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Picture Guide to Computer Building and Hardware Installation (56K)
- Aug 8, 2009 3:39 pm GMT
My complete picture guide to computer building and hardware installation.
Capitan_Kid wrote:Im not saying those arent great games. Im saying they just didnt have the impact on gaming like console games in comparison. Halo pretty much kickstarted the FPS genre.
[QUOTE="TheShadowLord07"]what the purpose of a sound card?
[/QUOTE]The sound card is a dedicated chip for decoding sound from your computer. It takes some of the load off of the motherboard and many sound cards offer much higher quality sound than the motherboards onboard sound. Often times though, sound cards are only worth the extra money if you have a high quality (meaning expensive) sound system hooked up to your computer.- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Great guide!
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- Aug 9, 2009 3:19 pm GMT
I am currently homeless.
Please send money and/or Lego. I have been collecting lego blocks for nearly four years now as I intend to build my own home. I currently have exactly 1,692,008 blocks of various sizes and only need another 4,836,029 to complete plans of constructing a four bedroom home with sunken lounge and indoor swimming pool.
Prior plans to build a home from seawater were abandoned due to physics.
Museum of everything wrote:Vistors who've wondered what it would be like to go a bit further with a goat can now experiance this at our heavy petting zoo.[QUOTE="GTR2addict"]Good guide, very good, i'd say, now all it's left is for me and markop to finish the hardware wikia... IF HE EVER FREAKIN SHOWS UP[/QUOTE] I am here and i have written a bit more, i have been on GS a bit less cause it's started to bore me also my grandad died on the first day of the summer holidays so i've been helping with the funeral and clearing out the house ect....you disappeared after a couple of days though... Go1M (sp?) said he may help out too when he had the time.- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Aug 9, 2009 3:23 pm GMT
I am currently homeless.
Please send money and/or Lego. I have been collecting lego blocks for nearly four years now as I intend to build my own home. I currently have exactly 1,692,008 blocks of various sizes and only need another 4,836,029 to complete plans of constructing a four bedroom home with sunken lounge and indoor swimming pool.
Prior plans to build a home from seawater were abandoned due to physics.
Museum of everything wrote:Vistors who've wondered what it would be like to go a bit further with a goat can now experiance this at our heavy petting zoo.[QUOTE="TheShadowLord07"]what the purpose of a sound card?
[/QUOTE] The sound card acts as a DAC. It converts a digital music file into an analogue signal which can be used to drive headphones or speakers. Some can also add effects such as EAX, DTS, ProLogic ect and others can help decode surround sound signals. The ASUS Xonar ST and STX also include a headphone amp which increases the volume and quality of high impedance and low sensitivity headphones ie AKGs, high end Senn, Beyerdynamics.- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- I like the look of that orange case. Looks awesome :P
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- Aug 11, 2009 3:07 am GMTI was registered at your forum. I have printed the test message. Do not delete, please.
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- Aug 12, 2009 1:37 am GMTThat orange case is quite sexy actually.
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- Aug 12, 2009 3:10 am GMTGreat guide!
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scarface_dm wrote:Who cares about pc games, nobody play them anyways
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- Aug 12, 2009 10:33 am GMT
Nice One dude, I'll Be working on my new build soon so This will be a great help. WICKED
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- Aug 13, 2009 8:01 pm GMT
Excellent guide
Many thanks in advance as Iam planning a gaming build in septemeber Cheers and Please do not remove this! 
[/url]Excellent guide :) Many thanks in advance as Iam planning a gaming build in septemeber :) Cheers and Please do not remove this! :)
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- Aug 14, 2009 3:56 pm GMT
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- This made me want to build my own rig :O. I'm looking up hardware as we speak.
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- Aug 18, 2009 1:41 am GMT
Great stuff, might be building a new PC and this will really help.
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- Aug 20, 2009 5:43 am GMTGeneral_X wrote:(10) Front Panel Wiring
The final step of building your rig before powering it up can be a little tricky to a beginner, but well labeled motherboards and front panel wires will help this part along greatly.
Now pretty much every case comes with 4 things on the front panel, headphone/mic jacks, USB ports, power switch, and reset switch.
I'll start out with wiring the audio jacks in the front, luckily everything is well labeled.
HD Audio wire
Plugs into the F(ront)_Audio header on the motherboard, near the audio outputs on the back of the motherboard/case
The USB wire
Plugs into the motherboard's F_USB header, just under the graphics card (but location may vary for you)
Now for the power switch, reset switch, front power LED, and hard drive activity LED cables. This is wear a well labeled motherboard comes in handy since it will hopefully tell you witch of the front panel pins are for which wire and what the positive and negative allignments are for them. A rule of thumb on the positive and negative configurations of the wires is that the colored wire is pretty much always positive, while the white wire is pretty much always negative.
