Poll: Can you build a PC?

[mireko]

Yes, it's the only way to play games on the PC and still have money. Pretty satisfying too.

 

[Canid117]

If I had all the parts? Sure

 

[carletonman]

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, but that was years ago. Now I just have my MBP, and it runs splendidly. Maybe if I get some more cash flow my way I'll put together another gaming tower, but for now I'm OK.

 

[BlackStar42]

How hard can it be? Insert part A into slot B with cable C while avoiding static, right? I've only upgraded RAM so far, but a lack of money has stopped me building my own.

 

[Bre2nan]

Good timing on this thread, I'm in the middle of a build right now. I'm typing this out on it, as a matter of fact. Here's how it is now:

AMD Athlon II X3 3.3GHz Triple Core
Corsair 550W Power Supply
8GB DDR3 RAM (2 4GB chips)
WD Caviar Blue 640GB HDD: 7200 RPM
Asus 24X DVD Burner

I'm planning on getting a video and a sound card to top off the inside, and I'm using a TV as a monitor and headphones for speakers at this point, would like to change that eventually.

Not much in the way of mishaps. I had to replace the PSU 'cause the one I got originally was too small, and the system panel wires were too short so I had to splice in more to get the extra length required. When I originally set it up, I was scrambling around trying to find out why I wasn't getting any video to the monitor when I realized that you had to connect the PSU to the mobo in two places (it's my first build).

 

[mad825]

.....
Never build one from scratch yet although I've replace all of the major components and some of the minor ones at least once, I suppose this counts as a yes?

 

[Magnatek]

Yes, I can build my own PC. At least, I have before. Dismantled and put at least three comps back together in one class back in high school. Didn't really know the specs of them, since they were initially put back together by the class two years prior to mine.

 

[Knusper]

As long as I have someone reading the manual out for me or making sure I am not about to put the CPU in the wrong way round. I did it on my first time and bent one of the pegs... had to get a new one

 

[DarkShadow144]

I would love to build my own pc, but when it comes to building things, to put it bluntly, im a freaking idiot. Im better with programs and such

 

[MrTub]

Yes I can and I have. My current spec is:

Processor: Intel Core? 2 Quad Q9550
RAM: Corsair TWIN2X PC6400 DDR2 4GB KIT CL5
PSU: Corsair TX750 W
Video: MSI Gtx 480
HDD: Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA2 & 1TB extern & 2x 250gb
OS: Windows 7 64-Bit
Cooler Master CM 690 Midi Tower Svart

New computer:
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K 3,4GHz
RAM: Corsair 8GB (2x4096MB) 1600MHz VENGEANCE
Psu: Corsair HX 1000W 80+
Mobo: Asus SABERTOOTH P67
Video: MSI gtx 480 & Gainward Gtx 480
HDD: Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA2 & 1TB extern & 2x 250gb
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
CPU cooler: Corsair H50
Cooler Master CM 690 Midi Tower Svart
3x 22" Benq LED screens with Nividia Surround (5760x1080 resolution)

 

[ZombieGenesis]

Wow,what a coincidence.

I JUST built my very first gaming PC today It runs a 6950 and an i5, so it's pretty potent. And it looks nice too~ Very good feeling.

 

[ToboTheHobo]

The PC i have now was not built by me but since i got it i have been changing parts and helping friends with changing parts.

Too lazy to write everything:
Intel core i7 920 at 2,67 GHz
ASUS P6T SE motherboard
Nvidia GeForce GTX 470
12 GB of ram (yeah... i have no idea how i ended up having this much xD)

 

[dsmops2003]

Yep I have built desktops and servers as well.

 

[loc978]

Yep. I don't trust any system I or some specific people I know didn't build. I'm still using a three year old system that hasn't had a gaming hiccup yet. Some people don't believe me when I say it runs Crysis turned up to the nines... but most of those people have it installed on slow hard drives...
Specs:
*Proc: AMD Athlon 64 X2, two 2.41GHz cores.
*Mb: MSI K9N Neo-F
*Vid: NVIDIA 7950GT, 1GB (BFGTech)
*PhysX: BFGTech128
*PS: Tagan TG420
*RAM: 2GB, 800MHz (Crucial)
*System/gaming HDD: 74GB Western Digital Raptor 10000RPM SATAII (and wishing it was a *SATAIII. That's still my systems's biggest bottleneck)
*Storage HDDs: 500GB 7200RPM, 1TB 7200RPM and 1.5TB 7200RPM, all SATAI... because they were cheap.
*Case--: Antec nine hundred.

