Building a new pc

I want to build a new pc...This is something i have never done b4 and would like and tips or hints..
Secondly i have a list of parts and want to know if they fit/work together.as in these are the parts i want are they good/bad will it fit in case am i missing parts or ect ect.


and is price good?:



Motherboards $579.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod4650.htm
Case $565.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod4417.htm
Noise insulator $36.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod850.htm Maby
Sound card $655.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod3104.htm
Toy for pc $40.00 http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/pcmods/8095/
Toy for pc $20.00 http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/pcmods/6b35/
Power supply $145.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod3894.htm
Disk drive $69.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod2713.htm


Total: $2,049.00

 

for 1gig of ram http://www.foxcomp.com.au/ProductDetail.asp?ID=259

 

The only thing i see is that $655.00 sound card WOW...

You could buy at that price a very good graphic card a geforce 8800GTX.....

Something to think about...onless you realy like HI-FI sound....

And for that ram you should go for 2 now if your computer it's for gaming.....

 

yea i like the sound...and i'll get 4of those ram chips ...my graphics card is winfast a6800xt i might get http://www.pccasegear.com/prod4413.htm

 

i already got an 80gig hard drive and an external 320gig one

 

lol see i knew i would miss somethin plz xplain "Which Intel CPU are you going for Quad Core or Core 2 Duo?'

 

http://www.pccasegear.com/prod4167.htm is a good cpu for it?

 

Item: Price Web link
Motherboards $579.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod4650.htm
Case $565.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod4417.htm
Noise insulator $36.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod850.htm
Sound card $655.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod3104.htm
Toy for pc $40.00 us http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/pcmods/8095/
Toy for pc $20.00us http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/pcmods/6b35/
Power supply $145.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod3894.htm
Disk drive $69.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod2713.htm
Ram 1gig ddr2 x2 $420.00 http://www.foxcomp.com.au/ProductDetail.asp?ID=259
Tv card $116.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod3275.htm
Video card $777.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod4413.htm
Hard drive $389.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod3094.htm
CPU $799.00 http://www.pccasegear.com/prod4167.htm


Total: $4,460.00

 

Not sure if there is ever much point buying the very top of the line stuff.
If you drop your
CPU down 1 = $300 less
sound card down 1 = $250 less
graphics card down 1 = $200 less

with the case:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html
have a very nice ATX/BTX case out at the moment for $299.00 USD
= $478.00 AUD another saving of $100

Total saving $850.00 AUD (buy a lot of games for that)

And thats just from looking from that one site
http://www.pccasegear.com
which by the way is one of the best sites in Australia
but you may also want to look at
http://www.centrecom.com.au/catalog/default.php
it really does pay to shop around

Even look at American stores, I imported my memory from
http://www.memorysuppliers.com/
and it was a fair chunk cheaper than anything in Australia
and Ive bought other stuff from Taiwan (lot of manufacturers based there these days - including Leadtek who make the tv card you want.
I haven't had any problems importing anything yet.

It also pays to read as many reviews as you can find online on any pc parts you are thinking of buying and take your time

And look at the manufacturers sites to see what they actually make, there may be models more suited to you

the graphics card is the only thing that may 'reallistically' make any noticable difference anyway, but Im sure the 7950 GT 512MB DDR3 HDCP ExTreme is still a very flash card.

At the end of the day its all up to you
but these days most things are only top of the line for a maximum of 6 months anyway.

Hopefully a few of the more experienced members who have already bought these or similar products will help you with this thread soon.

There may already be a thread on 'the ultimate computer' here somewhere

Good luck with whatever you end up buying