Thread: Building a Computer - Require Assistance

Originally Posted by Merlock

Mine was a 160 GB. -.-
So I think it's safe to say it's hardly just the TB drives.

As for the sound, I guess with speakers, it might make sense.
Though I'd still never dish out over $100 for a sound card. Eesh.

Then again, I'm all for earphones and no speakers.
With them you can have the music or whatnot on as loud as you want and you aren't making the house shake.
Nor do the neighbours come at you swinging shovels.

Even using headphones your soundcard makes a difference. Onboard soundcards are a bad idea, they have really poor sound quality.

Really, an i7? Save some money and buy an AMD processor, unless you're doing serious work that needs that good of a processor. By the way, gaming is not serious work, I'm talking about doing things like heavy video encoding.

DDR3 memory is kind of pointless, you'll hardly get a speed difference for the price, you really don't need more than 4GB of DDR2.

For the HDD, go for a WD Black Caviar one, I hear they are great.

You seem to be trying to build the biggest and most expensive computer you can, but you're actually just wasting your money on things you don't need.

Edit: You could save a lot of money buying a normal DVD-Rom drive. Unless you watch lots of BLOOOOOO RAY movies, once again, useless.

Edit 2: Windows 7 RC1 is out, better than Vista, and free for now. It's also perfectly stable.