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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:59:07 05/24/04

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On May 24, 2004 at 06:45:00, Vasik Rajlich wrote:

>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

Thanks

I decided at this point that I will not try to build the computer by myself.
I have problem with technical stuff like using screwdriver and after I had
problems with doing it with some old PII I decided to leave it.

I still want to know every detail by myself and even if somebody build it for me
I want to watch the details in the process.

I still need to choose the exact parts and I hope that the link that you gave me
will help me.

I will probably not go for opteron250 and I will need to get details about
prices for opteron248 or opteron246.

Uri



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