First post here. Tho I have been reading the board for advice for a few weeks now.
So. Heres my situation. Its high time for a new desktop. The one I have is about at the limit of improvement and I have been reccomended to buy a new one.
I'd quite like to build my own. Especially after having done a bit of research into what I want to do with it, it seems that buying the components via Pricespy and assembling it myself would get me a lot more computer per dollar spent.
But! Not having ever built a box before, I need some advice from those what knows.
Actually building the thing doesn't seem too hard, but as I'm sure you know, the daunting thing for the 1st timer is the sheer variety of 'stuff' availiable. Choosing what I want is hard enough, but I dont want to go and spend a wedge on components that don't work together or arn't even compatible.
I want to use it for the usual sort of household things, internet access and wotnot, but also to have the capability to do some limited video editing, of the digicam/basic editing and burning to disc variety, and to be able to play some games. Ive been playing Everquest, and my present computer handles it fine, but Im thinking of moving on the the new Lord of the Rings game when it comes out. I think my present system will struggle with it a bit. Ive got 1gig of RAM, and a decentish (2 years ago vid. card) But I think that its old enough now that improving it any further is p1$$1ng in the wind a bit.
Heres what Ive come up with so far.
Raidmax Ninja ATX Mid Tower Case, 520W PSU, Cos its pretty! and its got 520 PSU
Motherboard ????
Memory ????
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