[clue-tech] Suggestion for upcoming presentation - build you own PC

[chris fedde]

I'd be happy to help anyone who wants to put together a linux PC.
It's really pretty straight forward once you know the moving parts.
I suppose that the process could be bundled into a presentation for
CLUE.  if there is any interest I can work up such a presentation.

chris

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 2:48 PM,  <wpsmithii at msn.com> wrote:
> Hi Collins, I've built a few and have repaired some as well. I think the trick is to pay attention to current pricing (micro center, tiger direct and newegg are the ones I watch) and buy the best components you can afford at the time. It changes from moment to moment. Bill Smith
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com>
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> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 11:42:53
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> Subject: [clue-tech] Suggestion for upcoming presentation - build you own PC
>
> Perhaps others are in the same boat as I am. I've spent 10+ years
> tinkering with Linux, etc., and I've done some repairs on PC's, but
> I'm still a complete dummy when it comes to selecting cases,
> motherboards, etc., etc. I'm in the market for building a new PC, and
> I'm sure there might be others who would love to know more about this
> arcane science!
>
> What I'm looking for is a good virtual base to make it easy to tinker
> with various OS, so there would be plenty of ram, fast CPU with
> virtual assist, large drives (maybe RAID). I'm not interested in one
> of the giant gaming cases with flashing lights, but rather a medium
> sized box (either mid tower or one of the newer cube shapes) with
> quiet fans and lots of usb connectors since almost everything plugs
> into USB these days. Probably a quad-core cpu with something like 8G
> memory. Many of the available standard boxes from the big hitter
> manufacturers have disabled virtual assist, so their boxes are
> worthless for my wants and needs. There must be 100K or greater
> options for this type of equipment, and how does an amateur/idiot go
> about selecting select the right thing?
>
> So, would one or some of you guys who have hardware savvy please put
> together a presentation, perhaps something like the following?
>
> * how to select cases, power supplies, motherboards, etc.
> * best sources for equipment
> * techniques for building
> * gotchas
> * etc.
>
> --
> Collins Richey
>      If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
>      of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
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