Part 2 - Buying & Assembling
Part 3 - Troubles
Part 4 - Look! It Runs Crysis!!1
Bought everything from the same shop in Low Yat Plaza on the Monday after PC Fair, avoided PC fair like the plague. While PC Fair is a good place to get peripherals, gadgety knick-knacks and whatnots, a common misconception is buying computer hardware there. Prices are no different from what one usually gets at LYP, and the crowd, omg, the crowd.
Bungled up the fitting of the CPU stock fan, big thanks to my bro for pointing out the mistake. The graphics card was the most expensive and impressive component, and way bigger than expected. Our Palit HD4870 was about 4cm thick, complete with 2 fans and metal coils that wouldn't look out of place in a kettle. Relief on my part that PSU had enough PCIE plugs for the graphics card.
CPU Box
Motherboard
Power Supply Unit
Glorious Palit 4870 Sonic Dual complete with two fans.
Picture does not do justice to the actual card - can't see the metal coil.
I can now officially say that I've built a computer from scratch. Half the fun came from selecting and assembling the parts. Never will I buy pre-built ones like those from DELL, god knows what they put inside those towers.
Geek cred +1
Geek cred +1
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