"Rick Hughes" wrote in message
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On 09/07/2012 18:56, John Rumm wrote:
On 09/07/2012 17:10, Rick Hughes wrote:

Been a number of years since I have built a PC from scratch .. had to
feed in loads of FD's to load Dos and W 3.1 :-)

I need a new PC at home, I have my spec sorted for a W7 64bit (apart
from case), and just wondering whether it's worth getting all the parts
and assembling yourself.



The physical build does not worry me nor loading OS / Apps .. .in fact
would order without OS as prefer to do this myself.

My concern was getting all parts that work together ... for example many
posts in forums of guys having trouble getting multiple banks of RAM, is
it a RAM strip fault a combination fault, a MB fault ... getting to bottom
of that could be expensive & time consuming.

If they only charge around £75 for building it up .. maybe it's worth it
for that.

Or I buy a MB + CPU + RAM bundle and at least the 3 core items 'should' be
OK together and fully compatible,

I did that last with the MB + RAM bundle, or more strictly saw that
they had been flogging that bundle and so bought that pair myself.

You don't see any particular problem with the CPU with an i3 etc.