Building A Computer

oh and thanks for the compliment on the video :)

The power wires are pretty bulky I guess, but there's still about half the area open between the drive bays and the rest of the case. Two 120mm fans are blowing through there, and no wires are obstructing the video card.

The cpu fan goes directly into a duct on the side of the case so that hardly even comes into play.

I agree that the wires don't look pretty, but I think you are overestimating their effect on the airflow. Also, the owner of this pc does not overclock anything, so it's less of a concern.

The thing actually runs quite cool, so, it's fine.

Well the only thing I plugged in after the power line was the keyboard, mouse and monitor. So I can't imagine what the difference would be?

As far as "Lucky it started up", you are way too paranoid about static. We grounded ourself on the case obsessively (that's just not shown in the video because it's cut out). Given that, there was no danger of static.

where were the times when we had BIG cpus with double fans and a circuit board in a plastic housing...

As the guy above says, the stock intel heatsink comes with this sticky thermal paste stuff already applied onto the heatsink. So you just place it down onto the CPU and that's it.

Dude,when is the last time you build a PC ? the year 2000?

Intel p4 processors come with a heatsink and there's a square of thermal paste on that heatsink.

Haha...

I'm quite sure there won't be a next time, but part of the reason I didn't include prices is because they would be out of date months before I actually put up the video, plus I bought it in Canadian money so depending on exchange rates, etc, it wouldn't really be relevant for a lot of the viewers. The PC without monitor was about $2000.

I'm glad you like it. Metacafe doesn't, as they have just rejected it for producer rewards, despite the fact that it's popular and has a high rating.

so how long u been doing this? i want to build my own desktop eventually but that takes money =( all i got is a laptop for now

I've only built a few full systems actually. My current computer was the first one I ever built, and that was almost 5 years ago (yeah, I really need a new computer lol, but at least I have upgraded this one a lot - which is the big advantage of building your own pc when you know what parts to get - you buy the ones that will allow you to do a ton of upgrading in the future).

Thanks for the comment. I contemplated doing a commentary but decided not to. I think I will on my next video.

I look 4ward to CN it, and Happy New Year................ ;-)

we were touching the case obsessively probably 10 times more than we needed to, to protect against ESD. I know you can get those bracelet things and what not, but touching the case a lot is good enough in my experience.

The system was purchased back in spring 2007. I'd have to search around for the invoices and stuff, but to the best of my recollection the system cost about $2000 Canadian without the monitor. It was built for somewhat of a power user, but not a gamer - which is why the video card isn't that great.

In the past, wireless keyboards have been laggy and unreliable - perhaps they are better now, but even if they are, this computer was built on a budget and we had already gone over budget, so we saved a few bucks by getting a cheaper keyboard. Pretty much the same reason for the mouse, the G7 wireless was like $50 more than this G5, so... not really worth it.

Thanks for watching :)

If thats ur pc u mite want to look at an upgrade, heres mine in a nutshell -intel core 2 extream 3.00GHz FSB 1333MHz 12MB L2 cache -evga nforce 780i SLi ready motherboard -8Gb DDR2 dual channel ram 1066MHz -1000Gb Hard Drive -3 evga Geforce 8800GTX video cards -full koolance liquid cooled setup and of course dvd etc u know the stuff that comes standard lol

now had 8 gig 1333 mhz ram 6tb hard drive space and 2 9800gtx

You are awesome

he copied that from a computer ad.