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the old motherboard is meant for windows 95 and has no ram or harddrive.
I suggest not ever touching the inside of a computer after saying this. You have no clue what you're talking about or doing.
hes not allowed to have access to the internet where his parents cant see. What you could do is hook up the ethernet cord to your laptop from this desktop and bridge the connections so that the desktop uses the laptops wifi card.
Thats pretty sad, that his parents dont trust him that much
you'd be surprised, many parents are over controlling for some god forsaken reason.
it happens i guess. however my point still stands, a wireless usb dongle would fix that problem, just dont tell them about it. thats assuming you dont use a wep or wpa encryption or you have access to the password for said encryption.
how the heck would I get one though? they already monitor almost every aspect of my life. I have to use their ebay account to get stuff and their credit card to pay for it. I wouldn't be able to sneak it past them. btw I was the one who set up the router so I know the password. and yes it uses wpa. the laptop bridging to the pc idea is a dead end as well. the mobo is fried but everything else still works. including its wifi card. maby could I use one of my psps as the dongle? oh and another thing: when I set up the router i added my own network for my PSP systems so my parents will have problems seeing if i'm on the internet.
1) DON'T use IDE drives, ffs. And you don't need SATA-IDE adapters, your mobo has IDE slots. . . 2) Seagate? No way, that'll fail on you. Get a Samsung F3 instead, it's faster too: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168221521853) You don't need water cooling for this. Stick with air, it'll work fine. 4) Your graphics card is complete crap. GDDR2 is slow. Btw, scrap ATI get a nVidia instead. ATI drivers are f*. For the same price, try a GeForce GT 240: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121369, or if you must go with ATI, here's a Radeon 5670: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168141504675) I don't like your mobo anyway, never heard of the brand. Try a Gigabyte, best mobo brand I've ever used: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168131284236) You forgot your RAM 6GB of DDR3 1600 should be good for you: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231225 (And no, DDR2 will NOT work if you're looking for an alternative.)7) Oh, your power supply. I would not recommend this one. You'll want a Modular Power Supply. Only $10 more for modular and 730 watts: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817152036Otherwise, your build looks fine. Just do some research on what you're doing EDIT: Oh, and PCI-e Wifi: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320048 :P
dang that adds up to... over my limit of about 600 I need to keep it cheap.
That's a terrible setup you listed. I believe Ennon hit all the main points so I'm not going to bother ripping it apart more. To 'help' out a bit more, though...4) The GTX240 is garbage. ATI has good drivers. I've running a 5770 and 5570 with 0 problems. Get the GTX 460 if you want the best price:performance option.5) ASRock is supposedly Asus boards built with the lower quality components. I don't know the validity of this, though. Regardless, don't get it. GB is iffy.6) No. Don't get anything higher than DDR3 1333 or it's a waste of money for OP. The board with automatically underclock the RAM down to DDR3 1066 because that's what the x58 chipset allows. To get it to run faster, you need to overclock the system.7) Modular PSUs fail more often and are far less efficient. Always get a dedicated one.OP: I suggest reading up on building computers more. Before that, learn how a computer even works considering you don't seem to know (I still stand by my first post). You're heading on the right track, but still have a long, long, way to go before you're going to be ready to build your first computer.