Witchking_of_Angmar
Smash Lord
All right, since I'm getting confirmed on Sunday and will be receiving lots of money, I'm going to build a new computer from scratch. Actually I knew this about half a year ago which is why I'm getting money for the most part and not other gifts, but that's beside the point. I've worked out this setup so far. All prices are in Euro and all links are to Alternate.de, a German electronics store.
AMD Phenom "Agena" 2,6 Ghz x4 - 124,90
I plan to overclock it to 3 GHz if possible.
Case - 36,78
This was a recommendation by a friend of mine, it's a rather cheap case but according to the reviews well manufactured, so it seems like a good choice.
Asrock A770 Crossfire Motherboard - 59,90
GeIL 4GB RAM - 44,99
GeIL is a very well known manufacturer of RAM in Germany, not sure how well known they are in the States.
Western Digital D 640 GB HDD - 59,90
Zotac Nvidia 9800GT - 99,90
I don't plan on doing too much gaming on my PC (I have a Wii and DS), but I don't want to be too behind, so I thought the 9800 GT was a good compromise, especially considering the price.
Corsair power source - 74,90
Pioneer DVD Burner - 29,99
Fan x2 - 9,98
CPU Cooler - 38,49
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598.83 €
Like I said above, I won't be gaming too much on this rig, so I don't need a very expensive graphics card. I'll run Linux as primary OS and see how long I'll be able to cope without installing Windows at all using Wine and Virtual Box only. For Virtual Box I'll need plenty of RAM, and I use the dolphin emulator a lot so the RAM is important. I'm also getting into programming, so I'll be doing a lot of multitasking running/compiling programs and having my Firefox running on the side etc. etc. so I decided to go for a quad core. I would have liked an Intel processor, but in combination with the Intel motherboards they are far more expensive than AMD, so in the end I went for the Phenom X4 @2.6 GHz. I already mentioned I'll probably overclock it- I'm already building the entire thing from scratch, I don't think there's a high risk involved here.
So I'm pretty sure what I want. What I have no clue about, on the other hand, is actually assembling the darn thing. I found some tutorials online (like this one, but I'm not sure how reliable they are. Unless it's completely unnecessary I'll probably look into buying a book on the subject. This is where I really need any advice you guys can give me.
Help, tips, recommendations and corrections would be much appreciated.
AMD Phenom "Agena" 2,6 Ghz x4 - 124,90
I plan to overclock it to 3 GHz if possible.
Case - 36,78
This was a recommendation by a friend of mine, it's a rather cheap case but according to the reviews well manufactured, so it seems like a good choice.
Asrock A770 Crossfire Motherboard - 59,90
GeIL 4GB RAM - 44,99
GeIL is a very well known manufacturer of RAM in Germany, not sure how well known they are in the States.
Western Digital D 640 GB HDD - 59,90
Zotac Nvidia 9800GT - 99,90
I don't plan on doing too much gaming on my PC (I have a Wii and DS), but I don't want to be too behind, so I thought the 9800 GT was a good compromise, especially considering the price.
Corsair power source - 74,90
Pioneer DVD Burner - 29,99
Fan x2 - 9,98
CPU Cooler - 38,49
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598.83 €
Like I said above, I won't be gaming too much on this rig, so I don't need a very expensive graphics card. I'll run Linux as primary OS and see how long I'll be able to cope without installing Windows at all using Wine and Virtual Box only. For Virtual Box I'll need plenty of RAM, and I use the dolphin emulator a lot so the RAM is important. I'm also getting into programming, so I'll be doing a lot of multitasking running/compiling programs and having my Firefox running on the side etc. etc. so I decided to go for a quad core. I would have liked an Intel processor, but in combination with the Intel motherboards they are far more expensive than AMD, so in the end I went for the Phenom X4 @2.6 GHz. I already mentioned I'll probably overclock it- I'm already building the entire thing from scratch, I don't think there's a high risk involved here.
So I'm pretty sure what I want. What I have no clue about, on the other hand, is actually assembling the darn thing. I found some tutorials online (like this one, but I'm not sure how reliable they are. Unless it's completely unnecessary I'll probably look into buying a book on the subject. This is where I really need any advice you guys can give me.
Help, tips, recommendations and corrections would be much appreciated.