Another crying for help building a PC thread. Enter please :)

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hsrob said:

Hey mate, I made a similar thread a couple of months back and then end result is I am now typing on the comp that I built with that advice.

I'll leave the specfics of the components to the guys that know better but I had never built or been involved in building a comp before and I did by nothing more than reading a couple of websites, watching a youtube video or two and taking care with my components while builing.

I ordered all my stuff from Gocomp as I found them to be cheapest, they had all the parts (that weren't in stock) in within 2-3 days and they were constantly in touch via email to let me know how it was going and made a couple of suggestions on swapping out parts for cheaper/better alternatives. The also knocked down the price on a couple of my components when I pushed them.

The only problem I encountered with them is that the switched out the wireless device which I had chosen (which was out of stock) for another which ended up being incompatible with 64bit Windows 7 so make sure you check compatibility, even for the minor components.

p.s. my computer kicks a fair amount of ass and a similiarly spec'd Dell would have cost about 50% more, and all it cost me was a Saturday afternoon.

p.p.s what's your budget?

Budget is around $1800AU, preferrably less.