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Ask HN: Looking for a guide to build a PC
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Re: Ask HN: Looking for a guide to build a PC
#12It's right in front of you, everywhere, even at the supermarket -- MaximumPC magazine, in print and online. It's all there, building machines from $500 to $3000. I'm building a new one right now and picking up all the hints that the experience people will share in their articles even though I've done it many times before.
Re: Ask HN: Looking for a guide to build a PC
#13Your profile doesn't have a contact e-mail address. Drop me an e-mail at (my username) at gmail.com if you'd like, because I have some interest in discussing this a bit. I had begun working on a site that tracks current hardware trends, pricing, shopping, and recommendations but I haven't looked at the project in a while. If anyone is interested in collaborating on something like this, please feel free to contact me…
There's probably significant value in building something that works like a DELL build your own PC tool, but pulls in components from all the sites over the net, then puts together the shopping cart for you: 1) Takes you through each component choice: memory, case, cd/dvd, hd,etc. 2) As you choose the size for each one. 1tb hd? 8gb of ram?, it pulls together the lowest price, and sets up the shopping cart for you. Pro…
I've actually been working exactly that as a side project. Not only will it walk you through the component choices, it will also allow you to limit choices to components compatible with what you've already picked out.
If anyone is interested in beta testing when it is ready, drop me a line and let me know.
Re: Ask HN: Looking for a guide to build a PC
#14Your profile doesn't have a contact e-mail address. Drop me an e-mail at (my username) at gmail.com if you'd like, because I have some interest in discussing this a bit. I had begun working on a site that tracks current hardware trends, pricing, shopping, and recommendations but I haven't looked at the project in a while. If anyone is interested in collaborating on something like this, please feel free to contact me…
Also something that would aggregate benchmark results from different sources would be awesome. Then it could interpolate results for arbitrary hardware combinations and search for bottlenecks.
Re: Ask HN: Looking for a guide to build a PC
#15Your profile doesn't have a contact e-mail address. Drop me an e-mail at (my username) at gmail.com if you'd like, because I have some interest in discussing this a bit. I had begun working on a site that tracks current hardware trends, pricing, shopping, and recommendations but I haven't looked at the project in a while. If anyone is interested in collaborating on something like this, please feel free to contact me…
There's probably significant value in building something that works like a DELL build your own PC tool, but pulls in components from all the sites over the net, then puts together the shopping cart for you: 1) Takes you through each component choice: memory, case, cd/dvd, hd,etc. 2) As you choose the size for each one. 1tb hd? 8gb of ram?, it pulls together the lowest price, and sets up the shopping cart for you. Pro…
You could do it exclusively on newegg initially.
Their service and selection is great, and prices are pretty fair.
Re: Ask HN: Looking for a guide to build a PC
#16What's wrong with the articles at Tom's Hardware like "System Builder Marathon, June 2010: $550 Gaming PC" -
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-gpu-overclock,2659.h...
I found it very clear and informative. They also have $1000 and $2000 guides.
Re: Ask HN: Looking for a guide to build a PC
#17a) http://www.anandtech.com/tag/guides has guides that are updated frequently and are pretty good. b) You can also head to www.hardforums.com and get recommendations from techies themselves. People on hardforums are extremely helpful and knowledgeable.
This. Also look for the roadmap articles and head to head comparison articles:
http://www.anandtech.com/tag/cpus
And there are usually head to head comparisons for each generation of new components:
http://www.anandtech.com/tag/mb