*Monitor: 19" 4:3 aspect LCD. Made by Envision. It was cheap, and it works fine.
*Sound: Bose 5.1 system hooked to the HDAudio ports on my motherboard.

*Mouse: Logitech, optical, two buttons and a wheel. I've had it far longer than the system it's hooked up to, and it served me well in Europe and the Middle East with no noticeable performance degradation
*Keyboard: Belkin, pretty standard, had it as long as the mouse.

 

[MrTub]

Yep. I don't trust any system I or some specific people I know didn't build. I'm still using a three year old system that hasn't had a gaming hiccup yet. Some people don't believe me when I say it runs Crysis turned up to the nines... but most of those people have it installed on slow hard drives...
Specs:
*Proc: AMD Athlon 64 X2, two 2.41GHz cores.
*Mb: MSI K9N Neo-F
*Vid: NVIDIA 7950GT, 1GB (BFGTech)
*PhysX: BFGTech128
*PS: Tagan TG420
*RAM: 2GB, 800MHz (Crucial)
*System/gaming HDD: 74GB Western Digital Raptor 10000RPM SATAII (and wishing it was a *SATAIII. That's still my systems's biggest bottleneck)
*Storage HDDs: 500GB 7200RPM, 1TB 7200RPM and 1.5TB 7200RPM, all SATAI... because they were cheap.
*Case--: Antec nine hundred.

*Monitor: 19" 4:3 aspect LCD. Made by Envision. It was cheap, and it works fine.
*Sound: Bose 5.1 system hooked to the HDAudio ports on my motherboard.

*Mouse: Logitech, optical, two buttons and a wheel. I've had it far longer than the system it's hooked up to, and it served me well in Europe and the Middle East with no noticeable performance degradation
*Keyboard: Belkin, pretty standard, had it as long as the mouse.

You do know that slow HDD pretty much only affects the load times? And may i ask what resolution you are using?

 

[loc978]

Yep. I don't trust any system I or some specific people I know didn't build. I'm still using a three year old system that hasn't had a gaming hiccup yet. Some people don't believe me when I say it runs Crysis turned up to the nines... but most of those people have it installed on slow hard drives...

You do know that slow HDD pretty much only affects the load times? And may i ask what resolution you are using?

Load times, precaching texture maps, accessing game data that isn't precached... You'd be amazed how many different things speed up with a faster hard drive.
But yeah, I only run it in 1280x1024. Limits of my cheap monitor.

 

[MrTub]

Yep. I don't trust any system I or some specific people I know didn't build. I'm still using a three year old system that hasn't had a gaming hiccup yet. Some people don't believe me when I say it runs Crysis turned up to the nines... but most of those people have it installed on slow hard drives...

You do know that slow HDD pretty much only affects the load times? And may i ask what resolution you are using?

Load times, precaching texture maps, accessing game data that isn't precached... You'd be amazed how many different things speed up with a faster hard drive.
But yeah, I only run it in 1280x1024. Limits of my cheap monitor.

I've played with SSD and with my normal hdd which read around 80-90mb/s and I havent noticed anything difference except load times for maps and such so to say a normal hdd slows down the computer in game is quite wrong. And the reason that you can play it with quite high settings is cause you're using such a low resolution, and most ppl use 1920x1080 these days and that is probably why people are so suprised that you can play it on "high" settings.

 

[loc978]

Yep. I don't trust any system I or some specific people I know didn't build. I'm still using a three year old system that hasn't had a gaming hiccup yet. Some people don't believe me when I say it runs Crysis turned up to the nines... but most of those people have it installed on slow hard drives...

You do know that slow HDD pretty much only affects the load times? And may i ask what resolution you are using?

Load times, precaching texture maps, accessing game data that isn't precached... You'd be amazed how many different things speed up with a faster hard drive.
But yeah, I only run it in 1280x1024. Limits of my cheap monitor.

I've played with SSD and with my normal hdd which read around 80-90mb/s and I havent noticed anything difference except load times for maps and such so to say a normal hdd slows down the computer in game is quite wrong. And the reason that you can play it with quite high settings is cause you're using such a low resolution, and most ppl use 1920x1080 these days and that is probably why people are so suprised that you can play it on "high" settings.

eh, *shrug*
Depends on the game. You're right about Crysis, though. It's not really my mainstay genre in gaming anyway (I never actually finished Crysis. Got bored with it quick).