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[Massacre]

It might of sucked more if I ordered the power supply without needing one :P anyways its still good you noticed that.

[vet.mad hatter]

you should build it your self!! save some money... newegg kicks ass

[NC Derek]

im definitely doing newegg next time. i mean the tax and shipping is going to be a b*tch. but all my stuff from tiger direct was 1800. now thats still half as cheap as any premade computer, but newegg probably would have been a good 300 bucks cheaper after tax and shipping. my hardrive was the biggest rip. 200 bucks for 20 gigs lol.

[kidcapri]

You no why newegg is so awesome. They have the cheapest shipping costs ever. I paid like $2 to have my new motherboard shipped to me and it got here in 2 days. Now that is f*cking awesome.

[Massacre]

My friend sugested I upgrade my Ram to dual channel what do you guys think?Here

[kidcapri]

It would definately be faster. But with that video card you would be fine. Do what you want, its your new computer man. Go all out for christs sake.

[Massacre]

A friend said that I will need Thermal Tape to do something or other. Did that come with any of my parts or will I need to order that separately?

btw sorry I brought this topic back up. I just didnt think I needed a whole new topic for just that question.

[D4rkC0mm]

Is your friend referring to the material that is needed between the heatsink and the processor? AMD heatsinks that ship in the "Processor in a Box" (ie what you have, I think) come with a pre-stickied (love that not-so-existent word) thermal pad on the bottom.

[Massacre]

Ah yes. I just couldnt remember the exact words. lol

[kidcapri]

so have you gotten it yet?

[Massacre]

Nah I havent started ordering the parts yet even but Im still a bit scared about building it. I know how to do it basicly yet I feel like I still need supervision. My friend who I had in mind to build is going to be out of town by the time the parts get here. Im going out tommow to look around for a tiger direct or some other sh*t whole to build it for me. idk maybe Im just a pussy.

EDIT: Also I decided to upgrade tot this ram OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Platinum System Memory

Edited by BoSS|M@$$@CR3, 15 November 2005 - 05:22 AM.

[NC Derek]

incase you cant find a spot and still consider doing it yourself. http://forums.steamp...threadid=303048 has a really good in depth walkthru. itsl ong and a lot is repititve and written for 10 year olds, but it makes it sound easy to build one if you want to check it out.