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Ever seen one of these before? It's a toy meant to convey a certain principle, one that is also applied to assembling a PC. By looking at it you can easily figure out that the round peg must go into the round hole since that's the only hole it should fit in, and the same rule applies for the other shapes. This principal is the key to assembling a PC. If a cable has 4 big pins on the end of it probably plugs into the port with 4 big holes, and so on. The IDE cable will only plug into the IDE port, it will not fit into any other port. And it will only fit in one direction, you cannot plug it in backwards. Over the years PC component manufacturers have done everything in their power to make assembling a PC "idiot proof", and in my opinion they have successfully reached that point (although one of my high school friends did manage to plug his power supply into itself, of course even then nothing bad happened since it tripped the failsafe, see what I mean by idiot proof?).
You can find some instructions on my website: naturalviolence.webs.com
A quick google search on the topic will also reveal thousands of excellent guides. Further help can be attained from tens of thousands of websites dedicated to the hobby. Pictures and visual aids can also easily be looked up if you know how to use google images properly.
Cool. Thanks for your help over the months.
So there's absolutely NOTHING wrong with re-using my old IDE dvd burner,
and getting an h67 + gts 450 + i5 2300? (And using a SATA HDD I bought.)
If so, then this is getting ordered in a few days, maybe 2 weeks at best.
Why do so many people on Newegg report everything failing?
I've never in my freaking life heard of a motherboard spontaneously BURSTING INTO FLAMES.
Teensy bit frightening.
Quote:So there's absolutely NOTHING wrong with re-using my old IDE dvd burner,
and getting an h67 + gts 450 + i5 2300? (And using a SATA HDD I bought.)
Yes that's fine.
Post your parts list before you order it though.
Also what HDD and case are you going to be using?
Quote:Why do so many people on Newegg report everything failing?
Depends on the product. Motherboards tend to have high failure rates. That's why newegg has such a good return policy, people would get pretty pissed if they didn't.
Quote:What else has high failure rates?
I can't think of anything immediately off the top of my head that can top motherboards in that category.
Quote:And how can a GPU, designed to tolerate heat, explode?
A GPU can't explode, it can melt if it gets hot enough but that's about it.
The only thing I can think of on a graphics card that could explode are the capacitors. And that's not caused by heat, that can be caused by short circuiting the capacitor while it's charged or by faulty capacitors. This may be of interest to you:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1033931/dodgy-components-threaten-mobos-modems
Quote:What makes ECS and Galaxy must avoid? They have many positive reviews.
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Quote:What makes ECS and Galaxy must avoid? They have many positive reviews.
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What does that mean?
Are all of my parts good?
Yes your parts are fine. That's a reaction image, it's meant to convey a "what the fuck response".
(11-13-2011, 12:44 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Yes your parts are fine. That's a reaction image, it's meant to convey a "what the fuck response".
Well it WAS a legitimate question.
Why are they so bad?
From what I could tell.
Seriously, do they use inferior parts or something?