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Originally Posted by Senusret I
I'm all about dirt cheap.
I have also looked into building my own, which is even more dirt cheap. I have a friend (Sigma) who will help me out, so we shall see!
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That's a good offer, although, honestly, it's pretty self-explanatory... and if it's not, you can just refer to the user's manual. If you're unsure of parts/brands, simply post what you're interested in and we can give you some help.
I also have built a few systems in my time.
A word on cases -- I recently bought my wife an Antec Sonata II... although they no longer carry that on NewEgg, they do carry a Sonata III. It has more than enough juice for your computer on the internal CPU. It's also extremely quiet which is huge for me because loud case fans just won't do.
FWIW, I also bought her a pretty nice Asus motherboard.. it died in 2 weeks, is still in the shop. I'm not going to go with Asus again. Probably would look at a company like Gigabyte. I always go for the fanless motherboards because again.. case noise annoys me. Look for mobos which support the stuff you want to get, have a bit of room for expansion, and have tons of copper stuff hanging off of them (better cooling).
Also, if you want to have compatibility with Directx10 for gaming, you'll need to buy a compatible video card. Nvidia's 8000 series is excellent. So far, it's killing whatever the only other game in town, ATI has come up with.
At any rate, if you have any questions, I'm sure folks here can help. Otherwise, if you want to just throw money at the problem, get one of those Dell XPS systems. They're pretty good (but not pretty good for the $).