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Originally Posted by Ledgem
Ooh, I love threads like this! It's almost as good a going shopping for yourself.
Before I can evaluate your components, there's a big thing you left out: what do you use your computer for? What do you see yourself doing with it in the future? The tasks you want to do make a difference; some motherboards have very few SATA slots (if you need a lot of storage and want to use your system as a server), others have few RAM slots/limited RAM support (important if you want to do 3D rendering), etc.
As for piecing everything together, I think it's pretty easy. Installing the CPU to the motherboard can be scary, just because you don't want to risk breaking anything. I think what's worse is getting the heatsink on. In my case, I scraped off the default thermal paste and put on some Arctic silver. I had no idea if I'd put on too much or too little, or if it had spread right, and worse, you need to let it settle in for a day or so of activity before it reaches optimum operation (in other words, until you can tell whether you messed up or not). Overall, not so bad though.
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About the sata slots, the gigabyte one has 8. I think 8 is more than enough. It's not like I am going to buy a lot of HDD.
About the cpu issue all i know if the p3 and the athlon xp 2200 that I got and it simply was too attach to the mb and that's it. You talk about thermal paste... well I rather not go that way. :P
About the video card. Last time I didn't inform well and I was in a hurry to get 1 and so I bought the GF4 MX. Piece of crap that didn't have pixel shader and so I couldn't play a lot of games. It's not like I play the game with max settings. As long as it has some reasonable setting so that it wont look bad and it wont drag either. That's why I am going to 2G of ram too.
Anyway no 3D rendering here. Mostly games and anime. For anime I can be sure that it wont drag with those high definitions like with my current PC.
To be honest what is making me buy a new PC is that I can't play all h264 encodes. There for I need a new PC.