[mikeyg36]

Originally Posted by ChrisBlair

lol, well that's the answer for everything, isn't it? Unfortunately this type of advice is too little and too much.

Too little because it assumes I have all the knowledge already to order everything and go. Too much because it suggests there's nothing to it, but having done my homework on this same thing about 7 years ago, I know there's a lot more too it than picking one from column A and column B. It's possible to blow money on mistakes doing this.

Since seven years ago, I have not kept up on all the latest things in the PC world. I'm conversant in many things having to do with PCs, but that's different from being able to leap into building one again. I'm wise enough to know my limitations here.

When you guys talk about unlocked and locked, mantle, etc, I'm lost now. It's a language you need to keep yourself around, and I haven't done that at all.

If there were recipes for building them, then that's a different story. But sitting down and doing all the background work, joining forums again, talking to people for a month about it, making sure I get the right parts in the right case with the right drivers with the right clock speeds with the right...everything...isn't as easy as snapping my fingers.

I'd like some advice above and beyond the fallback "build one". Frankly that type of advice is dismissive when "build one" is the entire extent of the advise.

Newegg has some build your own kits where they pick the parts and you just assemble it, if that's more your speed. They also have step by step videos on how to build it. http://www.newegg.com/DIY-PC-SuperCo...ionStore/ID-33