Requests for more hardware guides?

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 18th, 2006, 17:59

Lateralus wrote:
Dog Pants wrote:
Ty aka Sir Die Aloty wrote:
spoodie wrote: This is a good guide: http://dictionary.reference.com/

I'm very sorry but you asked for it.
BUNGHOLE
Eloquently put Ty.
And spelt correctly too!

Always.*

*Usually

Post by **deject** » April 18th, 2006, 18:33

Well, I was thinking more along the lines of putting it all together, because I'm not as familiar with average prices over there, and I'm pretty sure a guide in US Dollars won't help you guys out much. If someone else who shops for hardware would help me out with pricing I could do it though.

White · Post by **White** » April 18th, 2006, 21:08

Sorry about the lack of info there Berk - I always tend to give advice off my own experiences and knowledge which isnt good for most things such as nVidia are better than ATi.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 18th, 2006, 22:06

deject wrote:Well, I was thinking more along the lines of putting it all together, because I'm not as familiar with average prices over there, and I'm pretty sure a guide in US Dollars won't help you guys out much. If someone else who shops for hardware would help me out with pricing I could do it though.

i'm happy to help out, and can argue the toss as far as specs with mr.deject.

pixie pie · Post by **pixie pie** » April 18th, 2006, 22:10

deject wrote:Well, I was thinking more along the lines of putting it all together, because I'm not as familiar with average prices over there, and I'm pretty sure a guide in US Dollars won't help you guys out much. If someone else who shops for hardware would help me out with pricing I could do it though.

Hmm, I don't know if this is so useful to us, as most of us can put them together anyway. As its *over-simplifies* basically plug everything into the motherboard and then everything into the power supply. Well, pretty much. You could try and make a "Noobie How to Build PC's Guide"? But I know its not of much use to me, perhaps a vote around of who'd actually want this is in order? Anyone who wants it raise their hand?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 18th, 2006, 22:16

i think the idea should be to have a guide on how to build a machine, just to be thorough.

and to have a guides for machine specs to consider.

If someone writes up a machine building guide, i'm happy to strip my machine and rebuild it taking a fuckload of photos

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » April 19th, 2006, 10:19

I for one would like a full idiot's-guide to building a PC. Things like power connections (to mobo that is, HDD and optical drives I can do...) and installing CPUs etc scare me for the simple reason that I've never done them or had cause to do them.

Combined with a hardware guide as argued and priced by deject and Berk I'd find it very useful.

pixie pie · Post by **pixie pie** » April 19th, 2006, 17:26

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:If someone writes up a machine building guide

If nobody else will, I can..

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 19th, 2006, 17:30

i'm pretty willing to, it's just a matter of me being arsed

pixie pie · Post by **pixie pie** » April 19th, 2006, 17:34

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:i'm pretty willing to, it's just a matter of me being arsed

This would've been my problem too. so its all yours.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 19th, 2006, 17:36

will take a few weeks most likely, but i'll do it.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » April 20th, 2006, 11:10

Hows about something for overclocking, I've ventured into the realms of graphics card overclocking but not had the guts for Processer cooking yet

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 20th, 2006, 11:13

really not in the scope of this article.

i might do a seperate one at some point, but this guide is the priority.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » April 20th, 2006, 11:35

Oh yeah, I didn't mean as part of the PC building one, it's not usually a consideration for first time PC builds, just wacked in the 'requests for more guides' section

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » April 20th, 2006, 11:52

Ty aka Sir Die Aloty wrote:HDD guide, which is the best, is running in riad worth it, ect, ect, which raid mode for gaming, ect, ect

I want, I demand thee write the guide, perhaps, maybe *smiles a nice *non-evil* grin*

Pwitty please!

Thanks kindly!

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 20th, 2006, 11:53

I reckon deject should sort a list of wanted guides, and then people can sign up to write them

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » April 20th, 2006, 11:56

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:I reckon deject should sort a list of wanted guides, and then people can sign up to write them

mine first, mine first, I win! I Win!

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 20th, 2006, 11:58

the pc building guide alread won.

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » April 20th, 2006, 12:01

bu....... b....... buu......... but...... im speshul

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 20th, 2006, 12:05

in short

raptors are best for performance, big drives with 16mb caches for storage.

ideally use a raptor for OS/games/paging file/apps. big HDD for porn.

raid is pretty useless for most people.