i'd have to say in order of most difficult first:

1. wiring. i hate wiring. fortunately as PC technology advances, the cables get thinner! still, it gets confusing sometimes to plug the right stuff at the right place on the motherboard.

2. getting the motherboard correctly placed in the case. removable mobo trays really help though, but not all cases have this luxury!

3. troubleshooting a problem. it could be during the build or when your booting up for the first time. some of them take a while to fix while others is a quick correction.

some of you guys may or may not agree, but this is what I thought from my last couple of builds.

sorry to hijack the thread a little, i hope you don't mind. but since we are on the topic of newegg...

does anyone else have problems using PayPal to pay for their order? Everytime I try to, I get an error from newegg, which tells me to try again if this error message was a mistake. So I do try again. I must've tried again 6 or 7 times altogether. I emailed newegg but it wasn't much help. thanks.

i don't remember exact specs, I just know it had Windows 3.11. I shared it with sister

My first official PC was a P3, 128MB RAM, Windows 98 overpaid piece of junk.

[QUOTE="xwengstax"]actually i was told the BIOS update for my laptop would do something with the video driver but I'm not quite sure what. dayaccus007

Those are completely different things

Known issues:

Modified:
1. Add DTS table for TJ85 CPU.
2. Update nVidia NB8P(60.84.42.00.23) & NB8M(60.86.39.00.26) VBIOS.
3. Add SLP feature for WinXP back.

First of all I want to say Hi. I haven't been on Gamespot let alone the PCH forum in a while. Time to catch up with the new stuff....

Ok so I decided to run 3DMarks06 on my desktop computer. The specs are in my sig. Mind you, I haven't run the benchmark program since 3DMarks01 SE and I know the scoring rubric changes with each revision so I'm not sure if mine is on target. My final score for the beast of a rig was 89. That seemed a bit low to me..... I'm not devastatingly disappointed but I was hoping for maybe a 100?

My laptop faired a bit better. It's a Sager NP2090 (Compal IFL90). Specs are:

Windows Vista Ultimate
Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 Santa Rosa 2.0GHZ
1GB DDR2 667 PC2 5300
80GB 7200RPM Hitachi Travelstar 7K100
nVidia GeForce 8600M GT 512MB

The score was 3270. I think someone else with the same model laptop (some spec differences) acheived 3800. I can probably do better with a BIOS update and a few other things but how's this score?

Thanks