PC Building Tutorial

[pappasplace]

Where on the web can I find a tutorial " with pictures " about building a PC. This would need to be at a beginner level

[snowmaker]

well i just googled the phrase "pc building tutorial" and that yielded about 300,000 results. i'm sure you could find one listed in there.

-b

[pappasplace]

Yes! I did that also. I would like to hear from someone who has had hands on experience using one of these sites. Thanks for the post though

[snowmaker]

ok, good luck. i started building and fixing pc's 20+ yrs ago when 5 mhz computers with 10 meg hard drive's and TWO 5.25" floppy drives were hot commodities. i'd be happy to assist as i can, i'm sure there's alot of help availble here too. feel free to contact me at my website. i do try to avoid making particular product or manufacturer recommendations (endorsements?) though. again, good luck and have fun with the new project.

-b

[pappasplace]

The site is for a friend that lives on the east coast. I am on the west coast. I have experience building computers and computer repair.
I can help him to a point. He is a newby computer buff. I just thought that a good site would give him a good cross section of what to expect and also see the components first hand. My friend is very good with diagrams and techie type stuff.
Just to add a little " Humor " to this post. The person mentioned above was very reluctant to even have a computer three months ago. One day he said: I am on line and have an email address!!!
This was his exact words: I probably won't be online much. Will check email" once a week " LOL
Now he wants to build his own computer. Did he take the bait or what. LOL By the way he is 66 years old. Never too old to learn

[satis]

definetely never too old. When I was doing tech support, some of the coolest customers were 60+ years old. They didn't necessarily know much, but they admitted such and were more than willing to learn.

Not that it helps you now, but I'm planning on making a tutorial in the near future. Pics and everything. I'll probably be installing Linux on it, though, but assembling the hardware and tweaking the BIOS is the same.

[symo]

One that I believe to be quite good is from Maximum PC. It is probably a year and a half old, and they are building a specific PC with specific parts, but the concept is very well explained.

http://www.maximumpc.com/reprints/reprint_2002-03-13.html

Hope this helps

symo