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enseyn

Member

From: ...texas :|

Registered: 2009-06-17

Posts: 41

Building first Comp, just asking for some help...

Building first Comp, just asking for some help...
Alright, I dunno if this is the right place to be asking stuff like this, but I would really appreciate some input, I'd be thankful for any help I can get.

I have never built a computer before and thought I would give it a whirl. I recently bought this comp:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6856119012

and I was needing to buy a graphics card with a DVI output. Looking through a few, these looked good to me. The first seems a little on the low end:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814130188
and this one for possibly playing a few games (Nothing heavy, but maybe Portal or Half-life 2 at most):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814133245

First off, I just wanted to make sure these would even be compatible with The computers hardware and with crunchbang, and would anyone have any suggestions on which i should get, or if i should get something else? I'd hope to not go over $80. Any help, tips, or suggestions are greatly appreciated, I am pretty new to this, and want to make sure I'm on the right track. Oh, and will the power supply be an issue? .... and yeah, i've always sucked at proper sentence structure.

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anonymous

The Mystery Member

From: Arch Linux Forums

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 9,418

Re: Building first Comp, just asking for some help...

Id get this card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814187057

I think the power supply can handle it. The rest of the system (Atom) is rather low power.

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enseyn

Member

From: ...texas :|

Registered: 2009-06-17

Posts: 41

Re: Building first Comp, just asking for some help...

Thanks for the suggestion, this is twice you've helped me out. You are the definition of awsomeness!   from a PSU calculator that someone pointed me to  that card would put the whole system at 147w requirement at peak load. do you think that would be too much?

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anonymous

The Mystery Member

From: Arch Linux Forums

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 9,418

Re: Building first Comp, just asking for some help...

It will be fine.

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briantm

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2009-03-12

Posts: 163

Re: Building first Comp, just asking for some help...

Have a look here:

http://www.buildyourown.org.uk
http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/forums

Very helpful site + people