/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>429828
I do the same because seamen. Everyone who is different does so because semen.

>>384409
>MISCHIEF
>making money
>impressing girls
>downloading stuff for free
I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.
-Shakespeare

Cont'd from
>>82083

How To Build A Computer

or

How To Know What To Buy

Part 1: Existentialism.

At some point you are going to have to decide what you want this machine to do. Gaming and/or overclocking are the big decisions, but you might also want to consider power-efficiency and/or silent running. Since this is an education, like any education you don't have to know what you want to be when you grow up, but at some point you'll have to make the tough decisions. Considering overclocking, remember that if you can overclock a rig, its going to be very stable at stock speeds, which is key for my built-to-last philosophy.

Part 2: Marketing.

Computer salesmen are worse than car salesmen because computer salesmen don't know when they're lying. "I'm not going to Best Buy, I'm building it myself" you say? Those parts are being advertised. The advertisement is lying. And you can't tryst the price either. Computer parts are sold at three price points: Low/economy, medium/performance, high/enthusiast. Medium is considered the price/performance sweet spot, because economy parts are not much cheaper but a lot slower, and enthusiast prices are not much faster but a lot more expensive. Not only that, when a new generation of parts (be they processors or video cards or motherboards) comes out, the old parts are still sold at their old price points, with only a 10% discount compared to a next generation part that is twice as fast. Compare: Old generation costs $90/180/360, while the next generation costs $100/200/400. Don't get cheap and try to save $20 here, that kind of ignorance will cut your computer's speed in half.

Part 3: Manufacturing.

These things come from somewhere. Watch the business news. See when the last video card came out, and when the next one is supposed to come out. These schemers can and will charge you full price for a part that is obsolete the very next day.