How to Build a Computer - Step by Step (With Photos)

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d749s

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nice computer uhh im gunna make my own rig and im willing to spend 500-600 bucks what should i get to make a decent computer for mw2 and bioshock2 i can run low or medium resolution idc email me what you think at [email protected]. Everything should cost 500-600 dollars i mean every single part needed. thx!
 

mischa88

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Thank you so much for this guide!

Hello!

This is my first time on these forums, but wanted to say thank you for writing this- it's fantastic! I've been delaying building my own computer as I was worried I would make mistakes, but now I think I'm ready to start designing my own.

I'm so glad you mentioned thermal paste. The other guides I've read didn't! :D
 

bkribbs

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hey guys. im only 14 so im kinda new at this stuff. i just took apart an old desktop an am puttin git back together. what type of cord is this and how do i plug it in?
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also, my mom has an old laptop that the charging port broke on, so it wont work. can i strip it for its parts and put those in the desktop im building for extra RAM etc.?

thanks
bkribbs
 

Feuerfrei.x

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hey guys. im only 14 so im kinda new at this stuff. i just took apart an old desktop an am puttin git back together. what type of cord is this and how do i plug it in?
ide-cable.jpg
also, my mom has an old laptop that the charging port broke on, so it wont work. can i strip it for its parts and put those in the desktop im building for extra RAM etc.?

thanks
bkribbs
It's good to see another 14 year old on here :D Anyway that cable is some kid of IDE ribbon cable i think (hopefully) and no - you can't use Laptop RAM in a desktop computer - sorry. It's because they are typically different shapes and sizes
 

joh06937

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It's good to see another 14 year old on here :D Anyway that cable is some kid of IDE ribbon cable i think (hopefully) and no - you can't use Laptop RAM in a desktop computer - sorry. It's because they are typically different shapes and sizes

yep that is an ide cable used for connecting two ide devices (i.e. 2 hard drives, a hard drive and dvd drive, or two dvd drives).
 

bkribbs

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ok thanks. so are there any parts that i can use from the laptop in the desktop? any parts at all? like what anout a second hard drive or something?

thanks,
bkribbs
 

bkribbs

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what are these?
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this is my desktop insides if it matters:
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can i take this s-video plug out of the computer it is in:
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and put it in this one?:
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voyagerfan99

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hey guys sorry the oics are so big. is there a way to make them smaller?
First off, you really should have started a new thread.

Second, you could upload them with imageshack and resize them.

As far as your questions go:

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This is a molex power connector. It is used on IDE hard drives, CD-ROM drives, and even some older AGP graphics cards.

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The brown slot on the top is an AGP slot. It is usually used for graphics cards.

the white slot below is a PCI slot. It can be used for a number of things such as wireless cards, video cards, TV Tuner cards, etc.

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Looks like the heatsink for your chipset (onboard video and sound)

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No, you cannot remove the S-video port. It is soldered onto the motherboard and cannot be moved.

If you're looking for S-Video, you can look into getting a video card like one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...Value=2328:14201&PropertyCodeValue=2328:14101
 
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pjtrucker

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awesome! with the pictures and instructions provided, it will be a great help for the beginners who are still starting to assemble a cpu unit themselves. anyways, can you share it to us, if it is okay with you, the specifications of your cpu unit. by the way, thanks for the post -OMEGA-.

Thanks,
 
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voyagerfan99

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anyways, can you share it to us, if it is okay with you, the specifications of your cpu unit. by the way, thanks for the post -OMEGA-.

Thanks,

He did.

[-0MEGA-];832089 said:
First a little background here, The case that is used in this build is the Antec Nine Hundred. The other components that I used was the Asus P5K Deluxe (based off the P35 chipset), Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, 2GB of Corsair XMS2, Silverstone 750W power supply, 4x Seagate 320GB SATAII hard drives, ATI 2900XT video card, X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS sound card, and a Cooler Master UFO CPU cooler.
 
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