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D3Live: Should You Build a Computer?

2011-05-21
hey guys and welcome to this week's episode of d3 live Jen wouldn't be talking a little bit about why why why you should or should not build yourself a computer now I am good just recently ordered Mike parts i'll be happy starting my full computer build series showing you exactly how to build and how to pick your parts malecon stuff i'll be beginning that next week but you can consider this the unofficial beginning of that and i want to talk about is whether or not building a computer is actually going to be right for you so there's a lot of pros and cons about building your own computer so i want to talk a bit about that before you decide whether or not that's the way you want to go so the first thing i want to talk about is some of the pros now there are quite a few and when you build yourself a computer you have total freedom over the entire computer now let's say you're big into gaming you want a really nice GPU you want to really fast cpu that kind of stuff let's say you're individuating well you might want not that big of a GPU but you might want to spend that money instead on a nice cpu you know big hard drives destroy your video I mean there's a lot of different pros and cons about you know like building this computer compared to this and all that kind of stuff but that's one of the great things is you can customize it as much as you like I know another really great thing about building your own computer a lot of times is that's going to be cheaper than what you might buy it you know your local store I'm sure you could buy a computer there and then you know add some parts where typically once you do that and get up to exactly what you want it's going to be more expensive and it's really not going to be as good performing as what you would like so building computers have a lot of its pros on that site however on the con side there are definitely some that you do need to keep in mind now especially if you really have no idea what you're doing it can be a little bit of an intimidating experience well it's not like you need a ton of tools and years of experience I mean it's not that difficult most computer and when you build a computer it's very simple you put this into slot a you put four screws in here you you know plug this wire into that I me it's not extremely difficult and it's certainly if you take a look some of the guys of course I'll be creating one and there are many other others around the internet she can take a look at you can figure out how to do it pretty easily but there's always a chance that you could you know cause a problem example if you tried to put like one part in the wrong slot or you try to force something in a breaks or perhaps you you know stock it with a little bit static electricity or whatever there are definitely some things that you do need to keep in mind but overall hold of it I think for most people if you're wanting something really specific like you know a gaming computer or editing or for whatever reason bill you know computer is a great way to go okay so for the second segment of d3 live I will be taking live questions from everyone in the chat so as always every episode of d3 life is filled in front of a live audience on blog to be so we'll go ahead and take some questions and today I have a little bit of a special guest house or Gwen introduce yourself seven years old awesome and if you guys ever come to d3 live live if you ever watch the show live you'll know him he's one of the ops the great ops in the chat who keep everyone nice and orderly just going to just take a couple of questions I windows 2000 windows seven whew that's a tough one windows 2000 is an excellent armed key windows seven 'it's that's that's no printer all right what is the best case for a custom computer aha so I think you're probably better at that what are some of the cases that you really like lately really nice gud mus1 antic I don't like the left boy here oh you don't mean no just too much dust oh ok they're good point yet about the fractal design a lot of times they don't have the greatest air flow though do they I mean I don't I haven't actually used to you myself but from the looks they just don't look like they're really too friendly to really good big gaming rigs what do you think which one sx none of the fractal design most of their cases anyway well they do guy in there I mean you can install two phantoms from so ok you kinda have to do that when you are going I act sounds good to me ok let's hear should I be a video editing computer is a core i7 2600 and 32 gigabytes of RAM um the processor looks really good for video editing uh the GP might be a little overkill but 32 gigabytes I don't know what do you say cause I mean neak don't you think 32 is a little bit overkill it's little bit overkill I mean you would just be fine with this 16 gig so or maybe eight yeah I put a little too guy in that extreme yeah I mean I I use video editing on like I all of my video editing is that like four gigs of ram I you should have to me problems so 88 I like eight yeah maybe 16 but 32 might be a little bit much but force mean you do everyone hello you edit 4k video I can definitely see 32 actually buddy I and either baby 16 32 yeah 60 yeah but all right um can you install OS 10 now that actually is a decent question what what I'm sure they're asking is can you build a computer that runs mac OS 10 an answer is yes under certain situations so unlike windows where you and of course linux as well you basically install it on whatever you want there's not a whole lot of restrictions as long as you get something that's you know made obviously for windows which practically everything is and you're good to go go over with OS 10 you basically need to do something called a hackintosh now there are several guides all around the internets doing this you basically do have to pick select parts not everything will work no matter what I'm also do you have any experience building a hackintosh yeah see I never never built one myself ivan but it is possible of course what the best dubstep is just go online find a guide to know exactly what parts and what process and all that kind of stuff but yet you absolutely can do it you just did of course need to find the correct parts and everything how important is a good cooling system now that's I think that question has your name all over the hostler very important of course I mean if you want to do overclocking you shouldn't stick with the stock cooler mm-hmm absolutely i mean an itch 770 or age 15 is perfect i wouldn't go for EK unless you're going extreme absolutely another thing is case fans like what what what is the general like i know a lot of people like when they buy cases like 10k spans like to fill it up what do you think for like most like moderately gaming computers like how many fans do you think is a go thing of course is bridging all the different types of fans and everything like that but what do you think is like a good baseline that people should support including the cpu cooler I think about four or three for a normal game system but for something high ends you should go for way more maybe just to maximum amount that will fit in the cage absolutely sounds great so no guys that's about it for this week's episode of d3 life I had to give a big thanks to hustle house if you want to give yourself a shout out or tell anybody where they can find you go ahead all right yeah so of course you guys can come check out this show we do it live every saturday at three o'clock eastern time so you can come on by i do post a video on youtube so if you'd like to subscribe you can take a look and see when we go live or forced you can watch the pre-record episodes later on YouTube
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