Prime minister Johns' Blog

Not going for the 2500k?

Not going for the 2500k?

I would if I had the cash.

One thing that has always confused me. When you say you're going to build a computer, do you mean you're ordering all those parts and building yourself, or that another company is going to put those parts together for you?

One thing that has always confused me. When you say you're going to build a computer, do you mean you're ordering all those parts and building yourself, or that another company is going to put those parts together for you?

You can do the latter (places like CyberPower) but most of the time when people say they are building a computer, its the former. You can get the components off of Newegg or TigerDirect and put them together yourself and its almost always cheaper than buying a prebuilt desktop.

+2 for blog title.

One thing that has always confused me. When you say you're going to build a computer, do you mean you're ordering all those parts and building yourself, or that another company is going to put those parts together for you?

The physical putting together is the easy part. If you happen to know how a screwdriver works and have a general idea that certain sized parts can only fit in certain sized holes, you'll do fine. The hard part is picking each component for performance, cost, and compatibility with each other, the latter being the hardest part.

I put the parts together myself, I can save quite a bit that way rather than just grabbing a prebuilt system.

It took me about 1 1/2 hours to put this lot together, but I work slow and read the manual a lot when I am doing this kind of thing since mistakes can be expensive.

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