First Computer

I am going to be making my first computer from scratch. I need as much suggestions and helpful links to help me choose from the tower to the motherboard to pretty much how to put it all together. I have no idea what will go wrong so any helpful advice would also be appreciated.

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I am going to be making my first computer from scratch. I need as much suggestions and helpful links to help me choose from the tower to the motherboard to pretty much how to put it all together. I have no idea what will go wrong so any helpful advice would also be appreciated. Another thing is to rember price is important and I'm probably going to be mixmatching alot of things. I already have a spare video card, monitor. What I need is suggestions for everything else. I hope I gave enough information to where you can see what I need to know or need to get for this project.

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Originally posted by gef4000 mx:

Quote:Sounds good so if I go with the DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard the CPU I should get would be a ... sorry I'm having trouble finding that but im thinking it would be the AMD Anthlon 64 4000+ (socket939) 
Definitely the Ultra-D, it can be "pencil-modded" to an SLI board, tis why I got one, an SLI board for $60 less.

 
No need to get a 4000+, a 3700+ will OC to those speeds, more bang for the buck.

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well actually is there anything really bad about the 3200 or the 3500 cause that seems more in range price wise and if it is then I am able to get started collecting my parts

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Nothing wrong with those chips, providided you're talking a socket 939 chip, they all OC very well, the "bang-for-the-buck" is very real.
 
If I knew then, what I know now, I would have jumped camps to the AMD bandwagon a long time ago.

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haha allright thank you all for your help I'm going to be getting each product one at a time from newegg.com when I get off the couch and start working for some money, it totals out around $560 but then there's like $40 mail-in rebates, so I think it's pretty good price