Computer advice

Originally Posted by Student

Building it from scratch is your best bet. For one thing you're saving money PLUS you'll be able to use it longer. If you think "oh I don't need that much memory" or "oh I don't need an insane processor" trust me, get it and in the long run it'll pay off (Plus again, you'll be saving money) cause computers depreciate quicker then anything in the world. Maybe phones are faster but that's about it.

YouTube it, sure there's a million videos on how to do it.

Alright ill have a look on youtube if it don't seem to difficult i'll try it out. Were do u buy computer piece's from? Only places iv seen is at cheap markets and they just leave that stuff out while it rains lol nvm ill look around online. Thanks.

[Subreal]

a SSD is a solid state drive, they run faster than hard drives. They speed up your computer boot time, browsing, installation of programs, gaming a bit, etc. Mine is big enough to where i just completely took out my hard drive and I only use the SSD. But, if you want more space than the SSD has you can use both a SSD and a hard drive (to store stuff on), just run windows on the SSD, and all your games etc. But like I said, you could just use a 250/500 GB SSD if your someone that doesn't need that much space and not use a hard drive at all @SuperGuy

Originally Posted by Subreal

a SSD is a solid state drive, they run faster than hard drives. They speed up your computer boot time, browsing, installation of programs, gaming a bit, etc. Mine is big enough to where i just completely took out my hard drive and I only use the SSD. But, if you want more space than the SSD has you can use both a SSD and a hard drive (to store stuff on), just run windows on the SSD, and all your games etc. But like I said, you could just use a 250/500 GB SSD if your someone that doesn't need that much space and not use a hard drive at all @SuperGuy

Ok thanks 4 clearing that up Sub.

[Babylon]

SSD's are cheap as fuck right now too.

[Shodan]

Depends, what do you want it to do? I can give you a list of parts and software, depending on what you're looking for. PCs are good for most people, and Macs are great for music people. There's also a million flavors of Linux, if you're interested in that; grab Ubuntu and find some crash-course in Unix basics and the command line. If you're at all interested in privacy and security on the internet, or getting closer to your computer (any sort of programming), use fucking Linux; it's much more secure, you can alter it way more and do more shit with it, and you can do just about anything you can do on a Windows box with it, provided you have a few simple, easy-to-use tools. There's also lots of different versions that you can use, depending on how advanced you are with it, and what you need it to do. I really can't stress that enough. Any software of importance which is closed-source and developed entirely by a large company (looking at you, IIS) is 100 percent guaranteed to have government backdoors.

Toss me ideas, I can help. I'm not a computer genius, but I do know a fair bit about operating them.

[Babylon]

yeah, actually, Superguy tell me your budget and what you want the computer to specialize in and I'll create you a pcpartpicker.com list to look at, so you can just see how much money you could save and how much better your machine will be.

[Obey]

Hence ''Higher Education''

[Babylon]

#LearnYourLesson

Around $300-$400 music stuff like tracks an beats an a good gaming one.@Babylon @Hastur

[Babylon]

With a budget of $400 you can build your own gaming PC that vastly outclasses any console in almost every single element.


Intel options:

Intel Pentium G3258 for only $69: http://geni.us/2Xnx
Intel Core i3-4130 (not much faster than the Pentium G3258 in most games): http://geni.us/2nne
Motherboard - ASUS H81: http://geni.us/1Mpu

AMD FM2:

AMD Athlon 760K: http://geni.us/13pg
Gigabyte GA-F2A58M-HD2: http://geni.us/14md

AMD FX:

AMD FX-4200 Quad-Core Zambezi Processor 3.3GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3: http://geni.us/pRk
Optional cooling

Average - Enermax ETS-N30-HE: http://geni.us/2kpv
Better: Thermalright True Spirit 120: http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=FAN-TS120A
The rest of the rig

ADATA RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820211861
Zotac Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 ti: http://geni.us/37AP
Western Digital 320 GB HDD: http://geni.us/wGr
Fractal Design Core 1100 Case: http://geni.us/JZ1
EVGA 500W 80+ PSU: http://geni.us/3dKW


^These are all great options if you know a bit more about this stuff and can pick and choose what you want.



This is a good link to read, too. It's a steamOS steambox system build that only averages out to about $414.90 given price inflation hasn't affected it since this was posted.

http://www.legitreviews.com/building...steamos_153884


Bare in mind that you should want to pick and choose from these lists to create your own unique personalized build.