So, how difficult is putting a PC together.

I'm wanting to know from your guy's personal experience. From your first time to your latest. I'm going to be ordering parts soon, and i dont wanna pay some guy 200 bucks if i can do it myself. I want to know some saftey precautions so i don't damage the parts and any other advice. Thanks : )

ever played with legos well yea

Lol what child hasnt? So far i've only put in a new PSU and GPU. I'm worried about something not working when i turn it on and not know what the problem is.

yea dont worry if it doesnt work just double check cause i almost freaked out when my comp wouldnt start but it turned out i forgot to plug in the extra 4 pin into the mobo :p

Mk, how do i ground myself exactly? And installing a cpu, fromwhat i understand, is matching up the triangle corners, don touch the pins, and place it on top. Then apply the fan, lock it in, and thats it?

Ground yourself? You don't really need to, they have them static wristbands, I have never used one. Placing cpu is just(Intel lga 775, 1366 I think as well) is just putting the black piece where you lift it, and make going

CPU ->(facing this way, that black thing)memory modules

videocard

pci stuff

Mk, how do i ground myself exactly? And installing a cpu, fromwhat i understand, is matching up the triangle corners, don touch the pins, and place it on top. Then apply the fan, lock it in, and thats it?

Papadrach

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Mk, how do i ground myself exactly? And installing a cpu, fromwhat i understand, is matching up the triangle corners, don touch the pins, and place it on top. Then apply the fan, lock it in, and thats it?

GhoX

ever played with legos well yea

fatcat13sep

yeah...except if you break your lego piece it won't put you $50-$200 in the hole :o

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Mk, how do i ground myself exactly? And installing a cpu, fromwhat i understand, is matching up the triangle corners, don touch the pins, and place it on top. Then apply the fan, lock it in, and thats it?

GhoX

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ever played with legos well yea

Sparticus247

yeah...except if you break your lego piece it won't put you $50-$200 in the hole :o

Btw, Theres a sticky topic on the top of this section on how-to. *hides!

THE BEST guide this is what I read as I was buildning my first computer

http://www.corsair.com/systembuild/report.aspx?report_id=78237nbsp;

It used to be hard now it is as easy as putting together a 10 peice jig-saw puzzle.

Its an AMD Phenom II X4 945 at 3.0 ghz. i think im good

THE BEST guide this is what I read as I was buildning my first computer

http://www.corsair.com/systembuild/report.aspx?report_id=78237nbsp;

Shade340

one way not to pay for labour is just to get a quote from one place, and then go to another placea nd ask them to beat the price. the first thing they will genereally chop is the labour fee as it takes nerds about 30-60mins to assemble some PCs

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ever played with legos well yea

JigglyWiggly_

yeah...except if you break your lego piece it won't put you $50-$200 in the hole :o

lol but sometimes accidents happen. Such as smoke coming out from our ram slot at school. All the guy did was insert the stick to add more memory and sparks flew once we turned it on lol.

K well im going to buy the parts sometime this week. I think ill buy an antistatic wrist band and build it in my livingroom basement, sense theres a spot in the hall that is cement. So ill lower my chances of shocking something.

Did the first on my own when I was 11 :P

But kind of really easy

Just make sure you have that armband-thingy so you wont zapp yourself or your hardware

It's one of those things which is simple when you know what you're doing. But not so simple when you dont.

All you need is a tutorial and then you study it and it won't be too hard. But Don't jump straight into things though. That is when people make mistakes. because you'll end up doing something like installing mobo without stand offs. Or jamming the ram in the wrong way or something. Just read a tutorial "alot" and then build it.

K thanks for the imput. Approx. how long will it take?

Built my first one in September.

It seems scary at first, but once you start it's a peice of cake.

You just put one part in at a time so it's pretty hard to actually screw up.

only trouble i had was pluggin in the pc speaker( not speakers, but a small one inside the case), and LEDS all I had to do was rotate them around.

Took 4 hours from opening my box from newegg.com, to booting up the first time.

So after all the parts are put together, what do you have to update/install? First boot it up and insert the Mobo CD, then W7? then update the graphics drivers online?

Alright thank u very much,

Building your own computer isn't really all that complicated, you just need to know what to do and when. I built my first one when I was 15, and I just read up on it both online and in a "Build your own PC for Dummies" book, both of which were quite helpful.

If you research the internals of a computer, it's quite easy. Before I built my first computer last year, I researched the parts I will use, and where they'll go. It was a piece of cake. I built my computer in a 2 hours but it wasn't working just yet. I had to wait a few more day for my Vista to be delivered. The rest is history.