1 Ghz Duron with copper shim..... Hey Guys I am a newbie to building systems and have a question. First of all I bought a Retail 1Ghz Duron and will be using the Soltek Sl-75drv5(with future plans of upgrading to a much faster XP cpu). From what I have been...

Newbie question on case/motherboard. I am a newbie in building systems and I need a little help. I purchased the Modtek Alien X case (http://www.xoxide.com/xoxide-alien-x-case.html and I saw a picture of the back of the box and specifically where mouse, keyboard,...

A question regarding processor heat sink paste. I'm a newbie to building system so I'm having a guy that has built some systems help me the first time out but I'm wondering if he's right or wrong in regard to heat sink paste. I bought a new Intel Core I7...

Newbie,building first puter. PSU question. Well for starters, I'm a newbie here and hopefully I'm posting my question in the right Area. If not I'm sure you will point me in the right direction. As stated in the subject line, I'm building my first system. I...

Newbie build with some parts I have.. Hello everyone, I recently started reading this forum and got the bug to build a system. I've built a couple of them before but that was years ago and am now having to learn what's what again. Today I snagged an i7...

Newbie is building a budget system please help.. Ok I need a new computer, ive been stuck with old and slow P3 systems for too long and I finally have a few dollars to build a decent system. I use the computer for very basic stuff. Mainly web browsing, word...

Newbie building first time i5. hey guys, started reading a bunch of the posts regarding custom builds after my comp crashed (6-5 year old p4 2.33ghz, 1.5gb ram, 1tb hdd, and 180gb, 64mb radeon graphic card). pretty sure the motherboard fried... anyways... my...

Newbie Building his First Linux MCE. Guys, this is the first time i've ever made a posting but now i am opening myself up for some much needed help after watching this regarding the linuxmce running on kubutu, i came to these ones after again watching...

chip. Mobo: ASUS A7V133 Reviews are the key to become a computer hardware pro! well i am not a newbie at building pcs just not educated too much with the new cpus.i was just scared that the amd chip was unstable and i want to build a trouble free pc. cause...

BTW if you got no experince with building computer and don't want a trial by fire approch (about 20 pages+ worths of post from me asking questions and getting flamed by old timers because i had chosen a mobo that is too hard a newbie build... but i cam out...