kthulhu wrote:Can I get my endorsement check now?
LOL
I guess if you bought a Thoroughbred B or Barton since I worked on those a few months ago.
kthulhu wrote:Can I get my endorsement check now?
SS5_Majin_Bebi wrote:I have an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ now and it works wonders. Very efficient and capable. Wish it was a 3000+ but...I dont have that kind of money, and I don't know if my motherboard could handle it![]()
By the way, whats the "thoroughbred" tacked on to the end of it mean, if anything?
anneke wrote:I'm scared to build the computer myself. I have some people at work who are willing to help me, but I don't know. I feel bad having them help me. My father could help me but he has a habit of frying mother boards.
I would prefer to have the main pieces assembled. I know I can plug in a few drives, and the video card, but it's the whole mother board to case to fan thing and plugging in memory or what ever that freaks me....
Zarxrax wrote:You need to upgrade every two years anyways ;p
klinky wrote:It's really not that hard to build a computer. So long as you at least touch something metal before you go diving into building it.
There really isn't anything you can hook up backwards or wrong that would make the computer blow up....
TaranT wrote:And Lain's advice to work on hardware while in your underwear...that's just interesting. I'd pull the drapes before I did that, but everybody's different.

TaranT wrote:Kllinky wrote:There really isn't anything you can hook up backwards or wrong that would make the computer blow up....
This is mostly true with the exception of IDE and floppy drive cables. Nowadays they are usually keyed (there's only one way to plug them in). But I have come across cables that were keyed the wrong way or which had no key at all. It pays to know where pin 1 is and that's not always obvious. Also, connecting the LED and switch wires from the case can be confusing w.r.t. polarity.
DannyWilson wrote:I built all of my computers in some state of undress, from lack of shirt and shoes, to completely in the buff.
Heh. Yeah, floppy drives in particular can be a pain. Just ask the horde of people who didn't win what they should have in the AMD PC building competition last year due to the floppy drive cable being hooked up backwards.
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