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#1 2011-05-27 02:38:21

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Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

Thats right!  I'm building a PC made of spare parts found in my house, or on the curbside cleanup.  I am wonderrin your opions of this insane project?  It will be done inside my bedroom!

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#2 2011-05-27 03:42:07

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

Bump?

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#3 2011-05-27 03:54:44

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

...Out of spare parts? I hope you have a lot of spare parts, because you're going to have a tough time finding compatible components. (Despite most things being compatible, the motherboard's socket has to match the processor, which needs to have a controller for the kind of RAM you're using, etc.)

Not that it's impossible by any means. It's just going to be a bit of a pain, especially if it doesn't post when you fire it up and you have to go figure out what's not working.)

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#4 2011-05-27 03:55:54

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

Harakou wrote:

...Out of spare parts? I hope you have a lot of spare parts, because you're going to have a tough time finding compatible components. (Despite most things being compatible, the motherboard's socket has to match the processor, which needs to have a controller for the kind of RAM you're using, etc.)

Normally, yes i do

Plus, it's a long-term project...

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#5 2011-05-27 06:45:53

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

If you want, you can first simulate the computer in Logisim, then using that to build the actual computer.

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#6 2011-05-27 06:50:46

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

Thanx rd

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#7 2011-05-27 07:09:46

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

potentially, you could make a super machine if you found enough parts.With this, you'd probably put ubuntu (I would use kubuntu, just because it looks pretty  tongue  ) to save money from another windows installation.

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#8 2011-05-27 07:11:33

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

16Skittles wrote:

potentially, you could make a super machine if you found enough parts.With this, you'd probably put ubuntu (I would use kubuntu, just because it looks pretty  tongue  ) to save money from another windows installation.

Err... I don't have Bittorent on my PC for any reason other than to download things quickly...

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#9 2011-05-27 07:12:28

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

ssss wrote:

16Skittles wrote:

potentially, you could make a super machine if you found enough parts.With this, you'd probably put ubuntu (I would use kubuntu, just because it looks pretty  tongue  ) to save money from another windows installation.

Err... I don't have Bittorent on my PC for any reason other than to download things quickly...

??? or are you using sarcasm?

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#10 2011-05-27 07:15:07

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

16Skittles wrote:

ssss wrote:

16Skittles wrote:

potentially, you could make a super machine if you found enough parts.With this, you'd probably put ubuntu (I would use kubuntu, just because it looks pretty  tongue  ) to save money from another windows installation.

Err... I don't have Bittorent on my PC for any reason other than to download things quickly...

??? or are you using sarcasm?

Lol - It's a joke - You say exactly the opposite of wht you mean  wink

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#11 2011-05-27 07:48:15

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

I'm trying to make a PC entirely from Scratch.

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#12 2011-05-27 07:49:58

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

scratcher7_13 wrote:

I'm trying to make a PC entirely from Scratch.

That;s basically what i'm doing - except i'm going & finding random stuff  tongue

& Than i could probably make more than one  big_smile

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#13 2011-05-27 10:07:16

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

Im taking apart a pc this summer. Then i might put it back together

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#14 2011-05-27 10:48:07

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

Freecycle website which has groups worldwide might be of help to build a computer..or whatever.
So far i have found a computer processing unit and a monitor..which will eventually run linux operating system .. and apache server software.

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#15 2011-05-28 01:32:02

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

Pretty cool. Put Scientific Linux on it. Scientific is awesome.

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#16 2011-05-28 01:33:29

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

/lol - good ideas  tongue

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#17 2011-05-28 01:33:35

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

I tried doing this once with parts from my basement, but I never got it working because it kind of exploded halfway through

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#18 2011-05-28 01:39:03

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

Ace-Of-Hearts wrote:

I tried doing this once with parts from my basement, but I never got it working because it kind of exploded halfway through

Hehehehe - Sorry, I needed parts  hmm

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#19 2011-05-28 01:41:08

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

yikes

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#20 2011-05-28 02:48:16

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

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yikes

Sorry about your as well - I needed more than what he had  sad

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#21 2011-05-28 03:23:24

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

Sounds like fun. What type of computer are you thinking of ending up with? Server? Gaming? Media?

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#22 2011-05-28 03:25:00

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

blazerv82 wrote:

Sounds like fun. What type of computer are you thinking of ending up with? Server? Gaming? Media?

Server or Gaming  tongue .

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#23 2011-05-28 08:13:00

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

For a while, I was making a PC out of old parts in our garage (Pentium 1 w/ OverDrive, Voodoo5, SoundBlaster Live!, etc.), but stopped, because we don't have a spare monitor  sad

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#24 2011-05-28 08:20:07

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

fire219 wrote:

For a while, I was making a PC out of old parts in our garage (Pentium 1 w/ OverDrive, Voodoo5, SoundBlaster Live!, etc.), but stopped, because we don't have a spare monitor  sad

Lol - I have a monitor for my x-box  tongue   I can hook it up to both, yay!

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#25 2011-05-28 09:44:45

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Re: Building a home PC made of spare parts ...

My friends friend made her desktop PC out of spare parts. He also has a minecraft server and I'm an op  big_smile

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