Built my first computer

[tim]

I wish I had the knowledge to do something like that. I unfortunately dont know a damn thing about computers.

[JET]

Nice! I've been building cpus for as long as I can remember (damn, that makes me sound old!). Well, I'll just say that the first machine that I built had a 266Mhz pentium2. :) You gonna overclock that beast?

Nice mobo selection, btw. Abit is my personal favorite!

Nah, I can top that! My first was in '87 and it was a 386 running at 40 mhz with a math co-processor. It was screaming!

Gratz Brandon, it is pretty amazing how easy it is!

[AJ]

Commadore 64 FTW! That was my first!

[FattyBoomBatty]

Condgratulation, Jism.

[Thor06]

Thats tight. I got into computer building like 6-7 years ago. That shit came to a crashing halt when my mom caught me with the computer apart for the first time. She was soooo pissed. Now I am into cars and I can take them apart when ever the hell I want :p. Where did you get the parts?

[JET]

As luck would have it, I was on slickdeals today and got a case and 500w power supply, both free after rebate! I'll slowly start collecting parts when a great deal comes up. How much was your MB and CPU brandon? I saw them for $220 on a combo deal and almost went for it.

[DoughtCom]

Good job man! Now overclock it! That CPU has a LOT of headroom.... and I think we can all agree we like speed :)

This is my PC... http://www.thedoughtcom.com/images/diablow/stage3/final1.jpg

The LSE 3S version of the PC world.
AMD Opteron 165 (Dual Core) 1.8GHz @ 2.8GHz (Water Cooled)
SLI 7800GT's @ GTX speeds
needless to say I'm not rushing out to buy a 360.

[Halon]

I bought the parts off newegg.com. The CPU was like 150, and the motherboard was like 75.

Honestly, I don't plan on overclocking the CPU. The Bios seems to allow my to over clocke it to 4.0ghz, but I'm not really a gamer, and don't see a reason right now for me to overclock it. All I'm doing is some video editing, and I think this will work find for me. If I do need to overclock it though, it is nice to have that option available.

The case I got from Micro Center. I had a hard time finding a case I liked. I wanted something clean/nice looking. It was hard because it seemed like 90% of the cases out there now look like they came off a UFO and have crazy lights all over the place. I didn't want that, I just wanted something nice and clean looking. This one turned out pretty well!

[Kracka]

Looks good man, glad it all worked out! I've always liked building/piecing together my own computers. Generally save money plus you get exactly what you want!

[JET]

Exactly, even if you don't get it cheaper, the parts inside are usually much better quality.