Hardware Tips- Building your own Computer
How to Build a Rack Mount Server
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Here is a nice guide to installing that second hard drive!
www.cnet.com/Digdispatch/dispatch449.html ( editor:
apparently this page no longer exists)
(We noticed that the above link generates a lot of interest, so we
are building our own guide to installing a second hard drive (a photo tutorial), it is not ready
yet but if you would like a sneak peak of what
we are developing here it is, click on this line.)
May we also suggest some reading (from Chapters.ca)
Canadian Computer Handbook: Your Complete Guide to Buying and Upgrading a Computer
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Details of building your own computer system from the ground
up (photo tutorial). We are
hoping this guide will be helpful to hobbyist and anyone else interested in
putting together a great computer system from high quality components .Our How
to build a PC photo tutorial has been generating lots of interest, be sure
to send us your comments and questions so we may improve these pages.
Based on reader response, we will publish some questions that have been coming
our way. Click here for questions and answers related to the
tutorial.
How to build a Personal Computer
| Before we get into details,
let's take a look what some of the basic components will be: |
| Computer Case : types include AT, ATX, NLX |
Generic |
| Mainboard or Motherboard |
Intel |
| Processor |
Intel |
| Memory |
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| Video Card |
Diamond Multimedia Matrox |
| Floppy Drive |
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| Hard Drive |
Quantum Maxtor Western Digital |
| CD ROM or CDR or DVD |
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| Keyboard |
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| Operating System |
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| Monitor or Display |
TTX |
| Mouse or Trackball |
Microsoft Logitech |
| Sound Card |
Creative Labs |
| Speakers, headphones, microphones |
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| Joysticks & gaming gear |
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| Below are some of the more
common options: |
| Modem Internal or External |
3Com/USR GVC |
| Network Interface Card or NIC |
Intel Allied Telesyn 3Com |
| Scanner interface |
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| Zip drive or LS120 drive |
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| Tape Drive |
Seagate |
| Video Capture & web cams |
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| SCSI Adapter |
Adaptec, Mylex, |
Details of building your own computer system
from the ground up. We are
hoping this how to guide will be helpful to hobbyists and others.
Attention manufacturers: Would you like us to do a photo tutorial of
your equipment (it creates lots of interest). Just send some over. Email
us and we will give you shipping instructions.
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Building a Rack Mount Server
(photo tutorial) (Intel
SR2100 Chassis & STL2 Server board & Quantum Atlas 10K SCSI [sca] hard
drives)
Yes, we can build a custom server that will fit your own
unique needs. Please call us if interested.
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