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[tuftedduck]

Poor old TD was rendered voiceless for a couple of days, when his motherboard decided to hand in it's dinner pail, and took along with it my chipset and ram modules. 

Much money required to get all well again, and two days without a PC. 

All working again and can now get back to making a mess of the forum games, and upsetting the mods again. 

[kitz]

wb TD

Glad you got it sorted... not glad about the extra £ though.

[Floydoid]

That's precisely the reason I have 2 working PC's in the house... not to mention probably enough spare hardware to build another one.

Glad you got it sorted tho... I'd be climbing the walls without a PC.

[UncleUB]

Wondered where you'd go to Tufted,at least it was your computer poorly and not you.
Glad your sorted(I'm sure your wallet will disagree)

[tuftedduck]

Hello again.
I am just wondering what the techie expert's opinions may be on this, I don't know if this is a reasonable price or if I have been conned.

I got (new)

ASrock ALiveNF69-Vsta motherboard
nVidia GeForce 6150SE graphics thingy
AMD Athlon64x2 dual core 2.35 Mghertz processor
2 x 1024 Mgb dimm each 2 x 240 pin ddr11 ( or is that ii)

Plus the mans time to stick it all together and get the OS running etc etc.

Cost £125.

Does that seem a reasonable cost. No doubt, had I the tech know how and could have done it myself, it would have been a bitty cheaper, but I don't think that is too bad a price.

[UncleUB]

Well Tufted I don't know about the parts but labour charges are not cheap.I remember about 4 years since I had some work done on my old computer which worked out @ £35 per hour.

[roseway]

That sounds an entirely fair price to me. I don't think you would do it yourself significantly cheaper.

[tuftedduck]

Thank you.

[oldfogy]

I don't know, but that seems a resonable price.

No doubt, had I the tech know how and could have done it myself

It's a bit like a jig-saw puzzle, each piece will only fit the correct place. (well almost)

It's surprising actually how few connections that there are to be removed/connected.
But just to be on the safe side, providing you go steady and draw yourself a sketch of what came from where and label the connections accordingly, afterwards you would of been pleasantly surprised at (hopefully) how easy it was.

I find the hardest part (which I leave up-to my techie friend) is getting the right equipment start with

IE, which MB and what matches with it.

2 x 1024 Mgb dimm
ddr11 ( or is that ii)

2 x 1024 Mgb dimm  = 2 GB Gigabyte of RAM)
DDR11 is what it would be, although it's usually written as DDR2.

Good luck and happy faster PC'ing

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[tuftedduck]

Thanks, OF.

One of these days when I feel brave enough, I intend to get a bundle of bottom end gear and try to built a machine, just for the experience, and, heaven knows, it may even work.

Only way to learn.

[Floydoid]

It's a bit like a jig-saw puzzle, each piece will only fit the correct place. (well almost)

I always say building a PC is like making love... it's just a matter of knowing what goes where.

[tuftedduck]

>I always say building a PC is like making love... it's just a matter of knowing what goes where<

I've forgotten that, it's been so long 

[dave.m]

>I always say building a PC is like making love... it's just a matter of knowing what goes where<

I've forgotten that, it's been so long 

Stick to computers then, much safer!

dave

[oldfogy]

One of these days when I feel brave enough, I intend to get a bundle of bottom end gear and try to built a machine, just for the experience, and, heaven knows, it may even work.

Only way to learn.

I started by buying old PCs from a pub auction (of which we have a lot of) sometimes for as little as £2 - £5 for a complete set (Keyboard, Mouse and even Monitor) (most of them even worked, although they were always Windows 98x).

That way if I blew one up failed to get it/any of them working properly or better or it would not matter that I had put in the wrong card, memory or processor, it was no great loss.

[kitz]

Just done a very quick run through on pricerunner for those specs or similar
Prices are just a fraction under £100 cheapest cost so considering putting everything back together it seems like a good deal.
He possibly buys bundles.

Like eric says - if you bought yourself and added on stuff like VAT & P+P then you wouldn't have been able to do it that much cheaper.

Once upon a time I used to build, but unless you want something specific, then theres no where near the cost savings there used to be. Sometimes for a whole new system its cheaper to get one of the prebuilds than doing it yourself. :/