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Red Squirrel wrote: The bios is built on, the OS is just like installing any other software.

The hardest part is probably knowing what's compatible and what's not.  Ex: when I first started I figured you could put an intel cpu on an AMD motherboard and vise versa.  These are all things to research, and most good suppliers will tell you if the parts you order are not compatible, if you ask.

red is right. it really isnt that hard. and if you read the manuals on some tof the stuff (heaven forbid ) they tell you everything u need to know. it is easy as......ummmm.............as..............................................making a small model car without sodering. except it is a lot bigger and more fragile. just dont touch the green places, especially with power on. (ow). and i wouldnt suggest the finger in the fan either. or, smelling the freon. or touching the freon. actually, a lot of things are dangerous. but it is safe as long as ur not stupid. ex: " i wonder what happens if i fool around with the motherboard.... while there is power! yeah. that'll be fun." dont do that. it is a bad idea. i promise.

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i cant even fix a remote, let alone build a computer! good job!

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Jack Potato wrote: i cant even fix a remote, let alone build a computer! good job!

lol


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Freon? I'm confused i built a computer and i don't think there's any freon in it. Do you have a liquid cooling system in your computer or is there a refridgerator close by?

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It got to be cooling.

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Everything's great in the world of computers.

My Windows 98 is nothing but Intel chipsets and everythin'. and half the crap, they don't even make anymore. So I couldn't find really any good driver info, since they were all fagged up.. although, I eventually found it on their website

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i let somebody else handle this computer stuff...

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It's really easy to get into building computers. I've built a total of 3 now, 2 were mine (gave the old one to a friend), and one was for my father.

There's some really fun stuff you can do with it too. My latest computer has a clear perspex window, so you can see everything inside. I've put two UV bulbs in wired up to a switch, that i put on the front of the case by drilling a hole. All the wires are wrapped with UV reactive material, and the fans are also UV reactive, so when you flick the UV bulbs on, everything glows. Looks really great at night.

The next thing i'm gonna experiment with is definitely water cooling. As you get more confident, you can do more interesting things.

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Yeah water cooling is cool. (no pun intended) If I had the cash I'd try it out. I've thought of freon cooling but the problem is you need special papers to handle that stuff, and compressors arn't cheap to get.

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Is it just me... Or does 130GB Hard Drive say crap to you to?

The PC i'm getting;

500GB Hard Drive
4GB RAM
3.7GHz Processor
TWO XFX GeForce 6800 GT 256MB GHx Cards SLi (So basically 6GB RAM )

Who loves me? :biggrin:

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That would cost like 2 grand here... not the PC, just those specific parts alone. Probably more.

And how can two SLI 256MB cards add up to 6GB? It's more like 512MB

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Well with the 4GB RAM it has already... *Cough*, sum it up .

And... The whole lot is only costing me 1700 . In British pounds obviously.

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LOL edited my post, somehow I figured that two cards that are 256MB would make 1GB of video ram... suuuure....

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lol Shut up, so i only got a C in Maths . But still, 4.5GB RAM is still pretty high .

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You're just jealous...

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Yeah but it's system ram that matters, so really you have 4GB. But I heard when you max out the mobo to 4GB it needs some of it for something, I forget exactly though, something about the chipset using up like half gig or something... I'd have to reread that in my manual as I'm probably way off, and confusing people.

And I hope you play intensive games to have those two video cards. SLI cards are frigen expensive! If you say "unix server" I'll kill you for putting such high end video cards. Very crystal clear text. lol

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I was thinking about going SLI on the new 7800 GeForce... But i thnik that'd be far too powerful...

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