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Do it yourself, man. You'll

Submitted by Midnight on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 9:11am.

Do it yourself, man. You'll save money, learn exactly how a PC is constructed, and be confident to do it again for the rest of your life. There are plenty THX'ers that are very knowledgeable and will be happy to help you (I can't say I'm as knowledgeable as many here, but I can help). It's really about as simple as this, buy a

case
motherboard
processor
power supply
RAM
hard drive
optical drive
video card

...and put it all together. Choose a common set of standards like an ATX case, a mobo that accepts a PCI express x16 video card, and a SATA hard drive.

Some of the acronyms sound daunting, but after a few minutes of reading you'll be comfortable with them. Next time you come over I'll be glad to take the cover off my Vista machine and show you how it's put together. Oc, Disavowed, and EA have done much more of this than I, and they can probably give you very detailed advice. Mintz also built a computer recently.

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