Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 03:45:00 05/24/04
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On May 23, 2004 at 18:34:26, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >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! You can also look at: http://www.mysuperpc.com/ This is what I used as a general guide - but there are dozens of web sites like this one. Vas
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