Be honest, how easy is it too....

Yeah, it's pretty easy, even if you're doing it for the first time. Just make sure you read up about different components, what bit does what, what bit goes where and it'll be a breeze.

There's also an abundance of guides on the net if you ever get confused or something, but you'll be fine!
 
It really is simple nowadays mate, just make sure you buy a charge-absorbing rubber wrist strap and follow the motherboard manual. Also, if you get stuck there are loads of topics on these forums that can help you and lots of people who will be willing to help you out.

Hope this helps skeeny.
 
nicktay2605 said:
, just make sure you buy a charge-absorbing rubber wrist strap
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it's an anti-static wristband, and it doesn't absorb charge -.-


OT quite easy, there are lots of guides all over the interweb. the fun bits are speccing your PC and overclocking it after you've built it :D
 
For me the best bit of building a PC completely from scratch is seeing all the boxes sitting on your desk waiting to be opened.

The worst bit is pressing the power button for the first time, and absolutely nothing happens. :D I've been there many times.
 
I built my first PC a few weeks back skeeny. I'm really not that technically minded, but having researched a) parts, and b) the build itself, it all went without a single hitch. I even flashed the BIOS.

The moment when I pressed the power button for the first time was truly nerve-wracking, but all fans, cooler etc whirred into life and I breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Edit; Oh I tell a lie, there was one hitch - I connected the HD activity LED header backwards on the mobo. Took me a few days to even notice it to be honest :p
 
Its so easy to stick it together (iv done it drunk before.....) just remember to touch something earthed (like a light switch) just to remove static you might have (then again iv built a few literally in bed and had no problems), best thing to do its not be cheap with things like ram and psu
 
2 things make it Simple.

1. Another PC that's Online.
2. The Phone number of somebody who knows what they are doing or has self built.

If you can put an Airfix kit or Meccano together you can build a system.
 
Download the Motherboard manual, and any of the others that you can.
Then read them. Then read them again, and then again.
You'll pick up info you may have missed in previous readings.
(Plus scanning the forum for the parts your actually gonna buy is no bad idea either.)
Any info is good info.

It's only the same as a very simple jigsaw puzzle. All the bits interlock.
 
I built a new PC last month and havent built from scratch for 9 years so was a bit worried as technology has come a long way.

What I done was to mount the motherboard and hold it upto the light so I can see if anything is touching the tray that shouldn't be. That could be one of the main causes for not booting.

On first boot I then went into the bios and set optimised defaults and then checked the temps and then installed vista.

Everything ran great from first boot.

Oh...Sort out all your wiring and tidying things up once you know everything works...Theres nothing worse than having to cut cable ties and undo all your work so you can troubleshoot.

Just take your time and you will be fine.
 
The mobo manual basically tells you all the complicated bits, other than that, things like putting in the GFX card, PSU, HDDs etc are very simple.
 
the key thing is handling of the components and make sure you get stuff that works together. if i can build a PC anyone can!
 
Putting it together is easy.

The moment nothing happens when you hit the power button is where the fun starts.:)
 
Before doing anything look through the motherboard manual before hand if you havent done it before, pay particular attention to how to correctly fit the CPU and it's heatsink. Make sure you have all the various powerleads plugged into the motherboard correctly and watch out for the little cables that connect to the front panel of the machine (had a "hit the power button and nothing happens" today when I had one of those wrong and I've been building boxes for many many years).

If you know what you are getting then download any driver updates beforehand so you don't have to wait for them to come down when you are building and installing.
 
Lunatic Dreyfus said:
The worst bit is pressing the power button for the first time, and absolutely nothing happens. :D I've been there many times.
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Thankfully the solution is pretty simple usually. The worst bit for me is connecting the motherboard headers, closely followed by the fact that I don't think I've ever built a PC without cutting myself on the case edges (even when they are rolled :confused: :D).

That said it is very easy to do, all you really require is time, patience and basic co-ordination.
 
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