Computer specs and general knowledge

i feel ur pain ;-; cept im more lazy

If you add me on steam ill talk with you about upgrading and everything you want to know love pc building and helping people. so whenever you are free just hit me up. PS Friends charging you = not friends lol

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/

http://www.hwcompare.com/

Two great sites with forums/guides for just this sort of thing.

I don't have a good knowledge on what parts are good but at least I know how to build a computer. Google can help you and the general rule when you build a computer: It's like a jigsaw puzzle, everything belongs to the place where it fits in. :D

Newegg has a video on how to build a pc on youtube that helped me when I built mine.

Other than that I browsed newegg and amazon for about 2 weeks comparing parts. The best part about building a pc is shopping around and finding what you personally want.

I second the notion of watching that Newegg video and buying your parts from there. I hope this helps.
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step by step walkthrough video from pcgamer for the act of building a computer http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/04/30/how-to-build-a-gaming-pc/

go to www.reddit.com/r/buildapcforme
the guys there will help show what good parts to buy

First off Tom's Hardware hierarchy charts are your friend
next:
newegg, amazon, tigerdirect, microcenter, and more importantly pcpartpicker.com

If you want to talk to someone about this, I would be willing to have a discussion and try to answer some questions and point you to a few places. Just add me on steam.

Assembling a computer is actually pretty straightforward. Choosing parts is a different story.

For a typical consumer gaming machine, you need 8 parts:

CPU - Intel and AMD make the kind of CPUs that power consumer computers.
RAM - Corsair, Crucial, Patriot and many other companies make RAM sticks that provide short term "thinking memory" for your computer. Also called "memory."
Motherboard - ASUS, ASROCK, MSI, Foxconn and Gigabyte make motherboards (also "mobo"). The CPU and RAM directly plug into the motherboard while storage are connected to the mobo by cables and GPUs (& other expansion cards) are physically attached through PCI-e expansion slots.
Storage - Hard drives (HDDs) and Solid State Drives (SSDs) provide long term "file" storage for your machine. Seagate, Western Digital (WD), Samsung and Hitachi make hard drives while Intel, Samsung, OCZ and many others make SSDs. Desktop hard drives fit into 3.5" bays in the case while laptop hard drive and some SSDs fit into 2.5" bays.
Graphics Card (GPU) - Your GPU is an expansion card that slots into your motherboard so a little bit of it can be seen from outside of the case to plug your monitor in. It's the most important part of a gaming machine. Nvidia and AMD make GPUs for the kind of gaming computer you will build.
Disk Drive - You probably need to get a DVD drive. Disk drives fit in 5.25" bays in a case.
Case - It holds your motherboard and everything. It has fans to cool everything (which is more important than you might think). You need to make sure your case will support your motherboard. There are three main sizes, ATX, microATX (mATX) and miniITX (mITX). Most large cases support all three sizes while small cases support just mITX.
Power Supply (PSU) - This is your power supply that turns your power outlet into the right kind of power for each device.

Once you have a rudimentary understanding of the eight kinds of parts, head over to Newegg.com and pick out a CPU. Check its socket (the connector) and then find a motherboard that will fit the CPU. Then find the right kind of RAM for the motherboard. Pick out a case that will carry your motherboard. Find a Power Supply (~500W ATX is typically fine) and a disk drive. Pick out some SATA storage drives that will connect to the SATA ports on your motherboard (3GB/s and 6GB/s SATA2 are compatible but a 6GB/s drive will run slower in a 3GB/s port). Then you can try to pick out a GPU that uses a PCI-e port. At this point, you could technically build a computer out of these parts.

But don't buy those parts! You're just learning. Now head around the internet and look at the builds of other people on reddit or around here. Since you understand the parts and you roughly get how they go together, you will be able to understand the builds of others. Eventually, you'll learn which parts are best for different situations.

It's a long path, but it's worth it. I started on Newegg years ago finding parts that would hopefully work together. It can work. Good luck.

tinyurl.com/falconguide
this helped me alot when i was building my pc.