And that's it! Congratualtions. Now replace the case's side panel and get the computer ready for use by pluggin in the power cord, keyboard/mouse, monitor, speakers, and whatever else you like. Make sure the switch on the back of the powersupply is in the proper position, and hit the powerswitch to fire her up. Now its time to install a buncha stuff.
(11) Operating System and Driver installation
Since others have done a better job at describing this than I can, here are some guides:
How to Install Windows XP
How to Install Windows Vista
Your motherboard should have come with a driver CD, as soon as the operating system is installed just run the driver CD and install the components on it that will allow your computer to function properly. I highly recommend getting the most up to date video card drivers from the manufacturor's website: Nvidia or ATi
Now that your computer is fully up and running there's only one thing left to do...
LAN Party!
Hey can you tell me what camera you used to take these pics, quality is simply amazing!
[QUOTE="General_X"][U][B](10) Front Panel Wiring[/B][/U] The final step of building your rig before powering it up can be a little tricky to a beginner, but well labeled motherboards and front panel wires will help this part along greatly. Now pretty much every case comes with 4 things on the front panel, headphone/mic jacks, USB ports, power switch, and reset switch. I'll start out with wiring the audio jacks in the front, luckily everything is well labeled. HD Audio wire [IMG]http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/6953/p1010175e.jpg[/IMG] Plugs into the F(ront)_Audio header on the motherboard, near the audio outputs on the back of the motherboard/case [IMG]http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/292/p1010075cfl.jpg[/IMG] The USB wire [IMG]http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/7931/p1010184g.jpg[/IMG] Plugs into the motherboard's F_USB header, just under the graphics card (but location may vary for you) [IMG]http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8246/p1010186b.jpg[/IMG] Now for the power switch, reset switch, front power LED, and hard drive activity LED cables. This is wear a well labeled motherboard comes in handy since it will hopefully tell you witch of the front panel pins are for which wire and what the positive and negative allignments are for them. A rule of thumb on the positive and negative configurations of the wires is that the colored wire is pretty much always positive, while the white wire is pretty much always negative. [IMG]http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/6712/p1010188r.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/3258/p1010066copy.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/3339/p1010190ppc.jpg[/IMG] And that's it! Congratualtions. Now replace the case's side panel and get the computer ready for use by pluggin in the power cord, keyboard/mouse, monitor, speakers, and whatever else you like. Make sure the switch on the back of the powersupply is in the proper position, and hit the powerswitch to fire her up. Now its time to install a buncha stuff. [IMG]http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/6599/20500028.jpg[/IMG] [U][B](11) Operating System and Driver installation[/B][/U] Since others have done a better job at describing this than I can, here are some guides: [URL=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316941]How to Install Windows XP[/URL] [URL=http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operatingsystems/tp/install-windows-vista.htm]How to Install Windows Vista[/URL] Your motherboard should have come with a driver CD, as soon as the operating system is installed just run the driver CD and install the components on it that will allow your computer to function properly. I highly recommend getting the most up to date video card drivers from the manufacturor's website: [URL=http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us]Nvidia[/URL] or [URL=http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx]ATi[/URL] Now that your computer is fully up and running there's only one thing left to do... LAN Party! [IMG]http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/1053/p1010199m.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Hey can you tell me what camera you used to take these pics, quality is simply amazing!- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Aug 20, 2009 9:57 am GMT
My complete picture guide to computer building and hardware installation.
Capitan_Kid wrote:Im not saying those arent great games. Im saying they just didnt have the impact on gaming like console games in comparison. Halo pretty much kickstarted the FPS genre.
[QUOTE="UltimateGamer95"][QUOTE="General_X"][(Qouted Text/images)[/QUOTE] Hey can you tell me what camera you used to take these pics, quality is simply amazing![/QUOTE]I used a Panasonic DMC-TZ4, they don't have it on newegg anymore but here is its younger brother: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16830180213[/url]- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Aug 21, 2009 5:00 am GMTGeneral_X wrote:(10) Front Panel Wiring
The final step of building your rig before powering it up can be a little tricky to a beginner, but well labeled motherboards and front panel wires will help this part along greatly.
Now pretty much every case comes with 4 things on the front panel, headphone/mic jacks, USB ports, power switch, and reset switch.
I'll start out with wiring the audio jacks in the front, luckily everything is well labeled.
