The Computer Megathread

[Isjix]

someone buy me a titan super computer and pay the bills for me

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[Spartan923]

igiveup
Okay so, what parts should I get to build a computer

[ultimamax]

Static fries circuits. Basically the integrated circuits all operate somewhere around 1 - 5 volts. Static built up on your body can easily build up to thousands of volts. If you create a path between ground and your hand that passes through one of these components, you'll destroy it.

It is hard to troubleshoot because the computer will just flat out stop working. To figure it out you would need to test every single integrated circuit and see which one was giving incorrect output. I assume you'd need an expensive logic probe to do this.

Technically, when you build a computer you're supposed to do it on an antistatic mat and wrist strap connected to an earth ground, such as a cold water pipe. Nobody does this though, grounding the case and holding onto the metal is a lot less expensive. The easiest way to ground a case is to cut the hot and neutral pins off a power cable and plug it into the power supply and the ground connection on an outlet.

A lot of people just work on a table and touch the case a lot. Even I do this. This is technically wrong and there are cases where thus won't work. If both you and the case are ungrounded then you're relying on the cases's ability to dissipate and spread out charge.

So what's a really ghetto way to keep myself grounded? Considering the dry conditions I'd like to be extra careful, but I probably can't afford an antistatic mat or anything. Also, I don't know what you mean about that power cable thing. :I

[Axolotl2]

someone buy me a titan super computer and pay the bills for me

Highest-performance Intel i7 Ivy Bridge + High speed mobo + 2600MHz RAM (maybe Trident X, not really sure!) + nVidia Tesla + Gigabit ethernet = High-performance computing node.

Buy lots of these nodes and hook them up correctly into one central network switch. You get an array of high-performance LAN nodes that you can distribute your highly complex tasks along all of these lovely computers.

So what's a really ghetto way to keep myself grounded? Considering the dry conditions I'd like to be extra careful, but I probably can't afford an antistatic mat or anything. Also, I don't know what you mean about that power cable thing. :I

Touch any metal part on a computer case that isn't a circuit board.

[Nickelob Ultra]

So what's a really ghetto way to keep myself grounded? Considering the dry conditions I'd like to be extra careful, but I probably can't afford an antistatic mat or anything. Also, I don't know what you mean about that power cable thing. :I

I just keep a hand on the metal inside my casing.  I work on a carpet usually, and no static-caused problems have ever happened.

Then again my carpet isn't static-y at all.

[Treynolds416]

Be more informative, people are going to (and have) skipped right over your post simply because you said "I give up"
The more words you have, the more likely people are going to read what you said

[ultimamax]

Touch any metal part on a computer case that isn't a circuit board.

I just keep a hand on the metal inside my casing.  I work on a carpet usually, and no static-caused problems have ever happened.

Then again my carpet isn't static-y at all.

As I've said before, lots of people have said this can cause hardware failure even if it seems to do nothing initially.
I don't really know what to think. :I

[Spartan923]

Be more informative, people are going to (and have) skipped right over your post simply because you said "I give up"
The more words you have, the more likely people are going to read what you said

Tell me what more I need to add? I just want a part list that adds up to, at most $1200, made for gaming. How else can I be more informative? Do I need to make a wall of text just to have people see the post in this topic?

[Jerome]

Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139009
Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128543
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504
GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127681
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233144
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185
SSD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148441
PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139010
DVD Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204
OS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116992
Total: $1,200.90,  $1145.90 after rebates

[Elecro]

Holy forget.

My substitute teacher said he built his own rig and only plays games on the pc and he has a Steam (he didn't want to give out his profile name). I asked him what his card was and he said a ATI Radeon HD 6850 with an AMD Phentom x4.

[devildogelite]

Holy forget.

My substitute teacher said he built his own rig and only plays games on the pc and he has a Steam (he didn't want to give out his profile name). I asked him what his card was and he said a ATI Radeon HD 6850 with an AMD Phentom x4.

Whats amazing about this?

[Elecro]

Whats amazing about this?

He defined himself as a "hipster".

[Isjix]

I have a phenom II x3 black edition
it's at 2.8 ghz (default) but I wanna jump it up to around 3.4 ghz or so, but I've never touched CPU overclocking. any tips?
stays around 10-20c on idle and never above 35c on load, i'm using a gigabyte board. (GA-MA790GP-UD4H)

[lcyGamma]

People are way too paranoid about static. As has been said, most people just touch metal to ground themselves and I've never heard of an instance where this hasn't worked.

Unless you decide to drag your feet around on a shag in wolly socks prior to, or during assembly, you won't have a problem.

[beachbum111111]

What kind of monitor is a decent price but isn't crappy and is over 20"