- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Well www.newegg.com is very good with buying computer parts. A site for building I don’t really know but this is what I would do:
First find your motherboard that you want, this will be a reference to what you can or cant put on it. You usually want a motherboard without onboard graphics or sound, but then again sound can be pretty good on some of them. You probably want a pci express and normal pci connectors.
For the processor, it’s whatever brand you want but id say to get a p4 with ht technology, but your mobo needs to have that ht tech
Next you want your ram, you can only get what your mobo can support, which most likely be ddr or ddr2 ram, and get 1 to 2 sticks of it
Now for your graphics card, there are 2 major, nividia and ati. Whichever you get, get the latest and greatest in pci express
Here is where we get into the lesser, but very important stuff; the HD can be either ultra ata or serial ata. Ultra ata is older with a wide, flat ribbon cord and is slower data rate. Sata is a normal-looking cord and a fast data rate. Get whichever you want but make sure your mobo can support either
Next is the power supply, get one with a higher output, the higher, the more stuff you can hook up
And there is the case, just get whatever atx you want
Here’s the last thing, get at least 1 of a cd-drive to a DVD rw.
Here’s a list of things that I suggest:
Mobo
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-1 30-461&depa=1
$147.00
Cpu
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-1 16-184&depa=1
$189.00
Ram*2
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-1 44-165&depa=1
$229.34 ($114.67)
Video card
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-1 22-207&depa=1
$339.00
Hd
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-1 44-318&depa=1
$65.00
Power supply
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-1 48-002&depa=1
$59.00
Case
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-1 66-001&depa=1
$56.00
Disk drives
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=27-1 31-329&depa=1
$104.50
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=27-1 31-119&depa=1
$25.50
Sata cord*2
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=12-1 06-002&depa=1
$9.98($4.49)
Cpu fan
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=35-1 51-118&depa=1
$20.49
Which comes out to about $1248.71, but you would still need whatever network cards or other cards you would need