HD Audio wire
Plugs into the F(ront)_Audio header on the motherboard, near the audio outputs on the back of the motherboard/case
The USB wire
Plugs into the motherboard's F_USB header, just under the graphics card (but location may vary for you)
Now for the power switch, reset switch, front power LED, and hard drive activity LED cables. This is wear a well labeled motherboard comes in handy since it will hopefully tell you witch of the front panel pins are for which wire and what the positive and negative allignments are for them. A rule of thumb on the positive and negative configurations of the wires is that the colored wire is pretty much always positive, while the white wire is pretty much always negative.
And that's it! Congratualtions. Now replace the case's side panel and get the computer ready for use by pluggin in the power cord, keyboard/mouse, monitor, speakers, and whatever else you like. Make sure the switch on the back of the powersupply is in the proper position, and hit the powerswitch to fire her up. Now its time to install a buncha stuff.
(11) Operating System and Driver installation
Since others have done a better job at describing this than I can, here are some guides:
How to Install Windows XP
How to Install Windows Vista
Your motherboard should have come with a driver CD, as soon as the operating system is installed just run the driver CD and install the components on it that will allow your computer to function properly. I highly recommend getting the most up to date video card drivers from the manufacturor's website: Nvidia or ATi
Now that your computer is fully up and running there's only one thing left to do...
LAN Party!
when you play online with these 4 computers do you notice any lag from your network?[QUOTE="General_X"][U][B](10) Front Panel Wiring[/B][/U] The final step of building your rig before powering it up can be a little tricky to a beginner, but well labeled motherboards and front panel wires will help this part along greatly. Now pretty much every case comes with 4 things on the front panel, headphone/mic jacks, USB ports, power switch, and reset switch. I'll start out with wiring the audio jacks in the front, luckily everything is well labeled. HD Audio wire [IMG]http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/6953/p1010175e.jpg[/IMG] Plugs into the F(ront)_Audio header on the motherboard, near the audio outputs on the back of the motherboard/case [IMG]http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/292/p1010075cfl.jpg[/IMG] The USB wire [IMG]http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/7931/p1010184g.jpg[/IMG] Plugs into the motherboard's F_USB header, just under the graphics card (but location may vary for you) [IMG]http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8246/p1010186b.jpg[/IMG] Now for the power switch, reset switch, front power LED, and hard drive activity LED cables. This is wear a well labeled motherboard comes in handy since it will hopefully tell you witch of the front panel pins are for which wire and what the positive and negative allignments are for them. A rule of thumb on the positive and negative configurations of the wires is that the colored wire is pretty much always positive, while the white wire is pretty much always negative. [IMG]http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/6712/p1010188r.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/3258/p1010066copy.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/3339/p1010190ppc.jpg[/IMG] And that's it! Congratualtions. Now replace the case's side panel and get the computer ready for use by pluggin in the power cord, keyboard/mouse, monitor, speakers, and whatever else you like. Make sure the switch on the back of the powersupply is in the proper position, and hit the powerswitch to fire her up. Now its time to install a buncha stuff. [IMG]http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/6599/20500028.jpg[/IMG] [U][B](11) Operating System and Driver installation[/B][/U] Since others have done a better job at describing this than I can, here are some guides: [URL=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316941]How to Install Windows XP[/URL] [URL=http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operatingsystems/tp/install-windows-vista.htm]How to Install Windows Vista[/URL] Your motherboard should have come with a driver CD, as soon as the operating system is installed just run the driver CD and install the components on it that will allow your computer to function properly. I highly recommend getting the most up to date video card drivers from the manufacturor's website: [URL=http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us]Nvidia[/URL] or [URL=http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx]ATi[/URL] Now that your computer is fully up and running there's only one thing left to do... LAN Party! [IMG]http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/1053/p1010199m.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] when you play online with these 4 computers do you notice any lag from your network?- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Aug 21, 2009 6:11 am GMTWow! Very, very nicely done!
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- Aug 21, 2009 8:17 am GMT
My complete picture guide to computer building and hardware installation.
Capitan_Kid wrote:Im not saying those arent great games. Im saying they just didnt have the impact on gaming like console games in comparison. Halo pretty much kickstarted the FPS genre.
[QUOTE="UltimateGamer95"][QUOTE="General_X"](Quoted Images)[/QUOTE] when you play online with these 4 computers do you notice any lag from your network?[/QUOTE]No its pretty much the same pings as I get by myself, as long as you don't have so many computers that it exceeds your bandwidth you probably won't notice a difference.- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Aug 21, 2009 12:20 pm GMT
plz dont quote the pictures
plz dont quote the pictures :P
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