Putting together a computer...

JohnnyTheRed · Oct 7, 2002

I will be building my first computer in the near future, and just had a question or two.

Does anyone know of a comprehensive website, including reviews, benchmarks, etc for mobo's, cpu's and memory.

Specifically I am looking for what works best with what.

For instance, what combonations work well together, and similarly, what combinations do not work well?

On an 845g mobo, do you use Rambus/DDR333/400/etc...

Or is my best bet just to browse around and make a ton of notes

Thanks either way.

baqai · Oct 7, 2002

www.tomshardware.com
www.hardocp.com
www.overclockers.com

these are the ones i visit refer to

btw you post your questions here and the community is simply GREAT and helpful you will get most of your answers here only

Auri87 · Oct 7, 2002

for good mobo reviews u can refer to
http://www.motherboards.org/

PLtNmHeLiX · Oct 7, 2002

even better imho, http://www.8dimensional.com/mainboard-reviews/

DemonicAardvark · Oct 7, 2002

umm, I think tomshardware is biased (a lot)... your best bet is to ask people here that actually test the stuff themselves, or maybe try www.anandtech.com

JohnnyTheRed · Oct 8, 2002

Baqai, you are right, the people here are great.

Thanks all for the links, I'm sure they'll be of use to me.

I believe that too Demon, to ask people who have used the component(s) in question. It's just there's so much information to sift through on these boards, and other sites :/

I'll get there tho, thanks guys.

MajinSSJVegetto · Oct 8, 2002

Tom's hardware will get you to buy what they want you to buy. Don't listen to him.

Tom is full of lies.

Braindonor · Oct 8, 2002

I say just post here I never posted before I built my first computer but I read A LOT of the posts and it helped out soooo much so I just say ask questions here and do a little research you normally get the best answers here

baqai · Oct 8, 2002

Tom is full of lies? ohh .. is that so?

i have learned to cross check everything i read so for a product i go around doing a research on about 6-7 sites and on every place i find something new or bad about a product so it gives me a better picture, my preference is always a message board, nothing like hands on experience of a product

thanks for all the links ppl

Kid Payne · Oct 9, 2002

I built my first Duron system by reading the boards and asking questions here. When I finally got all the parts and put it together, I couldn't believe it actually turned on! I'm very proud of myself

Disputant · Oct 10, 2002

MajinSSJVegetto said:
Tom's hardware will get you to buy what they want you to buy. Don't listen to him.

Tom is full of lies.

Very true, IMHO, I prefer http://www.anandtech.com/ over old Tom anyday.

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