to learn how to trouble shoot should your project of putting a new computer together take an unlucky turn. Good luck!
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