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- 2 Jul 2010
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Good Morning/Afternoon children 
. I’ve been thinking about building a PC for a while now but have never had any source of income to support this ideal, nor have I had any idea where to get parts, however I now have a job and been directed here by a lot of friends from college and even some lecturers. Now being new to building computer I’d be wanting some advice, ideally I want to build a machine that’ll be good for gaming/programming/watching films on but not costing a lot of money and well I have a tendency to buy the most expensive thing just because well in my mind more money = better, although this is not necessarily true is it ☺.
Now I‘ve been advised but a fair few people that the two most important choices to make when building your own machine is the motherboard and the CPU, and well I’m not really sure which ones to go for,
I’ve considered:
AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1090T Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3)
with Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AMD 890GX (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard.
Now I’m sure that I want USB3.0 on my motherboard but I’m unsure if dishing out money for the 6 core black (drool) is worth it or should I go a 4 core processor. I’m also really unsure about all these number and stuff and as such have no idea what ram to get.
I also have a few old laptops that I can strip down to the basics and take the HDD out of but will these be compatible?? Also in terms of OS how should I go about getting one??
I know there’s A LOT of questions and I’m sure that there something that someone will know about in there so can anyone give me and feedback??
Thank you very much ☺
On a side note I don’t really want to be spending more that about 700 pound in total on the build as I have rent insurance to pay etc. so keep that in mind on the olde feedback
Thanks again.
. I’ve been thinking about building a PC for a while now but have never had any source of income to support this ideal, nor have I had any idea where to get parts, however I now have a job and been directed here by a lot of friends from college and even some lecturers. Now being new to building computer I’d be wanting some advice, ideally I want to build a machine that’ll be good for gaming/programming/watching films on but not costing a lot of money and well I have a tendency to buy the most expensive thing just because well in my mind more money = better, although this is not necessarily true is it ☺.Now I‘ve been advised but a fair few people that the two most important choices to make when building your own machine is the motherboard and the CPU, and well I’m not really sure which ones to go for,
I’ve considered:
AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1090T Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3)
with Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AMD 890GX (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard.
Now I’m sure that I want USB3.0 on my motherboard but I’m unsure if dishing out money for the 6 core black (drool) is worth it or should I go a 4 core processor. I’m also really unsure about all these number and stuff and as such have no idea what ram to get.
I also have a few old laptops that I can strip down to the basics and take the HDD out of but will these be compatible?? Also in terms of OS how should I go about getting one??
I know there’s A LOT of questions and I’m sure that there something that someone will know about in there so can anyone give me and feedback??
Thank you very much ☺
On a side note I don’t really want to be spending more that about 700 pound in total on the build as I have rent insurance to pay etc. so keep that in mind on the olde feedback
Thanks again.
