VarLordahl
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Hey guys I'm building my first computer. It will be fairly high performance, althought it's nothing too special. First, if someone could review my list of components below and be srue that everything checks out that would be great:
Asus A8N-Sli Socket 939 Mobo
AMD 3800+ X2 processor
1GB (2x512) Corsair Select Ram DDR400
Western Digital 250GB 7200rpm 8mb cache SATA 300 harddrive
EVGA refurbished OEM 256mb 6800GT Video Card w/dual DVIs
NEC DVD+-R
Antec Case w/Antec TruPower 450w PS
Acer Digital 20.1" Widescreen 1680x1080 (I think) res
Do these parts seem to complement each other? I do VERY LITTLE gaming, but lots of picture editing and spread-sheeting. I basically just want a fast machine that can handle anything I throw at it - but I don't need a ridiculous gaming machine.
That said,
When I assemble it, I basically just play "Legos" and fit everything together,right? Well, my question then is, since my mobo has no video card built onboard, when I first set the bios to boot from a CD and load Windows on it, how it does output anything to the monitor through the vid card if there is no vid card driver installed yet?
I've reformatted computers 100's of times, and done lots of minor hardware upgrades. I've jsut never built a puter from scratch. I just want to be sure it's not a whole lot harder to build one fromscratch.
Also,how much time shoudl I give myself to assemble the thing?
Thanks guys!
Asus A8N-Sli Socket 939 Mobo
AMD 3800+ X2 processor
1GB (2x512) Corsair Select Ram DDR400
Western Digital 250GB 7200rpm 8mb cache SATA 300 harddrive
EVGA refurbished OEM 256mb 6800GT Video Card w/dual DVIs
NEC DVD+-R
Antec Case w/Antec TruPower 450w PS
Acer Digital 20.1" Widescreen 1680x1080 (I think) res
Do these parts seem to complement each other? I do VERY LITTLE gaming, but lots of picture editing and spread-sheeting. I basically just want a fast machine that can handle anything I throw at it - but I don't need a ridiculous gaming machine.
That said,
When I assemble it, I basically just play "Legos" and fit everything together,right? Well, my question then is, since my mobo has no video card built onboard, when I first set the bios to boot from a CD and load Windows on it, how it does output anything to the monitor through the vid card if there is no vid card driver installed yet?
I've reformatted computers 100's of times, and done lots of minor hardware upgrades. I've jsut never built a puter from scratch. I just want to be sure it's not a whole lot harder to build one fromscratch.
Also,how much time shoudl I give myself to assemble the thing?
Thanks guys!