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Just Completed My First Ever Build! (Sharing My Thoughts)




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Old 24th May 2009, 09:52
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Default Just Completed My First Ever Build! (Sharing My Thoughts)

Hi

Many of you mods might remember me in doing extensive research on this forum on building a computer nearly a month ago.
1 month on, i have finally completed my first ever build, not as very hard as i thought.

The only hard part was making sure not to get electrocuted and not damaging the important parts, otherwise it was fine & ok.

Good for experience...

Cheers
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Old 24th May 2009, 09:55
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Congrats, what spec did you go for in the end?
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Old 24th May 2009, 10:05
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The specs i went for was:

1TB of Hard drive
8GB RAM
1GB NVidia Geforce 9500 Graphics Card
Intel Quad 2 Core CPU
2 CD/DVD drives
Asus P5N-D Motherboard
Windows VISTA

So far so good, but yet to test how good it is in multitasking & playing games.. (just finishing installing all my softwares.)
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Old 24th May 2009, 10:13
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There are a few benchmarking threads in the Hardware forum, get some scores up!
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Old 24th May 2009, 10:20
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scores? what scores?
im confused
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Old 24th May 2009, 10:27
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Default Just Completed My First Ever Build! (Sharing My Thoughts)

could you post some pictures?
also check out your windows experience score/rating
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Old 24th May 2009, 10:30
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We have a score table in the hardware forum for people who have run their PCs through the relevant benchmarking software, it will give you a guide to how powerful your system is compared to others, lots of new builders like to do it for fun and braggin rights.

http://www.computer-juice.com/forums...-results-7071/
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Old 24th May 2009, 10:32
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my windows experience score/rating is 4.9!

Interesting to see. I will as soon as do the benchmark tests.

Thanks
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Old 24th May 2009, 13:16
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Default Just Completed My First Ever Build! (Sharing My Thoughts)

I doubt a 9500 will bench very high...
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Old 24th May 2009, 13:17
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Default Just Completed My First Ever Build! (Sharing My Thoughts)

Your windows score is determined by your lowest scoring component. I would bet that is your RAM, (from the other thread lol). Once you get your 64 bit installed and it sees all 8 GB's, you will probably jump to the max, 5.9.

EDIT: Ouch, I forgot about the 9500.........
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