I have only just discovered this forum, & I am a newbie in every sense of the word, as I have never built my own rig before. Actually, I hardly know a PSU from an AK47, so don’t baffle me with techno babble & meaningless (to me) abbreviations.
I have made a start by buying an Antec 300 case from eBay, Don’t tell me if I have made a bad buy!!!
I’ve looked at what other guys are putting in their boxes, & have come up with the following items, which I think will meet with my requirements (Firewire for inputting camcorder video, a TV capability, WiFi, good gaming, and will be several years before I need to go through this traumatic rig-birth again. Be gentle with me - don’t shoot me down in flames.
PSU Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Overclockers £89.99
***RAM: 8GB Corsair 1600mhz Vengeance (2x4GB)
***Motherboard:Asus P8Z77-V LX
***CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K OC @ 4.3Ghz Amazon, & EBuyer = £179.92
*** All 3 from Amazon- £284.99
Hard Drive: Corsair 120GB Force3 SSD S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s. Ebuyer=£80
Graphics card: NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti 1GB Amazon=£166.96
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Overclockers £83.99
Satellite TV Tuner Card with Remote. Amazon=£21.95
Intel WiFi Link 1000 - Network adapter - PCI Express Half Mini Card. Ebuyer £9.12
2 x Optical Drives & Memory Card reader (includes Firewire terminal)
I am hoping to salvage from dead Medion MD8800.
What do you think! & what else do I need - apart from a lot of luck!!!!
Don