Akasa A-62 AMD x6 *Zosma* build

Makes me wonder. I'm 15 and often repair XBoxes, PS3s and graphics cards for friends. However, what you have to remember is that having an oven/heatgun and having done GCSE electronics does not make you a pro electronics engineer!

If your going to do anything, do it properly- don't buy 'untested' rubbish from ebay, just save up and buy it all from OcUK or another reputable retailer rather than kidding yourself that you are going to save a fortune from buying from eBay.

If you are seriously interested in my advice, then I'll give it to you- I have run my own review website for a year and have recently been employed by a much bigger one, and everyone else here on the forums has been giving you perfect advice from the offset. However, considering you seem to know everything there is to know about computers, components and electronics you don't need it, right?

I just don't know how you can know a decent amount about computers and make such terrible mistakes. I mean, at school I talk to console gamers who originally didn't know anything about computers, but they ask my advice on things and I'll tell them the basics of one thing or another, and after a while they have accumulated quite a bit of knowledge. After a little casual talking about it, a few of them have specced and built their own PCs despite the fact they haven't looked into it much. But you have had lots of information available to you, you have had the advice of so many people and you have been told time and time again that you are making mistakes and you simply ignore it.

You would make a very good Prime Minister- you go round and listen to what people think and then completely ignore it!
 
Gundog48 said:
Makes me wonder. I'm 15 and often repair XBoxes, PS3s and graphics cards for friends. However, what you have to remember is that having an oven/heatgun and having done GCSE electronics does not make you a pro electronics engineer!

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If your going to do anything, do it properly- don't buy 'untested' rubbish from ebay, just save up and buy it all from OcUK or another reputable retailer rather than kidding yourself that you are going to save a fortune from buying from eBay.

this

If you are seriously interested in my advice, then I'll give it to you- I have run my own review website for a year and have recently been employed by a much bigger one, and everyone else here on the forums has been giving you perfect advice from the offset. However, considering you seem to know everything there is to know about computers, components and electronics you don't need it, right?

I just don't know how you can know a decent amount about computers and make such terrible mistakes. I mean, at school I talk to console gamers who originally didn't know anything about computers, but they ask my advice on things and I'll tell them the basics of one thing or another, and after a while they have accumulated quite a bit of knowledge. After a little casual talking about it, a few of them have specced and built their own PCs despite the fact they haven't looked into it much. But you have had lots of information available to you, you have had the advice of so many people and you have been told time and time again that you are making mistakes and you simply ignore it.

and this

You would make a very good Prime Minister- you go round and listen to what people think and then completely ignore it!
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hellarda said:
I lol'd :p
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So did I :p
 
snaggster said:
Spec'd you an ideal system.

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Though for the love of god. if it breaks, please don't use a heat gun on it. Your mum won't appreciate the smell of burning plastic.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
**** me i am crying everytime i look at this its hrd to typee
 
i dont buy pre-built, ive built and rebuilt many computers before, this is just murphys law, byebye ocuk forum, i wont be posting here again, but maybe the mm :L
 
xxela1337 said:
Solution: Make better decisions. But really Zac, we don't wanna see ya go.
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bad descisions, or exeperements, i wasnt 100% i have improved allot, but sometimes the masses sort of overpowers self belife, leeving me feel well... not wanted here
im probably buying a phenom x3 tommorow
 
ZZZAC said:
im probably buying a phenom x3 tommorow
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Assuming thats from here (or another reputable shop), brand new and with a warranty then its not a bad choice tbh. Cheap as chips, fast enough for most tasks, a fair bit of overclocking headroom and if your lucky can be unlocked to a quad core.
 
ng93 said:
Assuming thats from here (or another reputable shop), brand new and with a warranty then its not a bad choice tbh. Cheap as chips, fast enough for most tasks, a fair bit of overclocking headroom and if your lucky can be unlocked to a quad core.
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yeah, right here, but on the clearance lines, but still a good choice for £60
 
and the story behind the x-fi is it turned up, and being described as "looks in good condition" i found there were scores to the trace's possibly causing a short circiut, and also there was a 1mm micro component with allot of black dust around it, i touched it to see weather it was still connected to the pcb and it fell of taking the contact points with it, so unless that part was specificity for a feature such as "digital out" which im probably not going to use then there's no point having it
 
I read all of these 20 pages. From my experience, i thought ebay was great. Now iv learned

1: Everyone lies there. You get the occasional good person.
2: Last pc component i bought of ebay turned out to be faulty, it was suppose to be shipped from newcastle but it came from hong kong which explained the long delivery. Few days later it went faulty .It was a 460gtx. Now i dont even trust the location of most of the sellers
3: Buying new stuff actually works out cheaper.
 
ZZZAC said:
hey, gues what arrived in the post today, a fried x-fi, time to resell as faulty

Edit: you win this round, but the war is not over yet!
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Not going to say told you...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=19702802&postcount=398

d_brennen said:
Forgive my skepticism ZZZAC, but the seasons have changed and still no final PC

BTW there is lots that can go wrong with ICs that you can barely see, let along fix with a soldering iron, although I hope you strike it lucky.
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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=19702887&postcount=400

d_brennen said:
Would I sell an item that's as easy to test as a sound card as "untested" and get FA for it? No

"Untested" is eBay parlance for ****ed most of the time :p
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Go on then, told you so
 
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