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Showing posts with label Building a computer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Building a computer. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 January 2013

Building a Computer Part 2: The Build!

Posted on 16:53 by Unknown
I am not sure what to believe any more, the more you watch videos on building a computer the more and more the emphasize what goes wrong. ( New Egg has a nice 3 part series, part 2 features the actual building. ) These issues, seem like they can be so accidental, and not actually something you consciously do.  Static electricity being the biggest one.  Keeping this in mind probably pointed to my
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Friday, 18 January 2013

Building a Computer Part 1 Finding Parts

Posted on 16:03 by Unknown
In the past week, I sourced the parts for a new Crunching machine, had the parts arrive, assembled them and set up the entire computer.  This is going to be a post detailing my thought processes behind finding the parts.

Step 1: Find your favorite computer parts supplier.

I went with new egg because they have worked wonderfully for me in the past, and I figured "if it ain't broke don't fix it!"
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