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Help me and my sister build a computer!
ASturge:
Girls?
Building com-pyu-tars!?
DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH!!!
jhocking:
--- Quote from: on 1up, seanbaby ---while you can talk barrier-to-entry and sexual objectification in games to death, the reason more women don't play games is because things that have electronics break when women touch them.
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Digs:
TFTs? Really? Isn't Microsoft punching people who dig TFT monitors in the stomach in a year or so with Vista?
oceansaway:
My sister loves her games. I just want a new computer and I got dragged along. 90 percent of this thread doesn't make sense to me.
Switchblade:
It's mostly just been a list of components, thus far.
In general, the larger the number after the odd word, the better the component is. (not always true, however). Also, the more expensive, though they do depreciate fairly quickly.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned during my scan of this thread is cooling. plenty of people mentioning power supplies, graphics cards, CPU's and so on, but here's something to remember - the more tech there is inside it, and the more power running through it, the more heat your PC will generate. Basically, the bigger the power supply, and the faster the clocks speeds on the processers, the more heat your PC generates and needs to cope with.
typically, this means fans to blow air in from outside the case and across the various boards and components to cool them down, and then vent it out again.
Insufficient cooling can result in heat damage, which is no fun (I know a guy who once burnt his foot on his case, it got so hot...) Normally, though, it just means that the fan kicks up to high speed periodically, making a lot of noise and basically being all irritating. Most decent cases (especially the ones designed for gamers) come with plenty of big fans (three or more in some cases) that should keep lots of nice cool air moving around inside the case. you can also improve the air flow inside (and thus bring the temperature down) by using rounded cables instead of ribbon cables.
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