Looking to Build Myself a computer?

Here's a great site. It has video tutorials.

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/build-a-computer...

I built my first computer from sratch and everyone since then. Its really easy once you take the time to understand what components match up with eachother and that is pretty easy to learn in itself.

I use the overclockers.co.uk forum to check my specs also to see if anyone has any better suggestions. These guys will so let you know if there is something you are missing.

Good luck

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If you're dead set on building your own system. Then there are many sites out there that will help you along the way. BSOD pointed out a couple of them. However, if your not going to use the system for gaming or anything like that. Your best bet is to buy from a dealer like Dell, Gateway or one of the many others. If you just have to have a high end reliable system the try digital storm. They build some really fantastic systems at a very reasonable price.

If you are unfamiliar with building a computer you can start with whats called a bare-bones system. This is basically just a case, mother board, and maybe a processor installed for you. You can then get the rest of the components online or scrap some from your old computer.

Here is a pretty good guide for beginners:

http://www.daileyint.com/build/

Good Luck!!!

The thing now is reali anything with 2 cores, like the Intel dual core or AMD x2. Each of these archetectures will massively improve system running and multi tasking. So once you have picked your processor you can pick the motherboard to fit the chip socket. After this memory and hd are the most important things. Graphic wise anything that is PCI and direct 10 compatible.

www.aria.co.uk

www.scan.co.uk

www.overclockers.co.uk

www.yoyotech.co.uk

These are very good suppliers of computer parts.

In addition to the answers above, www.tigerdirect.com is a great place to buy the components you need. www.newegg.com is another good one.

Basically you'll need a tower, power supply, motherboard, cpu, cpu fan, video card. The motherboard will probably come with a network card and audio card built in. You'll need a hard drive and dvd/cd-rom drive. All of these parts will come with instructions on how to install them.

A decent magazine that has featured build-your-own articles this past year is COMPUTER SHOPPER. It is a ZDNET publication so you can go to their site for related information.

One of the best technical sites for computing IMHO is:

http://www.tomshardware.com/

They have been going through a lot of build-your-own sessions, making low-end, mid-end, and high-end systems and testing them against each other to figure out the best bang-for-the-buck. So do check that site out!

I have always been a fan of Tom's hardware tutorials;

http://www.tomshardware.com/2002/09/04/building_yo...

http://www.buildyourowncomputer.net/learntobuild.h...

http://www.build-your-own-computers.com/

http://www.pcmech.com/byopc