Re: How difficult would it be to build my own computer?
There have been plenty of posts in this thread about all kinds of PC components and personal builds. I would just like to add that you can spend loads of money if you have it or scrimp and buy used and discount parts and still have a decent PC in the end. My personal addition is all new from NewEgg for under 300$. That's not expensive for a PC and affordable even for those with less money. It is a modest setup with a AMD Sempron dual core, Western digital 250 gig hd, one gig of ram, dvd+rw drive, and the last and simply a luxury item, ATI 512 mb 4350 video card. The video card is a luxury because the motherboard already has onboard graphics. The reason I wanted to add to this thread is due to the admirable performance this rig exhibits. I can encode a full music CD in under 10 minutes, a full rip and encode to .avi from DVD in under 50 minutes. Granted it's not nearly as fast as my latest quad AMD, but I've spent at least 150$ more on that machine. I'd like to add that the standard driver for the ATI 4350 is very impressive (radeon). Linux doesn't require the latest and fastest to perform well and I enjoy on the cheap rigs for there thrifty quality. My father really did teach me something about thrift, if only I could stop buying the cheap computers
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