Building the dankest PC, thomas the dank engine |
Building the dankest PC, thomas the dank engine |
Aug 7 2015, 10:24 PM
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Squire Group: Members Posts: 136 Thank(s): 21 Points: 136 Joined: 9-April 14 From: The Shire Member No.: 4,447 |
So, after much thought and cost induced heart attacks, I have decided that instead of a crappy ol' laptop, I'm going to join the elite of the master race and not just get a PC, but build it as well with literally 0 seconds of experience in building anything remotely mechanical or electrical, yes I know I AM so brave, but when I have youtube videos and tutorials as my sword and hopefully you guys as my shield, I'm pretty sure I can do this.
Talked with monkey quite a bit about this, and because of the legend he is, he procured a list of the finest components for this beast at a reasonable price (I'm only 16 I don't have wads of cash to spend like you guys) Here is said list with links and stuff: cooling gel - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arctic-Cooling-MX-...HDP1RJXAW3ZGZRS £3.95 motherboard - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00K8KJ..._1_1&sr=8-1 £91.74 CPU - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-Core-i7-4790...HDP1RJXAW3ZGZRS £256.90 RAM - http://www.amazon.co.uk/HyperX-Series-1866...HDP1RJXAW3ZGZRS £35.54 fans - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-Series-AF1...HDP1RJXAW3ZGZRS £17.36 case - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-CC-9011052...HDP1RJXAW3ZGZRS £47.38 Hard drive - http://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Desktop-SATA-Dr...=2tb+hard+drive £60.48 SSD - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-2-5-Inch-S...HDP1RJXAW3ZGZRS £73.13 graphics card - http://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-GTX-980-Graphi...eywords=gtx+980 £405.77 monitor - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-VE228TR-Wides...ords=hd+monitor £86.99 The total cost of it with a monitor as well (ikr mad innit?) is just under £1080 You may be thinking, "hey you stupid hobbit, listen 'ere m9, stop bragging and being so awesome" but it cannot be helped and also, I really do need your help, since, as I said before, I have no experience in doing this, I have never even owned a PC of my own, let alone built one. Monkey told me to ask you guys if you have any objections or recommendations to the components listed above, such as a cheaper option or whatever you can think of; any help is greatly appreciated! I will probably be ordering this stuff after the 20th of August, as this is riding on my GCSE's, so any input before then would be great. Thanks in advance, <<<<<<333333 Hobbit |
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Aug 12 2015, 12:23 AM
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Man at arms Group: Veteran SM Members Posts: 188 Thank(s): 123 Points: 188 Joined: 1-December 14 Member No.: 4,526 |
Nearly everting in your pc is build after a certain standard/norm which pretty much makes it impossible for you to put something wrong together. Same goes for your power cable management or other connections. In doubt just consult their corresponding manual (especially the one for the graphics card). The socket for the cpu is similarly build in a fashion that it is clearly marked/slotted in which orientation the cpu has to be installed.
PS. If you haven't already done you can check out the manual of your motherboard and it's beep codes. They are a great help in case something is wrong and you have no clue what is going on. (edited that first out, may be confusing) Static electricity isn't that big of an issue, the solder-mask insulates* (to some degree, can be increased by epoxy capping etc.) your traces so you won't be touching anything conducting as long as you don't touch any smds/pads/vias/pins/leads etc. directly anyhow(and many of those have probably a nano-coat applied nowadays), depending on the hardware/manufacturer you could also have extra build in ics that are protecting the board from esds (mostly in hardware that happens to be touched frequently), also many ics come with some kind of protection already build in nowadays. Heck once I even managed to miss-orient an qfn and found out after an hour of debugging, that thing survived even though it should have been toast by the data sheet. (also note solder-mask is NOT and insulator, it has just certain resistive properties, do NOT rely on it as an insulator as protection, never ever think that it is ok to touch a live circuit board by its solder-mask(even if the traces are on low voltages etc.). Given many people do it and nothing happens, but just to make that clear...) -------------------- |
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