Havign just built one I'd suggest not skimping on the cost of your PSU, getting a decent case to help with cooling. I got an AMD - they're (I'm fairly sure) faster and more reliable than intel, though if they overheat, they die whereas intels have a failsafe. On that, pay extra for warrenty on your processor and your hard disc drive, as if something's going to break, it'll be on of those two. If you're buying from Overclockers (at the time of buying mine, they were the best value for money, they also do next day delivery as standard) before you order phone their tech support and get one of their guys to check your memory is compatible with your processor and motherboard and that you're other compoenents are also compatible. I found their tech people very professional and they're actually based in England not India (ie, they spoke English as their first language :P). I managed to buy the wrong memory and the wrong PSU first time around, sent both back and got a refund and new components
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For Intel vs. AMD, there's precious little to pick between them. If you're buying a very recent processor, Intel's "Core 2 Duo" chips are currently faster and run cooler than AMD's best, but it won't be long before AMD catch up
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> unless you can think of a *really* good reason you need to partition your drive, I'd advise against it.
I tend to advise partitioning so that the OS and programs are in one partition and your stuff is in another - that way, you can format your system drive should you need to without disturbing your stuff. However, this does rely on you being able to guess the ratio of sizes to assign the partitions in before you start. If that sounds scary, don't worry about partitioning!
Speaking of sound, unless you're majorly in to making music with the computer getting a motherboard with onboard sound is a good plan, otherwise you'd need a separate sound card.
Pretty much all the motherboards I've seen in the last five years have onboard sound - hopefully it shouldn't be a problem! ^_^
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Btw are you free on the weekend of the 4th november?
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I tend to advise partitioning so that the OS and programs are in one partition and your stuff is in another - that way, you can format your system drive should you need to without disturbing your stuff. However, this does rely on you being able to guess the ratio of sizes to assign the partitions in before you start. If that sounds scary, don't worry about partitioning!
Speaking of sound, unless you're majorly in to making music with the computer getting a motherboard with onboard sound is a good plan, otherwise you'd need a separate sound card.
Pretty much all the motherboards I've seen in the last five years have onboard sound - hopefully it shouldn't be a problem! ^_^
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