Building a computer

I'm an old man who retired from the computer field 7 years ago as a MIS manager so I've built over a thousand computer. Now 7 years later I became stupid. So I figure I need a 2nd Desktop because I blew away two of them in the last month. I have everything except the CPU, motherboard, & RAM. So I figure one or two hundred extra dollar is ok but I don't want to build a dragster to pick up my groceries. I think a AMD 1090T or an i5 with DDR3 -1333 because why over clock. I need a motherboard with USB3 because that is why I'm building this thing. I went out and bought a 2T HD USB3 like I really need it but I want it so I got it just like this computer I'm going to build. Also supports the SATA3 (The 6 Gig thingy) See what I mean. WD got a 1T for a hundred and a 64 meg buffer. Anyway any advice or tutorials for building this computer would be appreciated. The computer will be uses for a couple of medium games, tens of thousands of pictures and I love Google earth.

p5bdkw said:

I just picked up this.....Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-P67A-UD3 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

and this Newegg.com - Intel Core i7-2600 Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I72600

It's a nice board, however if you don't need hyper-threading.......
Newegg.com - Computer Hardware,Intel,Processors - Desktops,LGA 1155,Core i5

I used some older memory I had.
Newegg.com - G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL8D-4GBHK

IMO: ddr2 is better cost than ddr3, however most mobos now adays use ddr3. sata 6 is a waste of money, most hard drives dont use it (but if you got money, go ahead!), and if you want to game and watch videos, i would go with ati since they have very good price per performance cards, and better with videos than nvidia.

and also, what are you going to be using the usb3.0 for? if you are using it for external hdds i would recommend using esata instead....


read this pdf: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/pc-hard...uide-download/
and this one too: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/downloa...-guide-part-2/
the above arent exactly guides but provide useful information on todays stuff.
just google in "build your own pc" and you should get a plethora of articles.

if i were you i wouldnt skimp out on the good companies for extra value, always choose the better companies even if you are tight on money, because the headaches that it will save you is probably worth more than money. ( like: extra valu ram vs crucial or corsair, crucial/corsair wins)



and always read reviews.

this is what im going to build in the next months:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103675

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131402

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811164143

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148294

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-339-_-Product


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102858


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...hwatts%20ea500

the hard drive isnt there because ima transfer this one to the other (untill i can get a better hdd).


/off topic
1 i7 costs as much as my (amd)mobo+(amd)cpu+ram+case combined. if i ever buy one of those, it better be dam good.

whs said:

I hope you are not going to be disappointed by USB3 like I was. My "Christmas system" came with USB3 - and it is about 30% faster than USB2 (same disk in different enclosures), but that is all. I had expected more. But thinking about it, after all it is the speed of the HD that rules. With a SSD it should be different - if you can afford it for data storage.

esata ex hdd > usb 3 hdd