Building A Computer

Looking at your profile you are in the United States. Friends on and offline I have over there are always bragging about newegg.com . Have a look there im sure you can find everything you need. You will need to decide what is it you want exactly though, saying a 'really fast one' doesnt necessarily mean its what you need. For example a Quad core may give you the same satisfaction as a 6 Core cpu. Save a bit of money right there alone. Another thing to look at is what you will be using it for, games? movies? surfing the web? etc etc If you were just going to surf the web, emails etc then a top end duo core at the very most would be sufficent no point spending extra money on something higher (such as a quad or 6 core) if youre not getting the benefits from it. Alot of boards, atleast the ones ive looked at recent have had at the minimum 4 ram slots, 6 sata ports 2 pci, pci-e then sound etc. Depending again on what you need for expansion would depend on how many expansion slots you need. Alot of boards now come with atleast 5.1 sound built on so unless you have a really top notch sound card sometimes you wont notice the difference between a basic card and onboard sound. Another thing to look at is the space you will require inside the case and so on. For example you decide im gonna do the odd top quality game, so you buy a rather big and bulky graphics card. You would be surprised at how many people buy a big hefty card and realize oops this wont fit in my case with sitting against this hard-drive, or cables etc. My advise is to buy parts first then look at your case. Give yourself a budget also. Goodluck

I had this probem when decided to get a new computer early last year. Rather than getting all the bits and building it myself, (been there, done that), I decided to have it built by one of the online companies that allow you to spececify all the components that you want and then they build it for you. That worked out all right for me and I've got a really good up - to date machine with exactly the specification I wanted and which did not cost a fortune. I belive there are several companies in the US that will do this and you can probably find them by googling "configure your own computer"