:word: but incase:
See the adaptor?
You rollback the erronous (sp) driver, search for an updated one on the discs, or web. Most of the time, the Windows default driver will be ‘good enough’. If You double check all of Your hardware, before You buy, for compatibility, You prolly wont have a serious problem.
Worst case, I’m sure someone on this site could stop by and help. 
Awesome, didn’t see that adapter. I guess my main question is how do you know that things will be compatible prior to buying. You say to check it all out first. I tried to cross reference the specs on each item to make sure things mesh but I really don’t know what I should be looking for.
Find some parts that You like, post them up, and the members here will confirm wether or not that match up. Round Peg - Round Hole kind of thing.
Basically You need:
*Motherboard (this will decide alot about what parts can go in it).
*Ram (see what the MOBO supports (bus speed, clock rate, and size)).
*CPU (see what the MOBO supports (bus speed, clock rate, socket type)).
*CPU Fan / cooler (be sure it matches the CPU type).
*Vid Card (AGP or PCI. PCI is straight forward / AGP needs to match up to 2x/4x/8x - decided by MOBO).
*Harddrives (SATA or IDE (PATA) this is a whole other debate but most new MOBO’s support both).
Honestly, most technology that’s been out for more then 6 months will not have a conflict.
Here’s what I gots. Everything looks like it will work together. What do you guys think?
Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813130514
Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814150106
Processor
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16819103537
RAM
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820145026
Hard drive
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822144184
I’ll sell you a new 250GB SATA drive for $15 more and 2 512MB sticks for $80. Buy both and I’ll ship for free.
What kind of RAM and Harddrive?
Hey JaysGreenLx can i post my setup in here too for opinions? I dont want to hijack your thread or anything so figured i’d ask first
Go for it.
Look’s like a kick-ass machine - though You could step up to a 256mb Vid Card. Don’t forget a CPU fan.
Assuming that is the right ram, that’s a kickass deal by Haner.
Whoops…I clicked on the wrong video card. I definately want 256mb. I thought the CPU came with a heat sink and fan. Under cooling in the product description it had that written. Should I upgrade it though? They dont’ cost much.
definately worth an upgrade… decent one’s only cost $20-30 anyhow.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814122203
Different video card.
BUILD IT
but if you go through Dell
goto www.sickdeals.com there is a bunch of coupons RIGHT NOW for Dell shit
I really want to build. I’m just afraid of F’ing something up.
all Retail amd 64 cpus come with a fan capableof handling just about anything u can throw at it, the only thing iwould change is the MB, go asus, best boards out there.
a bit more money in some cases, but you get what u pay for.
i can help you build it, its really easy.
Yeah I was looking for a good Asus MB. I’ll look through the selection again. I thought MSI were decent too though. I’ll shop around some more.
actually that card would choke playing far cry and doom 3.
MSI are decent, but asus are better
Yeah when he first posted that I thought it was a 256mb.