Hi, I'm trying to save some money by building my own computer. I'm looking at a Gigabyte MA 74-GM-S2 motherboard and an AMD Phenom X3 A79-8250 CPU. Would this be a good choice? I want 4GB of RAM and I don't want conflicts with the sound and video cards and so on. Is building on your own better than buying a pre-assembled computer? Does a source for anticipating hardware conflicts exist on the web? Thanks, twa
YES, because you learn as you assemble the system gaining invaluable experience plus you choose the exact components you use as appose to being forced to use the components a company (usually supplying inexpensive parts) decides to use, for whatever reason. personally i don't overclock but i wouldn't discourage someone from overclocking because if you buy it you own it so it's your choice and nobody Else's maybe, but i personally haven't looked or found anything unintentionally i prefer to rely on experience well what can i say this mobo has plenty of good reviews but be careful to get a up to date mobo unless you enjoy things like flashing the BIOS latest board version / revision = 4.4 at the time of writing AMD's 7 series CPU's tends to be a bit of a mixed bag with regard to chipsets as 770, 790X and 790FX all offer PCIe but AMD seem to be deigning the existence of the 740G chipset which is itself reason enough to avoid BTW: did gigabyte find the illusive 740G chipset in the fridge i could write an epic about AMD vs. Intel and which is better but as usual Intel creeps ahead although AMD has the edge on price anyway enough rambling,
