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

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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