has anyone around here built their own computer? if you did, share some experiences you may have had building it and tell what it was like. also, list teh specs for your machine... for me, i built my first comp when i was 12. it was quite teh experience and took me several days. it was one of the first pentium 4s out there with an ASUS motherboard and pc 2700 RAM. i at first bent a couple of the pins on the CPU, so that was kinda scarry. i painstakingly had to bend em back straight. my current setup: Coolermaster Wavemaster case pentium 4 3.2 GHZ 800 mhz bus 1 gig pc 4000 dual channel 52x32x32 optical drive DVD drive with RW capabilities TT heatsink with front panel fan adjustment 2 SATA Seagate 120 gig drives Asus p4c800-E deluxe speak, gentlemen.....(and lady PC builders..you would be surprised, there actually are a few girl computer geeks)

aye. slaped it together in no time. its way out of date by now tho. xion case msi k8n neo board 3400+ amd athlon processor 36g serial ata 10000 rpm program hard drive 80g ata 7200 data hard drive some creative 24bit sound card the sweetist asus cd/dvd/writer drive(it burns and writes every disc) 1g memory nvidia vidio card once i make the $$$$$$ gonna build a com w the following. water cooled case dual board two amd optimons same hard drives as the com i have now 100000000000000000g of memory ati firecard vidio card some cool sound card a monitor so big you dont need two to use Solidworks

ps intel sux

intel doesnt suck.....they are just an opposing company. they certaintly arent as bad as microsoft.

GET LINUX.....BETTER THAN WINDOWS AND INTEL AND ALL OF THAT OTHER SHIT....

the first computer i built decided to be gay, a lot of weird things needed to be changed in bios. The most recent one ive built had no problems at all, here are the specs

Amd 4400+ dual core hammerhead.
DFI UTx Lan party mobo
2x 1 gig sticks, Corsair XMS dual channeled.
2x 350 gig sata 2 3.0 hard drives 1x 10k rpm 1x 7200 rpm
2x 1950 Xt radeon X-fire Graphics
creative 64 bit 7.1 Sound blaster. sound card
a few coolmaster fans, Mge viper case. 2x red aura cold cathodes.  nothing special for cd drives/dvd burner.


[Edited by Xxdom4073xX on 11/12/2007 at 12:43 PM]