Advanced System Building Guide

Alan writes "FiringSquad has up an Advanced System Building Guide, detailing how to construct your own rig. The first half deals with hardware selection and even esoteric concepts such as PCI slot placement. The second half is focused on Windows XP, and makes recommendations such as moving the swap file and scratch disk to a separate partition." From the article: "You laugh at the so-called expertise of Best Buy's GeekSquad, and are the one doing the teaching when calling technical support. If this sounds like you, you've come to the right place if you're looking to take your system building skills to the next level."

Comments

Re:oxyidiot?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well call it a Gaming Color-Managed System Building Guide then.

No. A professional website will obviously use the most advanced operating system available. Everybody with some experience in the IT-industry will know that XP Home has everything that a corporate-level solution will need to orchestrate world-class experiences and syndicate interactive functionalities like games.

Look at Google. They are running XP exclusively, which is why their servers (running the leading web-server IIS) are so much faster than the cheap Apache-servers running on low-end servers.

Re:Here's what I think

[Evro]

I praise you as the lord of the internet.

The thing with putting your PC's specs in your .sig line on a random forum really hit home. I give guys who tweak their cars a lot more cred than douchebags who think they're cool because they have the latest ThermalTake or whatever-the-fuck heat sink. You can almost go buy random parts on newegg and build a better PC than these hunks of shit, and for 1/10th the price. Putting a PC together is like 20 times easier than putting together a set of Legos. The only part that's even time consuming is putting the shit in the case and installing the OS.

Some closing statements:

• Nobody gives a shit about your PC specs.
• On the off chance someone does care, they don't care about the brand of your ram.
• The 99.9999% of people who don't give a shit find your 32-line sig detailing your magnum opus retarded.