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OK, so I'm new here and a little premature in my questions but, I will be building a new rig in the summer, probably July time. The exact timing is dependent upon a couple of things but primarily, I want to see what direction, timescale and pricing the new Robson tech will take.

Anyways, will be looking at building a quad core with most likely a R600 (again, this depends on whether the NV 8900 or 8950 are out or likely to be soon at that point).

My question is pretty basic actually regardless of the above ramblings. Whn building your PC is it normal to throw everything together before the big switch on or is it recommended to put it together in stages? i.e. add in PCI cards one at a time to make it easier to identify any potential problems?

I mean, your going to have to put the basics on to start with, CPU, ram, hd, GPU on but... hey, you know what I mean anyway :)

Excuse me going on, work gets boring sometimes.

Vorm.
 
Thanks Voo.

I also live in Hull. Don't suppose you use the local newsgroups do you?


Vorm
 
melbourne720 said:
Most stuff is on the mobo these days, you may find that you don't need any PCI cards.

I can only think of a couple myself, that being sound card and wireless lan if needed. I'm sure there's more. Maybe a USB2 card!
 
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Ahhh, sounds like I'm not going to have any problems then!

Shouldn't speak so soon :)
 
:) it's so obviously such a long time since I put one together I didn't appreciate how much comes onboard nowadays.

How does the onboard sound compare to a separate card?
 
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