[retired_newlicore]

OK, so in about a month or so i will be starting to buy the parts to build my own pc. Now i've never done this before, but i've swapped out bits in the past and figure it shouldn't be "too" difficult. I don't have a PC of my own at the moment, so i will need to buy everything, i figure i need the following components.

Motherboard
Sound Card
Graphics Card
RAM
Hard Drive
Case
Processor
Mouse & Keyboard
DVD Writer

Is there anything obvious that i have missed from that list? Next is what model for each component i should get, i would appreciate any advice on that as it's been a while since i've bought any new PC Parts.

Then lastly about putting it all together. I've Googled this and found a few guides, are there any guides out there that people here have actually used and it all went ok?

[marynot]

Power supply would be good :thup:

www.ebuyer.com

I would also base it on an intel system over amd atm

[retired_newlicore]

OK, yeah power supply would be useful knew i would miss something obvious. Are Intel better than AMD atm then?

[marynot]

Originally posted by Blink2k:
OK, yeah power supply would be useful knew i would miss something obvious. Are Intel better than AMD atm then?

yeh bang for buck intel's core2duo is the best processor out atm

[retired_tryingfitness]

When I made mine the motherboard came with a detailed manual which told me what to do.

[retired_newlicore]

ok cool, just looking at the intel Quad Core on ebuyer, looks impressive... Do i really need a quad core right now, or would duel core by ok?

[retired_newlicore]

Originally posted by titchuk:
When I made mine the motherboard came with a detailed manual which told me what to do.

cool, that's good, will make the motherboard one of the first parts i get then.

[retired_hwilliam]

Originally posted by titchuk:
When I made mine the motherboard came with a detailed manual which told me what to do.

When I made mine, the motherboard came without a manual. It was an Asus board. IIRC it came from ebuyer, and on the site it listed recommended CPU's to go with it.

The case did come with a power supply which was more than adequate.

[retired_felina]

Originally posted by Blink2k:
ok cool, just looking at the intel Quad Core on ebuyer, looks impressive... Do i really need a quad core right now, or would duel core by ok?

have a look at the Q6600. Make sure its the G0 stepping as it runs cooler. Also if you wanted to later, it overclocks like crazy

[retired_newlicore]

that was the exact one i was looking at.