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[Bighoss]

I just have a question that I'm curious about. What are all the pieces needed to build a computer?

[Civilian]

Case
Power supply
Motherboard
Memory
Processor
Hard drive
Floppy drive
Cd/DVD/CDRW drive
Vid card
Sound card
Drive cables
Speakers
Monitor
Mouse
Keyboard

[BLuE_ZeRO]

fans

[Bighoss]

or u could use the ultra not worth it refrigerator case

[powdahound]

Originally posted by Civilian
Case
Power supply
Motherboard
Memory
Processor
Hard drive
Floppy drive
Cd/DVD/CDRW drive
Vid card
Sound card
Drive cables
Speakers
Monitor
Mouse
Keyboard

fans
heatsink
thermal paste
modem
a human brain and ability to RTFM (read the manual)

[BLuE_ZeRO]

RTFM = read the manual... wait what's the F stand for then?

[Civilian]

Grrrrr...

Oh yeah, a network card!

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Well if you get a motherboard with integrated LAN you won't need a network card. It frees up a spot for anything that you might want to add later as well.

[Civilian]

Well, if you buy a case with fans included, you don't need the fans!

[BLuE_ZeRO]

you still need a cpu fan. The more fans the better unless your fans are loud as hell than it isn't. Were you planning on going AMD? if you are heat is going to be an issue so you don't want to go with just 1 or 2 standard case fans.